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Show State Will Build Road to Mukuntuweap The state will begin work on a road about 30 miles long between Toquerville and the Mukuntuweap Mukuntu-weap monument, Washington county, as the result of a telegram tele-gram received this morning from R. B. Marshall, superintendent of national parks, Department of the Interior. The telegram was sent in answer to message sent yesterday to Mr. Marshall, asking ask-ing his cooperation in regard to the expenditure of the $15,000 appropriation made by Congress to cover the cost of building a road within the monument's boundaries3. Mr. Marshall replied that work would begin in the Mukuntuweap Mukuntu-weap reserve as soon as the survey sur-vey of the road has been completed. com-pleted. W. O. Tufts, of the topographic branch of the United States geological survey, is in charge of the road survey. Mr. Marshall pointed out in his message mes-sage that the appropriation of $15,000 must be expended or contracted con-tracted for before June 30th 1917, the end of the federal fiscal year, under the law. Gov. William Spry, on receipt of the message this morning, said that 50 convicts will be installed in-stalled in a camp at Toquerville, and that work on the road would begin at once. "This clears up the problem that has been worrying the state road commission for the last month," he said. "The belief was that the state would have to divide the cost of the road inside the reserve with the government. There was no use building a road through the reserve without also al-so building a road leading up to it- This way the state bears the cost of building one road, the government taking over the work and the cost of building the other." Deseret News. |