Report of State Highway Engineer. 



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VETERINARY SERVICE. 



REPORT OF STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER 



To the Honorable State Board of Agriculture : 



While there has been an increase in efficiency 

 and in the expense of this office because of 

 growth, there has been no material change in 

 the appropriations for operation. From the cre- 

 ation of the office in 1907 to the present time 

 the appropriation has been $6,000 per year, 

 $12,000 for each biennial period. Near the close 

 of the biennial period of two years ago the office 

 was practically closed for the last four months 

 in order to avoid a deficiency. This year, how- 

 ever, it was thought best not to stop work on 

 or about July when the funds became exhausted, but to run a 

 deficiency, which, on January 1, will amount to about $2,800. The 

 warrants are being held, upon a six per cent discount, by the 

 Boone County Trust Company. 



In the State there are approximately 108,000 miles of public 

 roads, 100,000 culverts, structures of less than ten-feet opening, 

 not including the small twelve-inch an,d less sized drains, 20,000 

 bridges, structures of more than ten-foot opening. We have a 

 total of between four and five thousand miles of improved roads, 

 good, bad and indifferent. The greatest mileage of permanent 



Curtis Hill. 



