BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS. 



395 



Applications for approval, including those which had been sub- 

 mitted to the Office of Public Roads prior to the establishment of the 

 council, reached a total of 7,307. Many of these applications were 

 considered several times by reason of requests for reconsideration or 

 by reason of requirements by the council of further information, so 

 that the total number of considerations aggregated 9,712. No state- 

 ment as to the exact number of approvals or disapprovals can be given, 

 as many cases were merely deferred and not disapproved, others were 

 conditionally approved or disapproved, others were reconsidered, and 

 still others were affected by an amendment issued September 26 by 

 the AVar Industries Board to circular 21 permitting the completion 

 to November 1 of projects substantially under way. Still other proj- 

 ects Avere pending at the time the council ceased its activities, and in 

 consequence it is impossible to segregate those applications which 

 might be considered as definitely disapproved. A quantitative table 

 dealing with the materials, transportation, and funds involved and 

 showing such proportion as had been definitely approved has been 

 prepared, however, and is submitted as follows : 



Item. 



Unit. 



Kequested. 



Approved. 



Capital issues i Dollars. . 



Road oil Gallons . 



Tar do. . . 



Asphalt ! Tons 



Cement i Barrels. . 



M 



Pounds, 

 .do... 



Brick. 



Steel, structural. . 



Ste'el, reinforcing. 



Crushed stone ! Tons 



Gravel ' do 



Sand and screenings i do 



Slag 1 do 



Corrugated-iron culverts i Linear fee t . 



Piling, timber ! do 



Pipe, vitrified, drain ' do 



Pipe. cast-iron, drain '■ do 



Luml)er i Feet b. m.. 



Granite blocks. 

 Miscellaneous. . 

 Cars, open top. 

 Cars, box. 



Blocks. 

 Tons. . 

 Cars... 

 do. 



Cars, flat I do. 



49, 538, 075 



08. 280, 401 



58, 003, 832 



190,207 



5, 657, 3e0 



109, 125 



10,GG.3,250 



22,281,275 



3,639,819 



1,204,552 



2, 216, 481 



520, 152 



107, 815 



164, 102 



2,165,419 



47,052 



5, 530, lf6 



1,420,500 



li3, 206 



55, 059 



8,543 



3,705 



7, 334, 821 



44, 269, 826 



53,533,441 



159,475 



2, 139, 769 



52, 239 



694, 820 



3,231,301 



1,827,7P5 



432, 707 



982, 479 



250,428' 



23,704 



43, 588 



99,699 



43, 740 



1,651,635 



156, .500 



49, 513 



26,361 



3,376 



605 



1 Includes applications acted on bv Bureau of Public Roads prior to formal organization of United States 

 Highways Council. Requested S28, 748,08-1, approved $3,114,381, The Capital Issues Committee has jtris- 

 diclicnandthe Council served merely as an aid to the committee. 



THE FEDERAL AID ROAD ACT. 



LEGISLATION. 



A careful canvass of all the State liighway departments made after 

 the original Federal aid road act of July 11, 1910, had been in effect 

 for more than two years, indicated clearly that there were three luni- 

 tations ^vhich were preventing this law from becoming an effective 

 niethod of procedure between the Federal Government and the indi- 

 vidual States. In its conception this law was founded upon the prin- 

 ciple of cooperation for the purpose of stimulating road production 

 and of supporting and aiding the States in their individual efforts, 

 but it was found that practically all of the States were limited in 

 l^roceeding along the lines of an adequate program: (1) By the post 

 road requirements; (2) by the limitation of Federal participation to 



