Williams news., 1913-10-30
FOREST SERVICE EXPLAINS USE
 IF ROAD
 FUNDS
Money Being Spent Where
 Highway Needs Are Most Pressing Says Ringland
Williams-Flagstaff Ocean to Ocean Span Most Import
 ant Work of Past Year

District Forester Arthur C. Ring
 land has issued a statement in re-
 gard to the Forest Services road building policy designed to correct
 certain impressions of the scope
 and characte of that work which he says have arisen.
 "Published statements of the
 amount of money available for
 roads and trails on National For
 ests," said Rirgland, "have stimu,
 lated public interest in this sub
 ject, particularly in communities
 on or near the forests. The natural effe on the reader of a statement
 that we have money to put into roads. is for him at once to th'nk of some road near his home that needs repair and 10 wonder ii he
 and his friends can't get some of
 the forest road fund for the pur- pose. That's only natural.
 'But we have to expend this mon
 ey under certain restriction and it is obvious too, that the amount we have is not enongh to do all the road work needed the district at once. We've got to put the mor 7 we have where the law prescribes and where it will do the mest good want to outline the policy we use and the limitations that affect us in doing this work, for the benefit of an, one who is not entirely clear on the subject.
 'The amounts earned during the past fiscal year for expenditure un- der the road and trail item are s26,0O for Arizona and $12,OO0 for New Mexico. The fund is cu- initiative, that is, if the entire
 amount earned during any given
 year is not spent during the year it
 goes over as available until used.
 ''The aw specifcall v states that
 the funds shall be used for the con-
 struction and repair of roads in the
 forests within the state from which
 the fund is derived. In alloting funds the f rests within the state
 have been considered as a unit, and certain districts within this
 unit have been considered as more important and needing more fnnds than others. Since good road con- struction needs ample funds it would not be practicable to dis tribute small sums to every forest or every ranger district and derive permanent results. The fund is assured yearly, through increasing receipts, and it is therefore planned to repair and constru t first the more important roads and n time reach roads in every forest.
 "The roads worked on last year were those that seemed to us the most important projects. Ii has been found that road work or re- pair amounts to about $3G0 per mile. Once a road is started it | must be put in shape to avoid heavy repairs in the future. So that most all of last years projects will need additional funds this year to complete them or to put the road in shape to prevent future damage.
 1.-The more important road pro- jects in Arizona during the past year were as follow -: Coconino and Tusayan forests, a road between Flagstaff and Williams. This was considered by the residents of the { two towns to be the most important 1 work for the district. Tonto for est, tn roao from Salt river to 1 Pleasant valley, though almost inn is the main artery of travel north and south through the east side of the Tonto. On the and Apache work was