UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 387 



Contribution from Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering 

 LOGAN WALLER PAGE. Director 



Washington, D. C. 



February 20, 1917 



PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES IN 

 THE SOUTHERN 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 ADMINISTRA- 

 TION, FISCAL MANAGEMENT AND OTHER FACTORS AP- 

 FECTING 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 



Introductory: 



Working Plan and Sources of Infor- 



. motion 2 



Road Administration in the Southern 



States 3 



Public Road Revenues 3 



County and District Road and Bridge 



Bond Issues 5 



Road Mileage 5 



Types of Surfaced Roads 7 



Alabama .....* 8 



Arkansas ■ . . . 11 



Delaware 15 



Florida . 16 



Georgia 18 



Kentucky 20 



Louisiana 23 



Maryland 26 



Mississippi 29 



North Carolina 32 



Oklahoma 35 



South Carolina 37 



Tennessee ' 40 



Texas 43 



Virginia 45 



West Virginia 49 



Appendix. 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1917 



