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Show Contractors Start Seal-Coating Road Seal coating the oiled highway between be-tween Gunnison and Levan was started start-ed Monday morning with a small crew of workmen and the large oil spray truck, and if weather permits the coating job will be rushed through to completion by the end of this week, according to Prank G. Lewis, engineer in - charge for the state road commission. Work has1 been somewhat retarded due to the1 heavy winds which have swept over the project the past few days, and which carried clouds of dust over the workmen. Monday afternoon, with a Kale blowing better than forty miles an hour, work was temporarily stopped stop-ped as a protective measure. Some twenty miles of oiling has been completed, which carries the oiled oil-ed road to about six miles south of Levan. Crews are endeavoring to close the gap between the end of the foil project to Levan before bad weather wea-ther sets in, and if weather condi-jt'ons condi-jt'ons will permit, it is hoped to have the connecting links made shortly, j J. M. Sumsion, the Springville contractor, con-tractor, and who was awarded the contract for graveling and oiling the highway, has made splendid head-.way. head-.way. A large crew of men were start-fed start-fed on the job in August, and work has progressed rapidly. With the j completion of the oiling of the cutoff, cut-off, travelers in either direction will be saved almost an hour in reaching reach-ing their destinations. I : |