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cash value of statute labor tax, S95,288; other revenues applied to 

 roads, $147,820.71 ; funds derived from automobile-registration fees, 

 $1 per car, and used for the support of the State highway department, 

 $10,000. It was impossible to secure complete information from the 

 various counties in regard to the statute labor tax, and the amount 

 given under that heading probably is much less than actually was 

 reahzed. 



In 1904 the total revenues apphed to roads amounted to $774,775.59 

 which comprised $447,319.59 derived from property taxes and saloon 

 hcenses, and $327,456 from statute labor tax. It wiU thus be seen 

 that the revenues for roads increased during the 11-year period 

 $1,337,905.21, or 172.6 per cent. 



The receipts from taxation for road and bridge purposes are shown 

 in Table 17. 



BOND ISSUES. 



It was not practicable to obtain statistics regarding bond issues 

 for the year 1914. At the close of the calendar year 1913 there was 

 a total outstanding road and bridge bond indebtedness amounting 

 to $1,440,000. 



ROAD MILEAGE. 



The total of all pubUc roads in Oklahoma at the close of 1915 

 amounted to 107,916 miles, of which 121.6 miles, or 0.11 per cent, 

 were surfaced. Of the surfaced roads, 6.7 miles were macadam, 3 

 miles bituminous macadam, 6.9 miles gravel, and 105 miles sand 

 clay. Most of the counties reported a smaller mileage of sur- 

 faced roads for 1915 than for 1909, the total decrease for the State 

 for the 6-year period being 239.4 miles. This is due to the fact that 

 a number of the counties reported surfaced roads in 1909 which were 

 not actually surfaced. 



The mileage statistics are shown by counties in Table 47. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



South CaroUna has a land area of 30,495 square miles, a total road 

 mileage of 42,226, and a population according to the 1910 census of 

 1,515,400. The State has a population of 49.7 per square mile of 

 area and 35.9 per mile of road, with 1.38 miles of road per square mile 

 of area. Of the population in 1910, 85.2 per cent, or 1,290,568, was 

 rural, thus indicating a rural population of 30.6 per mile of road. 



The collection of road statistics was begun early in 1915 by the 

 commissioner of agriculture, commerce, and industries, who acted as 

 collaborator for this office. The data was reported to him by the 

 county officials and checked and then rechecked in this Office, so as 

 to secure as high a degree of accuracy as possible. 



South Carohna has no State-highway department. The depart- 

 ment of agriculture, commerce, and industries, however, has from 



