Nevertheless, the initial-assigned batch of fractional highways in the 1930s did work their way numerically from north to south and from west to east, lending a sense of direction to the map. The "denominators" were numbered in the order in which the state inventorized and commissioned them, not in the order of geography. Minor connecting and spur roads were treated as "tributaries" of the state highways and secondary trunks they branched off from, and were assigned fractional numbers: The roads abuting Highway 44 would bear the numbers 44/1, 44/2, 44/3, and so on, then reset at the county line. Through roads that connected one place to another were assigned whole numbers (1, 2, 3, et cetera) and treated as secondary "trunks." Next, the State Road Commission went to work inventorizing and mapping these "lesser" roads. In 1933, a legislative act was passed placing all roads in West Virginia under state control. Obviously, this was a situation that demanded improvement.
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