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Show CANYON PAVING SEEMSUED ;Moran Bid of $39,000 a Mile Likely to Be Accepted by Board Taxing of the Ogdcn canyon road is actually to become a reality. This ' Is the belief of local road officials, who predict that the state road com-mission com-mission will accept the bid of the P. J. Moran company, submitted yesterday yester-day to pavo the highway at an estimated esti-mated cost of $39,410.50 a mile The contract will probably be let In Salt Lake this afternoon and work will probably begin within a few weeks, It Is predicted. i When the bids were opened yester-I yester-I day afternoon in the office of the state road commission, the Moran j company wan found to be the low , bidder on tho proposed surfacing of 7 361 miles of canyon paving. The I amount was about $o,000 lower than the next lowest bid W. J. SchmUu submitted a bid that was about 11,000 higher than the ! Moran bid. Gibbons Reed had a ; bid about fo.OOO higher than that of Schmidt, while the bid of Strange & MagUlre was another $5,000 higher, and ab.,ut 513.0OU, or close to $2,000 a bills higher thari the Moran bid. RO M Rj Ql nc. MEN I S. The bid is for an asphaltlc concrete base, varying in thlcltnea froni one and one-half to four inches, and with a topping of bitultthlc paveme.it one and one-half inches thick. The requirements re-quirements are that there shall be a I minimum of sl Inches of rock ha I under the asphaltlc concrete, and this will be supplied for the greater part I of the way up th? canyon by the present pres-ent macadamised roadway. There was not a quorum of the road commission prejent yesterday, but u la possible that the awarding of the contract con-tract will be considered today W; N. Frlckstad, senior highway engineer of the Ogden district oltke of the bureau of public roads, met with the road commission yestrday. I as did Martin P. Brown, chairman ot ! the Weber county commission. Tho estimate for the work preoared in the office of the state road "commission "com-mission was at a total cost of $4U,-426. $4U,-426. !6 a mile, but inasmuch as the federal government will nut .-. mure than $2o. 000 a mile as Its share ot any roadway. It had been proposed, if necessary, to make one of the bridges on the road a separ.no project. pro-ject. The Moran company bid, however, how-ever, did awio with any necessity for such action. ' i IN FN n PRII ES The bid la in unit prices. With the viC oilman t a.. n.i j ua a ut les, improved im-proved by tho federal engineers, the Moran prices would bring the company com-pany $257,1 72,41. The state supplies I $6 555.54 worth of materials, according accord-ing to the estimates. To this is add-, add-, ed an estimate of 10 per cent for en-; en-; glneering and contingent expend I bringing the total estimated cost o' the ruad to 1290,100.76 The ugden. canyon highway Is one I that has been a long timc prop.,,. C It was more than once postponed for a year because of more important work on the north and south highway-through highway-through the county. There was also a keen tight as to whether cement or bltullihlc should bo used there I but the latter Is chosen because cement ce-ment would tie up canyon truffle en-1 tlrely, at times for several days Whereas delarys to fiffic under the bltullihlc construction will be comparatively com-paratively slight. |