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Show Summer Employment Boost Looms Two Utah Building Jobs neighborhod of $10 million, and , expressed in terms of the jobs 1 this purchase will provide for' the community where' the low, bid manufacturer is located, it would offer as many as 1,500 man-years of work. "This will keep up to 1500 skilled men busy for a full year, or as many as 500 skilled men busy three years, depending on how long it takes to build the generators," Mr. King said. j Employment on the Glen Canyon Can-yon and Flaming Gorge Dams will climb this spring and summer sum-mer to levels which probably will be the "high water marks" for both projects. 1 These assurances were given Rep. David S. King by Reclamation Reclama-tion Commissioner Floyd Domi-ny Domi-ny late Monday, when the congressman con-gressman personally urged the reclamation chief to step up the projects to help blunt unemployment unemploy-ment in the Intermountain Re gion. , The commissioner also urged the congressman that the funds still available from the current appropriations are ample to aid both projects on "peak employ-, employ-, ment schedules" until the next fiscal year appropriation is made. The construction at Glen Can-yon, Can-yon, already the largest since the project began, will climb to approximately ap-proximately 2,500 men by summer, sum-mer, Mr. Dominy told Congressman Congress-man King. This will represent an increase of some 300 men over the present force, which is now pouring concrete in shifts around the clocki At Flaming Gorge the labor force could increase by 700 before be-fore i it hits the seasonal peak a peak which the project is ex-pecetd ex-pecetd to reach again in the summer sum-mer of 1962, too. The contractors can keep only skeleton crews presently 150 to 200 men at work in Flaming Gorge through the severe Uinta mounntain winters. This force is expected to approach 900 men at the seasonal peak. The congressman was also informed in-formed that bureau engineers are working overtime in both the Denver and Salt Lake offices to speed the purchases of heavy equipment for the Upper Colorado Colo-rado projects purchases which can help stabilize employment in manufacturing centers where the equipment is made. The chief engineer's office at Denver is now ready to call for bids on the big generators for the Glen; Canyon power plant. The generators will cost in the |