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Highway costs differ across Iowa counties in new figures
State Highway Commission figures show Mahaska county with 85 miles of primary roads spent 679237 since 1913, 157598 more than Sac county, while Mahaska has no gravel or paving and only 43.3 miles graded. Sac received similar funding despite more road work. The report notes county bond activity for hard surfacing and a total $37 million in bonds across 26 counties. Christmas seal drive raises 25 million pennies to fund public health work, cutting tuberculosis deaths by 55 percent and lowering overall deaths by 10 percent.
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Iowa
State Highway Commission
Mahaska County
Sac County
Amfalo County
Senmel B. Garton
B. Garton
Des Moines
Mussolini
Mix
Mr. Garton
Cerro Godo
Black Hawk
Clinton
Flord
Greene
Hancock
Kossuth Linn
Lyon Marshall
O’brien
Polk
Scott
Woodbury
Johnson
Wapello
Jefferson
Mahaska
Ap-panoose
Jasper
Benton
Dubuque Tama
Muscatine
Cedar
Taylor
Poweshiek
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Ninteenth
Health Association
Towa
Nebraska
Utah