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Show lv S5 miles of graveling. Much of the highway receiving gravel surfacing sur-facing during 19 40 will e hard-surfaced hard-surfaced during the next two years. 4t the Point-of-the-Mountain, south of the Draper crossroads where a 4.5 mile section of the highway is being straightened and widened to provide a four-lane highway with a four-foot neutral zone dividing northbound and southbound traffic. A total of Fourteen curves have been eliminated elimin-ated and the highway shortened proportionately. The grading and structure work is approximately 75 per cent complete, and it is expected ex-pected that the work win be finished fin-ished in the early spring and then contracts will be awarded for hard-surfacing the entire improvement. improve-ment. South of Spanish Fork, the cannery curve has been eliminated eliminat-ed and the grading and graveling on the cut-off is complete. This improvement will be surfaced in the early spring and opened for traffic. The seven-mile stretch of new highway, between the Deer Creek dam and Charleston, is about 50 per cent completed with grading STATE HIGHWAYS IMPROVED DURING 1940 More than 200 miles of Utah's highways came in for improvement during 1940, according to W. D. Hammond, chairman of the state road commission. Contracts were awarded for approximately 225 miles of improvement, but twenty miles of this was included in December De-cember awards so that work has not advanced very far on these projects. Of the total improvement, approximately ap-proximately 140 miles has been completed and much of the balance bal-ance is nearing completion. Work on some of the more important projects, such as the Point-of-the-Mountain and the Deer Creek to Charleston has been stopped temporarily tem-porarily because of the weather. Work on these projects will be resumed re-sumed early in the spring. Contracts were awarded for more than 140 miles of hard surfacing sur-facing for roads and approximate- and graveling. This part of the highway will also be hard-surfac. ed early next summer. Plans are complete for the re. routing of highway 91, where it enters Provo from the north. As soon as matters pertaining to rights-of-way are settled, the com. mission will call for bids on this project. |