UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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BULLETIN No. 389 
Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and Rural 
Engineering, LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director 
Washington, D. C. 
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May 10, 1917 
PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES IN THE 
CENTRAL, MOUNTAIN, AND PACIFIC STATES, 1914, 
A Compilation Showing Mileage of Improved and Unimproved Roads; Sources and Amounts of Road 
Revenues; Bonds Issued and Outstanding; 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. 
Introduction 1 
Arizona 7 
California 9 
Colorado 12 
Idaho 14 
Illinois 16 
Indiana 19 
Iowa , 21 
Kansas 24 
Michigan 25 
Minnesota 28 
Missouri 30 
Montana 32 
Nebraska 34 
Nevada 36 
New Mexico 38 
North Dakota 40 
Ohio 41 
Oregon ! 44 
South Dakota 45 
Utah 47 
Washington 49 
Wisconsin 51 
Wyoming 54 
Appendix A I 
Appendix B XXX 
Appendix C LXIV 
INTRODUCTORY. 
In 1904 the policy of conducting an investigation at five-year intervals to ascertain 
the mileage of improved and unimproved roads, the revenues for road purposes, and 
other related data was adopted. A bulletin embodying data for the calendar year 
1904 was published. 1 A- similar investigation was conducted for the calendar year 
1909 and the data issued as Bulletin No. 41. The investigation made for the calendar 
year 1914, which forms the basis for this bulletin, differed somewhat from the preceding 
investigations, as a greater number of State highway departments were in operation 
and more adequate facilities were possessed by them. Wherever it was practicable 
to do so, information was obtained directly by collaborators designated by the State 
highway departments and acting under specific instructions from this office. 
In many instances it was impossible for the collaborators to obtain replies from all 
local officials, and accordingly letters and forms were sent directly from this office to 
such local officials. In the course of the investigation it was found necessary to enlist 
i U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Public Roads Bui. No. 32. 
Note.— This bulletin will be of interest to officials engaged in the building and maintenance of roads. 
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