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Show WYOMING HELD ROAD EXAMPLE I Shows How Energetic and Well Directed Effort Will Result WASHINGTON The department of agriculture holds up tho state .f may be accomplished by an energetic and properly directed roadbulldiog policy An announcement by the department de-partment says "The last secn years have been 'a period of great road development In the state of Wyoming From 1014 to 1 1921 the total road mileage Increased from 14,797 to 46.528 miles This is in strong contrast to the majority of atates: which have made great prog-l prog-l ress In road Improvement, but wlth-lout wlth-lout any appreciable change in total ! mileage. ' "During the seven-year period the mileage of improved roads has increased in-creased from 1.T24 miles to 6.S67 miles The mileage of roads Is classified classi-fied as follows Unimproved, 3D, 373; graded and drained, 6 715. gravel, chert, shale, 413; hard-surfaced, 2 7. "An analysis of the figures collected col-lected by the bureau shows that there Is one-half mile of road per sqj.w mile of area, that thn tntni ,-,,,-,,,,! road revenue is $56 82 per square : mile $116.25 per mile of road and 27 S2 per capita. ' In 1521 the tptal road revenue Including In-cluding federal aid funds, amounted j to approximately $5,408,000 and expenditures ex-penditures $4,725,000. During the I year 1.673 miles of improved road were completed in the stite and considerable con-siderable maintenance work done j "That federal aid Is playing a considerable con-siderable part In road advancement in this state Is shown by the fact that on August 31 four hundred and seventy-four miles of federal-aid road had been completed; 421 miles were either under construction or approed for construction and nearly $800,000 was available for new projects." |