Show U E HOPE TILL HELD fon ON TH MH ua 0 0 1 SE I 1 L i T I 1 ROAD commission ma aing UP BUDGET ROAD details of lat la t years ments on soviet county s referring to 0 an all article published in salt lake papers and reproduced in the reaper stating that a definite load program has been decided upon for road read building in the counties of tile the state chairman IN C poulson or the state road in a letter addressed to our editor emi hati cally bags that this is not the case and aid that tile the matter never had been acted upon officially the state road commission mr poulson writes has decided to get out a budget for the year 1922 and on maich 1st ast definite action will be taken where and how much will be spent in each county in the state during tile the year in order that each county may receive consideration the following letter ietter lins has been sent to the board of comity y coni commissioners commissi jill oneri of each county X kindly andly let us know not ot later than february Febri iary the ankouny ot of money your our county can make available at once to match the U S bureau of public roads on the basis of 74 44 per cent from tile the government and ac per cent from the county 1 do not figure on your tax levy for the year 1922 for the purple purpose ot of raising money to match the government ment for state road construction work wish you would take this matter up lip immediately and secure the information that we are asking for continued on page 4 some hope still hem held for work on sevier comity roads continued from page one so we can hear from you at once in re rela lallon tion to this very important matter mr poulson continues the only way any county can call hope to get federal aid is to he be prepared with their share of tho the money the counties that bonded a year ago and set aside money on different state roads in their county so that they would be able to take advantage of federal aid when offered now find themselves in a position to get three fourth of their state road construction work paid by the government and those counties that are arc not yet bonded and have not set money aside on the different state roads 1 in their county to be improved cannot raise tho the necessary money when 74 per cent will be paid to them by the government 1 I am anxious as a citizen to see sevier county get its share of money I 1 for road construction work but at the present time the county has but very little available money for that reason the county commissioners are unable to match very much federal aid when it is offered to them I 1 feel quite certain that it if the county can make available a certain sum of it money ioney it can in the immediate future be matched with federal aid on the 74 26 2 G per cent basis 1 I am enclosing statement of 0 the disbursement of moneys expended in sevier county during the year 19 1931 11 I 1 think P perhaps it if you would publish this thi statement the people would be informed as to the correct amount spent on various roads in sevier county I 1 noticed by an article in the reaper that the county commissioners ners thought was the total amount of money expended in sevier county on state roads during 1921 the detail of disbursements as given by tile the commission is as follows of road type construction maintenance T total 0 fa 1 D bis salina sanpete earth richfield smina salina earth eaT richfield plute earth sevier millard earth salina emery earth 31 burville fishlike fishlake earth 4 14 1 r 1 0 sigurd piute diute earth SS richfield city ea earth r t h 98 miscellaneous totals |