Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1920 — INDIANA LEADS ALL STATES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LEADS ALL STATES

Has Largest Number of Miles of Improved Roads, Data Shows. Indiana, with 42 per cent of Its 74,900 miles of roads improved, leads all other states in the number of imdles of improved roads, according to data compiled by the civil engineering department of Purdue university. One other state, Massachusetts, leads in the percentage column with 45% per cent, but that state has only 18,000 miles of roads, one-fourth of Indiana’s total highway lefigth. Michigan, with practically the same road mileage as Indiana, has only 10% per cent of Its roads surfaced. Illinois with 96,000 miles has 12 per cent surfaced, and Ohio with 86,000 has 35 per cent Improved.