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property taxes paid in cash, while $713,409 represented the cash 
value of the statute labor tax. It thus appears that the total 
receipts from taxation, including the State appropriation, applied 
to roads increased during the 10-year period $127,353.40, or 9.1 per 
cent. The receipts from the property tax alone during this period 
increased 84.6 per cent, while the receipts from the statute labor 
tax were nearly seven times as great in 1904 as in 1914. It is quite 
likely, however, that complete information on the statute labor tax 
was not obtained for the year 1914. 
The information showing the revenue applied to roads and bridges 
for the year 1914 is contained in Table 8. 
ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS AND SCRIP. 
The total road and bridge bonds and scrip outstanding on January 
1, 1915, amounted to $1,467,066, comprising $1,249,926 in bonds 
and $217,140 in scrip. The scrip consisted of nonin teres t-bearing 
short- time loans or warrants issued to meet current expenses. Dur- 
ing the year 1914 a total of $1,191,426 road and bridge bonds were 
voted and sold. These bonds run from 12 to 20 years and bear 6 
per cent interest. They were sold at from 98 to 101 cents on the 
dollar. 
Detailed information showing bonds and scrip by counties is 
contained in Table 24. 
ROAD MILEAGE. 
At the close of 1914, Arkansas reported 50,743 miles of public road, 
of which 1,097 miles, or 2.16 per cent, were surfaced. Of the surfaced 
roads 362.5 miles were plain macadam, 535 miles gravel, 175 sand clay, 
21 concrete, and 4 miles bituminous macadam. There were also 
16,305 miles of earth road reported as graded and drained. Pulaski 
County reported 198.5 miles, or 39 per cent, of surfaced roads. This 
is the only county in the State that reported more than 100 miles 
of surfaced road. There are 39 counties in the State which reported 
no surfaced roads. Quite a number of counties reported a smaller 
mileage of surfaced roads than was reported for 1909. Several 
counties also reported large increases in total road mileage, with the 
result that the total mileage of all roads reported increased from 
36,445 miles in 1909 to 50 ; 743 miles in 1914, and that the percentage 
of surfaced roads shows a decrease on this account from 2.97 in 1909 
to 2.16 in 1914. In other words, if the figures reported are correct, 
Arkansas only had 11.75 more miles of improved roads in 1914 than 
in 1909. Mileage of surfaced roads outside of incorporated cities is 
shown in Table 38. 
