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Show LARGE SUM FOR GOOD ROADS Cost of Improvements Completed Dur. ing Fiscal Year of 1920 Estimated at $80,000,000. (Prepared hy the l'nlti-1 SCifo.s Depart-ipi-iil of Agi iciillurt;) I'dleml-iii'l liijilnvuys instructed lust yeur tost niuri! Uinn liulile the Bvi'raufi amount immmlly for ti'ii years in building 1 1 1 e I'aminia canal. The cost of the work eompleti-il iluiinK the fis-al fis-al year of Including the amount imliJ ljy the stales, totaled approximately approxi-mately .f.Sd.iXKi.ODO. The construction of the canal Is re-liardeil re-liardeil the world over as a record-Itrunklng record-Itrunklng achievement in respect to the dispatch with which it was carried out. The cost, however, was only $:7:i,(XX),-H)0, $:7:i,(XX),-H)0, and a ten-year period was required re-quired to complete it, the average rate ct expenditure being only S.'iT.OOO.OOO a year. Coniparim; tlie magnitude of the federal-aid program with the entire highway high-way program of the United .States, the slgnlticance of Federal aid Is readily i i I s y. ! .m, fa t iT Building Federal-Aid Koaau The Kind That Stand the Wear. peen. Federal money allotted to projects actually under construction at t lie end of the fiscal year 1920, namely, $103,9i;5,094, was only slightly less than the totnl expenditure of $106,-801,053 $106,-801,053 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 lu 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 191. |
