The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-09-17
PLANS FOR BETTERMENT OF
CHURCHILL COUNTY ROADS
state Highway Commission to Build
Across Eight and Five Mile Flats.
Fine Bridges About Completed:


spent Monday and yesterday in this
vicinity going over the bridges In
course of construction across the
Carson river and the line cana
west of Fallon, in company with M
F. Porter, resident engineer. These
structures are being erected by
Thompson & Parrott, contractors
under the supervision of the state
highway department officials who
awarded the contracts and are of
the most approved type. The Carson
river span is practically complete at
this time, the only thing renaininf
to be done having to do with the lay
ing of the asphalt coating on the
roadway. This bridge has tota
length of $50 feet and is planned to
sustain load of 80 tons, which
means that two 15-ton motor trucl
units may pass at the bridge cente
with absolute safety. II is con
structed entirely of steel and Coz.
crete, Its weight resting on 40 con
CT etc piles, driven to an absolute re
| sistance which in this case occurred
at an average depth below stream
bed of IL feet. The solidity of the
| Carson and line canal construction
is apparent at first sight and it is as
severated by the engineers in charge
that both would withstand any flood
that could possibly arise in future
years. Both bridges have roadways
s feet in width. The contract price
OF the Carson river structure is
$4,000 and Its s line canal counter
part $4,000. The bridges are iden-
tical in every regard save size, the
smaller being 80 feet in length, the
weight of which rests on 16 con
crete piles. Considerable work re
mains to be done on the canal struc-
ture, which will not be ready for use
for several weeks. There will then
remain the matter of fixing approach
es to both bridges, the early use of
which will depend upon the rapidity
with which the Fallon-Leetville link
in the state highway system is con-
structed.
While here Mr.. 10y made plain
state highway plans relative to
work contemplated in the Salt Wells
vicinity on the Lincoln highway.
About IL miles of highway construc.
tion is projected for this section of
the highway, aimed for consumma-
ton during the next few months as
means OF obviating the trouble
some roads leading across the four
and eight miles fats. A surveying
party was sent to Salt Wells Monday
by the highway authorities and the
work of determining routes is now
in progress. This task will be COM
pleted within a few weeks when
proposals for bids for the road con-
struction work will be asked for by
newspaper publication. Present
plans anticipate the building of fills
and culverts across the fats which
will be gravel surfaced and provide
an all the year round route across
the low ground there.
This particular stretch of road
has occasioned great deal of dis
comfort and vexation to traffic for
long time and ii has been the very
first to receive attention following
the placing of $4,000 in escrow by
the Lincoln Highway authorities in
the Carson Valley bank at Carson
City, for expenditure under the d.
rection of the state highway COM
mission.
That Churchill county is to bene-
fit distinctly from Lincoln Highway
activities Is made plain by the fol-
lowing from the Carson City APP
peal:
1.-THE greatest actual step in the
transformation of the Lincoln High
way in Nevada was consummated
this afternoon In this city when con-
tracts were signed by C. C. Cottrell
of the State Highway department
and A. F. Bement. vice-president of
the Lincoln Highway association.
The sum of $4,000, the first in
stallment of $125,OO0 that will be
given by the Lincoln Highway assoc
iation for work In this state, was
placed in escrow in the Carson VAL
ley bank.
"At the same time contracts were
entered into covering five different
projects. The work is to be COM
pleted in 1921, and additional con-
tracts up to the limit of the dona-
tion will be entered into as soon as
new locations are determined. A
preliminary survey will be made at
once. and all of the money available
will be put up within a short time.
Under the terms of the contracts
the money given by the Lincoln
Highway association will be met by
an equal amount from state funds.
The combined amount will be match
ed by Federal funds, making a half
million dollars available for the i'm
provement of the Lincoln Highway
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