The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-11
BIG YEAR IN ROAD WORK

land to Buffalo. Ohio has four pro
iects on this line and Pennsylvania
one of t~wenty-eight miles vhicn
when completed, will make the high
way an improved one for its entire dis.
tancs.
Improving Dixie Highway.
One OF the features Of the years
work will be the improvement OF the
Dixie highway, which will be done ny
the states acting IN cooperation with
the government. Thus. in Illinois. the
highway will be improved from the
county line north through VIII. Kanka-
kee and Iroquois counties 10 the Yer
million county line running south.
This work viii be extended over a
distance of 54-5 miles al a cost OF
sso4.7eo and the construction viii be
Of concrete and bituninous macadam.
81 the same time Georgia viii be work
ing on the road from Atlanta TO Macon
through Clayton. Henry. Spaulding,
Pike and Monroe counties. a distance
OF s~eyensy-two miles and q continue
ton of the Dixie line in that state n
Tennessee and Kentucky projects will
be under way which will further serve
To. improve this famous old highway
which suits through the central section
Of the country from north TO south
In q ike manner a great deal OF
work will be done on what the west
calls the Interstate Military highway,
the line OF which runs from Canada
on the north 10 the gull On the south
Seventy miles OF improved road will
he constructed on this highway in Col
orado the line running north and south
through HuerfarTo and Las An.snas
counties from Walsepyary to the New
Mexico state line. Here the Colorado
project viii be joined Wy two projects
IL New Mexico which run from Ration
Pass songh for a distance of s4-5 miles
The. three projects taken in conjunct-
ion viii mean an improvement OF a
continuous stretch of the highway OF
,1s1.5 miles at a cost Of more than halt
"a million dollars. This is the longest
continuous stretch OF improvement
that viii be done this year IN the
United States so far as is known
In Nebraska the road builders will
have under way work on the potash
road from Alliance to Antioch through
Box. Butte and Sheridan counties for
"a distance OF fifteen miles at a cost OF
sS3. s15. This highway will T to
tap a Trginn territory of remarkable
wealth.
Chicago &c the Mississippi.
In Illinois improvement work will be
undertaken on the Lincoln highway
west from Chicago through Dupage.
Kane, De KaIb. Ogle, Lee and White
side counties. ending at Fulton. on the
Mississippi river and the state line.
The road will be 123 miles long. OF
which se~venty-five miles will be under
taken with federal aid and the rest
handled by the state. The cost OF the
highway is estimated at s1.14s. 6T3 and
the construction win be concrete This
work is now underway and should be
during the year
In California. perhaps the chief pro
ject is the new road in Trinity county,
which viii run east and west out OF
Douglas City and Burnt ranch. This is
a section Of a lateral road which will
be ultimately extended II the coast.
and some idea OF the type Of construct
ION can be gained when 1t is said that
the cost will be $50. coo. and the dis
tance is only f~ortye4ght miles, while
the work done viii be simply grading
and drainage. Today only a trail breaks
through this country and the new
highway viii pave the way for an i'm
mense economic development of this
section.
Scores OF other projects are already
underway in practically all the states
OF the country and when spring comes
with favorable weather conditions. i.
is expected that road men will AXE
the field with greater force than ever
before.