ROAD MILEAGE^ EEVENUES, SOUTHEEN" STATES, 1914. 48 



amounted to SI, 621, 777. 15, showing that in the 10-year period 

 expenditures increased $748,783.01, or 46.1 per cent. 



Information showing receipts from taxation by counties for the 

 year 1914 is contained in Table 19. 



ROAD AND BRroCE BONDS. 



The total road and bridge bonds outstanding on January 1, 1915, 

 amounted to $6,898,276.89. In 1914 there was expended from bond 

 issues $778,306.52, retired $128,421.11, voted $486,500, and sold 

 $445,000 of road bonds. 



Detailed information showing the bond issues by counties is con- 

 tained in Table 33. 



ROAD MILEAGE. 



According to the reports received, Tennessee had at the close of 

 1914, 46,050 miles of pubhc roads of which 8,102 miles, or 17.59 per 

 cent, were surfaced as follows: 4,550.5 miles macadam, 2,788 gravel, 

 613 sand-clay, 148 miles bituminous macadam and bituminous- 

 treated gravel, 2 miles concrete, and one-half mile brick. 



In mileage of surfaced roads Shelby County stands fii-st with 752 

 miles, or 55.62 per cent; Rutherford County, second, with 700 miles, 

 or 63.63 per cent; Maury County, third, with 625 miles, or 55.55 per 

 cent; Smith County, fourth, with 410 miles, or 91.11 per cent; David- 

 son County, fifth, with 375 miles, or 62.5 per cent; and Knox County, 

 sixth, with 375 miles, or 37.5 per cent. There are 15 other counties 

 which reported more than 100 miles of surfaced roads and there are 27 

 counties that reported no surfaced roads. 



In 1909 Tennessee reported 5,353.5 miles, or 11.66 per cent of sur- 

 faced roads. A comparison of these figures wiU show that in the 5- 

 year period, 1910-1914, inclusive, 2,748.5 miles were surfaced. In- 

 formation showing the total mileage and mileage of surfaced roads by 

 counties is contained in Table 49. 



TEXAS. 1 



Texas has a land area of 262,398 square miles, a total road mile- 

 age of 128,960 and a population, according to the 1910 census, of 

 3,896,542. The State has a population of 14.8 per square mile of 

 area and 30.21 per mile of road, with 0.49 mile of road per square 

 mile of area. Of the population in 1910, 75.9 per cent, or 2,958,438, 

 was rural, thus indicating a rural population of 22.94 per mile of 

 road. 



1 The collection of road statistics was begun early in 1915 by Dr. William B. Phillips, collaborator for 

 this Office, and director of the bureau of economic geology and technology of the University of Texas. 

 Subsequently, however, Dr. Phillips resigned his position at the university to take up work in another 

 State. Mr. J. A. Udden, of the university, was then appointed collaborator, and the work was continued 

 by him. A cooperative arrangement was also made whereby the assistance of Prof. R. L. Morrison, of 

 the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, was secured. In addition, extensive correspondence 

 was conducted directly with various county officials, commercial organizations, and good-roads associa- 

 tions. Valuable assistance was rendered by Mr. D. E. Colp, secretary of the Texas Good Roads Association. 



