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Show ENGINEER SHOWS STATUS OF U. S. ROAD IPfJEGTS Statement Submitted at Request Re-quest of Retiring Commissioners, Com-missioners, Who Gie Up State Duties on Monday State Road Engineer Howard Means today. In compliance with the request of the retiring state road commissioners.- who vacate their office on Monday, Mon-day, presented the commission with a statement showing the status of the 1922 federal aid program. The data was compiled by W. O. Hayward. chief draftaman of the state road eommls- i i , , - , V. ( Vi -.nw,a lh status of the' project as of April 1. follows: F. A. P. No. 4. Sec. F Castle Dale to Feiion. One thousand dollars was received from Kmery county to cover the copl of preliminary engineering on April 2. Mr. Kills, assistant state road engineer, will Immediately go over this project with a representative of the bureau of public roads In order to obtain . the necessary field Information before making up an estimate in this office. F. A. P. No. 4-H-S bridges between Castle Dale and Kmery. Money for the two bridges yet to be constructed wss received by the accounting ac-counting department during the last week and advertising for this work should begin within thirty days. P. A. P. No. -A Delta-Holden. The plans on this section of F. A. P. No. $ have been completely revised, but until the question of the railroad grade crossings of the Delta-Fillmore branch of the I'nion Pacific I Salt Lake Route) Is more definitely determined, no action can be taken. This matter has been taken up with Frank Strong, division manager of the Salt tke Route. ESTIMATE REVISED. F. A. P. No. t-O, H, J. K Holden-Kan)sh. Holden-Kan)sh. The orlglnsl project agreement on these four sections wss hnsed on the construction of the -foot concrete strip. It was, therefore, necessary that an estimate be revised in order to con- form to gravel surface construction. The revised estimate la 0 per cent complete and should be submitted to the bureau for approval within the next seven or eight days. F. A. P. No. 10-B Ft. Ducheene-Vernal. Ducheene-Vernal. This Is the proposed section of Ft. Duchesne-Vernsl hlghwsy Immediately east and adjacent to section A. Mr. Tounr of the bureau of public roads . Is acinic over the proposed allanment of this highway with Mr. Gam. resident resi-dent enclner. with the1d of settling the length and location of the proposed work. K. A. P. No. II Ash Creek-Anderson's ranch. The revised plan and estimate for this project are 0 per cent complete and will undoubtedly be forwarded to I the bureau for approval within the next seven or eight days. The project statement has been recommended for approval by the district office of the bureau nf public roads. F. A. P. No. 15 Buckhorn section of the Parowan-Beaver road. At the present time A. D. White, acting resident engineer, la making a line change approximately five ml)B ! In lengU. on this project to Improve drainage conditions. Thla line change, we are advised, will be In this office within three days. Revision of the balance of plans on the project not affected bv the line change Is 16 per ent complete. The project statement has been recommended for approval by the district engineer of the bureau of public roads. V, A. P. No. 17-C lvan-Ch!cken creek reservoir. Plans, specifications and estimate on thla project have been approved by project agreement executed by the state road commission. The advertisement advertise-ment of this project is being held pending definite Information regarding the distribution nf the costs snd easements ease-ments of the right of way with thei Union Pacific (Salt Lake Route). , COUNTY FUND LACKING. P. A. P. No. 1-A Marysvale-Junc-tlon. The contract for this section of F A. P. No. II wss swarded to A. 1. Young A Co. during October. HI1. but contract has not been signed snd the work has not been started, due to the fsllur of Piute county to forward the funda necessary for construction. P. A. P. No. 24 Hard surfacing Price-Cast legste. The contract on the hard surface of this project hss been swarded to Gray . (Continued on page 1.) I art within the next fifteen or twenty davg. K. A. P. No, 17 Bmllhfleld-Croag roatlg. The pm1?ct le being advertised at the present time end bide will be re-i cWved May i it I p. m. 1 K A. V. No. lo-B 0clon, csnyon J brltlgea. ('unatrurtlon la now tinder way on the lxty-thTte-foot hrldRe end la approximately ap-proximately 10 ir rtrtt