BULLETIN 388, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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 8100 of as- 
sessed value. 
1914 
1904 
1914 
1904 
1914 
1904 
1914 
1904 
$112. 25 
113.44 
71.86 
326. 08 
205. 76 
258. 9 
857.68 
57. 72 
39.07 
167. 99 
171.54 
84.84 
S88. 37 
176.11 
112. 22 
758.00 
418.50 
755.50 
S49.29 
96.62 
62.19 
357.40 
379. 70 
24S. 10 
S3. 55 
3.69 
2.87 
1.81 
.82 
82.12 
2.12 
1.65 
1.02 
.95 
SO. 633 
.362 
.462 
.127 
.072 
.350 
SO. 418 
.427 
Vermont 
.348 
.092 
.096 
3.26 ! 1.32 
.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 
SI, 606, 022. 82 
8,699,500.00 
1,800,000.00 
7,000,000.00 
Total. . . -. .... 
1,606,022.82 
18, 959, .500. 00 
ROAD MILEAGE. 
The total mileage in the Xew 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 
