UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
ft BULLETIN No. 388 
IP 
1*^/7 Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and ''Vfc* 
Rural Engineering 
LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director 
Washington, D. C. T January 8, 1917 
PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES IN THE 
NEW ENGLAND 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 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. 
Page. I Page. 
Introductory 1 j Massachusetts 15 
Maine 6 Rhode Island 19 
New Hampshire 9 Connecticut 21 
Vermont 12 \ Appendix 25 
INTRODUCTORY. 
Beginning with 1904, the policy of conducting at five-year intervals 
an investigation to determine the mileage of improved and unim- 
proved roads, the revenues for road purposes, and related data, was 
adopted by the Office of Public Roads. In accordance with that 
policy Bulletin No. 32 was issued, giving such information as was 
obtainable for the calendar year 1904, and Bulletin No. 41 was issued, 
giving such information as was available for the calendar year 1909. 
The investigation made for the year 1914 followed somewhat different 
lines, as a closer cooperation with State highway departments was 
maintained, and wherever practicable the information was collected 
directly by collaborators named by the respective State highway 
departments and acting under specific instruction from this office. 
This policy was not practicable in connection with earlier bulletins, 
owing to the fact that many of the States have only recently estab- 
lished highway departments. The collaborators for the New England 
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