Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1920 — INDIANA LEADING NATION IN ROADS NOW IMPROVED [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEADING NATION IN ROADS NOW IMPROVED

With 42 per cent of the 74,000 miles of roads in Indiana improved, this state leads all others in the country in the number of miles of improved roads, according to data compiled by the civil engineering department of Purdue unl^ere^One other state, * Massachusetts, leads in the percentage 45%, but that state has only 18,000. miles of roads, a fourth of the number of the Hoosier state. Michigan, with practically the same mileage as Indiana, has on y 10% per cent of its roads surfaced. Ilinois, with 96,000 .n»Ues, has but 12 ner cent surfaced; Kentucky, with 58,000 miles has 21% per cent improved; Ohio, with 86,000, has 35 per cent improved. Estimates of the United States department of gooiL roads m-1914 showed 2,500,000 miles of roads m the United States. Recent gathered from statistical reports hy Prof. O. C. Albright, of the engineering staff, show that 450,000 miles Should be improved, but atthe present rate this work is being done, it would take thirty years to complete the job, whwh is less than one-half as rapidly as the work should be done in order to take care of the ever increasing traffic properly.