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Show IDAHO APPLIES FOR FEDERAL ROAD CASH Principal Project of Especial Interest to Utah Is the Improvement of Yellowstone Park Route. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Sept. 80. The official application ap-plication of the Idaho state highway commission for federal funds in the construction con-struction of state and county roads within or partly within, national forests of that state, was filed with officials of the i uteri-mountain district here today by K. M. Booth, state highway engineer. engi-neer. The system of road projects mapped out by the Idaho commission cod templates tem-plates the construction of 303 miles of roadway within a period of three years at an estimated total cost of $1, 06,500. In all there are eleven projects. Under the new federal aid law recently re-cently enacted by congress, Idaho-is entitled en-titled to an appropriation of $108,000, the third largest amount of any state in the union.. In addition to this the state will receive re-ceive about $60,000 of federal fuuds for the improvement of postal roads, and the usual 30 per cent of the total receipts re-ceipts of national forests within the state. Of the total amount which it is proposed to expend, $617,500 will1 be supplied by private subscription, state and county appropriations. The balance of $445,000 will be received re-ceived from the federal government. One of the principal Idaho projects of special interest to the people of Utah, according to Mr. Booth, is the improvement improve-ment of fifty miles of the Yellowstone park-Salt Lake road near the park boundary and lying within ihe Targhee national forest. This road has already been surveyed and active construction work will be started next spring. The projects are well distributed as between southern and northern Idaho. |