Show WEBER BASIN WORK NEARS AS BIDS ON WANSHIP AQUEDUCT OPENED second major phase of the weber basin project seemed destined for quick action this week as utah construction co of salt lake city submitted a low bid of for building the manship wanship dam the bid was below the U S bureau of reclamations estimate and some less than the highest of the 25 bids opened last week on the project accordia according to clinton D woods project en engineer for the weber basin project specifications call for supplying material and doing work on the earth fill dam to be located two miles southeast of wanship manship Wan ship in summit county the reservoir will inundate the community of rock port the project is to be completed with 1000 days from the go ahead date the dam will measure feet high and 2000 feet long utah construction which submitted the low bid is the same firm which recently completed boring gateway tunnel and is now pouring its concrete lining the wanship manship bid was nearly less than the gateway tunnel bid originally it was anticipated the dam would cost considerably more than the tunnel bureau of reclamation officials report that officials have given the go ahead for the tie relocating of five miles of U S highway at the wanship manship site if the bid is accepted by the bureau the contract will probably be signed sometime this month and work on the dam will start immediately bids on the third phase of the project the david aqueduct were opened tuesday and the low bid of was submitted by united concrete pipe corp corar baldwin park calif sixteen bids were opened with the low bid being under the engineers estimate for the project anil and below the second lowest bid high bid was engineers estimate was bids are bein being forwarded to the chief engineer of the bureau of reclamation and work will begin within 30 days of the okeh from that office the project the lar largest 9 est phase to date will include digging the trench for the pipe and laying concrete P pipe pe a distance of miles from the mouth of the gateway tunnel in weber canyon to a point east of bountiful along the wasatch mountain front |