OFFICE OF PUBLIC ROADS AND RURAL ENGINEERING. 365 



ROAD BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE INVESTIGATIONS. 



The amount appropriated by Congress for road building and 

 maintenance investigations was $141,780, This appropriation has 

 been devoted to the continuation of the reguliir activities of the office 

 along educational lines. The ^York has been classified under the fol- 

 lowing heads : 



1. Supervising the construction of object-lesson roads. 



2. Making surveys and preparing plans for designated sections of 

 roads, such work to serve as a model lor local highway officials. 



3. Planning model highway systems for entire counties. 



4. Furnishing special advice in connection with local road prob- 

 lems. 



5. Object-lesson maintenance. 



6. Bridge work. 



7. Cooperation in the improvement of national park and forest 

 roads. 



8. The collection and dissemination of information pertaining to 

 all phases of road- building and maintenance. 



OBJECT-LESSON ROADS. 



Engineers were furnished to supervise the construction of object- 

 lesson roads in the following-named places, listed by States: Ar- 

 kansas (1), Alma County; Georgia (1), Echols County; Louisiana 

 (1), Beauregard Parish; Michigan (1), Branch County; Mis- 

 sissippi (1), Madison County; Missouri (1), Christian County; 

 Nebraska (4), Buffalo, Dawes, Fillmore, and Sheridan Counties; 

 North Dakota (3), Burleigh, Morton, and Benson Coimties; Okla- 

 homa (3), Hughes, Payne, and Pottawatomie Counties; South Caro- 

 lina (1), Hampton County; and Virginia (4), Albemarle, Greens- 

 ville, Northampton, and Sussex Counties. Twenty-one object-lesson 

 roads were built during the present fiscal year. 



An engineer was assigned to each of the following counties: Al- 

 bemarle, Greensville, Northampton, and Sussex in Virginia ; Potta- 

 watomie, in Oklahoma; and Monroe, in Indiana. They will super- 

 vise a number of important road projects under way in those coun- 

 ties. A bulletin now in course of publication presents data show- 

 ing the amount of work done in connection with each object-lesson 

 road, as well as a detailed distribution of costs. 



SURVEYS AND PLANS. 



Surveys actually were made and plans prepared in the following 

 States: Georgia (1), Floyd County; Kentucky (1), Henderson 

 County; Louisiana (1), Natchitoches Parish; Maryland (1), Prince 

 Georges County; Tennessee (2), Dickens and Perry Counties; and 

 Virginia (1), Loudoun County. In many cases assistance also was 

 given to local officials in organizing survey parties in connection with 

 assignments made for other purposes. 



MODEL HIGHWAY SYSTEMS. 



Model highway systems were planned after thorough investiga- 

 tion, in the following named States and counties: Alabama (2), El- 



