Show I SAVED AVDI I I ill It CONTRACT f H rOW Dixie Dixi Company to Furnish Electricity for Paving Highway More than 20 In the tho construction construction construction tion of ot two forty miles of concrete highway highway between between St St. George and Cedar City will be saved td by a n. contract en entered entered en- en I tere Into Tuesday by the state road rond commission with the Dixie Power com corn pany pans Aft Aner r work has leas been started on the M rOad additional benefit will wilt accrue to r re of ot that section inasmuch as aa will be able to avail a themselves ot of hydroelectric J. J tro power at the regular rat rate flied with the public utilities commission t the agreement the state will uzo ete el electric I rie power in the mixing of concrete and to supply water for road construction The Dixie company will furnish a volt voIt three-phase three current current cur cur- rent the the latter to be installed by the at at a tI cost of 1825 per mile The will wUl buy the power at regular rates rate t r largo consumers The Tho com com- company pa patty pany y will buy pole line lino and wires whee from I the state at the tho completion of ot the wok woj I I CACHE CACHE PAVEMENT The rho commission also signed the contract contract con con- tr tract ct with Olof Olot Nelson for the const construction con con- st of the tho s strip of pavement in Cache county from Logan to Wellsville Wells Wells- ville and the contractor was notified 4 to start Mart immediately with the work f Approval was given to plans for a aI aI 4 masonry and concrete bridge over Mesquite mesquite Mes- Mes I quite wash In Washington county at an an cost of 2190 The states state's s I storage and repair shops at 1225 Beck street also are to be enlarged by the construction of ot two bents at an esti- esti I m ted cost of ot 1 I n appropriation of was approved ap- ap I ap-I pr prOved for changes in the road through canyon where a n. portion of the I pr present sent road three miles long has gr grades des as high as 11 per cent The new ro road d will be partly side hill construction con con- and the tho maximum grade proposed will be 4 75 per cent The were prepared by Jed F F. Woolley Woolley Wool Wool- le ley field engineer and are approved by J J. O O. Burson district engineer L L. F F. Kneipp district forester at Ogden Ogden Og Og- Og- Og den reported that only one ape bid was Tec received ved for the construction of the thet t Logan-Garden Logan City road and that was the Christensen Construction company at 35 This with I ottley harges would bring the total cost COlt of the road road to I whereas wl the state and nd federal govern govern- m me nt t each agreed to put up a n. maxi maxi- 1 mym m of for this work The Thel state te commission decided it would fa faI favor favor fa- fa I l' l vor or accepting the Christensen bid and andI I h would pay one half of ot the extra cost i Harden Bennion secretary of ot state i who had been one of a committee to toI I in investigate the situation in l I toi reported in favor avor of the route Voute ad advocated ad- ad vacated vo by certain of ot the city officials I through that town provided certain additional improvements were made in inthe inthe th the route The definite and final route foi tor the road Is still sun unsettled s |