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Show CONTRACT LET TO FORBES BROS. FOR ROAD WORK Contract for the placing of additional addi-tional gravel upon 21.2 miles of highway between Cedar City and Ash Creek bridge, preparatory to oiling oil-ing that section of road, was awarded award-ed by the state road commission Thursday afternoon to Forbes Bros., contractors, of Cedar City, low bidders bid-ders for the job. Under the bid of this firm the total cost of the graveling grav-eling project will be $19,057.50, which was also the exact figure of the estimate of the cost made by engineers engi-neers of the state road depart-' depart-' ment. The project is partly in Iron county and partly in Washington county. Under the terms of the contract the work must be completed com-pleted by May 15, 1929. Bids for the contract were opened by the commission com-mission Thursday at 2 p. m., and three hours later the successful bidder bid-der had filed his bond and the contract con-tract had been awarded. Four other bids for the contract were submitted. |