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Show CEMENT PRICES MAY INCREASE Ogden Men Tell Commission Higher Cost Contingent On Road Program. SAI,T IjAKR. March 0 The state ' road commission announced y ester I day that Ralph E Bristol and O, Ht. t.iilson of Ogden, representing tho cement ce-ment companies of I'tnh. have n"ii-fled n"ii-fled the commission that If the state! goes on with the program of hard surfaced road building this year, ce-I riifnt will cost the state 20 cents a! barrel more than last year Counties; and municipalities can come in under the snme agreement io ram t r.NT .i This will bring the cost of ceno nl for public road work up to $2.25 a! barrel, an increase of about 10 per' cent over the cost last year. The matter w:s brought to the attention at-tention of the state road commission I by the county commissioners of Utah county, who. before they would sign ; an agreement with the state as to the, completion of the contracts In 1 tahl county, wanted to know definitely what the cement would cost Chair-man Chair-man Jesse Harmon of the L'tah conn- i ty commission protested that, with! prices in other commodities falling there was no good reason why the i price of cement should go up He pointed out that, under contracts let last year, the state can save no money, by reason of the fall In prices for ! labor and other materials while the siaie. since n supplies me cement Is I nipped by the rise In the price of that commodity. BRISTOL PROTESTS. Mr firistol protested that state and COUnty had been afforded the opportunity oppor-tunity last fall, after the rush season was over, to store cement, and had failed to do so. Their own lack of foresight he said was to blame for the fact that they now had to pay an Increased price. He further stated thai If the state road-building program pro-gram were to be so seriously curtailed as interfere with plans for volume production, the state and other road-building road-building agencies would have to pay Ihe ordinary dealers' price for cement, which was 20 or 2T. cents a harrel higher than the price at which ce-; ce-; tnent is offered to them nt present. The present offer is contingent on a road-building program of some Importance. Im-portance. It was finally agreed between the state and the county commissioners that the program shoudl go ahead, and that state and county will hear their proportionate share of the increased in-creased cost of the road material. ORK CURTAILED. While two of the projects In T'fah ; county still to be completed will In all prohahlllty he made federal-aid I projects, the fact will not reduce the 1 share of the expense to he paid by I the county. The state will use money thus made available for the. acceptance accept-ance of federal aid on other projects. Without some such arrangement, it Is pointed out, the state's road program pro-gram would be seriously curtailed The same conditions will prevail with the completion of the cement highway hetween Ogdn and Hrlgham. which also will probably be a federal-aid federal-aid project i r |