FINE TENNESSEE ROAD.

The New York Times
December 31, 1922

The largest highway contract ever let in Tennessee provides for 50.2 miles, consisting of five miles of new road in Grainger County, beginning at Fate Springs, forty-three miles across Hawkins County and two miles in Sullivan County, extending to Kingsport.

The new highway passes through the Holston River Valley for about forty miles and lies between Bay Mountain and Clinch Mountain. The road will be surfaced with asphalt and will cost $1,397,000, or $27,750 a mile. It is a Federal aid route.