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Show LIST WORK OF HUM BOARD Present Program Will Cost $74,000, Chief Clerk Reports SALT J,A.KE. Nov IS. Work now on hand i the state road commission wil cost 765,000 so far us Is possible to complete It this year according t estimates es-timates presented by engineers The announcement was made yesterday and was taken from a summary of the report made to the road commission commis-sion by C A Whiting, chief clerk. Ell addition to this there are bills payable Of more than $150,000 now In the office. The monthly dlsbusements ot the road commission at present are runing between 5400,000 and $500,000. With such a volume of business pass-i mg through the office, it takes about ten days after presentation of a claim before the warrant has been Issued. and on that basis the total of SUCh.l bills runs rather more than flETO.000 This checks with a recent actual com-pi!Ltt..n com-pi!Ltt..n of the claims on hand T.-V r,-,r.r.l t Koon ll.hllllUo t hn in-' curred before the end of the vear 'some of them already incurred the I road commission will have a revenue of 1,851,T69, according to Mr. W'hlt-lir.g. W'hlt-lir.g. Thp balance at the close of th year, between the bills likely to be incurred before that time and the amounts lh staf- has a right to c.V, pect will be collected by It. Is $435,000. The state road taxes levied by the various counties for the improemen! I of roads within those counties total 1 $1,085,989, according to the levies announced. an-nounced. In addition, vouchers have been approved by the district office I Of the United Statos bureau of public roads, and have been presented to thel department of agriculture for collec tion, under existing federal aid contracts con-tracts totalling $85,730 The state has due to it from empty cement acks 'returned to the cement factories $fi0,-000 $fi0,-000 approximately A like amount is represented in bills collectible. For example, ex-ample, theer is about $20,000 due from the Bambirger Electric Railway company com-pany as it.s share of the cost of construction con-struction of the Overhead road crossing cross-ing at Farmlncton. There arc also amounts due from various counties for cement furnished them by the state. There is another 660,000 In the sus pense account, which fl the balance in the st ite road bond fund. These Items total 61851,768, anil after deduction of claims on hand and likely to be incurred in-curred before December 31, a balance remains of $4.5.000. according to the report. Part of the money due from the state road fund of the counties has j already been spent It was loaned to I the counties from the suspense account, ac-count, in preference to having the counties pay heavy interest by borrowing borrow-ing the same before the colieetlon of 'taxes. The taxes are now due and payable, and become delinquent before 1 the close of the present month. |