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Show If GETS Blli FID FOR ROADS Good Roads Act Gives Beehive Bee-hive State $56,950 for Highway Purposes. APPORTIONMENT MADE Five Million to be Distributed Among States by Federal Government. Washington, July 26 Apportionment Apportion-ment among the states of the first year's appropriation of $5,000,000 carried car-ried by the new good roads' act was announced today by the department of agriculture and which has certified the figures to the treasury department and state officials. To be entitled to Us share, each state must provide an amount equal to that put up by the federal government. govern-ment. Texas gets the largest share, $291,-927; $291,-927; New York second, $250,720; Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania third. $230,644 and Illinois fourth, ?220,926. Before making the division Secretary Secre-tary Houston deducted three per cent or $150,000 set aside by the act for administration. Then the $4,850,000 was allotted to the states on the basis bas-is of one-third respectively In the ratio ra-tio of area, population and rural delivery deliv-ery and star mail routos. Among other state allottmnets are: Arizona $68,513; California $151,-063; $151,-063; Colorado $83,690; Idaho $60,463; Iowa $146,175; Kansas $143,207; Missouri Mis-souri $169,720; Nebraska $106,770; Nevada $64,398; New Mexico $7S.737; North Dakota $76,143; Oklahoma $115,-139; $115,-139; Oregon $78,6S7; South Dakota $80,946; Texas $291,927; Utah $56,950; Washington $71,SS4; Wyomlng$61,196. The first Instalment is for the fiscal fis-cal year ending June 30, 1917, For the four succeeding years the following follow-ing amounts to be apportioned in the same manner were authorized: 1918. $10,000,000; 1919, $15,000,000; 1920, $20,000,000; 1921, $25,000,000. In addition l-,Q0Ot0OQ is appropriated appropriat-ed each year for t'eri years for the de-' velopment of rural roads in the national na-tional forests. Houston to Announce Plana. As the first step in the federal government's gov-ernment's part of spending $150,000,-000 $150,000,-000 on good roads during the next five years in co-oporntion with the states. Secretary Houston soon will announce preliminary plans for organization and sometime before September 11 will notify the governors of states of the apportionment of federal funds for this year. A circular will also be sent to all the governors and state highway authorities outlining a tentative plan of nrocedure. The $150,000,000 is to be paid half by the government and half by the several states, apportioned among the latter according to their respective area, population and rural mall route mileage. The expenditures are authorized by tho Shackleford-Bankhead good roads Jaw, the first granting federal aid to states In road building. It was signed July 11 by President Wilson and government gov-ernment officials are preparing to put its provisions into early operation. Actual construction of some of the roads may begin this fall and extensive exten-sive construction next spring is planned. plan-ned. Appropriations for the present year, ending July 1. 1917. authorized by Congress Con-gress are $5,000,000, For the four succeeding suc-ceeding years they are, respectively, $10,000,000; $15,000,000; $20,000,000; and $25,000,000. The law provides, however, that no government money shall be available unless the states spend an equal amount, matching the government contributions dollar for dollar. Every cent of the federal and state funds, the act provides, shall be spent to build new roads. Maintenance costs thereafter must be born by the states alone. Rules And Regulations. Rules and regulations to put the federal aid law as It Is popularly known, into prompt operation are now being drafted by the Secretary of Agriculture, Agri-culture, upon whom devolves practically practical-ly tho entire work of supervising the government expenditures. Immediate supervision will be by the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, of which Logan Waller Pago Is director. direc-tor. A conference of highway representatives represen-tatives of all states and, possibly, of organizations Interested in the good roads movement, engineering experts and others, to discuss measures for promulgating the new law is planned soon 'by Secretary Houston. Apportionment among the several states of the $5,000,000 for the first year's work today are announced by Postmaster General Burleson, who is required to annually certify apportionments appor-tionments because of changes in rural post route mileages and population. ,The allotments of the federal appropriations appro-priations will be made by the Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture, one-third being based on the ratio which the population popula-tion on oach state bears to tho total , United Stales population, acocrding to the latest census, one-third in the ratio which the mileage of rural post ; roads in each state bears to the total i national mileage, and one-third in the i ratio