Media Contact: Ulsamer - 343-4306
For Immediate Release: July 9, 1966

Two contracts totaling $367,043 have been awarded by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs for road construction projects on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S. D. and the Yakima Reservation in Washington.

A $247, 885 contract for crushed rock and bituminous mat surfacing of approximately 15.5 miles of the Signal Peak road on the Yakima Reservation was awarded to Bohannon Asphalt Paving, Inc.; of Yakima, Wash. Five bids were received, ranging to a high of $298,520.

A $119,158 contract for grading drainage and crushed aggregate surfacing of nearly 5 miles of road on the Pine Ridge Reservation went to J.F. Bailey Construction Co. of Bonesteel, S. D. Five bids were received, ranging to $160,061.