Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — ROAD BUILDING IN ILLINOIS. [ARTICLE]

ROAD BUILDING IN ILLINOIS.

Types of the State-Aid Roadways to be Built This Year. The State Highway ComSnission of Illinois has filed with the Governor an estimate for the construction of 472 miles of State-Aid road.-. These are to be divided as follows: These figures are approximate and are based on the amount of money available—the estimated cost of construction and the type of road each county has selected. ' . Miles Brick , ii Concrete . 58 Gravel 22 Water-bound macadam... . 5 Bit. macadam ........... 6 Oiled earth 250 Plain earth . . ... .. , ... . . 120 The legislature in 1913 appropriated $1,100,000 for State-Aid road work for the biennium of 19141915. The following session of the legislature in 1915 appropriated $2,000,000 for the biennium of 1916-1917. These appropriations are allotted to the counties in the proportion of the road and bridge tax of the county, and must be met by like sums before they can be available to the county. At the close of the last calendar Tear there had been constructed some 115 miles of State-Aid roads, of which 90.4 miles are of concrete, 22.4 miles are brick, 1.2 miles are gravel, and one mile macadam. There were also eighty-one bridges included in the State-Aid work up to this time. Total cost of this construction was $1,497,407, which was met equally by the state and counties.—The Highway Magazine.