HIGHWAY BONDS. 33 
In Manatee County, Fla., the principal crops are citrous fruits and 
early vegetables, which are shipped north. In Wayne County, Mich., 
the city of Detroit is the center of the road system and attracts a very 
large volume of miscellaneous traffic. The estimated annual tonnage 
hauled over the bond-built highways in almost every instance is 
sufficiently large to produce, by an assumed reduction of a few cents 
per ton-mile in cost, a sufficient operating income to cancel the annual 
interest and retirement fund required by the bonds. The relation of 
these items is summarized in the following table: 
TABLE 20.—Summary of relation between bond requirements and reduced cost of hauling. 
Approximate | 
| 
cost of Equivalent 
Toe caanee annual inter- | necessary 
County and State. est and | reduction 
estimated at 
- | 
Sa aTTTISITAL redemption (cents per 
on highway ton-mile). 
bonds. 
HD TASMAN A err esting oe UE oe ee ee 600, 000 $28 , 333 4.7 
MANIA LOO yl La sae ee ea yates geese Sete Sisk Sane sii aut oe = 1 200, 000 17,342 U7 
WWicita GON LALO NpIVIISS Be orn He ve este rey yee ee eee Se 720, 000 24, 530 3.4 
SOUS VWAINIA Vere sere eine ec is rine fe ein yataes See on we antes 574, 720 12, 695 70.9 
MBIT GIO sg Vaan ee ee Ae eo Ae Soe or Se oh aes oe 212, 500 8, 633 4.1 
RrariichineeNiy Vet eee en hele male ee Rat ee Ee 201,544 | 25,544 12.6 
TUES Ge MICOS: = SA ee Oe RE a li a age ae ep aa ea CN | 4,353, 966 2179, 882 4.1 
1 Rough estimate. 2 Equivalent for annuity bond. 
The increases in the value of land adjacent to the improved roads 
are especially noteworthy. In Manatee County, Fla., land increased 
in value $20 per acre from 1911 to 1912, and a mile away from the 
road the increase was $10 per acre. In Spotsylvania County, Va., 
land which formerly sold at an average of $24.74 per acre changed 
hands within three years at an average of $44.74. In Dinwiddie 
County, land between 5 and 10 miles from Petersburg advanced on an 
average from $15.25 to $30 in about 15 instances, and land 10 miles 
from town increased, on an average in 16 instances, $16.32 an acre. 
On eight pieces of land in Franklin County, selected at random, there 
was an increase in value of 27.8 per cent after the improved roads 
were built, and in Lee County, Va., land advanced 25 per cent. 
The construction of the bond-built highways in several of the 
counties herein mentioned has been of decided benefit to school attend- 
ance. In Spotsylvania County one consolidated school replaces three 
one-room schools, and another consolidated schoolis planned. In Din- 
widdie County school attendance increased 174 per cent in one year 
on the improved roads, and several school wagons carrying 24 pupils 
each have been put in service. In Lee County school attendance 
along the improved roads shows an average of 71 per cent against 62 
per cent along other roads. In Wise County several successful school 
consolidations have been effected since 1909. The Pole Bridge 
School in this county on the road from Coburn to Wise replaces four 
~ one-room schools. 
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