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Show I SPENDING VAST SUM ON ROADS VUSHIKGT .v. Feb I. The United Unit-ed States government already has pent more than a third of a billion dollars In improving the highways of I ihe country. An announcement by the department of agriculture says: "Tho total of federal-aid funds for ' ioad building apportioned among the I various states up to the present time I bjj the bureau of public roads aggre- 1 Kates t33&,s75,0OO. according to a tabulation prepared by the department ind just made public Of this sum 573, 125.000 is apportioned under the I federal highway act approved by I I 'resident Harding. November i last, and $266,700,000 represents the total ' apportionment under the old acts. 'Under the terms of the new act the federal aid money will he avail-able avail-able to the states for two years after the close of the fiscal year for which the money is appropriated. This pro-. pro-. Islon i,s made to upply to the money LPproprlatQd under the nrcvlous :ict and its amendment, us well as to the new aprnpriutlon. Accordingly, the new appropriation must be expended by June SO, 1924, and the time allowed al-lowed for the expenditure of the balance bal-ance of the prelous appropriation which remains in some states Is extended ex-tended to June 30. 1923. Tin forest road appropriation is available until expended. "The new appropriation Is to be expended ex-pended upon a definite, connected system sys-tem of highways in each slate, of not to exceed 7 per cent of the total mileage mile-age of highways already existing in the state. This system Is to be divided di-vided Into iwo parts the first to Include In-clude the more important roads, which are to be known ;is the primary or interstate highways; the second to include the secondary, or lnter-county hlKhways. The primary roads. It Is provided, shall not bo more than three-sevenths of the mileage in the system The second part will make up the balance of the system." oo Gasoline costs more than $1 a gal- I Ion In Japan. |