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Show Roourfacod Big onion Price City Park tennis courts get a new cover. Page 4 Is this the biggest cnicn over grown in Carbon County? Pago 7 J v 0 Thursday October 27, 97th Year 1988 0 Price, Utah No. 86 35 Cents Bear robs beekeeper of bees' hard work magazines about this happening, he said. He has read ByARVA SMITH Staff writer - WELLINGTON Hungry bears love honey and if they can get a few young bees as an added snack, so much the better. Beekeeper Daniel Price found out just how much bears like honey and bees this week when he checked his hives located off the Coal Creek Road, east of Wellington. He was dismayed to see some of the hives, in the form of wooden boxes stacked two high, in disarray. Close to 10 were tipped over and broken, he said. A few pieces were outside the fence he had strung around the hives. Square wooden forms on which the bees build honeycombs were scattered will-nill- y. Some of the bees were homeless. I have never had anything like this, Price said, although kids sometimes tip over a hive and occasionally try to get a comb of honey. Price has bees at about 15 locations. He has been in the business years. His father was a beekeeper in Emery 25-3- 0 County. He knew a bear had been into his bees although he has never Danny Price checks damage to his beehives located off the Coal Creek Road east of Wellington. The hives were broken and frames for honeycombs scattered, apparently by a hungry bear. The bear is believed to have had a good meal of honey and bees, had any come to his hives before. I have read in beekeepers articles about more wooded in beekeepers areas Washington, Oregon and back who have bears visit east quite frequently. Some of them string an electric fence around their hives, he said. Since the bear that came to his hives apparently got away with quite a bit to eat, Price is sure the bear will return. He called Miles Moretti, biologist for the Division of Wildlife Resources, who brought a bear trap. The trap, designed to catch but not injure bears, was baited with honey and dog food. The favorite foods of bears are honey, bacon and anything dead, Moretti said. They are omnivorous and feed on carrion. Moretti said because of the dry year, bears are more likely to come out of the hills. The same thing happened during a couple of dry years about 10 years ago. Most of the bears that venture into civilization are yearlings who are kicked off by their mothers because of the shortage of food. The young bears do not know how to fend for themselves, he said, and so look for food wherever they can find it. Moretti said he had expected (Continued on Page 3) Contractor Elbert CEU Museum expansion bid again Lowdermik dies By STEVE CHRISTENSEN Managing editor Construction on a scaled down version of an expansion project of the CEU Prehistoric Museum will be underway in the next couple of weeks. Savage Construction, from Midvale, is the apparent low bidder for the project. Price city officials opened 16 sealed bids at a special meeting Tuesday evening. The Savage bid is $991,001, or $949,329 without five deductive alternatives, including land- ESPANOLA, New Mexico Elbert Lowdermilk, cofounder of Lowdermilk Brothers Construction Co. and later, Elbert Lowdermilk Inc., died Oct. 23, 1988 at his home at the age of 91. His memorial service was held in Espanola on Oct. 26. Lowdermilk was born July 26, 1897, in Randolph County, N.C. He was a young boy when his family moved across the prairies by covered wagon and settled in Denver, Colo, in 1923. In 1930, Lowdermilk and two brothers, Hoyle and Zimmie, founded Lowdermilk Brothers Construction Co., and through 1956 completed construction throughout the West. Then Elbert and Hoyle became a heavy-highw- scape and irrigation and renovation of the existing portion of the museum. The four alternates involved in the existing partnershipCo. H-- E In 1957 and Lowdermilk In were involved earthmoving and highway projects in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Elbert Lowdermilk in 1983 started operation of his own construction company in Lowdermilk was chairman of the board of Elbert Lowdermilk Inc., until his retirement In 1985. At the time of his death, Ixwdermilk was a member of the Associated General Utah. Contractors in Utah and New Mexico. He has also been a member in Colorado since 1932. In 1979 he was honored as a Pioneer in Construction system, electrical, carpet and gypsum board and painting. The Savage bid is over $300,000 less than original bids opened in August. At that time the low bid was $1,320,000, even after all the