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Show 00 EXTENSIVE WORK ON ROAOS TO START THIS SEASON ' . C Merrill, chief engmoer for. ihe: forest. serice. and J. P. Martin, His-1 trict forest engineer, returned to I ORdm last night from Salt Lake, j where they conferred with the state 1 highway commission in regard to the roads that are to be constructed ibis, year. It was decided to start work on' several large projects in Utah as soonj as contracting arrangements can be made It is estimated that this year's j Construction will exceed $605,000. Half j of this amount will be supplied by Ihe state and the other half will be contributed by the federal go eminent. em-inent. Half or the Fphrairu-Orangevflle road project will be taken up tliis ear and completed Three-fourth- f the lUbcrFrnirtand loud will be completed; com-pleted; all of the Logan-Garden City road, and all of the Modena-St. Georce j road will be completed before the lirst of next year; one-half of the Cedar-! Lone Valley road, all of the Sevier-I Sevier-I " Fort road, all of the Kamis-' Stockmore road will also be compter- J ed before the first of the ear All ; of these roads are in I'tah There are a numbei of roads in the state that construction work will not be started on this year, and will be; completed as soon as the state c.n make the necessary financial arran ; ments. The forest service and government gov-ernment are ready to proceed with the work this year, but the state has not as yet made the necessary ar-i-ang-ments. Sur.-;. work will In-started In-started on the Panguitch-Tropic road 1 and the Salina Emery road. It is possible pos-sible that some construction work will be done this year on ihe Sallna-Emery road. It was decided at the conference, yesterday to postpone action on the Ogden Rich county road or the Hunts-1 ville-Woodruf f road until a field investigation in-vestigation has been made and an estimate es-timate of cost obtained. Mr. Merrill and Mr Martin are to : leave tomorrow for Boise idahc- where I they will hold a conference with the I Idaho state highway commission Mr. E. E. Kidder, district engineer, for this department, stated this mom ! ing that the construction work on the Ephriam-Orangevllle road contract had been awarded to the Mendenhall Bird Construction company of Salt. Lake Four companies submitted bids for this work. The bid submitted by' Mendenhall-Bii d company stated thai they would build the road Straight Canyon section Only), lor the .--urn of 151,925.40, the government furnishing all explosives. It was al-o advertised that bids were open and would be accepted for the Heber-Frultland road. At the, time limit set for the bids only onel company, the Wasatch 1 Grading coin-1 pany. had fiid a bid. it was decided that the project would be readvertlsod and new bids received. |