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MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



MICHIGAN COUNTY 



ROAD COMMISSIONERS 



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. 



Tosco County 



John W. Waterbury, Tawas City. 

 C. W. Luce, East Tawas. 

 Wm. J Grant, Au Sable. 



Iron County 



1 John H. Parks, Crystal Falls. 



i W. H. Jobe, Palatka. 



i James Long, Iron River. 



Kalkaska County 

 Louis A. Atkins, Lodi. 

 Ira Eckler, Kalkaska. 

 t Wm. H. Marshall, Leetsville. 



Luce County 



i Andrew Carlson, Newberry. 

 i John Fyvie, Helmer. 

 ' 1 Richard Hall, Newberry. 



Vlanistee County 



| John W. Bradford, Arcadia. 



j James Henderson, Manistee. 



Marquette County 

 1 W. H. Johnston, Ishpeming. 

 i M. M. Duncan, Ishpeming. 

 J. E. Sherman, Marquette. 



Vlason County 



| Frank W. Harding, Scottville. 



, Robert Jameson, Ludington. 



*Iecosta County 

 It Willard B. Lyons, Big Rapids. 



Wilbur A. Reynolds, Remus. 

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

 Menominee County 



George H. Haggerson, Menominee. 



George Law, Menominee. 

 ~ Louis Nadeau, Nadeau. 

 Muskegon County 

 r Fred D. Hoogstraat, Ravenna. 

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



Martin Ryerson, Holton. 



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96 c /o of the Macadam roads and 



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annually manufactured on this river furnishes 

 considerable sawdust, but it is burned up in 

 the mill furnaces. Bay City Tribune. 



Oceana County- 

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

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

 Howell E. Sumner, Ferry. 



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John Ederer, Saginaw, W. S. 

 Wayne County 



Edward N. Hines, Detroit. 



Wm. Murdock, Wayne. 



J. S. Haggerty, Detroit. 

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Charles E. Haynes, Cadillac. 



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OLD SYSTEM ANTIQUATED. 



One proposed legislative enactment which 

 the lawmakers will do well to examine very 

 carefully before accepting is that which pro- 

 vides for a return to the old antiquated sys- 

 tem of allowing each county to handle the tax 

 lands within its borders. This system was 

 once abandoned in this state as being produc- 

 tive of many bad practices, it is pointed out, 

 and when the present law was enacted it was 

 termed a most efficient reform measure. 



For some reason or other, however, certain 

 members of the legislature are proposing that 

 in the reforestation law there be provision 

 made for again allowing county officials to 

 handle state tax lands, and although admitting 

 that once the system was bad and resulted in 

 graft and corruption, they assert that now 

 times have changed and the counties can safe- 

 ly be trusted to guard against any bad prac- 

 tices which once disgraced the system. It is 

 urged that where there were thousands of 

 acres in the old days to be sold for taxes, now 

 there are only a few, and that the proposed 

 syste mwill be less expensive and better in 

 many ways. 



A number of members are preparing to con- 

 trovert this theory and the proposed change 

 will 'be vigorously opposed. 



THE SADDEST OF THIS, IT MIGHT 

 HAVE BEEN. 



The Tribune learns from an esteemed con- 

 temporary that down in Florida they are mak- 

 ing roads "good roads" at that which are 

 smooth and springy and never get muddy, and 

 it is simplicity itself to make them. All that 

 is required is to have a good road machine 

 and a strong team, and throw up two parallel 

 ridges at the required distance apart, say thir- 

 ty-six feet, the excavation between them being 

 six inches in depth. Then you put six inches 

 of sawdust from side to side, roll it down 

 lightly, then take a smaller machine and go 

 over it. This plows up the ground and mixes 

 the sawdust with it at the same time. Rolled 

 again after thorough mixing, and one has a 

 roadbed on which the heaviest loaded vehicles 

 leave no trace of their tires, whether narrow 

 or broad. The cost is approximately $297 a 

 mile, and it will last twenty years or more. 

 There is no jarring, no jolting, no rattling 

 of rickety wheels, no nothing but comfort and 

 enjoyment. 



From 1851 to the close of the year 1908 in 

 the Saginaw river lumber manufacturing dis- 

 trict, a stretch of territory having an area of 

 twenty miles in length and three miles in 

 width, there was manufactured the enormous 

 total of twenty-five thousand five hundred 

 million feet of lumber. The sawdust accumu- 

 lation of that aggregate of lumber, and which 

 was burned up and went to waste, if utilized 

 in road-making along the lines of that in 

 Florida, would have built roads enough to 

 have belted the globe a dozen times and left 

 enough more to have made permanent high- 

 ways in every township in the middle states. 



But the sawdust isn't in evidence to that 

 extent now. The 100,000,000 feet of lumber 



INDIANA'S ROAD LAWS CHANGED. 



A radical change in the road laws of Indiana 

 that will probably mean a decrease in the 

 building of new roads has been effected in the 

 repeal of the three-mile road law by the legis- 

 lature. In a new law the procedure is changed 

 and the referendum system adopted. The new 

 law provides that 50 resident property owners 

 may petition to the county commissioners for 

 an election to decide whether or not a road 

 shall be rebuilt. If a petition is not presented 

 protesting against the election and signed by 

 55 or more property owners the commission- 

 ers are required to order the election. 



Under the old law, upon the petition of 50 

 property owners, the commissioners were re- 

 quired to order the building and improving of 

 a road without the formality of an election. 

 The only proviso was that the proposed road 

 should not be more than three miles long and 

 that it must connect at each end with improved 

 roads or be traveled by a United States rural 

 mail route. While the three-mile road was in 

 effect roads to the extent of $8,000,000 a year 

 were built and improved under it. Farmers 

 raised the principal objection to the old law 

 and the whole township had to petition for 

 brick streets under the law and the whole 

 township had to bear the expense. 



Three miles of new highway have been sur- 

 veyed out of Harbor Springs by John Swift. 



The township of Rogers, Presque Isle 

 county, which includes Rogers City, will prob- 

 ably purchase a stone crusher and road roller 

 this year. The township will undoubtedly de- 

 cide to build state reward roads and the pref- 

 erence will be for stone roads. 



