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Show OUTLINE POLICY ON ROAD FUNDS Federal Monies to Be Passed On to Counties By State Board SALT LAKE!, Feb. 3. Federal aid money to bo used In road construction construc-tion to be pissed on to the counties coun-ties on exactly the name lormx it is offered to the state by the federal government, according to a decision reached yorUcrduy by the stale road commission. This means, the officials offi-cials i-ay, thai federal aid projects on which work was started subsequent to Jun. ::e 19J1. the county will he asked to put up 25 8 per cent of the cost and the federal government the remainder Of the cost. The action will Involve a revision of the slate's federal aid read program ( ( Mils 111 i:i IT. By the action of yesterday the state decided that It will nsk the counties. Ihe btat having no money for BUCh work itself, to furnish only $1 of county money for $3 of federal aid money, and thus the total federal funds available, of around S, 860,000) will bo expended in the construction of about 53,1 "MOO worth of roads, in round numbers. The state as u whole will get only nbeut TO per cert of the federal aid roads it might Otherwise have received, but the ost to the counties will bo much less per mile of road MEASURE BEFORE CONGRESS. In taking thlH action the state road Commission Is practically belting that the federal government will establish h. progiai.i 01 auouionai leaerai uiu to extend over a term of years and In which the federal government will share In the construction of roads mi the federal highway system in t tah on n $3 to $1 hasty jt was explained by George D. Casto vice chairman of the 1 iiuimi.-.ili.i) th.! mea.-ureM to th , effect aro now before coni;n -s and 1 that so far as can be predicted of any legislation of Importance, have k I chance of passing. PINCH PRESENT. The action v.tls taken by the flrt fully attended meeting of the :i its : road commission in weeks Chairman Chair-man X. C. Foulson, who has been ill for several woeks, was able to attend yesterday, as were Commiosioners Casto and Ira R. Browning. They met in the office of Governor Mabey, And there were also present 1'.. j. Flr.ch. district engineer of the United States bureau of public roads of Ogden, Og-den, and William Bailey Chairman I of ihe state board of equalisation, and Professor William Peterson of Logan, the latter two being frequently In the sessions of the state road com-. com-. mission in an advisory capacity. A j similar meeting had already been I held with the state board )f examiners, exam-iners, but at that meeting Commissioner Commis-sioner Casto was the only memoer able to be present. |