MICHIGAN 



ROADS 



Vol. 5. No. 11. 



DETROIT, MICH., MAY, 1909. 



Price: Ten Cents 



GRAPHICAL R'EPRESEnTATion OF F?5suLT OF GAVPAIGN in 



FOR flDOPTIOn OF THE. 60UHTY ROflD 5YSTEM BY THE. GOUrtTIES, 

 UNDER STATE HlGHWflY COMMISSIONER . HORATIO E.ARLB. 



OF TERRITORY UNDER THE COUNTY KURD SYSTEM. 16. 7^3.873 ACRES 



Mil ! I ; :' M'! I I I I I I I ! I I! I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 



AMOUNT OF TERRITORY NOT UNDER THE. OOUNTY Rono SYSTEM. 19,735.711 ACRES. 



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OF TERRITORY UNDER THE COUNTY ROHD SYSTEM, $8TZ,3so.i95. 



l/ALUATION OF TEffRITO/TT NOT UNDER THE 6OUNTY 



SYSTEM, $70t. 072,575. 



OF yitCHIGAn TERRITORY UNDER THE. 6OUMTY ROAD SYSTEM 

 COMPARED WITH THE TOTAL flffEA OF SEVERAL EASTERN ROf\O 6UILDIH6 STATES: 



TOTAL ARER OF GONN., Mass., R. I , 



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I6.T48.000 



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MICHIGRN TERRITORY UNDER COUNTY ffoflo SYSTEM. i6.TZ3.s73 acRES. 



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Moiiy Michigan people seem to think that 



must g.-i e:tst to see good roads. 

 Michigan has today enough state reward 

 gravel and .-lone roads to reach from P 

 to Port Huron. Detroit to Saginaw. Detroit 

 to Lansing. Detroit to Kalninazoo, and from 

 ' to T!edo, and will have enough more 

 by July 1 next to make another road from 

 Lansing to Grand Rapids. 



r hundred miles of good road is going 



e in the first four ye. 



wing is a table of amounts appropri- 

 ate. 1 by different states and amount of state 

 reward road at the present time: 



Amt. of money. 



Xew Jersey S 2.47:>.441 



Massachusetts 9.250.000 



Connecticut ?..500,000 



Pennsylvania T.oiiO.OOO 



Xew York 14.2-j:;.2f,:, 



Michigan 360,000 



Miles 

 of road. 



600 



1.700 

 350 



The above table speaks for itself. Yet 

 Michigan people are not satisfied. Michigan 

 has nearly one-half of her territory- under the 

 county good roads system and over half of 

 her valuation under 'that >y~;em. and in less 



than five years every county in the state will 

 have adopted it. 



The area in Michigan now under this system 

 is as great as the area of Vermont, Massa- 

 chusetts, Connecticut. Rhode Island and Dela- 

 ware. 



The good roads wagon is in motion, let 

 everybody push and it will soon cover the 

 state. 



Seven counties voted for county road 

 tern this spring: Kalamazoo, Grand Traverse. 

 Ontonagon. Gogebic. Schoolcraft. Ogemaw 

 and Genesee. Kalamazoo and Genesee will 

 have a great influence on the other southern 

 conservative counties. 



