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Show Shorter Yellowstone Route Proposed Ogden R. H. Rutledge, district forester for-ester has left here for Jackson, Wyo., to confer with T. L. Laird, Wyoming highway commissioner, about a proposed pro-posed road through the Grand can yon of the Snake river in the Teton forest, a distance of twenty-six miles. If the road is built through the Grand canyon ol the Snake, a new, better and shorter route from Ogden to Wesl Yellowstone will be had, forest servicemen ser-vicemen say. It is estimated that it will cost $40,000 to build a sixteen-foot sixteen-foot automobile road through the rugged rug-ged canyon, but its completion will eliminate the hard automobile pull over the leton pass and bring Ogden about fifty miles closer to West Yellowstone. Yel-lowstone. If this canyon road is built, the route from Ogden to the park will pass through Brigham, Logan, Logan canyon, Bear Lake, Montpelier Afton, Star Valley, Alpine, Grand canyon can-yon of the Snake, Jackson, and thence over the present route to West Yellowstone. |