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Show U. 3. AID FDR State Road Commission to Apply for Federal Funds to Carry Half Expense j With a view of furnishing federal funds with which to pay half the cost of tho new hard surface road to be. built through Ogden canyon this summer, sum-mer, a trip over the route was made today by District Engineer Ii. J. Finch and Senior Highway Engineer W. N. Frickstad of the U. S bureau of public' roads offlco here, together with Cfa.pt. R. M. Miller, district representative ofj the state road commission. As now( planned, if tho roadway Is extended from the city-county line at tho Og-, den entrance to the canyon and iaj built with bituminous concrete to the! intersection of tho Eden road, the es-j tiniatcd cost will be $250,000. Tho dis-1 tanco is approximately seven railed.' This will mean extension of the route j about a mile farther than originally' planned. ! At a conference yesterday In Salt Lake between tho state road commission commis-sion and District Engineer Finch, the commission decided thnt in view of; tho shortage of 545,000 in the available funds for" the Weber county roads program pro-gram for this season, they would ap- ply to the bureau of public roads of-j fico here for aid In the canyon road, thus making it a federal aid project. It was also decided that the project; should be advertised as scon as possible possi-ble in order thai construction might be completed, if possible, before the season for heavy hauling begins. These discussions follow the suggestions sugges-tions made by Mr. Finch at a conference confer-ence in February between the Weber county representatives and the state J road commission, at which lime it wasi apparent that it would be tfif flcult to! obtain funds for the entire program. I |