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Show 1LLIIS DIVIDED FOR GOOD ROADS First Apportionment Made Under New Enactment; Utah Gets $56,950. WASHINGTON", July 26. Apportionment Appor-tionment among the states of the first year's appropriation of $.",000,000 carried car-ried bv tiie new good roads act was announced an-nounced today by the department of agriculture, ag-riculture, which has certified the figures to the treasury department and state officials. To be entitled to its share, each state must provide an amount equal that put up by the federal government. Texas gets the largest share, $291,-027; $291,-027; New York second. $2o0,720; Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania third, $230,644. and Illinois fourth, $220,02(5. Before making the division, Secretary Houston deducted 3 per cent, or $130,-000, $130,-000, set aside by the net for administration. adminis-tration. Then the $,S."0,000 was allotted al-lotted to the states on the basis of one-tbird one-tbird respectively in the ratio of area, population and rural delivery and star mail routes. Among other state allotments are: Arizona, $0S,,ii:;; California, $l"l,0u'3; Colorado, $:. (iflO; Idaho. $ti0,4i!3: lown, $1411,175; Kansas. $143,207; Missouri. $100,720; Montana, $OS,27; Nebraska, $100,770; Nevada. $0l.3OS: New Mexico, Mex-ico, 7S,737; North Dakota, $7(1,143; Oklahoma, $115,130; llreaon. $7(1S7; South Dakota. $S0.S lt: Texas, $201,027; I'tali, $."ii,0)0; Washington, $71,SS4; Wyoming. $lil,10(i. The first installment is for the fiscal year ending June .30, 1017. For the four succeeding years the following amounts to be apportioned in the same manner were authorized: 10K, $ I ilnxi.OOO ; 1010, $1.1.1100,000; 102(1, $2li,O00,0U0; 1021, $2.").000,0(M). In addition $1,000,000 is appropriated each year for ten years fo.the develop, ment of r:;ral roads in the national forests. |