Show LARGE SUM DUCHESNE CASTLE GATE GAT E ROAD ROADA R 0 A 0 I A Distance of ot Miles to Cost or Nearly MHO Mlle Federal Federal And AndI I j State Aid Ud N j J Bearing Dearing the official I approval of oC f David F. F Houston secretary of ot the department of of agriculture In the tho United States government Utah has received its first certificate of approval approval approval ap ap- for a post road project under under under un un- der the federal aid act The Tho receipt meant that the last t had been crossed and the last I 1 dotted under which Utah will begin to share Inthe Inthe in inthe the fund for post roads under the federal aid act In addition addition addition addi addi- tion Utah will also share In the fund for the tion of roads to and national L through wan a total total snare In in these funds will be about and the state must at least duplicate this amount Project No 1 of the post roads Is the road from Castlegate to Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne which is now estimated will cost or an average of or a mile for its Us entire stretch of 45 miles mUes Of the total final cost of of the road the federal government will put up 50 per cent but will not expend more than in all so that should the road cost more than the estimated amount the state along wilt Carbon and Duchesne counties would have to foot the bill The agreement between tho state road commission and the United States department of agriculture al also also also al- al so so carries with It an agreement that the state and local authorities shall shan maintain the road the estimated cOst cost of or which is annually Contract Is Received The final contract was received from Washington June 24 with that I that It had to be back by Ju June e 2 t t had taken five days to come here It left the state capitol within about two hours after Its Us arrival with the signatures of all aU the members members members mem mem- bers of the road commission and was was duly signed by Mr Houston Saturday June 29 9 If It it had not been signed on that day the appropriation appropriation made to the state for Cor the years 1916 17 would have reverted to the fund In other words by quick work in the tho eleventh hour at atthe atthe atthe the ca' ca Hol ca itol the state was saved a total of more than The federal aid to roads acts covers covers cov COy ers the of tho the I In Utah In a year five-year term Two years have already elapsed ed so that the remainder of the amount wIll have nave to be expended in the other three years or at least its spending will have to be approved within that time The size of the allotments Is In a a. sort of arithmetical progression the one for the fiscal year Just ended being twice as large as that for the first rear year the allotment for the third year three times as large as for the first year and so on for the five years The total from the federal govern govern- mont wont to Utah therefore barring f some come chan changes es In the nature of in In- In creates es if it some of the states do no not make good as Utah did in getting the federal approval within the al allotted allotted al- al allotted time will be In round numbers numbers' numbers numbers numbers' num num- bers bers' bers The state am and counties must spend at ut least a Ilk like amount which will virtually mean mea the I the expenditure of o oaid on federal aid projects alone In this thi state within the next three or four fou years |