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Show Good Roads, Good; For Country Stales takiiiR nd milage of tho federal fed-eral rond nlil net uro tecelvlng substantial sub-stantial additional sslstnro fioin the government through the distribution or 20,000 ti ucks by tho war department depart-ment for good rouds work, nccoidlng to K. 1C. Kantzer. Salt Lake sline manger of the H. P. Goodrich Rubber, company. Allotments of the first 0,330 army tiucs hnvo been made. Most of thoni will bo dlHtiihutcd to tsntes cast of the MIsalBMppi. Lot or, western states will i. reive slilpmouta from vestal it points, tlteicby balancing up the quoins .nut equalizing as uear ni possible, the Height charges which Is the onljj'lteiii of expense to be bonu b tho a(nt' excepting, of course, op ciMtloiunnd upkeep oxpeuse. The truck- i timed over to the 1ii enu of Public Roads, department of agriculture, uio part uf tho 31.000 which weie recently declined hui--plliiH by the wnr depurtment, and are valued at $-!!, 0U0.00U and In-cludo In-cludo ll.OOu new and U, 000 used vehicles ve-hicles ranging from 2 to 5 ton capacity, ca-pacity, all in serviceable condition. They must bo used for good roads wo 1 1; und will be iippoitloued to the states only upon request of tho stntc highway department on tho basis ot thct Inanclal aid under tho federal orad act. The flvo states receiving tho largest larg-est allotmeutment of tho trucks nl-ready nl-ready assigned are: Texas, 321; Now York, 273; Pennsylvania, 250; Illinois, Illi-nois, 240; and South Dakota, 190. In keeping with tho war department depart-ment to turn over all available- material ma-terial not needed for Its own work, to good rouds building, several hundred hun-dred tractors, formerly used for hauling haul-ing heavy guns, will bo transferred ti tho department of agriculture us soon ns an Inventory has been completed. com-pleted. ' |