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Show JMRECT ROAD INTO BEAR VALLEY AND . PANGUITCH URGED EXCURSION FINDS SUCH A HIGHWAY TO BE PRACTICAL That a direct cut-off from Milford to Panguitch is a practical and workable work-able idea in road improvement was the jist of a report of an excursion made in automobiles last Saturday by a group of interested Milford citizens. citi-zens. L. G. Clay made a report of, the trip to members of the Lions club, and he declared that there is no good reason why such a road cannot can-not be maintained, and he warmly espoused the building of it. The trip was made the greater part of the way in Fred Levi's Stude-baker. Stude-baker. The route took the party over the Buckskin Flats into Panguitch canyon. The course was feasible and can be made into a good road, Mr. Clay said. Only a few were in the party. The Studebaker was abandoned aban-doned in going over the mountains, and a 'bug' was used to complete the trip. Some of the road had to be cleared before a car could get through, but the trail was not in such condition condi-tion that it could not be put in shape at very little expense. Mr. Clay said that if this cut-off be improved and a good road built, it will mean that much tourist travel to the park region will come from Beaver over through Milford, thence direct to the Bear Valley country. It was found out that the road material ma-terial encountered was very good for a fine road bed. The financial difficulties dif-ficulties met with in improving this road could well be borne by the towns on the cut-off, Mr. Clay believed. Six or seven hundred dollars would be all that would be required. It is thought that this money could be raised in Beaver, Milford, Circleville and Panguitch. Pan-guitch. If ever put in shape, this route will shorten the travel time between here and Panguitch by several hours. For this reason, it would materially create mtore interest in the Bear Valley country and the adjacent region among motorists who travel the Pikes Peak Ocean-toOcean Highway. On account of present highway routings, it is not very easy for Milford people, nor for tourists whose itinery includes Milford, to get down into Garfield county. A closer knitting together of southern Utah towns would result :ilso from such, a road, in addition to the more material benefits gained through tourist travel. |