Show VERNAL SAND AND GRA O MAKES MAIES RAPID GROWTH IN YEAR Beginning With Truck Trucks Truck Company Now Has HILS in Equipment When organized organize in February 1946 the Vernal Sand and andI I Gravel Company's f fuU equip equip- equipment equipment ment comprised only mall aU rented crusher and one lick t-lick truck Today the organization has h s of new modern mach mach- machinery machinery Affairs of the company are guided by a partnership of off four f ur comprising Stan L Rob- Rob Robbins Robbins Robbins bins Niles Haslem Ercil Erell Oaks and Henry H Merkley Merkley The campany's company's gravel pit and plant are located on a acre 30 tract on the Henry H Merkley farm mile 3 west of Jensen Just acquired is a 10 ft x 36 ft roll portable crushing plant at a cost of with a capacity ca ca- ca capacity of to tons of 1 inch minus road gravel per hour This plant is so constructed that it can be easily moved to var var- various various ious locations Other equipment Includes a trailer semi-trailer truck four tour ton 3 dump trucks a heavy heavy- duty tractor with bulldozer and a 1 a high to load the grave gravel from the stockpile to the trucks In addition to the four part part- partners partners ners who are all actively engaged engaged ed in the business the company also employs four workman The company specializes in inthe inthe the furnishing of concrete gravel for road construction concrete sand and ani plaster sand for the building trades trades gravel crush crush- crushing I ing ipg and dirt hauling hau No Job according to Mr Robins is too large or too small I Some of the projects on which I they have already worked were I the laying of the base and the furnishing of the gravel for the 29 blocks of Vernal City streets which the city has Just finished pa ng furnishing of gravel for tor forthe the improvement work on High High- Highway way 40 between Vernal and Jen Jen- Jensen Jensen sen which the State Road Com Com- Commission Commission mission has Just begun and the furnishing of concrete gravel for forthe forthe the Camp at Rangely Ran Ran- Rangely gely The company has Just been li Il- Il censed by the State of Utah as highway contractors Each of the four partners has had much experience in road construction with the state and with private contractors Mr Robins who resigned in Feb Fe Feb Feb- February following many years service as maintenance foreman with the Utah State Road Com Com- Commission Commission mission pas has as also been employed by as construction the W W Clyde superintendent Construe Construe- I lion tion Co the J W Whiting Con Con- Construction Company cO Y and the Sum Sum- aton a w a 11 |