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and educational work by the geological and ecomonic survey, $5,000; 
and estimated expenditure of $2,430,000 x from county and township 
road and bridge bonds issued and sold during the years 1913 and 
1914. 
The total expenditure for public roads and bridges from taxation 
and bond issues during the year 1904 amounted to $1,358,687, thus 
showing that expenditures increased $3,856,803.78, or 283.8 per 
cent, in the 10-year period. 
The total receipts from taxation applied to roads and bridges are 
shown by counties and townships in Table 16. 
ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS. 
The total county and township road and bridge bonds outstanding 
on January 1, 1915, amounted to $8,955,300. In 1914 a total of 
$1,119,500 bonds were voted and $2,709,000 sold. 
No exact information is available to show how much was expended 
from bond issues in 1914, but the North Carolina Geological and 
Economic Survey estimates that this amounted to $2,430,000. This 
expenditure was from bonds authorized and sold during the years 
1913 and 1914. 
The total amounts of road and bridge bonds outstanding on Jan- 
uary 1, 1915, and the amounts voted and sold during 1914 are shown 
in Table 31. 
ROAD MILEAGE. 
At the close of 1914 North Carolina had 50,758 miles of public roads 
of which 6,003.75 miles, or 11.82 per cent, were surfaced. Of the 
surfaced roads 1,111 miles were macadam, 529 gravel, 4,313.5 sand- 
clay, 9 bituminous macadam, 1 .25 concrete, and 40 miles not classified. 
In mileage of surfaced roads Mecklenburg County stood first with 
385 miles, or 38.5 per cent; Iredell second, with 265 miles, or 37.85 
per cent; Richmond third, with 250 miles, or 41.66 per cent; Moore 
fourth, with 230 miles, or 38.33 per cent; Guilford fifth, with 220 
miles, or 22 per cent; Franklin County has 210 miles, or 42 per cent; 
Wake County had 202.25 miles, or 16.85 per cent, and Wayne 
County has 210 miles, or 21 per cent. Twenty counties reported 
no surfaced roads. The total of graded and drained earth roads 
reported amounted to 4,181 miles.' In 1909, 2,313 miles, or 4.79 
per cent, were surfaced. In the 5-year period, 1909-1914, 3,690.75 
miles were surfaced. 
The mileage figures for the various counties are presented in 
Table 46. 
> Information as to expenditure from bond issues was taken from Circular No. 105, issued July 5, 1915, 
by the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey. 
