OCR Text |
Show Good Roads Hints xX"Xxkx:x-x:-::xm-: Of all the types of road in Federal Aid road projects up to January 31, 1924, either completed or under construction, con-struction, 8,353.7 miles were of concrete. con-crete. This represented an expenditure expendi-ture of $310,101,897.02 or 3S.4 per cent of all the money expended on these Federal Aid projects. Fifteen great corporations have agreed to discontinue roadside advertising adver-tising that disfigures landscapes. The list of corporations which have agreed to quit disfiguring a beautiful land in this manner Includes manufacturers of tires, automobiles. Hour, motor parts, oil and yeast. The lowest piece of concrete pavement pave-ment in the world is in the California road, in Imperial county, Cal., along the Salton sea. 150 feet below sea level. The highest piece of such pavement pave-ment is In a street in Manitou, Colo., 0,440 feet above wi level. The first concrete road in the United States, a small test strip In Wayne county, Mich., was built in 1908. At the first of this year the concrete highway high-way pavement In the country was the equivalent of 23,027 miles of lS-foof pavement. |