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worked the roads, and the value of such labor amounted to $1,198,394. 

 The principal mcreases in revenues are, therefore, property taxes 

 paid in cash, which accounts for the steady increase in the surfaced 

 road mileage of the State. 



The county tax rates for roads, the total receipts from taxation 

 and the statute labor road tax are shown by coimties in Table 7} 



ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS. 



On January 1, 1915, a total of $5,418,000 of county road and 

 bridge bonds was outstanding. This iacludes $372,000 of road 

 warrants. During the year 1914, $1,013,210 was expended from 

 road bonds. The total bonds and warrants outstanding and the 

 amomits expended from bond issues m 1914 are shown by counties 

 in Table No. 23. 



ROAD MILEAGE. 



In 1904 Alabama reported 50,089 miles of pubic roads, in 1909, 

 49,639 miles, and m 1914, 55,446 miles. The surfaced roads of the 

 State reported were 1,720 miles for 1904, 3,263.93 miles in 1909, 

 and 4,988.5 miles in 1914. The percentage of all roads surfaced was 

 therefore 3.43 per cent in 1904, 6.58 per cent in 1909, and 8.99 per 

 cent m 1914. Of the latter 431 miles were macadam, 2,589.5 gravel, 

 1,916 sand clay, 31 bituminous macadam, 20 shell, and 1 concrete. 

 In addition to the surfaced roads, 2,023.5 miles were reported as 

 graded and drained earth roads. While some of the counties 

 reported a smaller mileage of surfaced roads in 1914 than in 1909, it 

 appears that if the State is taken as a whole a total of 1,724.57 miles 

 of roads were surfaced during the five-year period, January 1, 1910, 

 to December 31, 1914. 



The total mileage of roads, the miles surfaced, the percentage 

 surfaced, and the mileage of graded and drained earth roads are 

 shown by counties m Table 37. 



ARKANSAS. 



Arkansas has a land area of 52,525 square miles, a total road mile- 

 age of 50,743, and a population, according to the 1910 census, of 

 1,574,449. The State, therefore, has a population of 29.97 per 

 square mile of area and 31.02 per mile of road, with 0.96 mile of road 

 per square mile of area. Of the population in 1910, 87.1 per cent, 

 or 1,371,768, was rural, thus indicating a rural population of 27.03 

 per mile of road. 



In the legislative session of 1913 there was established the depart- 

 ment of State lands, highways and improvements, the executive 

 head of which is the Commissioner of State lands, highways and 

 improvements. There also was created a State highway commission 



1 All tables referred to in the text under the respective States will be found in the appendix. 



