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Show STRONG, GRANT GET CONTRACT FOR UNDERPASS Strong and Grant, local contractors contrac-tors were the lowest of 12 bidders, and received the contract Saturday Satur-day from the state road commission commis-sion for construction of two underpasses under-passes and an overhead crossing, together with about 1.2 miles of highway near Eighth South street on the U. S. Route 91 in this city. The cost to the state will be $161,747.72 of which $136,743.39 is to go to the contractors. For permanent and temporary changes in the lines of three railroads, some $10,000 is allowed, while engineering en-gineering and inspection costs are provided for in a 10 per cent allowance al-lowance for contingencies. The project will be one of the largest pieces of grade separation work done by the state road commission com-mission in several years. The funds set aside for it are the last of approximately ap-proximately $4,200,000 allotted by the federal government in 1934 for highway construction in Utah. The project provides for a new alignment to U, S. 91; -a 40 foot pavement with a five foot sidewalk side-walk on either side from the north end of the project to the city limit line about .4 of a mile; about .8 of a mile of new allignment of gravel road with gravel 20 feet wide and shoulders 10 feet on either side, south of the city. This line, it is said runs across low ground, and the new road will probably be treated with light oil to keep down the dust for a season or two, after which it is expected that it will receive a 40 foot pavement. pave-ment. Three dangerous railroad crossings cross-ings in or near the city will be eliminated by the new work. In addition the new structures have been so designed by Maurice Housecraft, road commission bridge engineer, that they will be especially attractive. From north to south the trav-elor trav-elor will, when the work is completed, com-pleted, pass unde the Denver and Rio Grande Western tracks and those of the Utah railway, used as a second track under a joint traffic agreement between the two companies. Farther south the new road will pass over the trucks of ; the Salt Lake and Utah line, on an overheard crossing. The girders on the bridge for the Rio Grande to cross the new highway will be 56 feet 6 inches long, and will form a bridge railing rail-ing 6 feet 6 inches deep with some cement oranmentation. The bridge to be used by the Utah railway will be similar in design but the girders will be 62 feet 9 inches long and 7 feet deep, vertically. ver-tically. The concrete abutments for these will rest on pile foundations, found-ations, more than 13,000 lineal feet of piling being used. The overhead crossing of the interurban tracks will be 146 feet long on treated timber trestle 100,000 feet board ' measure, of timber being used. The bridges will cost the state at the bid prices, nearly $90,000, and the highway construction, which involves heavy fill as well as the paving of sidewalks, will cost slightly less than $72,000. "Shoo fly" tracks will carry the traffice of the two steam lines, while the construction is going on, being supported on trestles. The project involves moving a considerable stretch of the interurban inter-urban tracks. While this project was budgeted from the 1934 federal aid allotment, allot-ment, various necessary preliminaries prelim-inaries delayed it somewhat. |