Show SANPETE ROAD BOARD REFUTES FIRST COMPACT Pigeon Manti-Pigeon Hollow Highway Highway High High- way vay Bone of Contention Before Commission Yesterday the board of or commissioners commission commission- ers ore of oC county Indicted a letter to tho the state road commission containIng containing contain contain- ing ins u IL clause Do clause Do not let a contract In 19 1910 1920 0 on the Mantl Manti Hollow road In an any case before a contract is let lct leton on the te project the board of oC county commissioners commissioners com corn missioners wish to be bo consulted Sanpete board of commissioners and tho citizens of ot Manti ManU tho the county scat do not agree it is said on road roal mat mat- tern Ever since the tho early spring tho the people of ManU Mantl and Ephraim havo have been urging tho the construction of tho state highway and a number of delegations delegations dele dele- have called upon the state road commission to urge tho the construction of ot the road mL pc out for that Co count county U fl ty Two weeks ago tho the last Sanpete delegation dele dele- gation gatlon that conferred with the state stale commission following the thc opening of bids for construction of that part pirt of the tho highway known as the tho Manti- Manti PI Pigeon eon Hollow section and which was rejected on tho the ground that tho the bid hid was too high Then came camo tho the delegation dele dele- gation g an their grievances aired tho the commission so that it w was waa finally agreed that the only work that would bo be done dono on that section of the tho highway would be bo to establish grade and drain system and leave leavo it in shape so that it could go over until next year I Tho day following came another delegation and after their conference with tho the commission that body It is claimed changed its mind and concluded concluded concluded con con- to advertise for tor bids It was decided to ask for tor bids on two different differ differ- ant ent construction plans one bituminous ous concrete and the other plain concrete con con- crete crate the tho highway to bo be eighteen feet feat In width and to extend from the thc south city limits of Mantl Manti through h tho the city of EphraIm to Pigeon Hollow a distance dis dis- dis tanco tance of ot eleven cleven miles Bids to beI be bo opened on July JulyA 27 7 I A delegation was before tho state commission mission yesterday from Iron county count I to see what could be bo done dono on the road between Modena and Enterprise for which three routes have been I nono of which apparently are satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory to the tho people for tho the delegation so stated The dele delegation atlon consisted of Senator T. T U. U Jones and County Commissioners Commissioners Com Corn missioners H. H W. W Lunt and William Lund This delegation desired the road constructed over a route where tho the greatest test number of people would be ac accommodated accommodated accommodated ac- ac and finally It was decided ed that Iron count county paying tho the largest largest larg lars est cst amount for tor construction should determine tho the rou route te On tho the Long Valley-Cedar Valley road a a. forest service project eight miles mUes of ot which are under construction and with eleven cloven miles yet to bo ho built 1 F. F J. J Ryder of the forest service who was Invited to be present said that his department department de do- would aid In every ery way pos pos- sible The county was authorized to pUt pui chase a small caterpillar to aid In Inthe Inthe the work on the road Wattis Va Samuels who have the contract contract contract con con- tract for the construction of eleven miles mile of state highway and also for forthe the tho building of a 3 road for Utah county from the tho state road to the tho l Lehi Lohi hl sugar plant were willing to go on with the work through Lob Lehi if the tho state would pay tho the same unit price as Utah county Is paying for the same me kind of work Tho The firm was vas authorized to continue the work Governor vernor Bamberger called attention to numerous complaints particularly from Rich county that farmers wore were unable to obtain labor to harvest their crops as the contractors on the several several sev say eral state highways took the men away from the farm for road work by the payment of ot higher wages Ho He said that he regretted the fact but was unable unable unable un un- un- un able to su suggest gest a remedy unless the state met the price and more than the road contractors were willing to pay I |