UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



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BULLETIN No. 389 



Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and Rural 

 Engineering, LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director 



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Washington, D. C. 



May 10, 1917 



PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES IN THE 

 CENTRAL, MOUNTAIN, AND PACIFIC STATES, 1914. 



A Compilation Showing Mileage of Improved and Unimproved Roads; Sources and Amounts of Road 

 Revenues; Bonds Issued and Outstanding; 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. 



Introduction 1 



Arizona 7 



California 9 



Colorado 12 



Idaho 14 



Illinois 16 



Indiana 19 



Iowa 21 



Kansas 24 



Michigan 25 



Minnesota 28 



Missouri 30 



Montana 32 



Nebraska 34 



Nevada 36 



New Mexico 38 



North Dakota 40 



Ohio 41 



Oregon 44 



South Dakota 45 



Utah 47 



Washington 49 



Wisconsin 51 



Wyoming 54 



Appendix A I 



Appendix B XXX 



Appendix C LXIV 



INTRODUCTORY. 



In 1904 the policy of conducting an investigation at five-year intervals to ascertain 

 the mileage of improved and unimproved roads, the revenues for road purposes, and 

 other related data was adopted. A bulletin embodying data for the calendar year 

 1904 was published. 1 A similar investigation was conducted for the calendar year 

 1909 and the data issued as Bulletin No. 41. The investigation made for the calendar 

 year 1914, which forms the basis for this bulletin, differed somewhat from the preceding 

 investigations, as a greater number of State highway departments were in operation 

 and more adequate facilities were possessed by them. Wherever it was practicable 

 to do so, information was obtained directly by collaborators designated by the State 

 highway departments and acting under specific instructions from this office. 



In many instances it was impossible for the collaborators to obtain replies from all 

 local officials, and accordingly letters and forms were sent directly from this office to 

 such local officials. In the course of the investigation it was found necessary to enlist 



1 U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Public Roads Bui. No. 32. 

 Note.— This bulletin will be of interest to officials engaged in the building and maintenance of roads. 

 "—Bull. 389—17 1 



