UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 388 , 



iV/^ Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and "'Jfi*/ 



Rural Engineering 



LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director 



Washington, D. C. ▼ January 8, 1917 



PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES IN THE 

 NEW ENGLAND STATES, 1914. 



A Compilation Showing Mileage of Improved and Unimproved Roads, Sources and 

 Amounts of Road Revenues, Bonds Issued and Outstanding, and a Description of 

 the Systems of Road Administration, Fiscal Management, and Other Factors 

 Affecting Road Improvement in Each State. 



Prepared Jointly by the Division of Road Economics, of the Office of Public Roads and 

 Rural Engineering, and State Collaborators. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. Page. 



Introductory 1 j ilassacliusetts 15 



Maiae 6 i Rhode Island 19 



New Hampshire 9 i Connecticait 21 



Vermont 12 | Appendix 25 



INTRODUCTORY. 



Beginning with 1904, the pohcy of conducting at five-year intervals 

 an investigation to determine the mileage of improved and unim- 

 proved roads, the revenues for road purposes, and related data, was 

 adopted by the Office of Pubhc Roads. In accordance with that 

 pohcy Bulletin No. 32 was issued, giving such information as was 

 obtainable for the calendar year 1904, and Bulletin No. 41 was issued, 

 giving such mformation as was available for the calendar year 1909. 

 The investigation made for the year 1914 followed somewhat different 

 lines, as a closer cooperation with State highway departments was 

 maintained, and wherever practicable the information was collected 

 directly by collaborators named by the respective State highway 

 departments a.nd acting under specific instruction from this office. 

 This pohcy was not practicable in connection with earfier bulletins, 

 owing to the fact that many of the States have only recently estab- 

 lished highway departments. The collaborators for the New England 



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