Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-09-06
Highway improvements

of system of State highways was
appropriated by the State of New
York last year for the construction
and maintenance of roads. In the
same year Pennsylvania total APP
preparations for road purposes APP
proximated hardly one fourth Of
the amount specifically devoted to
roads in New York State.
New York in the same year recog-
nized it's State highway admins
tration, abolishing the highway
commission of three melubers and
creating State Highway depart
ment along the lines followed by
the Sproul highway department.
act of 1911 in this State. The
same general plan for construction
of highways has been adopted in
Ohio and Maryland, which have
created highway departments and
set aside large sums for the MAX
ing of experiments and the neces-
sary work preliminary to the es-
tablishment of a system of State
Highways. New Jersey is plan
ming development of it's already
extensive system of highways and
Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Kansas
and other western States have en-
barked in road building on scale
which will make the Keystone
State hustle to hold up its end.
Figures obtained by the Pennsyl-
vania Motor Federation, which is
working earnestly for the establish
ment and maintenance of a system
of roads that will connect county
market towns and traverse the rich
farming and scenic sections of
Pennsylvania, show how New
York has undertaken to build and
maintain roads which at many
points will connect with those pro-
jected in Pennsylvania.
The New York appropriations
are an object lesson to Pennsylvania,
who will be called on next year to
vote on the proposition to issue
$50, 1000, 900 of bonds, divided over
a period of years, for road con
struction. For 1911 alone New
York appropriated:
For construction of certain speci-
fed roads, S13, 955, 900.
For improvement of public high
ways, SS,O00,O00.
For State proportion of amounts
appropriated for repair of high
ways, 81, ,795, ,254,27
Maintenance and repair of high
ways constructed by State aid,
S1,2O7, ,O79.
In the same year the Pennsyl-
vania appropriations for roads were
as follows
Construction of State highways,
5000 900.
For State aid in construction of
highways, $1,000, 600.
For construction of Township
roads, S5O0,O0O.
For payment to Townships of
amounts due under road tax, $500
900.
For construction OF National
road, $500, 900.
reimbursement of Townships,
1900.
Maryland in 1911 appropriated
81, 900, 600 for road construction in
addition to other expenses author
lied.
Under the plan proposed for the
Pennsylvania highway system $50
OOO,O0 will be available for con-
struction of highways, thereby
relieving the general revenue of
that charge and making possible
generous appropriations for State
aid construction of roads, for town
ship or dirt roads and for bonus on
the road tax. The scheme of bond
issues will be such as to distribute
the burden of carrying the interest
and sinking fund charges. In New
York, appropriations for charges
IN connection with the highway
improvements DOuu ISSUES were
made in addition the enormous APP
preparations for construction as
follows : For interest, 81, ,O3O, 900,
and for sinking fund or redemption
charges, 81, 100000.
New York highways have brought
hundreds of thousands of dollars of
revenue into the state through in
creased traffic and added vastly to
to the value of farms as well as en-
abled farmers to obtain ready ac-
cess to markets. Pennsylvania can
not afford to lag.
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