The daily sentinel., 1912-01-25
SAYS ROAD
CAN Be BUILT
FOR $500
Engineer Fisk Submits Report on the
Glade Park Highway-"Greatest
Scenic Beauty-Link in In
terstate Road-Important.

Declaring that in scenic beauty the
road from Grand Junction over the
Main street bridge to Glade park sur
passes the best mountain drives in
the state, that it is feasible and may
be built with a negligible grade for
$500, and that il will form a link
in the proposed transcontinental
highway. James H. Fisk has rendered
his report from his survey of the line
to the top of the cliffs.
Mr.. Fisk's report, made last
night, is highly favorable to the ear
ly construction of the road. He con-
siders it an important step toward
the development of this city as well
as an inexpensive means of providing
a beautiful driveway for this city.
1t is also the easiest and most logical
link from Grand junction to the
Utah line in the interstate auto
highway.
Mr.. Fisks report follows:
Glade Park Needs Road.
THE Glade park country, now con-
nected by an almost impossible road
with Grand Junction, embraces about
80, 900 acres of fine agricultural land
where, during the last three years,
the sturdy pioneers of that section
have wrestled with the dry farming
problem and have reduced it from an
experiment to certainty This por-
tion of Mesa county, which is in dire
need of the road, cannot be over
looked, nor is il the desire. or to the
advantage of the rest of the county
so to do.
The Survey.
Through the efforts of John Otto,
Louis Harms, N c. Weimer and 9TH
er enterprising citizens | was asked
to make the survey of this proposed
highway, commencing at the west
end of the Main street bridge and
carrying the work as far as the top
loop of the cliffs west of Nothorough-
fare canon. The survey brings out
the following facts:
l. From the west end of the
bridge to the foot of the actual grade
which commences just west of the
mouth of Nothoroughfare canon, it is
four miles.
2. From the foot of the grade to
the top of the cliffs, plainly seen from
the city, it is two miles and the as
cent is accomplished by the use of a
continuous grade of per cent. This
grade is a shade more than one-half
as great as that on the Fifth street
hill.
Great Scenic Beauty.
The grade will[be-eu out of solid
rock the entire distance and winds
about the rimrocks and gorges, pre-
senting marvellous view of the
county from Fruita to Battlement
Mesa, at the same time giving the
observer a chance of gazing over
cliffs 250 feet high. In my estima
tion the proposed Glade Park road
far surpasses in beauty though of a
different type, the famous High
Drive, near Colorado Springs and
the formations in the Garden of the
Gods dwindle to nothingness when
compared with the majestic spires
and the cliffs in Nothoroughfare
Cost of Road.
''The estimated cost of construction
of the grade proper is $500 when
figured conservatively and the road
from Main street to the foot of the
grade is over comparatively smooth
ground where very little rock work
will be encountered. The people of
Glade park have subscribed 81 500 in
work and guarantee to construct the
road from the top of the cliff to the
Glade park postoffice.
This stretch of road from the top
of the cliffs to the postoffice has not
been surveyed but can be traversed
in an hours time by wagon at the
present time, so it is certain that a
fine automobile road can be built
over that portion of the highway
with but little expense.
y. H. FISK,