| Show FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY WORK Texas Leads With Miles Corn Corn- plated pitted and Minnesota Ranks a a a- Close Cloo Second Prepared Pre by the United Department of ot Agriculture Measuring the network of ot federal- federal aid highways spread over the country during the past five and one-half one years ear the bureau r f public roads United States Department of Agriculture places their total length January 1 last at miles and nail their cost at approximately The Time figures figures fig fig- ures ute J represent 1007 miles of completed ed roads over which traffic Is flowing today and miles of or roads under construction and on that date estimated ed to be as ns a whole 70 per cent com com- In lu mileage of completed federal federal aid ald roads Texas leads with a total of 1 I 1161 miles In addition there thele were under construction In its Texas on January January January Janu Janu- ary 1 a total of ot miles of federal- federal aid highways s 's whose estimated total cost was nearly Minnesota 1 ta ranked second with miles In Inthe Inthe inthe the amount of or completed federal aid highways the cost of ot the s system being being- slightly over o Of or that sum the federal government paid In Minnesota there were under construction the first of the year miles of federal aid highways as whose whose- estimated cost was placed at nt lOO Other states with comparatively large mileages of completed federal aid on January 1 were Illinois miles costing S of which 1 was paid by bythe bythe bythe the federal government Nebraska miles mites costing of which the federal government paid 1 1 Wisconsin miles mUes cost cost- bg I S Arkansas miles costing Geor Georgia ln tulles miles costing Iowa 4 24 miles costing North Carolina Caro Caro- lina miles costing 56 Idaho miles costing costin and Washington ton miles costing Completed federal-aid federal highway construction construction con con- In some of the Eastern and Middle lIddle Western states where the character character char char- acter of roads was of high t type pe and the cost correspondingly greater greatel per mile toile was as os follows Penns Pennsylvania miles costing 04 Ohio miles costing 12 New l Jersey miles mlle 1 A 4 1 9 m y yi i wa v g f M. M dru ey s A Stretch of Surfaced Hard Road costing 1 Massachusetts 1205 miles costing and Maryland Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land 1378 miles costing 2233 Projects under construction and the tIle degree eglee of their completion January 1 In other states were as follows California miles mUes 55 per cent cO complete Geor Georgia la miles Go Gj percent per percent cent complete Iowa D miles SG per pel cent complete Kansas s miles 69 per cent complete Louisiana miles 8 82 per cent complete Minnesota miles 65 per pel cent co Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- 46 miles 04 J per cent complete com cot i Missouri ro 1 miles 70 O per per- percent percent cent complete Montana S miles JUlle 77 17 l per l' l cent complete Nebraska miles 04 94 per pel cent complete New Xe Mex Mexico I leo ico co 5 11 miles 54 per cent complete New ew York miles wIles 44 1 Del ner cent complete North r Carolina jOi miles SS per cent complete North Dakota miles 80 per cent complete to Ohio miles 91 01 per cent complete cow corn Oklahoma miles mlle 64 jl per percent percent cent complete Pennsylvania Penns I anlu 2480 48 miles s 94 04 per cent complete i South Carolina miles lUBes 59 W per pel cent complete complete cow com com com- South Dakota miles 70 7 per cent complete Tennessee Tenness e 1491 1401 miles wiles 46 per cent complete Texas a.- a. miles 59 per cent complete Lilt and miles 75 per cent complete |
