The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
ALABAMA ROAD ROUTING GIVEN WALLACE'S OK Federal Aid System Yet Subject To Change If
 Aid Forthcoming ROUTING OF HIGHWAYS
 IN ALABAMA DETAILED Annual Report Of State High
 way Department For Last sss Year Out
esrATE CAPITAL BUREAU,

z as5s MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 15.- An outline of the federal aid highway ,Ssystem of Alabama is contained in the snnual report of the state highway for the last. fiscal year, which has recently been received. The issrsport reproduces letter from Secre. 2 tary of Agriculture Henry O. Wallace,
 under date of October 30, 1923, ap.
 proving the federal aid system of the
 state, and giving details asS to the
 routes of highways which constitute
 this system.
 The federal bureau of public roads
 through which federal aid is' furnished
 to the states for road building, is under
 the department of agriculture, so that
 the secretary of agriculture has final
 Jurisdiction of the handling of federal
 aid matters. 8
 The federal highway act allows to
 each state on it's federal aid system a
 mileage not to exceed per cent of
 the total road mileage of the state,
 from which fact the federal aid system
 is frequently referred to. as the v per
 cent system" In accordance with the
 
 highway department of Alabama submit
 ted to the federal government, the sys-
 tenn of highways on which it desired
 to expand federal aid assigned to Ala
 bama, and the secretary tof agriculture
 in approving the per cent system.
 outlined the routes as approved
 Approval Not Permanent
 In his letter of approval, Secretary
 Wallace stated that approval of routes
 touching certain specified 'control
 points, is not to be construed as ap-
 provaI for construction on the location shown on the map between such con } trol points, but such location for con ; fstruction '.shall be subject to later de in the light of location sur soyeys and other pertinent information , which may develop
 4,se The routing of the federal aid high rsway system of the state has been 8 T . matter of much public interest, as de l, termining the highways on which the 's federal government is willing to par = sticipate, and allow federal funds to be ,o spent. Secretary Wallace's letter, which outlined the federal aid system, and gives other information relative to fed i; eral aid, addressed to w.; $. Keller, as i State highway engineer, is as follows = Mileage Not Exceeded
 ss. After careful consideration of the
 system of federal aid highways selected and submitted by the state highway de partment of Alabama, pursuant to the provisions of Section 6 of the federal highway act, the same is hereby ap.
 proved by me, in accordance with rec e. characterization of the bureau of public roads, which recommendation is based on the certificate of the state highway ? department that according to its rec efds at the time of the passage of the federal highway act, that is, November is Q, 1921, the total highway mileage of sethe state was 56,551 miles, per cent ya6f which would be 3,95S miles. The sv bureau of public roads states that the lE routes which the state highway depart ae ment has selected and designated az | gregate approximately 3,S72 miles, so that the system does not exceed the satmileage allowed by law.
 5oa The routes embraced in the system
 of federal aid highways as approved for lg Alabama are indicated by the follow sg ing control points:
 si '.1. From the Alabama Tennessee -s state line at Ardmore via Athens, De.
 catur, Cullman, Birmingham, Calera, q Clanton, Reese's Ferry, Montgomery, a point near Barachias station, a point 2, near Pine Level, Troy, Ariton, Ozark and Dothan to. the Alabama-F Florida state line near Completion. zat "2. From the Alabama-Tennesse state s line near Fisk via Huntsville, Cobb's "a Ford Bridge, Guntersville, Albertyille,
 Boaz, Attalla, Gadsden, Anniston, OK
 ford, Talladega, Sylacauga, Goodwater - Socapatoy Church, Dadeville. point ! near Camp Hill, and 0pelika to the IzL. sa kaka Cn1, bus, Ga.
 ' Alabana- Mississippi Route
 ''3. From z the Alabama -Mississippi : State line near Bexar via Hamilton |. Guin, Jasper, Birmingham, Pell City 3And a point near Lincoln to Anniston !. and from point on the Federal Aid
 road between AnnistOn and Oxford via | Heflin to the Alabama Georgia State
 line near Tallapoosa, Ga.
 rs A. From the Alabama Mississippi sutate line near Cuba via Livingston, Moscow Bridge, Demopolis, Prairie i vile, Uniontown, Browns Station, Sel- E ma, a point south of Lowndesboro NIontgomery, and Tuskegee to the Ala
 bama-Georgia state line at Columbus,
 Georgia. ,
 "5. From Tuskegee via Opelika to
 the Alabama Georgia state line near West Point, Ga. .s
 "6. From point on. the federal aid road near Selma via a point near Saf- ford, a point near Catherine, a point
 near Thomasville, Grove Hill, and a
 point near Calvert to a point on the
 federal aid road north of Mobile. "7. From the Alabama Mississippi e state line near Grand Bay via Grand t Bay. Mobile and Loxley to the Alabama
 Florida state line near Nunez bridge E "Sy From the Alabama Mississippi 4I state line near Margerum via Tuscum- aa hia. Sheffield, Florence and Athens to
 Huntsville; and from & point on the
 federal aid road east of Cobb's Ford 2. Bridge via Scottsboro and Bridgeport sa to the Alabama -Tennesse state line
 near South Pittsburg. Tennessee. i @. From the Alabama Tennessee - state line neap St. Joseph, Tennessee # tO point on the federal aid road near
 Florence and from Tuscumbia via Rtissellrille and a point near Phil
 Campbell to Hamilton: and from 0uin z via Vernon to the Alabama Mississippi
 state line en route to Columbus, Miss
 TO. From point on the federal aid
 road between Loxley and Mobile via
 Raw Ninette. and FlOmaton to BrewtOn s with a spur from Flomaton to the Ala z hama Florida state line near FlOmaton Ut I'll. From Brewton via Evergreen G;eorgiana, Greenville and Fort Deposit
 to a point on the federal aid road west
 of Montgomery.
 @l "12. From Brewton via Andalusia
 and Luverne to Montgomery.
 FL "f3. From Pell City to Talladega. 2 -i4. From Sylacauga via Rockford. sst to a point on the federal aid road north Iis of Nixburg.
 ig .15. From Montgomery via Wetump