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Show Nation-wide Ads Feature Work of Utah Contractor The story of how a Utah construction con-struction company is literally moving mountains to complete a vital section of the new interstate inter-state highway system in the northern part of the state is told this month in double page advertisements adver-tisements by CIT Corporation, whose financing service help to speed the work. Cutting through mountains and filling valleys, the Parson Construction Con-struction Company of Smithfield is ahead of schedule in building a 10 mile segment of four-lane, divided highway on Interstate 82, starting some 12 miles west of Tremonton. The old route, U.S. 30, was a twisting two-lane road. "The $1,972,000 job will eliminate elimi-nate many hazards. All present crossings will be changed so that we will have underpasses and overpasses and cloverleafs for access. Grades will be reduced to a maximum of 3 per cent and bad curves will be straightened. The contract calls for completion by June 1959, but we hope to beat that," said Jack B. Parson, owner of the company. The advertisements, appearing in leading magazines serving the construction industry, point out that Parson, a road builder since the pick and shovel days employs only 10 hand laborers on the job. Most of his 80 man crew are operating giant earthmovers that take multi-ton bites out of Utah mountains and carry the millions of tons of rock, earth full, gravel base and bituminous plant mix and roal gravel needed for the project. Other crews from his company are on road jobs in Idaho and Nevada. CIT's role was the finacing of much of the $1,500,000 worth of construction machinery being used on the Utah job. The firm is the largest single source of instalment financing for construction con-struction equipment and the nation's na-tion's largest industrial financing financ-ing company. |