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per mile in addition to the $500 given 

 by the state. If the county does net build 

 ten miles, then the balance left over in the 

 hands of the local association will be paid 

 nut pro rata among the builders i>f the reward 

 is in the townshi; 



HURON COUNTY.' 



The problem of how to build more im- 

 proved highways in Sand Beach township, 

 Huron county, this year, than the state allows 

 credit for has been successfully solved by the 

 township board and Mayor Jenks of Harbor 

 Beach. 



the state limits an award to two miles 

 per year per township, and as the farmers in 

 Sand Beach township were prepared to take 

 care '~A their share of three miles, everybody 

 got busy and the result will be a record break- 

 er, as three miles in one township in cne 

 season, will smash all former activities along 

 these lir.e~. At a recent meeting of the town 

 1. the officials voted to build two miles 

 ..te reward road and to borrow $500 to 

 take care cf the township's portion of the 

 expense of another mile on the road running 

 one mile south of the Frank Norton farm, 

 which loan will be taken care of by the state 

 next year. 



Two of the three miles of road to be built 

 i> on the highway leading to Bad Axe, the 

 c unty seat. It is now up to Bad Axe to get 

 busy and meet the Harbor Beach enthusiasts 

 half way. 



tend from th? Trap Rock valley to Copper 

 City and LUencc to calumet. The territory 

 which will be tapped contains half a hundred 

 farmers who heretofore have been unable 

 to come direct to the metropolis. The board 

 voted to raise one-tenth of a mill for the 

 highway fund and five-tenths of a mill for 

 repairs. The aggregate of thi= is $19,500 

 t'or highway work during the year of 1910. 



HOUGHTON COUNTY. 

 At the regular meeting of the Calumet town- 

 ship board. Houghton county, the contract 

 'ict a Hghway in the Trap Rock 

 valley wa- awarded t Thomas Drapeau. 

 bid was S:J.40 per rod or approximate. y 

 Other bids ranged to $2.400, and that 

 i f Mr. Drapeau was the lowest of all >ui>- 

 mitte.'.. This wretch of highway is between 

 8,500 and 8,700 feet in length and will ex- 



SAGINAW COUNTY. 



County Road Commissioner Alpheus Green, 

 of Saginaw, has begun work on a new gravel 

 road on Genesee avenue from the city limits 

 of Saginaw to Cook's corners. The road has 

 been ordered and approved by the county 

 commission and about $25,000 is available for 

 the work. This sum is .insufficient for a road 

 wider than nine feet and Mr. Green believes 

 that on this important thoroughfarer the 

 width should be at least 16 feet. 



The work of removing the planks, grading, 

 concreting and finishing will ocupy about two 

 months. The distance to be improved is 

 about six miles on either side of Bridgeport. 



IONIA COUNTY. 



There is a movement on foot to construct 

 four miles of gravel ''state reward" road in 

 Ionia county on the Bellevue road beginning 

 at the Loom: '.house and extending 



south to Tremaync's Corners. Two generous 

 contributi already promised from 



Ionia city, one of one thousand dollars and 

 one of five hundred, and this too without any 

 concerted effort !<> raise a fund. State High- 

 way C nir s that the depart- 

 ment will take ::r. active interest in the pro- 

 improvement and if the road can be 

 made this se:.- rding to the specifica- 

 of the state law, the state reward of 

 live hundred il - mile will be paid. 



The improvement would benefit every busi- 

 ness house in Ionia city. It would bring in- 



creased trade business to every store, bring 

 increased business to every shop and factory, 

 increase the patronage of every hotel and 

 retaurant. All this and more it would do 

 for Ionia city, but those living along the road 

 and those called upon to travel over it would 

 receive still greater benefit and the good 

 work should not all be done by Ionia city. 

 One mile of the road is on the town line be- 

 tween Berlin and Orange. In order to se- 

 cure the state reward it is necessary to have 

 the applications made by the townships in- 

 terested. 



OAKLAND COUNTY. 



The construction of a macadam road all 

 the way from Pontiac to Detroit has been 

 placed before the Pontiac Commercial Asso- 

 ciation and that organization asked to lend 

 its efforts towards securing the road. As 

 yet steps have not been taken, but the direc- 

 tors have informally discussed the project 

 and state that a campaign to secure the road 

 will soon be launched. 



Royal Oak township, Oakland county, will 

 undoubtedly join the good roads phalanx. 

 Where 60 cf the Royal Oak townsmen were 

 ready a few weeks ago to bond their district 

 for $25,000 with which to improve their roads, 

 there are more than 100 of them ready today 

 to raise $40,000 for that purpose. That num- 

 ber makes it maudatorj- on the town board 

 to submit the proposition to the electors. 



This latest plan of the township involves 

 the building of four miles on north Wood- 

 ward avenue, three miles on Oakland avenue, 

 and four and a half miles on the Rochester 

 road. Three miles of the Rochester strip 

 are to be paved with concrete and one and 

 one-half miles to be laid with gravel. This 

 will make a total of 11 3-4 miles of road and 

 street improvemant in Royal Oak village and 

 township. 



The Rochester road is the main 1 thorough- 

 fare in Royal Oak village. The half-mile 



