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Show GRAVEL SURFACE ON HIGHWAY BEING LAID : Special to The Tribune. POCATELLO, Idaho. July 14. Contractor Con-tractor J. J. Carroll of this city has commenced com-menced the work of placing" a pxavel surface sur-face over ten miles of the Yellowstone highway between Pocatello and the Bingham Bing-ham county line. The secretary of the state highway commission has also called for bids lor the construction of seventeen miles of ! this roaJ, extending from Downey, in i Bannock county, to the Franklin county line, over what is known as the Malad : divide, to the city of Malad, this route i having been designated by the commis- i sion as the one upon which state funds should be expended. In the apportionment of Idaho's share of the federal post road fund $100,000 has been allotted to what is known as tne Arrowroek-Atlanta highway, J100,0u0 to the MeCal I-Warrens highway and $2;u. -000 to the north and south highway extending' ex-tending' between Boiso and northern Id alio. Hereafter no contracts for grading state highways will be entered into which cio not provide that suitable surfacing shall be done within one year. This action has been taken in order to reduce what, in some instances, lias been excessive maintenance main-tenance charges of roads constructed bv the slate. |