Show Asphalt lt Plant I nt Jm Employ y Of 06 iW Workers s I 1 f k I The The Vernal Vernal- Asphalt plant plank situated sit six sk miles northwest Wernal nal has baa the largest payroll panon of any CO concern Cem ln n. n the thi i Basin A At present there are approximately 66 58 men employed I Jf L LD I e D D. p P. P Maher U superintendent o of the Is the Utah road plant has been two years durin during which time the I In ing i on US 40 from ye west has been been- laid The asphalt Which L' L is' is more easily east ily Uy mined in winter than thanin In sums lummer summer sum sum- t mer Is t treated and then stored s to tobe be spread spread as as paving during durin the warm weather in the x summer The run rim made now I made Is for forthe forthe forthe the strip strip road between Fort Du Din Duchesne theme chesne and Roosevelt It Is hoped I that willbe be treated treated treat treat- ed to pave pan ave the highway 40 from Vernal east t to to the Utah Utah- Utah Colorado state line lime o. o The longest haul yet made made- was wasI for the Myton Myton strip I 0 which was waa completed last lut sum sum- mer It kept a large fleet of or trucks continually busy to to- transport the material there would be no delay delay delay de de- lay made by the paving paring crews The first long stretch of asphalt paved road was we laid In 1935 between between be be- tween Vernal and the Halfway I Hollow through the Twists and was declared to be the best strip of highway in the United st States tel |