Southern good roads . s, except South Carolina, in which onlytwo counties have issued bonds. Sixteen counties inMississippi and ten counties in Alabama have issuedbonds, and several coimties in Florida have done like-wise, a substantial instance of which being Manateecounty which voted .$250,000. Kentucky has the larg-est mileage of macadam roads, 8,078 miles being re-ported in 1904 and repjrts now indicate an increaseof about 2,000 miles. In the second group, embracing Georgia, Maryland,North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, the workrests upon a broader and more substantial basis,
Southern good roads . s, except South Carolina, in which onlytwo counties have issued bonds. Sixteen counties inMississippi and ten counties in Alabama have issuedbonds, and several coimties in Florida have done like-wise, a substantial instance of which being Manateecounty which voted .$250,000. Kentucky has the larg-est mileage of macadam roads, 8,078 miles being re-ported in 1904 and repjrts now indicate an increaseof about 2,000 miles. In the second group, embracing Georgia, Maryland,North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, the workrests upon a broader and more substantial basis, the states participate Avith the counties. Tn Geor-gia the state only aids to the extent of furnishing con-vict labor. The law authorizing this was passed in1908 and became effective April 1, 1909. Both stateand county convicts were placed on the roads, and asa result aliout convicts are working the roads ofthe state every day. A bill providing for a state high-way department and state aid has been pending in. Macadam Road. Asheville, N. C. the legislature for some time and this bill, or some sim-ilar bill, will no douijt ultimately be enacted into an efficient state highway department and anadequate state highway ixmd to supplement its largeconvict force, Georgia would very soou rank highamong the states in the percentage of improved was the first state of the south to adoptthe state-aid system. In 1898 the state legislature en-acted a law authorizing the Geological and EconomicCommission to make a thorough investigation of roadconditions throughout the state and the best methodsof improving them, together with estimation of cost,and report same to the succeeding legislature. Tenthousand dollars was appropriated for this 1904 a new act was passed providing for state aid,the state to pay one-half and the counties one-half, andappropriating $200,000 annually therefor; and in 1908this law was amended by an act creating a StateRoads Comm
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