MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



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Michigan Road Makers' 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. 



EIGHT MORE COUNTIES 



ADOPT GOOD ROADS 



The question of the .adoption of good roads 

 -ubmitted in 29 counties in Michigan at 

 \pril election. The result was not par- 

 ticularly encouraging to the friends of the 

 good road movement. 



Three of the counties voting yes, Gogebic, 

 nagon and Schoolcraft, are in the upper 

 peninsula. With their vote nearly every coun- 

 ty of the lo north of the straits of Mackinaw 

 w on the right side of the good roads 

 column. 



Kalamazoo county, which went against good 

 - two years ago, turned about this time 

 and gave a substantial majority in favor of the 

 plan. Barry and Antrim both voted against 

 the plan because of local issues; both of these 

 counties contain town-hips that are now build- 

 ing or have already built good roads of their 

 own. 



State Highway Coinmi-sioner Earle is not 

 discouraged by the defeat and will try again 

 in many counties next spring. He says: 



"Generally speaking the cities have voted for 



roads because it <crves to bring farmers 



,vn oftentr." said Mr. Earle. "However, 



the cities voted against local option generally. 



The saloon men urged their forces to vote no 



on all questions so as to be sure that there 



no mistake and so the good roads proposi- 



suffered in counties where there was a 



: on local opt: 



lowing is a list of the counties in which 

 the proposition was submitted and the result 



Antrim Xo. 



na Xo. 



Harry Xo. 



<:h Xo. 



Calhoun X'o. 



Charlevoix X'o. 



Clare Xo. 



n Xo. 



Genesee 



Gogebic 



Grand Traverse 



Hillsdale Xo. 



Huron X'o. 



Jackson X'o. 



Kalamazoo 



Lake Xo. 



Lapeer Xo. 



Livingston 



.nd Xo. 



Montmorency X'o. 



Ogemaw 



Yes 

 Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Ontonagon Yes 



Osceola No. 



Oscoda Xo. 



Otsego X< >. 



Presque Isle X'o. 



Schoolcraft Yes 



Shiawassee Xo. 



Tuscola Xo. 



The counties now under the county road 

 in are Alger. Alpena, Baraga, Bay, Ben- 

 zie. Cheboygan. Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, 

 Emmet, Genesee. Gladwin, Gogebic. Grand 

 Traverse. losco. Iron, Kalamazoo, Kalkaska, 

 Luce, Manistee. Marquette, Mason, Mecosta, 

 Menominee. Missaukee. Muskegon, Oceana, 

 Ogemaw, Ontonagon, Saginaw, Schoolcraft, 

 \Yayne and Wexford. 



SPENDS MONEY ON ITS ROADS. 



People who live outside Bloomer township. 

 Montcalm county, and haYe occasion to drive 

 through it. have long known that, compared 

 with most of our neighboring townships, we 

 are r< ad builders, writes a correspondent liv- 

 ing in Bloomer. \Ye have often wasted both 

 time and money by graveling before a road 

 had been properly turnpiked and drained, but 

 we have been guilty of as little waste in this 

 direction as almost any township in this or 

 adjoining counties. 



\Ve have raised from $1.000 to $3,000 a year 

 for a long time for graveling alone, and much 

 turnpiking and draining was done by the 

 pathmasters under the old labor tax law. 



In the past year our road officials have 

 graded about six miles of roadbed and grav- 

 eled over four miles, besides any amount of 

 patching in both grades and gravel. 



Our people are coming to know that a 

 'oad system in Michigan does not neces- 

 sarily mean macadam or stone roads, but the 

 application of good road sense and perma- 

 nent methods in road construction with as 

 little waste in labor and material as possible. 



lage of Roscommon at the intersection of 

 Lake street with the section line between sec- 

 tion 5 and 6; running thence north 40 degrees 

 east to the county line between Roscommon 

 county and Crawford county, being 4,500 feet. 



Road B Thence running east along the 

 county line to a point 700 feet west of the 

 corner of sections 2 and 3 in T. 24 N. 2 W., 

 being 11,700 feet. 



Road C Beginning at the intersection of 

 Main street with the east and west l /i line of 

 section 6. T. 24 X. 2 \V.: thence running north- 

 westerly to the township line of Gerrish town- 

 ship, bein 5,100 feet. 



Road D Commencing at the intersection of 

 Lake and Second streets, thence running 40 

 degrees and 45 minutes west, 1,100 feet; thence 

 running along what is known as the Muck 

 mad 3,400 feet to the line of Gerrish township. 



All work must begin by the 15th of May. 

 1900, or sooner at the option of the contractor, 

 and completed by the 15th of ctober, 1909. 



D. E. Matheson is the clerk, and his address 

 i- R< '.-common. 



BIDS ON ROADS ASKED FOR. 



The township of Higgins. Roscommon coun- 

 tv. will receive bids up to 1 p. m.. April 26, for 

 the constructing of gravel roads in said town- 

 ship, in accordance with the specifications to 

 be furnished to applicants desiring to bid by 

 the township clerk of said township, separate 

 bid- will be received for the making of either 

 \ or B or C or D. but the township 

 reserves the right to accept the bid for 

 such a portion of the said lines as may to 

 them seem proper to be granted to any one 

 bidder. 



Road A Beginning on the line of the vil- 



WOULD BELT JACKSON COUNTY 

 WITH GOOD ROADS. 



The Chamber of Commerce of Jackson has 

 indorsed the county good roads system. At 

 a meeting of good roads enthusiasts held at 

 Jackson. State Highway Commissioner Earle 

 said that no county in Michigan is better 

 adapted to the county road system than Jack- 

 son county. He said further that 125 miles 

 of good roads would form a trunk system, 

 with Jackson the center, leading from Bath 

 Mills. Napoleon. Liberty. Hanover and Hor- 

 ton. Concord, Springport and Rives Junction, 

 Munith and other county centers to Jackson, 

 besides connecting the larger villages with 

 gravel highways. The system can be 

 built in five years, he said, with the assistance 

 of the state reward, without raising a cent in 

 addition to the one-mill tax. This would cost 

 the owner of a $3,000 farm $3 a year, and the 

 owner of a $2.000 village or city home 

 year, and it would be worth ten times its cost 

 t" i very taxpayer. Mr. Earle predicted that 

 Jackson would be advertised all over the 

 state as the good roads county, and farm land 

 would sell for $20 to $40 an acre more than it 

 - today. 



The voters of Hartford township. Van Bu- 

 ren county, took a lively interest in the ral 

 quc-tion in the annual township meeting. The 

 electors voted the sum of $4.000 to carry on 

 the work of highway improvement during the 

 coming year. 



