Show FEDERAL AID the qu question estfon of how to justly apportion the federal money in the road fund is one which has as many solutions as there are people who try to solve the problem bedont we dont expect many of you to agree with our solution but after ten years study and practical experience we believe that the federal ald ad money should be apportioned along lines based on the following 1st ast the federal government should build the roads through and along its own property i e forest reserves indian reservations national parks unoccupied government lands etc especially where those roads are or would be linked in main trunk lines 2nd and the federal government should build the roads over and through desert swampland swam swamp and overflow lands 3rd ard the federal government should furnish aid in the construction of other main trunk lines in inverse inverse proportion to the taxable value of the property y within two wo miles of the road that is them the more valuable the property along the line of road the less aid they should receive receive because the less they need aid if you were distributing aid inthis in this county you would not give aid to the largest taxpayers it is absolutely unjust to tax the poor pioneer who takes his wife and his life out on the desert and mountain homesteads and tries to build himself a home to raise his family to improve conditions to try and get back to the farm I 1 sabit say it is unjust to tax the poor settler for road purposes so that through traffic may go from salt lake to los 1 03 angeles it is the duty of salt lake and los angeles of new york and chicago to build that road through places where there is little or no taxable property from which to derive money to build the road the idea of apportioning federal money according to land values or population per square mile is absolutely absurd and that a road convention in a nearby city should favor such a program is beyond any dweller of the purple sage |