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Show PUBLIC ROAD CONSTRUCTION About One-Half of All Highways Being Built Are Being Aided by the Government. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) What the new federal highway appropriation ap-propriation to be expended under the direction of the bureau of public roads, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, will mean to the country Is accurately ac-curately gauged In a synopsis prepared by the bureau, showing the use to construction of a Rock Road. which the $275,000,0000 previously appropriated ap-propriated by congress has been put. Up to December 31, $212,077,246 had been put to work in projects either entirely en-tirely complete or under construction. To match that amount the states appropriated ap-propriated $285,379,3-12, making a total of $497,456,558. If placed end to end the roads to be paid for by this money would encircle the earth at the equator and extend a far as from New York to San Francisco Fran-cisco on the second lap. The total mileage of roads under construction and completed, the department's records rec-ords show, was approximately 27,000 miles. Of this milage 9,555 miles was in projects entirely completed. The balance of 17,445 miles was In projects which were still under construction but reported 69 per cent complete October Oc-tober 31. In those projects there was the equivalent of 12,000 miles of completed com-pleted roa4s, so that the completed rood to date was more than 21,000 miles, or nearly enough to encircle the globe. Prior to five years ago the federal government took no active part In the road construction of the country. Today To-day about one-half of all roads under construction are being aided financially financial-ly by the federal government, and the construction is subject to inspection and approval of federal engineers. |