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Show Sanpete Tunnel Big Opening Set Offers Will Be Studied in Reclamation Service Office Bids for the Sanpete project, part cf tli 2 Utah reclamation program will be opened Monday at 10 am. m thu office cf E. O. Larson, district dis-trict engineer of the, United States reclamatcin rervice. The project, for which th federal fed-eral adm risiration of public works has allot: d $300,000, calls for the ciiggirg of two tunnels to carry surplus sur-plus waters from the Green rher wate-thed to augment irrigation water for eeifrn Sanpet-s. county. The Ephraim tunnel of th project proj-ect will e 7200 feet long and will have a capacity of 100 cubic feet per second and will supply water to irrigate- 6500 acres near Ephraim. The Spring City tunnel will be 500 fast long acid will have two feeder canals to furnish supplemental v-laitier te. irrigat lands on Canal and Oak creeks nfar Spring City. The tunner, will tap the headwaters of the Cottonwood creek. Und'r terms of the contract, contractors con-tractors will supply laber and timb'r and the government will supply steel and c:m:nt reemired for the work. |