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MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



MICHIGAN'S COUNTY 



ROAD COnniSSIONERS 



Alger County 



Chas. B. Beaulien, Grand Marais. 

 Swan Anderson, Limestone. 

 Alfred O. Jopling, Munising. 



Alpena County 



George W. 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 County 



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 County 



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, Scottville. 



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, W. S. 

 Wayne County 



Edward N. Hines, Detroit. 



Wm. Murdock, Wayne. 



J. S. Haggerty, Detroit. 



Wexford County 



Charles E. Haynes, Cadillac. 

 Fred Usewick, Mesick. 

 T. E. Standclift, Boon. 



MICHIGAN ROAD NOTES. 



The good roads system will not be voted on 

 in Lenawee county at the spring election. The 

 committee of the board of supervisors, to 

 whom the petitions of the several cities, vil- 

 lages and townships in the county asking for 

 its submission were referred, reported that 

 they had examined the petition and found they 

 had not received enough signatures of bona 

 fide freeholders to require the submission of 

 the question to the voters. 



The county road system will be voted upon 

 in Calhoun county at the spring election. 



The supervisors of Allegan county have 

 voted against the submission of the county 

 road system proposition at the spring election. 



Representative Sanders, of Ingham county, 

 proposes to revive the old time and oft recur- 

 ring agitation in favor of working short time 

 prisoners in county jails on the roads of the 

 state. He would have the chain gang system 

 or any other effective system of preventing 

 escape and would have the work done under 

 the direction of the highway commissioners 

 of the several townships. 



Basing the proposal upon the resolutions 

 adopted at the recent state grange meeting, 

 charging that motor vehicles are; the principal 

 item of damage to country roads, Representa- 

 tive T. A. McNaughton, of Kent, is preparing 

 a bill to introduce in the Michigan legislature 

 to tax automobiles to help keep main roads in 

 country districts in repair. 



Wayne County Road Commissioner Hines: 

 "There is no doubt that advertisements are 

 read. We advertised for rollers to use in con- 

 struction work. Yesterday we received a 

 bunch of specifications from a Cleveland house 

 turning out printers' rollers. The firm thought 

 that we were in the printing business." 



Representative Whelan. of Shiawassee coun- 

 ty, has introduced a bill in the Michigan legis- 

 lature repealing the law creating the state 

 highway commission. 



Twenty-one petitions asking that the proposi- 

 tion of submitting the county road system to 

 the voters of Barry county were received by 

 the board of supervisors, and the question wilt 

 be voted on in the spring election. 



The supervisors of Cheboygan county voted 

 down a resolution providing for the submission 

 of a proposition to the tax-payers to bond the 

 county for $75,000 fr good rads. 



The Arenac county board of supervisors de- 

 feated by one vote a proposition to bond the 

 county for the purpose of building roads. 



At a meeting of the Battle Creek township, 

 Calhoun county, hoard the proposition . was 

 discussed of rebuilding the road from the old 

 Kane mill three and a half miles south of the 

 city of Battle Creek, south for two miles to 

 the township line to connect with the new 

 road recently built in Leroy townshin, under 

 the state award plan. Mr. Van Valin states 

 that it is hoped that all of the money neces- 

 sary for this construction could be raised in 

 Battle Creek township, and the work carried 

 on without state aid. 



Town Line road (Bridgeport and Spauldinj 

 townships), one mile; Washington road (Rue 

 na Vista township), one and one-half miles 

 East Street, road (Spaulding township), on 

 mile; Deerfield road, one-half mile; Genese 

 road (Bridgeport village), one mile; James 

 town road, one mile; Gratiot road (Richlam 

 township), one mile; Center road (Chesaninj 

 township), one and one-half miles; Cross roac 

 one mile; Kochville road, one mile; Shattuck 

 ville road (Saginaw township), one mile; Wat 

 rousville road, one mile. 



According to City Engineer Roberts' repor 

 to the board of public works of Saginaw. th 

 total cost of macadamizing several streets ii 

 Saginaw in connection with county stone road 

 is as follows: State street, Bond to Bay, $12, 

 885.32; State street, Bay to Mackinaw, $7, 

 505.10; Court street, Bay to State, $8.901.09 

 Brockway. Wright street to west city line 

 $.">.(ii 1.0.1 ; East street, Washington avenue t( 

 M.iith city line, $5,749.26; Sheridan avenue 

 Holland to south city line, $19,432.48; William 

 son street. Gallagher to Jefferson, $3,051.47 

 Washington avenue, Sixth street to east cit' 

 line, $5,504.80. 



The Michigan College of Mines will ask thi 

 legislature for an appropriation of $5,000 fo 

 improved roads and sidewalks. 



The supervisors of Saginaw county have or- 

 dered the building of the following roads: 



CALHOUN TO VOTE ON GOOD ROADS 



The supervisors of Calhoun county havi 

 granted the petition to submit the question o 

 the adoption of the County Road System t( 

 the taxpayers at the spring election. It is be 

 lieved that the proposition will carry when i 

 is submitted. 



PEOPLE WANT GOOD ROADS. 



There has been considerable talk since tin 

 adjournment of the board of supervisors o 

 Schoplcraft county about calling a specia 

 meeting to re-consider the county road matter 

 There are a great many persons who want th' 

 proposition submitted to the voters at tin 

 coming spring election and who do not seen 

 satisfied with the result of the vote at tin 

 county board meeting. Some of the reason 

 given for calling a special meeting are tha 

 several of the members have since talked will 

 their constituency and they can see no harm ii 

 letting the voters have a change to determin< 

 what they want along this line. They feel tha 

 the electors are entitled to the plebescite ii 

 this matter and therefore, as there is not mucl 

 added expense in submitting the propositioi 

 at a regular election, they feel that it wouh 

 not he out of the way to call a special sessioi 

 to tke the matter under consideration and hav 1 

 it discussed more fully. 



A FARMERS' MOVEMENT. 



The farmer alone is the victim of bad roads 

 He is the only citizen who is absolutely am 

 entirely dependent upon the public highway 

 for the transaction of his business affairs; hi 

 convenience; his comforts and his necessities 



The good roads movement is the farmers 

 movement, and until the farmer himself real 

 izes this fact he will be at the mercy of th 

 demagogue in politics who fattens his own in 

 terests by preaching "economy" to the agri 

 culturist; he will be at the mercy of the rail 

 roads that profit by making rates which th 

 farmer cannot avoid by patronizing competini 

 lines, for the railroads know that he must hail 

 his produce to the nearest shipping poin 

 rather than the best shipping point; he wil 

 be at the mercy of the local merchant wh< 

 places the market value upon the farmer' 

 products to his own advantage because hi 

 knows that the bad roads will not permit tin 

 farmer to take his grain to any other market 

 The farmer will do best by himself and hi 

 posterity that lends his influence and aid t( 

 this, one of the most urgent improvements. 



