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Show LOCAL EMPLOYMENT GIVEN ON $14,000 CO. ROAD PROJECT Work on the BeavernMilford highway high-way from the ending of the oil road in the city limits of Beaver for a distance dis-tance of four miles west, is underway, with a crew of local men and teamis handling the work. Fourteen thousand dollars will be expended by the county and state on a fifty-fifty basis in grading the road to standard specifications and surfacing surfac-ing with six inches of gravel, preparatory prepar-atory to oiling next season. James E. Robinson, the veteran road builder of this county, in charge of the work, states that all the work will be done by local men with the exception of the surveying. An effort has been made for many months by Beaver county to eliminate contract work on local road projects, but it is only recently that the state road commission has acceded to their requests. While this is a small project, pro-ject, the revenue derived by local men for their work and use of their teams, will be a boom to them during the scarcity of employment at the present pre-sent time. A good job of grading is being done. |