ROAD MAKING ON BIG SCALE.
Ihirir.g the fi.*cal Vj-£* the | Federal fVorernmaot of the U.S.A. coI operated with the. States m tbe imi prorentcut ot 702 a miles of Federal-aid : highway*, 'ringing the total mileage I of tb« sv=t*»m improved with Federal aid to 7H ijOo. »rc«Tiimg to figures of tho Bureau it Puhlir Itoads of tl*e I ruted State* Department ot Agriculture. The year'* mileages were iraprm.jd id tli* forty-eight States and J Hawaii by State highway departnients J workine in co-operation with tbe Fedj eral bureau. There are approximated j I'W.OU) miles of main interstate and f interrouniy highways m tlw? Federal i aid »y*tem. of which the j'hore mileage- [ :ir)d approximately an equal mik>»K«* i built bv the States without Federal I a*,*»stan<.'«* U now imnrored. ;" Thi.- network includes 1056 miles <f , graded and drained earth roads. 5'M nuk-s of und-rUj, 1*21*3 miles of gravft t r- >»'!.■., !"*9 oi]«i ot waterbound mae--1 a>iam, miles »f bituminous macadam an i bituminous ronrrete pavei raenta. 3101 tr:!es ot Portland ccmer.t j conrrct*» paT*m«nt. and fnrtY-eigi.c I miles paved with vitrified hrn k. "Forty. j f.nir miM»«i of bridge*, and approaches , 4 w«« alt« ceu*irucce«L
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19786, 26 November 1929, Page 16
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195ROAD MAKING ON BIG SCALE. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19786, 26 November 1929, Page 16
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