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Show I BIG PROJECTS ! WILL BE AIRED Weber County Commissioners Commission-ers Gro to Salt Lake For Conference. Members of the Weber county board of commissioners are at'.iln In Salt Lake today conferring with members of the state road commission regard' ing: the building: of two bridges in Ogden canyon, also the Rtverdale la-duct, la-duct, to be built over the Weber river md the I'nion Taclflc railroad tracks at Rlverdale. The commissioners hove announced that 6S contractors, from every state In the union except Nevada, have made' Inquiries about bids for the Rlverdale viaduct, which It has been estimated will cost approximately $240,000. Having heard from pra tically every ev-ery county In I tah able t finance the operation! at present, with regard to desired road construction with fed-I oral aid, the state road commission will today, at Salt Uike. attack in earnest the problem of selecting those projects which shall be a part of the , K22 state road program. Projects not selected at this time will. In all probability, have to wait another year at least before being brought to the construction stage. However, there Is a considerable amount of federal aid available from i ILllOUnenU lJ uwn umuc in K'oxvw vears. and it is the belief of the commission com-mission that a large proportion of the projects where the money is actually available for work this year will be possible of accomplishment. Present at the meeting probably will be B. J. Finch, district engineer, or some other representative of the Initod States bureau of Dublic roads district office at Ogden; and Professor William Peterson of Logan who has been acting In an advisory capacity vlth the state road commission. on , |