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Show Bids Offered on Road Work in Weber County Although protests have been lodged with the state road commission bj tli Weber County Farm bureau, the Ogden Og-den Rotary club and the Merchants ol Oden iivalnst ihe 1 1 it j i .- ( 1 plan in resurface with bituminous material the Pleasant View, Rlverdale and Ogden Og-den canyon sen ions of the state highway high-way in Weber county, bids have been opened at the commission offices 'n , Salt Lake which call for an extremely hif?h cost for this class of work. The people of northern Utah, and of this ount in particular seem lo desire de-sire that the regular concrete base pavlnx be laid m these sections, and the plan is against the intention to merely resurface the sections. The total cost for the work as ; planned by the state under the low Ibid, that of Gibbons & Reed, would be $242,313 if one type of coating I were adopted and $2:17.713 if another ' were selected. As twelve miles of work are to be handled, this would be a cost of approximately $20,000 per; mile for this class of work. The specifications require that the present Tarvla is to be left in place, except at the edges, where it will be! trimmed until at least a two-inch ver-j tlcal surface is exposed. The road will be widened to a full eighteen feet! by the addition to the Tarvia base at ach side of either an asphaltic concrete con-crete base or a coal tar concrete n top of this eighteen -foot strip will be spread two inches of bltullthic con-, crete. The shoulders will be protected by an edginc of two-by-sil Inch stuff, supported by two-by-four Inch Makes driven info the ground two feet. Out side of this, on each shoulder, will be four feet of grael, making the full width of the roadbed twen'y-six The Tarvia road to be so Improved consists of abut two miles from the south city limits of Osden to Roy, four miles rrom the nonh city limits to Utah Hot Springs, and six mil - lip Ogden canyon. The latter road, how ever, it will be Impossible to bring to the full twenty -six feet in width in' place 'Bids were also submitted b V T 1 Moran a'. J256.92U. usinx the anhai m tic concrete base, and $293,320 usinc the cial tar base; by Strange & Ma-gulre Ma-gulre at 5317 189. using asphaltic concrete, con-crete, and $31 1,779. using coal tar, and bj r. W M- il. n on the asphaltic concrete con-crete only at $337,1 26 The figures in - ' elude the cost to the slate of $82,355 for bitumen and ro;ilr |