Show F r J o WO WORK K ON O STATE ROADS OAD ass JO k i 10 t UM Orders Issued by fr- fr lesion sion t to Contractors to Rush sh Projects to Comple- Comple M ti tion ion o at Early Date I The he Phelps Construction company company compan I which i which has a contract for the construction construction con con- tion of a part part of the state highWay highway highway high- high con I way way from Ogden to Ogden Hot j S Springs ings Alston Hogan Kogan who have have Contract on the state state highway from Pleasant Grove to Provo Prove and J J. J W Yo Mellen el en who has a contract on the it cate t highway fro from Provo south were directed by the state stat r road ad cor cor mission to resume the work on their it respective contracts I at at once in an order issued yesterday after the commIssion commission commission com com- mission had a conference with the governor governor and it was determined to push the ork to completion on th the e i t 1 f 1 roads roads' specified at the e earliest possible possible pos possIble pos pos- sible time I IThe The commission held a prolonged conference with the board of commissioners com comp missioners mers of Carbon county and George Miller of Price regarding road roadwork roadwork roadwork work in that county The county re recently recently recently re- re bonded itself in the sum of for road purposes and the commissioners are are anxious to begin work at once particularly on the Price-Castle Price Gate project There is a question regarding whether her lo local local local lo- lo cal material or material from the outside is to be used in the con con- SAMPLES OF GRAVEL Several samples of gravel have ve been submitted from Carbon county to Levi Muir chief inspector and testing engineer of the road commission commission commission commis commis- sion who has passed f four ur of them The question whether there is enough of this gravel to be had to complete complete complete com com- the work He will visit Carbon cor nty this week to ascertain the quantity of the gravel of the samples sam samples sam samples ples he passed The Carbon county commissioners that the rule at of the state commission commission com com- mission in fixing the wages to be paid to man man and team at 6 per day and 3 per day for common labor could not be met in tl their county for the reason that in the mines common laborers with a a pick and shovel re received received re- re 7 per day They asked authority to to tomake make the rate different from the order of the state commission commission commission commis commis- sion bu the latter declined to make any change Jn n that if this were done similar changes would have to be made in other counties in the state The Carbon county delegations de desired desired de- de sired red authority to pay the higher rate to drag the roads when they needed dragging and the state commission took this under advisement rATE HATE ROAD AGENT The delegation also also desired to to have E Er C C. C Lee appointed state and county ro road d agent gent th the state to to pay him when him I when when he was at work York on the state road and the county to pay him when he was working workingS for fon the county county county coun coun- ty but the state commission was unwilling unwilling unwilling un un- un- un willing to do this but was willing to tomake tomake I make him state road agent I The commission which was scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- to go over the section section sec sec- j tion of the Lincoln highway l 1 Monday nd y I and and visit the Wendover highway has peen been been comp compelled to cancel the trip m in n I that it will require three days It l will make the visit a at a later date I State Engineer Howard Means will meet the county commissioners of Utah county on June 9 and will go I over the state road in that county with them The state commission will leave on June 13 fo a trip to Kane county I |