Media Contact: Tozier - Int. 4306 | Information Service
For Immediate Release: June 11, 1958

Award of a $51,625.00 contract for improving 5.7 miles of the Mineral Center Grand Portage Road, on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation, Cook County, Minnesota, was announced by the Department of the Interior today.

The project will provide all-weather transportation facilities for the residents of the Village of Grand Portage and will encourage tourist travel to this Indian village. The road also serves as a farm-to-market outlet, and mail and school bus route. It is the only road outlet for the residents of the Village.

Ulland Brothers, Inc., of Duluth, Minnesota, submitted the lowest of three bids received, the highest being for $51,625.00.