Show BUILDING W KANSAS IS BUSY BUILDING ROADS ican djs III tins riot not been altogether together nl idle during tile the past ant fox years in her construction tilts tills bbate lias IMN a large mileage rendy for sonic soine apo of surf surfacing aIng according to I 1 irol iro f A 1 D conrow enrow in row of the engin engineering vering division of liu ju state agricultural college murli much of tills law of surface sui fico roads however iiii liui i weak furi faco face clies clips being bitcily 1 ed A road la im alle a ahnin lie in being better alian its weak est link A total of 2600 talles of tind about nilles of sand surfacing have been cared fr for without fed eral nad ald tic cording to conrow Coi irow these a anre re improvements made only on at the lie state kastein aronds aind tl lt bot include county road ampro since june 1021 diore than ling has been spent if tit for badges ea on the tc sante and county sp Kyst stenis yina at least BO 50 ier cent of f tho bounty rond roads though not to manfurd Mano urd have wide ond well delit and ore generally in tood good in ili dry we ather one difficulty will the kansas Kii iia rond road system according to conrow Is that of tile lie extensive ago in me lio state texas being tile alio iiii ving a greater mileage the alie total kansas mileage Is miles of which nta anro state roads rands and ure are county rondi rands tho greatest prent pat portion of the improvement pro in our highways linci been on state tind county conrow explained sis as on a large part of lie township ronda buci but little atie im proven writ work Is 14 lone done rind ninny many are merely bupt in pasqnale condition Ilo however wever nearly 00 per cent of the people live on or within two or three miles of n state or county rond road so the improvement dealt with will he be lint fiat which is done acme on the county and state systems our sante system comprises SAM nilles or 7 per cent of tile the total highways in the state or of tills mileage obort miles or it little over 45 per cent has been brought to standard grade and about 1000 miles of this griffle has boon surfaced with sonie some type of surf acir 19 low miles of the surfaced erndle ar art 0 of ti the L cheaper types of tur surfacing facing vach mich aa sand clay or gravel and the re rc nIng surfaced grade abolt miles Is of tile the higher types of sur bur facing including brick concrete and bitu bituminous minnus macadam chows tant 22 per cent of f th the e state system la Is surfaced |