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Show Good Roads Hints Minnesota will have 738 miles of paved road when this year's construc-' construc-' Hon is finished. I Totaled surfaced mileage in the sev- aral state highway systems is 145,-! 145,-! 508 miles, reports the Department of ! Agriculture. Nearly 1S.0O0 miles were finished last year. I A hard surfaced highway, '-'05 miles ; long, has recently been completed be-' be-' tween Kansas City and St. Louis. It is now possible to go from the Atlantic At-lantic coast to central Kansas without hitting earth roads. 1 The Dutch finance ministry is proposing pro-posing a new three hundred million guilder projected road improvement, according to a cable from The Hague, winch will be covered by an annua! road tax on motor vehicles. Th Xew .Tcrspy state highway department, de-partment, in co-operating with th" bureau of public road., is conducting a series of concrete tests fur I lie pur pose of studying the relative con'-rete-making proportifs of crushed stone and gravel used In conc-ete r:n1 co-'i j struction. |