Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 720
on of improved roads is much greater than this.In Massachusetts more than half, and in Indiananearly half, of the public roads are surfaced. I9i6.] A REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS 457 Since one mile of good macadam road costs any-where from $3,000 to $10,000, it will require bil-lions of dollars to put… … visits the locality and supervises the constructionof a short stretch —a few hundred yards or afew miles —of road built in a manner that bestsuits the needs of the community. This servesas an object-lesson for the local road-builders.In the building of these object-lesson roads theOffice furnishes…
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