Show MOAB BRIDGE BE county Con commissioner missioner max alax B taylor and 11 J nielsen resident state road engineer met with the state road commission monday and took up with the commission the necessity of installing a new floor on the bridge over oer the colorado nver river at moab the ile state board gave authority to the county commissioners to go ahead w with ith the work which will cost around funds now to the credit of the county with the state will be used wed and if there 1 is a deficit the balance will vill be raised from the state road tax to be collected this fall commissioner taylor and engineer nielson pointed out the dangerous condition of the old floor and asked the authority to repair the structure immediately it is understood that native lumber will be used the tw ber to be heavy plank la laa week the times independent erroneously stated that the timber for the bridge floor had been shipped to thompsons Thomp sons and was at that point this assertion was incorrect as it has at always ays been the intention 0 of the commissioners to use native lumber which is declared to be better for bridge floo flooring than the imported product commissioner taylor and engineer nielsen nelsen returned to moab last night and today placed orders with the la sal sawmill for the necessary sury timber to floor the bridge heavy plank of the dimensions of three by twelve inches will be used and will vall be protected by a heavy coating of tar and sand the officials took up with the road commission the matter of federal rid reject act no 6 with a view of hasten p E in ig fg the completion of the wort work several difficulties under which contractor D P black has been laboring were explained to the comMis commission Slon and an arrangement was made whereby the work can be speeded up to the end that NO 6 can be rusha rushed to completion at the earliest possible date |