Show Plant Mix O Oi Surface To Be laid Lak Between e Ad Fruitland BIDS TO BE OPENED ON MARCH Ml Project will viII Complete 4 40 Mile IV Stretch Of Hard Surface Road Bids are being bring advertised for this week by the Utah State road commission ion for contracts for tho the construction of miles mUes of Plant Mix Oil OU Surface road between between between be be- tween Duchesne and Fruitland They are ara to b be opened at the state capitol on March Specifications listed in the ad- ad call for cubic yards of unclassified ed excavation tons of gravel surface and and tons of plant mix mL surfacing The project is designated designated designated des des- as Federal Aid Project No A. nO-A. Project Includes Cut The project which begins at Duch Duchesne n extending westward about third one-third of the distance to includes a large cut and fill WI through the point of the hillwest hill hillwest west of the Bennion bridge on the I Strawberry river bout about a mile out of Duche Ducheane Duchesne ne This cut comprises comprises com com- pris the chief item in the cubic yards of excavation listed in inthe inthe inthe the advertisement for bids It will eliminate the bad grade and turn which was the site of the accident which proved fatal to Olaf Anderson Ander Ander- son of SUn Meth Home la last t fall Coupled with th the tha project nOvin now v in progress b between tween My Myton ton and Roosevelt this project will complete com com- complete an unbroken stretch of hard surfacing on highway 40 west west- ward i om the Duchesne- Duchesne Uintah Duchesne-Uintah county line lane ne and with the tile work now Con Continued tinned on Page 8 Plant-Mix Plant Oil Surface To Be Laid Between Duchesne Fruitland Continued From 1 Page in in n progress or on the program between between between be be- tween Roosevelt and way Half-way Hollow will win make an unbroken n stretch of approximately 70 miles through most of Du Duchesne I and Uintah counties Plans Changed Original plans as released by bythe bythe bythe the state road commission ion last fall faU called for th the graveling of the entire distance from Duchesne to Fruitland during the remainder of the 1936 fiscal year with the anticipation of the oiling of this stretch in the fall with funds from the 1937 Federal Aid appropriations appropriations however county officials and civic bodies were asked to state their preference between the graveling of the entire distance and the graveling and oiling of half the distance and the project now advertised is IS the result of their requests Just how soon funds will be made available to complete the Fruitland Duchesne-Fruitland stretch a dIstance distance dis ells tance Lance of approximately ly 25 miles mile s and considered the worst section of highway 40 in Utah Utah-is is not yet known but the Associated Civic Chic clubs clubs of Eastern Utah as M well as Bother other local and wide state-wide bodies tire re re bending every effort to assure assur the he e appropriation of sufficient 1 hinds to complete this construction tion |