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Show TH TOR SALE j JJif-AW'soMc? j FUE1DS Alt Of TED i Utfvri Forest Highways to Receive Benefit of U. S. Expenditures. Extensive Construction Outlined Out-lined in Next Year's j Program. In cuhii;ion to. completing work for 'liii'li money Iihs already been allot '''d. the 1'nitcd States Knvernnieiit purposes ! to spend on forest roads in KO) hi L't'i $15:1,702. Additional a'U'trnents rc-piired from the state will be 5101.1.?). 'j-Jie forest for-est service has already made fivailable under present allotments S'Mikfill, part of which has been spent, ik1 the state has spent or is spending tinder present allotments allot-ments ?:;(!!. 005. Tho total estimated cohI o? the roads Included in the forest road procram of J01!u. including the work ihjw under way, is $915,955. These figures are con fa hied In tenia -five road plans for the calendar ychr Ti-n in the state. Inasmuch s the federal year closes .June 30 and federal allotment a re made avail a hie for t he fiscal year, some of the roads on which work has already al-ready been done are included in the list. Changes Possible. The l-iflt. as prepared Is subject 1 o amendment, and it. is possible that some few changes may he made. It is believed that the Salina-lOmery and Sevier-Cove Port construction work may be found more expensive than tho est ima tes. In which event it is quite possible that th-3 Cedar-Long Valley road, which does not open up such a populous country, ma y be only partially completed next year and finished in tho calendar year 1921. Hy the completion of the Salina-Krnery and Sevier-Cove Port road, it is pointed out. there will be an all-year thoroughfare, thorough-fare, from the Tintah Ha sin to the Dixie country. There is at present no road over the Wasatch mountains passable by automobile auto-mobile throughout the year. Many Roads Included. The projects included in the tentative forest road pros ram are as follows, according ac-cording to the list which lias been made up at the district headquarters of the United States bureau of public roads in Ogden : Cedar-bong Valley flron county section) sec-tion) Total estimated cost. $1SS,550; present allotments, ?r: 3,000 federal and $75,900 state; additional allotments proposed. pro-posed. $-15,375 federal and $3375 state. Kphraim-Orangeville Total estimate, $1-17,250: present allotments, $51,570 federal fed-eral and $75,000 state; additional allotments, allot-ments, $23,070 federal and none from the state. Heber-Fruitland Total estimate, $13S.-800; $13S.-800; present allotments, ?ol,098 federal and $55,750 state, exclusive of the amount spent by the state on the co-operative section; additional allotments, $18,305 federal fed-eral and none from the state. Logan Highway Planned. bogan-Garden Citv Total estimates, $131,250; present allotments, $50,000 federal fed-eral and $50,000 state; additional allotments, allot-ments, $15,625 each from federal and state sources. Modena-St. George Total estimate, $117,450; present allotments, $61,518 federal fed-eral and $:'3,8S0 state, exclusive of amount spent by the state on the co-operative section: additional allotments, $5539 federal fed-eral and $3401 state. Salina-Emery Total estimate. $7000 for the survey, half of which has been allotted allot-ted each by nation and state, and $118,000 for construction, state and federal governments gov-ernments each to allot $59,000 for 1920. Sevier-Cove Fort Total estimate, $75.-G26; $75.-G26; present allotments, $25,025 each by nation and state; additional allotments, $12,788 each by nation and state. Bscalante-Winder Total estimate, $20,-000, $20,-000, half of -which it is proposed to allot in 1920 by the federal government and half by the state. In addition, surveys are proposed, half the expense to be borne by the federal government and half by the state, as follows: Cedar-bong Vallev (Kane county section). sec-tion). $3000; Pariguitch-Tropic, $3400; Woodruff -Huntsville, $7500; Brighton-Tyng, Brighton-Tyng, $1400. |