(From the Forest Service, U, 3. Department of Agriculture.) 



FEDERAL COOPERATION NOT RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION 



FOR GOOD ROADS UNTIL OCTOBER 9, 1913. 



Secretary Houston of ths department of agriculture 

 says that the state and federal governments should v:ork to- 

 gether for highway improvement in order that a large propor- 

 tion of the money annually spent for road construction nay not 

 be v/asted. 



In his ov/n department the office of public roads has 

 been demonstrating the vp.lue of proper ropd building by the 

 construction of certain object-lesson roads, and the forest 

 service is carrying out his idea of national and state coopera- 

 tion in road building. The lav/ requires that ten per cent of 

 the gross receipts from the national forests shall be spent in 

 the states in which the forests are situated. This money is 

 expended for road improvement under direct control of the sec- 

 retary of agriculture. 



The amount appropriated under this act, based on the 

 receipts of the national forests for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1913, is $234,638.68. From the 1912 receipts for this 

 ten per cent road item, there is an additional $134,831.10, which 

 is still available. 



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