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Show Bids Are Readied On Highway Jobs Bids on 4.6 miles of road surfacing sur-facing from Manila to the forest boundary will be opened at the State Office Building Dec. 4. C. Taylor Burton, Utah State Director of Highways also disclosed dis-closed that the project was to be completed in 125 working days and would require some 220,000 cu. yards of unclassified roadway road-way excavation, 64,800 tons of gravel and 780 tons of bituminous bitumi-nous material. This additional improvement to State Road No. 44 will greatly improve access to the high Uinta Country and Green Lake above the Flaming Gorge Lake, according accord-ing to Francis Feltch, state road commissioner. Bids for the major structure located at Lehi on new Interstate Inter-state 15 will be opened Dec. 4 in the State Office Building, Salt Lakp Citv. This structure will require 600,000 lbs. of steel and 1500 cu. yards of Class A concrete, and will require 120 working days for construction. Mr. Burton disclosed that this project is one of six jobs underway under-way in Utah County at the same time. The overpass at Lindon and the Lehi to American Fork grading and draining project is complete on Interstate 15. Elias J. Strong, State Road Commissioner representative for the Utah County area, stated the major overpass at Lehi is another an-other great step forward in the development of the Interstate Highway 15 through the state. Construction in Utah County area is supervised by Jim West, District Engineer, with offices in American Fork. I |
