The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-12-23
TWO MILLION
DOLLARS SPENT
ON VERMONT ROADS
Have Patroled 1900
Miles and Built Many
Bridges

About $2,0OO,00O ah has beer
expended by The Vermont state
highway department during the
season Just closing. This amount
includes the federal aid fund OF
$500,000, the state money to
match it of 100000, the automo-
bile money which amounted to
about $620,000, the five per cent
TAX on all towns which amounted
10 approximately $lo0,000, the
state aid fund Of $260,000 and a
few special appropriations of
mail amounts. There remains on
hand only a comparatively small
amount in money.
The highway department this
year has patrolled about 1900
miles of highway at an average
cost of about $3.50 per mile. The
state paid about $308,000 and the
remainder by the towns for this
work. There are over 800 patrol
men employed and they are obli-
ged to furnish their own teams
and small tools. As a general rule
the town road machines are used.
The federal aid and state money
to match it has gone into con-
struction and the jobs have been
distributed over the state.
The construction work accom-
plished this gear has been as fol-
lows Nine-tenths miles of con-
crete road between Benningtonand
Hoosac Falls, estimated cost $564.
81; 4.32 miles Of gravel road in
Sherburne between Rutland and
Wood stock, estimated cost $685.
TOO; seven miles water mound ma
cadam between St. Albans and
Enosburg, eetimated cost, $22,380.
1857 miles gravel road between
Rutland and Manchester, estimat-
ed cost $278, 250; 4.07 miles btu
minous macadam, estimated cost
$118,900; 4.3 miles bituminous ma
cadam between Burlington and
Shelburne, estimated cost $131 500
2.3 miles gravel road in Irasburg
between Newport and Barton, e5-
timatcd cost $42,500; 1.2 miles
concrete south of Rutland, esti-
mated cost $4,000; two miles of
bituminous macadam in Guilford,
$4,000, and Sc miles gravel road
in Dummerston, estimated cost,
$136,400.
In few places special appro
prations were made for work in
town. In these cases the towns
contributed to the fund. Federal
aid money was not used in these
Jobs. The sum Of $500 was ex-
pended in fixing the road over
Lincoln Mountain, $1,000 was
spent on Harlow hill at the foot of
Mt. Mansfield, $1,000 was spent on
the Stratton tunpike in Sunder-
land, $1,000 was spent on the
Smugglers Notch road, $4,000 on
Sanbar BRIDGE and $4,000 on the
ca t shore of Willoughby Lake.
The state highway department
constructed about 40 bridges
most of them of concrete, but i
few of them of steel. About 500,
600 was expended in this work.
While the federal aid money and
the state money to match it goes
into road construction, the auto
mobile money goes into mainten-
ance. Of the 100000 about $3.50.
600 poes into the back roads. The
REGULAR state aid money of $780,
coo zoe into permanent work.
THE five per cent tax money is dis
trihuted among the PAT towns. II
is distributed on the basis of nil
caoe so that a moor town with 2
hiD n'ileaoe Glands a better chance
than does tho rich town with
Soall MILEAGE.
Vermont is allotted $975 GOO Of
federal aid road monev bv the re-
cont pa aoe in CONGRESS of the !
bill for federal aid in improving |
hi~hwavs. state HIGHWAY Com
mis- icner T. w. Div saws the /
state department of hiohwavS raw |
he able to avail of part of thi, |
m"nev newt wear.
Under the provisions o. the bill
the state nut IN IS much money
IS it draw from tho Government. |
a h"rnemente under this new law /
made and filed at WASHINGTON bv
July 1, 1923. will be allowed.