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Show DISTRIBUTION NOT UNIFORM Average of 2.5 Motorcars for Every Mile of Public Road in the United States. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) The total road mileage of the United States outside incorporated towns and cities is about 2,456,000 miles. With a total registration of 6,146,617 motor vehicles there was, therefore, an average of 2.5 motorcars motor-cars for every mile of public road in the United States. The distribution of cars among the several states, however, how-ever, is far from uniform. Thus, Nevada Ne-vada has but two cars to every three miles of road, while Rhode Island has 16 cars to each mile of rural road. Furthermore, while there was an average aver-age of one motorcar registration for every 16 persons in the United States, in the states of California and Nebraska Ne-braska there was one car for every seven persons, and one car for every eight persons in Iowa and South Dakota, Da-kota, but only one car for every 51 persons in Alabama, every 46 in Louisiana, Louis-iana, or every 42 persons in Arkansas. |
