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An article in a recent
Bulletin showed approximately the
ratio OF direct operating cost Of motor
vehicles, wig: cost Of gasoline, oil and
tires, to the total cost OF operation,
and this cost - roughly proportional
to tractive resistance. and exha ustive
experiments show that tractive re-
sistance on high class pavement is
from n to Y that on the medium
types Of road surface. If then. one
lis interested enough to investigate
the problem for himself, he may. by
assembling the necessary data de-
tormine the necessity for, or de-
STABILITY OF, any particular type OF
road construction for a particular
locality. In this way. and always on
a basis of Investment, the road prob
lem Of Wyoming Is being solved,
and az shown before, the comparison
OF Wyoming's Federal Aid mileage
with that OF ncighboring states in
dicates our adherence to this policy.
A brief survey Of the situation as
regards Federal Aid Projects throws
considerable light on the progress
being made on the system of pro-
posed State Highways laid out as re-
quired by the Federal Aid Act. To
date there has been a total of IFS
Federal Aid Projects initiated; that
is . total OF SO many projects have
been submitted to the Government
with application for Federal Aid; Of
these, - have been abandoned by
mutual agreement leaving SO live
Federal AID Projects, either COM
pleted, under construction. or for
which project statements have been
submitted. The steady growth of
construction activity is indicated by
the competitions effected as follows:
In 1919 there wore completed 4 pro-
jects: In 1890, 13 projects: and in
1891, thus far, 80 projects with sew
eral others to be completed before
the end OF this year, making a total
of 46 projects entirely completed,
leaving AZ either under construction
OF applied for. OF these ~ projects
81 are under construction, leaving
10 projects only. on which no con-
struction work has been done. With
these 10 pyojects on which Federal
Aid funds have been applied for,
app0rtionment OF Federal Aid money
is virtually exhausted, 80 that new
projects involving q further drain on
the very small balance Of these funds
should be strictly limited to the most
urgent cases until We know definitely
wkat Congress d going to do in the
way Of new appropriations for this
work.
The statement OF Work aeshorfsed
in the various counties, this year.
from the 1921 Bond Issue, Appearing
In this issue shows that since May
OF this year, $56O,00O.0O has been
appropriated or authorized for new
construction, which is SO percent OF
the total amount OF the Bond Issue,
less the amount set aside for admin
istration. Since these figures do not
include funds which will have to be
authorized or set aside for the ten
Federal Aid Projects on which appli-
cation for Federal funds has already
been made. Al noted above, 1t will be
that approximately 80
percent Of our 1921 Bond Issue
which must stretch over q period Of
two. years at least, has already been
within sig months after
the passage of the bonds.
In establishing the proper or Just
Unable program of Highway Improve
ment It ID obvious that the cost OF
such work, or the annual expendi-
ture therefor. should not In general
exceed the ratio OF total appropria-
tons available annually, nor should
the work lag TO such an extent that
surplus funds accumulate and give
rise to an orgy Of spending ut isolated
periods. The program must be
flexible enough to provide q maxi
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