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Show I 00 Thirty-seven States Authorize Great Building Program for the Next Five Years Thirty-seven states in this country have authorized the expenditure of $035,641,729 for good roads in the next five years. Legislation to authorize good roads bond issues amounting to $391,253,800 are pending with excellent chances of being passed. Statistics compiled by C. M. Wood, in charge of the newly-created Good Roads Bureau, show that the total amount -proposed and authorized for road improxoment in the United States is $1,026,995,529. The wide-spread interest manifested in better roads is shown by comparison compari-son of the above totals with those of 1918, when $600,000,000 was spent for road construction throughout the country. In a recent trip through the south and west, Mr. Wood found exceptional enthusiasm everywhere for the good roads movement. Largely through educational ed-ucational publicity campaigns interest has been greatly stimulated by alert civic bodies, manufacaurtra of road making materials and makers of automobiles auto-mobiles and tires. Good roads boosters, boost-ers, who a few years ago, wero puzzled puz-zled to find some method of arousing .public Interest in bond issues for road improvements, are amazed at the ease with which appropriations aro passed by city and state authorities. Texas takes the lead In the amount authorized for good roads, with bond isBues totaling $88,708,000; Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania will spend $76,217,945; California Califor-nia $6S,435.000; Illinois $69,152,845; Michigan $53,100,000; Alabama $30,-000.000; $30,-000.000; Georgia $15,375000 and North Carolina $13,459,635. One of the largest single projects is proposed for Illinois, where $4,463,511 ha3 boon authorized for the construction, construc-tion, of 150 miles of roads from East, St Louis to the Indiana line as part of a national highway. |