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Show IMPROVED I ROADS 4 WAR SUPPLIES FOR HIGHWAYS 6o Far Approximately $150,000,000 Worth of Surplua Material Hai Baen Distributed. (rreiHwvd ty tho t'nttr.l N;ta TV ptirt mnt of Am i. ulmtf ) Approximately ? IM),ihX,(KX) worlh of surplus war materials, turned over by the War depntlmciit to tho Department Depart-ment of Aj-.rlctilunv, were distributed through the bureau of public reads to the Mii lons states for road building purposes up to November 1 last. I'ndiT the 'a.Nv.oi-tb-Knhn bill this surplus i:r material Is sent to the stales with tlie Mile provision that It be used only for road h iUdlng pur-po-os. A wist accumulation of machinery. ma-chinery. - i ti i i 1 1 1 -t : t , supplies and motor mo-tor vehicles that WIIS to have been UM'd In Fl lllier bus thus been diverted to a useful penee time purpo' e. Included in the supplies distributed among the stall s are L'T.l'.iS motor vehicles, moMly trucks; 1TJ locoiuo-tives locoiuo-tives of various sl'.es ; ".'..ikni Knots tons of rails; mole than -i.oikhmi pounds of powder; and nearly Pmkhi tons of TNT. A compilation showing total clellv j cries of war man rial to the various P ule-; up to July I. lat, places the value of machinery, niulpmeut and supplies so delivered at S.'M.i-. IS.TT'.I ; of motor vehicles $7 1.Ti'.o.e'Vs ; and of span- parts, at $1 l.Tlll. 1-1. The total value of -liveries to the states up to, tluil date was ?i 17.1 10.771. That ti ; lire did not Include material to l!:u value of approximately $ll.iUM, which -was retained by the Department of Agriculture, largely for fact road . , i .r1: i - -"--"-.' j j. "j '- '-: ' ' "' '--V " ; ' ' . ' - . ., ' ' . , -v. -, f '- - 1 1 - 'i V i i' ,',i-- 1 1 . . -A 'y I-" --'V;-.-, .- - -J--. V . -. - - I ,.- -r--. -r. . .:. -- j Army Sactional Bndoo Erected Over Davidson River, Piaflah National I Park. I work, which Is not done by the states. j Also, It is believed that the states have n-ceived. In addition to the amount nbove . mentioned, approximately S-V OoO.CiO worth of nir.ioiial shipped by the War department from the various army citnips and not reported by the states cs delivered. The value of deliveries of surplus war material for roud-bullciing pur post-s to the states is in detail as follows fol-lows : Alabama I Aiizor.a S.r-IMe Arkansas 2.0'.o' California 3,-)",5' Colorado 2.5i.-7.0K Connecticut Iielaware Florida l.slx; Goonrla 4.S71.U0C Idnho M:4.iX Illinois S.HjZ.C-'. Indiana .J.alX Iovra 2.S71.0W KanBoa 2.f;il.tW Kentucky 2.011.9e5 Louisiana 1.472,liX Ma'ne, S;3.50( Maryland l,C&t.l Massachueetts S)i.-M MIchlKan 4.64!..i: Minnesota 3.11".! MiiWsjlpiil ,. 3.273.SU nssouri 3.6d-,SO' Monrana N'ebruska 3,3'7.r- Novada Lls"i New Hampshire -I'i2,5ct New Jersey l.t"T.H New Mexico 2,133. iU New x orn o...j North Carolina 3.c'.!3.M North Dakouv l. Ohio I,m, Oklahoma 2.112OJ Orozon l.tKXO Pennpylvanla 4,3S4,f'Vl Rhode I?land South Carolina 1.70S.S3 Pouth Dakota 2.3'S.i" Tennessee S.l.w.G'X Teiea 7,101.210 Ftah l.?.33..v Vermont ?9.100 Virginia 2.92a. tVaslilnifton 1.331,rX West Virginia 2,254, 4oC Wisconsin 3.O42.0OS Wj-otnlng 1.230,900 Total M17.U0,75? |