| OCR Text |
Show Contractors Ready For Tunnel Project The big tunnel contract, which will connect Sanpete valley and particu- j larly Ephraim with a volume of wa- j ter, was scheduled to start this week, ! according to the Ephraim Enterprise, j In commenting on the project, the Enterprise has the following to say:' Active work on constructing build- j ings and doing other preliminary , work on the Ephraim tunnel will, in all probability, get under .way by the contractors during the coming week. 1 This report comes indirectly from the Morrison-Knudson company of Boise, I Idaho, successful b'dder for the pro-1 ject, and from reclamation officials. I A report from Washington, D. C, ' published in the Deseret News of August Au-gust 14 states "Secretary Ickes today awarded a $162,434 contract to the Morrison - Knudson company, Boise, Idaho, for construction of Ephraim tunnel on the Sanpete reclamation project in Utah." The report then tells of the rejection of b'ds for the Spring City tunnel and of a decision to wait until after additional investi- j gation has been made and the forma-' tion at the Ephra'm tunnel is determined deter-mined before readvertising for the Spring City unit. The Ephraim contract, con-tract, the report 'stated, calls fo? work to begin within 30 days. ' Three representatives of the Morrison-Knudson company, Messrs. W'l-liams, W'l-liams, Blakeley and Nelson, were at the tunnel site last Wednesday looking look-ing it over. They stated they understood under-stood the contract had been signed and said their company was anxious J to get on the job as soon as possible. , R. F. Walter, chief engineer of the j U. S. bureau of reclamation, With offices of-fices at Denver, and E. O. Larsen, I reclamation engineer for the Salt ; Lake basin, were in Ephraim Friday 'and visited the tunnel site. They conferred con-ferred with M. S. Ross, reclamation ' engineer who will be in charge at the Ephraim tunnel, and told him that the contract had been signed and that the contractors will probably be actively ac-tively at work next week, probably the first of the week. The first work will be to build a shop, storerooms, dwellings, and such so that active 'work cn the tunnel proper might begin be-gin by September 13. Mr. Ross :s of the opinion that local lo-cal labor will be preferred and that there should be jobs for all qualified 'miners who want work. |
