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Show Highway Oiling Underway On Several Projects Six highway oiling contracts are : underway at present, or will be underway within a short time, that will be of benefit to central western west-ern Utah and part of Nevada. At the present time the construction construc-tion of a new highway running east from the Utah-Nevada line is in progress. This is a stretch of 14 miles that will be completed this summer. Connecting to this new construction is an additional 18 miles that was open for bids at one time, but rejected, and will come up again for bids on July 7. This will bring Highway Six 32 miles into Utah, towards Hinckley. Nevada has let the contract for oiling their section of Highway 6 to the Utah line. Crews and material started oiling the Leamington-Nephi highway this week and that complete stretch of road, about 35 miles will be completed this summer. Gravel has been hauled for several miles of that highway and the oiling mainline ma-inline will commence work within a short time. The five miles of graveled highway high-way between Lynndyl and Eureka will be completed in early July, but the oiling machine was held up in northern Utah on a job there and was not available until lately. Eureka to Vemon The contract has been let to oil 18 miles from the Eureka cemetery to 2 miles east of Vernon, Tooele county, on the road that was recently re-cently graded through that district on the east side of the tracks. This new road cuts considerable mileage mile-age from southwestern Utah into Salt Lake City by way of Tooele and when this 18 miles is completed complet-ed there will be but 17 miles of good graveled road that has not been oiled from west Millard area into Salt Lake City. This new highway through Tooele Too-ele will be a boon to Ktavelers going go-ing to Salt Lake City as there is practically no traffic on the,, highway high-way until one reaches Highway 40. Highway 91 is badly overcrowded overcrowd-ed at present and going into Salt Lake on that highway is slow and the ever-present possibility of a traffic accident. All of these roads mean much to West Millard. It will give a traveler three choices when going to Salt Lake City and northern Utah, and it brings Highway 6 32 more miles nearer completion, plus the highway high-way that Nevada will build. |