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Show UTAH WILL SPEND THREE MILLIONS ON ROADS NEXT YEAR Upwards of $3,000,000 will be spent by the state highway department in improvement of the state road system sys-tem in 1929 under the budgets now being completed by the state road commission. The program will be financed largely large-ly from the funds credited to the department from accumulated gas tax and motor vehicle license tax receipts. re-ceipts. As now arranged the state will meet from its own funds $1,-236,276 $1,-236,276 of the cost; federal aid available avail-able next July 1 from the congressional congres-sional appropriation of $75,000,000 will make available $836,017. Counties in which the roads affected are cooperating co-operating will participate to the extent ex-tent of $708,102. tt o trtivy Viipf pnp-ineer of the XX. ivgii, o state road ' department, announced that the maintenance program of the department alone would call for the expenditure of about $900,000 in 1929. Nearly $1,000,000 was spent for this purpose by the department in 1928. There will be less construction of federal aid projects next year. The budget as now prepared calls for construction con-struction of 79.37 miles of the state and federal road systems at a cost of about $1,250,000. In addition, however, how-ever, the department plans to oil about 138 miles of the state and federal fed-eral road system at a cost of about $500,000. Betterment projects which embrace minor constructioT take about $250,000 additionaf ' J Plans for a large number'., proposed projects will bo M ,h? (during this fall Rntj Com:tf(i : to let contracts in time fnr 0:r i tors to get in a fuU s"' C01ac Several contracts wiU 'H ;the winter so that the be started in the early spring The department has not decided how it will handle J oiling program laid out for iol0 bi? the past two years this wi v been largely experimental amf projects as have been oiled hv. handled by the department its order to handle the $500,000 L program planned, however th partment will be required' to Vf" extensive purchases of Bwt-equipment Bwt-equipment and it is seriomfy 1 ering the letting of this C ?' contracts as it does with other t of construction. yp8s |