MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



Glimpses of the Marquette-Negaunee Macadam Highway. 



MARQUETTE-NEGAUNEE HIGHWAY. 



The people of Marquette county, having 

 adopted the plan of state reward road improve- 

 ment, much has been accomplished on the 

 highways of that county in the past few years. 

 The best example of the roadmaker's art in 

 Marquette county is the Marquette-Negaunee 

 highway, which will be completed this year. 

 It is a rock macadam road and is being built 

 in a manner which will command the highest 

 premium offered by the state. The accompany- 

 ing views of completed portions of this high- 

 way give an excellent idea of the manner in 

 which the county highway commissioners are 

 carrying on the work. State Highway Com- 

 missioner Earle has inspected the road at fre- 

 quent intervals and pronounces it one of the 

 best in the state. 



It has not been plain sailing for the builders 

 of the road. At many points power rock drills 

 were brought into play and were in operation 

 for months. A hill, largely rock, was cut down 

 from a 12 to a 6 per cent grade. There were 

 deep -fills to be made to, bring the road to 

 grade, and concrete bridges built to span small 

 streams. All of the heavy work has been fin- 

 ished, and it is expected to have the 12-mile 

 stretch of road completed early this summer. 

 As the stretch of three miles between Negau- 

 nee and Ishpeming has already been improved. 

 Marquettc county will soon be able to boast 

 of the longest and best rock macadam road in 

 Michigan. 



It is the intention to keep the work going 

 year after year until the country east of Mar- 

 quette has been given attention, giving the 

 farmers of Chocolay and Scandia townships 

 fine highways. Also to operate to the west of 

 Ishpeming through that farnrng district, and 

 eventually connecting with the highway lead- 

 ing north from Iron Mountain, which would 



give communication by this highway with Mil- 

 waukee, and the outside world. It is the inten- 

 tion of Drckinson county to make a good roac, 

 to its northern limits, while Marquette will 

 work southward to meet the road at the coun- 

 ty line. 



The road commission has a splendid equip- 

 ment for the carrying on of its work. It has 

 movable crusher, screening plant, steam rollers. 

 rock distributing wagons, power drills, scrap- 

 ers, etc., and lacks nothing to carry on Un- 

 making of roads in the right way. It has, too. 

 abundant rock of the very finest quality for 

 roadbeds, it being of a kind which will with- 

 stand the severest traffic for many years. 



The people of the copper country are talking 

 of adopting the same county road improve- 

 ment plan. Meetings have been held and the 

 subject discussed. The copper country has an 

 abundance of trap rock already mined that 

 could be used to excellent advantage in the 

 making of better roads. 



It is the aim of the people of the Upper 

 Peninsula to build a highway connecting the 

 copper and the iron country of Michigan, 

 '["here is a 'considerable stretch of country be- 

 tween L'Anse and Nestoria that is pretty rough 

 and it might be expensive business getting :\ 

 mad through, but it would be a very fine im- 

 provement. 



Menominee county has done much in the 

 past few years in the way of road improve- 

 ment, while Dickinson, which has the county 

 road system, has built a fine highway in the 

 eastern portion of the county, so that there is 

 a good road south from Iron Mountain. Xor- 

 uay and other towns, to Powers, and from 

 there south the highway is very good. 



Gogebic county has excellent foundations for 

 roads and dirt roads could be made which 

 would be a big improvement over those now 

 in u-e. 



As a result of Highway Commissioner 

 Earle's earnest plea for good roads before the 

 farmer's institute of Berrien county, it is be- 

 lieved that there will be a large amount of 

 new road building in that county this year. 



The busim>- men of St. Charles ha've sub- 

 scribed $400, and farmers along the road have 

 also subscribed liberally toward the building of 

 one-half mile of the Fremont road leading into 

 St. Charles. Money for the improvement of 

 the remainder of the road has been appropri- 

 ated by the county. 



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