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Show f BETTER ROADS FEDERAL AID FOR HIGHWAYS Bum of $211,135,276 Was Spent for Construction of 28,135 Miles of Roads. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) How the government has employed federal aid funds for road building through the bureau of public roads, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, among the various types of roads. Is shown In a summary prepared pre-pared by the department. The tabulation tabula-tion covers the expenditure of $211,-135,276.31 $211,-135,276.31 of federal-aid funds from the beginning of the work when It was authorized by congress up to November Novem-ber 1, 1921, a period of four years four Months. That sum was applied toward to-ward the construction of 28,135 miles af roads. The total cost was $400,-151,683.43. $400,-151,683.43. The average coat was $17,-330 $17,-330 per mile. Nearly 30 per cent of the federal-aid federal-aid funds, or $75,600,279.80, went into the construction of 4,653.0 miles of hlgh-grada concrete roads. Next in size were total appropriations of $47,-192,895.41 $47,-192,895.41 federal-aid funds applied to the building of 10,043.5 miles of gravel road, at a total cost of $104,-614,006.71. $104,-614,006.71. Federal-aid funds to the extent of $24,721,020.92 were applied during the period to the construction of 0,864 miles of graded and drained roads, at a total cost of $55,704,253.78. High-grade bituminous-macadam roads, of which 1.323.2 miles were con- 4 - - -- " - - - - - l Rolling a Shell Road in Louisiana, structed, at a total cost of $41,412,-557,88, $41,412,-557,88, claimed federal-aid funds to the extent of $18,040,000.17. For another an-other high type of road bituminous concrete $9,299,804.32 was made available avail-able through federal aid. That sum went toward the construction of 772.5 miles of roadway, at a total cost of $23,445,374.88. Toward the construction of brick roads, of which 444.0 miles were built, federal aid was available to the extent ex-tent of $0,925,482.13; and toward the cost of 2,095.5 miles of sand-clay roads the federal government contributed $10,495,172.10. The total cost of sand-clay sand-clay roads was $22,226,302.00. |