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Show fl. P R PUSHES raw WORK Several Projects Under WY.y Under Direction of Local Bureau Bids for the paving of four-tenths of a mle of road at Trernonton will be opened In the offices of public roads In the Colonel Hudson building August CO, acrordlng tol Information! given out today. This work will be i runhed to completion with ihe awarding award-ing rf the contract, it Is said A. B brown, highway engineer do-parted do-parted today for points in Nevada ' where he will inspect several projects l.efore returnliis to Ogden. M. J ' Pinch, district engineer left today on I an inspection tout of ihe Orangeville-i Orangeville-i Kphralm road in southern Dtah M VTTE St S KlTl KNv B. W. Mattcson, senior highway engineer, returned to Ogden today from .in !ns)i'.'li.n tour of the Tlnuiip- son-Moab, Moan-Ed Falle, 11 Salle-Montlcello Salle-Montlcello and Price-Castle Gate roads. Mr. Malteson reports rapid progress on the roads, j With the exception of the Thompson-1 Moab and Moab-La Salle roads the work is belnR pushed to completion. In this section considerable difficulty Is t.eliiK encountered obtaining labor while lh sun at times is so hot that It Is Inipos.slMe to work, according to, Mr Matteson He insprcted a proposed road which was recently surveyed between L,a i SniiA. Munt ii i-ll. which will be started immediately, it la said The Thomp-son-Moab road is 37 5 miles In length, tho Moab-'La Salle Junction road 24.3 miles, the La Salle Monticello road 20 miles and the Trice-Castle Dale 31.5 miles in length. si K EYS COMI'MTFI) Surveys for the road from Bound Valley to Devil Slide in Weber canyon can-yon have ticcn completed and work Will be started soon, it is said This road covers four miles. Thi- plans for the road .ire being completed, Tho contract for the steel construction construc-tion work for the bridge over the St Clara river on the Modena-St George road has been left t- the Pittsburg-Des Pittsburg-Des Moines Steel company The bridge when completed will have a 3c-foot wooden approach with a 130-foot 130-foot span This bridge U being completed. com-pleted. A. Angwln. In rhartre of bridKe construction, con-struction, will depart Wednesday for i Nevada where he will confer with ' A. B. Brown of the local offices anel H. Boy, bridge engineer of Nevada on Improvements planned for project number 33 In Nevada. Two new bridges for this section are planned,' it is said. Officials Of the bureau of public roads announced today that surveys for the road in Ogden canyon had been completed and that rtaKcs ly the engineers laid, the work to be Started In the Immediate future by the Moranj 1 company. |