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Show "Belt Route" Needed Importance of highway development in the scenic area of southern Utah and northern Arizona, particularly as embodied in the proposed "belt route" of the area suggested sug-gested in proposed national legislation, was emphasized this week by a group of southern Utah civic leaders following fol-lowing a tour of the approximate area covered in the proposal. pro-posal. Wilson N. Lunt, chairman of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Road committee, and Milt Jolley, executive secretary of the organization, accompanied a group of Garfield Gar-field County leaders on an extended tour in the remotest sections of the scenic country. Mr. Lunt indicated that the men making the trip were in agreement that such a road should pass through Es-calante, Es-calante, swing south of the Henry Mountains, through the Circle Cliffs, and connect with an existing road between be-tween Hanksville and Hite. Such a route, he pointed out, would make accessible Park Service developments on the Glen Canyon Reservoir at Bullfrog Creek and Hole-in-the-Rock. Of greatest importance would be the fact that it would provide connecting links between the many scenic wonders won-ders of this greatest scenic area of the entire country. Not only would it provide connecting links between the attractions, attrac-tions, but would also make it possible for travelers entering enter-ing the area from any direction to visit the entire area. Under present conditions this is impossible, without backtracking back-tracking and circling wide areas to approach from difrer-ent difrer-ent directions. Mr. Lunt and Mr. Jolley express the view that development devel-opment of such a highway system in the area is one, if not the greatest need to attract the full share of the tremendous tremen-dous tourist business to southern Utah and northern Ari--zona. |