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majority at a popular election. The funds avail- 

 able from the sale of these bonds were expended be- 

 fore January 1917, but this fact was foreseen and a 

 second bond issue of $15,000,000 was popularly voted 

 in 1916 by a vote of nearly four to one, the roads 

 previously constructed generating a wide demand 

 for more. In spite of the financial and constructive 

 embarrassments of the war, the work still went on 

 and public sentiment grew apace until a third bond 

 issue of $40,000,000 was voted in 1919 by an over- 

 whelming majority. Although these bonds were not 

 salable in 1920, because the rate of interest (4J per 

 cent) was less than other securities offered, and the 

 prosecution of contemplated extensions of the State 

 system was retarded, there was a gain in mileage of 

 cemented highways through expenditures by various 

 counties to secure them, the aggregate of county 

 bond issues being 63 per cent of that which the 

 State itself has provided. In this way and by the 

 public and private contribution to extend the State 

 system and to connect with national expenditure 

 as provided by Congress and to carry the "ocean to 

 ocean" highways to various points on the California 

 ccast line, the work will be continued until the large 

 expenditure, which the people have already approved 

 by vote, becomes available. 



The following summary of provisions for high- 

 way construction by the California Highway Com- 

 mission or in cooperation therewith and under its 

 supervision, is prepared as of the date of May 18, 

 1920: 



