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Show ROAD PROGRAM ENDANGERED BY DUIJPRE Governor Mabey Writea to Member of Utah Delegation Delega-tion Requesting Them to Uae Influence Against Bill WASHINGTON, May le f vsts sf t3S ts 11, ths Heuee today passes) ths Dunn kill suthsrislng an apprsejrlstisn sf SMXWftOOO for rood building fsr ths year beginning nest July 1 end S7V OOOfiOO far ths year thereafter. Paras re of ths Dunn hill In regard to federal aid In road building will seriously se-riously handicap tha road work In the t Western atatea and will mean that I there will be no mors hard surfaced highways In Utah. Such Is the statement of Governor Charles R. Mabey to members of ths Utah delegation In congress asking them to vote against ths bill. His letter let-ter follows: "I am deeply concerned over H. B. 11,111, Introduced by Representative Dunn of New Tork. and dealra to call your attention to a few features of ths bill, which. If enacted Into law, wUI bs detrimental to this stats. SERIOUS HANDICAP SUN. "Under sections four and five, the present procedure In handling of federal fed-eral aid will be entirely upset and the road work In the Western, states will be seriously handicapped. ' Section four contains a provision relating to failure to place under contract any approved ap-proved projeot within one year after ouch approval. This will seriously hamper proposed work which cannot be taken up In certain rases becauaa of lack of local funds, which must be al- lowed to accumulate over a period or two or three years In order to finance particular projects. Under section five the limitation of federal aid has been reduced to tU.SOO per mile beginning with tha fiscal year 1, and 110.00 per mile thereafter. Thla aectlon also defines ths term ."rural post roads" as uaed In section two of the original federal fed-eral aid act, which definition Is entirely entire-ly left out of ths present federal aid bill providing for T per oant aid on ths federal highway system, "If this bill is passed, ths following conditions wUI prevail: "First There will bs a conflict In ths definition of "federal aid roade." leaving It Indefinite whether a road shall bs a rural post road or whether It eh all be a T per cent system road. "Second A limitation per mils which will prevent the construction. In the poorer states which ars dependent largely upon federal aid, of anything but a cheaper type of road, such ss gravel or dirt surface or grading only. GRADUATED SCALE SAME. "The application of tha graduated seals provision In aectlon five will be the same as In the present blU and will raise tha participation of the public land states In ths earns proportion ss under the preeent law, except that It will bs based on a limitation or szt.oow per mils and 120,000 per mile, respectively. respec-tively. The present federal aid law was passed after a long and difficult fight, and If the Dunn bill should now bs approved ap-proved It will place us back almost to where we began in 11. In the undertaking under-taking to build roads commensurate with our needs. In Utah It will mean that hard surface roods will be out of the question, and many of ths advantages ad-vantages under the present law will be curtailed or annulled entirely. "Your earnest consideration of this measure and negative vote thereon I aasurs you will bs In ths beat Interests of the state." i |
