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ALPENA COUNTY IN LUCK. 



The supervisors of Alpena county are loud 

 in their prai>e of the new road recently built 

 in Green and Ossineke townships by Super- 

 visor A. B. Green. The new read is three 

 miles in length, starting at Van Sipe's Corners 

 and extending s nth on the section line be- 

 tween 29 and 30, two miles in Green, and one- 

 half mile in Ossineke between sections 5 and 

 6. then ta^t one-half mile across secti< n .V 



The appropriation for the road was $3,000 

 and it can be said without discrediting any 

 other piece of road work, that i; f the 



best pieces i.f road ever built in the county. 

 The read running through a dense hardwood, 

 wider than most other roads in the county 

 have been built, has been turned up to a good 

 height, and has ditches on either side which 

 gives it a perfect drainage. Steel culverts have 

 been put in wherever required, and when the 

 road has been graveled, which cannot be done 

 this year, the cost of its miantenance should 

 be little. 



Mr. Green has done all this work without 

 using the entire appropriation made by the 

 county. The importance of this road and jus- 

 tification for the appropriation, is in the fact 

 that the road opens up to and connects the 

 city (if Alpena by a first-class road with one 

 of the best agricultural districts in the county. 

 The terminal of the new road connects with 

 good highways to the Brandenbury and 

 Loomis settlements, pronounced by people 

 who are informed about the soil, to be one of 

 the most fertile districts in the county. 



To illustrate how the community is bene- 

 fitted by the investment in good roads, it can 

 be said that since this read was projected the 

 county has up to this time received back 

 nearly as much money in delinquent taxes 

 against lands in that section, which have a 

 large increased value by reason of the new 

 road, as the road itself cost in money. 



While the county has paid for this three 

 miles of new road, the townships have also 

 built considerable new road. The entire high- 

 way from the point where one leaves the coun- 

 ty road which is about 13 miles out, to the 

 end of the road just completed, and which 

 runs through Wilson and Green townships, 

 has been made as good as any road in the 

 county. The stretches of clay and gravel have 

 nearly all been covered with gravel, so that 

 the run out to the southern terminal can be 

 made very nicely in an auto in an hour's time, 

 and a heavy load hauled over any part of it 

 by a team with perfect ease. 



I', th Supervisors Green and Portwine are 

 good roads agitators and the townships they 

 represent have many miles of good roads built 

 by the townships. 



WILLING TO HELP GOOD ROADS. 

 County Road Commissioner Henry Leismer, 

 of Eivmet, gives the following very interesting 

 information in regard to what others think of 

 the value of good roads in that county, and 

 what outsiders are willing to do to help it 

 along. At a recent meeting of the road com- 

 missioners. Mr. McMahon, contracting agent 

 for the Cobb & Mitchell Company, of Cadillac, 

 told the commissioners that his company had 

 authorized him to say that for every mile of 



A Blessing to Farmers in Grand Traverse County. 



Courtesy of Grand Traverse Daily Eagle. 



road built in Springvale or Bear Creek town- 

 ship, they wculd give $300 towards its con- 

 struction, and that they would do the same 

 thing for two townships in Cheboygan, and 

 three townships in Charlevoix counties. 



Aside from being a good business venture 

 for the Cobb & Mitchell Company, it proves 

 them to be interested in Emmet county, for 

 the roads thus built will be permanent, and in 

 use long after they have ceased to need them, 

 and as the roads will cost from $3,000 to $3,500 

 per mile to construct, the Cobb & Mitchell 

 Company pay approximately 10 per cent of 

 the cost. 



VAN BUREN ROADS NEED ATTENTION 

 Van Buren county roads certainly need im- 

 provement. Fruit growers ought to awaken 

 to the fact that it would be money in their 

 pockets if they would subscribe to a good 

 roads fund, or make an effort to have the 

 roads improved under state reward. The Hart- 

 ford Day Spring says: 



"The roads from Hartford to Keeler have sel- 

 dom been in worse condition than at present. 

 The hauling of hundreds of heavy loads of 

 grapes, some of them weighing much in excess 

 of two tons, from Keeler vineyards to the rail- 

 roads in Hartfcrd cut the roads up badly dur- 

 ing the dry weather of a week ago, and the 

 rains of Sunday and Monday filled the holes 

 with water and helped in cutting them deeper. 

 The authorities of both Hartford and Keeler 

 townships should give attention to this high- 

 way before winter weather sets in in earnest, 

 or else the road will prove nearly impassable 

 during the "break-up" next spring. 



MILE OF GOOD ROAD FOR $750. 

 Highway Commissioner Warren LaBarre 

 has finished a fine piece cf gravel read in Cass 

 county about a mile in length, extending from 

 the Stern farm to Finchs' corners, west of 

 Marcellus. The road has been built in a per- 

 manent manner and is pronounced by those 

 competent to judge to be an excellent piece of 



work; a road that will be a pride and satis- 

 faction to those who have to travel over it for 

 many years to come. One thousand dollars 

 was allowed the township board to build the 

 road, but Mr. LaBarre, although building the 

 road in a thorough manner, kept the cost down 

 to 25 per cent less than the amount appro- 

 priated. 



PRAISES COUNTY SYSTEM. 



Colin Walker, of Barrington, says: "In my 

 travels over the roads of this section of Me- 

 costa county 1 cannot help but note with de- 

 light and satisfaction the good work done by 

 the county road system. Of the two miles in 

 the vicinity of Barryton the one in Sheridan 

 and the other in Fork township, I must say 

 that I never saw so much good work done in 

 such a short time. This was the worst and 

 most difficult two miles of road to build in this 

 section and will be worth many dollars to 

 Barryton and the townships of Fork and Sheri- 

 dan. I was at first opposed to the county road 

 system, fearing it was only another form of 

 graft, but if any other man has this opinion, it 

 will pay him to investigate and he will soon be 

 convinced that it is an all around good thing 

 for the farmers. 



The people of the above named townships 

 have every reason to be grateful to the county 

 officials for giving them their just share of this 

 work. 



The new section of the Delta county road 

 built in the north end of Masonville town- 

 ship by Contractor Larson, of Rock, is all 

 right, says County Engineer D. A. Brotherton. 

 Mr. Brothertcn had just returned from an in- 

 spection of the work and he was highly pleased 

 with the manner in which the contractor did 

 the work. Mr. Brotherton says there is no 

 evidence of any disposition to slight the work 

 in any way, and he was unstinting in his praise. 

 When the road is completed it will be one of 

 the very best sections of the county road sys- 

 tem. 



