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Show Stale Highway Department gives new surface to stretch of Parowan Canyon road The state highway department, depart-ment, has made some substantial sub-stantial improvements on the Parowan Canyon road during the past month, with the crew from the Parowan Eoad Shed working early and late on the job. What the crew is doing is laying a two-inch oil mulch surface on that part of the road, beginning ai the mouth of Cussem's Canyon (about six mile up Main Canyon and extending the project up to what is known as the Wilcock crossing.) This is one of the portions of the road in the canyon not done under contract. con-tract. And the highway department depart-ment is rushing the work using us-ing the dry hot weather we have now in getting the project pro-ject down. When you work up Parowan Canyon at the upper end, it is more advantageous to take advantage of hot weather, wea-ther, as the temperature drops to a rather low point later in the year. The road crew has been going go-ing to work early and staying stay-ing late, mixing the mulch in the local gravel yard, then hauling it from there up the canyon and laying it. This should be a big improvement to that highway, extending the new surface two or three miles farther up the canyon from last year's new construction. construc-tion. The Parowan Canyon road is one of the few in southern Utah which comes in for its heaviest use during the hard winter months, handling traffic traf-fic from Parowan to the Brian Head Ski Resort. While the summer travel is heavy, as a connecting link with the resort re-sort area, Cedar Breaks and on over to Utah Highway 14., its summer use is only a fraction of the use it gets in winter. Not only is the traffic heavy, but ice, snow and the freezing and thawing are an added deterioration agent. It is constantly traveled by heavy hea-vy snow removal equipment, with extra loads from large buses and trucks, hauling construction materials to the resort building projects that go one the year round. |