MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



No. 321 Manistee township, Manistee coun- 

 ty, }^-mile gravel road; reward, $250. 



No. 322 Bay county, 1 mile macadam road; 

 reward, $1,000. 



No. 323 Bay county, 1 mile macadam road; 

 reward, $1,000. 



No. 324 Bay county, J^-mile macadam road; 

 reward, $500. 



No. 325 Bay County, 1 mile macadam road; 

 reward, $1,000. 



No. 326 Hersey township, Osceola county, 

 1 mile gravel road; reward, $500. 



No. 327 Bennington township, Shiawassee 

 county, 1 mile gravel road; reward, $500. 



No. 328 Arbela township, Tuscola county, 

 2.004 miles gravel road; reward, $1,002. 



No. 329 No. Branch township, Lapeer coun- 

 ty, 1.306 miles gravel road; reward, $653. 



No. 330 Manistee county, 1 mile gravel 

 road; reward. $500. 



No. 331 Muskegon county, .131 mile ma- 

 cadam road; reward, $131. 



No. 332 Muskegon county, 1.033 miles ma- 

 cadam road; reward, $1,033. 



No. 333 Arcada township, Gratiot county, 1 

 mile gravel road; reward, $500. 



No. 334 Mancelona township, Antrim coun- 

 ty, y 2 -mi\e gravel road; reward, $250. 



No. 335 Mancelona township, Antrim coun- 

 ty, 1.718 miles gravel road; reward, $859. 



No. 336 Arcada township, Gratiot county, 

 1.038 miles gravel road; reward, $519. 



No. 337 Gilmore township, Benzie county, 

 .438 mile gravel road; reward, $219. 



No. 338 Gilmore township, Benzie county, 

 .562 mile gravel road; reward, $281. 



No. 339 Otisco township, Ionia county, 1.06 

 miles gravel road; reward, $530. 



No. 340 Wayne county, 2 miles macadam 

 road; reward, $2,000. 



No. 341 Bay county, .798 mile macadam 

 road; reward, $798. 



No. 342 Bay county, J^-mile macadam road; 

 reward, $250. 



No. 343 Bay county, l / 2 -mile macadam road; 

 reward, $500. 



No. 344 Bay county, .804 mile macadam 

 road; reward, $704. 

 No. 346. Kent Co., Walker Tp., 1.744 mile 



gravel road, reward $872. 

 No. 347. Kent Co., Walter Tp., 1.52 mile 



gravel road, reward $760. 

 No. 348. Kent Co., Paris Tp., 1.594 mile grave] 



road, reward $797. 

 No. 349. Tuscola Co., Indianfields Tp., t mile 



gravel road, reward $500. 



No. 350. Huron Co., Winsor Tp., 1.008 miles 



macadam road, reward $1,008. 

 No. 351. Huron Co., Winsor Tp., 1 mile ma- 

 cadam road, reward $1,000. 

 No. 352. Delta Co., Escanaba Tp., 1.152 miles 



macadam road, reward $1,152. 

 No. 353. Calhoun Co., Newton Tp., 1 mile 



gravel road, reward $500. 

 No. 354. Manistee Co., Marilla Tp., 1 mile 



gravel road, reward $500. 

 No. 355. Antrim Co., Elk Rapids Tp., .955 



mile "D" road, reward $716. 

 No. 356. Antrim Co., Elk Rapids Tp., .208 



mile "D" road, reward $156. 

 No. 357. Clare Co., Grant Tp., 1 mile gravel 



road, reward $500. 

 No. 358. Huron Co., Sebewaing Tp., 1.045 



miles macadam road, reward $1,045. 

 No. 359. Lapeer Co., Almont Tp., .624 mile 



gravel road, reward $312. 

 No. 360. Lapeer Co., Almont Tp., .890 mile 



gravel road, reward $445. 



No. 361. Lapeer Co., Almont Tp., .486 mile 

 gravel road, reward $243. 



