Show HUGE EXPENDED IN PAST HALF YEAR durins the past biennium figures in the office of the treasurer show the state highway department expended in construction betterment ter ment maintenance of roads and for paying salaries and engineering costs and in purchasing equipment the bulk of the money went to construction and maintenance with about halt the amount going to each money came into the department from four major sources the gasoline tax brought in the motor vehicle license tax and the counties ard federal government paid federal aid projects completed during the blenn lum totaled a hundred and forty five miles of which all but twelve are gravel projects federal aid projects under construction at tho present time total a hundred and thir ty five miles in addition to this Is the huge oiling program which follows the general construction corli o 0 are not yet available on the work done without federal aid and which are purely state and county projects examination of the construction figures and maps available also show that the federal aid program Is completion and that route no 50 from spanish fork to the state line grand junction colo Is the only trunk line in the state which Is not practically complete judging by the amount of construction being done on this road at the present time it will only be two or three ears until this road Is complete after which time there be little to do on the federal aid system except fill up a few gaps here and there it Is said it is also probable judging from the trend that the state highway commission will continue its oil mulch work the entire federal aid system and the major state and county highways are treated with oil |