Bonded roads and auto taxes fund state highways
A fragmented progress summary describes the 1921 1922 road building in the Twelfth senator ial district with Governor Smal being served. It notes the average cement road cost about thirty thousand dollars per mile and progress toward linking highways by bonds and automobile license fees. It reports eight million dollars revenue this year with plans to reduce license fees and fund hard road expansion. It claims sixty million in bonds for permanent digress and aims to complete around three thousand seven hundred miles of four thousand eight hundred miles planned. It also mentions an optometrist Dr O B Gruhl continuing practice and establishing own grinding plant for savings.