Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1903-10-10

= ! pcciaily when tlcir inter
SscF< csts are concerned. Re-
Gently they have been
catching the enthusiasm OF tho gool
roads movement The National Dairy |
Union IS one OF the greatest farmers
organizations In the country. Us
power WAS shown last year WHOM S.
secured the passage through Cor-rcss
OF the olcOmorgarinc hiL IL ioo.
now "a III the union Will take u0 The /
/ hght FOR National aid IN road improve /
ment. Secretary Chas Y. Ku.chf re- /
I Gently expressed himself rs follows /
4 concerning tho Browniow bill.
I'm company With hundreds of ihou /
sands OF other people throughout che /
B United states. I am very much inter
ested in ,his bill I have just returned
from a tour % Italy. France ami Eng
/ land. where 1 had an opportunity Co
4 observe the character OF the roads in
those countries. Coming home and
looking over our miserable facilities
for getting around iu the rur., d's
;ricts. I made mp my mind that liz VIII
De necessary FOR this country 90 90 as
European countries have dome boz orics
60 get good roads. T. e.. have Govern
mcnt aid
"rhc National Dairy Union is or
ganizcd throughout thc North in every
F Congress sioual District which has any
amount 81 agricultural constituency.
and am rrmly 81 thc opinion that ths
progressive farmers who are dairy
men viii DO in favor of the bin Tor
National aid. ann SD much Interested
in it's success chat I ann willing to n~c
my influence 60 have our dairy farmers
petition Tor the pa sSage OF this bin
would be willing Co give several hun
dred dollars ont of my own pocket Co
see tho roads of this country improved
like those Of France"
To many it viii doubtless DO news to
learn that something very similar Co.
the proposed cooperation az State and
Nation has boon going on for MANY
years in the building of Mississippi
levccs. Tn recent report on this ~uh-
. ject Colonel Amos Sticknev. President
or the Mississippi River Commission.
said.
THE allotment Tor levecs FOR tho
, fiscal year ending June So 1909 was
E St.O0OOoO. and the expenditure of a
like amount. under contract Is author
4 lied for the ensuing year.
"'rhe total amount expended hv the
/. United States upon levccs from thf
: beginning 81 that class Of work Dol
e $50 90 june go. 1902. lis SiG.5So 411
- The total contents 90 levecs along the
Z Mississippi River Is now about 100.
, 100000 cubic yards. about onc-half of
Z which has been placed hy the Unite,
4 States. the other half being the worl
/, 90 State ana local boards The amount
z 81 money expended hy these or-aniza
- tlons is not known.
There are ordinarily no restrictions
q placed upon the expenditure 81 aliot
g ments. but au aiotmcnts are some
% times determined hy thc amount of
, work that local authorities can do 10
connection with or suppiementng Gov
Q c-nmcnt work to make 80 more encc
tive.
p "The funds applied bv the state ana,
e hv local boards are understood to t'
derived from special taxes authorize
by the respective Legislatures
Hero we have just such cooperation
p. between the Federal Government OBJ
1. the one hand. the states and local com
. munities on the other. as Is proposed .'
I the Brownlow hrl. although not car
y ried out under specific act ~ Con
sress.