The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-08
SOUTH LEADS
NCOOD ROAD
CONSTRUCTION
Virginia, Carolina, and Nilsson.
ri Bond Issues Place South
ern States Ahead of
Nation.
FAVOR DUsTLESs TYPE
Noiselessness, Resiliency and
Freedom From Dirt Are
Popular Features
of Plans.

ATLANTA Ga. by aill-Rcccni
provision by the legislatures Of North
Carolina, Virginia, Missouri and orher
southern states for bond issues 10 pro-
vide funds for extensive highway CON
struction have placed she states of the
South far to the front in the matter of
good roads. North Carolina has pro-
yideG bond issue Of s500OGO00. Vir-
ginia Si000O0O0 and Missouri S6O.0OO,-
600.
Texas is already doing a large amount
of construction work. having completed
100 new projects involving l.l06l miles
at total cost Of S7.366.3l4 and now
building 1872 projects ii total cost of
S26.g55,34S. Niueiy-iwo other projects
10 cost about s4.0OO,00O more have been
approved. At an expenditure Of S3.-
100000 the state of Georgia has com
plered 62 new road projects in SO coln
ties. In addition l6l projects in IL
counties involving an expenditure of
sl4.000,000 are under way. Plans are
being prepared for rs additional pro-
jccls in 50 counties at a cost Of $1,000.
600.
In South Carolina a good roads asso.
ciai,on was organized recently with the
object of securing at the next session of
the legislature a S50.00O.000 bond issue
for a state highway system. Florida,
Georgia, New Mexico, Tennessee and
Louisiana are doing considerable work
and there is much discussion Of the need
for better highways in Mississippi. Ken.
tucky, New Mexico, West Virginia. and
Alabama.
Reports TO Highway Information ser
vice for July show new contemplated bond
issues for road building and street paw
ing in southern states as follows: Ala
bama, $4,000; Arizona. $4,000: Ark.
ansas, $4,000; florida. Si.6O5. 600:
Georgia, s853000: Kentucky. s995.00G:
Louisiana. S63l,000: Mississippi. $780,.
900; Missouri. s6O,38O,OOO; North Car.
olina, s6,775, 400; Oklahoma. s8l5. 600;
South Carolina, sl.7O9OOO: Tennessee.
sl.670.0OO; Texas, sll.2Ol .OCO; Virginia.
S2O0.000; and West Virginia. Sl5.727.-
600.
The growing demand for good roads
in the South has provoked considerable
discussion as TO the cheapest and mas,
durable types of pavement. Statistics
show that for hard surfaced roads the
asphaltic types are in greatest general
use. The popularity of these types. c.
pecially those of the st1e; Gsf.ilali. the
asphaltic concrete and asphaltic macad.
am. is due 10 their long wearing quail
lies, resiliency against traffic impact,
dustlcssness, noiselessness, cleanliness
and low cost of upkeep. Brick and
concrete roads have also developed as
have the wooden block and granite block
types. The most recent available fig.
ures give Ali per cent Of the surfaced
roads in the United States as being Of
gravel, 25.22 per cent as macadam. l7.l3
per cent sand-clay. 1923 per cent as.
phalt and other bilunincus materials.
3.9l per cent concrete and o.62 per cent
brick. TIE figures for the asphaltic and
brick types, total of 1888 per cent.
show the extent to which city types Of
pavement have been adopted in the rural
districts.
The extent to which the dusiless types
are being adopted is further shown by
testimony given recently before the
Senate Committee on Post Offices and
Post Roads at Washington by Thomas
H. Macdonald, Chief of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads. whose
tabulations showed tnat lO7 Federal aid
projects completed and paid for 10 Nav
y, this year, were roads built of biium-
inous materials. These highways arc in
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas. California,
Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky.
Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts,, Mich.