Show f Forest Officials Officials' Examine Road Roa 1 On S September 1 13 Ranger Rangers Cux Cox and I accompanied W. W W W. W Bla of or the office of the Engineering l from rom O Ogden over the ManU Mantl Oan Canyon n r ad where we wo looked over o tie b construction work that is now now bc tie tie- ing carried on We had planned don d don on meeting with me members h r r ol f ManU Mantl Canyon ro road d com committee at ManU Mantl In the evening h weYer time did not permit of this so a COPy of or orthis this memorandum will bo be furnished the road rond committee Mr explained the objection objection objection ob ob- ob- ob the Regional Office to the construction of a road toad MantI Mantl Canyon Canon In the first place In the allotment of of funds to the Mantl Manti Canyon Canon road it was for the of improving the therond road rond from the Forest boundary up to the amp ramp grounds or if necessary necessary necessary sary a little farther up the canyon The Regional Office feels that there is no justification for the Forest Fores' Service constructing a road from Mantl Manti to th the top ton f the mountain paralleling a State highway only seven soven miles distant We Ve explained d to Mr lr t trat lat there Is already arcady n satisfactory road as far as the ct community camp nind und and that what the people of ManU Manti wanted was wn a road that would enable them to reach the top of the mountain in an automobile since a great many Mantl Manti citizens secure their lumber and other Umber timber timber tim Um- ber on tho the east side aide of the tle main divide while a lot of the stockmen I also use that road going to and returning returning returning re re- turning from their herds in the head of the Ferron and aud Muddy watersheds Mr Blakeslee Blakeslee agreed to tho the expenditure expenditure ex ox- of the mone money allotted d for tor Manti ManU Canyon as ns now under wa way providing pro the p people understand that there is 19 no further obligation on the part of the Forest Service for new construction or betterment of or this road He Is of f the opinion that the money allotted for ManU Mantl canyon is Insufficient to build even evon the low standard road that we ve ar are arp Continued d on oil last page Forest Officials Examine R Road ad Continued from page 1 from tram the tho communities He lie suggests suggests suggests sug sug- also that improvements be bo made in two or three of ot the sho constructing without some Bome he turns along the canyon road below the camp ground and that the big I Ithe dugway be he cut down some somo to section the tho grade near its upper Ranger Cox explained that a large part of the construction costs will come in providing drainage for j I tho tto road rond In accor accordance ance with government government gov gov- government standards For th tho present pros pros- ent temporary wooden c culverts erts are ore I being constructed in a n number o of i pl places cs Mr suggested I that we use usa a n better class of ot timber timber tim tim- I ber on at nt least one of these culverts I I also that where aspen I is used temporarily temporarily tem tern that the opening he be lar large e eI enough to permit the insertion of if I petal metal culverts later without the necessity of or digging up the road J. J W. W Humphrey I |