THK STATE REVIEW. 



Michigan Good Roads Association. 



Next Annual Meeting Of The Good Roads Association At Jackson, January 9 and 10, 1907. 



Jack on; Vice-Presidem, II. \V. Davis. Lapeer; Secretary, R. J. Davison, Flint; Treasurer, D. F. Ross, Yp<i- 

 ittee: B. Griffin, Saginaw ; II. W. Grix, Wayne; R. II. rletcher, Bay; (.",. \V. Gaudy, Washtenaw; 1 



Officers: President, W. W. Todd, 

 lanti. Executive and Legislative Committee 

 Black, Genesee. 



Saginaw County Roads. 



Saginaw count}- made good progress the 

 past j ear in extending its system of improved 

 country highways. The practical importance 

 of good, permanent roads has been well dem- 

 on-trated during the past few weeks of soil 

 weather. 



In those portions of the county having good 

 roads the hauling of sugar heets. hay and other 

 farm staples has continued without interrup- 

 tion. Jn other portions of the county where 

 there were no good roads hauling was 

 stopped by the axle-deep mud. On account 

 of the had roads the Saginaw beet sugar fac- 

 tory was compelled to suspend operations for 

 a time, as the beet supply, while it continued 

 to come in. did not come in sufficient volume. 

 During the past year Saginaw county has 

 constructed eleven and a half miles of stone | 

 roads and three miles of gravel road. The 

 stone roads built were as follows: Town line 

 road, between Bridgeport and Spaulding town- 

 ships, l',^ miles; State street road, in Sagi- 

 nawlo miles; Saginaw and Bay City 



i. in Kochville township, one mile: 

 North Washington road, hi Btiena Vi-i;. 

 township, two miles; Kirch Ivun road, in Birch 

 Run township, one mile; Saginaw road, in 

 liip, half mile; Jamestown 

 lip. half mile; Gra- 



I, in Tho -::isio'.vn, one ;,nd a quarter 

 .ntral n>ad. in Maple Gr 

 and a quarter mi 1 ar road, in 



and a half miles. 

 aiit \vere as follows: 

 Is, ill Car- 

 ,ip, one and a h>'f miles; 



Uiver road, in 

 rshalllmrg. 



In Albee i-iwiiship tl road grading, 



ditching and turn,iiking to the ; about 



three-quarters of a mil town- 



ship there was grading, ditching and turn- 

 piking to the extent of about one and a quar- 

 ',iilcs. In Bue:ia Vista township there 

 three and a half mile .ing. ditch- 



ing and tnrnpiking. In C'irrolhon there was 

 about half a mile of turnpiking; ditchin- 



;ig. In Chapin township a new iron 

 bridge was built across Pine creek. In Chcs- 

 aning township there were one and a half 

 , iirnpiking, ditching and grading. In 

 Frankcnmi'.th township three cement culverts 

 were built in t'p.e King road and gradii* 

 repai' ! road. In 



Fremont township there was one mile of turn- 

 pikin >ig and grading. In Jamestown 



ther nd a quarter m'h-s of turn- 



piking, di 'iid grading. In Kochville 



then inrnpiking, ditchii: 



.ing. In Lakelicld there v, ditch- 



In Richland there were 

 ' two miles of turnpiking. ditching and 

 grading. In St. ' -hip there was 



half f turnpiking. ditching and grad- 



ing and > make a 



road. [fl nship lh. about 



ilf miles of grading, turnpiking 

 and ditci ! culverts were 



biiiit 'ii(l Bay City state road. 



ere about one 

 and of turnpiking. ditching and 



In Th-i: 



and a i|iiartcr miles of turnpiking. ditch- 

 ing . I ng. In Tittabuv. vnsbip 



the Hats, at Free- 

 land, w!>, contracted. In Milwaukee 

 b >nt one-quarter mile of 

 1'illing and grave: 



try. a prominent Chicago motorist recently 

 said: "Without entering into a long exposi- 

 tion of the value that good roads would he 

 to this country, their cost and their mainte- 

 nance, one has only to know the results that 

 have been attained in isolated cases to reali/e 

 the vast benefits that could be derived from a 

 general agitation all over the country. I he 

 wealth that is in evidence, owing to the pros- 

 perity that is abundant on every hand, could 

 carry on the building of good road's without 

 hardship to individuals or sections. Th 

 necessary could be originated by grading the 

 cost iirst on the state, second, on the county, 

 third, on the' township, and fourth, on the 

 individual who.-e property faces the improve- 

 ment and who receives the immediate bene- 

 fits. The Iirst roads to start on should be the 

 national highways, under government super- 



miles more of -tone road have been re- 



lle estimates the value ot roads eonstn: 

 under directions of his department at $163,177. 

