MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



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NEW HIGHWAYS FOR HOUGHTON. 



At a meeting of the Calumet township 

 (Houghton county) board the question of con- 

 structing new highways in distant parts of the 

 town>hip was taken up. Clerk C. E. L. Thom- 

 ;i.s was instructed to secure deeds for the right 

 of way for both the Trap Rock Valley and the 

 Centennial highways. The latter will extend a 

 distance of one mile, pursuing a course along 

 the section line from Centennial Heights to 

 the extreme northern boundary of the county. 

 This road will then connect with the Kewee- 

 naw County highway and immediate access to 

 all towns in that count}- will thus be gained. 



The Trap Rock Valley highway will extend 

 a distance of about two miles, connecting with 

 a road from Copper City and tapping the 

 farming district northeast of Calumet. Sur- 

 veys for both roads were made by Engineer E. 

 S. Grierson and the plats have been filed with 

 the township clerk. Both roads will be thirty 

 feet in width. 



It is hardly probable that work on either of 

 these highways will be commenced this year, 

 owing to the advance of the season, but early 

 next year as soon as conditions are adaptable 

 to construction work both roads will be com- 

 menced. Favorable action of the board toward 

 providing these facilities for residents of these 

 outlying districts has been received with ela- 

 tion. Both roads will open territory which 

 heretofore has been almost inaccessible and 

 particularly during spring and fall of each year. 



TAKES OVER TWO ROADS. 



The \Yayne county road commission has 

 decided to take over the Plymouth and North- 

 ville roads and to construct a gravel road 12 

 feet wide thereon. Only a mile on each road 

 will be reconstructed this year. Work has be- 

 gun. 



The commissioners also notified the Detroit 

 Gas Co., which holds a franchise out Michigan 

 avenue, that if it tears up the new road to 

 make connections it will be required to leave 

 it in the same condition as it found it, and also 

 to maintain it for two years if it showed any 

 sign of sinking as a result of having been 

 torn up. 



The contract for the gravel for the Plymouth 

 road was awarded to O. A. Frazer of Plymouth 

 at 14 cents a yard. 



THIS ROAD NEEDS ATTENTION. 



The editor of The Reporter had occasion 

 last week to travel over the county road from 

 Gladstone to Brampton, and although this is 

 one of the most important roads in Delta 

 county, and the road over which all the farm- 

 ers in Brampton, Perkins and Define and 

 Maple Ridge must travel if they want to go 

 to Escanaba or Gladstone, it has been left by 

 our board of county road commissioners with- 

 out anything being done to it for years; and 

 what has been done to it by the commissioners 

 has only made the road harder to travel than 

 before they did any work on it. 



This road follows the C. & N. W. railroad 



from West Gladstone to Brampton, and all 

 that the county has ever done on it, was to 

 stir up the sand and make a sand grade; this 

 was several years ago. Before this grading 

 was done a farmer could bring a lead over 

 this road, but no wit would take four horses 

 to draw a small load to Gladstone. 



Gladstone and the northern part of Delta 

 county have always had to pay a very large 

 percentage -of the county road tax, but have 

 never received their fair share of county road 

 improvements. Gladstone Reporter. 



AUTOMOBILISTS TO THE FORE. 



The automobilists of Cadillac are enterpris- 

 ing, and to show it they have commenced work 

 on a mile of gravel road on the north side of 

 Clam Lake township and between that town- 

 ship and Haring. Work is now being pushed 

 under the direction of Curtis Sunday, who will 

 construct an eight-foot driveway up the center 

 of that road, putting it in good condition for 

 automobiles, which will necessarily make the 

 road good. There is already a good road along 

 the north side of the sections 2 and 3, Clam 

 Lake, and plans are being made for a mile 

 along a section in Richland township and one 

 mile along a section in Lake township, Mis- 

 saukee county, so that when the work now 

 planned is completed there will be five miles 

 of excellent road out of Cadillac to the east 

 and southwest. The automobilists are furnish- 

 ing most of the $800 the road will cost, and 

 will not get any rebate from the state. 



