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DETROIT MICHIGAN, SEPTEMBER, 1908. 



Michigan Road flakers' Association. 



W. W. Todd, Jackson, President; P. T. Colgrove, Hastings, First Vice-President ; 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 



Chas. B. Beaulien, Grand Marais. 

 Swan Anderson, Limestone. 

 Alfred O. Jopling, Munising. 



Alpena County 



George \Y. Stovel, Hubbard Lake. 



Selden W. Flanders, Flanders. 



James Briselden, Alpena. 

 Baraga County 



Simon Denomie, Assisins. 



Daniel McMillan, Baraga. 



Samuel McKircher, Michigamme. 

 Bay County 



Hugh Campbell. Bay City. 



Richard H. Fletcher. Bay City. 



Fred Kaiser. Kawkawlin. 



Clarence B. Chatfield, Bay City. 

 ' Henry B. Lints, Linwood. 

 Benzie County 



Samuel Willis, Thompsonville. 



A. J. Spaulding, Benzonia, R. F. D. 

 Cheboygan County 



John B. McArthur, Cheboygan. 



Royal J. Taylor. Cheboygan. 



Mark P. Scott, Rondo. 

 Chippewa County 



Henry A. Osborn, Sault Ste Marie. 

 Delta County 



John Gasman, Bark River. 



Erick Anderson, Escanaba. 



Bazilio Lenzi, Escanaba. 

 Dickinson Count}- 



William Kelly, Vulcan. 



John J. Flanagan, Sagola. 



Edward G. Kingsford, Iron Mountain. 

 Gladwin County 



Wallace McCracken. Gladwin, R. F. D. 1. 



W. H. McCulloch. Gladwin, R. F. D. 3. 



Arden G. Onweller, Beaverton, R. F. D. 1. 

 losco County 



John W. Waterbury, Tawas City. 



C. W. Luce, East Tawas. 



Wm. J. Grant, Au Sable. 

 Iron County 



John H. Parks. Crystal Falls. 



W. H. Jobe, Palatka. 



James Long, Iron River. 



Kalkaska Count}' 

 Louis A. Atkins, Lodi. 

 Ira Eckler, Kalkaska. 

 Wm. H. Marshall, Leetsville. 



Luce County 



Andrew Carlson, Newberry. 



John Fyvie, Helmer. 



Richard Hall, Newberry. 

 Manistee County 



John W. Bradford, Arcadia. 



James Henderson, Manistee. 



Marquette County 



W. H. Johnston, Ishpeming. 

 M. M. Duncan, Ishpeming. 

 J. E. Sherman, Marquette. 



Mason County 



Frank W. Harding, Scottviile. 



Robert Jameson, Ludington. 

 Mecosta County 



Willard B. Lyons. Big Rapids. 



Wilbur A. Reynolds, Remus. 



Charles Ostrander, Morley, R. F. D. 1. 



Menominee County 



George H. Haggerson, Menominee. 



George Law, Menominee. 



Louis Nadeau, Nadeau. 

 Muskegon County 



Fred D. Hoogstraat, Ravenna. 



Charles Ellis, Muskegon, R. F. D. 7. 



Martin Ryerson, Holton. 

 Oceana County 



George C. Myers, Shelby, R. F. D. 



Claude E. Jones, Hart, R. F. D. 



Howell E. Sumner, Ferry. 

 Saginaw County 



John Ederer, Saginaw, \V. S. 



Wayne County 



Edward N. Hines. Detroit. 



Wm. Murdock. Wayne. 



J. S. Haggerty, Detroit. 

 \Yi.\iord County 



Charles E. Haynes, Cadillac. 



Fred LIsewick. Mesick. 



T. E. Standclift. Boon. 



SHIAWASSEE COMING INTO LINE. 



Farmers in Shiawassee county are realizing 

 more and more the advantages of good roads, 

 and are more inclined than formerly to accept 

 the inducements offered by the state to this 

 ( end. The good road movement is just making 

 its influence felt in that county, and although 

 a great deal has not been done of late in this 

 direction many changes are being talked of 

 that will probably be accomplished in the 

 few years. 



of these which will not only benefit 

 farmer?, but auto drivers and others, is the 

 graveling '! tw<> miles of road extending 

 wet of Owosso from near the so-called five 



points. This is the Ovid road, and although 

 there is much travel over the thoroughfare it 

 contains some exceedingly bad spots in wet 

 seasons. There has also been a great deal of 

 talk of late of macadamizing the road leading 

 from Owosso to Corunna. The condition of 

 other roads in the county that need attention 

 has lately been the subject of comment that 

 shows a general desire for improvement along 

 this line. 



WILL TAR MACADAM ROADS. 



Port Huron township. St. Clair county, now 

 has about twenty miles of macadam road. 

 Next year $100 a mile will be spent in spread- 

 ing tar over the roads to keep the dust down. 

 An experiment tried on Twenty-fourth street, 

 Port Huron, this season has proven that tar 

 not only makes a dustless thoroughfare, but 

 does away with repairs. 



CONVICT-BUILT ROADS. 



An Atlanta. Ga.. correspondent writes in 

 regard to the employment of convicts in 

 Georgia in road building: 



It may interest your readers to know that 

 the authorities of Fulton county, in which 

 Atlanta is situated, take the same view. For 

 several years Fulton county has kept its pris- 

 oners at road making, and it now has 250 miles 

 of well built macadamized roads, which centre 

 at Atlanta like the spokes of a wheel in the 

 hub. General Clifford Anderson, a leading 

 business man of Atlanta, who is officially con- 

 nected with the great road building work of 

 Fulton countv. recently told me that this work 

 had in every way proved the best for the 

 prisoners as well as for the county. Most 

 of these prisoners are negroes accustomed to 

 outdoor life. Imprisonment within brick walls 

 tends to ruin their health, while the outdoor 

 life of road building under official control and 

 maintenance is beneficial to them. The county 

 owns its rock quarries, its stone crushing 

 plants and its road making machinery. It 

 therefore does not have to buy anything from 

 outside. About -100 prisoners are kept at work 

 and the cost of crood roads is about $3.500 a 

 mile, which includes much heavy grading. 



It is proposed to continue this work by cross 

 connecting the lines radiating from Atlanta 

 until Fulton county shall have 500 miles of 

 thoroughly good roads. Many of the lead- 

 ing people of the South, men who have given 

 years of study to the subject, believe that 

 every Southern State should put its convicts 

 to work in building a great system of public 

 highways. A number of counties in other 

 - have been doing the same work which 

 Fulton county is pressing with such vigor. 



