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Show 'cmonrhis j held gertaikty 1 Local Engineers Go Over ; Route Locating QuaiTy, ! Sand and Gravel Pits !i That the Ogden canyon hard-sur- faced road will become an actuality and will be entirely completed beforo the end of the summer months, was the opinion expressed this morning by E. E. Grimes, resident engineer. Mr. Grimes, together with W. X. Frlckstad. senior engineer of the bureau bu-reau of public roads, went over the route of the proposed highway yesterday yester-day and made preparations for the opening of the work. Advertisement for bids for the road will be made within a few days, Mr Grimes said, and the work will begin as soon following as is possible-Persons possible-Persons who travel the canyon i highway while the road Is under construction con-struction will not be greatly hampered by the operations of the road building crews, Mr. Grimes declared, for a .system .sys-tem will be Installed which will allow the passage of vehicles over the hign-way hign-way as It is completed In short stretches. The new surface will be of bituminous bitum-inous concrete ovcer the present rock base. Mr. Grimes said this morning that his tour of inspection resulted in 'the location of a limestone quarry near the center of the project,, md that gravel and sand pits are available avail-able near tho mouth of the canyon. Tho close proximity of the necessitiv, he declared, will greatly speed up the construction of the highway. Within a period of five months tho entire road should be completed, according ac-cording to Mr. Grimes. This will briTg the work to a close before the fall months. Tho project will cost ?26j.-4 ?26j.-4 50 05, with one-half the amount appropriated ap-propriated by the government. |