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THIRTEENTH REPORT. 
To do this the state would have to raise sufficient funds to pay the 
bounties and necessary supervision, which would mean a state appro- 
priation of not less than $600,000 annually. Last year 276 miles of road 
were built on which state reward was paid, an increase of 26% over the 
previous year. It now looks as though the state bonuses that will be 
paid during the present fiscal year would show an increase of more than 
40% over those of the previous year. If this rate of increase can be 
maintained, three years from now we may hope to be building at the 
rate of S00 miles a year and thus make it possible to see our trunk 
line highways completed within the next 20 years, but not without a 
cost far in excess of the figures given. 
Lansing, Mich., April, 1911. 
