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Show RELIEF DOLLARS j VOULDPILE HIGH By JACK THOMAS Imagine the entile silver output of Utah's 1"j.,1J''" u fif touching stacks to form a silver wall 55 feet high along Main street from First South to Second South street Or, imagine these dollars laid side by side till they stretched from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and back sight miles on the return Journey. Or, If you prefer. Imagine buying enough brand new $800 sedans to enable the entire populations of Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo and Park City thrown in for good measure to ride in comfort at the same time. Relief Expenee If your imagination grasps any of the foregoing pictures you are in a position to appreciate the extent of actual federal expenditures in Utah under the 1935 and 1936 emergency relief appropriation acts. The money spent up to December II, 193s, totaled t32.022.061.T0, according ac-cording to President Roosevelt's official report to congress, a copy of which was received Tuesday by Allen T. San ford, Utah director, national na-tional emergency council. Each silver dollar contains 371.25 grains of the white metal, so if this money hsd been nothing but silver dollars the minting would have required re-quired all of the 10,115,000 ounces estimated r 1M sihrer production of Utah mines, plus the .227,673 ounces mined in 1935, the 7,111,417-ounce 7,111,417-ounce production of 1934, and 716,-401-ounce output of 1933. It takes only t.14 dollars to make stack an inch high, but all these coins could make a wall of dollars bo feet high and extending from one end to the other of a 660-foot downtown down-town block. Dollars are approximately one and a half inches scroas. so laid side by side these 32,022,061 coins would reach the 750 miles to Los Angeles with eight miles to spare. Expenditure of this relief money for 3800 automobiles would have enabled purchase of more than 40,000 machines, or enough to carry the residents of Utah's three largest cities comfrotably and leave room for a few thousand other riders. Under Allocation Large as is this amount spent for relief and recovery activities in the state, it fell more than $4,000,000 short of the $36,425,819.15 allocated to Utah during the period. Completion of the pending reclamation recla-mation program, road work, conservation conser-vation projects and a few other Jobs will use up this unexpended balance. Of the actual expenditures under the relief appropriation acts of 1935 and 1936 in Utah. $10,772,319 is charged to the works progress administration; ad-ministration; $8,206,745 to emergency emer-gency conservation work; $3383,007 to the agricultural program, which Includes public road work; $5,176,-455 $5,176,-455 to the federal emergency relief administration; $2,121,065 to the resettlement re-settlement administration, which Includes rural rehabilitation activities; activi-ties; $899,160 to the public works administration, and $400,871 to the department of interior and its reclamation recla-mation work. |