The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-10-21
GOOD ROADS BILL
81 WILL GIVE us
$36,OOO,OOO FUND

Montana's Federal Highway
system, as des gnated by the U.
is. Bureau of Public Roads, totals
400 miles, traverses every coun-
ty, and connects with all of the
Sc county seats.
Eleven hundred miles of the
Federal system have been com
pleted and 300 miles are yet to
be built by the state under the
proposed measure. The U. S.
Forest Service will build 500
miles in the national forest re-
serves on this Federal system.
Bill No. 81 adds one cent to the
present gasoline tax. The in
creased tax will yield 20 million
dollars in ten years; the U. S..
Government VIII add 16 million
dollars of Federal Aid. and the
SO million dollar total will be
available to the state for con-
struction, maintenance, and ex-
tension of the states Federal sys-
tenn. This includes bridges.
No Tax on Distillate
The two-cent tax imposed on
distillate by the present gas tax
law will be abolished.
A separate and distinct state
highway program, financed by the
gasoline tax collected from the
motoring public, IS per cent of
whom are town and city people,
is created by Bill No. 81, leaving
the counties free TO construct and
maintain their w systems of
intermediate roads for the far
mers with their regular road lew
'es and their motor license fees.
they will retain under the
proposed law as they do now.
Good Roads Save Car Wear
The added one-cent tax will q
cost the average motor vehicle
Nwner only $3.50 a year, allow f
ng him 5000 miles driving at Is u
to the gallon of gas. For n
his trifling sum he will save him V
elf two cents a mile in gas con-
umption, tire wear, and general tt
expectation by reason of i'm d.
roved roads, and at the same G.
ime secure $36,0O0,000 for the 10
tate and make possible a high A
vay system for Montana that will
ompare ~favorably with any other ia
BIZ
Good roads will protect Mon M
mas so million dollar investment 81
100000 motor vehicles, valued be
$500 each, and the extra $3.50 sic
but ~two-ffths of one per cent pa
the investment. su
Due, to her immense area. more er.
sderal Aid is allotted to Mon SIP.
Ia than to any Of the eleven
estern states except California, ev
these states have from 1885,
0 to S7,686,00O in their high co.
~ funds, while Montana will be
able to match any of the Fed
AID offered unless Bill No. gre
is carried. W.
Many States Raise Rates
Twenty-eight states have adopt an,
the gas tax law or have in fo,,
9ased their gas tax rates since ems
nuary l., 1925. North Dakota's {
g was increased one cent on cor
ne 80 this year, and Texas ert,
;sed a law last month raising {
gas tax from one to three sch
It's. Z
Of the total SO million dollars o,at
be spent by the state during hon
ten-year period, Montana la {
will get 27 million dollars, or wog
per cent, and II per cent will m.
for materials. T
Bill No. 81 provides that no cor,
re than s per cent of the ser,
dis involved may be spent for
.ineering and administration.
his measure is a pay-as-you- -.
plan, with no interest bearing u n
d sales, and no sinking funds. l n
Tontana will lose S~7,751,66O in
eral Aid allotted in the next
years alone if Bill No. 81
5, and will be the only state
Union not accepting gov r,
nent assistance for its state Dobse
building program. Roos
lways Get Only 3 Cent Now tere.
My Is per cent, or three pare
his of a cent, out of each two been
tax collected on gasoline in 5,
sr the present gas tax law and
goes to the state highways, to O
that for maintenance alone. ture
per cent Of the pres 10
gas tax evenu is divided c,co,,r
ng the fifty-six counties, or rain
than oneIhalf per cent of the This
amount collected. norte
n every dollar of gas tax anv
nue. the county would lose lions
:. +b nropocod Iarrr ~ r,o,,Ld