No. 362. Gratiot Co., Sumner Tp., 1 mile 

 gravel road, reward $500. 



No. 363. 

 No. 364. 

 No. 365. 

 No. 366. 



No. 367. 

 No. 368. 

 No. 369. 

 No. 370. 

 No. 371. 

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 No. 373. 

 No. 374. 

 No. 375. 

 No. 376. 

 No. 377. 

 No. 378. 

 No. 379. 

 No. 380. 



Huron Co., Sebewaing Tp., % mile 



macadam road, reward $500. 

 Osceola Co., Marion Tp., 1.47 miles 



gravel road, reward $735. 

 Osceola Co., Marion Tp., 2.466 miles 



gravel road, reward $1,233. 

 Osceola Co., Marion Tp., 3.76 miles 



gravel road, reward $1,880. 

 Osceola Co., Marion Tp., .426 mile 



gravel road, reward $213. 

 Muskegon Co., .644 mile macadam 



road, reward $644. 

 Muskegon Co., .748 mile macadam 



road, reward $748. 

 Wexford Co., South Branch Tp., 



1.004 mile gravel road, reward $702. 

 Dickinson Co., 2.54 miles macadam 



road, reward $2,540. 

 Wayne Co., l 1 /^ i.iiles macadam road. 



reward $1,500. 

 Montcalm Co., Reynolds Tp., 1.8 



miles gravel road, reward $900. 

 Gratiot Co., Emerson Tp., 1 mile 



gravel road, reward $500. 

 Gratiot Co., Emerson Tp., 1 mile 



gravel road, reward $500. 

 Ingham Co., Meridian Tp., 1 mile 



gravel road, reward $500. 



Oceana Co., Greenwood Tp., 

 gravel road, reward $250. 



Oceana Co., Greenwood Tp., 



gravel road, reward $250. 

 Ingham Co., Lansini- Tp., 1 



gravel road, reward $500. 

 Oceana Co., Shelby Tp., 2.719 miles 



macadam road, reward $2,719. 



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GOOD TRUNK LINE ROADS. 



One of the most important matters that the Sag- 

 inaw Board of Trade has now in hand, and one 

 that will occupy much of its time and considera- 

 tion during the winter months, is that of the com- 

 pletion of the backbone of Saginaw county's good 

 roads system. The project on which its energies 

 will be centered is the securing of the six pro- 

 posed trunk roads. Three out of Saginaw, east 

 side, and three out of the west side, to the bor- 

 ders of the county. 



These six trunk lines can be constructed and 

 completed in their entirety by an outlay of, at the 

 outside, $120.000, which, in connection with the 

 amount raised in any one year in the tax roll as 

 at present, will complete what everyone acknowl- 

 edges is the backbone of the county road system 

 of Saginaw county. It is not intended to change 

 the present law in the slightest degree, but, as 

 can be readily seen, the side roads leading from 

 the trunk lines will much more quickly reach the 

 entire farming community than is possible under 

 the present system. This will permit those liv- 

 ing today, who are bearing the burden of build- 

 ing these roads, to enjoy roads in their entirety 

 and permit those who come after to pay at least 

 a small part of the cost. 



The trunk lines proposed will pass through or 

 border on the following townships in the county : 

 Buena Vista, Blumfield, Bridgeport, Franken- 

 muth, Taymouth, Birch Run, Spaulding. Albee, 

 Maple Grove, Saginaw, Tittabawassee, Thomas, 

 Tames, Swan Creek, St. Charles, Chesaning, 

 Brady, Richland, Jonesfield and Kochville. Thus 

 nearly every township in the county will be di- 

 rectly reached, and the few remaining townships 

 will be connected up with the trunk line system 

 bv short stretches of good road to be built later. 

 The matter is now in the hands of the Legislative 

 and Municipal Committee and Committee on Pub- 

 lic Improvement. The joint committee will study 

 the matter and report at the next meeting of the 

 board, which will be held on the second Tuesday 

 in December. 



