192 ANNUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



projects which under ordinary conditions would have been of first 

 importance was definitely shelved until after the Avar. As a result, 

 the number of projects approved for work this year is comparatively 

 small, and the anticipated expenditures considerably below the ap- 

 propriations. 



Comparatively few National Forest road projects can qualify for 

 approval under the policy adopted by the United States Highways 

 Council. A few projects, such as the Hornbro,ok-Seiad road in Cali- 

 fornia, will prove to be of national economic importance through 

 giving access to or promoting the output of necessary materials. 

 Aside from projects of this class and certain others where the im- 

 j^rovement of comparatively short sections is needed in order that 

 work already done may be made available for the use of local com- 

 munities, it seems probable that work on National Forest roads dur- 

 ing the war will be confined largely to maintenance and repair, and 

 to the construction and improvement of roads necessary to the pro- 

 tection of public property or to the relief of acute local needs. For 

 this reason it is anticipated that a greater mileage of road will be 

 maintained and a larger amount of money spent on maintenance and 

 repair work than in any preceding year. This work will be paid for 

 almost entirely from the 10 per cent appropriation. With the ex- 

 ception of investigative and survey work, the section 8 work will be 

 largely at a standstill, and the money will be allowed to accumulate 

 in the Treasury until the end of the war. 



Amounts available for roads and trails from fiscal year 1919 funds. 



State. 



Alaska 



Arizona 



Arkansas 



California 



Colorado 



Idaho 



Montana 



Nevada 



New Mexico . . 



Oregon 



South Dakota 



Utah 



Washington.. 



Wyoming 



F orida 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Nebraska 



Oklalioma 



10 per cent 

 item. 



$9, 656 



37,034 



3, 796 



43,441. 



35,641. 



42, 870 



30, 639 



8, 670. 



27, 428. 



38, 074. 



6, 120 



22, 922. 



16,982 



16,238 



924 



36. 



3,214 



923. 



603. 



Section 8 



Federal 



aid road 



act. 



$47, 



54, 



9, 



141, 

 63, 



104, 



n, 



19, 



37, 



132. 



7, 

 39, 

 92, 

 41, 



061 

 318 

 875 

 558 

 932 

 700 

 664 

 228 

 811 

 796 

 992 

 370 

 565 

 510 



9,955 



State. 



Alabama 



Georgia 



Maine 



New Hampshire. 

 North Carolina. . . 

 South Carolina... 



Tennessee 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



Special fund 



Total... 



10 per cent 

 item. 



S12.99 

 172.50 

 114.83 



1,267.85 



629. 83 



38.65 



489. 78 



2, 292. 29 

 294. 21 



350, 533. 74 



Section 8 



Federal 



aid road 



act. 



$25,665 



100.000 



1,000,000 



In consequence of the strain put on the Forest force by its deple- 

 tion through war demands and by the bad fire season, the usual 

 reports covering various classes of work were not called for at the 

 close of the fiscal year, which falls at the busiest period. It is there- 

 fore impossible to include in this report the usual details regarding 

 the construction of improvements of various kinds. The general 

 policy now governing all Work of this character is to make no 

 demands upon the country's supplies of labor and materials which 

 can be avoided without detriment to the national effort for bringing 

 the war to a successful issue and for reasonable readiness to meet 

 oost-war conditions. 



