The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-03-02
County Ahead $94,S57
Under Babcock Plan
State Trunk Highway Betterments
Represent $220,8S4 Against Auto
Taxes of $126,027 in County

Stearns county owners paid $780,
OPT of taxes in 1921 on cars and
trucks and $220,8S4 has been used
to date on trunk highways within
the county under the Babcock Good
Roads plan put into effect last April.
No county or town funds are includ-
ed.
Charles M. Babcock, state high
way commissioner, explained that
the large excess of disbursements
over automobile tax reevnue was
made possible in part by the use of
federal highway aid and reimburse
ment funds.
The figures are official, motor We
hicle taxes beeing reported by Mike
Holm, secretary of state, and high
way figures approved by G. w.
Brown, state public examiner.
State trunk highway fund charges
in Stearns county include $148,737
used in 1920 and $7p,147 in 1921,
all covering maintenance work, new
construction, right-of-way, engineer
ing and other expenses. The 1921
items follow:
Trunk highway No. 3-miles, $40;
maintenance, $1S,913; construction,
Sc; total $18.919.
Trunk Highway No. 4-miles, 800;
maintenance, $7,548; construction,
Sc; total $7,554.
Trunk Highway No. 22-miles,
1915; maintenance, 1854; construc-
ton, Sc; total $1,540.
Trunk Highway No. 23-miles,
$40; maintenance $6,561; construc-
ton, $6,815; total $13,376.
Trunk Highway No. 24-miles,
21:O; maintenance, $7,225; construc-
ton, 6; total 1921.
Trunk Highway No. 28-miles,
6. o; maintenance $1,022; construc-
ton, $2O,616; total $21, 638.
Trunk Highway No. 69-miles,
90 maintenance, $1,883; construc-
ton, Sc; total, $1,8S9.
Reimbursement charged for 1919
20 work $148,7s7.
Trunk Highway Funds used in
county to date $220,884.
Motor vehicle taxes collected IN
county to date $126027.
Disbursements exceed receipts to
date by $94,857.
Charles M. Babcock, state highway
commissioner, said that tine general
showing was made possible in part
by the use of federal highway aid
and reimbursement bond funds which
totalled more than soluble the amount
of the 1921 motor vehicles taxes
John H. Mullen. deputy commits
sioner and chief highway engineer,
added that the largest OUTLAWS, es-
pecially those for nsw construction,
were in counties which voted reim-
bursement bonds AMI others where
the trunk routes when taken over
by the state were not up TO the av-
erage.
The highway executives made this
statement.
Department policies are designed
to distribute new construction so that
the largest number of localities may
share in early, permanent benefits,
and also to build up weak stretches
in long mileages Of otherwise good
roads. Their continuance will tend
to bring up individual county totals
to a fair average, traffic mifeages
and other conditions considered.
Those with small totals last year
will be most likely to lead this year,
local conditions being equal. Every
effort has been and is being made to
give every section fair and impartial
consideration.
The county figures made public
this week, from reports certified by
the secretary of state and public ex-
aminer, supplement the recent re-
view of Minnesota's record Of high
way improvement accomplished UNI
der the new good roads program.