52 BULLETIN 387, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS. 
It was impossible to secure information in regard to bonds out- 
standing January 1, 1915, or bond funds expended in 1914. From 
reports received it appears that the various counties and districts 
voted $5,354,000 road and bridge bonds up to July 1, 1915. The 
bonds outstanding on that date, so far as could be ascertained, 
amounted to $1,303,000. 
The amount of bonds outstanding and the amount voted in each 
county up to July 1, 1915, are shown in Table 36. 
ROAD MILEAGE. 
At the close of the fiscal year 1914-15, West Virginia had 32,024 
miles of public roads, of which 1,064.97 miles, or 3.3 per cent, were 
surfaced. Of the surfaced roads, 771.92 miles were macadam, 62.95 
miles bituminous macadam, 121.1 miles brick, 18.5 miles concrete, 
20.5 miles gravel, and 70 miles shale. 
In surfaced road mileage Jefferson County stands first, with 280 
miles, or 82.4 per cent; Ohio County second, with 204 miles, or 80 
per cent; Berkeley County third, with 145 miles, or 31.8 per cent; 
Brooke County fourth, with 52 miles, or 29.2 per cent; und Mercer 
County fifth, with 42 miles, or 10.4 per cent. Twenty-eight counties 
had less than 10 per cent of the roads .surfaced, and 22 counties had 
no surfaced roads. In 1904 there were 44 counties that reported 
no surfaced roads. 
In 1909, 591.4, or 1.84 per cent, of the total were surfaced. It 
would seem therefore that in the period 1909 to 1914-15 a total of 
473.6 miles were surfaced. The 1914-15 mileage statistics for the 
various counties are presented in Table 52. 
