Show Bids Called for Paving From Vernal to Colorado Contract to Be Awarded May 28 for 10 Project r Q Quarter Million Millin Dollar Hi Hi- Hi Hiway way Hi-way way from Vernal to Colo Colo- Colorado Colorado rado ratIo State Line Lino Now As- As As Assured cured Rock Asphalt Will Not be Used According to a call for tar bids made by the state road commission Slon the 30 miles mili of ot highway on US 40 be- be between between be between tween Vernal and the Colorado state tate line will be oil surfaced as soon as contracts can be let The bids are tue to be opened on May 28 at the office of the state road in Sn Salt BaIt Lake and call caU for IS a road mix oil oU surface for tor mlles mile There will be bo approximately cubic yards of unclassified excavation tons of gravel surface and bar bar- barrels bar of oIlI oil ail skilled I The wage for labor will b be 80 cents per hour our intermediate labor 60 cents centa and unskilled labor at 50 cents centis per hour Members of the Utah roa road 1 commission com com- commission com commission mission returned Monday from conferences con con- con conferences in Denv Denver r with the Colorado Colo- Colo Colorado Colo Colorado rado highway department with the th word that Colorado expects to I get Its portion of US 40 up to dustless standard by Iy the end ot of next year said news reports I I ers commission Accompanying the commission commission- ers W W D Hammond Preston G Peterson and George were Abbott Abbott E 0 C Knowlton chief engineer and andI I B J Finch d district strict engineer or of orI orthe I the U S bureau of public roads at Ogden The Utah portion of ot the high high- highway highway highway II way is expected to be bs up to stand stand- standard standard standard ard by the end of this year with the exception cJ eption o of 3 mlles tween the Daniels nyon c summit and Fruitland just recently has been placed on the federal federa aid system In the Colorado section of the highway there are miles mUes of or oil or pavement 97 87 miles mUes of gravel and 60 miles mUes of dirt It was waa reported that the Colorado commission is rushing the completion of the un un- un unfinished finished portions A one-Inch one oil oll surface has been adopted which is thinner and less expensive than the type typO used in Utah reported the commission lon The road commission last week made an inspection of Highway 40 between Vernal and the Colorado line preliminary to letting the first contracts on the construction ion of the road The go ahead signal on this project was received from the bu- bu bureau bu bureau reau rea-I of public roads Friday when the state road commission was waa notified tha that a federal road program had been approved |