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Show CORINNE ROAD ! WILBE PAVED Utah and U. S. Agree On Highway and Rail Crossing SALT LAKE. Aug. 1 0 The projret I agreement covering the construrtlon of the pavement between Brigrham nd Corinn.- was signed Wednesday by the statt- road commission, i Wa project has been held up because the, bureau of public roads had n..; .1. elded that the project would i,, ., of the federal system of highways In T'tah. an.i because the bureau requested request-ed an overhead crossing of the Oregon Ore-gon Short L,lne tracks, about half a mil. i)" ttrlgham Following the regional conference of bureau officials at San Krancisco. recently, It was nnnouncei) that Idaho had agreed that it would construct a road of government .specification to -onnert with the road north from Hrlghnm In the Malad valley and tha: Just as soon as the state should ha. any available federal highway mil. -age. - it should be designated on tin-Malad tin-Malad valley connection with the proposed pro-posed i'tah i tt Tills assurance was Sufficient to place the R r i cr h a i n -1 U 1 1 -Inne road definitely on the Utah federal fed-eral highway system. As fur as the overhead crossinc of the Oregon Short Line tracks Is cor. cerned. th- strite road commission Wednesday, through H. C Means, state road engineer, filed petition before be-fore the public utilities commission for hearing and adjudication of the cost of the proposed separation of grades at t hat- point, setting forth that a hea y automobile traffic Is to be lexpect. il over the road. The hearing will l. et at a later date. To obviate an dcla: op this count, it a decided to designate the project pro-ject in the forma) project statement, signed Wednesday, In two sections, one Lni ludins the hard-surfacing of approximately five miles of road, and section 8 being the construction and surfacing of the overhead crossing. It Is estimated that the work will cost $200.00(. Including the cost "f the overhead. Work can go ahead with the hard surfacing of the remainder ol the road, while the overhead croSHr . Ing matter is being decided before the utilities commission. |