The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-22
MILLION DOLLARS
FOR NATIONAL
FOREST ROADS
The Plains are Announced for Work
Under Federal Aid
Road Act.

Secretary Houston has just announced
the plan 10 be pursued in spending tbs
ten million dollars appropriated by this
federal aid road act for the cons ruct ion
and maintenance OF roads and trail.
within or partly within national forests
and has tentatively allotted among the
various national forest states the mil.
lion dollars which is expended this hscsl
year.
! The tentative allotments 10 the pfin.
cipal national forest states ere as fol-
lows: Alaska, s46.2s0; Arizona, $780,
7o5; Arkansas, 81 ,29i; California. sl40,.
1856; Colorado, SOP ,S35; Idaho. $685. o.,
Montana. S69,90l; Nevada, si0,l95; New
Mexico, S42,622; Oregon, sl27,7e4; South
Dakota, Ss,ll6i Utah, s4o,6s2; Washing.
ton, SOL 1879; Wyoming. s40,566. In ad-
dition, a total OF S9,552 has been tento.
lively assigned TO Florida. Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and
Oklahoma, while the eastern states. New
Hampshire, Maine. West Virginia, Ntrth
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee spd
Georgia, in which the government IS pur
chasing lands for national forests, have
been allotted $2l III.
in general" said Secretary Houston,
"the states and counties will be required
to furnish cooperation in an amount at
least equal TO so per cent OF the essima.-
ed cost of the surveys and construction.
However, upon a satisfactory showing
by the applicant state or county that
such proportion of cooperation IS in
equitable, il may be altered and tine ratio
OF cooperation fixed upon basis equit
able TO both the state or count, and
the United States"
The method followed in apportioning
the money was explained by Secretary
Houston as follows; Ten per cent of
The amount available each yeAe will be
withheld as a contingent fund One-ba.f
OF the remainder will be allotted to the
states in amounts which vii be based on
the area OF national losest lands in each
state. The other half will be apportionei
on basis of estimated value of timber
and forage resources which the forests |
Amounts a7po.sioned but u
eA ended within three yeas, and any |
balance OF the contingent fund which re
N. ins unapportioned a the end OF each |
year, will be reapportiolSd on the same |
basis as the original I.l3.rlfnts.
The two groups a. stares to which |
lump sums are allotted are, it was er-
planned, to be considered as single units
= apportlonment. apporti meits no :
10 be made are fo- % curren. fiscal !.
i,ot only, Thereafter new apportion
nents will be made giving conservation
o the number and character tf aprii-
ations MADE by III; state and county
officials for expenditures on specific pro
eets. These application. must be filed
Nth the district 10. csters IN the seven
rational forest districts On or before
dlluary / of each .'ea for the ilseai
ear beginning the following JL'r T.
/ lie determination o. the projects uyon
which funds viii be expended during the
urrent fiscal year will be made on the
'asis OF appliea tons which must be filed
With the district forester on or before
october |, 1916. Each application must .
ontain a statement of the public needs !.
o be served by the proposed road and
he manner and extent TO which it would :.
id in the development OF resources uTan =.
rhich communities within or adjacent to
he national forests are dependent, end !,
lust also show the general location OF !
he proposed road and its estimated cost
s already stated, in general states and
,unties must be prepared to furnish CO.
pera ton equal to at least 80 per cent
the estimated cost tf surveys and
This cooperation may be
the form of money, labor and mate
ais, or the construction of roads. Where
,her factors are equal, the approval
a project may be determined upon the p
lative amount of cooperation offered.
any applications have, it is stated, al
ady been received for expenditures il
BON specific projects.