The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-01
CONNECTICUT GETS
 HIGH RANKING FOR
 STATES PAVEMENT I

1 Connecticut has expended $14, ,934, 176 for state highway purposes up to Jan uary 1, 1915, according to statistics just issued by the United States De-
 partment of Agriculture on state high
 way mileage and expenditures in the United States for the past 20 years The statistics were prepared by the
 division of road economies of the of flee of public roads and rural engin- eering.
 1 In the year 1914 sConnecticut expend- ed $5,0e6, TSP for road work, standing seventh in the list of states in the amount so expended. New York spent the greatest amount having paid out
 s2s, ,89O,473 during the year. In Con necticut $1, 400, ,0O0 was expended in road work by counties, townships and districts, $1, 572, ,506 in joint funds. and $S, 431 657 in state funds, while g, 2,124,276 was expended solely at the expense of the state. The state money available for road work on January was $1,- tOo0, ,0o0.
 The total state money expended for road work from the outset to January l. 1915, was $14, ,934 ,176 in Connecticut Only three other states have expended a larger Massachusetts, New Esetts has expended $16. 1885 s425: New
 York, ss2.6ss. .72e;S and Pennsylvania, $24, ,25e. .954.
 Connecticut stands 23rd in the list
 of states in the number of miles of surfaced roads in the statey having 1 3, 300 miles In the number of n1ilesaof all public roads in the state it stands near the foot of the list, having only F. 582 miles. Only five other states have smaller mileage than this Arizona, Delaware, Rhode Island, Utah and Wyoming. Nevada comes
 closest to having the same mileage as Connecticut, with a total of 12.751
 miles Massachusetts has IT, PIE miles, New Hampshire 15,116 miles, Vermont l IS, O8z miles, Maine 25,528 miles and Rhode Island 2,121 miles. With the exception of Rhode Island, therefore, lConnecticut has less mileage than any other state in this section. Rhode Is- Hand has the smallest amount of any state in the Union.
 In Connecticut the percentage. of Surfaced roads is 26.2 In this regard the state stands seventh in the list of
 percentage, over half of it's roads be- 1 ling surfaced. The percentage is s58-S.
 Ten other states built fewer miles lof state and state aid roads in 1914
 than did Connecticut The total in i this state was 199 miles. Here again
 Rhode Island is last on the list It built two miles. The figures of only
 27 states are given in this list, which
 puts Connecticut about halfway down
 the list.
 | " hen 1t comes to the total mileage | of state and state-aids roads built to
 ganuary 1, 1915, Conneetieut makes a
 better showing. standing tenth in a list of .27 states, and having total of I 1,282 miles.
 Connecticut stands eighth in a list of IS states in the number of miles of
 roads maintained with state aid dur ing 1914s when 1,125 miles were so l maintained.
 The table of the distribution of ex- l penditures under state control for the
 year 1914 shows that Connecticut scent
 s1,307 1881 from the state and $2s5125
 from local units and ,$2.214, ,276 for work done solely. at the expense of the state.
 In the contribution from state funds
 it stands seventh in the list and in the I amount expended. solely at the ex- pense of the state, sixth.