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Show Key Tourist Road Not ToBe Difficult Recent examinations of the country west of Blanding prove the proposed park to park highway, high-way, connecting southeastern Colorado with southern Utah, can be built for but a fraction of the great amount hitherto supposed necessary. When Superintendent M. R. Til-lotson Til-lotson of the Grand Canyon national na-tional park visited the Bridges last spring, according to Custodian Custo-dian Zeke Johnson, he was favorably favor-ably impressed with tthe idea of a road westward to the wonderlands of southern Utah. During the summer he flew sev-' eral times over the proposed road-way taking numerous pictures pic-tures from the air. Convinced: from these flights the plan is feasible, he has been going with J Zeke Johnson over the country j again to see if it looks as promis-j ing from the ground as it looks j from above. Scrutinizing the country from his plane he figured the road would follow the serpentine course! of the box canyon from Edwin Bridge to Hite. The necessary cuts and tunnels through the! sandstone in that route did not discourage him. But when Johnson with a pack outfit began piloting him west from the Edwin, they did not go to the winding canyon at all, but followed what is known as White' Canyon Shelf, where the Moinion pioneers made a wagon road in. 1S82. Tillotson was completely sur-prised sur-prised and delighted." said John-j son. "He s-aid building a roadj there would be like scooting fish' in a barrel." I (Continued on last page.) Key Tourist Road (Continued from first page) They found the shelf comparatively compara-tively smooth most of the way to the river, and were not greatly surprised to know several venturesome ven-turesome cars already had driven to a point well down toward the old crossing. "Tillotson says we can't stop that road now if we want to," Johnson added with satisfaction. This park to park highway will take in the Blanding National Bridge road and will thread through a continuous string of scenic wonders from . Mesa Verde park in Colorado, by Hovenweep and Blanding in Utah to the natural na-tural bridges, and across the the Colorado river at Hite to proceed pro-ceed westward up Trachyte gulch to the Wayne Wonderlands and the other attractions of southern Utah.. |