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Show HIGHWAY WORK IS PLANNED IN NEVADA Word has been transmitted to G. S. Hoag of Ely, Nov., Nevada state consul of the Lincoln Highway association, from the Nevada state highway commission to the effect that the secretary of agriculture agricul-ture has approved the project of Lincoln highway improvement to the west of Ely which will result in the construction of a new section of the transcontinental thoroughfare for a distance of approximately approxi-mately eighteen miles. The sum of $62,000 will be expended upon this Lincoln highway work this year. One-half of the amount will be furnished by the federal government under the provisions pro-visions of the Bankhead-Shackelford act, one -fourth by the state and one -fourth by Wn i te Pi n e co up t y . All s u rv ey s are completed and the work will start at once. When completed, this section of the Lincoln Lin-coln highway will have no sharp curves and all grades will be greatly reduced. |