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Show ROAD WORK STARTS! ON MANY FOREST PROJECTS . Notwithstanding the labor short?ge, Superintendent Kidder of the United States department of roads, reports that good work is being done in the uvea under the charge of the local office. of-fice. Three surveying parties are now out nnd will finish their work some time next month and- It is hoped that by next sprlnc work will be undertaken on the Moptpeller-Afton road, the Cedar Ced-ar Long Valley, and Modena-St. Georgo roads. Spirio time ago the department advertised ad-vertised for estimates on tho building of the Ephraim-Orangeville road but the contractors prices were so high that it has been finally decided to build ten- miles of this road by the use of day labor and the work is now being done; it was considered highly necessary to get something done on this road at once, as it will provide the people dwelling on the east side of Uie mountains with a ready access to coal supplies, and those who live on the west side will find the road the means to large supplies of necessary neces-sary timber. No road work is being undertaken at the present time, that Is not of imperative im-perative necessity for the purposes of production. ( 4 |