UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 





u BULLETIN No. 387 



Contribution from Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering 

 LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director. 



Washington, D. C. 



February 20, 1917 



PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES IN THE 

 SOUTHERN STATES, 1914. 



A Compilation Showing Mileage of Improved and Unimproved Roads, 

 Sources and amounts of Road Revenues, Bonds Issued and Out- 

 standing, and a description of the Systems of Road Administration, 

 Fiscal Management and other Factors affecting Road Improve- 

 ment in Each State. 



Prepared Jointly by the Division of Road Economics of the Office of Public Roada 

 and Rural Engineering, and State Collaborators. 



CONTENTS. 



Introductory: 



Working plan and sources of information . 2 

 Road administration in the Southern 



States 3 



Public road revenues 3 



County and district road and bridge bond 



issues 5 



Road mileage 5 



Types of surfaced roads 7 



Alabama 8 



Arkansas 11 



Delaware 15 



Florida 16 



Georgia 18 



Kentucky 20 



Louisiana 23 



Maryland 26 



Mississippi 29 



North Carolina 32 



Oklahoma 35 



South Carolina 37 



Tennessee 40 



Texas 43 



Virginia 45 



West Virginia 49 



Appendix I-LXXI 



INTRODUCTORY. 



In 1904 the Office of Public Roads adopted the policy of conducting 

 an investigation every five years to determine the mileage of improved 

 and unimproved roads, the revenues for road purposes, and other 

 related data. In accordance with this policy Public Roads Bulletin 

 No. 32 was issued, giving such information as was obtainable for the 

 calendar year 1904, then Public Roads Bulletin No. 41, giving such 

 information as was available for the calendar year 1909. The inves- 

 tigation made for the year 1914 followed somewhat different lines, as a 



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