deductive alternates were eliminated. The difference in the bid is mainly due to elimination of most of the renovation of the existing building. Price City Engineer Gary Sonntag said he is pleased with the bid. Savage Construction appears to be a good company. Their credential will be checked and the entire bid will be reviewed by a committee appointed by Mayor Art Lee Martines. Additional funding has been secured by the CEU Museum Board that will permit complete renovation of the existing portion of the building. However, that will be bid as a separate contract, and will not affect the project bid last Tuesday. Other bidders and their bids are listed below: Construction Inkley ($1,008,100), Goble Construction ($1,049,600), Construction Brubaker (1,044,400), Construction Construction-Tec- ($1,045,700), Advisors Point ($1,033,000), Union h Construction ($1,065,900), M-1- 3 Construction ($1,075,180), Kimtro Construction ($1,077,800), Martin-Yac- k Construction ($1,098,806), Fox Construction ($1,121,835), Tri-CConstruction ($1,152,000), Kent Construction Stilson ($1,157,929), or Con- Kent-Je- x struction ($1,170,000), R.F. Construction Christiansen and C&A Con($1,181,500) struction ($1,248,719). Sonntag said the committee has already met and he hopes to have all of the checks made by Friday. It will then take the about a week to get bonding and insurance in place before the contract will officially be awarded. Due to low-bidd- er restrictions placed on the federal grant, construction must be underway by Nov. 9, Sonntag said. The project will take about a year to complete. Commission moves to create special district ay of building include the mechanical by the Colorado Contractors Association. Lowdermilk left a physical mark on eastern Utah as perhaps no other man ever will. His first construction job in Utah was building the road to Brighton Ski Resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon in 1961. In 1962 he received the first Interstate 70 job bid in Utah, just east of Fremont Junction. In 1963 his company constructed the road through Indian Canyon and in 1964-66 the road through Price he built three Interstate 70 projects. Those are just of few of dozens of major highway projects Canyon. In 1968-7- 1 (Continued on Page 3A) By LYNNDA JOHNSON Staff writer Over 20 residents from areas within unincorporated Carbon County attended a special board of commissioners public hearing on Oct. 26 and voiced general support of the creation of a special service district to administer mineral lease money. The Utah state Legislature recently passed a bill refunding lease monies previously retained by the state to Utahs mineral producing counties. Pursuant to an eligibility provision included In the legislation, Carbon County must establish a special service district, independent ( of existing governmental bodies, to ad- minister the funds. Chairman Lee The law, Semken stated, requires the mineral lease revenues to go to a special district and prohibits the money from going directly to the county. According to Semken, the lease revenues are designated, by state statute, for use in maintaining, upgrading and constructing minerally im- pacted highways in Carbon Countys unincorporated areas, and the sole function of the proposed Carbon County Roads Special Service District will be establishing a priority list, approving road projects and appropriating the necessary for completion. funds Carbon County is projected to receive a refund in excess of $400,000 in mineral lease monies from the state during the first year, more than $800,000 the second and approximately $1,000,000 annually thereafter. Although the establishment of a special service district appeared to gamer strong public support at the public meeting, several residents expressed reservations concerning the of proposed appointment members to the agencys board of directors by county commissioners. Addressing a suggestion from Jack Cotner that members be selected by public election, Semken explained that Carbon officials previously met with representatives from other Utah counties. After consulting with private legal counsel and bonding attorneys, the procedures for lawmakers adopted a joint resolution aimed at developing fool-pro- of creating the service districts. The resolution specifies commission appointment of the boards. ComThe main thing, missioner Rachiele informed the concerned citizens, is to establish the district and get the money Carbon County deserves. Board members are not an issue at this point." Defining composition of the agencys board, Rachiele revealed the commission will (Continued on Page 2) |