Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1917 — Indiana to Receive a Quarter Million For Roads. [ARTICLE]

Indiana to Receive a Quarter Million For Roads.

Indiana will receive $271,954.24 from, the federal government during the year ending June 30, 1918, as federal aid in the construction of highways if the present assembly enacts a law creating a state highway department. Governor Goodrich has received a communication from the office of the secretary of agriculture, giving the apportionment 'made of the $10,000,QOO which will be distributed among the states during the first year of the operation of the federal bill approved July 11, 1916, providing foi federal aid in the construction of roads. The sum of $75,000,000 will be distributed under the provision df the act in five years. The act provides, however, for participation in the fund only by states having highway departments with which the government may co-oper-ate. The sum of $300,000 is reserved for the first year’s distribution for administering the provisions of the act.