Show AMERICAN HIGHWAY association enormous development of the tin financial side of the road movement shown in the tact fact that 1230 counties in the united states now have outstanding highway bonds aggregating P a quarter of a billion dollars according to the official good roads year book tor for 1914 which Is to be issued by the american highway association in washington early in march the fact that the counties mentioned have bonded themselves to the extent of a quarter of a billion dollars in order to improve and maintain their roads is only one of the surprising developments of the road movement as shown by the latest year book A stupendous new business Is 13 shown to have shiung up in the united states as a result of the road booma boom a business employing more than one thousand persons in actual supervision of the roads in addition to the increase in banking business due to handling bonds increases in the road machinery and materials and the other products byproducts by of 0 the boom not merely has there been a tremendous saving in the wear and tear on horses and in the prevention of waste on the farm due to the inability to get to the shipping points over poor roads but there has been an actual increase 1 in prosperity as a result of the need tor for work and materials on tie ane construction of new roads and the improvement of old ones progress reports from every state highway department comprise a chapter in the new year book which shows that only eight states have failed to establish highway depart ments while in several of the states notably new york illinois iowa and new mexico the tendency towards centralization has progressed so far that practically all the work of road improvement is being done under state supervision the year book which Is a complete inventory of road statistics and other necessary data sets forth that approximately twenty thousand miles of roads have been constructed under state supervision in the past year highway officials in the various states have already applied for the latest edition of the year book which gives a digest of state road laws shows the use of convicts on the public roads bond issues mileage appropriations directories of officials manufacturers and contractors types of roads full list bt books documents and authorities authorities description of foreign road systems highway engineering in colie colleges construction of bridges and culvers cul vets and reviews ot of all the addresses and technical articles which appeared in 1913 J E Fenny backer secretary of the amerl american highway association whose president res is logan waller page director of the federal office of public roads I 1 is is editor of the year book and C p light is bo siness manager |