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Show CITY WILL LINE DRY FORK TUNNEL WITHJONCRETE A WPA project, construction of a concrete lining for the Dry Fork water tunnel at a total cost of $17,493.10, has been approved, it was announced at the City council meeting Wedpesday evening eve-ning at the City hall. Share of the improvement to be borne by WPA amounts to $11,457.10. The city and the Utah Copper company will pay $6,-036.06 $6,-036.06 as their share on the project. pro-ject. Rotting of timbers in the Dry Fork tunnel has caused cave-ins, making frequent repairs at a cost of about $500 annually, necessary, ne-cessary, City Recorder Eugene Morris estimates. Plans call for concrete lining of 1000 feet of the 1700 foot-long tunnel. The city council also approved of labor accounts and payroll for the last half of April totaling $1107.00 and interest payment of $356.25 on the 1938 Dry Fork water wa-ter line bonds. Art Sorenson, city councilman in charge of health and sanita-; tion, gave City Attorney Elliott W. Evans a list of violators of the ordinance requiring proper garbage containers and removal of containers from the streets following collection. Mr. Evans will write letters warning violators. viola-tors. A discussion of recommendations recommenda-tions of the Lions committee and City Councilman Dale Johnston regarding removal of "no parking" park-ing" and "truck" zones resulted in decision to allow parking on the east side of Main street from the Senate Rooms to the City hall except between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m. The truck zone in front of the Liquor agency will be eliminated. 20 more parking places in Bingham's main business busi-ness district will be made available avail-able by the change. |
