Show HUGE SUM 91 ON ROADS county count y commissioners claim it was 0 only ni V and want to be shou shoun n A report compiled by p F roosa chief clerk of the state road conf mission and published last week shows that in construction and maintenance work on the state highways during the past year the state road commission supervised the expenditure pend iture of of which was spent in the construction st of new highways the report is accompanied by a tabulation of the expenditures by counties and from the tabulation it appears that the commission expended in sevier county for construction work the sum of and for maintenance work a total of when interviewed by us about these figures george peterson chairman of the board of county commissioners of sevier county told us that the count county y commissioners here are at a loss to understand how the state road commissioners figured out an expenditure of over in sevier county to his knowledge it was not more than about that was spent in our county the county commissioners will have this till week a conference with the state road commission on oil various road matters and at the same time will make an ail investigation as to the chief clerks report to find out where and on what ii hat nil all the money alleged to have been expended in sevier really has been spent the report figures out that was spent in constructing ng new roads while the balance of I 1 3 GOSO includes the sums expended for maintenance of state highways and other miscellaneous expenses by counties weber county had a greater portion of work lone done in 1921 than any other county in tile the state with DG expended sanpete county is second with a grand total of while carbon is third with ith 06 ga and utah fourth with 20 26 with few exceptions the major part of the work done in 1921 was in hi construction of dirt roads there was some maintenance on hard surface highways and a little construction work of hard surface but particularly ticul arly in point of mileage the dirt roads built greatly exceeded hard surface |