MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



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GRAND TRAVERSE'S FIRST REWARD 

 ROAD. 



The first mile of state reward road buik in 

 Grand Traverse county was constructed by 

 Whitewater township. The improvement is on 

 the main highway running east from Williams- 

 burg to Barker Creek. The road building was 

 done last fall by VV. A. Worden. township high- 

 way commissioner, at a total cost of $1,339.98, 

 and the amount of award received was $540, mak- 

 ing the net cost to the township $799.98. 



It is a gravel road and was improved at an 

 expense less than the state average for gravel 

 roads, which is $1,500. The several Items mak- 

 ing up the total cost are as follow- : 



Engineering expense $ 46.49 



Grading 453,83 



Gravel 97.44 



Rolling 12.00 



Drains - 36.54 



Culvert 14.00 



Labor 679.68 



Total $1,339.98 



The total length of the road is 5,420 feet, or 

 140 feet more than a mile, which fact accounts 

 for the extra $40 received by the township. The 

 gravel used as a covering was obtained at an av- 

 erage cost of seven cents a cubic yard. 



The taxpayers of the township were so well 

 pleased with their first strip of improved road 

 that at the town meeting held this spring they 

 voted increased appropriations for "better roads," 

 re-elected Mr. \Vorden highway commissioner, 

 and thus put themselves on record as favoring 

 good main highways. 



This season three strips of roadway are being 

 improved. The mile built last year is being ex- 

 tended toward \Villiamsburg and the picture 

 above shows the grade made near the John Ken- 

 nedy farm and shows the teams hauling the 

 gravel for the wheel track. The second improve- 

 ment is north of Williamsburg, and the third will 

 be west of that village. 



Whitewater township is entitled to great credit 

 for what it has already accomplished and is ac- 

 complishing in the matter of road improvements. 

 She is helping "to open up the territory to the 

 northeast of Traverse City. The road from the 

 city to Five-Mile corners, to Acme village, 

 through Bates, Williamsburg, Barker Creek and 

 on to Rapid City and Alden is the most im- 

 portant highway leading to the northeast. Every 

 rod of it should be good road. Acme township 

 is improving a mile of this highway between the 

 villages of Acme and Bates. Whitewater tax- 

 payers have improved nearly two miles near the 

 village of Williamsburg ; Clearwater township 

 tavpayers in Kalkaska county are improving a 

 mile near Barker Creek and the Kalkaska county 

 road commissioners are improving a mile and a 

 half between Barker Creek and Rapid City. By 

 the close of this year six miles of this highway 

 will be improved. Furthermore there will be 

 improved roads leading out of the main highway 

 at Williamsburg and just beyond Barker Creek, 

 the first to tap the Elk Lake country and the 

 second to reach to Kalkaska village, the county 

 seat of Kalkaska countv. 



been before and that is that there should be 

 a four-X ( XXXX) road every rod of the way 

 from Old Mission to Traverse City. The prob- 

 lem demanding solution is that of quickly getting 

 the fruit from the orchard to the car door. 



There is but one sure way to solve this trans- 

 portation problem, and that is a level, hard, wide 

 roadway from Old Mission to the heart of Trav- 

 erse City. With such a roadway big automobile 

 trucks could be used to pick up the cases of 

 berries and cherries and deliver them without 

 transfer at the car door. With such an arrange- 

 ment the fruit grower would have but to haul 

 his filled crates to the main road instead of to 

 the dock as now. Furthermore an automobile 

 would make the trip from Old Mission to Trav- 

 erse City and pick up its load on the way in an 

 hour, whereas the boats require several hours. 



With a good road to Traverse City the larger 

 fruit growers would provide themselves with 

 trucking automobiles and haul their own prod- 

 ucts, picking to within sixty minutes of the time 

 the car door was to be sealed preparatory to 

 starting on its journey to the central market. 



This talk of a good road from Traverse City 

 to Old Mission is no idle dream. It is one of the 

 most crying needs of the present time and must 

 be built. 



have donated from their pits all the gravel that 

 Highway Commissioner Bradshaw. of Custer, 

 needs to repair the road. William Dawson also 

 has agreed to donate 300 loads from his pit. 



It is not the intention of those who are push- 

 ing this good road movement to lay down after 

 the completion of their work this year, but go 

 after it harder than ever next year, and the next 

 year, until all the roads leading into Sandusky 

 will not be a subject of adverse comment as they 

 have been for many years past. 



CORRECTING THE DUST NUISANCE. 



