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Show wishes to enlarge its holdings there. The company will assist in the new construction construc-tion work of the road. Ultimately the road wil have a pavement. The commission has appointed C. H. Blgelow, secretary of the Arrowhead" Trail and Development association, as a special district engineer, to have charge of the roafl work of Washington and Iron countfes. This was done for the reAson that the district is a large one. and it was feared that the regular district engineer, who has to travel from one end to the other, might niat have time to give proper other, might not have time to give proper attention to the construction of the paving pav-ing of the Arrowhead trail from St. George north, planned for the coming winter. Bill HASTENS npnc Road Commission Decides to Speed Construction at Farmington. Minor matters which had not received consideration at the meeting of the state road commission Tuesday were disposed of yesterday in a special session. The commission decided to ask the mayor of Farmington to obtain the necessary. nec-essary. right of way across the Walsh and adjacent property at once, in order that a fill might be made and construction work no longer delayed on the paving of the state road through that town. The claim of E. O. Wilcox for about 565 damages to his automobile when it was injured in collision with a state road truck was denied, the engineer, J. S. Wooiley, having reported that the accident was in part Mr. Wilcox's fault A claim from Robert, T. Edwards for $643 damages to his automobile on account of the washout wash-out of a bridge on the Midland trail in Grand county was referred to the district dis-trict engineer, B. H. Fowler, Jr., with headQuarters at Price, for report. The Lynch Construction company received re-ceived the contract for construction of about 600 feet of road about two miles north of Farmington and at the junction of the road from Weber canyon. The prico is to be the same as that under the Lynch contract for other work in that vicinity, plus 25 per cent. Resident Engineer J. S. Wooiley resigned, re-signed, to tike a position with the Utah Power & Light company. Tho proposed change of the route of the stale ro;id out of Magna to Tooele was approved. This route has been changed on petition of properly owners in the district, dis-trict, and on representations made in behalf be-half of the L'tah Copper company, which |