Show US roan 1 MONEY DIVISION fixen FIXED ly 1 th the e tate state road commission yesterday after advising with governor mabey committed itself to the policy of 0 passing on to the counties the federal aid anoney money on exactly the same terms as itis it is offered to the thi state by the federal government this means chaton that on the federal aid projects on oil which actual j construction work was begun subsequent to june 30 last the county will be asked to put up per cent ot of the cost meeting the federal governments per cent the action will involve a careful revision of the states federal aid road program inasmuch as projects already under way or likely soon to be under way will take up tip about all of the federal aid money maney now available in round numbers the state had apportioned to it by the federal government a balance of around which had been tentatively assigned to road projects in the state on the basis of 0 1 of state or county money to 1 of federal federa money the f federal highway act added to this amount and also made the entire federal aid apportionment portion ment for the state not actually under contract on oil the bas is of approximately fa 3 of federal money to a mum 0 of 1 ot of state or count money if IE the state road commission had T decided to accept the off ersol several counties already made actually or tentatively tat ively it could probably have assigned the e entire aw on the basis of 0 1 of bf federal aid money to 1 of county money thus obtaining a federal aid road pr program for the immediate future of about by the action of yesterday the state decided that it will ask the counties the state having no money for or such auch work itself to furnish only 1 of nty money for 3 of of federal aid anoney money and thus the total federal funds available pliable I 1 I 1 pta co ti 1 around will be expended in id the construction of a 1 hout bout worth ot of roads in jound round numbers the state as a i whole will ivill get only about 70 per cent of the federal ald roads it might otherwise have received but the cost to the counties will be much less per mile of road la in taking this action the state road commission is practically betting that the federal government will establish a program of additional federal aid to extend over a term of years and in which the federal government will ovill share in the construction of roads on the federal highway system in utah an on a 3 to 1 basis it was explained h b george D casto vice chairman of the commission that measures to this are now before congress and that so tar far as aa can be predicted of any legislation of importance have goo good d chance of passing i the fede federal ral ill highway officials and the state highway officials who will have hare to cooperate said mr air casto are practically a unit in favor of t such euch a program from every state in addition the tanners farmers of the country aae a whole are in favor of the program tor for a term of yea years rs and havoc have on record the powerful farm bloc in the united states senate is said to be in favor of such a construction pro gram the big objection to the federal aid ir program program of thelast the past as aa it applied in mr western states was that in states clerc there was so much public land the taxable fand was unable to bear e aeu en one halt half the cost of construction of permanent roads as demanded by the modern modem automobile the new federal highway act changes that it the program la Is continued there Is not the states and counties bonding themselves to the legal limit tor for road construction purposes some counties count fes it is true will still have difficulty in meeting federal aid unless they can call get help from the state but it if th the e federal program is continued long enough on aa the 3 to l basis every county in the course of a few years year s will have received valuable assistance in solving the financial problem ot of its road construction the action ae t lari was taken by the first fitly attended meeting of the state road commission in weeks chairman N C poulson who has been ill tor for several weeks was able to attend yesterday as were commissioners casto and ira R browning they met in the office af pf governor mabey labey loo and there were al so go present B J finch district engin air er of the united states bureau of pal lie roads and william bailey chairman of 0 the state board of 0 equalization and professor william peterson vf ot logan the latter two being frequently in the sessions ot of the state road commission in an advisory capacity A similar meeting had already been held with state board of 0 examiners but at that meeting commissioner casto was the noly member able to be present Trl tribune bune ejk ato w t n |