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Show THE CITIZEN total score, and the points won by each of the shooters: to) select a system of important roads in the state comprising seven per cent of the total mileage of the states roads and submit it to Washington for approval. The department of government in Washington which has this question under its authority, Is the bureau of public roads of the department of agriculture. The department of agriculture is headed by Henry C. Wallace of Iowa. thoust When a state with a hundred and miles of roads, like Iowa for example, submits to the bureau of public roads in Washington its seven per cent system, or 7,000 miles of suggested roads for the approval of the government, the bureau studies the plan suggested, being particularly Interested in how the roads connect with those in the plans submitted by the other states surrounding, in order to provide interstate connections. If some states delay in providing their suggestions to the bureau of public roads, it holds up the decision affecting the road systems submitted by the surrounding states. Federal Aid. The procedure followed by any state desiring to take advantage of the federal aid offered to it under the Federal Highway Act, is very simple. It differs only slightly from the procedure which the state would follow if it was going to build a road without the aid of the ogvernment. If the road to be improved is on an important through route, construction can be undertaken whether the state system has been approved or not. The state makes a survey and provides its plan to the governments engineers who are governed by specific rules regulating the minimum width, grade and adequacy of type under different traffic conditions. The government will not assist in the construction of a type or design of road bed which will not stand up under the traffic to be carried. If the specifications for the road come up to the government standard, the project, as it is called, is approved by the government through the bureau of public roads and the state is assured of receiving a certain percentage of the cost of construction from the federal government. This percentage varies in the western states, depending upon the ratio between the area of the state and the area of the unappropriated public lands of the state. In states where the public lands amount to less than five per cent of the area of the state, the government pays fifty per cent of the cost of construction. In a state like Nevada the government pays 87 per cent of the cost of construction, due to the fact that over 90 per cent of Nevadas area still belongs to the federal government and is not taxed by the state. State Builds Roads. Assuming a project approved by the government, the state proceeds to construct the road in exactly the same manner it would proceed if no government aid were involved. It follows its own procedure which, in most instances, is to advertise for bids and let the contract to the lowest bidder. The state supervises the work, pays the contractor, and in every way proceeds exactly as it would on an ordin- , Used 20-gau- ge gun Professionals. The following visitors took part in the program: LEGISLATION GOVERNS ROAD CONSTRUCTION Tax Payers Should Grasp Plans to Build Public Highways Through State. Boiled down, the Federal Highway Act, passed in 1921, and under which our main interstate roads are now being largely constructed, is a very simple proposition, according to G. S. Hoag, field secretary of the Lincoln Highway association. The main fact to be borne in mind, says Hoag, is simply this that the Federal Highway Act provides for federal aid and that the whole plan is simply one whereby the federal government aids the states financially in the construction of their Toads. To a cer- tain extent, therefore, the name eral Highway is a misnomer. Fed- The Federal Highways are not federal highways in the true sense of the word at all. They are merely state highways joining at the state lines to form routes of interstate importance and are those roads which the federal government will aid the states to build. Government Helps. The sum and substance of it is that the federal government says : We will assist each state in building seven per cent of its highways. Naturally, the federal government reserves the right to pass upon the selection of that seven per cent. It wishes to aid from the federal treasury only the building of those roads which are of Interstate or intercounty importance. The procedure under the law is simple. The state highway authorities can if they wish (they are not obliged IS ary state job. The most difference lies in the fact that the federal government has an inspector on the job to see that the specifications are followed. The federal government is a silent partner in the entire transaction. It does not select the road to be improved; it does not initiate the project; and it does not pay the contractor. When the work is completed and is approved by the state highway department, the state gets its proportion of federal aid from the United States treasury. In order that neither the state nor the contractor may have to carry the full expense of the work to its completion, arrangements are made whereby progress payments are made from time to time based on the amount of work completed, a liberal percentage being reserved to provide against contingencies. Basically, that is all there Is to the plan of federal aid to state road building. Of course, the state cannot get Federal aid on an unlimited amount of construction. It receives financial assistance from the federal government on road construction up to a certain sum which in total represents that states share of the total congressional appropriation for highway construction. The total provided by congress is subdivided among the states, d on the basis of population, d on the basis of area, and on the basis of road mileage. PROBATE AND GUARDIAN8HIP NOTICES. . Consult County Clork or tho Reapee-tlv- o Signors for Further Information. NOTICE Estate of John McDonald Irvine, deceased. Creditors will present claims, with vouchers, to the undersigned at 1419 Logan Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before the 19th day of May, A. D. 1928. ELLEN MAUD IRVINE, Administratrix of the estate of John McDonald Irvine, deceased. NOEL S. PRATT, Attorney for Administratrix. Date of first publication, March 17, A. D. NOTICE TO CH EDITORS. 7 one-thir- TO CREDITORS d one-thir- one-thir- u-- . de- ruimen, Creditors will present claims, with vouchers, to the undersigned at 218 McIntyre Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah,, on or before the 9th day of. June, A. D. 1923. CLAES R. ELMEN, Administrator of the estate of Reynold G. Elmen, deceased. C. M. NIELSEN & A. A. DUNCAN,. Attorneys for Administrator. Date of first publication, April 7th, ceased. A. D. 1923. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of Martin E. Mulvey, deceased. Creditors will present claims, with vouchers, to the undersigned at its banking house in Salt Lake Utah, on or before the 11th day City, of August, A. D. 1923. TRACY LOAN & TRUST CO., By H. L. Selley, Its Treasurer. Executor of the estate of said deceased. Date of first publication, April 7th, - A. D. 1923. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Martha Plumhof Whiting, deceased. Creditors will present claims, with vouchers, to the undersigned at 161 South Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before the 16th day of June, A. D. 1923. TRACY LOAN & TRUST COMPANY, By H. L. Selley, Treasurer, and CHARLES V. WHITING, Executors of the last will and testament of Martha Plumhof Whiting, deceased. STEPHENS, BRAYTON & BAGLEY, Attorneys for Executors. Date of first publication, April 14th, A. D. POSTOFFICE. 1923. 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