MAKING REPAIRS WITH HAY. 



Temporary repairs were made to the East 

 and West Main highway in Lee township, 

 Allegan county, over which the Allegan & 

 South Haven Transit Company operated taxi- 

 cabs until the road became too bad. It was 

 decided that the best way to repair the road 

 temporarily would be to put on hay marsh 

 hay preferred to be placed where most need- 

 ed between Chicora and Pullman. The pieces 

 of road that had been fixed with hay were 

 standing the wear well. 



The Casco township board has taken up the 

 work of road improvement in that township 

 independent of the Lee board and Allegan, 

 and good work is in progress. This will be 

 continued until the highway from the east 

 Casco line to South Haven is as good as any 

 in that part of Van Buren county. 



It is the purpose of the Lee board to gravel 

 the roads next winter, when the work can be 

 done more cheaply and just as well. This 

 indicates that by the time "navigation" opens 

 between Allegan and South Haven next spring 

 the route will be in first class shape. 



MICHIGAN ROAD NOTES. 



the two half-miles of state reward road out of 

 Mayville and the town board has not decided 

 what to do in the matter. 



State Commissioner of Highways Ely and 

 Deputy Rogers, who inspected newly-built 

 roads in Saginaw county, have approved of six 

 roads, upon which the state will pay to the 

 county a bounty of $8,232. Two miles of the 

 state road in Frankenmuth was pronounced by 

 the officials to be the best piece of country 

 highway in Michigan. 



It is gratifying to note the interest that has 

 been aroused in Sheridan this season in regard 

 to permanent improvements in roads. Super- 

 visor Thompson has taken a bold stand and 

 a step in the right direction in bringing the 

 subject before the township board and using 

 his influence with the members to adopt the 

 plan of surveying the roads in the township, 

 that each succeeding highway commissioner 

 may have a profile to work to and grade his 

 road accordingly. 



Two miles of good road have been com- 

 pleted in Escanaba township, Delta county, 

 this year. In the past two years the township 

 has expended over $12,000 on its highways, 

 beside the repair work. The township will 

 have 3}4 miles of macadam road that will 

 compare favorably with any road of that kind 

 in the county. 



Some of the contractors entrusted with the 

 construction of stone roads for the county of 

 Bay have been exceedingly lax in their meth- 

 ods from latest accounts from the county 

 stone road commission. Frank F. Rogers, 

 deputy state commissioner on county roads, 

 who looked over the highway known as the 

 "state road," between Kawkawlin and Lin- 

 wood, found it to be far below the specifica- 

 tions which the contract called for. 



At a special meeting of the Alger county 

 board of supervisors, held recently for the 

 purpose of providing ways and means for 

 carrying on highway improvements, a resolu- 

 tion was adopted whereby the Cleveland-Cliffs 

 Iron Company will receive and pay the vouch- 

 ers issued by the county road commissioners 

 until such time as the commission has funds, 

 or to an approximate amount of $25,000. The 

 company will charge on the amount so ad- 

 vanced a reasonable interest rate. 



The good roads proposition is not a dead 

 issue in Calhoun county. At least the corpse 

 left after the recent spring election has shown 

 signs of reviving under the head of Secretary 

 Gibson, of the Industrial Association, who 

 states that plans are now well under way for 

 the resubmission of the question to Calhoun 

 county voters next spring. 



There were no bidders for the job of build- 



Work on the new county road in Marquette 

 county being built this summer between Har- 

 vey and Green Garden is progressing much 

 more slowly than expected, due to accidents 

 and other seemingly unavoidable delays. As 

 a result not a rod of public highway had been 

 rocked up to the first of September. However, 

 it will be possible to complete about two miles 

 of road this season, and perhaps more, if no 

 further accidents occur. The Harvey-Green- 

 garden road will be built in the same manner 

 as the Marquette-Xegaunee road last year. 

 The grade has been made twenty feet wide 

 from side to side, and the macadam covering 

 will be fourteen feet wide. 



