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Show IVarions Spates to Expend $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 a Day During the Present Season, f GREAT INTEREST TAKEN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY California Issues $18,000,000 ;i in Bonds to Build a System ) of State Highways. SpocUil to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, Juno 11. One million dollars a day 1b tho rocord that -will he fftubllehcd throughout the United Statos lS tho oxpondlturo for improving and maintaining public roods. Never before in tho history of tho country has there ; been mich Interest In tho Improvement of highways, end with the legislatures of tho otutes appropriating millions of dollars for this purpoDC, the good roads movement move-ment has recolved Its greatest impetus einoo the foundation of tho republic. Tho money that will bo expended on ' tho roads of this country during the next six months will bo more than ever i before In tho same period of time. In 1904 tho total expenditure for the con-i con-i Btruction and maintenance of roads and bridges in tho United States amounted to about 160,000,000, but tho expenditure for this purpose in 1011 will aggregate about J140.600.000. Exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, the outlay for roads will amount to $1,000,000 a day during the present road -building season. This includes all monoys ralGea by local taxa-'tlon, taxa-'tlon, bond issues, state appropriations and prlvato subscriptions. At Work All Over the Country. "Every state in the L'nion," said Logan Waller Page, In telling of the results of the great campaign for good roads, "seems at last to be thoroughly aroused to the benefits derived from Investments in improved highways. In California, the state has Issued $18,000,000 In bonds with which to build a system of state highways. high-ways. This work will begin during the preseni season. In the state of Connecticut Connecti-cut about $2,250,000 will be expended this year out of the state treasury for trunk- . line and stale-aid roads. Of the $5,000,000 bond Issue recently authorized in Maryland, Mary-land, over 31,250.000 will be available thlB year for trunk-line and state-aid roads. Massachusetts will expend from state revenues over 81.000,000 for the construction con-struction and maintenance of state rnnriit- . I "It Is expected that at least $5,000,000 will be expended on state-aid roads and 1 on trunk-line systems In the state of New York, In addition to $7,000,000 already al-ready raised by local taxation. More money is being devoted to road improve. ' ment in New Tork than in any other ' state 1n the Union, and the percentage of improved roads in that state has increased in-creased from 7.9 per cent In 1904 to 60 per cent In 1909. I North Carolina Has $2,000,000 to Spend i "Over 52,000,000 is available in North Carolina from bond Issues in the various counties for road Improvement this year, ; and the legislature has authorized tho construction of a road from the Atlantic t ocean to the Tennessee line, a distance of 425 miles. "In 1910 thirty counties in Ohio voted $2,500,000 in bonds to be expended this year. Ohio will also expend about SE00.000 from state revenues for road improvement. improve-ment. In Pennsylvania the state-aid I appropriation will probably amount' ito over 51,000.000 and a $50,000,000 bond la-J la-J sue is being considered. Various counties coun-ties in Tennessee will expend 51,500,000 from bond issues. Over $1,500,000 will be t expended from bond Issues in various , counties in Texas. In Virginia 52,500,000 has been authorized by various counties I to be expended this year, while over $250,000 has been appropriated in the i Btate of Wisconsin, In accordance with I, the state-aid system, i "The prospcel for a complete system of public roads throughout the United States Is better now than ever before in ' the history of the country and a unlform-n unlform-n Ity of recent good road laws gives promise that this country will eventually take i Its place with France In having the most I sensible system of road supervision and j maintenance." t |