Gunnison Valley News | 1919-06-07 | Page 6 | $300,000,000 for Highways

$300,000,000 FOR HIGHWAYS Sum Which If Capitalized at 5 Per Cent Would Represent Investment Invest-ment of $6,000,000,000. Government road officials estimate that road construction and maintenance mainte-nance in the United States invulve an annual outlay of over $:i()0,000,000, a sum. which, if capitalized at 5 per cent, would represent an Investment of $0,000,000,000. There Vis never been a rial ion-wide traffic census to show cither the direction or volume of traffic over these highways.