Show road maintenance expenditures for or highway mo mahibe tinte nanco aro are reaching roach lne huge proportions some of the older eastern states al i ready spend more annually for upkeep of old roads than they do for building new now roads throughout the country tile the practice Is the reverse rave rao the vast majority of 0 states have only begun the construction or of the im proved roads which traffic requires their construction account wine large not only in actual figures but in the concern and of oc ahe aie people these facts haye have served to overshadow in public thought the growing magnitude of tho the public road rad maintenance business 11 it tt la 3 growing alv ing up unobserved exclude excluding g at interest t rest on fun dedd tar 0 roat road can di s ruction about 40 per cent crit of tile the present expenditures for highways Is or fr maintenance this percentage la 19 based on the latest complete re records cor ds ot 1922 they are worth noting according to the bureau of public I 1 roada goads jhb highway expenditures tor for 1022 were for construe tion and for maintenance 1 about 30 per cent of nil all maintenance expenditures are for the miles of state system highways which aro are 1 I legs ass than 8 per cent of the total mileage of all highways tho the point to be g given iven attention however does not lie I 1 ip refinement pt analysis which the li i general figures available do not jus jua i afy but Is the magnitude ot of the total maintenance this puts kigh highway upkeep up keep among big bu business sinead I 1 ope operations operatic ratio 8 it needs remembering too that talat it itan 11 a continuing business hud and growing business arld and the lie part ot of the bhoj highway business most in danger of 0 coming under direction un loss tile the la is mado made clearly known to tho the road using public |