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Show Six Highway Projects Under Way Or Contemplated in Iron County Area After many years of practically no highway construction In Iron County by the State Road Com-mision, Com-mision, one major project Is now underway, one other Is near the contract stage and two others are in the planning stage and should be contracted during the 1965 fiscal year, beginning July, 1964. The long-awaited contract for the construction of a section of Interstate-15 from the Iron-Washington County line to Hamilton's Fort has been contracted for and construction is now underway. under-way. The Stout Construction Company was the successful bidder bid-der and has started work on the nearly ten miles of highway. The project connects with 1-15 near the New Harmony interchange inter-change and runs to just South of Hamilton's Fort. It includes in-cludes one Interchange, at what is known as Vandenberge Lane, about seven miles north of Kan-arraville. Kan-arraville. The question of providing provid-ing an Interchange at or near Kanarraville has not yet been resolve. re-solve. No such interchange is Included In-cluded in the contract, however. Next highway project in Iron County to be contracted for by the Road Commission will be the section of Highway 56 from Main street in Cedar City west to the Iron Springs Junction of the highway. high-way. This is a portion of the Y-Z Trail and should be under construction con-struction some time this summer. The Highway Commission has also approved purchase of right-of-way for Interstate-15 through Cedar City, it is reported by state officials. The commission had previously announced that the section of highway would be Included In-cluded in the fiscal 1965 program. The section from Hamilton's Fort to North of Cedar City, a distance dis-tance of approximately 20 miles, will be divided into two projects of about equal length and will include three interchanges, one at or near the old race track south of tne city, one at the intersection in-tersection with Highway 56, or 200 North and 1200 West streets, and one North ot the city, near the Minersvllle road intersection. Two other major projects are underway in the area. Most Important Im-portant of these Is the first section sec-tion of a long-awaited highway into Zion National Park through the little known, but highly spectacular Kolob Canyon area. . he CGiatrct la Tor c aCCtci. c the highway from Interstate-15 at a point just south of the Iron County line to what is known as Lee's Pass in the Kolob area. This highway when completed Is expected ex-pected to be one f the most scenic in the entire west. A contract is also underway for what is designated as "resurfacing" "resurfac-ing" of 15 miles of Interstate-15 from Anderson's ranch to the Iron-Washington County line. Portions of this section of the highway, particularly from the Black Ridge to the county line, has been torn up in at least six places, which makes it appear ap-pear to be a major project as compared with an ordinary resurfacing re-surfacing contract. |
