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Show STATE IS SHORT OF FUNDS FOR ROADS, SAYS BENNION Prosont contrails undertaken b) tho Htato road oommlMon will petes sitnto an expenditure this oar of $1,-600,000, $1,-600,000, aieording to Harden Den nion, secretary of Btato and vuo iliiur man of tho commission On that ac count, Ilennion snjs, thero will neees sanly bo restriction of new work. In ndditlou to work already contracted for thero is about $600,000 due loud tios under tho apportionment made by tho last legislature. Or, in round numbers the total amount to which tho stato is obligated for roads during 1020 is $2,000,000, On iccount of thu financial situation the. commission u advising delegations from tho several countioa that expenditures must be held down to the proeeut contemplated volume. |