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Show IBIDS ASKED ON WASHINGTON COUNIY. ROAD Harrisburg to Anderson's Ranch Stretch. Last Unimproved Unim-proved Link in County. Soon to Receive Attention The state road commission on Monday, January 5. asked for bids which will be opened at 2 o'clock Tuesday, January 20, for the construction of the highway from Harrisburg to Anderson's ranch, including one concrete bridge cf 3u-:'oot span. This stretch is designated as federal aid project proj-ect No. 79 -C, and will cost in the r.eurhborhood cf flCXUVO. The l(-r..t:h of road to be constructed con-structed is 7.193 miles and the principal items of work are approximately ap-proximately as follows: Sixty-two thousand cubic yards of unclassified exacavation, ami sixteen thousand cubic yards gravel grav-el surface loading. Plans and specifications are on file in the office of the state roaii commission in Salt Lake City, and at the district engineer's of lice in Cedar City. The notice to contractors con-tractors appears in this week's issue is-sue of the News. With the' completion of this seven-mile stretch, the last unimproved unim-proved link on the Arrowhead trail In this county will bo finished. (Continued on page 3) STATE CALLS j j FOR ROAD BIDS i i (Ccntisued from page P i rtahs share cf the first Colton- ! Gddie funds appropriated by the ' I SS. the state rrad contntissitn was ; advised Wednesday. These tunes are for expenditure I of main federal highways which 1 pass thrcuch the hinds enned by : the federal government, except for i j reserves. The appropriation was : J part- cf the president's emergency i hi", passed and signed two weeks j S3. 000. COO. I While the actual wording of the ; j appropriation does not require that : 1 all this money be spent by Sep- I j tember 1. the fact that the appro- ! I priation was carried in the presi- j dent's bill designed to give speedy j ' aid to unemployed makes it mor- I ally incumbent cn the states which can do so to get actual construe- j tion work under way. Frcm the S3.O00.CO0 the 'Wash- ; ingtcn office of the bureau of j public roads deducts two and one- j half per cent, or $75,000 for cost of administration, and the remainder remain-der is divided among the states affected, as follows: Arizona. $418436; California. $231,782; Colorado. $130.S57; Idaho. $175,199; Montana. $165,363; Nevada, Ne-vada, $891,898; New Mexico. $258.-091; $258.-091; Oklahoma, $20.S53; Oregon. $194,357; South Dakota, $66.04S; Utah, $328,338; Washington, $63.-445; $63.-445; Wyoming, S2S2.339. Total $2,925,000. Exactly what projects will be undertaken first are being decided in conferences between the state road commission. Congressman Coltcn, Governor Dern and officials offi-cials of the United States bureau of public roads. |