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Show impanogos Cave Wins New $7000 Appropriation, To i Start Project At Once '.lowing receipt of notice of ap-;1 ap-;1 of a $7400 ERA project for ,vement work, the national service this week was prepares prepar-es launch a project at Timpan- 7j:ave. work will get under way at Rational monument Saturday, y.as A. Walker, national parks in charge, announced. ;qv appropriation will be '"spent p-irious improvements at the ifi'on' the trail, and at the camp tf':ls. The development work is 0rd to put the cave in shape Si.ie opening this spring, when J,!w Middle cave will be shown '3 first time to the public. ltv.rovements planned include the . "tig of a rock archway at the . .ce of Hansen cave, the tun-'jinnecting tun-'jinnecting Timpanogos, Middle j0 ansen caves having made use ; y Hansen entrance possible. '3 will be taken on a one-way trough the cave system, while . past it has been necessary to .. i two-way trip to see Timp- cave. unt: .waiting room at the Hansen ro .ltrance also will be improved ent( construction of a rock re- e X waU- th i;.n the caves trails will be o to the proper grade, and chai-1. New steel stairways and 10re lso will be installed. jjy, w comfort station will be rom.ghting installations will be -! ed, and improvements will gd-s to the outside trails, under UU;7412 appropriation will cover 3ora:.d materials. WPA labor id re employed, with men to be ok k from Lehi, American Fork isant Grove, terebtest appropriation is one of ;s, it which have made possible iStiL.ing of new caverns, travers-ral travers-ral hundred feet, to the jPo open Middle cave, which k ('een Timpanogos and Han- Cov.s- nas been necessary to rght.'om the latter two caves. p0,deal of development work reptessary to make the cave 2 iccessible- to visitors. This, ith i building of a new trail ind iS from the old cave trail to j tocave installation of lights, j' cgpient of passageways within pren;.cave, and other details, h aj e of the development work, j app Timpanogos cave is ex-lg ex-lg orJ become one of the most tjjj! national monuments, and uto draw a greater number of tourists each year. The cave system, with the new section which has been opened, has been declared to be one of the most beautiful caverns in the country, the delicate formations and beautiful colorings being unmatched elsewhere. |
