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Show THE CITIZEN Monticello Shafer oil well No. Engineering Projects & Building Construction great gusher, reopened, and flows Under Way In The Inter mountain States barrels a day, at 2035 feet 10 ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION I The weekly report of the engineering and building construction is announced by the Associated General Contractors of America, for this intermountain region and is as follows: Plans are available at this office on following work which will be let as indicated below: Utah State Road Commission will receive bids up to 2:C0 p. m., May 7th at State Capitol for (Construction of 14.01 miles gravel surfaced highway between Emory and Wasatch in Summit County, same being F.A.P. No, 60-Check for $8,000 with bids. Iligbee Construction Co. of Cedar City, Utah, are low bidders on construction of 7 miles of highway Forest Road Project in Garfield County, Utah, on a bid of $23,435.83. Eng. Est. $24,516.75. Junction-Escalan- Citizens of Epringville, Utah are urging a bond election to vote bonds for replacing wooden pipe and installing new water system. Vincennes Bridge Co. with offices in at Ogden, Utah, are low bidders on Kooskia Bridge across Clearwater River in Idaho County. Bid $73,424.05. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION H. E. Schraven County Commissioners, Sandpoint, Idaho, will receive bids up to 2:00 p. m., June 12th for construction of a steel bridge with approaches across the Pend dOreille River in Bonner County, Idaho, same being F.A.P. No. 95-Quantities include 4,000 cyds concrete and 1,339,350 puonds steel, also 9,020 linear feet of pilling. has been awarded contract to construct Emerson School building on a bid $35,000, this being the second low bid. The low bidder whose figure was $31,500 did not qualify before the Board of $144,281.58. City Commissioners, Salt Lake City, Utah, will receive bids up to 10:00 a. m., June 17th, for grading, constructing roll gutter and and paving in Paving Extension, No. 104, Walker Place and Carson Street, Block 40 Plat A. Complete tabulation of bids are available at this office on following: Gray and Murdock, this city, are lowr bidders on construction of 2 miles of concrete paving at Murray, Utah, on a bid of $24,837.29, which figure does not include purchase of cement. The firm bid low $1.07 for the paving and .90 cents for excavation. Harris Sand of awarded Nampa, Idaho, contract to place 13,200 cyds of gravel on North Fork Payette Highway in Boise County on a total bid of $0.59 Gravel have .been & Co., per yard. Cedar Construction Co. of Cedar City, Utah, is low bidder on construction of 2.03 miles of graveled highway, Sevier Summit National Forest Road in Kane County, Utah. Bid $40,-368.8- this city is low bidder on work for P. W. Madson at 343 South State St., bid $20,200. John- Anderson of - J. R. McWane, president of the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Co. announces that work on large new plant for the company to be erected at Provo will start early in June. Bishop Serge B. Henson of the 4th Ward L. D. S. Church, Logan, Utah, states that the chapel of that ward will be enlarged at once at a cost of $40,000. Work is to be completed by November. Plans not ready. Postmaster Ralph Guthrie of this city has received authority to enlarge the Post Office at Sugar House to twice its present size. Town of New Plymouth, Idaho, is holding bond election this date to vote $12,000 for construction of 1 mile of state highway through town. UTAH INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Put business, in government to the ful extent you can, but take government out of business, except where the great heritage of equality of opportunity necessitates its pressure. Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of State highway board orders high- way improvements in Beaver, Iron, Washington and Wayne Counties. Utah canners expect full tomato crop, though acreage is less than last year. Woods carload of 1926 UTAH asparagus, goes to Chicago. Cross--Fir- st Coalville Western Empire Petroleum Company will resume drilling on lcoal well. Monticello Boulder Knoll Oil Company buys standard drill rig for new test well, to go 5,000 feet. Four cars grain-fe- d steers from Cache County bring $8.25 per cwt. Great interest taken, in of oil production in this place. 