Show Two Surfacing Projects On Highway 40 Scheduled To Start Within Ten Days Mine l Mile Stretch East From Duchesne To Receive Plant Mix Oil Ft Duchesne to Halfway Hollow Surfaced With Uintah Basin AsphaltS Asphalt S r r Road V Work ork Will ViII Give Employment To Seventy Men Bids on two contracts for construction construction construction con con- work on U. U S. S No 40 calling for an expenditure of ot more than l in th the Uintah Basin were opined opened Tuesday at offices of the state road TOad commission The Reynolds-Ely Reynolds Construction company of was low bidder bidden for grading graveling and oil surfacing miles of highway highway highway high high- way between en Duchesne and Fruitland Fruit- Fruit land Their bid was for With a a. bid of the Northwestern Engineering company company company com com- pany of Rapid City S. S D D. D waslow was waslow waslow low on ona a contract calling for the laying of a rock asphalt surface on n miles les of road betWeen Fort Duchesne and Halfway Hol Hol- low The asphalt prepared near Vernal from Uintah Basin deposits do- do posits is being furnished by the th-e state Grading and graveling of bf the stretch of road is being carried carried carried car car- ried out under a separate contract contract contract con con- tract and has ha's been in progress for some time Notice was received ved by Ernest W. W Crocker local manager of the tho National Reemployment nt Service that work on the two projects was to begin April Seventy men will be employed on the Du- Du Fruitland chesne-Fruitland Fruitland stretch he was Informed This labor must come from r relief lie rolls so far as they are available he lie stated Completes 40 Mile lUc Stretch The Duchesne Fruitland project t extending west from Duchesne in- in Continued on page 8 0 T Surfacing Projects To Start In 10 Days Continued From Page 1 clucks a heavy hoovy cut on the turn just west of the first Strawberry river bridge les lessening of grades in ha several widening and thening tr of the shoulders Travel gravel base and and a plant-mix plant oil surface It will eliminate eliminate elim elim- what is now considered the worst stretch of road on highway I 40 O through the Uintah Basin and will complete an unbroken stretch of 40 miles of hard surfacing in Duchesne county from Roosevelt at th the line county-line westward The stretch between My Myton ton and Roosevelt a little under ten miles miless ig is s now under construction by the Northwestern Northeastern Engineering com com- pany Grading and shoulder work on this stretch have been completed completed completed com com- and ithe gravel isnow is isnow isnow now laid leaving only the gravel bass bas and the asphalt surfacing The twenty mile stretch from rom Duchesne Duchesne Du- Du chesne cherne to M My Myton ton has been completed completed com com- with a road-mix road oil surface surface sur sur- face fac for tor several y ars 20 Miles 1 In Uintah County The Ft Halfway Duchesne-Halfway Hollow Hollow Hollow Hol Hol- low stretch in Uintah county tying ty sty tying ing lug onto the the eleven mile stretch I through the tria twists between between- Halfway Halfway Halfway Half Half- way Hollow and Vernal will mIl complete complete complete com com- a twenty mile stretch there thero and will complete more than half of Highway 40 in th the Uintah Basin to a dustless standard This 3 stretch snatch is now being prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared for the asphalt by the W. W W W. Clyde Clyd construction company The laying of the asphalt will begin begin begin be be- gin as soon as this contract is s completed Three stretches of ten to fifteen mil miles mile each of comparatively bad badroad badroad road still remain on Highway 40 through the Uintah Basin These ana am between Roosevelt and PL Ft L a between Vernal and Jansen J and the balance of the road between Ducheane Duehesne and Fruit- Fruit land Local citizens and organizations organizations t ons are lire working working- to ha have Vi these stretches stretch completed d this tills year also out of expected 1937 Federal F Aid funds finds There is also the ithe stretch from Fruitland thru the Strawberry Straw straw- b berry bery valley to Daniels canyon much of or which is 13 through the forest forest for for- est CoSt and dep depends on forest appropriations for tor completion This stretch is not as rough how however ver as 83 those between n Fruitland and V Venial Ve err al |