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Show Flying Field Work Starts Airport, Salt Lake Hitched to a powerful caterpillar tractor, a vicious looking implement known as a scarifier, scari-fier, started doing business Monday in the way of smoothing off the big landing land-ing field from border to border. Humps and hillocks all looked alike to the big claws. The work is being done under the supervision of P. J. Moran, city commissioner, head of the streets department. de-partment. It Is to go on uninterrupted, Mr. Moran Bays, until the entire field is brought to a reasonable state of perfection. per-fection. In the fall he plans completing the work by constructing a drainage ditch on the east side of the field and Jaylng tile where draining is necessary. At present the plans are to use the scarifier and grader until the ridges and depressions that exist are equal-lied. equal-lied. Then the field will be dragged and rolled and east and west and north and south runways marked out. |