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F. L. GAINES 



509 Ashton Bldg., Grand Rapids, Michigan 



will become an important connecting thor- 

 oughfare. 



' The building of this road will be the biggest 

 job in the road building line that the people 

 <>f Mecosta county have undertaken. This 

 is due to the fact that before the road c uld 

 be built a big swamp had to be drained, and 

 the water let out from one of the Twin laker- 

 into another. It is also a safe prediction to 

 make that when it is completed it will be a 

 tine object lesson and the- people who have 

 i ccasion to. use it, and there are many, will 

 be thorough.-converts to the- county road sys- 

 tem. Mr. Lyons thinks- the building of this 

 road will take all summer and continue until 

 fall. 



Mr. Lyons has graveled the road in Mill- 

 brock township, connecting West Millbrook 

 with ' Millbr : ck. The work of grading the 

 Deerlield mi'e is also completed. This was 

 begun last fall, but the graveling will not be 

 all completed until next fall. 



Patented 



GOOD ROADS PROGRESS 



IN MICHIGAN STATE 



GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY. 



After a fur of inspection of the roads" of 

 Giand Traverse <' unity, L. C. Smith, assistant 

 engineer of the State Highway Department. 

 Lansing, declared that the work in the county 

 was getting started in Kind shape, that the 

 right kind of road- are being built, and that 

 the East Bay and ISlair road- are equal f any 

 gravel mad- in Mani-tec county. Manistee 

 county, he says. has been under the County 

 mad system for nearly HI years. It has had 

 the benefit of long experience, and is getting 

 the main thoroughfare* of the county pretty 

 well improved. 



"Give Grand Traver.-e c< unty the same 

 length of time, and there is no reason in the 

 world why she cannot bring about the same 

 i f ~nlts." he -ay v 



Mr. Smith report- F.ast Hay and Blair town 

 ship road- O. K.. and the ,-tato reward of $500 

 per mile will be paid. A gravel road, he said. 

 is not neces-arily completed when accepted, 

 but mu-t be ready for the smoothing pi 

 This, he said, c~uld be done by the roller pro- 

 ce-- much quicker. 



Mr. Smith also inspected roads in Ben/ie. 

 Mani-tec and Xewaygo countie-. 



Another mile of state reward road ha- been 

 begun in Grand Traverse county. Thi.- -tretch 

 i- on the Long Lake road. 



elected: President, Frank Norton: Secretary, 

 Fred Hargreavcs: Treasurer. John Mclntosh. 



Four hundred dollar- of the amount sub- 

 scribed by the husine.-s men are now on dc- 

 P'sit in the Huron County Savings Bank and 

 Cashier Babcock says that the remainder will 

 be there in ample time to be used in the build- 

 ing of these two miles of improved roads. 



N'o township in Huron county can boast of 

 having more improved roads sentiment than 

 Sand Beach. 



CLARE COUNTY. 



Following are the townships in Clare county 

 and the amounts apportioned for road work 

 by the Board of Supervisors: Arthur. $144.24; 

 Franklin. $32.12: Freeman. $55.12; Frost, 

 ?57.51; Garfield. $55.61; Grant, $232.07; 

 Greenwood. $80.39; Hamilton. $87.95; Hat- 

 ton. $73.30: Have.-. $29.05; Lincoln. $52.05; 

 Redding. $86.74: Sheridan. $278.85; Summer- 

 field. $4085: Surrey. $172.59: Winterfield, 

 Sfi6.47; Clare City, $365.14: Harrison City. 

 85. 



ISABELLA COUNTY. 



John S. Wcidman. 11. A Sanford and R. O. 

 _:hty are the members of the good roads 

 ^committee of the Board of Trade of Mt. Pleas- 

 ant. State Highway Commissioner Ely has 

 iiu-ndecl that stone roads be built in Isa- 

 bella county. 



I'nion township has voted $7.noo for two 

 mile- of -tate reward road. 



HURON COUNTY. 