A 5-000-gallon tank of sprinkling fluid, with 

 aspbaltum as one of its components, has been 

 received by County Clerk Sweeney of Bay coun- 

 ty, from the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. The 

 fluid i_; for use on the Midland road for three- 

 quar-ers of a mile west of the city limits of Bay 

 City, which is now well lined with suburban res- 

 idences, and where the dust problem has been the 

 source of complaint for many years. The con- 

 stant traffic over this road wears the limestone 

 surface to an almost impalpable powder and all 

 clay Icng. if there is any breeze at all, the resi- 

 dents arc exposed to dust to such an extent that 

 they can scarcely have their windows opened 

 during the summer months. 



"I believe this stuff, if it's anywhere near what 

 it is represented, will solve more than the dust 

 problem on our stone roads," says County Clerk 

 Sweeney. "If it acts as alleged, it will save more 

 in repairs than it costs. One of these ingredients is 

 an asphaltum product and this is said to soak in 

 and hold the particles of stone together. The 

 stone road dust is practically a cement and it is 

 faid that after a half dozen applications of this 

 sprinkling fluid, the road is hard and wears but 

 slightly. The amount of dust that is made and 

 blown away every year is quite an item in the 

 maintenance expense account, and if this fluid 

 holds the stuff on the road, it will save money. 

 If it goes further, and binds the limestone, it will 

 make a pavement as good as that in the city.'' 



HOUGHTON'S NEW ROADS. 



Owing to the probability that meetings of min- 

 ing companies and concessions from farmers and 

 others may be necessary before rights of way will 

 be obtainable for certain proposed new roads 

 through Calumet township, Houghton county, it 

 is not likely that the township board will take 

 any action this summer on the road petitions that 

 have Leen presented. 



It is likely, however, that the matter will be 

 straightened out next fall or winter, so that the 

 board will be in a position to act on the peti- 

 tions next spring. It is known that the roads 

 asked for are needed, and there is every likeli- 

 hood that they will be made. 



One petition is for a roadway running east from 

 Copper City through sections 9 and 10 to the 

 Trap Rock River valley. North 56, Range 32. 



One petition is for a road on the line between 

 sections 1 and 2, on the north boundary of the 

 county line. North 56 and Range 33. 



Still another petition has been received for a 

 road from section 16 to the line between sections 

 8 and 17, and from there to the lake shore, 

 Range 56, North 33. 



ROAD BUILDING IN BENZIE. 

 Inland township, Benzie county, is making a 

 record for highway improvement. Last fall a 

 mile and a quarter of roadway near the former 

 village of Inland was turnpiked and covered wtih 

 gravel, after which it was rolled with a home- 

 made cemertt roller. The result of this was that 

 the township received an order on the state treas- 

 urer for $625. The taxpayers were pleased with 

 the deal because they found themselves at the 

 close of the transaction with both the road and 

 the money. The total cost of the improvement 

 was $2,200. This year Inland township will use 

 about $1,500 for the purpose of bettering its roads. 

 This money will be used about the township at 

 such places as it appears the most good can be 

 done. 



TRAVERSE CITY ROAD PROBLEM. 



The transportation troubles of the past few 

 weeks in connection with the Peninsula fruit 

 crop make one thing more clear than it ever has 



MAKING A START AT SANDUSKY. 



The condition of the roads leading into San- 

 dusky north, south, east and west, have for many 

 years been a detriment to business of that citv 

 Many meetings have been held to discuss ways 

 and means to bring, about a solution of this 

 problem. Several citizens, working in conjunc- 

 tion with the highway commissioners of Custer, 

 Elmer and Moore townships, have at last been 

 able to make a start. The road running west of 

 Sandusky has been selected to do the work on 

 this year. The townships of Elmer and Moore 



MACADAM ROAD COMPLETED. 



The first state reward road to be constructed in 

 either Houghton or Keweenaw counties has been 

 completed and a stretch of about two miles, ex- 

 tending from Mohawk in a northerly direction is 

 now ready for traffic. The length of the new 

 highway is 2.2 miles, for which the state will pay 

 the sum of $1,000 for each mile constructed in 

 accordance with the requirements of the state. 

 The road is almost perfect in construction. It 

 is of macadam rolled with a heavy steam roller 

 until almost as hard as cement and so graded as 

 to withstand the effects of rain. It is probable 

 that the road will be extended to connect with 

 the county highway between Calumet and Cliff 

 and should this action be taken, the distance 

 would be lessened by several miles. 



