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Show MORE THAN 200 MILES ARE COVERED BY ROAD CONTRACTS i Contracts for the Improvement of more than 200 miles of Utah's I highways were awarded during the first tun months of the year, ! according to W. D. Hammond, j Chairman of the State Road Com mission. Of this mileage, approximately approxi-mately 130 miles were contracted for hard surfacing and 70 miles for grading and graveling. As soon as funds can be made available, avail-able, the Road Commission plans to hard surface a large portion of the highways that were graveled this year. The total cost of these projects Is ?2, 272, 087. More than half are already completed, and others are rapidly nearing completion. In addition to the contracted construction, the State Road Commission Com-mission has done extensive work in the improvement of farm roads and other, highways of the state with its maintenance crews, who have handled the extra construction construct-ion along with their regular maintenance main-tenance duties. U. S. Highway 91 has received considerable attention during the year because of its importance from the standpoint of national defense. More than 5 miles of U. S. 91 between Hot Springs and Brigham City is being widened to provide for a 4-lane highway, constructed con-structed to military standards. The right of way is 120 feet wide, and the roadway has been realigned re-aligned to give a maximum curvature curv-ature of 2 per cent. Another improvement on U. S. 91 is being made at the Point of the Mountain, south of the Draper Drap-er Cross Roads, where a 4.5 mile section of the highway with a 4 foot neutral zone in the center. Fourteen curves have been eliminated, elimin-ated, and the highway shortened proportionately. The grading and structures alone, preparatory to hard surfacing, are costing approximately ap-proximately $170,000 South of Spanish Fork, the cannery can-nery curve is being eliminated, and a new bridge constructed. This will eliminate the bad hazard of the bridge on the present highway, high-way, located directly in the curve, where a number of serious accidents ac-cidents have occured. The Commission has plans for the re-routing of the highway as it enters Provo on the north. Due to difficulties in connection with the securing of rights of way, this project has been delayed and it may not be possible to complete this stretch of improvement until next summer. Completion of the highway from the Deer Creek Dam in Provo Canyon to Charleston is under way. This improvement is more than 7 miles long and for nearly half this distance, the roadway must be cut out of solid rock. As soon as the grading and graveling are completed, at a cost of $219,-15 $219,-15 5, contracts will be let for hard surfacing this stretch of highway. Fertilize Orchards Weakened fruit trees can be invigorated promptly and remarkably remark-ably by the application of fertilizers, fertiliz-ers, either in the fall or in the spring. Because of uncertainty of rainfall, fertility in the fall is pre-fered. pre-fered. Nitrogen will be absorbed by the roots during the fall and early winter, and stored in the tree. What may be left in the soil is taken up early in the spring. New Angle for Dairymen Dairymen who have herds in which most of the cows have been freshening in the spring, will give serious thought to breeding some cows and heifers in Novembei and December for fall freshening, We don't know about Harmon of Michigan for the all-America Anyone can pronounce Harmon. |