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Show BOOM IN HIGHWAY BUILDING Federal Aid Has Been Most Important Impor-tant Factor of Recent Years in Road Construction. Federal aid has been probably the most important factor in the big boom in highway building of recent years, and there are now many long stretches of trunk-line highway serving rich agricultural ag-ricultural and industrial sections of the country which are almost entirely federal-aid construction. The United States Department of Agriculture, Ag-riculture, which administers the federal-aid fund, points out that a traveler trav-eler going from Richmond, Ind., to St. Louis across Indiana and the southern part of Illinois, thence to Chicago by way of Springfield and Peoria, a distance dis-tance of approximately 679 miles, would travel 003 miles, or 75 per cent of tbe way, on federal-aid highways, practically all of which should be in service by the end of the present season. |