12 BULLETIN 388, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
ROAD MILEAGE, 1914. 
According to the reports from the towns, New Hampshire had, at 
the close of the year 1914, a total of 14,020.10 miles of public road, of 
which 1,659.63, or 11.83 per cent, were surfaced. Of the surfaced 
roads 1,013.7 miles were gravel, 270.9 miles sand-clay, 154.26 miles 
bituminous macadam, 61.87 miles macadam, 7.07 miles concrete, and 
151.83 miles of materials not classified as to type. 
In 1909, New Hampshire reported a total of 1,448.48 miles, or 9.58 
per cent, of surfaced roads, thus indicating an increase in the 5-year 
period of 211.15 miles. 
The mileage figures for the year 1914 are presented by counties and 
towns in Table 17 
VERMONT. 
Vermont has a land area of 9,124 square miles, a total road mileage 
of 14,248.66, and a population, according to the 1910 census, of 
355,956. The State, therefore, has a population of 39.01 per square 
mile of area and 24.98 per mile of road, with 1.55 miles of road per 
square mile of area. Of the population in 1910, 52.5 per cent, or 
187,013, was rural, an average of 13.12 per mile of road. 
A State highway commissioner is appointed biennially by the gov- 
ernor, with the advice and consent of the senate. He controls and 
directs the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by the State or 
apportioned to towns or incorporated villages for highway improve- 
ment. He appoints annually, with the advice and consent of the 
governor, a supervisor for each county, who, under his direction and 
control, assists in supervising the expenditure of State road funds 
and in the construction and inspection of roads that have been or may 
be built with State money. 
All money appropriated by the State is required to be expended 
for improving permanently that main thoroughfare in each town 
selected by the selectmen and town road commissioners, subject to 
the approval of the State highway commissioner. Such roads are 
known as State roads and are required to be selected with a view to 
securing trunk lines of improved highways. The location of each 
year's work, plans and specifications therefor, and the appointment 
of foremen to have charge of the work, are determined by the State 
highway commissioner after consulting selectmen and road commis- 
sioners. The State highway commissioner has the same powers in all 
matters pertaining to highways and bridges in unorganized towns 
and gores as have selectmen and road commissioners in organized 
towns. 
Appropriations are made by the legislature for apportionment by 
the State highway commissioner to cities and towns, excluding incor- 
porated villages, the basis of apportionment being that the State shall 
