Show u a j cn ui r road bid gives more cash for utah projects total falls aus under estimates for uintah county highway out of compliment to congressman dori don B colton the state toad commission planned to spend a considerable portion of its first public lands road money on a road ta uintah uin county un t y and set aside about 90 0 0 0 of f the fund about for that purpose when men the bids were opened tuesday however Io wever it was found that the total of the contract on OIL present esli estimated mated quantities Is only under the bid of W W clyde company and J W biting ot of the net met result of this and somewhat similar conditions on other road projects using public land road funds Is that the state has about of those funds left for additional colton oddie projects congressman colton whose official Tesi residence dence is at vernal la Is coauthor with senator tasker L oddie of nevada of a bill which provides for per cent use of 0 federal funds in construction and maintenance of highways across public lands uintah county has a large amount of such prop lands and one of the first projects undertakes undertaken was from jensen to vernal towards the colorado line the particular project selected stopped at cockle burr junction 69 miles from jensen the utter community comm unit Y la is being connected with vernal by another road which can not come under the colton oddle bill of the eight bids received receive don xon tuesday by the state road commission on the jensen project that of W W clyde co and J W whiting 7 of spring ville was low and the he t contract contact cont act was waa awarded t to 0 them the engineers gi gine errs estimate nad been for just juat under there la Is some privately owned land on this stretch of highway and only of the cost Is 1 eligible under the public lands act other colton oddle oddie projects are the peters hill bill in san juan county which takes of the tha fund the mount carmel junction hill bill improvement the woodald woodside e green river project in ia emery county and the tha santa clara clam bridge washington county total share of the fund which was first to be appropriated by congress under the public land road bill was waa about 1000 |