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Show HURRICANE ROAD GETS FEDERAL AID Work on Roads in Washington County Authorized by the Bureau of Public Roads With the completion of the road from St. George to the Shivwits Indian reservation and its acceptance accept-ance by K. C. Wright, assistant chief road engineer for the state, attention atten-tion has been turned to the uncompleted un-completed highways east of this city. The Hurricane cut-off has been included in the federal aid system of the state, having been approved for the federal bureau of public roads. This stretch, 12 miles in length, connects La Verkin and Hurricane with the Harrisburg bench, the route leading across Purgatory flat to Hurricane and joining with the federal aid system at La Verkin. This cut-off has already al-ready been surveyed and the route approved and construction probably will be undertaken in 1930. Survey of a route from the Harrisburg Har-risburg bench through Leeds to Andersons' An-dersons' ranch is now under way, and it is understood construction will be completed this year. This link is included in the federal aid system of the state and funds are available. Other roads in southern Utah to receive federal aid are the extension exten-sion of the highway now terminating terminat-ing at Kanab south to the Utah-Arizona Utah-Arizona line, and the extension of the federal road now terminating at Panguitch south to a point beyond Glendale to connect with the junction junc-tion of the Zion-Mt. Carmel highway. high-way. With the above additions the state has secured approval on practically all of the federal highway mileage to which it is entitled. As now approved ap-proved the federal system of roads embraces 1,681.63 miles of Utah roads, leaving only about 1.5 miles additional that the state can have designated as federal routes. |