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Show Road improvement Starts Next Monday The Gunnison - Levan highway, from Flat canyon south, :s to undergo under-go repairs and in. addition to,.grad-j ing a good coating of gravel fill bs j applied and i will be the purpose of i the 'highway commission to put the I road in better-condition than it has! ever been since being reinstated as a secondary highway . Three thousand! dollars is to be expended on the work, according to'. A. A. Beck, state road foreman for the district. Not only will the highway be improved, and put in conditon for winter travel, but the dangerous curve and bridge at Flat canyon wash is to be corrected. The road at this point is to be straightened and will cross the wash some 200 -yards below the. present crossing. 'The new bridge will be fifteen feet-wide, twenty feet long and' fifteen feet high, thus giving assurances as-surances of safety from floods. This improvement will prove one of the most important along the route, as this point has baen considered extremely ex-tremely ; dangerous . '. ' : When work starts next Monday morning sixteen teams will be in the line-up and some twenty men will be employed at the beginning. For the present Foreman Beck stated that the improvement would be devoted to the points and places most need-, ed and if the fund will hold out then repairs, and fills and graveling will be carried out along the entire route. |