complete. All ffforta art hi-In if ronC4riitruied on the alxty-thr-e-f hiidge before hlffh 'waittr, and nothlns Is, therefore, being done at the present time on the 100- II fotit brldse. V. A. r. No. S1- Rlverdale overhead viaduct. rUtna, apeclfieatione and estimate on thla structure are oomplete and ap-I ap-I proved by the Union Pacific and have I been forwarded to the bureau of pub- IUc roada fur their approval. K. A. P. No. It Wellavtlle-Boxelder .county line (Hard In canyon). I It win be necessary to make a small 1 line change from the location made 'during: i2l, and thla will be made as soon as the snow conditions Improve In the canyon. APPROVAL SOUGHT. F. A. P. No. 14-B rayeon-Spanlah Fork. I'lans, specifications and estimate are complete and have been forwarded to the bureau for their approval. K A. H. No. 17 Federal aid portion flprlngvllle City. , The contract on this project waa recently re-cently lt to Keynolds-Kly Construction Construc-tion company; the work la I per cent complete. K. A. r. No. IS Brig-ham Clty-Corlnne. Clty-Corlnne. The project statement for this proposed pro-posed improvement haa been submitted submit-ted to the bureau for their approval. The plans, specifications and estimate on this project are approximately 4)0 per cent complete. K. A. P. No. 19 Magna-Tooele county line. The project gtatement hs been forwarded for-warded to the dlstrlnt office of the burt-su of public roads at Ogden and has been recommended for approval by the diatrlct engineer. Plans, specifications speci-fications and entimate on this project are 90 per cent complete. Morgan-Peterson road. Mr. Kills, asslatsnt state road engineer, engi-neer, has recently gone over this proj-est proj-est with Commissioner Casto snd B. W. Matteson of the bureau of public roads, and as a result the limits and the location of the highway have been determined. The cooperative agreement agree-ment with Morgan county was Immediately Imme-diately preiwred and forwarded to the county commlsMloners for their spproval. and as soon as returned the project statement will be forwarded to the bureau for their approval. Woodruff-Wyoming road. I A location survey will have to be made on this project, which, of course, cannot be undertaken until snow conditions con-ditions Improve, I Pigeon Hollow-Juab. Hurvey will hsve to be made on this project, which will be undertaken by resident engineer on V. A. P. No. 2f. Mnntl-Pigeon Hollow. As the work on F. A. P. No. 2 will begin Hsturdsy. April 29, the survey on this project will n Kin In the very near future. CONFERENCE NECESSARY. Rlchfleld-Kalina. H. H. Kerr, resident engineer, has been In conference with the commissioners commis-sioners of Hevier county regarding the proposed hierhway to be made. It will be nereansry to confer with the bureau of public roads in regsrd to this work snd Ihey ad- iaed us that a repreaenta- ; tive will meet with tne isevier county ; commissioners snd Mr. Kerr to settle this matter Kimball-Shlt Lake Survey will have to be made on this project, which will be undertsken as soon ss onow conditions improve. Heper-iSummlt. The count r commissioners. In letter under date of April 21 state that the nnow Is now off this highway and that the survey can now be made. An engineer en-gineer will be sent on this project during the coming week. Coal creek bridge on Cedar-Parowan road. Cooperative, agreement has not been executed by Iron county and no funds have been made available. Therefore no work has been done on this project. Paving Ksrmlngton overhead crossing cross-ing F.enurvc- of tbls protect hss been completed snd the plana 29) er cent complete. Th cooperative agreement ihas been executed and the project statement Is being handed this date to the conS mission for signature and transmittal to the bureau of public roads for. spproval. 4 ENGINEER SHOWS 1 . (Continued from paa;e 1.) A Murdork: the contractor has Just moved on to the Job a, the tresent time. K. A. P. No 24-B Helper bridle. Plana on Ihta hridce have been completed com-pleted by th hrlda department, but a queatlon has arisen as to the general layout of the structure, and we are therefor, awaiting further Information from th. field, which haa been requested. re-quested. r". A P. No. 25 Nephl-L'tah county line. Contract on this project haa been awarded to Keynolds-Kly Construction company and the wurli Is approximately approximate-ly . err cent completed. The iHylnjr of iwvcrocnt will In all probability |