The Bad Axe and Sand Beach State Road 

 Gravel Club has been organized in Sand Beach 

 township. Huron county. The club will build 

 one mile rf state reward gravel road this sum- 

 mer. It will be built on the State road, begin- 

 ning at the Cnwper corner and run: 

 The road i- to be built by subscription. The 

 farmer- will have to -nb-cribe only $300 which, 

 together with what Harbor llcach bu.-ines- 

 people will give and $500 from the state, will 

 take care of the money end rf this excellent 

 proposition. John Schmyser, superintendent 

 of Sigel. has agreed to furnish the gravel for 

 eight cents per yard. 



At a meeting of East Huron Grange it was 

 decided to form a simlar club and build a mile 

 of improved gravel road commencing at Frank 

 Norton's corner running south. The club was 

 organized and will be called "Farmers' Good 

 Roads Club." The following officers were 



MECOSTA COUNTY. 



Comity Road Commissioner W. B. Lyons, 

 of Big Rapids. Mecosta county, has begun 

 work on the Colfax road, east of the city. 

 Thi- road is one of the most important thor- 

 oughfares in the county and the section that 

 yill be improved, four miles in length, is about 

 the worst. Hence its improvement up to 

 -talc 1 specifications will mean much for thous- 

 and- of residents of the county, and especially 

 those of Colfax. Martiny. Morton and Chip- 

 pewa town-hips as well as those in Big Rap- 

 ids. 



This rracl will reduce the distance to Chip- 

 pewa Lake about three and a half miles. 

 because it will do away with the need of going 

 around by Rodney, which all farmers must 

 do at present when they have any sort of a 

 load to haul. It will benefit not only the 

 east and west sections but also the north and 

 south, because the road that will be improved 



HOUGHTON COUNTY. 



The question of roads is the big cne before 

 the Portage township board, Houghton county, 

 this year. The township covers a very large 

 territory, the largest in the ccunty and the 

 most nearly virgin. New highways are neces- 

 r-ary. but the township cannot afford to build 

 all the required roads in any one year. And 

 in many cases the township cannot legally- 

 appropriate money for the petitioned roads 

 because they would be on private property. 



Portage this year raises $7.000 for road pur- 

 po-cs and this would hardly build two miles 

 of new road, such as is required. The problem 

 appears to be one which the board can solve 

 only in time. Money would solve it, but the 

 township has not the money. It has the time 

 and will probably in a few year- give the 

 farmers all the reads they need, if the farmers 

 can hang on long enough. 



The township board of Calumet. Houghton 

 comity; has passed resolutions that the Trap 

 Rock river and Lake Shore districts, in the 

 jurisdiction' of the township board, be provided 

 with new. i ' ads where needed, and that the 

 old roads now in use be put in a better state 

 of repair.. 



GENESEE COUNTY. 



The macadamizing of the North Saginaw 

 and the Fenton reads in Genesee county 

 started June 15. The contract wa- awarded 

 to the God Roads' C" instruction Company of 

 Port Huron at a price of 53 cents a lineal foot. 

 The rnaterial is being furnished by the county 

 road commissioners. There is fi.fino feet of 

 macadam roadway to. be laid on both North 

 Saginaw and Fenton roads, and it will be 

 built nine feet wide. 



It is believed that we will have one of the 

 best macadam roads in the state when the 

 work is finished." says George H. Sellers, one 

 of the commissi ners. "We will construct it 

 according to specifications that are better than 

 demanded in the state specifications. The 

 road will be seven inches thick, one inch 

 thicker than named in the state specifications, 

 and it will have a limestone bottom with a 

 hard cobble top. containing native trap rock 

 and granite to a large degree. Limestone 

 screenings will be used as a binder." 



The survey of the South Saginaw road for 

 one mile has been started, and it is the inten- 

 tion of the commissioners to macadamize this 

 portion if the funds are available. 



EMMET COUNTY. 



The Beard of County Road Commissioners 

 of Emmet county has extended its jurisdiction 

 over the following road heretofore laid out, 

 viz: Beginning at a point on North line of 

 Section 3 Town 36 North of Range 4 West. 

 738 feet West . f '. t post, and 83 feet East of 

 th center line of the Grand Rapids and Indi- 

 ana Railroad, and running southeasterly par- 

 allel to. and 83 feet from said center line of 

 Railroad, to East and West '/ line of section 

 10, same Town and Range being 8072.5 feet, 

 to be known as Mackinaw Turnpike, part two. 



