UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 387 
\g? Contribution from Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering •^1 
J^^^^U LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director. ^W^*^LTA. 
Washington, D. C. 
February 20, 1917 
PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES IN THE 
SOUTHERN STATES, 1914. 
A Compilation Showing Mileage of Improved and Unimproved Roads, 
Sources and amounts of Road Revenues, Bonds Issued and Out- 
standing, and a description of the Systems of Road Administration, 
Fiscal Management and other Factors affecting Road Improve- 
ment in Each State. 
Prepared Jointly by the Division of Road Economics of the Office of Public Roads 
and Rural Engineering, and State Collaborators. 
CONTENTS. 
Introductory: 
Working plan and sources of information . 2 
Road administration in the Southern 
States 3 
Public road revenues 3 
County and district road and bridge bond 
issues 5 
Road mileage 5 
Types of surfaced roads 7 
Alabama 8 
Arkansas 11 
Delaware 15 
Florida 16 
Georgia 18 
Kentucky 20 
Louisiana 23 
Maryland '.... 26 
Mississippi 29 
North Carolina 32 
Oklahoma 35 
South Carolina 37 
Tennessee 40 
Texas 43 
Virginia 45 
West Virginia 49 
Appendix I-LXXI 
INTRODUCTORY. 
In 1904 the Office of Public Roads adopted the policy of conducting 
an investigation every five years to determine the mileage of improved 
and unimproved roads, the revenues for road purposes, and other 
related data. In accordance with this policy Public Roads Bulletin 
No. 32 was issued, giving such information as was obtainable for the 
calendar year 1904, then Public Roads Bulletin No. 41, giving such 
information as was available for the calendar year 1909. The inves- 
tigation made for the year 1914 followed somewhat different lines, as a 
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