14 BULLETIN 386, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 9. — Mileage of public roads, including city streets in New Jersey, in 1914. 
Roads. 
City streets. 
Name of county. 
County 
roads. 
Township 
roads. 
Borough 
roads. 
Town Village 
roads, streets. 
City 
streets. 
Toll 
roads. 
Estimated 
mileage. 
Atlantic 
153.86 
45.95 
215.90 
97.56 
106 
29 
160. 69 
94.74 
42.80 
61.90 
150. 72 
238.04 
220. 89 
152. 08 
103. 50 
203. 14 
68.01 
113. 50 
39.83 
67.66 
66.18 
653 
389.50 
1, 152. 45 
449 
253 
512 
119.80 
741 
31.63 
928. 10 
323.50 
439. 35 
1, 050. 20 
864 
1, 173 
260. 64 
591. 55 
612. 10 
936. 80 
217.43 
687. 20 
30.25 
776. 81 
14.75 
102. 29 
108. 20 
30.25 
39.90 
127. 75 
9.10 
44.60 
33.03 
126. 60 
221. 70 
79.70 
60.40 
75.01 
18.66 
68.44 
34 
120. 42 
17 
180 
236.65 
49.70 
41 
349. 36 
114. 64 
136.85 
355. 70 
21. 63 
287. 67 
11 
136. 20 
130. 47 
100.20 
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1, 253. 76 
1 304.36 
37.40 
1, 424. 10 
Camden 
i 
998.21 
581.84 
Cumberland 
720.10 
349. 44 
52 
1,077.53 
996. 12 
126. 34 
4 
501. 54 
Hunterdon 
1, 049. 60 
643.45 
934.46 
Monmouth 
13.10 
66.64 
1,606.09 
1, 162. 42 
1, 336. 90 
212. 82 
16.20 
"~6.40 
751. 61 
700. 82 
7 
801.04 
1, 010. 63 
68.25 
38 
308. 72 
782.48 
808.38 
Total 
2, 431. 95 
12, 385. 25 
2, 138. 86 
852. 77 
89.40 
2, 508. 81 
38.40 
20, 445. 44 
Miles. 
14, 817. 19 
5,628.24 
20,445.44 
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IK. 1 
New York, with a land area of 47,654 square miles, has 1 .66 miles 
of road per square mile of area. According to the 1910 census 
4,766,883 out of a total population of 9,113,614, or 52.3 per cent, 
lived in the city of New York, and the urban and rural population 
was, respectively, 7,185,494 and 1,928,120, or 78.8 per cent and 
21.2 per cent, thus indicating the predominance of urban interests 
in the working out of the highway problem. There are 62 counties, 
varying in size from St. Lawrence, the largest, with an area of 2,880 
square miles, to Schenectady, the smallest, with an area of 221 square 
miles. The counties of Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and 
Richmond are not considered in this report, as they are included 
within the city limits of New York City. 
The topography of the State is varied and ranges from sand plains 
to low-lying granite mountains. 
The good-roads movement in the State of New York dates back to 
1898, when the Higbie- Armstrong law was passed. Under this law 
50 per cent of the cost of highways was to be borne by the State, 35 
per cent by the county, and 15 per cent by the towns through which 
the road passed. After completion, the roads were maintained 
i S. D. Gilbert, auditor, and other members of the State highway department, rendered valuable assist- 
ance in the work for this State. The figures were checked by the United States collaborator at Albany, 
J. Burr Ryder. 
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