The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-08-31
FOREST ROADS ALLOT.
TED MILLION DOLLARS
(Plans Announced for Work Under
Federal Road Act.)

Federal Road Act
Secretary Houston has just announ-
ced the plan to be pursued in spend
ing the ten million dollars appropri-
Gted by the Federal Aid Road Act for
the construction and maintenance of
Dads and trails within or partly with
in National Forests, and has tentati-
vely allotted among the various Ma
tional Forests States the million dol
lars which is eXpendable this fiscal
year
The tentative allotments to the
principal National Forest States are
as follows: Alaska, SAG, 6,2S0; Ari-
zona, s59,795; Arkansas, $11,294;
California, S140,763; Colorado, S62,-
335; Idaho, s10S,010; Montana $780,
sol; Nevada, $19,195; New Mexico
$42,622; Oregon, $127,794; South
Dakota, SS,115; Washington,'S91,
1888; Wymong, S40,5 6. In
addition, total of S9,552 has been
tentatively assigned to Florida, Mi
chigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North
Dakota, and Oklahoma, while the
Eastern States, Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Geargia-in which the Govern
ment is purchasing lands for National
Forests, have been allotted $21,057.
"In general" said Secretary Hous-
ton, "the States and the counties will
be required to furnish cooperation in
an amount at least equal to SO per
cent of the estimated cost of the sur
yeys and construction, However,
upon a satisfactory showing by the
applicant State or County that such
a preparation of cooperation is
inequitable, it may be altered and the
ratio of cooperation fixed upon basis
equitable to both the State or County
and the United States
The method followed in apportion-
ing the money was explained by Sec
retary Houston as follows: Ten per
cent of the amount available each
year will be withheld as a contigent
fund. Ono-half of the remainder
will be allotted to the States in a.
mounts which will be based on the
area of National Forest lands in each
State. The other half will be appor-
toned on basis of estimated value
of timber and forage resources which
the Forests contain. Amounts ap
portioned but unexpended within
three years, and any balance of the
contigent fund which remains unap-
portioned at the end of each year,
will be reapportioned on the same
basis as the original allotments.
The two groups of states to which
lump sums are allotted are, it was eX-
planned, to be considered as single
units of apportionment Apportion-
ments now to be made are for the
current fiscal year only. Thereafter
new apportionments will be made,
giving consideration to the number
and character Of applicants made by
the State and County officials for ex-
penditures on specific projects. These
applications must be filed with the
District Foresters in the seven Ma
tional Forest District on or before
January ! of each year, for the fiscal
year beginning the following July |.
The determination of the projects
upon which funds will be expended
during the current fiscal year will be
made on the basis of applications
which must be filed with the District
Foresters on or before October /,
1916. Each application must con-
tain statement Of the public needs
to be served by the proposed road and
the manner and extent to which it
would aid in the development of the
resources upon which the communi-
ties within or adjacent to the Nation
al Forests are dependent, and must
also show the general location of the
proposed road and its estimated cost.
AS already stated in General States
and counties must be prepared to fur
nish cooperation equal to at least so
per cent of the estimated cost of sur
yavS and conStr truction This poonera-
tion may be in the form of monet, la
Dor and materials or the constitution
of roads Where other factors are
equal the approval of project may
be determined upon the relative a.
mount of cooperation offered. Many
have, it is stated, al
ready been received for expenditures
upon specific projects.