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Show "-mm i LARGE SUM FOR GOOD ROADS Cost of Improvements Completed Due j ing Fiscal Year of .1920 Estimated at $S0,OO0.OCO. (Prepared bv t lie l iuiel Suites IVpart-ineiu IVpart-ineiu of AtL.uIUlre) l-'oilrr;il-:iid lii.uliv;iys l-ousi rui-ti-d hist cust inuiv Uum double the uverune niiii'Uiu ;innu:illy lor leu years in biiililinu ihe riinniiia canal. The cost of the work completed during the lis-eal lis-eal year of V.''Ji, inehidiii' tlie ainouut puid hy the slates, loialed approximately approxi-mately $so,imi,(Ko. Tlie Consii-iietion of the canal is re-Rarded re-Rarded the world over as a record-hieakiny; record-hieakiny; acliie enient in respect to the dispatch with which it was carried nut. The cost, however, was only ,37o,tHH),-(H0, ,37o,tHH),-(H0, and a teiwyear period was required re-quired to complete it, the average rate of expenditure being only $;!T,CKK),tKK) a year. Coinparing the niairnitiide of the fed-erfd-aid program with the entire highway high-way program of the Uniled States, the significance of Federal aid is readily Building Federal-Aid Koaus The Kind That Stand the Wear. seen. Federal money allotted to projects actually under construction at the end of tlie fiscal year 191!0, namely, $103,925,004, was only slightly less than the total expenditure of $106,-861,053 $106,-861,053 from state funds for highway construction during the calendar year 1919. In spite of untoward economic conditions, the amount of federal-aid business handled, as represented in 1920 by 'the" number of projects, was approximately 25 per cent greater during dur-ing the single year than all previous work done under the act since 191rt |