Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-19
HIGHWAY BOARD COMPLETES
ALLOTMENT OF ROAD FUNDS
State and Federal Money Al
ready Spent Shown to
Amount to More Than
Fourteen Million Dollars

The Georgia highway commission
has completed it's allotment of state
and federal aid funds up to June 30,
! 1923, and the total funds already
spent or allotted for road work in
Georgia amount to $14, 5S9, 501.5S, ac-
cording to an announcement made
Saturday by John n. Holder, chair
man of the highway commission.
There are eleven highway districts
in the state, and an exact average
of the entire fund would be $1,32l,-
| 772.86. Eight of the eleven districts
have been given total funds close
to the average amount, and the diff
| ferences will be equalized later on,
! it was said.
The total state and federal aid
funds spent and allotted to June 80,
| by districts, was as follows:
| First district, $1,476, 1859; sec
ond district, $1,869,132.69; third dis
trict, $1,695, 277.60; fourth district,
$97O,43S.1O; fifth district, 1889, 43462;
sixth district, $1,124, 639.70; seventh
district, $1,371, 115.17; eighth district,
| $1,037 ,817.98; ninth district, $1,445,-
S3789; tenth district, $1,1O2, 1929;
eleventh district, $1,457,181.10.
Counties Left Out
The only counties in the state
where funds have not been spent
or allotted are Lamar, new coun-
| ty where work was done while it
was d part of Pike county; Jones,
| where money is to be spent in 1928;
Putnam, Turner, ROckdale, now APP
plying; Crawford, now applying;
! Marion, where aid is ready; Crisp,
I where a project is planned Johnson,
where a project was abandoned;
Berrien, where funds will be al
| lotted; Jeff Davis, where a prof
ect is being planned; and in Long,
Treutlen, Seminole, Atkinson, LaEier
and Brantley, all new counties, Mr..
Holder stated.
The total state and federal funds
spent and allotted to June 80, 1928,
| for construction of roads in the va
rious counties, follow:
First district:
Barlow, $5,17z8S; Catoosa, $72,-
261.91; Chatooga, $73,245.S3; Chero-
kee, $9S,7O517; Cobb, $13S,8676S;
Dade, $58, 32O.17; Douglas, $45, 589.47;
Fannin, $143,45S.67; Floyd, $780,
1856 Gilmer, $2O,74673; Gordon,
$11, 09683; HARRISON, 157,94710;
Murray, $6S,O15.95; Paulding, 1884,
58OS8; Polk, 118,766.S9; Pickens,
$5O,7O3.62; w lker, $120,34S.7S;
Whitfield, $7,S7432.
Second district;
Banks, $39,682.24; Barrow, $75,-
l11322; Dawson, $44,525.98; Forsyth,
$7O,596.54; franklin, $S1, S69.36;
| Habersham, $93,S2696; Gwinnett
| $294,9O9.67; Hall, $2O9.899.9S; Jack
son, $82,11335; LumpSin mid ? %?
| SO953; Milton. $44,460.14; Rabun,
SIP, 65S96: Stephens, S3,42S.43;
Towns, $94,2549O; Union, $780,
254.31; White, $50, 729.12.
Third district:
Butts, $31,2O9.54; Campbell, $213,-
| $500; Carroll, $3.50 900.66; Clayton,
| Kalb, $67,110; Fayette, 3S,40S.81;
Fulton, $4,000; Heard, $6O,926.63;
Henry, $27,9359S Meriwether, $116,-
499.O4; Monroe. $76.21O.87; Pike,
| SCI, 50O.O3; Spaulding, $243, 74S.49;
Troup, 1925, 1861.
Fourth districts:
Clarke, $193,759.91; Gilbert, $146,-
$3.50; Greene, $52.96O44; Hart,
$44,342.36; Jasper, $29,592.6S Madi-
son, $4,000; Morgan, $2O5. 45319;
| Newton, $47.O64.S7; Oconee, $25,-
4S1.19; Oglethorpe, $7,O65.3O; Wal
ton, $180O60.96.
Fifth district:
Baldwin, $50. 400.O1; Burke, ST.
SOFIA; Columbia, $71,232.63; Glas-
cock, $23,196.36; Hancock, $685.
39163; jefferson, $6S,288.33; Lin
| coin, $15,625.51; McDuffie, $42,-
684.79; Richmond, $172.652.2O; Italia
ferro, $4,000; Warren, $50,7943S;
Washington, $72,395,09; Wilkes,
1926, 964.55.
Sixth district
Chattahoochee, S2O,779.7O; Harris,
96,922.36 Lee, $40, 526,87; Macon,
$110,05727; Muscokee, $128,440.02 /;
Quitman, $29,399.0S; Randolph, $73,-
I948.17; Schley, $31,S0O; Stewart,
! $35,324.92; Sumter, $245, O62.O6; Tai
bot, $29,639,91; Taylor $48, 54O.66 ;
Terrell, $75,219.42; Epson, $780,
1866; Webster, $9,182.60.
! Seventh district:
Bibh, $472,564; Bleckley. $25,-
O57.44; Dodge, $34,373.27; Dooly,
$77,S61.12; Houston, $55. 656.12: Lau-
rens. $215.944.55 Pulaski, 1924.
UAU.OO, IeILdll, PIJ, WISSS,
$4O,OS1.59; Wheeler, $126, 656.49; Will
cox, $1O.298.29; Wilkinson, 13,578.02
Eighth district:
Bryan, $22,55699; Bulloch, $685..
1858; Gambler SOL, 64O14; Chatham,
1922, 58O.4S; Effingham, $14,4S6.16;
Emanuel, $91,886.76; Evans, $37,
441.79; jenkins, $56, 499.08; Liberty
$33. 395.O2; Montgomery, 16,7S8.71
Screven, $19,73517; Tattnau, $50,
1914; Toombs, $69, 021.91.
Ninth district:
Baker $23,65O; Calhoun. $59,.
$369.31; Clay, 3O,91215; Colquitt
$120,844.92; Decatur, $147,499.97
Dougherty, 1928, S9747; Early, $685.
66O.91; Grady, $101, S57.56; Mitchell,
$184,161.6S; Miller, $50, 1868 ;
Thomas, $205, S11.92; Worth, $780,
1851.
Tenth district:
Ben Hill, $62, 1880; Brooks, $685.
549.64; Clinch, $4,000; Coffee, 49,
373.6S; Cook, $144,6S8.16; Echols,
$6,33265 Irwin, $10S, 1882 +;
Lowndes, 1926, 54110; Tiff, $55,611.74.
| Eleventh district:
Appling, $44,923.04; Bacon, $751;
1862; Camden, 1,219.49; Charlton,
$295,458.42; Glynn, 1904, 36O.43; Nc
Intosh, $78,7O4.77; Pierce, $751;
556.62: Ware, $4O8,6O7.16; Wayne,
$83, 635.O5.
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