The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-14
TAB ON RURAL ROADS
Mileage and Cost of Public High.
ways In United States.
TEXAS FIRST, MISSOURI NEXT
Outside of Settlements In 1904 United
States Had 2,151,570 MiIes-But IA
Per Cent Of All American Roads
Have Been Improved.

While it is known in a general way
that some parts of the United States
have made greater progress than 9th
ers in the Improvement of the public
roads and that enormous sums are eX-
pended annually on road construction
and repairs, there has been no infor-
nation compiled up to the present time
showing just what has been accom-
plished and how much is expended an
nually for this purpose in the United
States says Il Washington dispatch to
the st. Louis Republic
The office of the public roads in the
agricultural department recently com
pleted the collection, compilation and
publication of information from every
county of the United States in regard
to the mileage of improved and unim-
proved country roads in the year 1904,
and the expenditures on roads and
bridges from property and poll taxes.
bond issues and state funds under the
state aid laws, and the amount of val
uc of the labor expended under the
statute labor laws.
In 1904 there were 21J1 $40 miles of
public roads in the United States. or
this mileage 10S232.0 miles were sur
faced and gravel, 3S,G21.7 miles were
stone, and G,S00.7 miles were special
materials, such as shells, sand-clay, oil
and brick, making in all 1913, GGl.3 miles
of improved road From this it follows
a.. - 1e t,, t1,n
United States have been improved
BY comparing the total road mileage
with the area of all the states and ter
rtorles 1t appears that there was 10
of mile of road per square mile Of
territory. a comparison of road mile
age with population shows that there
was one mile of road TO every thirty
five inhabitants and one mile of i'm
proved road to every 492 inhabitants.
The 2,151 $40 miles of public roads in
the United States do not include roads
In Indian Territory, Alaska and the is
land possessions. The mileage of roads
does not include streets or boulevards
In Incorporated cities and villages.
The majority of all the roads in the
United States were originally laid out
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