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Show i COUNTY ROAD WORK : WILL EMPLOY MANY : IDLE MEN AND TEAMS Local Trucks Get Work on 91 Highway: Work Starts Puffer Lake Road Letting of a ten mile strip on Highway 91 north of Beaver for graveling gra-veling to Young & Nelson, of Richfield, Rich-field, will mean the hauling of the gravel will be handled by local trucks. While the bid for hauling the gravej was only eight cents per yard, which is a low price, it will give employment employ-ment to a number of men and distribute dis-tribute a considerable sum of money in the county. No decision has been reached on the grading of the Pine Creek hill job, but it is understood that the State Highway commission is favor-ale favor-ale to having it done on force ac count if it can be handled at not an excessive cost. Work started Tuesday on the Puffer Puf-fer Lake road, where ?4,000 will be spent on widening the curves and other improvements. This work will be done strictly with local labor. Assignment As-signment of work is being handled by the local employment committees of the various towns of the county. Married men with dependents are being be-ing preferred, and the work is being allotted to men in various districts in the county according to population. The committees are endeavoring to make an equitable allotment of work so as to distribute as many clays work as possible among the unemployed. unem-ployed. Additional road money is in prospect pros-pect through the government loan to states, in the bill recently signed by the president, which should alleviate the unemployment in the county to a great extent during the fall months. |