Show GOOD HIGHWAYS FEDERAL AID FOR HIGHWAYS approval given for projects up to september 30 1920 western states lead prepared pared by the Vi united vilified lifted states department of agriculture federal ald aid for the alic construction conal ruction of miles of national highways lias been appi approved oved by the united states department of agriculture up to september 30 10 1920 approval had been given for projects alu chich cli form links in one or the other of the 21 24 market marked trails which have been laid out by private associations to cross the country from froin east to west and north korth to south the mileage which will be constructed ted alth federal ald aid on each of the several trails IP if shown la in the following table able length federal name of highway aid approved projects miles dixie highway ozard trail ft sen 04 tello yellowstone w stone trail 45 bankhead bank head highway Merlill erl ilan nn highway CT national oi 04 trails 80 king ging of trails 47 nat national tonal parks highway W theodore roosevelt international highway Ilig liway jar jac arson Illa hway lincoln highway tw 66 old spanish trail mississippi valley flig highway hway dixie overland highway 59 3 lackson achson highway 1161 carlile an inc highway roosevelt national highway colorado to gulf 22 pikes peak ocean to ocean atlantic highway ilo miscellaneous total the extent to which federal aid has halt been applied to the trails varies in the different states naturally the western states are using much more of ilie file federal apportionments in developing ve roads of this character than abe eastern states this Is due to the fact that the routes in the eastern c m states already had been improved to a large extent before the roads v ci e selected by the pathfinders path finders this wn n ns not true in the west where long su caches of the selected roads were still in mi ili unimproved condition when alev were designated nevada neinda leads in its use of federal funds on in roads of tills this character eighty three per cent of its entire mileage of approved federal aid roads lies on one or nr the other of the trails herh cross the states on these roads nevada will spend DO 00 per cent of the federal money which has been granted to her indiana is a doss close second with 80 yer cent of its entire federal ald aid mile i SP ge and ai 3 per cent of its money aid V vl 1 4 J S A L building a federal highway in virginia applied to the construction of tile the trails and oklahoma with 70 per cent of its mileage and 81 per cent of its federal funds is not far behind florida takes the lead in tile the per meriting ceri ting ge of its funds which will be based ased for trail building with 04 94 per cent of its federal allotments so applied but this amount will be spent for only 50 56 per cent of the mileage which lias has been approved in the state in addition to the aboe the stated os og illinois Ill luois kansas montana new mexico utah and washington are each using 50 per cent or more of their federal money for the up building of tha ee trails |