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authorized and $452,100 were sold. Detailed information showing 
total bonds outstanding, expenditures from bond funds during 1914, 
bonds voted and sold in 1914, interest rate, term, and purchase price 
is shown by counties and districts in Table 35. 
ROAD MILEAGE. 
The total mileage of pub he roads in Virginia at the close of 1914 
was 53,388, of which 3,909.57 miles, or 7.32 per cent of the total, 
were surfaced. Of the surfaced roads 1,177.89 miles were macadam, 
255.77 bituminous macadam, 822.09 gravel, 1,511.65 sand-clay and 
topsoil, and 142.17 miles were surfaced with other materials, princi- 
pally shell. 
In mileage of surfaced roads Mecklenburg County stands first, with 
315 miles, or 39.52 per cent; Chesterfield County second, with 202.5 
miles, or 33.75 per cent; Rockingham County third, with 137 miles, 
or 8.32 per cent; Dinwiddie County fourth, with 124 miles, or 20.66 
per cent; and Henrico County fifth, with 120.45 miles, or 13.38 per 
cent. Charlotte County has 106 miles, or 11.77 per cent, surfaced, 
and Greenesville 100 miles, or 58.82 per cent. There are 21 counties 
in the State having not less than 50 nor more than 99 miles of sur- 
faced road. Sixteen counties report no surfaced roads, but in 1904 
there were 70 counties which reported no surfaced roads. 
Fifteen counties reported a smaller mileage of surfaced roads for 
1914 than for 1909. In spite of this decrease the reports show that 
in the 5-year period 2,006.82 miles of road have been surfaced. In 
1909 the mileage surfaced amounted to 1,902.75, which represented 
4.38 per cent of the total, thus indicating that the surfaced road 
mileage more than doubled in the 5-year period, 1909 to 1914. 
Details showing the total mileage of all roads, the mileage surfaced, 
the per cent of the total surfaced, the increase in surfaced mileage 
over 1909, and the mileage of graded and drained earth roads in the 
various counties are presented in Table 51. 
WEST VIRGINIA. 
By A. Dennis "Williams, Chief Engineer State Road Bureau and Collaborator United 
States Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. 
West Virginia has a land area of 24,022 square miles, a total road 
mileage of 32,024 and a population, according to the 1910 Census, 
of 1,221,119. The State, therefore, has a population of 50.8 per 
square mile of area and 38.1 per mile of road, with 1.33 miles of road 
per square mile of area. Of the population in 1910 81.3 per cent, or 
992,877, was rural, thus indicating a rural population of 31 per mile 
of road. 
The first road laws of the State were enacted in 1872 and revised 
in 1881. The legislature of 1907 provided for the office of State 
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