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Show HELPS PAY FOR GOOD ROADS In 1018 Nearly 91 Per Cent of Motor-Vehicle Motor-Vehicle Tax Was Applied to Highway Improvement. (Proi.iired by the United Stntes Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) The increase in motorcar registrations registra-tions and revenues in the United Stales during the past dozen years represents some Interesting comparisons. compari-sons. This Is especially true in respect re-spect lo the use made of the revenues. In IDOli the total registrations were approximately ap-proximately -IS, 000 cars, paying a gross revenue of ahoin $103,000, or roughly the same as the returns from the District Dis-trict of Cotutntda for the year 191S. Furthermore in 1006 the gross registration regis-tration revenues represented less than lliiee-tenths of 1 per cent of the total rural road and hridge expenditures for Hint year. In 1018 (he motor-vehicle revenues represented approximately 21 per cent of the total road and :ridge expenditures for that year. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, while In 1006 practically none of the motor-vehicle revenues were applied to rontl construction or maintenance, in 1918 nearly 91 per cent of the gross returns, or $40,933,-391. $40,933,-391. were devoted to this purpose in 16 states, and of the total amount applied ap-plied to road work 77 per cent, or S36.161.473, was expended more or less directly under the control or supervision super-vision of the state highway departments. |