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Show CONSTRUCTING AIRWAY LIGHTS Contractors Here This Week Setting Up Beacon Lights For Airway Guidance The frame work for the airway beacon at Bloomington was put up this week and the concrete arrow was placed. This arrow is at the base of the beacon and indicates to fliers the direction and distance fco the next beacon. This light is located to the left of the dugway on the Blomington road. Beacons are placed at intervals of from 10 to 15 miles and there remain but three in this county which have not been completed. inese are at new jtiiirmuiiy, un Schnob Kiab in Washington field, and at a point to the west of Bloomington which is known by fliers as "Horse Heaven." This latter beacon will be one of the most important on the Salt Lake-Los Angeles An-geles route, and will be located between the Apex and Beaver Dam mountains in a sort of swale, and will be visible for many miles east and west along the air route. It will be electrically operated. Employees of the contractor on the this route, together with a representative repre-sentative of the United States department de-partment of commerce, airways division, di-vision, spent the week in St. George, but expect to go to New Harmony today where a beacon will be in stalled. They will then work north to complete their work in the Mil-ford Mil-ford section before cold and snow acts to interfere with their operations. op-erations. After finishing there they will return to St. George to complete com-plete the installations in this vicinity. vicin-ity. No definite arrangements have yet been made by government representatives repre-sentatives for a landing field here. |