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GOOD ROADS PROGRESS 



IN MICHIGAN STATE 



KALAMAZOO COUNTY. 



"Good roads are of great economic value," 

 says Chief Verncn M. Pierce of the road 

 bureau of the United States agricultural de- 

 partment. 



"The people of Kalamazoo county will find 

 that the work now beipg done by the county 

 highway commission will ultimately return a 

 direct profit of such importance that it cannot 

 be estimated in mere dollars and cents. I am 

 glad to see that this county has taken up the 

 great question and gone seriously into build- 

 ing highways which are already a credit to 

 any section of the country." 



Chief Pierce ir. company with Chairman 

 W. M. Bryant of the Kalamazoo Good Roads 

 commission. Superintendent George D. Mar- 

 shall and Engineer Harris Fleming, made a 

 tour of inspection of several roads where 

 work is now being done, among them the 

 Twin Lakes road the Gull road and the 

 Comstnck road. A thorough inspection was 

 made of Good Roads camp No. 1, where coun- 

 ty prisoners are employed in road construc- 

 tion. 



"The camp is a model one." says Mr. Pierce. 

 "Everything is done to contribute to the com- 

 fort and health of the men. Good food, good 

 sleeping quarters and proper entertainment 

 after the day's labor is completed has gone 

 far to make a lot of contented hard-working 

 men, the results of which are plainly shown 

 in the manner in which they are helping build 

 for Kalamazoo county an excellent road sys- 

 tem. 



"I have had no chance to see any of the 

 completed work in this county, and am unable 

 to make comparison with other places I have 



visited. I have no doubt, however, from what 

 1 have seen of work .in progress, that Kala- 

 inaxoo county will rank with the best." 



Mr. Pierce, with Highway Commissioner 

 Bohnet, Superintendent Marshall. Engineer 

 Fleming and Mr. Flansburg also inspected the 

 south West street road in Portage township, 

 the Sunken Island road near Schoolcraft, and 

 other places of work. 



Improvement of the Country club road, so- 

 called running from West street, Kalamazoo, 

 to Lake View, just south 'of the Kalamazoo 

 city limits, which has been a matter of much 

 discussion among members of the club, has 

 taken definite form. More than $1,000 has 

 been subscribed for the work. 



The county highway commissioners have 

 been asked to superintend the improvement 

 of the road, under the regular county system. 

 and the request will undoubtedly be complied 

 with. Many automobilists are members of 

 the Country club, and it is among these prin- 

 cipally that the fund is being raised, a ready 

 response being made to solicitations for sub- 

 scriptions. 



Superintendent Geoge D. Mashall and En- 

 gineer Harris Fleming of the road division of 

 the United States Agricultural department will 

 remain in charge of the Kalamazoo "good 

 roads" work the remainder of the season un- 

 less their services should be urgently required 

 elsewhere, and Chairman W. M. Bryant of the 

 Kalamazoo county highway commission :"s 

 considerably elated. 



Lowe & Steers, who have the contract for 

 improving a mile and two-fifths of the Ravine 

 road, Kalamazoo, are now carrying the work 

 forward rapidly. 



Commissioner Bryant states that so far ar- 

 rangements have been made by the commis- 

 sion to improve nineteen miles of the thirty- 

 two laid out. 



"I am much gratified with the work which 

 has already been done," says Commissioner 

 Bryant, "and have been told by many who 



at lirsl oppose,! the question of the reward 

 system of building better roads that they are 

 more than satisfied with the results obtained." 



The services of nun like Superintendent 

 Marshall and Engineer Fleming are usually 

 devoted to state-wide work and this is the 

 first case <>! a county being favored with the 

 services of government men. 



In connection with this. Mr. Bryant tells a 

 humorous anecdote of a farmer who complain 

 ed that the county was wasting money by 

 employing such high priced men. 



"I wish we could get a barn full of men 

 like Mr. Marshall and Mr. Fleming and at 

 as little cost" was Mr. Bryant's reply. 



Then he explained to the unbelieving farm- 

 er that the two experts received their pay 

 from the goverrment and did not cost the 

 county a cent. 



WEXFORD COUNTY. 



County Road Commissioners Haynes, Use- 

 wick and Stanclifl are doing much work this 

 summer on the state reward roads ordered 

 last fall by the board of supervisors of Wex- 

 ford county. On the two mile road in Clam 

 Lake township they have completed one mile 

 of grading and the stone courses are laid. 

 On the Cadillac-Manton road they have near- 

 ly two miles of grading completed, and the 

 first course of gravel on more than one mile. 

 On the Selma-Boon road one mile is graded 

 and the first course of gravel laid, and part 

 of the second course. 



In addition to the work that is being done 

 under the supervision of the county commis- 

 sioners, a number of the townships are also 

 building state reward roads eight miles in 

 all this summer. The Cadillac Good Roads 

 Association is getting in the contributions of 

 citizens and companies who have agreed to 

 pay so much per mile for all state reward 

 roads built by the county this year with a 

 limit of ten miles. The amount will be about 



