KOAD MILEAGE, REVENUES, SOUTHERN STATES, 1914, 
A diagram, Fig. 1, shows the percentage of surfaced roads for 
the Southern States at the close of the years 1904, 1909, and 1914. 
ALABAMA 
ARKANSAS 
DELAWARE 
FLORIDA 
GEORGIA 
KENTUCKY 
LOUISIANA 
MARYLAND 
1904 
1909 
1914 
1904 
1909 
i9'4 
•904 
1909 
1914 
1904 
1909 
1914 
1904 
1.909 
1914 
1904 
1909 
1914 
1904 
1909 
1914 
t904 
1909 
1914 
1904 
MISSISSIPPI 1909 
N.CAROLINA 
OKLAHOMA 
S.CAROLINA 
TENNESSEE 
TEXAS 
VIRGINIA 
W.VIRGINIA 
307, 
Fig. 1.— Percentage of surfaced roads in Southern States 1904, 1909, and 1914. 
This diagram also shows in a striking manner the strides which have 
been made in road improvement in the South during the past 10 
years. 
TYPES OF SURFACED ROADS. 
Of the 73,594.78 miles of surfaced roads in the Southern States 
at the close of 1914, 29,287.88 miles, or 39.80 per cent, were sand 
clay; 21,377.37 miles, or 29.05 per cent, were macadam; 17,440.02 
miles, or 23.7 per cent, were gravel; 1,994.36 miles, or 2.71 per 
cent, were bituminous macadam; 1,924.68 miles, or 2.61 per cent, 
were shell; 37§.81 miles, or 0.51 per cent, were brick; 273.24 miles, 
or 0.37 per cent, were concrete; and 917.42 miles, or 1.25 per cent, 
were surfaced with other materials. The distribution of types of 
surfaced roads as of January 1, 1915, is shown by States in Table 6. 
