Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1919 — $574,000,000 FOR BETTER ROADS [ARTICLE]

$574,000,000 FOR BETTER ROADS

Indiana’s Alottment Totals $6,885,762 if State Meets Conditions. Washington, - March 6.—ls the states should co-operate fully with the federal government in road building in the next three years there will be available $574,000,000 for the work. The postoffice appropriation bill, which “has emerged from the crush in the congress and has been signed by the president, makes an extra appropriation of $209,000,000 for road building. States must do their part'in order to participate in this federal appropriation. Indiana’s alottment under the original -federal aid act combined with the extra appropriation provided in the bill is $ 1,621,077.08 for the fiscal year, $2,56 1,816.86 for 1920 and $2,699,838.8'1 for 1921, making $6,885,762.74 for the three years. To obtain this money the state must* appropriate a like sum from its own treasury. "