Show ESTIMATES FOR THIS YEAR annual appropriations by government indicate strides being made in road improvement no better idea of the forward strides being made by the office at 0 public roads can be ba had than from figures connected with the annual appropriations tho the appropriation for or tho the present fiscal foscal year Is moro more than for the preceding year while the estimate for the floral year I 1 1913 3 1914 is ie more than the present allotment one of the items men ceif cloned in connection with the ampro pria privation tion for the coining fiscal year to IB road making investigation for which work an Iti increase crease of Is asked the present amount available for such fitch work Is IB the next highest in creaso crease Is asked for road management as but Is ayal available lable this year the amount now ready for use in field experiments the odea would like doubled included in tola list of necessary increases is one for salaries thus placing the office of lout public roads on a par with practically all other branches of the government service ervice that are striving to raise tho the jay ay of the government clerk the ap asked for this ibis la Is a ralso raise from for the present year to t |