Does it pay to build good roads? Certainly the Americans think so, otherwise one would not find such public-improvement estimates as that drawn up for the State of Illinois for 1924:—Nine hundred miles of road pavement at 26,000 dollars a mile, 23,400,000 dollars: new building at the University of Illinois, 2,500.000 dollars; expenditure on waterway, 3,000.000 dollars; erection of State Fair buildings, 450,000 dollars; minor improvements totalling 3,000,000 dollars. In all, Illinois proposes to spend 32.000,000 millions on public improvements nnd over 23,030,000 millions of that will go down in roading, not in tho States, but in one State in one year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19013, 8 November 1923, Page 8
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102Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 19013, 8 November 1923, Page 8
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