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Identifier: biennialreporto1922nort (find matches)
Title: Biennial Report of the State Highway Commission of North Carolina
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: North Carolina State Highway Commission North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission
Subjects: Roads
Publisher: Raleigh, N.C. : The Commission
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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of culverts havebeen built and a number of pipe culverts placed. Considerable reconstruction has been done in this district by two floatinggangs equipped with ten-ton tractors and large road machines, all of whichare kept constantly at grading, widening and ditching the roads. As anexample of this work a stretch of eight miles of road in Burke County hasbeen completely rebuilt, all of which is on new location. A large partof route No. 19 between Woodland and Tryon has been improved by thesegangs, while other work done includes clearing, grubbing, ditching, super-elevating curves, and in some instances surfacing. Throughout the dis-trict a total of 70 miles has been completely reconstructed. In addition to special work, which has been done by maintenance forces,the routine work incidental to keeping the system of roads in first-classcondition includes dragging the roads at regular intervals, keeping the brushcut oacK, placing danger signs, direction signs and the standard routemarkers.
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NINTH DISTRICTCONSTRUCTION The district is composed of the following counties: Buncombe, Cherokee,Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Swain and Transylvania.This district is in charge of Wythe M. Peyton, district engineer, with head-quarters in Asheville. Construction work is in charge of J. C. Walker, con-struction engineer, maintenance work being in charge of P. L. Threlkeld,maintenance engineer. Buncombe Federal Aid Project No. 45 cossists of the grading, drainage and sur-facing with asphaltic-concrete of 7.79 miles on route No. 10, between Azaliaand Black Mountain. This road was completed in July, 1921, at a costof approximately $350,000. This figure including several large reinforcedconcrete structures over the Swannanoa River, approximately 50 per centof the cost of construction was paid from Federal Aid funds under the Actof 1916. Federal Aid Project No. 62 forms another link in route No. 10 extendingfrom Black Mountain to the McDowell County line, a distance of 3.4

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