Show Bids To Be Opened Sept For Surfacing facing Of Miles does Of US U.S. 40 Some Seventy Eight Men len Will ViII be Employed For FOl Surfacing Job on Fruitland Stretch V Will ill Take Tale V Working Days to Complete r Road Mix Oil ToBe To ToBe Be Used On Lon Long 1 Awaited Project Advertising was issued this we weak k by the State Road Commission Commission Commis Commis- sion slon for bids on miles on highway b between tween Duchesne and Fruitland They will opened opened- on September 25 at 2 o'clock p. p m. m at the office of the State Road Commission in Salt Lake Laka City A According cording to memorandum r ra- ra by the National Reemployment Reemploy Reemploy- ment Service some seventy seventy Sight men will b employed m 01 on th the project project project pro pro- which w will ll be known as 33 Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral oral Aid Project No C B E D-E 1937 Typo of Labor Listed Men for skilled and intermediate labor will b ba be hired as follows Shovel Operators 2 Shovel 2 Grader Operators 4 Tractor Operators 4 Truck Drivers 20 Distributor Operators 2 Mixer Op Operators 1 Concrete Finishers 2 Reinforcement Steel Workers Yorkers 2 Gravel Plant Operators 2 Roller Operators Unskilled labor Common laborers laborers la la- la- la borers borem 25 Teamsters 01 01 It is expected that the contractor contractor contractor con con- tractor will b begin gin operations about about about a- a bout October and to comI com com- the work in about working work work- I Ink ing i g days To Continue Thru Winter inter The and graveling will b ba c carried d on during the winter and the oil will b be laid next spring 1 as soon as Yeat weather er will permit It is exp expected by th the Road Commission Commission Commission Com- Com mission that t the e job will be completed completed completed com com- by July of next year With the completion of this project ct there r mains only 67 miles between Roosevelt and Ft Duchesne to complete highway hway 40 to a standard through the Uintah basin to This latter stretch was vas included ed in the program of the State Road Commission sio submitted to Washington in Jun June and is slat- slat Continued on Page 8 I Bids To Be Opened Sept For New Ner Highway 40 Stretch Continued from page I jed H j Hed ed for the laying of rock asphalt at a cost of The new project of fifteen and one-half one miles will extend the surfacing hard-surfacing to Fruitland leaving leaving leaving leav leav- ing about thirty five thirty miles of dirt road most of wl which ch is through the Forestry domain to within eleven miles of Heber City At this point a plant-mix plant surfacing follows l highway 40 to Heber City TH Agricultural dep t bill mak makes an allotment to Utah of to which will be added derived from gasoline gas gas- oUn oline tax taC revenues In addition to the eX expenditure for new construction construction construction con con- the commission will vill have next year its usual program of maintenance and betterments calling for approximately tely 1500 Included d in the program also ar are expenditures of on roadside development and beautification beautification beautification and on statewide planning survey which two expenditures ex are made mad mandatory by the federal gov government |