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Show MAKES REPORT ! OK NEW ROAD I J. C. Brown, County Sur-! j veyor, Outlines Short Route to Rich County John C. Brown, county surveyor, to-dey to-dey Bubmitted .i report to the bonrd of count v commissioners, of a prellmln-;i prellmln-;i ry survey made bf road officials Inst' vi-.; o. a proposed route for :i now' ' I" I- ml iroui UKdi'li. Ihromrh i k- den canyon and South Fork canyon, to connect with the niffhway which leatf i to Bvaneton, Wyo. -Mr. Brown and O. W. Torposon lo- :iiiiiKr engineer fir the forest service, , made the reconnalaanoe trip, it la believed that, if the proposed road is luillt. It will brin? practically all transcontinental automobile trav. I el to Ogden, nmi win decrease the road distance from Ogden to Evanston I more than 20 miles. The report follows "The proposed route runs In a north- : easterly direction from Beaver creek road to and across th rlde iun:iin low 11 on tli.. ui,1i ..f M,.. ' iCliristo. Winn, ,, c unne, tic.ins ran casl-Ij casl-Ij be made with existing roads running run-ning towards either Woo, hum or Randolph. Ran-dolph. 1 UL TO Ml 11 " bad be. ,1 planned to meet Archie McKinnen, tnu engineer ror Ricb county, on the south aide or Monto Chrlsto, but we taued to Ret in touch with li mi. mo the route nom Montu Chrlsto north eastward, was not cov- ' end by us. however, arra tiKemenH bave been made tot McKinnen anu ' Brown iu meet and decide on a location loca-tion througu mac region, li weather onditions pei nut tins will be Hone the latter part hi tne present week, LO 1 1 n in, v.i l Starting 'l'wn irum the low saddle j about a naif mile south of Munlo 1 iiri.sto, a ., p. r cent grade location was flagged and biaseo io the west boundarj 01 tto- forest. Thw distanca lis about two tunes. Kruin the west! boundary to EUk pond, a distance of iv miles, two or more possibb ,-,iut,:.T offered tnemseivbs, eitner ol which liMTorded a 0 per cent rade or b-t;-. No definite location waa mudc here. Prom Elk pond down BiK creek, tor SbOUl 1 ", nines, the route lollows thu presenl road This location is a n u-1 u-1 oral one and does not exceed 5 pei , cent b'rom here to Beaver creek, to possible routes were covered. One crosses a low uivide und runs westerly tor about I t iniiea, to a junction near the ii au 01 the Beaver, una the other follows down bilk creeK approximately 2.4 mues to wnere it join's the Beaver 1 o.i'i 1 ne latt- r J..j miles would havo short stretches of about 6 per cent out the Jiii.i 01 :t woulU be 5 per cent. SHORTER Kn l E The latter route would be a little shorter between pden and Monte Chrlsto, bui since the' Beaver road must be maintained anyway, It would be economical to ufte the location front j th "i "i the beaver, This would also eliminate any grade In excess ot o per cent. Phe e timated cost for a 12 foot1 roadway, with turnouts would be approximately ap-proximately 16uu per mile. i.i.n 1 K i, POINTS Suniman.i ii me general points arc: w The alignment is good; long, easy I curves with a 600-foot radium or j more. ; side slopes averaging 30 per 'iit; avaitaoie road materials consist ol di rk, sand) soil, with a mixture ol gravel, no bouiacrs, exposed on the Burfaqfe, but some wouia undoubtedly iu- plowed up when construction be-gap; be-gap; the exposure Is towards the east, OUth and west, and the scenery is ex-. ex-. silent, covering as it does the highest , mountains ana nages for miles In all 1 directions. I The building of this 7-mlle link would make a short cut From Ogden to Rli 1 intj and Lessen the distance to Bvanston. Tht result would be to secure much ol the local business of Woodruff and Randolph, and probably -would Increase the transcontinental auto tourist travel through ogden. M Kl.s COMPARISON 8 It might be of Interest to cite the following exampro for comparison with the proposed road from Ogden throiiL-li Hunts-. 1 1 1 , to the month r,f South Fork, Is about 17 miles, with an average grade or 1 per cent from khe mouth 01 South P'prk to mouth of (Beaver, 5 mib-s with l 1-3 per cent grade, up Beaver to mouth of Kik creek Is C'n miles, with an average grade of 3'i per cent and this same grade runs tor about two miles more 1 to the head of the Beaver. Tho proposed pro-posed route as already stated, would I have a maximum grade of 0 per cent and the total distance from Ogden to (Monte Chrlsto. is about 36 to 37 miles. it is suggested and recommended that Immediate, steps be taken looking towards tne co-operation of all the road building agencies Bureau of I'ubllc Koads, forest service state -nid ountles interested, and that plans for a definite location and financing the project bo done berore the weather j closes tho field season. |