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Show ENGINEER QUff New Subsistence Ruling Is Blamed for Tieup in Road Construction SALT LAKE. Aug. 21 Because of the new subsistence ruling made by; the state road commission, all cngl-! neers on project No. 6, the road from1 Moab to La Sal Junction, have ro- signed according to a telegram re- colvert from J. 1 Ellis, district engineer engi-neer of the state road commission, with a territory Including Miat portion por-tion of tho state east of tho Wasatch mountains. un receipt of the telegram Ira R Browning, statu road commissi r wired that the old subsistance rate, of ?J 75 per day had been restored In place of the $65 per month, fixed recently re-cently b the commission, so far as the road from Thompson i La Sal Junction was concerned. The engl-; noeri on the project looked upon me: new ruling as a decrease In their pav, it is claimed. It is believed that Engineer Brown-, ing s telegram will remove the cause of the walkout on the part of engineers engi-neers tn Moab and San Juan counties. B. W. Matteson. senior highway en-1 gineer for the district offices at Ogden Og-den of the I'ntled States bureau of public roads, yesterday sold that on' a recent visit to the two post road I projects in those counties It develop-1 ed that it had been extremely difficult diffi-cult to get men to stay on the Jobi on road work on account of the heat In the canyons. With the coming of cooler weather, however, th problem was becoming easier, and more men would be available as time went on.j ,lr Matteson reported that Engineer Engi-neer Eugene Bush, in Charge of the Thompson to Moab project, U nuw un the hardest part of the work he had undertaken of surfacing the had portions por-tions of that project, using a fleet of state road truckb Mr .Matteson said tbat the portion now helng surfaced I involved the longest haul and that tho work is being done within the estimates es-timates furnished to the road commls-J commls-J sion by Mr. Hush whet, he advocated 1 doln the work b force account, j The engineer aloo reported that on a isit to the Price to Costledale post road project h- had found a total of six goings of men hard at work and that the road Is being completed In I rapid time. Contractor H. J. Key- nolds has a large force of men and three sub-contractors under him, one of whom Is at work in the smaller 1 drainage structures. In addition there j are two bridge contractors at work. Mr Matteson expressed appreciation of the competent work belnp: done by Engineer E S. Borgqulst The state road commission iter-day iter-day opened bids for the construction of four-tenths of a mile of hard surface sur-face pavement in the city of Tremon-t Tremon-t on . This is a part of the federal aid project from Trenton ton to Snow-ville. Snow-ville. Tenders were received from Alston Al-ston & Hoggan and the Gllkerson Construction company A study of I the bids showed that that of Alton ft I Hoggan would he low, and the bidsj I were sent to the drafting room for , ' ompllatlon There was not a quorum I of the commission present to take fur-ther fur-ther action on the bids and the city council and county commissioners Will I have to bo consulted before the con-1 con-1 tract Is awarded. |