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MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



IF YOU WANT 



GOOD ROADS 



BUILD 'EM WITH THE 



Port Huron Dumping and Spreading Wagons 



AND ROLL 'EM WITH THE 



Port Huron Road Roller 



Write us for Ways to Save Money in Road Building 



Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co., 



Port Huron, Mich. 



MONTCALM'S GOOD ROADS. 



Reynolds township, Montcalm county, has 

 been engaged the past year in 'building her 

 first permanent highway under the new state 

 reward law. The past year's pioneer, work 

 was under adverse conditions, but Reynolds 

 township has nearly two miles of road now 

 that will stand for ages. It takes time and 

 money to build these roads but the time is 

 coming when the people who are knocking 

 permanent roads hardest will endorse and 

 commend the work. Every knock that has 

 been given the work so far has hurt. And it 

 has cost the tax-payers that have howled the 

 hardest actually more money to complete the 

 job than it would had they kept still and 

 waited until the road proved its worth. 



Naturally, nearly every man interested has 

 some special hobby that he would like to exer- 

 cise. That has been true since time immemor- 

 ial and that has been one of the hindrances 

 to better roadmaking all the years that we 

 have been dabbling along patching a road 

 here and fixing one there. 



The work will be continued this year. 



and there is no reason why the farmer should 

 deprive himself of goods roads just to spite the 

 man with the auto, as the former uses them 

 all the time, and it is principally for his benefit 

 that they are built. That the farmer has a 

 grievance against many drivers of automobiles, 

 there is no question, as they go through the 

 country without regard for anybody or any- 

 thing, but notwithstanding this, good roads are 

 more to the advantage of the farmer than to 

 the man who runs an automobile, and he is 

 standing in his own light when he votes against 

 them. Marshall Chronicle. 



at a premium now, we cannot afford to worry 

 them over rough, sandy or muddy roads which 

 knocks them out in a short time, and also from 

 a humanity standpoint. 



Fourth, in order to get our mail delivered 

 promptly with the distance the carriers are 

 obliged to drive each 'day, it requires good 

 roads, and if they are not good they are not 

 required to deliver it. 



Fifth, the wear and tear on our vehicles is 

 greater on poor or rough roads than on good 

 roads. 



WANTS STATE AID. 



Kimball township, St. Clair county, has had 

 a delegation at Lansing conferring with the 

 state highway commissioner regarding state 

 aid "for a proposed macadam road from Port 

 Huron to Smith's Creek. Among the delega- 

 tion were Supervisor George Fish, Clerk Chas. 

 W. Lapp, Treasurer Wilfred Tomlinson, Geo. 

 McCormick, and A. E. Stevenson. The town- 

 ship proposes to build a first class road to 

 connect with the macadam road at the end of 

 Griswold street and extend to Smith's Creek. 

 The road would be of great benefit to both 

 the town of Kim'ball and the city of Port 

 Huron. 



GOOD ROADS AND AUTOMOBILES. 



The good roads proposition was carried in 

 Jackson and Kalamazoo counties, but was de- 

 iratrd in Calhotin at the recent election. This 

 means that the people of this county will have 

 to assist the other counties in building roads, 

 but \ve will reap no benefit ourselves. Some 

 day the pnstoffice department will take up the 

 Is qur-iion, and counties that do not 

 id refuse to build them, will 

 to n-turn to the old system of going to 

 the postol'licc after their mail, as it is only a 

 question of time when better roads must be 

 built or rural mail routes will be abolished. 

 1 1 i- very true that the. owners of automobiles 

 want tin' good roads, but it is also for the in- 

 terest of every farmer to have the highways 

 improved. The automobiles are here to stay 



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The above illustration gives a splendid idea 

 of how culverts built by the American Bridge 

 & Pipe Company of Lansing, of American 

 Ingot Iron, resist corrosion. 



FARMERS SHOULD TAKE HEED. 



Mathias Thar, highway commissioner of 

 Ilagar township, Berrien county, in a plea for 

 good roads, says: "I do not deem it neces- 

 sary to mention the benefits- of good roads. 

 Kvrryone is aware of them, but T want to 

 show the people of this county, especially 

 those showing little interest, the necessity of 

 good roads. In the first place we have a 

 large amount of perishable fruit to haul to the 

 railroads and steamboats, and in order to do 

 this without injury to the fruit, a smooth road 

 is required. 



Second, the fruit business in this county 

 does not allow any delays on our roads with 

 a lot of fruit in order to accomplish the work 

 necessary to be done each day. that is the 

 picking, packing and hauling in time, we can- 

 not !)', on the road all day. 



Third, in order to save horse flesh, which is 



GOOD ROADS LEVIES. 



The taxpayers of Bingham township, Lee- 

 lanau county, are proud of the fact that at their 

 recent town meeting they voted 30 cents on the 

 $100 of assessed valuation for better roads. 

 Children learning to walk should be encour- 

 aged, so should townships getting interested 

 in the better road movement. So we say, 

 "Well done, Bingham." 



Fifteen cents on the $100 for road repairs 

 and 15 cents for road improvements is all right 

 for a starter. But the people of Bingham 

 must not think that they are in the same class 

 with the people of Kalkaska, Manistee, Antrim 

 and Grand Traverse coutnies. Last year 14 of 

 the 13 townships in Antrim county raised bet- 

 ter than 50 cents on the $100. Two townships 

 raised $1 on the $100. 



Clearwater and Garfield townships in Kal- 

 kaska county last year raised better than $1 

 on the $100 for good roads. Cold Spring- 

 township raised $2 on the $100. 



The five townships of Grand Traverse coun- 

 ty, for which the information regarding 1900 

 appropriations is at hand, have done as follows 

 for better roads: East Bay, 40 cents on $100 

 of valuation; Garfield, CO cents; Blair, 65 cents; 

 Whitewater, 70; Peninsula about 60 cents. 



FOUR MILES OF GOOD ROADS. 



County Roads Commissioner Alpheus Green, 

 of Saginaw, has been lending his assistance to 

 the enthusiastic people of Frankenmuth town- 

 ship who want four miles of stone road built 

 this year. It is proposed to build the road 

 from the west township line between F<~anken- 

 muth and Blumfield to the village of Franken- 

 muth. The cost will 'be approximately $12,000 

 and the township will advance the money and 

 will he reimbursed from township road mon- 

 eys w.hcn levied and collected. Road Com- 

 missioner Green approves of the plan and will 

 have the work of surveying done at once. It 

 is likely that the building of the road will 'be 

 about the first road work don? in Saginaw 

 county this season. 



