White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-28
HIGHWAY OFFICIALS ON
TRIP OF INSPECTION

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the sections may be rich i'll mining
and agricultural or stockraising pos
sibilities.
With the trunk lines provided for
and under the supervision of state
and national highway engineers the
county commissioners would be free
TO devote more time and money TO the
connecting up of feeder lines.
Some counties are better provided
than others financially TO assist in
highway construction, and this may
result in embarrassing situations in
state road construction with each
county under the necessity of paying
a portion of the bill. One county
might be flush with funds and be
able TO complete a highway to The
boundary line of another county
which happens 10 be in financial diff
fculties and unable at the time to
finance its part of the road, thus leav-
ing a break in its continuity, with 4
stretch of permanent highway con-
Meeting with an incomplete and in
ferior section.
The present a il 50 far adj
vaneed hat not much in the way of
il Ill MdN NOIk can w II lSiltAl
now before winter sets in. but every
thing should be in readiness for an
early start in the spring. Highway
work ON a large and general scale
means employment TO many men. and
if by another spring there is still an
army of unemployed in the country
the opportunity should be presented
for work of that nature TO all who
want il, and a man really in want of
work will not hesitate to assist in
highway construction under proper
conditions, as highways arc coming
to be looked upon more and more as
Il national asset
The federal aid roads bill appro-
PIRATES $4,000. 900 for construction,
one-third of which would be available
Immediately. 1t places federal aid
under the control of the secretary of
agriculture. who may expend not
more than GO per cen of the appro-
priation for any one state upon inter-
state roads and the remainder upon
intercounty roads. A sliding scale is
provided for federal aid in the states
according to the unappropriated pub
lie lands.
w. II. Johnson, state highway COM
missioner, in commenting ON the fed
oral aid bill said:
Under the bill as il passed the
senate Nevada will be given about
s925,00C, instead of a million and a
quarter, for road building, OF which
a third will be available as soon as
the bill becomes law. Nevada has
been working for the passage of this
legislation for some time, having
taken the lead among the western
states in the effort. The bill had al
ready passed the house and senate in
several forms. and SIS Just passed by
the senate ! have no doubt but II will
be acceptable To the members of the
house. Ii is almost identical with
the house bill. with the exception OF
the reduced appropriation--S75,0 00.-
001 instead of s100. 900, 0G0--and
there should he 40 trouble in confer
ence between the two committees.
This bill gives Nevada $50 for
every dollar we are willing to spend
on roads in cooperation with the gov
eminent. We have only been get
ting dollar for dollar, and under that
arrangement W. were totally unable
Ia match the appropriations made by
the federal government
Under the presen. bill II is reeog-
nized that with the government. own
ing 80 per cent af The area of Nc
vada. its obligation m bodybuilding is
more than dollar for dollar Hence
the tweEty-to-one feature.
There is still an unexpended bal
ance of S2.60o. 900 of federal read
money which will be expended in Ne
yada under the new bill. With a ret
roactiye provision which the bill ear
ries there will be 500. 900 more, Sc
that the states total expectancy when
The hill becomes law is nearly So
000, 900.
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