 The state has paid in rewards $r>l,s-. > c,. and on 

 completion of the road- now being built will 

 pay $77,os:> additional. 



Tile finest road in the state. Mr. Karle 

 claims, is the two miles between Lansing and 

 Michigan Agricultural Colic. This is 



twenty-two feet wide, and cost $K!,485, of 

 which the State paid Sr.MHW. 



ROAD IS IMPASSABLE. 



Stony Xcgeski. Stanly l>orobkow-ki. John 

 R. ( 1st ranger. Gilbert Forbes, Steve I 

 David Chassee. Fred Gervais and several 



uts of that part of Mi-nominee county 

 lying along the old river road along Chappie 



vision and expense. As this progresses each Rapids, are up in arms over the bad condi- 



state would branch out on a public highway 

 between important cities. Then local pride 

 and expediency will assert itself in rund dis- 

 tricts, and before we would know it v this 

 v would be intersected with imp: 



"As a matter of conceit, let us suppose that 

 -go is tb: country and from 



arterie.-. 



.ads in that part of the county. 

 A delegation was in Mciiomiiii 



:orney in regard to the matter 

 and try to me satisfaction out of the 



county officials. It is claimed that the settlers 

 in that section ; > cut 



off from all conni- with tb 



world for weeks at a time. i they are 



in dane inability 



out in 



: k i,i one or ' and 



directions, wlr'l 



couth much 



has been accomplished in suburban and city 



1 as more county 

 \tent 



improvement' is a! i';iel, and 



[ will warrant 



hundreds 



in this country. But what 



of 





. and now that the public is 

 the vast importance of this subject, the rural 



nient is but a matter of time and circum- 

 stances that will grow of its own we: 

 off to the pilots of public oph.' 

 thought but dreamers tho- who have 



stood up .ind forced attention t< 

 lie need. Their voices have been upl: 

 and again to audiences who turned their 



1 closed their c-.-irs until 



which found root in isolated districts, has 

 branched out and unit 

 waste. '! u-iit of the 



of this country, which is thi 



it is r 



to m: 



* 



GOOD ROADS AND MARKETS. 



C. t ' 



The 



object 



--, n try. 



Bay Chv is i ! the 



to be 



some other place than - iners 



We 



spend thousands of do nually on_ our 



and Bay City p >f the 



money. But just : y has no 



market, she is robbed < hing that she. 



-ads. 



"While > '" should 



Ig to the -late 

 .lions. 1 -'i!i as gl; 



OHIO'S ROAD LAW. 



' 

 \\ith trie 



of local and rational 



to add to l' h ,iiul ha; ^V'" w '" 



this country than any ; >>' the t trus- 



mdint> 



with good ro- - 



are wealth p. the abil- 



localities where t' 

 I certain times of t b 

 'ze the extent of pleasure to <-d bv the 



in automobile and tonr the country, 

 city or surror.ndi, 



' not 



' ions. 

 nprovcd. 



In 



VALUE OF GOOD ROADS. 



isci: uent for impr 



highways that is -pn-ading all over the coun- 



STATE'S NEW ROADS. 



Horatio Far' Highway commissi 



repared bis report, which he will make 

 to the legislature, covering n months 



since 



partment. The total expenses of the d 

 ment have been $i:!.K',C,.:,l. This incln. 

 for maps. 



lie rep two miles of stone 



have been built; thirty-three miles of spe- 

 cially prepared gravel roads, and ninety miles 

 of uravel and clay roads. 



Applications for the state reward for eighty- 



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DAVID P. TAFT, 



The Land Man, 



415 Kansas Avenue, 

 TCPEKA, KANSAS. 



