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Show GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. Rsmsrkiblt Prognss Mad In Unltsd 8tsUs During Racsnt Ysar. That remarkable progress has been mado In tho building of goal roads throughout tho United 8tatcs during tho past few years Is proved by data recently published In tho official Good Itoads Year Hook for 1015. It has been found that moro than 31,000 miles or surfaced roads havo been constructed during 101.1 snd 1011 nnd that during tho ten year period from 1POI to 1014 moro than 00.000 miles have been completed. com-pleted. That this progress has been really amailng may bo understood from tho fact that In 1001 there went only IKJ.000 mites of surfaced roads of all types In the L'tilted State. That the movement Is nttaliilug momentum as It goes U proved by the fact that while tho average mllease constructed per annum during tho past ten years Is 0,000 miles, the total completed for 1014 exceeded 1S.000 miles. The report shows that something like 30.000 miles of highway have been computed with the aid of state funds, of which over $200000 000 have been oxendcd. Tho state aid movement begnn In 1802 nnd has therefore continued for twenty, two earH. Only recently has It got well under way. as tho results accom-pllslied accom-pllslied for 1013 nnd 10U comprise a total of 10 000 mlks of state nld high wu)s completed, or In two years' time one-third of tho entire mileage con-stmcied con-stmcied w Itli the nld or stato funds hits been compli ted. Only six states now out of a totnl of fort) eight are without stato highway detriment-., and thirty states have crnntcd actual money nld to the building build-ing of roads. |