40 BULLETIN 3*7, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
tax and miscellaneous revenues. S214.512.30: cash value of statute 
labor tax. 158,125; expended from bond issues. $34,000. 
The total expenditures for roads and bridges for the year 1904 
amounted to 87-15.701.50. thus showing that during this 10-year 
period the revenues increased -S27S.77S.S7, or 37.4 per cent. Infor- 
mation showing tax rates and receipts from taxation for the various 
counties is contained in Table IS. 
ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS. 
The total road and bridge bonds outstanding on January 1, 1915, 
amounted to $460,000, of which 875.000 were voted and sold during 
the year 1914. The expenditures from bond issues during the year 
1914 amounted to 834.000. Information regarding the South Caro- 
lina bond issues is presented by counties and townships in Table 
32. 
ROAD MILEAGE. 
According to the reports received. South Carolina had. at the close 
of 1914, 42.226 miles of public road of which 3.270.5 miles, or 7.74 
per cent, were surfaced. Of the surfaced roads, 3,101 miles were 
sand-clay, 85 miles gravel. 53.5 miles shell. 27.5 miles macadam, 
and 3.5 miles bituminous macadam. 
In mileage of surfaced roads the reports indicate that Anderson 
County stands first, with 500 miles, or 41.39 per cent: Aiken County 
second, with 350 miles, or 27.40 per cent: Florence County third, 
with 225 miles, or 19.56 per cent: Richland County fourth, with 202 
miles, or 26.86 per cent: and Darlington County fifth, with 200 miles, 
or 20 per cent. Eight other counties reported 100 miles or over of 
surfaced road and 7 counties reported no surfaced roads. 
In 1909 South Carolina reported 32.075 miles of public road of 
which 3.534.75 miles, or 11.02 per cent, were reported as having been 
surfaced. The 1914 figures were seemed and checked by the Com- 
missioner of Agriculture of South Carolina, and it is believed that they 
are as accurate as it is possible to obtain at present. Information 
showing the total mileage and mileage surfaced in the various coun- 
ties is contained in Table 48. 
TENNESSEE. 
Tennessee has a land area of 41.6S7 square miles, a total road mile- 
age of 46.050. and a population, according to the 1910 census, of 
2,1S4,7S9. The State, therefore, has a population of 52.4 per square 
mile of area and 47.44 per mile of road, with 1.10 miles of road per 
square mile of area. Of the population in 1910, 79. S per cent, or 
1.743.744. was rural, thus indicating a rural population of 37. S6 per 
mile of road. 
