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Show OILING CONTRACTS AWARDEDBY STATE J. C. Compton of Oregon Successful Success-ful Bidder on Washington County Jobs. Road contracts totaling about $261,000 were awarded Wednesday by the state road commission. One was for the application of oil to 66.5 miles of highway in Washington and Kane counties, at a total cost to the state, including cost of oil, of $170,439.50. J. C. Compton of McMinnville, Ore., who has been low bidder on practically prac-tically all the contract oil-gravel mulch work of the state for the past two years, was again successful success-ful bidder, against three competitors. competi-tors. (Continued on page 7) 1 OIL CONTRACTS (Continued from page 1) The second contract was for the construction of 4.8 miles of gravel-surfaced gravel-surfaced road in San Juan county on the Peters hill section of the road north from Monticello toward to-ward Moab. The Reynolds-Ely Construction Con-struction Co. of Springville got this award from six other bidders at a total estimated cost to the state of $109,160.37. The Compton bid for the oiling work was about $7200 more than the engineers' estimate. The firm itself will receive under its bid $94,675. The remainder of the cost includes about $60,000 for the oil, and a 10 per cent allowance for contingencies and inspection. The roads to be given the oil-gravel oil-gravel mulch treatment under this contract which does not include the supplying of gravel are that from the Arizona state line to the Shivwitz Indian reservation; from St. George to Anderson's ranch; the Toquervllle-La Verkin section; the Zion-Mt. Carmel road, opened last year, and the completed sections sec-tions of the road between Three Lakes canyon and the Arizona, line couth of Kanab. The contract is to be completed by October l.J |