20 BULLETIN 387, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
1915 at 98J cents on the dollar. Road bonds were retired as follows : 
Ben Hill County, $350; Towns County, $700 and Turner County, 
SI, 000. 
ROAD MILEAGE. 
At the close of the year 1914, according to reports received, 
Georgia had 80,669 miles of public road, of which 12,342.12, or 15.3 
per cent, were surfaced. Of the surfaced roads, 10,778 miles were 
sand clay, 1,073 miles gravel, 234 miles macadam, 87 miles bitumin- 
ous macadam, 45 miles shell, 1.7 miles brick, 0.4 mile concrete, and 
123 miles not classified as to type. 
In mileage of surfaced roads, Emanuel County stands first with 
500 miles, or 68.8 per cent; Decatur County, second, with 500 miles, 
or 67 per cent; Richmond County, third, with 405 miles, or 81 
per cent; Bulloch County, fourth, with 400 miles, or 53.4 per cent. 
There are 6 counties having between 300 and 400 miles surfaced, 14 
counties having between 200 and 300, 29 counties having between 
100 and 200, and 52 counties that reported no surfaced roads. There 
are 30,554 miles of roads reported as graded and drained earth. 
In 1909 there were 5,978 miles, or 7.27 per cent, reported as sur- 
faced, thus indicating that during the 5-year period 6,364 miles 
were surfaced. Information showing the total mileage of all roads 
and the miles surfaced in the various counties is contained in Table 41. 
KENTUCKY. 
By R. C. Teerell, State Commissioner of Public Roads and Collaborator United 
States Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. 
Kentucky has an area of 40,181 square miles, a total road mile- 
age of 57,916, and a population, according to the 1910 census, of 
2,289,905. The State, therefore, has a population of 56.9 per square 
mile of area and 39.5 per mile of road, with 1.44 miles of road per 
square mile of area. Of the population in 1910, 75.7 per cent, or 
1,734,463 was rural, making a rural population of 29.94 per mile of 
road. 
In 1912 the legislature enacted a law creating a department of 
public roads, the chief officer of which is the commissioner of public 
roads, who is appointed by the governor for a term of four years 
and is required to be a graduate of civil engineering from some 
reputable university or technical school. 
The commissioner of public roads had no authority over county 
roads, other than in an advisory capacity, and the expenditures of 
the department of public roads were not to exceed $25,000 annually, 
to be paid from the State road fund which was composed of the 
proceeds of the license tax on motor vehicles. In 1914 a new law 
was enacted enlarging the powers of the State commissioner of 
public roads and levying a State tax of 5 cents on each S100 valu- 
