THE STATE REVIEW. 



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next year: Bark River, Ford River. Wells. Escan- 

 aba. Brampton and Maple Ridge. The issue of the 

 bond is to be in addition to the regular tax levy 

 of ?'.' to $1,000 valuation in Delta county. All the 

 road work to be undertaken next year will be in 

 accordance with the plans approved by the state 

 highway commission and will allow the county to 

 receive the state 1) unity of $1.008 for each mile 

 of road constructed during the season. 



Making of Good Roads. 



Good roads cannot be had unless good drainage 

 is provided. Bear this in mind always. 



Roads and road making have received much con- 

 sideration in the past few years, and much discus- 

 sion will, after a while, bring about good results. 



Muddy road-; are more often caused by the lack 

 .of proper drainage of the roadbed than anything 

 else. A certain amount of water is necessary to 

 keep the surface packed well, but when there is a 

 surplus the opposite effect is produced. 



Every road, no matter of what material it is 

 composed, should be so constructed as to give it 

 proper drainage. 



Ihe usual and most common method is to have 

 side ditches along the road and have the roadbed 

 slope gently each way. having the highest point in 

 the center. 



An eminent road authority of Illinois says he 

 thinks everv country road should have its drain- 

 age assisted by tile laid in the ditches to a depth 

 of three to four feet below the surface and at a 

 fall of about one inch in titty feet. 



It is often found advantageous to put drain tile 

 in the center of the road several feet under the 

 surface, thi> helping to carry off the water when 

 the -lib-oil js of an impervious nature. 



For nvi-t roads the -ide ditches will be found 

 adequate. They -hould not be made narrow and 

 deep, but broad, and be a c 'lUinuation of the slope 

 from the center of the roadbed. By making out- 

 lets from the-c -ide ditches at frequent interval- 

 tl the water will not have to travel long dis- 

 tances in them good drainage will be had. 



The kind of -oil determines to a great extent the 

 ease with which g.'od road- are maintained, but 

 with the -jilit in use now in many sec- 



tions, the work can be done with any soil. By it- 

 frequent use the crown of the road is kept in an 

 impervious condition and the side ditches are kept 

 open, as they gradually till up from the sides of 

 the road working down into them. 



The free/ing and thawing of winter always 

 make bad roads if they are not cared for before 

 this sea-on set- in. "1 hi- i- a good time to look 

 after these things. 



Commission Abolished. 



Following a long controversy between the Me- 

 nominee -upervi- r< and the board of road com- 

 mis-ioner- over the alleged unbusin ess-like meth- 

 ods of the latter, the county board, after a hot 

 fight, decided to abolish the commission. 



HOW MONEY IS MARKED. 



"How is money marked?" repeated a head- 

 quarters detective. "Well, it is not marked in the 

 manner that the general public thinks it is.' say- 

 the Washington Star. 



"The average person, no doubt, believes that 

 money is marked by private marks placed on the 

 bills with pen and ink ; perhaps some emplovers 

 thus mark the bills they place in the cash drawer 

 which is being robbed by a dishonest clerk. Ot 

 course 'marked money' of this kind is good evi- 

 dence in court on the trial of a man upon which 

 it has been found. But a check mark in ink. 

 unless very expertly put on, might, with the aid 

 of a good lawyer for the accused, be shown to 

 have been perhaps accidental and thus would the 

 oversight, reasonable doubt of the accused's par- 

 ticipation in the robbery be raised. 



"There are several different ways of marking 

 money by police experts to the end that they 

 may establish its positive identity of having 

 been in their hands before the thief extracted it. 

 The way I personally employ, and which is per- 

 haps the safest to secure certainty of conviction, 

 is tV >e 'pin prick method.' 



"Let us take the familiar silver certificate of 



! the $5 denomination for an illustration ; one that 

 has been somewhat worn is better than a new 

 note from the treasury. In the center is the 

 well known vignette of the head of an Indian 

 chief in dress regalia of feathers and trappings, 

 presenting a full face view. We now take this 

 pin and make two punctures right through the 

 bill and directly through the pupils of the eyes 

 so, I hand you the bill, and even though you saw 

 me make the punctures they are not visible at a 

 casual and even critical glance. 



"I now raise it to the light and you can see 

 the two tiny holes made by the pin point as 



; distinctly as windows in a building. 1 then 



I apply the pin point very neatly at the twist in the 

 neck of the large figure five at the two upper 

 extreme ends of the note. You will observe that 

 these diminutive twists do not appear in the 



! necks of the two figures of 5 which are in both 

 ends at the bottom of the note. 1 then pierce 

 the note at the extreme end of the scrolls on 

 either side of the word "rive" which may be seen 

 in the direct center of the note at its lower 

 edge. 



"The marking 01 the rote is now complete. 

 It is exhibited to one or two persons in the secret 

 for the purpose of preliminary examination and 

 identification, and then placed in the inonc> 

 drawer, perhaps with several others of the same 

 denomination, all exactly marked alike with the 

 greatest care. The thief may be on the lookout 

 for marked bills, usually ink marks, but he is a 

 slick one who will get onto the invisible but 

 surely present p'n pricks. You see. this ci 

 thieving does not admit of a cruical examina- 

 tion of the money before taking it; it is usually- 

 done very quickly before the thief has a chance 

 :o exclnnge or to spend them. 



"And the pin pricks remain .' Indeed, they do. 

 The money is afterward carefully placed hi en- 

 velopes and is not promiscuously handled. When 

 they are exhibited in court and their prelimin- 

 ary preparation explained under oath, conviction 

 is practically certain." 



MANUFACTURE OWN PENNIES. 



Uncle Sam will make his own pennies in future. 

 The treasury has taken over the business from 

 nrivate concerns, which for many years manufac- 

 tured these small coins for the government, and 

 infnds for all time to come to turn them out 

 with its own machinery. 



The treasurv has alwavs stamped its own pen- 

 nies with the design of the Indian's head and the 

 wreath on the reverse enclosing the words "One 

 cent" : but the coins lacking only this finishing 

 touch, have been made for many years in Water- 

 bury. Conn., whence thev were shipped in the 

 shape of "blanks" (otherwise known as "plan- 

 chets") in strong wooden boxes. Thev used to 

 :he government, in this form onlv twentv- 

 four cents a pound, whereas to-day owing to the 

 rise in the price of copoer. they cannot be manu- 

 factured, even when homemade, for less than 

 twenty-nine cents. A pound of blanks represent 

 14i) pennies. 



If a cent a pound be added for the expense of 

 stamping them with dies, it will be obvious that 

 Uncle Sam is able to manufacture 486 pennies 

 for a dollar a very profitable enterprise, inas- 

 much as he disposes of that number for $4.86. 



During the last vear the treasury minted 80,- 

 719.163 pennies, of which Xew York state ab- 

 sorbed about 15,000,000, the demand from Illinois 

 [ being next in point of size, while Massachusetts 

 third and Pennsylvania fourth. To make 

 this number of cents requin pounds of 



copper, 16,586 pounds of tin and 11.257 pounds 

 of zinc, the two latter metals entering into the 

 composition of these coins to the extent of three 

 per cent, and two. 



The growth of the cement stone industry is 

 nowhere more effectively demonstrated than in 

 Grand Haven, where nearly every house con- 

 structed during the past three or four years has 

 \ been set upon a cement stone foundation. There 

 ; are several plants turning out stone in that city 

 and one or two more around Spring Lake and 

 all of them seem to find a market for their pro- 

 duct. Grand Haven is a fair example of the 

 use of cement or concrete in nearly every form. 



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