The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-20

county Is able to meet it's proportion
aate cost Of construction, the highway
engineer will be instructed to make
the necessary survey. For improve.
ments to cost $4,000 or less, it is dis
cretionary with the state engineer,
with the approval of the commission, TO
execute the work or let the county do
the work without compensation, but
where tire cost of the proposed improve
ment exceeds $4,000, the state highway
engineer must advertise for bids for
the work, and each bidder must file
certified check equal go the amount
of his bid. The highway commission
opens all bids, and commissioners from
the counties in which road work is to be
done on contract may be present when
the bids arc opened.
Counties Pay Part.
The counties must bear their proper.
tionate share of the cost of the road
work. They are required to refund 20
the state highway fund one-half of the
total cost of the work when the tax
able valuation Of the county is So 5,000,-
600 or less, and two thirds when the
taxable valuation OF the county or
counties Is more than S5,000000.
Where bridges are to be erected, coun.
ties can make the same application for
assistance to the commission, but the
commission cannot, under the terms OF
the law, contribute more than $4,000
towards the erection of any one bridge.
Where the cost of the bridge will not
exceed $1,000, the commission must pay
90 per cent, and where the cost ex,
ceeds $1,000 the commission must pay
30 per cent of the first $1,000 and 10
per cent of each additional dollar over
and above $1,000. If a county fails
to pay its share for road or bridge
construction, the commission may take
the amount due II from the first funds
received from the county by the state
treasurer.
S100, 900 Bond Issue.
The 100000 bond issue lays the per.
| mRnent basis of the highway fund 70
be carried as are other funds by the
state treasurer, subject 10 the warrant
OF tho commission. All fines, fees, etc
go into this fund and the interest on
| the bonds is paid out of it. The bonds
draw ! per cent and Will be sold
| April 30.
Rules and regulations are laid down
for automobile drivers on the public
| highways OF the state. The limit speed
set for any highway by any machine
| rs thirty miles an hour Machines
must carry horns with which To sound
warning and take the right side of a
road when meeting another vehicle
| and the left when overtaking one
Those machine owners now paving
licenses into town and city Golfers viii
not have 10 continue doing so whcr
| the law goes into effect Towns and
cities may, however, pass ordinances
regulating the use and speed Of ma
chimes within their corporate limits.
When the state highway system al
| plan to be worked out is adopted b,
| the commission, active const ructior
work viii be started, and il IS expect
cd that additional federal aid will b,
| secured.
| Probably the first main stretch nj
! state highway 20 be completed viii b,
| the Boissl Yellowstone national parl
| road from this city TO the entrance ot
the national park in the eastern par
, Of tho state. 4 permanent highway
| will also connect Idaho with Utah anc
\ north and south road viii be bull
from Boise 20 spokane and west roa,
towards Portland, probably via Lewis
ton.