Show UTAH LEADING AL ALL NATION IN INROAD INROAD ROAD BUILDING Per Capita Expenditure for Year Past Exceeds Th That t of Any Other State LAND OFFICE DOES RECORD BUSINESS Filings on 01 State Coal Areas Bring Receipts Up to 3 That the great greatest t per ler capita capia expenditure expend expend- iture for construction and permanent Improvement of or roa roads s throughout the nation was made by the state of or Utah during the thc fiscal year ear ending June 30 30 1918 Was the announcement contained In official statistics received in Salt Lake yesterday from rom the department of or commerce bureau of tho tue census at Washington D D. C. C While New York Washington l and Pennsylvania are arc credited with ith the largest hl highway hwa expenditures expenditure the per capita expense n e of 19 In Utah Is I a record record record rec rec- ord unequalled by an any other state In Inthe Inthe Inthe the union This per capita expense represents represents rep rep- resents a a wide margin In comparison with other states In twenty of oC the forty eight states tates the excess of oC ex expenditures ex- ex pen for governmental costs coste In Including In- In eluding interests and outlays for permanent permanent permanent per per- manent Improvements over ovel revenues during the thc fiscal year ear l 1917 l was or ci 11 U cents per capital In the re remaining remaining re- re l twenty eight states the tho per capita was only 5 a cents G. G B. B n keh federal recorder at the theSal Salt Sal Lake land offices in official figures figures fig fig- ures compiled yesterday esterday relative e to revenues rev rev- in his department shows that to total total to- to tal taJ net nel revenues revenues of oC for the local offices for or the thc fiscal year ending June 30 30 InS are arc the largest in tn the history of oC the tue office This record In Increase Increase increase In- In crease In revenues for tor the government is attributed to large huge filings on state coal properties The Tho total revenue was sas but butout butout butout out of oC this sum a total of oC S was deducted for refunds to applicants not proving up Lip on their properties The of office of- of flee fice ce expense for the year aggregated agg lt After these expenses were deducted the the government received thenet thenet the thenet net revenues |