34 BULLETIN 387, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE. 



and educational work by the geological and ecomonic survey, .15,000; 

 and estimated expenditure of $2,430,000 ^ from county and township 

 road and bridge bonds issued and sold during the years 1913 and 

 1914. 



The total expenditure for public roads and bridges from taxation 

 and bond issues during the year 1904 amounted to $1,358,687, thus 

 showing that expenditures increased $3,856,803.78, or 283.8 per 

 cent, in the 10-year period. 



The total receipts from taxation applied to roads and bridges are 

 shown by counties and townships in Table 16. 



ROAD AND BRroCE BONDS. 



The total county and township road and bridge bonds outstanding 

 on January 1, 1915, amounted to $8,955,300. Li 1914 a total of 

 $1,119,500 bonds were voted and $2,709,000 sold. 



No exact infonnation is available to show how much was expended 

 from bond issues in 1914, but the North Carohna Geological and 

 Economic Survey estimates that this amounted to $2,430,000. ' This 

 expenditure was from bonds authorized and sold during the years 

 1913 and 1914. 



The total amounts of road paid bridge bonds outstanding on Jan- 

 uary 1, 1915, and the amounts voted and sold during 1914 are shown 

 in Table 31. 



ROAD MILEAGE. 



At the close of 1914 North Carolina had 50,758 miles of pubhc roads 

 of which 6,003.75 miles, or 11.82 per cent, were surfaced. Of the 

 surfaced roads 1,111 miles were macadam, 529 gravel, 4,313.5 sand- 

 clay, 9 bituminous macadam, 1 .25 concrete, and 40 miles not classified. 



In mileage of surfaced roads Mecklenburg County stood first with 

 385 miles, or 38.5 per cent; Iredell second, with 265 miles, or 37.85 

 per cent; Richmond third, with 250 miles, or 41.66 per cent; Moore 

 fourth, with 230 miles, or 38.33 per cent; Guilford fifth, with 220 

 miles, or 22 per cent; Frankhn County has 210 miles, or 42 per cent; 

 Wake County had 202.25 miles, or 16.85 per cent, and Wayne 

 County has 210 miles, or 21 per cent. Twenty counties reported 

 no surfaced roads. The total of graded and drained earth roads 

 reported amounted to 4,181 miles. In 1909, 2,313 miles, or 4.79 

 per cent, were surfaced. In the 5-year period, 1909-1914, 3,690.75 

 miles were surfaced. 



The mileage figures for the various counties are presented in 

 Table 46. 



1 Information as to expenditure Irom bond issues was taken from Circular No. 105, issued July 5, 1915, 

 by the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey. 



