DETROIT. MICHIGAN, JULY, 1907. 



Michigan Road Hakers' Association. 



W. W. Todd, Jackson, President; P. T. Colgrove, Hastings, First Vice-President ; C. C. Rosenbury, Bay City, Second 

 Vice-President ; E. N. Mines, Detroit, Secretary; E. B. Smith, Detroit, Treasurer. 



Board of Governors: Royal T. Taylor, Cheboygan; D. L. Case, Detroit; Frank F. Rogers, Lansing; W. W. 

 Trayes, Hancock. 



MICHIGAN'S COUNTY 



ROAD COnniSSIONERS 



Alger Count}- Alfred O. Jopling, Munising; 

 Charles Beaulieu. Grand Rapids; Swan An- 

 derson, Limestone. 



Alpena County George \V. Stovel. Hub- 

 bard Lake;: Selden W. Flanders, Flanders; 

 James Briselden, Alpena. 



Baraga County Simon Denomie. Assisins; 

 James McKercher, Michigamme;; Daniel Mc- 

 Millan. Baraga. 



Bay County Hugh Campbell, Bay City; 

 George L. Frank. Bay City: Richard H. 

 Fletcher. Bay City: Fred Kaiser. Kawkawlin: 

 William Houser, Bay City R F D 1. 



Cheboygan County John B. McArthur, 

 Cheboygan: Mark P. Scott, Rondo; Royal J. 

 Taylor. Manning. 



Chippewa County Henry A. Osbotn, 

 Sault Ste. Marie. 



Delta County John Gasman, Bark River; 

 Basilio Lenzi, Defiance; Erick Anderson, Es- 

 canaba. 



Dickinson County William Kelly. Vulcan; 

 James H. Cundy, Iron Mountain; John J. 

 Flanagan, Sagola. 



Gladwin County William H. McCulloch, 

 Gladwin R F D 2': Wallace McCracken. Glad- 

 win. R F D 1; Arden G. Onweller, Beaver- 

 ton, R F D 1. 



losco County John M. Waterbury, Tawas 

 City: C. W. Luce. East Tawas; William J. 

 Grant, Au Sable. 



Iron County J. S. Parks. Crystal Falls; 

 James Long, Iron River. 



Kalkaska County Louis A. Atkins. Kal- 

 kaska: Ira Eckles, Kalkaska; William H. 

 Marshall. Kalkaska. 



Luce County M. E. Beurmann. Xewberry: 

 Andrew Carlson, Dollarville; John Fyvie, 

 Helmer. 



Manistee County John W. Bradford, Ar- 

 cadia; James Henderson. Manistee. 



Marquette County W. H. Johnston. Ish- 

 peming; J. E. Sherman, Marquette, M. M. 

 Duncan, Ishpeming. 



Mason County Frank W. Harding, Scott- 

 ville; Robert Jameson, Ludington. 



Menominee County George Law, Meno- 

 minee; Charles Kinsella. Spalding; George 

 H. Haggerson, Menominee. 



Muskegon County Fred D. Hoogstraat, 

 Ravenna: Martin Ryerson, Holton; Charles 

 Ellis, Muskegon. R F D T. 



Saginaw County John W. Ederer, Saginaw. 



Wayne County Cassius R. Benton, North- 

 ville; Henry Ford, Detroit; Edward N. Hines, 

 Detroit. 



MASON COUNTY ROADS. 



Road Commissioners Harding and Jamison. 

 of Mason county, are busy these days looking 

 after the construction of highways in various 

 parts of that county. The building and repair- 

 ing of the permanent roads is occupying atten- 

 tion in three places chiefly. From the south end 

 of the state road bridge the road up as far as 

 the Marchido corners is being rebuilt. One- 

 half mile of- new road north of Scottville is be- 

 ing constructed which will extend the stone 

 road as far as Tom Barnes' place. A gravel 

 road is being constructed on the Amber and 

 Victory road near the North Amber school. 



GOOD ROADS CRUSADE. 



The good roads movement is spreading in 

 the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Already the 

 county roads system has been adopted by Mar- 

 quette. Alger, Dickinson and Menominee 

 counties, in all of which highway construction 

 has been put on a scientific basis, and its exten- 

 sion to other districts is contemplated shortly. 

 Many thousands of dollars will be expended 

 this year under competent engineering direc- 

 tion and the stimulus of the reward paid by the 

 state for roads built in accordance with the 

 state specifications. There are isolated cases of 

 townships, which, too. are going after the state 

 bounty, independent of the action of the county 

 boards. McMillan township, comprising consid- 

 erable territory from the Village of Xewberry. 

 Luce county, is the latest to move in this direc- 

 tion and purchase has been made of a gravel 

 pit and a rock McMillan raises more 



highway money than all the other townships 

 in the county combined, yet. asserts the Xew- 

 berry News, it has fewer miles of good roads to 

 show for the expenditure than any of them. 

 Under the slip-shod policy heretofore in vogue 

 thousands of dollars have been squandered an- 

 nually in patching up highways, with the result 

 that each succeeding year the work had to be 

 done over again. During the past twenty years 

 at least $75,000 has been expended upon what 

 is known as the Deer Park road, a sum suf- 

 ficient to have macadamized it from 'one end to 

 the other. The road today is little better than 

 a trail through the woods. 



IDEAL ROADS. 



"The problem confronting the state highway 

 commissioners and engineers of the different 

 states today is how we are going to build state 

 roads so that they will stand the automobile 

 traffic. They have come to stay. You cannot 

 stop them. The power being wholly on the 

 rear wheels it grinds up the top of the road, 

 sucking it up in a cloud of dust and the wind 

 blows it into the adjoining field much to the 

 disgust of the farmer thereby losing the binder; 

 the stone begins to travel and the road must 

 be repaved at once in order to save it. This can 

 be overcome by using cement binder, it being 

 so much stronger; the depth of the road can be 

 reduced so that the first cost will not be much 

 in excess of the present method of building 

 macadam roads. 



If a steel jacketed shell is so it will pierce 

 the armour plate of a war ship, we must build a 

 plate that the bullet will not penetrate in order 

 to save our ships, and it is the same with good 

 roads. If modern conveyances are tearing 

 roads up so they are contiually in need of re- 

 pairs, we must build them of something that 

 will stand the traffic in order to save our roads. 

 Our streets are of the same width they were 

 fifty years ago. Traffic was light and the dirt 

 road was good enough, but traffic has increased 

 500 per cent. Xothing but solid rock, or the 

 nearest to it, will stand today. By using 

 cement of the best quality and building roads 

 and streets of concrete, not guaranteed, but, 

 under the direction and supervision of an engi- 

 neer, holding him responsible, I believe we 

 shall be able to come the nearest to the ideal 

 road that ha> ever been constructed." Walter 

 E. Hassam. Massachusetts Highway Commis- 



Buel Township. Sanilac County, tax-payers 

 voted down a proposition to bond for good 

 roads. It is a source of regret that farmers in 

 that township are_ not more wide awake. The 

 expense with awards and the contri- 



bution of the Michigan- Sugar Co.. would have 

 been ver\ nd the tax-payers would 



scarcely have felt it to any extent. It may be 

 that Buel will never again have as favorable an 

 opportunity for improving its high\\ 



The Hotiphton County Board of Supervisors 

 have . "00 to aid in building good roads 



in the Otter Lake district. Otter Lake has 

 about -ft roads in Houghton county. 



The roads in the territory contiguous to the 

 copper mines ought to be the finest in the 

 state, with an unlimited supply of trap rock, 

 which can be had for the hauling. 



