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Show Gunnison-Levan Oil Job Started Assembling of machinery and registration reg-istration of workmen to carry out the oiling of the state highway 28, between be-tween Gunnison and Levari, was completed com-pleted the first of the week, and real work was started Monday with, a crew scarifying the gravel to effect a dryness that will permit oil mixing. This, Thursday, morning the huge Barber - Green oil-mixing machine, known as the "bituminous mixer," was placed on the highway and put in operation. It will require about forty days to complete the job of oiling oil-ing the 21 miles, providing weather conditions prove favorable, according to Ora L. Hyer, who is superintending superintend-ing the job. The engineering work, which is being carried in advance, is , being done by Frank Lewis, resident engineer, and who did the surveying for the gravel work on this particular piece of highway. ! J. M. Sumsion of Springville, who was awarded the contract of oiling the 21-mile stretch at a cost of $71,-000, $71,-000, has been on the ground assisting in outlining the preliminary start. He is one of the widely known road builders build-ers in Utah, as well as in other states, and when the job is completed travelers travel-ers from the south will be able to make better time enroute to Salt Lake and other northern cities. The distance from the point of the pavement north of Gunnison to highway high-way 91 at Levan is approximately 31 miles. However, three small stretches have been completed. The bituminous mixer, a new departure de-parture for road building in Utah, is designed to gather the gravel from the windrows piled in the middle of the highway. As it is gathered it is conveyed to the mixing device and the exact amount of oil is supplied. The oil and gravel then pass to a rotary ro-tary mixer and are mixed to the pro- per consistency. The mulch then drops to a conveyor and is dropped in .windrows along the side of the road. The spreading and leveling is then done by auto patrol. Tests of roads built by this method have proved superior su-perior to the old-fashioned method. I Some thirty men will be employed on the job, according to Superintendent Superinten-dent Hyer. Forty per cent of the labor la-bor will be chosen from Sanpete county, coun-ty, while the 60 per cent will be gathered ga-thered in Juab county, the latter maintaining the greater part of the highway. Two shifts of workmen will be employed with a view to getting I the job completed as quickly as possible. pos-sible. I Wages for skilled labor will range ! between 57 and 80 cents per hour, .while common labor will ri"ive 47 cents an hour. |