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Show HIGHWAY TO COST $39,000 A MILE SALT LAKE. Fob. 20. The surfacing sur-facing of the road from Price to C;io-tleg.ite C;io-tleg.ite in Carbon county lr to be done by flray & Murdock at a cost i of 1418.739.01, or $Slt,5U0 a mile. f which the federal government is to pay one-half The type of pavement is six to ! eight inches of solid cement con-I con-I crete. The road has alrerfdy bet n graded and drainage structures have been Inserted with federal aid. at I cost of about 118,000 a mile, so that the total cost of constructing and paving this 10 46 miles of highway will run Just about $5K.O00 a mile, by Ions odds the most expensive lS-foot highway strip in the state. Tho expense ex-pense is in part due to the fact that all the aggregates hnVe to be brought in, there beinp little chance of fiivJ-inp fiivJ-inp sand and gravel, that will pass government tests. In suitable quantities quanti-ties und locations in Carbon county cast of the Wasatch mountains. Sand and gravel for this road will proD- ably come from Salt Lake county, be-! be-! ing hauled over SAhller Summit by train and delivered at points along the line adjacent to the work. Work Is to start on the new road at the earliest opportunity, as u further fur-ther help to the unemployment slt-j slt-j nation in the stute. I On the bid accepted the total esii-i esii-i mated price to Gray & Murdock- will run about $147,500. To this must ba added tho cost of gravel to be furnished fur-nished by the state another $142.- 218.88 for cement, rclnfnrclns steel and other supplies furnished by the state, and 10 per cent of the total ! for engineering, inspection and contingencies. con-tingencies. The Eox Elder county commissioners commission-ers appeared before the road commission com-mission yesterday to propose the paving pav-ing of four and one-half miles of the road from Brlgham to Corlnne. and the grading of another toile, pre-paartory pre-paartory to paving next year, with federal aid. The county has tho money ready |