Show capitol reef development work or starts 11 new day dawns for the wayne wonderland more tourists expected capitol reef national monument carved from wayne wonderland and dedicated a year ago is to receive its first development work under the national park service starting this week the work will be under direction of P P superintendent of zion national park with leon stanley as engineer and administrator in charge mr stanley arrived in fruits fruita the last of the week and it la Is expected mr will make a trip to the area this week to confer with him on tho the project an application has been submitted for erection of a museum on oa the sand flats near the mott ranch at the entrance to fruita it ita approval is expected in about a month plans are to use native sandstone for building material erection of a museum will be a a great asset as a means of preserving the many rare indian relies relics dwellings dwellings that hat are being found in the cliff until approval of the museum the 20 relief workers who started work monday under direction of mr stanley will be employed making other improvements which it is expected will include minor repairs on the road at fruita development of the water supply and building of trails to the petrified forest and hickman natural birdge both of which are but two or three miles from fruita it is expected men will be employed on the project for four months A stub camp of about 70 workers is to be transferred from zion park to fruits fruita within the n near ear future possibly this week to work on roads and build a park ranger station how extensive the road program will all be has not yet been made known but when the boys start building roads down in that country going to see see see something although tourists in limited numbers have been entering the wayne wonderland the past few years the area has not received the attention it should by right of unique scenery command announcement no that the park service is starting work is welcomed as another great step forward inputting the newly created capitol reef national monument before the tourist public situated on the grand canyon yellowstone highway highway 89 richfield opens the gates east to wayne county and with communities of wayne county rejoices in the development of the capitol reef area as an economic and recreational asset linked with fish lake the section offers interest ln terest unexcelled |