DETROIT MICHIGAN, MARCH, 1908. 



Michigan Road flakers' Association. 



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

 Vice-President ; E. N. Hines, 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 County Alfred O. Jopling, Munising; 

 Charles Beaulieu, Grand Rapids; Swan An- 

 derson, Limestone. 



A'.pena County George W. 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. Osbom, 

 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, Newberry; 

 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 7. 



Saginaw County John W. Ederer, Saginaw. 



GOGEBIC NEEDS GOOD ROADS. 



Discussing the item in Michigan Roads and 

 Forests, which called attention to the fact that 

 "Gogebic county has an excellent foundation 

 for roads, and dirt roads could be made which 

 would be a big improvement over those now 

 in use." the Iromvood Times says: 



"The truth of the above cannot be gain- 

 said. Gogebic has an excellent foundation 

 for old Mother Xature gave it to us. If the 

 estimable old lady had not done this gratu- 

 itously we probably wouldn't have had even 

 the foundation. And as to the matter of 

 making dirt roads, or any other old kind of 

 roads, which would be an improvement over 

 those now in use, there is certainly no ques- 

 tion of the truth of this. At least it is 

 a fact that they couldn't be worse nothing 

 in the shape of a road could be. 



"As a matter of fact, this county has no 

 roads worthy of the name, and it is high 

 time that steps were taken to remedy this 

 deplorable condition. * * * This county 

 needs some good roads and" needs them badly, 

 but it will require the united action of the 

 citizens of the county to secure them. We 

 believe that the adoption of the plan of state 

 reward road improvement here would be one 

 of the best things that could be done. Other 

 upper peninsula counties have found it very 

 satisfactory, and we believe it would be none 

 the less to Gogebic." 



KALAMAZOO WANTS GOOD ROADS. 



Kalamazoo. with its Commercial Club, is 

 becoming known far and wide as one of the 

 several progressive cities in the state which 

 has taken up and is boosting the good roads 

 movement. From other towns whose busi- 

 men's associations have espoused the 

 cause of good roads, come tidings of the great 

 amount of good to be derived from well-built 

 highways leading into the city from the rural 

 districts, and encouraging increases in trade 

 and business generally are reported as a re- 

 sult of the movement. Battle Creek is an 

 example as to the practicability of the busi- 

 ness men of a city taking up the good roads 

 proposition, and the merchants of that city 

 are more than well pleased with the results. 

 Lansing is another city which has done con- 

 siderable good roads building, and it is the 

 intention of the Business Men's Association 

 of the capital city to do something each year 



in the direction of better thoroughfares lead- 

 ing into that town. 



The good roads committee of the Kalama- 

 zoo Commercial Club, composed of W. M. 

 Bryant. A. C. Hatfield and A. B. Connable, 

 has been doing excellent work, with the re- 

 sult that Kalamazoo county will vote on the 

 adoption of the county road system on April 6. 



$19,000 FOR GOOD ROADS. 



Approximately $19,000 will be spent this 

 year in repairing, improving and constructing 

 new roads in Menominee county. All the 

 work, however, will be let by contract, the 

 same as it was last year. 



At the closing session of the county board 

 of supervisors the members decided not to 

 purchase a stone crusher this year, it being 

 the almost unanimous sense of the board that 

 the buying and maintaining of such an ex- 

 pensive apparatus would net the county but 

 a slight profit, hardly worth the investment 

 at this time. Supervisor Peter Garrigan, of 

 Carney, who was opposed to the purchase 

 of the crusher, reminded the board of the 

 little service which the county secured from, 

 the iormer crusher that they purchased and 

 later sold to Robert Rick. 



The remainder of the session was devoted 

 to a discussion of the county roads and 

 bridges, but the matter of improvements will 

 be left almost wholly in the hands of the 

 county road commissioners, who will hold 

 a meeting soon and map out the year's plans. 

 The state and county roads will both be 

 lengthened, several miles of macadam addi- 

 tions being among the planned improve- 

 ments. 



Berrien county can stand good roads, judg- 

 ing from the following wail from the Benton 

 Harbor Xews- Palladium: "The roads leading 

 to this city are in awful condition, and heavy 

 hauling is impossible. The road between this 

 city and Riverside would favorably compare 

 with a mortar bed, and highways in other 

 directions are not much better. The heavy 

 rains and thawing snow of the last few days 

 have been mixed well with the sand and clay 

 of which the soil is composed, and in many 

 places the wagon sinks to the hub in the mire. 

 Many farmers prefer staying at home to driv- 

 ing to the city under such conditions." 



Delta county will spend S2.VOOO on good 

 roads this year if the taxpayers approve a 

 bond issue for that amount, which will be put 

 up to them on April 6. 



