10 BULLETIN 393, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGEICULTURE. 



Table 2. — Road mileage — Continued. 



State and county. 



Road mileage 

 (per cent of grand total). 



Surfaced 

 only. 



Graded 

 only. 



Graded 

 or sur- 

 faced. 



Character of surface. 



Cost per mfle. 



Virginia: 



Spotsylvania 



Diawiddie 



Lee 



Wise 



New York: Franklia . . . 



Alabama: Dallas 



Mississippi: Lauderdale 



Florida: Manatee 



20.6 

 19.3 

 10.0 



27.7 



28.2 

 21.7 

 18.3 



9.9 











13.3 



20.6 

 19.3 

 23.3 



48.6 



28.2 

 21.7 

 18.3 



11.0 



/Sand-clay 



\Gravel 



Gravel, sand-clay, top-soil 



/Earth 



\Macadam 



[Earth...- 



I Macadam 



I Bituminous surface treat- 

 I ment. 



i Gravel 

 Macadam 

 Gravel 

 Sand-clay 



/Gravel-macadam 



tSand-clay 



(Marl-rock macadam 



\ Flint-rock macadam 



Shells 



1 -SI, 150-81, 500 



12,000- 2,500 



1, 300- 1, 700 



1 3, 000- 3, 500 



16,000- 7,000 



5,700 



9,200 



400 



1, 900- 2, 500 



3,000- 4,000 



3,000- 3,600 



1,500- 1,800 



4, 000- 6, .500 



1, 700- 2, 000 



3,800 



4,700 



2,400 



Table 3. — Road bonds and taxation data. 





Bonded debt incurred 

 lor roads. 



Term of 

 bonds in 

 -years. 



Interest 

 rate on 

 bonds. 



Average rate of tax 



per SlOO of assessed 



valuation. 



State and cotmty. 



Total to 



1915, 

 inclusive. 



Per 

 capita. 



Per 

 SlOO 

 as-_ 

 sessed 

 valua- 

 tion. 

 (1915) 



All pur- 

 poses. 



Road 

 bonds. 





1910 



1915 



1910 



1915 



Virginia: 



1 SI 73, 000 

 105, 000 

 455,000 

 960, 000 

 500, 000 

 350, 000 

 500. 000 

 250,000 



SIO. 93 

 2.66 

 19.08 

 28.10 

 10.92 

 6.57 

 10.65 

 26.17 



S4.97 

 1.75 

 9.15 



7.04 

 3.66 

 2.48 

 3.08 

 3.09 



2 5-30 



< 20-30 

 6 5-26 



< 20-30 

 5 10-50 



7 30 



5 10-25 



7 30 



Per ct. 

 4i-5 

 5-6 



4i-5 

 5 

 5-5i 

 5 



$1.20 

 1.20 

 1.40 

 1.40 

 («) 

 1.35 

 1.54 

 2.65 



81.70 

 1.20 

 1.96 

 1.762 



1.40 

 1.66 

 2.60 



3S0.45 











0.30 







.70 



SO. 625 



Dinwiddle 



Lee 



.10 

 .61 



Wise 



.562 



New York: Franklin 



(^) 



Alabama: Dallas 



8.176 



Mississippi: Lauderdale ... . 



.16 



Florida: Manatee 



.30 







1 Amoimt authorized but only 8140,000 sold. 



2 Callable after 5 years. 



3 Average for two districts only. 



* Deferred serial with sinking-fund provision. 



5 Deferred serial. 



6 Taxes levied by towns and vary in each. 



^ Sinking fund. 



8 No special levy made for road bonds, but an average 



rate of 17.6 cents on the SlOO will pay interest and 



create sinking fund with which to retire bonds in 30 



years. 



SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA. 



Two districts in Spotsylvania County, Va., on November 2, 1909, 

 voted an aggregate of $100,000 in bonds for the construction of 

 improved roads. For 44 years following the close of the Civil War 

 the farm land in the county had been allowed gradually to revert 

 into a wilderness of second-growth timber, and it was not uncom- 

 mon to see great stretches of woodland with traces of ancient 

 furrows still visible. Lands were held at from $5 to S15 per acre, 



