During the five year period prior to July 1, 1921, there will become available to the State of Oregon from the Government Funds set aside by this Act the following amounts:
| For Post Roads | For Forest Roads | ||
| July 1, 1916, to July 1, 1917 | $ 78,687.00 | $ 127,794.00 | |
| July 1, 1917, to July 1, 1918 | 157,375.00 | 127,794.00 | |
| July 1, 1918, to July 1, 1919 | 236,062.00 | 127,794.00 | |
| July 1, 1919, to July 1, 1920 | 314,749.00 | 127 794.00 | |
| July 1, 1920, to July 1, 1921 | 393,437.00 | 127,794.00 | |
| Totals | $ 1,180,310.00 | $ 638,970.00 | |
Total amount of government funds apportioned to the State of Oregon for co-operative work. $1,819,280.00.
With the funds thus apportioned to the State, the Government will co-operate on approved road projects to not to exceed fifty per cent of their cost. Therefore, the State, or the State co-operating with the Counties, must provide amounts at least equal to the amounts set aside by the Federal Government in order to avail itself of the funds apportioned to it.
In 1917, the State Legislature passed a bill accepting the terms of the Federal Government’s co-operative offer and authorizing the issue of bonds to the amount of $1,819,280.00 to provide the funds necessary to match the Government funds. There is thus available for expenditure on post and forest roads in the State during the five years prior to July 1, 1921, the following amounts:
| For Post Road Projects: | ||||
| Federal Government Funds | $ 1,180,310.00 | |||
| State Funds | 1,180,310.00 | |||
| $ 2,360,620.00 | ||||
| For Forest Road Projects: | ||||
| Federal Government Funds | $ 638,970.00 | |||
| State Funds | 638,970.00 | |||
| 1,277,940.00 | ||||
| Total | $ 3,638,560.00 | |||
For Post Road Projects the plans are prepared, contracts let and work supervised by the State Highway Department, subject, of course, to approval and acceptance by the Secretary of Agriculture through the Federal Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. For Forest Road Projects, the plans are prepared, contracts let and work supervised by the Federal Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering acting for the Secretary of Agriculture. The State Highway Department is, therefore, directly responsible for the work done on Post Road Projects, whereas on Forest Road Projects the responsibility rests with the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, the State Highway Department simply approving the projects and auditing the claims presented by the Federal Government against the State’s share of the funds.
It is the policy of the Highway Department to match the Government Funds with equal amounts from State Funds only, any County Funds which may be available being used to increase the total amounts available rather than to reduce the amount of State co-operation. On projects approved to November 30, 1918, the amount of these additional funds provided by counties is approximately $325,000.00.
POST ROAD PROJECTS
Up to November 30, 1918, fifteen Post Road Projects had been submitted to the Office of Public Roads for approval. Of these fifteen projects nine have received approval, three have been rejected as not complying with the government requirements as regards rural and star route mail service over them, and three are pending action by the Secretary of Agriculture. The rejected projects were the Wolf Creek-Grave Creek project in Josephine county, the Canyonville-Galesville project in Douglas County, and the Myrtle Creek-Dillard project also in Douglas County. The first and third of these projects have since been constructed without government co-operation, and the second is under construction as a “Forest Road.”