Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-03-04
GREAT GOOD ROADS
OF WEST VIRGINIA
Annual Report of State Road Com
mission Now in Hands of Print
CTS. Will Soon be of the Press.

annual report of the State Road Com
mission is now in the hands of the
printer and will be off the press in
q short time. In addition to the I'M
usal details of all money expended
and work done by the Commission up
until the end of the last fiscal year,
the report contains lists of all i'm
proved county-district as we'll as
State roads, thus presenting for the
first time in one publication, COM
plete list of all improved roads in
West Virginia. Other new features
are list of all bus routes in the
State, and summary of new leg
1slation affecting roads and motor
vehicles.
The report shows that up to the
end of the last fiscal year, the Com
mission had had total of $37, 1881 g.
27.55 to place under contract since
its appointment in 1921 Of this total,
$4,000, 100000 had been obtained as
proceeds of State road bonds, and
1881, 627.55 as Federal Aid.
Mileage completed on State routes
during the fiscal year, is shown to
have been 664.95. The total of all
roads on the State system either COM
pleted or under contract, is given as
2403.31 miles, of which 1783.68 miles
mad been completed. One hundred and
twenty-five large bridges had been
completed or placed under contract,
in addition to some 275 small bridges.
Of the completed mileage under State
maintenance at the end of the fiscal
year was 1884, and expenditures
for maintenance for the fiscal year
were s1,O29, o37.86.
In the appendix of the report, are
given the number, location, mileage,
type, cost of grading and draining,
cost of paving, total cost per mile, to-
taI amount authorized, total amount
paid, number of cubic yards of unclas-
sified exvation, and price per cubic
yard of excavation, for every State
road project. This information has
been given in each one of the Com
saision's annual reports since it was
first appointed.
Total receipts of the Automobile
Bureau for the fiscal year were
s3,220, 46o.98. Receipts from the gaso-
line tax for the same period were
s1,423, 1885.
Under each county heading is Civ
en-. as usual, the amount of bond pro-
ceeds and Federal Aid apportioned.
the amount authorized for expendi-
lures, projects completed, under con-
struction. and under State maintc
snce. 1t is shown that road progress
enabling many thousands of West
Virginians to pursue their daily occu-
cations with greater convenience and
profit has been made.
Attention is called in the report, to
the fact that the Commission, by ut
1Iizing county seat connections and
connections with roads of adjoining
states, has created four through
routes across the State Through high
ways were not mentioned in either the
constitutional amendment or the road
law, it is pointed out, and may be
auilt only insofar as they coincide
with the building of county seat con-
Dections and connections with roads
Of our commemorative.
The report states that Route No. 3,
l.nown as the Midland Trail, was
scheduled for completion from the
Kentucky line to White Sulphur
Springs in 1925, while combination
north and south paved highway was
scheduled for completion in 1926.
Mention is made in the report of
snow removal on State roads, which
was inaugurated last winter, and was
carried on successfully.
A greatly increased demand for
road inforna ton, both by West Vir
ginians and by tourists wishing to
travel in West Virginia, is noted. The
supply of road maps printed was ex-
! aausted early in the summer, and
more were ordered. Hundreds of in
individual inquiries by letter from
prospective travellers were answered,
and reports of conditions on State
routes were issued regularly and sent
to newspapers and automobile clubs
in West Virginia, to the American
Automobile Association, Blue Books
etc, travel information bureaus all
over the United States, and to many
automobile clubs outside the State
In this manner, the Commission en-
courages travel in West Virginia, the
!. State Beautiful, so far as possible,
in connection with it's regular duties.