1920, and the Moab Oil flowed from Cane Creek well, spouting 80 feet into the air. Milford Western Air Express establishes wireless station here. Duchesne R. E. Allen wool clip of $100,000 pounds sold at 46 cents. Bingham locomotive ordered by Utah Copper Company, for mines here. Oil-Elect- ric Vernal M. D. Daly to establish modern candy plant in Vernal. in petroleum industry on April 1, 1926, was 46.8 cents per hour, bging exceeded only by average wage paid to laborers in the automobileMndustry, which was 47 cents. The United States in the largest producer of pulp and. paper in the world, and is also the largest consumer, using 50 per cent of the worlds annual production. Exports of electrical goods during March totaled $8,486,252, higher than greater by $1,250,000 than 1925 monthly average. MONEY FOR VETERANS. Occasionally the statement is made that Uncle 'Sam is neglecting the sol diers of the World War. The records show, however, that the United States has appropriated more than four billion dollars for allowances and benefits oh account of soldiers, sailors and marine's who participated in the war with Germany. Figures recently gathered by the Washington Post on the subject show the following Interesting items of appropriation: Military and naval family allowances are $298,000,000. Military and naval compensation amounts to $1,037,000,000. Insurance and receipts from insurance are $1,068,000,000. Administration amounts to more than Hospitalization amounts than to more $385,000,000. Hospital construction amounts to more than $62,000,000. Vocational training and sales of articles made amount to more than $719,000,000. Bonus allowances amount to more than $237,000,000. Payments of claims amount to more than ' $38,000,000. Adjusted service pay amounts to more than $38,000,000. Deducting $606,000,000 for receipts leaves a net amount spent by the government of more than $3,800,000,-00- 0 for the veterans. mastodons and glyptodonts t, Two new mastodons and a new the fossil bones of which were found in rocks of Pliocene age in Arizona, are described in a report just issued by the Department of the Interior as Professional Paper 140-- ' of the Geological Survey. Several years ago numerous vertebrate fossils were discovered in San Pedro valley near Benson, Arizona, by Kirk Bryan, of the Geological Survey. Later J. W. Gidley, of the United States Natural museum, cooperated with Mr. Bryan in making a large collection of these fossils, and a preliminary account of the fauna with descriptions of the rodents and rabbits by Mr. Gidley, was published as Geological Survey Professional Paper 131-E- , now out of print. Among the large animals in this mastofauna are two elephant-lik- e dons and a peculiar armored mam- glyp-todon- B OMAHAS NEW BROADWAY FRUIT MARKET Wasatch 5191 East Broadway UTAH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 157-15- Shipment of sugar beet seed received, for testing in Uintah Basin. A COMPLETE LINE QUALITY SUPREME We aim to make YOUIl SIIOITINO iih 1M.KASANT anil CONVKNIKNT un poNNlble; and, by HellinK you (IUAI.1TY icoodM, priced reuNonnbly, to nave you money. Assessment roll shows $146,000 gain over last year's figures. Vernal Manti A $60,000 dormitory for Snow College. Riverside Park opens for tourist season. Mt. Pleasant O $293,000,000. Beck shaft. 9 O , ' Salt Lake City Work at Alta mines, proceeding in two shifts. will continue Eureka Sinking steadily for several months, in North . Bean Bros, of Richfield are low bidders for grading 2.7 miles of Victor-Irwi- n Road in Bonneville County, Idaho. Tabulation in office. Monticello Utah Southern Oil Company suspends on Bluff well, after striking good oil flow. Average wage of common laborers 5. Eng. Est. $48,982.50. Southern Oil have four steel derricks companies ready for new oil well sites. monthly average for any year since Midwest-Uta- h Moab D, City Commissioners, Salt Lake City, Utah, will receive bids up to 10:00 a. m., June 15, for grading, constructing curb and gutter in Curb and Gutter Extension No. 58. in northwestern section of City. Work is estimated at 2,-0- 00 te B. - Moab 1, Before Buying a car get our prices Agent for The FLINT The STAR The DURANT Emil Carlson, 4889 So. State St. Murray Phone- - Murray 329-- M Q |