The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-01-26
LIE VICTORY HIGHWAY

Topeka, Kansas, January 25.-One
OF the least known of the National
Monuments set aside by the Federal
Government is the Dinosaur National
Monument near Vernal, Utah, a town
on the route of the Victory Highway,
between Denver and Salt Lake City.
For twelve years, the fossil bones
of prehistoric animals have been
quarried from the rocks by the
Carnegie Museum, and the source
has but been started. There is every
indication that the work of excava-
ton of the fossil bones will proceed,
whether under Government or private
enterprise, for years to come. The
quarry now covers an area 400 feet
long and fifty feet wide. As the
work progresses into the solid rock,
where the weathering effect of the
ages is not noticeable, the bones of
the animals which wandered over
North America when the Rocky
Mountains were swampy islands pro-
truding from steaming sea, become
more plentiful and are found to be
IN better condition.
Although it is a comparatively lit
tie known quarry, and has not hither-
to been on a state highway, thousands
Of persons have visited the quarry to
inspect the huge skeletons. The
route of the Victory Highway, which
now passes within two miles of the
quarry, has been set aside as one of
, the primary state highways of Utah,
and is in to receive Federal aid for
improvement, under the terms of the
Phipps bill, recently passed by Con-
gress.
The scenery through which the
Victory Highway passes in this sec
tiOn of the trans-continetnal route, is
unsurpassed in the Rocky Mountains,
and the quarry itself offers a most
unique addition to the attractiveness
of the scenery.
10000
That the Victory highway, in its
entire stretch, will come within the
provisions of the bill introduced by
Senator Phipps of Colorado, under
which the United States Bureau of
Public Roads, in cooperation with
various State Highway Commissions,
is to develop a trans-continental high
way system, is the declaration of
George w. Stansfeld, president of
The Victory Highway Association.
The principal locations involved are
those in the mountain sections be-
tween Denver and Salt Lake City,
where, at the present time, the Blu
reau of Public Roads is developing a
wide and comfortable road of easy
grades over the Berthoud and Rabbit
Ear Passes.
In the Uintah Basin, in Utah also,
approximately one million dollars of
Federal Aid funds will be available
under the Phipps bill, according to
Stansfeld, an amount of money
amply sufficient to develop a good
road which in connection with those
stretches in Colorado now under Gov
eminent contract, will supply a safe
and easy road over the backbone of
the Rocky Mountains.
10000
The officials of civic organizations
in Denver, Colorado, interested in
tourist traffic, have approved the Vic
tory Highway and are cooperating in
the plans of The Victory Highway
Association for Improvement of its
trans-continental route.
In a letter to George Stansield,
president of the association, F. L.
Bartlett, chairman of the traffic and
roads committee of the Denver Civic
and Commercial Association, says
that the Highway was approved in
resolutions passed by the Tourist Bus
reau of the Denvers association re-
Gently.
In short time some Denver man
is to be appointed director for Colo
RADIO, of The Victory Highway Assoc
iation. Bartlett promises his full CO
operation in developing the Highway
across the continent.