Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-17
STATE BOARD WILL
ExPEND $2,663,227
Commissioners to Meet December
Is to Make Partial Dis
tribution.
rs OTHER ROUTES PROPOSED
Southwestern Part of State Will
Be Provided With Model
Paved Road.
IS OTHER ROUTES PROPOSED

Virginia is to have highway that
will! stretch from the Atlantic Ocean
at Virginia Beach TO the Kentucky
border at Cumberland Gap. To build
portions of IL and TO improve other
SECTIONS Will cost the State s2.663.227.
5he TGute ion n has n been planned under the
the state Highway Commiss ON is held
distribution Of the funds necessary for
CARRYING. on the work during the period
meens rem s has 10 bfen w pc nY wade The
Massie. chairman of the commiss on.
Srnnr %neh as,r Was peeently appointed by Gov.
into office on November l. Those in
terested in the distribution of funds
tSr and the
in the plans of the Highway Depart
went VIII be heard at the time.
Work WI Forge Ahend.
was started as early as 1917. In some
atf,ristT athals 1t w i bs now being pushed in
Virginia Beach the road will run to
Norfolk. thence TO Sunolh. Petersburg
noke it vii penetrate the heart % Of
Tennessee border AT Bristol. This S seca ene
the Bristol Washington Highway.
From Bristol the, road runs to PEN
Gap. ;raversing a route known as the
Boone Way, supposed to have been fol-
loved love, by Daniel Boonee in his hrst trip
said by those who have followed the
automobile trails of the Old Dominion ion
oeriand Gap is much better than the
sections from Roanoke east to the At
The Trans. State Highway has been
the Highway Department as Ronte R No.
IL Is Il P.v 49,.
that the State Will build M or 'Gs Tepair.
mnrs ama tnS tS,n sum ,i TO be spent on i will be
expended on any other route
big Aid TO Southwest Section.
Two routes connecting with this long
route will give the people of the SOUTH
one of the roads branches ' Off hfgnwnIs fTo hs
Eqss trough 'hsbas hebanosn, C coeSarnE S1!nEaS" and
the long route. From Lebanon another
irn road is planned through Russell and
connty line 'un6ies to the Tasewsl
tion of the State will be the most diff
hcnIt that the Highway Department.
mountainous country.
All Fr9m n5 , virginia Beach Sea, to Wytheyille.
new road work From the Lebanon % or
district line TO Dora the money viii bo
to Bristol. Pennington Gap and Cum. ..
berland Gap. the principal work to be
done is reSurfacing. Sums to be spent
on several small branch roads bring
the total expenditures Of Route No
10 up to approximately S2.564.OO0.
BiE Sum for Richmond Rond.
Route No. !. which runs from Fred
ericksburg through Richmond to Pc
tersburg, VIII be granted the second
largest sum for new construction, new
resurtacing and contracts under way
amount TO about sl,064.0oo. The sum
OF S330:0o0 has been set aside for the
work from Richmond to Petersburg.
improvements of the road through the
Chappawamsic Swamp. between Rich
mond and Washington. will take sos
600; Much of the work between here
way, and considerable prosress gre u'hs has
long-needed road
To route No. 81. the road between the
Chain Bridge. just outside OF Wash
inGton, and Fairfax Courthouse has
.nien the smallest appropriation in
the partial distribution. For resurfac-
ing work. which is already under way,
$4,000 has been appropriated
some of the allotmcnts are condi-
tlonal on the use Of certain county
FUNDS in conjunction with State funds:
some are conditional on the advance
neht or 90 per cent of the amount by
the counties or parties Interested, to
ne later returned. and others are de-
pendent on certain subscriptions to aug
ment the State aDDroDria tiOp