There is now a good road clear through from 

 Battle Creek to Coldwater, the last stretch in 

 Calhoun county from Kessler's to the Spaulding 

 school house having been built this fall. 



The road had yet a year and a half to run in 



private hands, but through the good work of the ] 



highway commissioners and the interest of the 



township boards an agreement has been reached 

 whereby the public secures immediate control 

 of it. 



Road-building conditions have changed in the 

 last 60 years. The Saginaw-Genesee Plank Road 

 Company was organized to build and operate a 

 road between Saginaw and Flint. At that time 

 this was the only way in which a satisfactory 

 road could be maintained and road companies 

 were the accepted thing. In the time immediately 

 surrounding the organization of this company in- 

 numerable others, operating all over the state, 

 were formed and chartered by the state. Prac- 

 tically all of these have since passed out of busi- 

 ness. Some proved to be bonanzas for their 

 owners, others were failures. The Saginaw-Gen- 

 esee Plank Road Company is said to have never 

 been a good investment. 



During the life of the company, however, a 

 new order of things has come about. It is no 

 longer considered the province of private com- 

 panies to build and maintain roads for the use 

 of the public and to support themselves by the 

 tolls collected. The duty of attending to the roads, 

 of maintaining them in suitable condition, has de- 

 volved upon the county and upon the township. 

 Public roads are now operated by the public en- 

 tirely for the benefit of the public. The day of 

 the private road company is past. 



The change in the method of constructing roads 

 has also changed. No effort is made to maintain 

 plank roads any more. In Saginaw county the 

 tendency runs toward "stone roads" and Saginaw 

 county leds the state in its work of improvement. 

 Undoubtedly the Genesee road, one of the most 

 important in the county, will soon be improved in 

 this way. 



GD. TRAVERSE NEEDS GOOD ROADS. 



In Antrim county, from Elk Rapids to Kewa- 

 din, there is a stretch of road three miles in 

 length that is a joy to travel over. It is smooth, 

 hard and level and is all that a road should be. 

 The road was built by the township in accordance 

 with state specifications and it was paid for by 

 the township, but a portion of the cost of this 

 road will be returned to the township by the state, 

 the people being gainers in two ways. First, they 

 have this excellent stretch of road, and second, 

 the state helps pay for it. 



All around about are found stretches of road 

 like this, roads that are memorable when com- 

 pared with the average. The state is willing to 

 help all possible but the township must take the 

 initiative. We hope that the time will come when 

 state money will pour into Grand Traverse county 

 and that the present highways will be replaced 

 bv stone roads as specified by the state. Traverse 

 City Record. 



ROAD NOTES. 



County Engineer Carpenter of Dickinson coun- 

 tv. and Assistants Anderson, Therien and Bacco 

 are surveying the route for the new highway 

 north to the Marquette county line. The en- 

 gineers will work north from Sawyer Lake, to 

 which point Sagpla township now has a good 

 highway, to a point near Witch Lake. It is ex- 

 pected that the roadway will be chopped out dur- 

 ing the winter and that grading will commence 

 earlv in the spring. The route of the highway in 

 Marquette county will also be established in the 

 near future. The county engineers will also make 

 surveys for highway improvements in Felch and 

 Breen townships during the winter months. 



Whitewater township wins in the good roads 

 contest for Grand Traverse county. To White- 

 water belongs the honor of building the first state 

 reward road in the county. A little better than a 

 mile of gravel road was completed early in the 

 fall and a few weeks since an order on the state 

 treasurer for $540 was received. The state re- 

 ward road is on the old state road between Wil- 

 liamsburg and Mabel. It is a few rods over a 

 mile in length and was built by W. A. Worden, 

 township highway commissioner, at a cost of 

 $1,350. 



Negauncc city's stone crushing plant has been 

 put in perfect condition and is doing excellent 

 work. It crushes between 65 and 75 cubic yards 

 of rock a day. It will be operated continually 

 next year. 



