Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-30 | Page 7 | Federal Contract Here for Approval

FEDERAL CONTRACT HEBE FOR MIL State Road Commission Receives Papers for Formal For-mal Signatures. The state road commission yesterday receive from "Washington for its signature signa-ture the proposed contract with the federal fed-eral government through the office of public pub-lic roads, for the improvement of the Og-fl Og-fl en -Hooper road as a post road project. Withlp a few hours the contract was signed and on its way hack to Washington Washing-ton for the signature of David F. Houston, Hous-ton, secretary of agriculture. When that signature is attached, construction con-struction work can go ahead at once, if the capital issues committee ol tiie red-1 red-1 cral government will approve the issue of ' SoSI.OO'f of state road bonds, as has been ; rcuuested. If the approval Is not forth -! coming, the project will simply have to wait until the state gets the money in th" treasury, or until the nf.xt legislature makes it possible to divert the motor vehicle fimd direct to the work of road-I'Uihting, road-I'Uihting, seeing that there is no ueM to use it as a sinking fund for road bonds I that cannot be Issued. The Ogdon-Hooper road is 9.?s miles : long, and is estimated to cost J61.340.-H, ' of which the federal government will pay ; one-half, the state and Weber county to ' futnish the remainder. I'. will be the i nearest approach to a hard-surface road possible to build for about $7000 a mile, and Ihe COP tract with the government says the road may be built by the letting of a contract, by force account, or by the use of convict labor Construction of bridges r.t Ta Yerkin and at Peters Leap in Washington county was approved. The commission granted an indefinite leave of absence to C S. .Tarvis, office engineer en-gineer and assistant secretary, who will go to Fort DpOgftfl in the near fuluru as a. captain in the 403rd engineers. It also extended its best wishes to the employee for his success In military life.