The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-03
SAYS north DAKOTA
WOULD GET Big sum
FROM FEDERAL TILL
Committee Predicts So, 900, 900
Will Be Available For
Roadbuilding

North Dakota would receive apr
proximately 100000 in federal aid
for highway construction during the
next two years under measures pre-
pared for introduction in congress,
according to q report announced
Wednesday by a special conservation
committee that conferred with off,
Gals in Washington.
The committee consisted Of r. E.
Kennedy, state engineer; F.. E. Cobb,
state forester; A. D. McKinnon, for
mer head Of the highway commits
sion; r. A. Kinzer, emergency relief
commissioner, and G. v. Turner Of
the game and fish commission.
The committee has been made per-
manent by Governor LANCER.
In their report, members Of the
committee said a special appropria-
ton bill for federal aid highway con-
struction will be introduced in con-
sress with the support Of the nation
al administration. The act, to pro-
vide for a program Of public works,
will include an item Of $500, 900 900
for construction Of roads In the vari-
Gus states.
This should be 100 per cent fed
eral aid emergency unemployment
relief measure and will mean ap-
proximately 100000 for highway
construction In North Dakota during
the next two years." the report said.
North Dakota has made plans COW
ering approximately 1900 miles Of
highway improvement, the commit
tee reported. These projects, with
present uncompleted contracts, would
furnish employment for approximate
ly $4,000 men, and could be placed
under contract within 60 days II fed
eral funds are made available, the
report said.
Applications for $1l4,505 were ap-
proved by the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation for May for about
80 counties in North Dakota, while
promises were given that $150,000
would be available for June.
Provide Work Relief
Members said 1t Is proposed that
this money be used for work relief
instead Of direct relief as In the past.
BY work relief, these men can be used
for constructing dams and planting
trees, payment for which will be in
the form Of credit for subsistence
such as food and clothing.
Survey notes and plans with maps
showing location of 107 proposed
dams ana tree-planting projects, with
location Of IL proposed civilian con-
servation corps camps in North Da-
kota, were filed by the committee
with the U. s. forest service in WASH
ington.
The committee reported that con-
ferenceS were held with 10 congress
men and senators from 10 states. A
committee of one congressional rep
resentative from each Of these states
signed petition to be presented to
President Roosevelt, calling the presi-
dents attention that there are many
states requiring first program un-
der which forests can be grown.
The petition asks the president to
give those states the same benefit of
forestation in the future as Is given
to those states in which forests have
grown naturally.
Such projects, the report said, will
necessarily include the construction
OF works which will conserve water
land thus furnish the life for for
eStation."
The committee requested that state
quotas be assigned as far as possible
to such water conservation projects
as the individual states may desig-
nate.