The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-14
new PUBLIC WORKS
PROGRAM SPEEDED
TO PROVIDE LABOR
Items Already Approved Total
$753,513,610, Including
Federal Projects

Washington, July 14.-(P)-The pub
lie works administration Friday told
how it intended to distribute $ll5,-
513,6l0 as the first step in a program
to create a million new jobs by Oct-
ober I.
That sl15,513,el0, Secretary 1ckes
announced, will be portioned out this
way; $64,561 $40 for federal public
works; $4,000, 900 for roads in parks
forests. Indian reservations and pub
lie lands; $685. for municipal water
and sewer plants.
These brought to $753,5l3,6lO the
total allocated from the $4,000, 600, O0C
fund made available less than q
month ago. Already, President Roose-
welt had approved the expenditure OF
$238, 900 900 on naval construction and
$40O, 900, 900 on highways. An add.
tional rivers and harbors program
awaits the presidential O. K"
This ($l15, 900 ,0O0) distribution,
Ickes said, lis the first in the program
Of giving men work so that one mil
lion may be employed by October /
I'm accordance with President Roose-
velt's expressed WISH"
Many Projects Pending
A vast number" Of additional pro-
jects are pending before the public
works board which he heads, Ickes
said, adding that only the non con-
troversial had been acted upon first.
The biggest single amount in the
items announced Friday was $38 ,O00,-
600 for the great power and irrigation
project on the Boulder Canyon In
Colorado.
The International Boundary COM
missioners were allowed 81 $4,000
chiefly for Strengthening the Rio
Grande and controlling its flow, under
a treaty with Mexico.
In most other cases, the federal
funds were allotted by bureaus and
departments.
To the agriculture department was
given $2,060,l54; to the commerce de-
partment $6,076,55l, of which $3.50,
55l Is for the lighthouse service, $780,
600 for the bureau Of fisheries and
SAB 900 for the bureau Of aeronautics:
to interior, $53,042,31 mostly for the
bureau, but including $2.-
$40, 900 for Indian schools and hospi-
tails and $l,250,00o for improvements
to national parks; to labor, 1874, 480
for improving immigration stations.
Plan Divisional Set-up
The 10 divisions set up by the board
Tor administering advances to the
state and local government units for
purposes include:
3 Observation-Disclosures, Michigan, In
diana and Ohio.
4-North Dakota, South Dakota. Me-
braska, Minnesota, Iowa and Wyom-
ing.
5-Montana, Idaho, Washington and
Oregon.
Allegations by states OF the $50 00o,-
900 fund for forest, park and Indian
reads under the public works fund
was announced Friday.
The distribution, including nearly
every state In the union, includes:
Minnesota $3.50. 300; Montana $3,641.-
1903: North Dakota $l48,739: South
Dakota $476,256.
ALLEGATION Of the $64,561 $40 fund
for federal public works projects in
many states includes:
Office OF Indian affairs $3.50 900
for schools, hospitals and equipment
on reservations.
National park service $l,25o,00o for
all parts.
OF Minnesota's road total, $157,30
vas allotted for forest highways:
$50, 900 for forest roads and $4,000
for Indian roads.
In North Daokta Indian roads were
allotted $4,000 and public land high
ways SIS, 739.
South Dakota's Indian roads allot-
ment was $4,000; forest highways
sl30,565; forest roads 10000 and pub
lie land highways $95,69l.