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Show HOOPER HOAD TO BEf PIED Part of Highway in Bad Condition, Con-dition, Local Engineer Reports Decision to expend approximately $5000 for repairs on the Odon Hooper Hoo-per macadam highway which was completed com-pleted last year, was made yesterday bv the state mad commission ol I'tah. The decision to repair the highway resulted re-sulted from a report from the distric t engineer's office here that the road could he put in repair for this amount The federal government i? withhold ing a final payment of $6591 until pro-vision pro-vision for maintenance has been made EXGINKEB EW 1 S W D. W illiams, at ting district engineer engi-neer of the bureau of public roads in gden. wrote the commission .ls fol-j lows. sdhrdlu shrdlu ? T (! It .;: Shrdlu schrdlu shrdlu shrdlu shrd sd ' The final voucher on I'tah federal aid project No 2 has been given care- ful consideration. At the time of tinal Inspection. It was considered that sonic . Items such as compacting of the the gravel being compacted, however, how-ever, tp the time that has clap.-e.l since the contractor wltbderj the maintenance mainten-ance has been neglected hy traffic ance has been neglected and the gravel Ijas become raveled b iriffle The final coucher amounting to $66sl, Is therefore being held in this office until un-til such time as suitable maintenance Is provided for this project. "Items for pipe that failed to pass tha Boerlflcat Ions -ire disallowed This however, makes no difference in the amount of the voucher, as the project Shows large overruns "It Is hoped that this matter of maintenance will he given your earln Si attention, as the State 1- obliged under its federal aid agreements to properly maintain the projects after completion." comple-tion." I ROAD IN ti H sll VPE IJ Simpson, district i iiKiiieer for the commission at Ogden, reported that he found on an examination of tho road ordered some time ago by the state road commission, that the first uric and one-half miles on the Ogdon end of the road is In "very bad shape " is It is badly rutted and a great rn.m L'huckholes have forrn-d. This part of Lite road, In Mr. Simpson's opinion. Will need resurfacing The remainder if the road. h- says. Is not In such I tad shape but that It can be repaired j by careful maintenance. Mr. Simpson reported that five miles of the road tiad recently been dragged, but that :he work was delayed on account of ihe difficulty In getting teams in beet na ullng season. "I am satisfied." he said, "that if .ve can put a grader on this road and .iull some of the loose material from he sides on to the middle, and then Irag occasionally, there will be no .nore complaint." imnx.i: u mi 4ome iron hride railings need paining paini-ng and Mr. Simpson is satisfied, ho iays, that the. entire work can be done "or approximate $6000 of which the jreater part will he expended on the ne anil one-half miles to bo resur-'aced. resur-'aced. . It Is the belief of member of the oud commission that ultimate) this ItretCh f hlghwaj will have a hard lurface, to take car of the heavy traf-lc, traf-lc, especially that around heet haul-ng haul-ng time. The macadam road WVI avored In the first place partly be-IUS4 be-IUS4 n firm foundation would have o be established before a hard sur-'ace sur-'ace could be satisfactorily applied, on iccount of the nature of the soil there 1 |
