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worked the roads, and the value of such labor amounted to $1,198,394. 
The principal increases in revenues are, therefore, property taxes 
paid in cash, which accounts for the steady increase in the surfaced 
road mileage of the State. 
The county tax rates for roads, the total receipts from taxation 
and the statute labor road tax are shown by counties in Table 7. 1 
ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS. 
On January 1, 1915, a total of $5,418,000 of county road and 
bridge bonds was outstanding. This includes $372,000 of road 
warrants. During the year 1914, $1,013,210 was expended from 
road bonds. The total bonds and warrants outstanding and the 
amounts expended from bond issues in 1914 are shown by counties 
in Table No. 23. 
ROAD MILEAGE. 
In 1904 Alabama reported 50,089 miles of pubic roads, in 1909, 
49,639 miles, and in 1914, 55,446 miles. The surfaced roads of the 
State reported were 1,720 miles for 1904, 3,263.93 miles in 1909, 
and 4,988.5 miles in 1914. The percentage of all roads surfaced was 
therefore 3.43 per cent in 1904, 6.58 per cent in 1909, and 8.99 per 
cent in 1914. Of the latter 431 miles were macadam, 2,589.5 gravel, 
1,916 sand clay, 31 bituminous macadam, 20 shell, and 1 concrete. 
In addition to the surfaced roads, 2,023.5 miles were reported as 
graded and drained earth roads. While some of the counties 
reported a smaller mileage of surfaced roads in 1914 than hi 1909, it 
appears that if the State is taken as a whole a total of 1,724.57 miles 
of roads were surfaced during the five-year period, January 1, 1910, 
to December 31, 1914. 
The total mileage of roads, the miles surfaced, the percentage 
surfaced, and the mileage of graded and drained earth roads are 
shown by counties in Table 37. 
ARKANSAS. 
Arkansas has a land area of 52,525 square miles, a total road mile- 
age of 50,743, and a population, according to the 1910 census, of 
1,574,449. The State, therefore, has a population of 29.97 per 
square mile of area and 31.02 per mile of road, with 0.96 mile of road 
per square mile of area. Of the population in 1910, 87.1 per cent, 
or 1,371,768, was rural, thus indicating a rural population of 27.03 
per mile of road. 
In the legislative session of 1913 there was established the depart- 
ment of State lands, highways and improvements, the executive 
head of which is the Commissioner of State lands, highways and 
improvements. There also was created a State highway commission 
i All tables referred to in the text under the respective States will be found in the appendix. 
