Show t t Three-fourths Three Million for forI I Relief and Unemployment Unemployment ment in Uintah County i i I Expenditure In Uintah county for relief and employment creating public works worb reached a total of I 32 on September 10 Of this was contributed bythe bythe by bYi the state and federal governments governmental and only was raised by I this county to match the state and federal grants These figures f were sent at the Instance of Governor Henry H H. Blood to Washington D D. DO O O. at atthe atthe atthe the request of the national administration admin admin- Governor Bloods Blood's report shows that more than 80 cents centa of each dollar doUar spent in Utah for relief re relief relief re- re lief during the depression came from the federal government and that the remaining 20 cents was paid by the state and the local governmental units unite In return for this thIa state participation th the the- state and local taxing units were able to provide for vital relief and also alao had obtained public improvements of Inestimable value The report just released shows that Uintah county with a population population population lation of had as aa high as II 27 per er cent of Its population on relief re re- relief relief lief or work relief at one time In this county there has baa been ex n. n ended for wages alone 84 with an additional for materials while direct relief took In the state a II as a whole nearly went for wages wage for material and about i for direct relief Figures given riven do not include a number of state wide and district wide projects projects pro pro- JecA which were conducted in connection con with Beaver and other counties of the state The civil ivil works wora administration emergency relief administration i 6 direct relief grants rants drouth relief drouth rehabilitation and the work b progress administration all are In Inthe Inthe Inthe the figures given It is II based on expenditures expenditures ex ex- funds and excludes funds which are now In hi hand to complete complete complete com com- many projects still in pr pro gress Borne Some of ot the outstanding projects completed or under construction In this county through the relief funds Include makin making clothing for distribution td to needy preparation of nearly school lunches extensive sanitary construction sidewalk construction at Maeser t construction of ot recreational building build tog ing g extension of sewer system improving and landscaping oft cemetery repairing and remodeling remodel log ing junior high school t- t sidewalk i and street construction and construction construction construction con con- of a storage reservoir at Vernal construction of Montez reek dam fish flab hatchery improvements improvements improvements improve improve- ments at construction of water fowl fOllI refuge level diversion diversion diver diver- sion Ion gate at Jensen Through the Reconstruction Pi- Pi nance Corporation was waa made available in the form farm of loans to IU support Ot and rebuild the county county's coun coun- ty tys ty's business and economic interest interests inter Inter- est eats ests as u of June 30 1936 Of this sum has haa been disbursed The Home Owners Owner's Loan corporation corporation corporation corpor corpor- aided 64 home owners Inthis in inthis this county or IS 6 per cent of the non-farm non residences owned This aid was In the form of en enabling enabling en- en abl abling the home owners to have their homes from mortgage foreclosure fore fore- closure closure- by making makin it possible to refinance mortgages on easier re repayment repayment re- re payment terms tenos and represented an outlay of for this county Nearly home owners were saved in the state u as a result of this refinancing program New life ute 11 wa was Injected Into the tamp fe building industry through the Federal Housing administration tion tion Which which Insured 4 bank loans loana for x for modernization In Inthis inthis this C county Through the federal land bank and land bank commissioner loans were extended on em na farms farm in the county In the amount of thru June 30 10 1936 granting farmen farmers farm farm- en m relief from obligations they were otherwise unable to meet The emergency crop feed and drouth relief programs were likewise likewise like like- wise widely employed in this county county county coun coun- ty between January 1 1 1933 and September 30 SO 1113 1939 1938 There were 97 57 crop and feed loans loana amounting to and anel drouth relief loans amounting to The Resettlement Administration I was wu also applied In this county with 97 loans made resulting In urn payments of to June 26 lof of this year Further lurther the Resettlement Resettlement Resettlement Resettle- Resettle ment administration extended outright grants for In payments pay pay- ments to the same date Its farm paY paY-I debt adjustment Ju work handled U 6 cases s in the county and reduced e I the Indebtedness on these farms farina by 3 and in addition paid deUn- deUn I quent taxes amounting to oh on 1 the p property y Involved Rental and benefit payments to farmers farmere under the AAA AM amounted to for this county thru I June of this yea year i The county county figures under t the I Public Works administration are not available for projects on federa federal federal fed fed- era eral property but they include forest forest for ford est eat trail and highway Improvements improvements improve improve- ments as well as u various stream measurement and aneS other surveys Among other items within the county under this activity were Improvements Improvements' r at Fort Duchesne on which was a allotted Nearly every county un in the state te participated in the non-federal non building program which was financed financed financed fin fin- jointly through the New Deal and Governor Bloods Blood's admin This county's projects In Included Included Included In- In the Vernal waterworks i improvement improvement im im- s- s provement for which a grant of was made from federal funds funda The Works Administration with i Its employment cre creating program on on public works worb likewise has haa as assumed assumed u- u large proportions with payments for work within this county up to July 31 of this year This was exclusive of the wide state projects which were ere conducted conducted con con- ducted and In which this county shred shared The Federal Emergency Relief Belief administration which was succeeded succeed succeed- ed by the Works Progress Administration Administration Administration Admin Admin- with the advent of the social security act brought 05 1103 in federal funds Into this county county county coun coun- ty as well as ae additional benefits from wide state projects conducted conduct conduct- ed edThe The original employment creating creating creat creat- ing program of the New Deal the Civil Works Wora Administration spent In employment creating work In this county This figure likewise likewise likewise like like- wise excludes the county's share In wide state projects |