MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



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To those 9O.OOO Taxpayers who want a 



Road Culvert Which Can Not Rust 



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Xo. 773, Comstock township, Kalamazoo thoroughfares, or those roads which afford an from the use of macadam and other hard ma- 

 county, outlet to the greatest number of people. In terials have largely eliminated the mud and 



Xo. 774, Pavilion township, Kalamazoo one instance a county road of seven miles in the consequent clogging of traffic in periods 



county. length is the avenue by which the farmers of succeeding heavy rainfalls, the dust has still 



Xo. 775, Cooper township, Kalamazoo coun- four townships are enabled to reach market remained to plague the traveller and to men- 



ty. w jth their crops. In another instance two ace the public .health by the absorption and 



Xo. 776, Cooper township, Kalamazoo coim- townships are provided for by three miles of distribution of bacteria. 



ty. county road. It has been the policy of the Various combinations of oil and salt have 



Xo. 777, Charleston township, Kalamazoo county commission to thus maintain main been used in Germany to sprinkle the streets 



county. thoroughfares, and more particularly town line and roads, but as the effect was only transi- 



Xo. 778, Charleston township, Kalamazco reads, the various townships doing most of tory this method was not considered a solution 



county. the open j n g o f crossroads. The result has of the problem of maintaining hard, clean and 



Xo. 779, Richland township, Kalamazoo been that from every point of the county the sanitary highways. Experiments have also 



county. city can be reac hed without difficulty with been made with coal tar, and some of these 



Xo. 780, Ross township, Kalamazoo county, large loads. preparations applied to the surface of roads 



No. 781, Ross township. Kalamazoo county. The cost of service for the commissions has have kept the dust settled for longer periods 



Xo. 782, Alamo township, Kalamazoo coun- been extremely moderate. During the period of time than by former methods. Although 



of nearly fifteen years under which the county recognized as an improvement, the expense 



Xo. ,83, \VaIker township, Kent county, .546 has utilized the system, the average annual connected with the employment of these prep- 



mile, gravel, state reward $273. cost to t h e county for the three commission- arations has stood as an objection to their 



No. 784, Lincoln township, Isabella county, ers has been $250 general use, and experiments were continued 



1.025 miles, gravel, reward $512. Though none of the money has been ex- for the purpose of producing a more ideal and 



pended within the City of Gladwin the busi- cheaper composition for treating roads. 



Xo. 786, Xewfield township, Oceana county, nes s men of Gladwin are a unit in its favor. One of the results cf these recent expen- 



.498 mile, gravel, state reward $249. One prominent merchant said in discussing ments is the preparation of the substance 



>. 787, Jordan township, Antrim county, t h e matter: "My share of the tax this year mentioned, apokonin, which has been pro- 



.492 mile, class B, state reward, $246. j, JOQ but I pay it gladly feeling that the nounced by some technical observers the best 



Xo. 7S8, Jordan township, Antrim county. CO nnty U being greatly benefitted by the ex- and most lasting road covering yet brought 



mile, gravel, state reward \ pendittire, and what benefits one of us helps cut. The merits of this process were discussed 



,11 " at the recent convention of scientists and phy- 



STONE ROADS FOR GENESEE. sicians held in Salzburg, Germany. The pro- 



Genesee County is to have stcne roads in- PLANS 480 MILES OF GOOD ROADS. cess is secret, but it is known that coal tar oils 



stead of gravel. The supervisors yielded to The state Comnv=sion of Highway of Xew are . th e main ingredients The heavy pene- 



the pressure brought to bear upon them and ^- . , tratmg qualities of the oils give great binding 



rescinded their action taken at a former meet- Y ork has announced the improvement t power to the composition. This together with 



ing. Their first order was for gravel roads, about 230 miles of highways. One hundred the pressure applied produces a formation 



