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Show Federal Co-operation for Good Roads Secretary Houseton of the department of agriculture agri-culture says that the state and federal governments govern-ments should work together for highway improvement improve-ment in order that a large proportion of the money annually spent for road 'construction may not be wasted. In his own department the officer of publ ic roads has been demonstrating the value of proper road building by the construction of certain object-lesson object-lesson roads and the forest service is carrying out his idea of national and state cooperation in road building. The law requires that ten per cent of the gross receipts from the national forests shall be spent in the states in which the forests are situated. This money, is expended for road improvement under direct control of the secretary of agriculture. The amount appropriated under this act based on the receipts of the national forests for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913 is $234,658.68. From the 1912 receipts for this ten per cent road item, there is an additional $134,831.10, which is still available. In administering the ten per cent road fund, forest officers charged with the actual plans and expenditures in the neighborhood of their forests have, inr almost all cases, secured an equal or a larger cooperative fuud fronfstate authorities for the building of certain pieces of road. With the money thus expended many important import-ant roads are being built or put in repair. One on the Wyoming national forest, six miles long, makes accessible to farmers a large body of ' timber tim-ber and opens up a region of great scenic beauty. In northwestern Arizona part of the fund will be used in connection with the LeFevre-Bright Angel road, important because it makes accessible to tourists the' Grand Canyon of the Colorado. In one place the Ocean to Ocean Highway crosses the Apache national forest, Arizona, and on this project the forest service and the local authorities cooperated enthusiastically. This federal road fund is now available in all national forest states of the west. Just as fast as. returns come in, the forestry officials say, a sim-ilar'fund sim-ilar'fund will becbmeTXVStfable in states in which eastern national forests are being secured, |