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On the Coast Highway south from San Francisco in San Mateo County, California, USA

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Title: California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Blow, Ben, 1868-
Subjects: Roads
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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On the Coast Highway south from San Francisco in San Mateo County. CHAPTER VII MAINTENANCE ROAD LOAD—SAFETY SIGNING TREE PLANTING CAMP SITES In so far as maintenance of the State Highway is concernedspecific legislation has provided funds which, up to thepresent time, have been fairly adequate, but which, with theenlarged scope of Californias State Highway system, willhardly serve to meet the needs of future years. These funds,derived from the state motor-vehicle tax, of which one-halfis allotted to the State Highway Commission, the other halfgoing to the different counties in which it was collected,amounted in 1918 to $2,842,638.70, after collection expenseswere deducted, the state getting $1,421,319.35, a similarsum being divided among the counties. Under maintenance in the early part of 1919 the StateHighway Commission had approximately one thousandeight hundred miles of paved highway and seven hundredmiles of mountain roads, which kept them busy, although itmay be said that for

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