The latest resolution adopted provides $5.000 and twenty-five miles are county roads, the iron-like in its consistency, making the surface 



for the Burton trunk road and $4,000 for the cost of improvement being bcrne by the state, of the road, it is claimed, so smooth and hard 



Fenton trunk road and $4,500 lor road ma- county and town, and the balance, about 100 that snow and rain water cannot penetrate, 



chinery. In accepting the proposition to ma- miles, are State roads, to be improved at the Another important advantage ascribed to 



cadamize these roads the board has taken the -ole expenuse of the state. The total esti- apokonin is the sanitary nature of the material. 



first step towards the construction of perma- mated cost of the work approximates $3,200,- It is claimed that the creosote present in t 



nent trunk reads in the county, as no macadam 000 and is distributed among forty-one coun- coal tars, together with the high temperature 



roads have previously been laid in Genesee tie- cf the state. The commission will let con- of the composition when applied, combine to 



county. tract< j n March lor about 250 miles additional destroy all the bacteria in the dirt, thus pre- 



' of state and county roads. The award of the venting the spread cf disease from particles 



COPPER COUNTRY ROADS. contracts at this t'ime will enable contractors that may be ground and blown off the surface. 



The copper country is to have better roads, to begin operations at the earliest moment 

 It is hoped that one of them will connect that weather conditions will permit. The ma- 

 Houghton with Ishpeming. The Marquette jority of the roads are to be built with a bitu- 



ROAD CONTRACTS AWARDED. 

 The Dickinson county road commissioners 



county commission has been working several minous top, or wearing course, which has been have awarded two more road contracts aggre- 



years, has built a lot of new road, and by fcund necessary to withstand the increased mo- gating nea rly $2,000. The first is for maca- 



July will have the way paved so we can set tor vehicle traffic. _..... . 



south to Chicago, which* means the counfrv damizmg the Norway City-Vulcan road, 



generally. If the copper country people would GERMAN ROADS. John E. Blcmgren, 01 Norway, was the suc- 



take advantage of this improvement we know cessful bidder. His tender was $6,250. Gus 



they would appreciate it, but to do so will Experiments in Surface Materials to Lessen Fredeen of x orway . was the only other bid- 

 necessitate the building cf a few miles over Dust and Mud. tender totaling $6^7650 " Mr Blom- 



pretty rough ground in Baraga countv. That The construction and maintenance of streets C 



this will eventually be done is certain "as there and roads is a matter of great public interest 8 ren and Mr - Fredeen also were the only t 

 is too much being lost by not having thi piece in Germany. From every standpoint mili- ders for the construction of the Sawyer Lake 

 improved. It would be a very fine thing, too, tary, agricultural, commercial, hygienic, eco- Xcrth County Line road, and the former was 

 if we could go to copperdom in our automo- nomic the question of good roads is deemed again successful. Blomgren's bid was $5,450 

 biles and take a look at our money in the of the utmost importance. Every encourage- an d Fredeen's tender $6.461. This road will 

 new holes in the ground in that section. We ment is given to those experimenting along be about six and a quarter miles in length ex- 

 might be able to tell if we could take the these lines, and many improvements original- tending from a point near Sawyer lake the 

 machines home. Ishpeming Iron Ore. ing here have been adopted in other parts of terminus of the Sagola township highway 

 | the world. One of the matters now receiving to the Michigamme river, where it will join 

 GLADWIN'S GOOD ROADS. the special attention of German scientists, a road to be constructed this season by Mar- 

 Radiating from the city of Gladwin in every highway authorities and engineers is the treat- quette county, and for which Mr. Fredeen has 

 direction are now approximately sixty-six ment of streets and roads for the purpose of the contract. The contracts call for the corn- 

 miles of road either built by or under the con- obviating dust and mud. pletion of both roads by July 15. The bridge 

 trol of the county road commission. The While the modern paving of streets and the across the Michigamme river is also to be 

 policy has been to build or maintain the main more solid construction of roads resulting completed at the same date. 



