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Show Surprising Low Bid of $4.2 Million Entered on San Rafael Road A surprising low bid of $4,247,233 for the remaining remain-ing portion of Interstate Highway 70 between Sa-lina Sa-lina Canyon and Green River, was entered Tuesday Tues-day in Salt Lake City by Morrison-Knudsen Co., of Salt Lake City and Boise. The bid entered by. the well known construction firm, was $757,136' lower low-er than engineers' estimates esti-mates on the lengthy . stretch of Interstate. . The contract, which will be signed in the next few days, will close the gap ' over the San Rafael country coun-try between Green River and Salina Canyon at Fre- . mont Junction, and will set the stage for paving - contracts sometime next year, which wall open that section of Interstate for public use, through one of the last stretches of inaccessible inac-cessible country in Utah. |