Hungry Horse news., 1955-03-25
Park Plans Million S Construction Year

improvements exceeds
81 100000.
BETTER ROADS
OF this total, Supt. J. w. EN-
merit lists $500,000 as improvement
to Going to- -the-Sun highway.
The present S. Birch and Sons
contract totals $125,3O0, and in
cludes widening Sun highway at
Logan pass, $4,000 worth of rock
scaling along the Garden Wall, and
and stockpiling 1880
cubic yards of crushed rock. The
Birch. contract is 35 per cent COM
pleted.
A late May bid opening is ex-
pected on a contract that will see
over 100000 spent for hot plant
mix paving of ten miles of Sun
highway from Logan creek to Lo-
gan pass. Bid opening will be by
the Bureau of Public Roads in
Portland. This is the section that
was widened and improved under
the MorriSon-Knudsen contract of
1852.
In addition another expenditure
of $4,000 is being scheduled for
more scaling of rock along the
Garden Wall section of highway.
TRAFFIC NOT DELAYED
Likely development is that new
surfacing of Sun highway will be
done on the night shift so that
there will be less interference with
traffic, Emmert commented.
Other major highway improve
ment serving Glacier is the $414,-
798 contract for 1888 miles of the
Babb-Many Glacier road held by
Mclaughlin, Inc, Great Falls. This
road was 70 per cent complete
when shut down by weather last
fall. Mclaughlin is to finish the
new construction and add a dus1
palliative this coming summer. A
hard surfacing contract is expect
ed in 1856.
AT SWIFTCURRENT
Getting underway in the Many
Glacier basin, though hampered by
| Wintery weather, is construction O.
three modern IA unit motels, Z
dormitory and doubling the sizt
of the Swiftcurrent cabin camI
dining room for the Glacier Parl
Co., Great Northern subsidiary.
.LaRue Construction Co. Kalis.
pell, has started the contract. TIL,
three new electrically heatet
Swiftcurrent motel units will eacl
measure 122 feet 8 inches long ant
Al feet 4 inches wide includin,
four foot porches on both sides
They will contain one room apart
ments with baths.
The 20-room dormitory will b.
a 125 foot inches long and 35
foot wide structure, and the din
ing room addition will be IS fee
wide and average 70 feet long.
MANY GLACIER HOTEL
| In addition the Glacier Par
Co. is continuing remodeling of tn
Many Glacier hotel. The beaut
shop and barber shop are bein
moved from the basement to lob
by level, and there are wiring i'm
provements scheduled.
The new SWiftcurrent motels ar
to be in use this coming summer.
A part of the Mclaughlin Babb
Many Glacier contract is for i'm
provement of the parking area j
front of SWiftcurrent cabin CAM
An addition to the contract is i'm
provement of the loading areas j
front of Swiftcurrent cabin CAM
An addition to the contract is i'm
provement of the loading areas
: front of Many Glacier hotel.
BUDGET MONEY
This most active constructio
: year in Glacier National Park hi:
$ tory sees President Eisenhower
8 budget include at least $409,0t
D for construction in Glacier.
Included in the budget is $124
200 for improvement of water sy
TENS, sewage and similar faciliti
I in the Many Glacier basin esp,
cially at Swiftcurrent cabin cam
There is $110,700 marked for in
e provement of campground al
i service roads as well as parkil
: areas. This includes $4,000 f
n roads and parking areas at Swift
y current, and $62,500 for roads al
q parking areas at Lake McDona
hotel.
n An item of SO, 400 is listed for t
+ Flathead's North Fork concentra
e ing about the Kintla lake cam
ground.
NEW MCDONALD FACILITIE
Slated for 1956-57 is extensi
and remodelling of facilities
Lake Mcdonald hotel so that abe
$50 guests can be accommodate
Facilities here will become abe
o the same as to numbers as
Al Many Glacier. In preparation I
n this 1956-57 enlargement, the bu
l. get includes $175,000 for extensi
= of water sewage lines in the La
Mcdonald area during 1855.
s Other construction for Glaci
g this summer includes Mounts
States Telephone and Telegra
II Co. taking over park commune
n tions with target date May
1e 1856. Most of the construction "
n be done this year, including NJ
lines.
s. On the parks east side Glac
OF Electric Coop, Cut Bank, is
at build an electric service line il
I'd Many Glacier and Swiftcurre
e. Underway in 1855 or 1856 will
as a Flathead Electric Coop L
from West Glacier to Lake McDc
< aid. This will be cable in a nir
III foot largely concealed right
t. way.
Underway this spring is $10,t
improvement of the North F.
road including repair of the brio
at Polebridge.
IS Travel to Glacier each year n
d. is triple figures for years bef
ng the war. The park in 1854 had
NJ. fourth season with over h
he million visitors. The 1854 ira
figure was 608,230.