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Show W. W. Clyde Company Springville contractor named Utah's largest W. W. Clyde & Co. of Springville is the second largest lar-gest dollar volume highway construction company in the states of Idaho, Utah and Nevada. This was pointed out recently re-cently in a survey conducted by the Intel-mountain Contractor Con-tractor magazine, published in Salt Lake City by Graphics Graph-ics West, The survey showed show-ed that W.W. Clyde & Co. led Utah but was behind the Rogers Construction Co. of Portland, Ore. in the three-state area. W. W. Clyde Co. had its beginning from a small team outfit with a few hand scrapers and has grown to its present prominence, do ing millions of dollars worth of contracted construction jobs. In partnership with the late Blake Palfreyman on his first project, a job in Nevada in 1923, Wilford W. Clyde, has headed the firm for some 43 years and with his brothers and his own sons, built it to the second place rating of today. Utah leads Utah leads the trio of states with a $51.2 million backlog of highway construction con-struction contracts. Idaho as of Nov. 1, eliminating projects more than 90 per cent complete, has only $25.5 million worth of work under way and Nevada has $26 million of contracts, according accord-ing to figures compiled from state highway departments. Following the W. W. Clyde & Co. in rank as highway high-way contractors in Utah is the Gibbons and Reed Co., Nevada Rock and Sand, Northwestern Engineering, Peter Kiewith Sons, Strong Co.; S. S. Mullin, Inc., Jack B. Parson, Wasatch Electric Co. (installs interstate lighting light-ing only', Fife Construction Co., Industrial Construction Co. and LeGrand Johnson. Intermountain Contractor pointed out that until the federal funds freeze thaws in January, the industry can expect further declines with no new projects being let. |