The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-07-17

Approximately $2,65S,0OO Will
be expended for federal aid and
state highway construction and re-
pair work in Montana during the
present year. OF this mount the
state and the counties affected will
- S671,OOO, the balance, nearly
$4,000 900, being paid by the gov
eminent. This information was a
part of an announcement made re-
Gently by the state highway COM
mission, summarizing the 1924
program. Nearly one-third of the
total will be expended on Indian
reservation roads.
Contracts for 20 federal aid pro-
jects were awarded by the commits
sion from January 1 to June 30,
last, for the construction Of 108.49
miles of gravel surfaced roads at
a total estimated cost of $1,303,356,
the government to pay 1913 per cent
of this amount, the %ate and coun-
ty share being only 23.7 per cent, or
S30S.350. The low per cent charged
to the state and county funds in the
1924 contracts is due to the heavy
Indian reservation construction. IN
der the usual federal aid plan the
state and county pay 1896 per cent
of the total highway and bridge
construction costs, the government
paying the balance.
The remainder OF the highway
1-HEnls4-r oc for tho Un1T
are divided as follows: work On
contracts carried over from last
year. S75O,O0O; contracts still to be
let, 100000; forest highway con-
tracts. the entire cost to be paid by
the government s375,000; repairs to
bridges and 500 miles of completed
federal aid projects at an average
cost of 1925 a mile, 1925, 600.
Of the 20 contracts awarded this
year IA we're for road and bridge
construction on Indian reservations,
comprising nearly "a miles of gravel
%surfacing, which with the estimated
cost of bridges brings the total es-
timated reservation expenditures to
$853,472, the state and county share
being only S93,516. The state re-
ceives 100 per cent federal aid on
Indian reservation roads the only
expense charged to the state and
county is for road construction on
non-Indian lands. Indian lands in
clude all tribal tracts and allotments
being described as land set aside for
Indian use, except tracts for which
fee patents have been obtained, and
on which taxes are paid.
Contracts for forest highway con-
struction will be let during the lat
ter part of this month or early in
August, the commission announced.
The survey for these roads has been
made and plans prepared by the For
est Road division of the federal bur-
eau of public roads, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The allot-
ments for forest highways, however,
are made upon the recommendation
of the state highway commission and
the contracts are subject to the in
cpetion and supervision of the COM
mission.
Contracts awarded by the state
1 to June 80 last include:
Huffine-Lane 2.93 miles of gravel
surfacing and small bridges between
Bozeman and Salesville in Gallatin
OOuALJ5 at Al Cot4uldLSQ COSL VI
$25,919.
Belgrade-SalesvilIe 3.78 miles of
gravel surfacing and small bridges
between Belgrade and S~alesville at
an estimated cost of S27, 064.
Little Big Horn river bridge, a
Grow reservation project, in Big
Horn county, for a steel riveted span
120 feet long, at an estimated cost of
$21,769.
Browning-Carlow 1923 miles Of
gravel s%urfacing on the Roosevelt
highway crossing the Blackfoot In
dian reservation at an estimated cost
of $104,035. Two bridges will also
be built On this road at an estimated
cost of $9,043.
Arlee-Ravalli, 3.96 miles Of gravel
%surfacing on the Yellowstone trail
west from Arlee, at an estimated cost
of $28,265.
joke River project, a 90-foot steel
span on concrete abutments over the
joke river on the Yellowstone trail
in Lake county, in the Flathead reser-
walton, at an estimated cost Of
$13,6O7.
Pine Creek-Emigrant, PIT miles
of gravel s%urfacing and small steel
bridges on the Yellowstone trail be-