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property taxes paid in cash, while $713,409 represented the cash 

 value of the statute labor tax. It thus appears that the total 

 receipts from taxation, including the State appropriation, appUed 

 to roads increased during the 10-year period $127,353.40, or 9.1 per 

 cent. The receipts from the property tax alone during this period 

 increased 84.6 per cent, while the receipts from the statute labor 

 tax were nearly seven times as great in 1904 as in 1914. It is quite 

 likely, however, that complete information on the statute labor tax 

 was not obtained for the year 1914. 



The information showing the revenue appUed to roads and bridges 

 for the year 1914 is contained in Table 8. 



ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS AND SCRIP. 



The total road and bridge bonds and scrip outstanding on January 

 1, 1915, amounted to $1,467,066, comprising $1,249,926 in bonds 

 and $217,140 in scrip. The scrip consisted of noninterest-bearing 

 short- time loans or warrants issued to meet current expenses. Dur- 

 ing the year 1914 a total of $1,191,426 road and bridge bonds were 

 voted and sold. These bonds run from 12 to 20 years and bear .6 

 per cent interest. They were sold at from 98 to 101 cents on the 

 dollar. 



Detailed information showing bonds and scrip by counties is 

 contained in Table 24. 



ROAD MILEAGE. 



At the close of 1914, Arkansas reported 50,743 miles of public road, 

 of which 1,097 miles, or 2.16 per cent, were surfaced. Of the surfaced 

 roads 362.5 miles were plain macadam, 535 miles gravel, 175 sand clay, 

 21 concrete, and 4 miles bituminous macadam. There were also 

 16,305 miles of earth road reported as graded and drained. Pulaski 

 County reported 198.5 miles, or 39 per cent, of surfaced roads. This 

 is the only county in the State that reported more than 100 miles 

 of surfaced road. There are 39 counties in the State which reported 

 no surfaced roads. Quite a number of counties reported a smaller 

 mileage of surfaced roads than was reported for 1909. Several 

 counties also reported large increases in total road mileage, Avith the 

 result that the total mileage of all roads reported increased from 

 36,445 miles in 1909 to 50;743 miles in 1914, and that the percentage 

 of surfaced roads shows a decrease on this account from 2.97 in 1909 

 to 2.16 in 1914. In other words, if the figures reported are correct, 

 Arkansas only had 11.75 more miles of improved roads in 1914 than 

 in 1909. Mileage of surfaced roads outside of incorporated cities is 

 shown in Table 38. 



