Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-06-08 | Page 35 | Colorado Plans 1919 Road Work

COLORADO PLANS 1919 ROAD WORK Highway ay Commission CommiSS n Lays Out Most 1 Ambitious Program Program Pro Pro- gram Yet Attempted Denver er Colo June 7 The 7 The Colorado state hl highway h a commission has hns n n on- on I the greatest jCl of road building the state slate ever in virtually er e every section of or the state Among Amon the thc improvements vm nr au or contemplated ate are The bl big Thompson project consisting I o of oC f grading a a. twenty mile stretch of the the route Into Estes p park rk from mouth of tho Bi Big Thompson Thom Im I'm canyon canon Consid Conid- Considerable crable erable rock work is Two-mile Two extension of the concrete paving of at the thc Brighton road from n D Den uVel u- u vcr ver Paving Pa of two additional miles of road out of or Pueblo Paving of oC a half milt stretch een Fort Mogan l and Brush Paving of ot one ono mile mUe of road out of oC Greeley half a n. mile out of ot Boulder and half halt a mile out of Lon Construction of or a a. bri bridge e across the he Platte river at Merino Logan Loan county comity Section of paved road out Jut of ot Grand Junction toward Palisade ado Paving of sections between and Delta DeHa improvement of or the road out of Oura Ouray tow toward rd Un consisting chien chiefly of rock work and grading nr Extends Extends Extends Ex Ex- Ex- Ex tends three miles beyond tho the work undertaken last year i Paving the road out of or Rocky Ford Fold I past st and out of ot La Junta west half a amile amile amile mile In each each case I Improvements of the he Spring Lamar field road road In Prowers dad and aci counties counties counties coun coun- ties chiefly railing grading and n drainage o of or about ten miles of tho the mile 42 highway between tho tiro two points Bids are also being considered to lor tor the thc macadam surfacing of ct tho the dad dad- dad Walsenburg burS burS' road agg ego tin f about sixty four miles of ork an md Ind estimated as requiring about OOOO In addition many smaller r pieces o of or work are being d and although h hIt It is Improbable that the they cap can b be undertaken undertaken under under- taken this year the coming coining year will veil HI I see work started on e er every r bit of tit load road I contemplated within the state e I