4 BULLETIN 388, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



Table 2. — Relation of public road and bridge revenues to mileage, area, population, 

 and assessed valuation, 1914 and 1904. 





Revenues. 



State. 



Per mile of 

 road. 



Per square mile 

 of land area. 



Per capita. 



Per $100 of as- 

 sessed value. 





1914 



1904 



1914 



1904 



1914 



1904 



1914 



1904 



Maine 



$112. 25 

 113.44 

 71.86 

 326.08 

 205. 76 

 258. 9o 



$57.68 

 57. 72 

 39.07 

 167. 99 

 171.54 

 84.84 



$88. 37 

 176.11 

 112. 22 

 758.00 

 418.50 

 755.50 



$49.29 

 96.62 

 62.19 

 357. 40 

 379. 70 

 248.10 



$3.55 

 3.69 



• 2.87 



1.81 



.82 



3.26 



$2.12 

 2.12 

 1.65 

 1.02 

 .95 

 1.32 



$0. 633 

 .362 

 .462 

 .127 

 .072 

 .350 



SO. 418 





.427 





.348 



Massachusetts 



.092 





.096 



Connecticut 



.180 







Weighted average 



177.99 



83.24 



249.06 



119. 10 



2.35 



1.32 



.204 



.150 







ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS. 



The total town and State highway road and bridge bonds outstand- 

 ing on January 1, 1915, in the New England States, amounted to 

 $20,565,522.82. Town bonds were issued in Massachusetts only and 

 amounted to $1,606,022.82. Information in regard to bond issues by 

 States is presented in Table 3. Detailed information showing bonds 

 issued by towns in Massachusetts is shown in the chapter for that 



State. 



Table 3. — Road and bridge bonds outstanding. 



state. 



Town bonds 

 outstanding 

 Jan. 1, 1915. 



State highway- 

 bonds out- 

 standing 

 Jan. 1, 1915. 







$785,000.00 







675, 000. 00 









Massachusetts. - 



$1,606,022.82 



8,699,500.00 

 1,800,000.00 

 7, 000, 000. 00 



Rhode Island ; 



Connecticut , 











Total 



1,606,022.82 



18, 959, 500. 00 







ROAD MILEAGE. 



The total mileage in the New England States, as of January 1, 1915, 

 was shown by the detailed investigations to be 86,718, excluding 

 streets in cities. Of this total, 18,038.78 miles, or 20.8 per cent, were 

 reported as surfaced. This surfaced mileage is less than the surfaced 

 mileage reported for 1909, but the returns are much more accurate 

 than it was possible to obtain in 1909, and the difference should not 

 be considered to indicate any neglect of the roads in the New England 

 States, but rather to show that road statistics are now reaching the 

 bed rock of exact record as a development from the method of 

 approximation upon which we have had to rely in the past. Further- 

 more, streets in incorporated cities have been excluded more rigidly 

 in the 1914 investigation than in that of 1909, and a higher standard 



