Arizona republican., 1919-04-06
WILL BE ABLE TOSTART ROAD
 IiIORK BY JULY

Governor Thomas E. Campbell yes terday made public the figures com piled by State Engineer Thomas Mad dock, relative to the money available in Arizona in the next two years to match federal aid and go ahead with a comprehensive plan of state high way development.
 f'Road activity cannot commence on a large scale until after July l." said the governor, ''by reason of the de- pletion of road funds by the previous administration, but once money is available, things will begin to hum and results will soon be in evidence.
 f4The enemies of the administration, those in particular who were behind the effort to take the highway depart ment from executive control and turn it over to those who desired to build up political machine, have been busy since they failed to put the scheme over in spreading the report that there would be no roads built There is only one answer to this misrepresenta- ton, and that is the actual building of roads.
 f'An analysis of the senate bills that came into my hands showed that they did not provide quite enough money to- match federal appropriations, but tfts small deficit will be made up by the counties that take the action necessary to secure federal aid. It will be- a case of first come, first served.
 ''State Engineer Maddock has been in consultation with 6 representative of the federal highway department and has reached a tentative agree ment as to what roads are to receive federal aid, and it is significant that none of his recommendations have been turned down.
 .'The point to be emphasized is that we have not jeopardized the partici- patton of Arizona in federal aid, and have on the contrary, protected the taxpayers from increased taxes and centralized the responsibility"
 With the above interview the gov ernor gave out copies of the letter he had received from Thomas Mad dock, state engineer, which follows Hon. Thos. E. Campbell,
 Governor of Arizona.
 My Dear Sir: We will have avail ahe July i next for the fiscal year beginning then about s900 900 from the tax levy; s160,000 from auto tax Ii- censes; S60000 from prison labor fund; S200,000 emergency appropria- tion; sl00,000 Miami Superior appro- priation; S25,00O Williams to Clark dale; s50,000 Arrowhead trail appro- priation and S155,O0O bridges and ap- breaches appropriations, most of which are contingent on a like amount from the counties or in all, approxi- mately S1,750,00O.
 There is almost a million dollars of federal money available at once and one and a third millions next year. or total of s2,30O000 to July l. 1920.
 The state will not have the funds to meet all of this federal aid which requires an equal expenditure by this states but our various counties will be glad to double their road funds by smuring federal aid. We expect more requests from the counties for federal aid than can be allotted, and we in- tend to recommend first those which are on the state through routes and will benefit the most people
 The passage of senate bill 1855 would have increased the state road funds some s600,000 additional, but might have resulted in the loss of several of the special road and bridge appropria- tions, so would judge that we are not short over three or four hundred thousand dollars of the amount orig inally planned, which means a reduc- tion of about ten per cent of the foul million dollars which will be spent the coming year under state direction and control
 We will need the time between now and July l to prepare surveys anC plans for the judicious expenditure o1 funds then available.
 THOMAS MADDOCK.