The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-17
STATE STOCKING
Will BE FILLED
this CHRISTMAS
In All, About $3O,OOO,OOO Win
Be Expended in Montana
During Coming Year

HELENA - MOntana's Christmas
stocking will be filled this year, for
total expenditures of about $50, 100000
in Montana during 1927 have already
been announced by state and federal
governments and by the public service
corporations. This will be the largest
yearly expenditure by these agencies
for a decade.
Reclamation projects account for
$4,294,0O0 of this total. Expenditures
on reclamation projects are announced
as follows: st. Mary Canal, $4,000;
Gibson reservoir and Fort Shaw dis
tribution system, Sun River $685.
600; Lower Yellowstone system, Mon
tana-North Dakota, $46O, 900.
Railroads Program
The transportation companies have
announced total expenditures Of ap-
proximately $12,000,000 for 1927. Half
will be expended for maintenance and
repairs and half for new lines, M
from Glendive to Brockway, the other
from Florence through Stevensiville
and Hamilton along the Bitter Root
river. Both lines extend through pro-
sperous farming districts. The North
ern Pacific will spend 100000 upon
the shops at Laurel. The Great Nor
thern will construct a 33-mile extern
sion in the Redwater valley from
Richey to Circle. This line will be
on the route of the New Rockford
Lewistown cutoff, partly built before
. the war and discontinued in 1919. Ex-
I penditures upon these three branch
S lines will be about $5,O0O,OOO. I'M
mediately after the confirmation Of
the receivers sale Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad COM
pany, held in Butte during the latter
: part of November, it was announced
:: that the identification Of this road
4 from Harlowton to the coast would
a be completed as rapidly as possible
and that this work would entail an
; expenditure of $50, DOG 1000. The build
= ing of feeder lines is also seriously
: under consideration. The milwaukee,
y has announced improvements to b'
= made in the shops at Miles City.
A construction program calling fol
expenditures of $4,000, 900 has beer
!" announced by the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph company.
$4,000, 900 for Roads
Annual expenditures for good roads
n by state. federal and county agencies
a viii be about S6,OOO,O 900 for the mex
year. The regular expenditures b!
counties amount to about $2,OOO,OO'
annually. At the last general electloI
h of November 2 a measure. providing
ID for a three-cent tax upon all gasolin,
% consumed, carried. Montana has
larger balance Of federal aid fund
ly available for new highway construc
ton than any other state. The fun'
m now amounts to $4,455, 1896 which ma,
he be expended if matched by state o
county Ii This will bring i
n about $1,000, 900 annually to the Stat
er Highway Commission and with fedora
r. aid and county expenditures will meal
re total road expenditures of about So
100000 in 1927.
a Cascade county has announced tina
to 81, 100. 900 for two new public schoo
re buildings will be expended in 1927.
The state Of Montana is more pros
porous at present than at any time TO
ut the past five or six years. The out
ce look is that 1927 win be even a bette
a year than 1926.
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