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Title: Economic Papers
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Publisher: Raleigh : N.C. Geological Survey
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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em of roadwork is costing the State, there is given in the table below figures show-ing approximately the amount of tax money which was spent on thepublic roads in the various counties during 1911; the revenue raised bybonds; the equivalent of the labor tax in money, this being estimatedat the rate of $1 per day for the number of days work during the yearin the county; the equivalent of what the convict labor costs the countyrated at 50 cents per diem per convict; and the number of miles ofimproved road obtained through this expenditure. HIGHWAY WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA. 123 h o 3 K f o UEh <M OS 00 00 i< O H 3 o o m 0) to C^J -H ^ O ;3tl! ; «3 S g 00 lO CO OO lO r-i o «  °5 zZ2 O 3 CD § 8 O 1-H 1-1 J3 o o o o o o o o 124 HIGHWAY WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA. o OH A to o > . O -u a fl O * 1 c0-o TjT co QJ fcn m 0 y a § 3 g g. P3 § § s CO Tt< Oi-H CO CO an Goo0£ § s s ^Hp2 2 S ,343 ,000 ,000 COCM CO P P P a aO O HIGHWAY WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA. 125 »
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126 HIGHWAY WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA. CO S S H:3 53 s s 8 8 8 8 y-i (M i-H O »-l T-H 03.2O o > o 8 8 0£ 8 8 8 8 ooooooooo»oooocooc>oor-iiooio»0-i000i-iro tH H Oil £ £ £ £ £ £ 128 HIGHWAY WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA. It will be seen from this table that there was spent during the year$1,466,354 in actual cash, and $916,803 in labor, either free or convict,making a total of $2,383,157 as having been directly spent either inmaintenance or road construction during the year 1911. For this directexpenditure only 1,583% miles of public road were especially benefited.Of this mileage, 491 miles was simply graded and not surfaced, leav-ing only 1,092V2 of surfaced road for this expenditure. Only a verysmall proportion of the above expenditure can be accredited to thesurfacin

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