The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-04-26
NORTHERN ROAD TO
. Be STARTED SOON
Notes of Highway Construction
Work of General Interest in
This County, includes Vie
tory and Route 8

A legal advertisement of consider
able interest to local and northern
Humboldt county residents is con-
tanned in this issue of The Silver
State, being a notice to contractors
of bids wanted for highway improve
ment, and setting forth that bids
will be received by the highway de-
partment at Carson City, May 0,
for grading, construction Of culverts
and placing of gravel surface be-
tween Winnemucca and eeoa House
and between Toll House and Para
disc Hill. These are projects num-
bered " and II respectively, each
calling for 13 miles Of highway
construction, or a total of 62 miles,
which when completed will form q
portion Of route 8, serving the high
way needs of most of the residents
of northern Humboldt county for
the reason that all travellers to
DEMO, McDermitt, Oravada and way
points must first go to Paradise
Hill. The road will also serve
residents of Paradise Valley for q
distance of perhaps 15 or 20 miles
from this city. Best information
obtainable is that actual construc-
tion work will commence about
June 1, with a possibility Of COM
pletion during the present year.
During the last week a number
of road contractors have been in
Winnemucca to look over plans
and specifications for the road work
mort, on file at the county clerks
office, with the intention of bidding
for the work. Resident Highway
Engineer r. E. Tilden has been en-
gagged in comforting with these con-
tractors and taking them over the
line of the proposed route. One of
these contractors is said to have re-
marked that the road was practi-
cally built for most of the way when
Mr.. Tilden located the line, meaning
that there will be very little work to
do as the line is located over a
route requiring little more than
straight-away construction.
The northern highway, or more
properly called route 8, will be a
continuation of Bridge street and
will pass along the side hill above
the sheep corrals, north of town
and across the river. 1t will have u
maximum grade of six per cent over
Paradise Hill, whereas the present
grade runs in places as high as
l3 per cent.
The Ia route west of Winnie
mucca, on the Victory highway
from this city to a point beyond
Rose Creek which marks the Hum
boldt-Pershing county line, is nearly
all graded, two of the big con-
crete dips have been built, and
the graveling of the road-bed is
about half done. The line climbs
the measa about four miles west
of Winemucca, there it circles the
sand hills, and makes a straight
line for the viaduct below Rose
Greek where it crosses the Southern
Pacific railroad tracks with an
overcrossing. Contractors Strange
& Vallandingham have been water.
ing the roadbed recently, which will
make it very much better by the
time it is ready for use by the
public.
In addition to the above, infor-
nation has been received from the
highway department that plans are
being prepared for a continuation
of Victory highway building be-
tween this city and Golconda, dis
tance east of 15.5 miles, and plans
are also being prepared for con-
struction of "a miles of gravel sur
faced road through the city Of VIM
nemucca, this also being part of the
Victory highway.