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Show UTAH WILL SPEND MILLION DOLLARS TO KEEP ROADS UP Upwards of $1,000,000 will be spent for maintenance and in minor betterr ments on the state road system in 1928. This was the figure approached by the budget as tentatively outlined Thursday at a conference held in the offices of the state road commission. The meeting was the second annual conference called by the district road engineers and others in charge of and supervising road building in Utah for the purpose of drafting the next year's budgets. Detailed studies have been made, covering practically every foot of the state road system during the past year by the maintenance organization of the state road department and based on these studies the needs from improvements im-provements and mainentance have been incorporated in definite recommendations recom-mendations to the state road commission. commis-sion. These improvements were being discussed dis-cussed in detail Thursday with a view to presenting full data and particulars to the state road department on needed need-ed improvements as well as the needs for maintenance next year. Big Projects Excluded The exact total of the tentative budget bud-get was not known but it was estimated estimat-ed that it would involve expenditure of nearly $1,000,000. This will be ' in addition to all money to be spent in undertaking large federal aid construction construc-tion projects as well as in addition to the money to be spent next year for forest highways and forest development develop-ment roads. As tentatively drawn the state road budget for maintenance and betterments better-ments will be an increase over expenditures expen-ditures for these purposes last year. Betterments involve any improvements which improve the character of the road bed and these will be financed from the state road taxes levied by the counties and spent by the state road commission within the county where levies are raised. The maintenance will be financed from the accumulated gasoline tax surplus which the road commission will receive on January 2, 1928. |