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Show Florida Department Is Pushing Construction Working under provisions of an act of the legislature designating a system oi roads to provide highways reaching reach-ing from one end of ihe state to the other, the Florida state road department depart-ment is making steady progress toward to-ward completion of the network of roads that have a total mileage of 3,500. In addition to work being done by the state, counties are bonding themselves and spending millions of dollars yearly in order to expedite consti action of the roads. The state roar department has only about $-1,500,000 a year to operate on, in addition to labor of a thousand or more state convicts who are assigned to road-building work, but is going ahead with its program constructing highways that cost from $20,000 to $-10,000 for t he hardsurfaced type and around $2,000 a mile for sand-clay surface. sur-face. The system provides for a road into Florida from Waycross, Ga., extending along the east coast to Miami that will eventually extend lo Key West when the contemplated Overseas highway high-way is contemplated; two roads through the central part of the state from north ro smith ; one across the northern hornier from Jacksonville to Pensacola, unf, a number of others crossing the peninsuiu and western wing at different intervals. Another, the Tiimiami trail, extending along the west coast from Tampa through the Everglades to Miami, is also under const ruction. |