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Show UNCLE SAM BIG ROAD BUILDER Ten Thousand Miles Added During Last Fiscal Year WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 The vast extent of federal aid road building activities Is described In a bulletin just lssuod by the United States department de-partment of agriculture. It says: "Ten thousand miles of completed f e l i rn 1- i lil li Ifrh tvn i n prn 'irl.lurl tn the mileage of the nation's good roads during the last fiscal year. I according to compilation just com-) pleted by the bureau of public roads. "The burenu finds that the present1 calendar year has broken all records for road construction. Based on all! available data, which ore not complete, com-plete, however, the bureau estimates the total sum to be spent In the' 1'nlted States thin year on highway figures include fedeiul-ald roads andl projects built In addition by the i states and smaller municipal units without the aid of federal funds. "At the beginning of the last flscall year, according to the bureau's flg-j urea, the total mileage of completed federal-aid highways was 7,600. There were under construction at' that tlmo an additional 18,000 miles1 in various stages of completion. The! close of tho fiscal year finds th total! completed mileage of federal-aid roads more than doubled, reaching a total of 17,700 miles. Federal-aid; highways under construction at the end of tho liscal year totaled 14,600.1 miles, which in tho aggregate were estimated by th bureau to average 56 per cent of completion. "Total mlleatre of federal-aid hlgh-i ways completed during the past year was highest In Texas, with 933 miles. I Five statcfi Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, I Minnesota and North Carolina each reported more than Gf'O miles of federal-aid highways completed within the year, and two Ptates, Montana and Wisconsin, completed moro than 400 mi lea each. ' Mon thfin thirty miles of bridges have been built on federal-aid highway high-way projects since 1916. One of thei longest of these, the bridge from Mandan to Bismarck, N. D, la morj' than three and a half miles In b nprth and cost Sl.-EJS.OOO. of which the federal povernraent contributed 50 per cent." |