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Show I VIADUCT CONTRACT GIVEN APPROVAL The contract between Ox Btatp highway commission and the I nlon Pacific Railroad company for th building of the viaduct at Riverdale In Weper coiinty over the Weber river and thu Union Pacific trackfl was ip-proved ip-proved yesterday afternoon by the public utilities commission. The utilities commission agrwes that the costs may bfl shared as between th- tat. and railroad, on the basis named In the contract The state's portion will be borne hy the federal government and Weber county. In tht proportion of 7-1-2S. Before the utilities commission would glp its approval to the contract, con-tract, it pn.ide.l for two alterations In it one of these amendments provides pro-vides that the road commission .-hall not permit the use t the viaduct for street car. nterurban or nt her railway purposes, without firi obtaining the ( .ns-iw and approval of the public utilities commission', and the preparation prep-aration of a supplemental agreement covering maintenance and reinforcement reinforce-ment for the viaduct. The other section sec-tion amended provides for the ris ing of the grade crossing of the railroad rail-road rael in the vlcinftv and now provided that the stipulations In this section shall not be Construed SO as to limit or restrict the powers Df the public utilities commission with respect to thf matters rferrd (.. n this section " The contract carries in It the provision pro-vision that it shall not be effective' until confirmed and approved by tha utilities commission, which was d..ne by the order Issued yesterday oo |