Show Bids called for Construction to start soon on Indian Canyon The Utah State Road Commission this week has released an advertisement in the form of a notice to calling for bids to begin construction of a portion of the Indian Canyon Road Highway 33 The notice appears elsewhere in this issue of the NOT K K the name of C Taylor di rector of asks that bids be submitted to the office of the road commission located at the Utah State Capitol building in Salt Lake City on before May 3 at 2 o'clock It calls for construction of a inch road mixed bituminous surf a C t d road in Duchesne county on j a section of State Road 33 from Duchesne City limits southwesterly miles the Indian Canyon route Ap- 1 proximate cost will be A to it is expected that tons of bituminous I tons of surface type and cubic j ards of unclassified excavation will go into this portion of the It is expected that the will take working which should see the first link of the long-awaited road improvement completed by fall of FOR NEARLY FIFTY years controversy has between factions in Carbon county relative to two proposed routes for the connection roads between Highways 40 and Carbon and Duchesne counties It was not until approximately two years ago when the state road conducted a survey and J a study of the two proposed I Indian Canyon and Nine that they concluded the Indian Canyon route was the most feasible from cost of construction and distance AFTER the en department had released facts and figures to sua- tain their proposal that Indian Canyon be the route used for the connecting delegations headed by the Roosevelt Chamber of Lions jers from both Carbon and counties met with the commission to encourage immediate construction of the Last December a Highway meeting was held Helper where a committee was i formed to push construction m This group w hie h is headed Clifton i i I u h. as has been since that BIDS hr not bren called for to this the commission in the very near advertise a portion of the road on the Carbon county side from Castle Gate northeast up Willow Creek Right have been se cured and DOOMS are being to make room for the new highway It is anticipated about miles of highway will be constructed in Carbon county this The entire distant e to te unproved Is approximately 45 with a portion being in the Ashley National |