which the area of each state bears to the total area. , Routes and construction 'matbriala of tho new roads are to be finally determined by the Secretary of Agri- ! culture. No public road can be built I under tho law until its location, cost i and character are approved by him. Every road project with plans, specifications speci-fications .and cost estimates must be given his approval before any of tho federal money shnll be available. There is no specific requirement that such roads shall be permanent, but the act declares they shall be "substantial in character," the secretary being given giv-en discretion to construe the question ques-tion of substantiablllty in each separ-zito separ-zito CCISO Limit $10,000 a Mile. A limit of $10,000 per mile, however, is the maximum fixed by the law to prevent use of the government funds in building costly boulevards which would not assist In rural develop development. Whether the new roads built under the law shall be main-travelled trunk lines, connecting inter-state highways, or merely small sections scattered throughout the states is also left to tho discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture. Construction of both is expected. At the proposed conference of state highway representatives here, it is believed that proposals for a comprehensive, correlative road-building scheme will be reached. The American Highway Association, the American Automobile Association and other good roads organizations are interested in such co-ordination and correlation of the public roads throughout the entire nation. Development Devel-opment of the national road system as a whole is the broad scheme and aim of government officials, with the aid of state authorities. The machinery for co-operative action ac-tion is substantially as follows: States desiring to secure their share of the federal funds will, through their highway commission or departments, depart-ments, file formal applications, submitting sub-mitting the route and character of roads proposed to the Secretary ot Agriculture. Should he approve the projects, the Secretary of Agriculture' will notify the state commission and the Secretary of the Treasury. The latter will then set aside the sharo of the United States, which saall not exceed fifty per cent of the cost. The Secretary of Agriculture will order or-der payment of the federal funds upon completion of the roads, and is" also authorized to make partial payments as construction proceeds. The construction work and labor in each state is to be done in accordance accord-ance with state laws and under immediate imme-diate supervision of the state highway department, subject to inspection and approval by government engineers. This leaves the states in control of the construction, subject only to Insure good designns. Selection of Routes. Selection of road routes, as well as their type and structural composition, composi-tion, is also left primarily to the state officials, subject to approval or rejection re-jection by the secretary of agricul- ture. , To secure a share of the federal , funds, state legislatures or counties ; must appropriate sums equal to tho : federal allotments. The act also re- : quires formation o!) state highway commlsBiou, or a similar state agen-c', agen-c', to havo charge of the states' part of tho work. Four states, Indiana, i South Carolina, Georgia and Texas, ( have no such commissions or corre- i ponding organizations, . but . to .secure 1 1 federal funds they must be organized. Other states have no highway commissions, com-missions, but have substantially similar simi-lar departments or agencies. Where states, like Illinois, are prohibited pro-hibited by their constitutions or otherwise oth-erwise prevented from acting under the proposed contributory plan, the act provides that the federal appropriations appro-priations may become available to separate counties when they shall match the government's contributions, contribu-tions, such roads, of course, being built only within the contributing counties. To give the states ample time to build roads and to. guard against hasty or extravagant construction, the law also provides that unexpended unexpend-ed federal appropriaitons each year shall be available during the succeeding succeed-ing year, while this year's allotments to states that have no highway departments depart-ments shall be available for three years, to give state legislatures time to create such departments. For inforcement of the provision requiring the states to maintain tho new roads without federal assistance, the secretary of agriculture is authorized author-ized to disapprove of further roads projects from such states or their civil subdivisions and deny further government aid if roads aro not put in proper condition after four months' notice. Development of a federal corps of highway engineers is one of the results re-sults expected from the new law. Civil service examinations will bo held August Au-gust 8 pr many moro highway engi1 neers needed by the government. on |