The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-19
CORONA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19 1920.
BUILDING PLANNED FOR
 THIS SEASON

Estimate of expenditures to be made on projects recommended by Divisional Road Commissioners of the four judicial divisions of Alaska and approved by the Territorial Road Bureau show that approximately $4OO O,O0O will be used during the present season for the building of roads in Alaska exclusive of the money which will be expended by the Alaska Road Commission on purely Federal projects, with which the Territorial Road Bureau and Di- visional commissioners are not in any way connected. Modification of the allOtments on the several pro- i4cts has already been made to the commissioners of the four districts by R. J. Sommers, Secretary of the Territorial Bureau and where early operations are possible work is aI- ready being launched
 First Division
 All of the work scheduled for this division during the present season will for the greater part be carried out under Federal supervision under cooperative agreements and with combined Federal and Territorial funds Approximately $135,000 are available out of which $127,500 has been allotted on approved projects, leaving a small balance subject to disbursement by Divisional Commits sioner Perry J. Wiley
 Work on the Juneau-EagIe River road will be resumed. For this pur- pose total of $3O,OO0 has been allotted of which amount $22,5OO is for the extension of the road from the vicinity of Aux bay toward 'Amalga on Eagle river. The Hyder district has been allotted a total of $5O,000 for work on the Salmon river road. $32,O0O has been allotted for the Ketchikan-Ward Cove district Most of the funds to be expended have been made available under co-opera- tive agreements made possible by the new Alaska road law. Second Division
 All of the work in the Second Division will be carried out under tEe terms of the Alaska Cooperative Road Act that was passed by the last Territorial Legislature under agreement with and in charge of the Alaska Road Commission officials in that district. They will be respon- sible for the work and select the projects upon which expenditures will be made.
 Third Division
 Tn the Third Division a total of $153977 will be expended Of this amount Territorial funds to the ex- tent of 9,977.50 will be used, the balance of the money being pro- Vided by the department of agricul- ture and the Alaska road commission. The largest undertaking attempted will be the Quartz creek Russian river road for which $6O,OO0 has been allotted. On the Cache creek route, extending from TaIkeetna on the gov ernment railroad into the Cache creek district an allotment of $4O,OOO has been made of which the Territorial bureau has provided $3O,000 and the Alaska road commission $1O,OOO with the agreement that an additional pro- vision will be made by the Federal commission when the funds shall be. come available. Tn the Third divi. sion allotments have been made for work by the Divisional road com- mission in the sum of $19,977.5O.
 Fourth Division
 In the Fourth Division as in the others, the recommendation of the Divisional road commissioner have been closely followed. With the ex- ception of possibly one project, all the work there will be carried out by R. B. Sheldon, Divisional commits sioner who has been allotted $36,OOO for maintenance and new construc- tion.
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