Show ROAD LARGE SUM FOR GOOD ROADS cost of improvements completed during fiscal year of 1920 estimated at prepared Pic Pie pared by the united states department of agriculture feder U I aid highways ays constructed last lear ar cost more than double the average amount annually for ten years lu in bull ainz the panama canal anal c the cost of the work ork completed during the fiscal near ear ot of 1920 including the amount paid by the states totaled approximately OW the construction of the canal Is ii regarded the world over as a record breaking achievement in repe respect ct to the dispatch with which it was carried out the cost however wasilly was 00 and a ten year period was a required aled 4 to complete it the average rate ct cf expenditure being only OW a year comparing the magnitude ot of the fe fed d ervil eral ald aid program with the entire highway program of the united states the significance of federal aid la Is readily 4 building federal aid hoa howoo a the kind that stand the wear seen Fec fedrial leial money allotted to projects actually under construction at the end of the fiscal year 1020 namely was only slightly less than the total expenditure of oc from state funds tor for highway construction during the calendar year 1019 1919 in spite of untoward economic conditions the amount of federal ald aid business handled as represented in 1920 1020 by the number of projects was approximately 25 per cent greater during the single year than all previous work done undy the act since 1011 |