Show FOR GOOD ROADS and federal governments should work together for highway improvement pro nent says mr houston secretary hounton of at the department of agriculture says that the state and federal governments should work oric together tor for highway improvement in iii order that a largo large proportion of at tile money annually spent for road construction st way may not bo be wasted in his own department tile tho 0 mee of at public roads has been demou demonstrating strat ing tho the value ot of proper road building by the construction ot of certain a object les lea son roa roads do ond and tho the forest service la Is carrying out his idea ot of national and state operation cooperation co in road building the law requires that ten per cent ol of the gross grobb receipts from tho the national forests fornata choll ho be spent in tho the states in which tho the forests aro are situated thin money la Is expended for road improvement under direct control of tho the secretary of agriculture the amount appropriated un under der this act based on the receipts of the national forests for the fiscal year ending june 30 1913 Is from tho the 1912 receipts for this ten per cent road item there is an additional which to la still ethl available in administering the ton ten per cent road fund forest offic officers erB charged with the actual plans and expenditures in the neighborhood of their forests haap in almost all cases secured an equal or a larger operative cooperative co fund fro from 11 state authorities tor for the building ol 01 certain pieces ot of road with tile tha money thus expended anany important roada aro being built or put in repair one on tho the wyome I 1 ing national forest six aix miles long makes accessible to far farmers a d large body of timber and opens up a region of great scenic gouty beauty in northwestern arizona part of the fund will bd ba used in connection with the lefevre bright angel road important because it makes accessible to tourists the grand canyon of if the colorado in one place the ocean to ocean highway crosses tho the apache national forest arizona and on this project the forest reserve service and the local authorities operated cooperated co enthusiastically on tile the florida national forest in western florida steel bridges and graded roads have under the stimulus of at this fund taken the place of corduroy bog and this federal road fund lonow available tn in all nai national lonal forest states of the west just as fast as returns come in the forestry officials say a similar stand fund will become available in states la in which eastern castern national forests are being secured |