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Show uu NEVADA IS ASKING MILLION FOR ROADS Nevada people interested in the good roads movement will get behind a constitutional amendment to be voted upon this fall which will increase in-crease the borrowing power of the state from $600,000 to $1,750,000. There Is every indication that the amendment will carry, and In the event of success the next legislature will be asked to pass a comprehensive good roads bill creating a state highway high-way commission, making an appropriation appropria-tion of $1,000,000 for state highways and directing the highway commission to supplement county road appropria tions with money from the state road fund for road work of permanent character where such work forms part of a state road system. The state law will be so drawn as to harmonize with the recent federal act appropriating appropriat-ing $75,000,000 for road work in the various states. Tho value of good roads has been brought home to the people of the state by the tremendous traffic carried by the Lincoln highway, the main thiroughfare of through connected travel. First in importance of the contemplated Improvements will be that of the great transcontinental road. |