| Show idaho Legisla legislature turo is called in special session to appropriate for roads governor 11 C baldridge is 13 con meering the possibility of calling a session ol 01 the legislature to vote ten to fifteen million dollars in tax anticipation notes to finance finane highway construction blugh tx neither governor baldridge nor P 1 U wood commissioner of public works has spoken officially on the subject the paper will say it was known that a complete report on the subject haa has been pro pre panel paid and the matter discussed by the two officials for the pas past several weeks the project as outlined would call for a program extending over a period of about six years aimed at bringing practically any all parts of the state in ready access to trunk high highways wals developer to an surfaced oil condition and a parallel extension cl of the market roads sy stern primary benefits of the situation it was stated would be to take early of federal aid money to an extent not now with funds coming in from gasoline tax rece pis and automobile licen licenses mes and the lifting of the burden of raising money from local sources lo 10 match state and federal money in road corst construction ruction the proceeds of the gasoline tax and aher her state highway hlf hina revenue would be used to liquidate the in during the period while ithe the money from front notes would be in use the acmor Is known ho ito have been antagonistic to aril an idea oot bonds in that they place an indebtedness on property allm allow the state the possibility of tax anticipation notes secured bi b the gf solLie tax receipts as subsisted suggested in hir stead in either event the copitc consent it of the legislature be n necessary but in ithe i the case ease it f the tax notes it build rot be necessary to submit the to a vote of the people the governur po gr vernc vernur is understood to be favorable arable to the tas anticipation note arme as a tl tj tern tem already worked orle k d out in a small way at the university of idaho and other state institutions where have haie bel been built with negotiable securities laaura against the income for thi construction A more direct saving was as suggested in the figures on maintenance costs costa of the oiled highways and gravel surfaced highways 4 maintenance of graveled roads is 10 computed by the department of f public arks at a mile annually with ai vantage wastage of travel grael of I 1 A against thia this the oiled roads cost i about 8 a mile annually and with virtually no wastage of surfacing material I 1 |
