4 BULLETIN 389, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS. 
The total State, county, township, and district road and bridge bonds outstanding 
on January 1, 1915, in the Central, Pacific, and Mountain States, amounted to $128,- 
767,414.57. In 1914 the expenditures from bond issues amounted to $28,949,759.48; 
bonds were retired to the amount of $9,214,166.62; bonds voted $24,960, 869.20; and 
bonds sold $25,611,229.42. 
State bonds have been issued in California, Idaho, Utah, and Washington. In Cali- 
fornia the bond issue for the construction of a system of State highways amounted to 
$18,000,000. Some district road bonds have been issued in Kansas, but it was im- 
possible to ascertain the amounts. No State, county, or township road and bridge 
bonds were reported for Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, or Wyoming. All 
of the other States in this group, however, have outstanding local bonds. 
Information in regard to bond issues is presented by States in Table 3, and detailed 
information, showing bond issues by counties, is given under the State headings. 
Table 3. — Road and bridge bonds. 
State. 
Arizona 
California , 
Colorado 
Idaho 
Illinois 
Indiana 
Iowa 
Kansas 
Michigan 
Minnesota 
Missouri 
Montana 
Nebraska 
Nevada 
New Mexico. . . 
North Dakota . 
Ohio 
Oregon 
South Dakota . 
Utah 
"Washington... 
Wisconsin 
Wyoming 
Total out- 
standing 
Jan. 1,1915. 
$295, 000. 00 
'■ 32, 277, 000. 00 
90,500.00 
3 1,339,000.00 
798, 761. 55 
42,095,357.34 
1,960,780.00 
0) 
10,389,029.43 
1, 411, 889. 00 
522, 500. 00 
2,224,050.72 
C 1 ) 
38,000.00 
157, 000. 00 
0) 
31,175,968.53 
1,615,000.00 
0) 
2 541,500.00 
2 1,555,000.00 
281,078.00 
0) 
Expended 
from bond is- 
sues during 
1914. 
$8, 780. 59 
8,886,192.56 
1,234.50 
226,000.00 
208, 855. 41 
9, 396, 186. 98 
0) 
0) 
1,524,557.49 
429/800. 00 
55, 000. 00 
102, 475. 00 
0) 
3 17,256.79 
30, 000. 00 
0) 
6,384,355.74 
1,122,817.65 
CO 
6,899.27 
509, 146. 50 
40, 201. 00 
0) 
Total 128,767,414.57 28,949,759.48 9,214,166.62 24,960,869.20 
Retired 
during 1914. 
0) 
8271,000.00 
0) 
0) 
161,914.34 
5, 957, 266. 47 
P) 
0) 
49,842.00 
37,500.00 
33, 000. 00 
0) 
3,000.00 
C 1 ) 
0) 
2,684,593.81 
0) 
0) 
0) 
0) 
16,050.00 
0) 
Voted during 
1914, 
S275, 000. 00 
2,712,000.00 
0) 
425,000.00 
3, 656, 500. 00 
4,538,221.31 
376, 828. 00 
0) 
2,080,742.43 
62,000.00 
75, 000. 00 
462,000.00 
0) 
25,000.00 
50,000.00 
C 1 ) 
8,702,303.46 
1,365,000.00 
0) 
10, 500. 00 
133,274.00 
21, 500. 00 
0) 
Sold during 
1914. 
S275,000.00 
2,712,000.00 
0) 
375,000.00 
199,350.00 
8,619,005.53 
376, 828. 00 
0) 
2,080,742.43 
358,000.00 
75, 000. 00 
440, 000. 00 
0) 
25,000.00 
50, 000. 00 
0) 
8,593,303.46 
1,365,000.00 
0) 
10,500.00 
35,000.00 
21,500.00 
C 1 ) 
25,611,229.42 
i None reported. 
2 Including State bonds. 
3 Expended in early part of 1915. 
The total road mileage in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific States as of January 1, 
1915, exclusive of streets in incorporated cities and towns, was 1,358,706, of which 
134,141.74 miles, or 9.87 per cent were surfaced The total road mileage and the 
mileage surfaced to the close of 1914, and percentage of surfaced roads for 1909 and 
1914 are shown for this group of States in Table 4. Detailed information on this sub- 
ject is presented by counties under the State headings. The percentage of roads sur- 
faced for the years 1904, 1909, and 1914 for these States is shown in figure 1. 
