Show atto FIRMS SUBMIT CLOSE CONTRACT NOT YET AWARDED TO USE LOCAL LABOR AND TEAMS the state road commission on tuesday opened bids for the construction of miles of federal aid gravel sur faced highway between the south end of moab city limits and the colorado river bridge approximately separated the aids of page claybaugh of grand junction and the reynolds ely construction st company of it las not been learned here which of he two bids was the lower the contact was not awarded by the commission tuesday but undoubtedly one of the two low bidders will be given the job the total labor cost will be u aund and the total cost of the project including oil processing will be approximately it is stood the grand junction firm added as a provision of its bid that local labor and teams would be used on the work as much as possible however before a contract Is entered into the state road commission it is understood will insist that the contractor use local labor as an aid in the unemployment distress in grand county it Is likely that work will start at once while the weather Is still too cold to permit grading much preliminary work such as removing trees and clearing of way can be done now all of the highway from the business district of moab to the river will follow a new alln ement and will require grading gravel for the surfacing will be obtained at the sam hudson place south of town and will be crushed word received from salt lake city today states that the page claybaugh engineering corporation of grand junction was the low bidder on the moab road project and that the state road commission has awarded the contract to this firm only four bids were submitted on the job the figures being exceptionally close page claybaugh submitted a labor bid 01 in a statement made at grand junction yesterday J B claybaugh member of the firm stated that work on the project would start immediately about two months time will be required to complete the job and between 40 and 50 employees will be kept busy during that time several experienced perien ced employees of the corporation will be sent to moab to work on the project but the bulk of the labor will be secured locally mr claybaugh stated |