The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-12
WILL IMPROVE
PUBLIC ROADS
Various Ssates to Expend ST.
100000 Day During the
Present Season.
GREAT INTEREST TAKEN
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
California Issues $4,000, 900
in Bonds to Build a System
of State Highways.
Specinl 70 The Tribune.

Special 70 The Tribune.
WASHINGTON. June 11.-One million
dollars a day Ia the record that will be
established throughout the United states
az the expenditure for improving and
maintaining public roads. Never before
In the history of the country has there
been such interest In the Improvement OF
highways, end with the legislatures OF the
states appropr!aung millions of dollars
for this purpose, the good roads move
mont has received Its greatest impetus
sinoe the foundation Of the republic.
The money that will be expended on
the roads of this country during the
next SIX months will be more than ever
before In the same period OF time. In
1904 the total expenditure for the con-
etruction and maintenance of roads and
bridges In the United States amounted
to about $50, 600, 900, but the expenditure
for this purpose In 1911 will aggregate
about $140,60o, 900. Exclusive OF Sundays
will amount to sl000.000 day during
the present road building season. This
includes all moneys raised by local TAXA
ton, bond issues, state appropriations and
private subscriptions.
At Work All Over the Country.
livery state in the Union" said Logan
Waller Page, in telling Of the results OF
the great campaign for good roads.
Seems at last TO be thoroughly aroused
to the benefits derived from investments
in improved highways. In California. the
state has Issued $4,000. 600 In bonds with
which TO build a system OF state high
ways. This work will begin during the
present season, In the state Of Connect
cut about s2.250.o 600 will be expended this
year out OF the state treasury for trunk |
line and state-aid roads: OF the .s5,0co,ooo
land, over sl.250. 600 will be available
this year for trunk-line and state aid
roads Massachusetts will expend from
state revenues over 81 900. 600 for the con- |
gtruCtlOn
roads.
1T is expected that at least $4,000. 900
on trunk-line systems in the state OF
New York, in addition to s7,o00.oO0 al
ready raised by local taxation. More
money is being devoted TO road improve,
ment in New York than In any other
state in the Union, and the percentage
OF improved roads in that state has In
creased from I.s per cent in 1904 to SO
per cent In 1909.
North Carolina Has 100000 to Spend
"oyer s2.0o0,o00 is available In North
counties for road improvement this year,
and the legislature has authorized the
OF road from the Atlantic
ocean to the Tennessee line. distance
OF 425 miles.
IN 1910 thirty counties in Ohio voted
s2.oOO.Oo0 IN bonds to be expended this
year year, Ohio Ohio will also expend about $500 600
ment. In Pennsylvania the state-ald
appropriation will probably amount to
over sl,ooo.ooo and a s5o.ooo. 1000 bond ls-
sue Is being considered. Various coun-
ties in Tennessee will expend si.500. 900
from bond issues. Over 900 will be
from bond issues in various
counties in Texas In Virginia 50. 500. 900
has been authorized by various counties
to be expended this year. while over
$4,000 has been appropriated in the
state OF Wisconsin. In accordance with
the state-aid system.
The prospect for complete system
Of public roads throughout the United
States Is better now than ever before in
the history Of the country and a uniform
ty OF recent good road laws gives promise
that this country will eventually take
ts place with France in having the most
sensible system OF road supervision and 1
.