The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1924-11-14
LEES FERRY ROAD IS
ASSURED SAYS STATE
ENGINEER LEFEBVRE

The Lees Ferry highway, an artery
to connect Arizona with the inter-
mountain states of the north and open
up Arizona to the great stream OF
automobile tourist travel, will be
built, declares w. C. LIE Febvre. state
engineer.
The state highway department is
now engaged in securing the cost esti-
mates of the project and planning
means by which the highway is to be
financed with the help of federal aid
funds.
1t is estimated that the cost Of the
project from Fredonia TO a junction
with the Tuba City-Flagstaff road will
be 100000, of which considerable
portion, it is believed, will be supplied
by the federal government. This fig
nre includes the bridge six miles
south of Lees Ferry.
Few who have not visited southern
Utah realize the size of the tourist
travel to the national parks and monu-
ments of southern Utah and to the
Rocky mountains and Yellowstone
park. The greater part of the national
automobile travel, it is said, is con-
centrated in the inter mountain re-
gion. Los Angeles made a bid for its
share of this travel by aiding in the
construction of the Arrowhead trail
Still later San Francisco, realizing a
need for a connection, actually aided
Nevada in financing the highway
through that state connecting with
Utah roads and Salt Lake City.
During the past three years this
tide of travel has turned toward the
deer preserve in the Kaibab forest and
to the north rim of the Grand Canyon
In one day this summer the travel
was greater than that of the entire
season four years ago. The bulk of
this travel wishes to continue their
trips through Arizona by way of the
Hopi and Navajo Indian villages, the
Painted Desert, the south rim of the
Grand Canyon, and scenic spots in the
southern part of Arizona. One reason
for this is that the trip from south
ern Utah to Los Angeles is without
a single scenic feature.
So great is the demand for high
way connecting the northern inter
mountain region with Arizona that the
National Park Service has taken up
the fight for federal funds to aid
Arizona in the construction work.
The highway would bring the Won
derful Zion Canyon national park
within two days travel from Phoenix.
1t would make practical short vaca-
ton trips to the wonderful country
of colored rock of House Rock valley
and southern Utah. It would open up
the Kaibab forest, the largest of its
kind in the world. and the great deer
herd therein, to Arizona residents.
According to Mr.. LeFebvre. there is
a 91-mile stretch of concrete road
south from Salt Lake City. Two roads
branch off, one running through the
Sewer river valley, the other, the Ar
rowhead Trail, directly to Los An
geles, both going close to Fredonta,
Arizona From Fredonia to Johnsons
wash 10 miles will be built this win
ter by the forest service. Five miles
more will be built by Coconino coun-
ty. connecting with the forest service
road through the Kaibab forest. The
proposed road to be built by the state
and government will go through House
Rock valley, crossing the river above
Marble Canyon six miles below Lees
Ferry and then proceeding through
the beautiful higher country of the
Navajo reservation. Where the road
crosses the Buckskin mountains or
Kaibab plateau it will be $500 feet
above sea level.