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Show ENOUGH To ;iltl)l.i: EARTH Eleven thousand nine hundred and thirty miles of federal-aid roads were constructed under the joint supervision super-vision of the federal government and the states during 1921, according to report! of the Bureau of Public Itoads of the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. Federal money amounting to $04,057,089 was allotted allot-ted to these roads, the total cost of which was $2ii 1 ,96$,ft2. In this mileage there is included 8,595 miles In projects wholly completed and the equivalent of ;i,.'i:!5 miles of work done on projects which are not wholly whol-ly completed. Every state shared in tho benefits of this work. The projects under way during the year amounted to 31,228 miles, which was about one-half of all the road work carrlod on in the United States during the year. A fair idea of the magnitude of the road work done under the supervision of the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture last year may he gained when It is understood that the total mileage is considerably more than enoutih to encircle the earth, that it is equal to more than 10 per cent of all the Improved roads previously pre-viously existing in the United States, and that it is equal to nearly 8 per cent of the entire road system of France, At this rate we would be able to build the equivalent of France's entire road system in 12 years. |