Evening star., 1916-01-02
Counties Along Great Road Ex-
pected to Appropriate
Over $40, 100000.
ONE-TENTH OF MILEAGE
AT LEAST TO BE PAVED
W. S. Gilbreath, Field Secretary of
Association, Gives Interesting Data
Concerning the Project.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, January l.
Over $1,765,200 expended in six months
on the Dixie highway alone in fifty
counties is the wonderful story of prog
ress CLEANED from the reports to date
This is only a foretaste of what will
be accomplished, as these counties are
preparing to spend S6,931,0O0 within
the next twelve months. AS the coun-
ties have not been selected for special
progress, but are from all the states as
they have reported, it is a reasonable
assumption. that they are typical of
the average They represent less than
a third of the total number of counties.
Using a multiple of three. you have an
estimate of over $s,300,e00 spent on
the Dixie highway to date, and over
s20.793. 900 to be expended says w. S.
Gilbreath, field secretary of the Dixie
Highway Association.
Another sign of progress is the large
mileage of permanent roads built or
under contract Fifty counties show
that nearly tenth of the entire mile
age is or will be paved road Using
only a multiple of two to represent the
other 112 counties, you have soodiE
portion of the road built for perma-
nence. The preparations being made
for even greater progress along this
line are highly gratifying. Entire d.
visions of the highway are planning
paved roads for their entire stretch.
Notably among these are from Chicago
to Danville, ILL.,; Toledo to Cincinnati.
Ohio: Jacksonville to Mama, Fla, and
from Tallahassee to Barlow, Fla.
The Reports by States.
"The reports by states show that in
seven out of eighteen counties in Ken
lucky there has been expended sl35,ooo.
In Ohio eight counties out of twelve
and not including Hamilton county, OF
which Cincinnati is the county site,
there has been expended s3Ss,00O. Five
counties out of twenty-five in Florida
spent s6O1, 900 on the Dixie highway in
the past six months Six counties out
of eighteen in Tennessee spent S173,OO0.
Four counties out of five in Illinois. and
not including Cook county, of which
Chicago is the metropolis, spent s252,-
900 in the past six months, while ten
counties out of twenty-four in Georgia
spent $4,000. And yet this large ex-
penditure is only a small proportion
of the expenditure to be made, as many
Of the counties have merely made
preparations for going to work on
their section of the highway, ana thelr
money will not be available until later.
'In the fifty counties reporting to
the association provisions have been
made for spending s6.931.0 900 on the
Dixie highway alone. Again using the
multiple of three, the total is in ex-
cess of s20,000.00o To the uninltiated,
this immense sum of money for the
construction of the Dixie highway may
seem preposterous and out of reason
Yet when the statement is itemiZed by
counties the reasonableness of it can
be plainly seen.
This amount is divided by states, as
follows: Illinois, s1,250,O0O; Ohio, ST.
100000: Tennessee, $924,000: Florida.
50, 900; Indiana, s126.O00; Kentucky,
s765.000. and Georgia. s151,O00.
Bond Issue Voted by Florida.
The bond issue which has been
voted in the state of Florida alone dur
ing the past six months is now in ex-
cess of $6,O00,000 The majority of
these counties are traversed by the
Dixie highway, and the highway will
receive goodly portion of it, 1t can
be conservatively stated that within
the next six months this bond issue
will be doubled as far as the state of
Florida is concerned. Bond elections
for the month of January alone will
worth of bonds. Two counties in that
state have set their goal at a million
dollars in bonds.
From the reports received from the
fifty counties over 367 miles in these
counties are either paved now or con-
brick or asphalt. From a survey of
the entire highway on the basis of the
submitted, it is safe to say that
a seventh, or over 500, of the entire
of the Dixie highway is paved
BY the end of 1916 over 300 miles will
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