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Show CHICAGO-MIAMI MOTOR ROAD Details of Work in Various Localities Progress Made in Construction Is Remarkable. That the Dixie highway is a road that has appealed to the people both North and South of the Mason and Dixon line is evidenced by a report from the offices of the Dixie highway association, located at Chattanooga, to the effect that fifty counties alone have spent more than $1.7ii.",200 on the Chicago-Miami motor thoroughfare in the last six months and are preparing to spend $6,931,000 during the coming year, writes J. C. ISurton in Chicago Daily News. As the fifty counties reporting to the association represent less than a third of the total counties that are crossed by the road that links North and South, it would not be unreasonable unreason-able to estimate that approximately $5,300,000 has been expended on the Dixie highway to date and that $20,-793.000 $20,-793.000 will be used to put the thoroughfare thor-oughfare in shape in 1916. When it is considered that the Dixie highway was routed only eight months ago, the progress made in its construction is remarkable. The large mileage of permanent roads built or under contract is an indication of the wonderful advancement made in such a short time. The fifty counties referred re-ferred to report that nearly one-tenth of the distance either is paved or will be paved before another year rolls around. Using only a multiple of two to represent the other 112 counties, it can be seen that a good part of the road is or will be of a permanent t y i of construction. The preparations being made for even greater progress along this line are highly gratifying to the officials of the Dixie highway association. Several Sev-eral divisions of the thoroughfare are planning paved roads for their entire stretch, the most notable of these being be-ing the links from Chicago to Danville, 111., from Toledo to Cincinnati, O.; from Jacksonville to Miami, Pla., and from Tallahassee to Bartow, Fla. The reports by states show that in tseven out of the eighteen counties of Kentucky there has been expended $135,000. In Ohio, eight counties out of twelve and exclusive of Hamilton county, of which Cincinnati is the county seat, have spent $338,000. Five counties out of twenty-two in Florida spent $601,000 on the Dixie highway Typical Concrete Bridge on Dixie Highway In Tennessee. In the past six months. Four counties out of five in Illinois, not including Cook county, report a total of $252,000 for road improvement. Ten counties out of twenty-four in Georgia spent $95,000. In the fifty counties reporting to the association provisions have been made for spending $6,931,000 on the Dixie highway in 1916. This amount is divided di-vided by states as follows: Florida $2,505,000 Illinois 1,250,000 Ohio 1,204,000 Tennessee 924,000 Kentucky 765,000 Georgia 151,000 Indiana 126,000 |