MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



munity will contribute $5,000 by subscription 

 and taxes 



The rest of the money necessary for the 

 proposed improvement will be made up as 

 follows: State reward, $6,500; subscription by 

 Edward S George and others $10000 ale 

 of bonds, $40,000 total $72 500 ' " 



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SANILAC COUNTY 

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>nnfv f H Ma 5. lett " township, Samlac 

 rew rd* r ,* dv 2. c . atln * the building ot state 



Let that a Sr^e lm y M,nf e nf a T a h mUg | l thc 



Lave been w/ft-,1 th 1 h and m ney 



hin M h h ! ghways Of Mar- 



nri vlt ?> P / VI Iley . has been spent ireely 



has the oooVst rrT'T ', th townsh 'P 



MarleUe P The ^avel lat^ b^en Soured 



on the roa. leadln th f ^ , a , 1 P ?h 



oT Marlette .)irticul!rlv w nl,,,/ th , 

 le road he'rf w 'cularly was so put on that 



and wiu 



, ^ ayne Bounty Road Commision let 



> j12 ? ? Ct D , Com P any a co ''- 

 tract calhng for 8,465 linear feet 16 feet w,de 



"u ? I Rlver road ' Jt wl11 c^P^te the 

 iS? $16,422.10, or $1.21 per square foot, 



Ihe commission figured that its cheapest pos- 

 sible char S e if it did the work itself, would 

 be * 1 ' 22 P er square foot. 



On the Mack road, where 1,630 linear feet, 

 i 6 feet wide, are needed, R. D. Baker & Com- 



pany . bid $1 ' 27 per square yard - and although 

 this is 2 cents higher than the cost as figured 

 bv the commission, the contract has been 

 signed on the part of the county. 



"We had several reasons for awarding the 



v"^ l *\ O ** people '" says Edward 

 ,' Hlnes f the ^mission. "In the first 



^ Ct ' P* pe ple Out Grand River road have 

 been shouting to have the work rushed, while 



i and f c x r ing h north ,> 



hip of Carlton has completed a pl ece 

 of state reward road, which is pronounced by 

 expert road men, the finest piece of good 

 road yet constructed in Barry county. This 

 road was begun last fall under supervision 

 of Bennett Fisher. The finishing process of! 

 putting on the top layer of gravel was done 

 under the direction of H. A. Nichols. Over 

 600 loads of screened gravel were used. Thej 

 state highway department sent Deputy Com- 

 missioner F. F. Rogers to inspect the woHc 

 and he pronounced the road to be excellent 

 The state has acepted the work, which means 

 that the $500 state reward will be allowed 

 and leaves the expense to the taxpayer of? 

 the township very light. The total cosi 

 this mile of good road was about $1,400 As 

 about $ 500 was rais <= d by subscription, only 

 $400 will have to be raised by taxation. Cer- 



tainly there could be " better investment f, r 

 the farmers of Carlton. 



firm to make . aa exact test. We wanted a 



MARQUE^COUNTV. 



ihe macadam highway being built by the 

 Marquette county road commission into Cho- 

 colay township is being extended rapidly to 

 the point it is hoped to reach beiore the 

 close of the season. This is far the most 

 valuable improvement that the Marquette road 

 commission has yet undertaken. The highway 

 between Marquette and Negaunee is a fine 

 piece of show road, and an admirable speed- 

 way for automobiles, but is not to be compar- 

 ed in utility to the road through Chocolay 

 township. The country tapped by the latter 

 highway has been wonderiully developed by 

 the farmers. Nearly all the land abutting on 

 it is cleared and under cultivation. Hundreds 

 of farmers will be benefitted by the improve- 

 ment. They can haul larger loads than pre- 

 vipusly with less wear on their horses. They 

 will save much time in getting to town with 

 their produce and getting back home with 

 their supplies. The good roads policy that 

 will give the most valuable returns will be 

 opening up new country to agricultural set- 

 tlement and improving the means of commu- 

 nication with those regions already well set- 



Construction work on the 6,600 feet of maca- 

 dam road on the North Saginaw and Fenton 

 roads in Genesee county began this month. 

 The Good Roads Construction Company, of 

 Port Huron, has the contract. 



The road is to be constructed even better 



than the state law demands, being one inch 



thicker. It is to be made with a limestone 



bottom and a hard cobble top, containing 



native trap rock and granite. Limestone 



screenings are to be used as a binder. The 



crushed stone is to be shipped in from Grind- 



.ity According to the contract, the 



3 cents a foot, the commis- 



sioners to supply the rock. 



WAYNE COUNTV 



On account of 



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tiling, so that we figured it was better to let 

 them take the responsibility of cominjj out 

 even than for us to take it 



"The Mack road deal was a little different 

 That is only a small piece of work It would 

 take us about six days to complete it after 

 we got set up To do that six days' work 

 it would take us two days to set up camp and 

 two days more to tear it down and we thought 

 the additional expense of moving our equip- 

 ment more than equalled the difference in the 

 bids. 



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AT T _ .... ^^ TTXt ,. 

 AAOJSUAW COUJM1Y. 



An important meeting of the directors of 

 tlle Board of Trade of Allegan was held re- 

 pemly. The question under consideration was 

 improvement of the highway between Allegau 

 and South Haven, notably in Lee township, 

 where four miles of very poor road deprive 

 a . . tr 'P over the distance between the two 

 c 'tie of most of its pleasures and profits, 

 '''he township of Casco has improved all its 

 roads from the Lee line to the South Haven 



be ' ween the lake shore and the county-seat, 

 a " d ls a ve , ry ' m Prtant artery of trade and 

 commer ce between Allegan and the country 



"L "* ^ * ak B e ' a as j ^ *H ' r m P ' ntS ^ 

 t^e Board of Trade recognizes this, 



and fr. that reason is willing to assist ma- 



gSSfb! "rSftSSl v^H " LeC W ?" '^ 



The board voted a sum of money 



to asslst ln bu.ldmg the road. 



BARRY COUNTY. 



The progressive township of Carlton, Barry 

 county, has completed another mile of state 

 reward road and another stretch of highway 

 has been surveyed for another proposed mile 

 and a half ' Inte rest in road building has been 

 in Barry county, and other 



, e improved grade of gravel 



roads - constructed with the fund of 25 centa 

 om ever y $1,000 assessed upon the property 

 '" the distn ct embraced, in addition to which 

 I{ . receives a state reward of $500 for every i 

 m 'i e , of /, thus ' lm P r ved. 



ee and a ha!f mile . s of the Canal 

 street road north from the city limits and 



extendln g through Mill Creek have been con- 

 Stru 9. ted ; two miles on the Plainfield road and 

 a , stnp In the village of Plainfield; two 

 miles on Knapp avenue, east from Plainfield 

 avenue; one and a fourth miles on Walker 

 avenue three miles on East Leonard street,.: 

 two and a half miles on Kalamazoo avenue; 

 one anci a half miles on each Alpine and But- 

 terworth avenues, and the same distance on 

 Clinton road in East Grand Rapids. The 

 construction crew is now engaged in finishing 

 a strip of a mile in Clyde Park avenue and 

 a ! s . a m " e on South Division street, in ad- 

 dition to the portions of both of those thor- 

 oughfares previously fixed. 



OCEANA COUNTY 



ner . Three yers ago they bonded their t^wn- 

 sh i o for $20,000 to buy machinery and 

 build crushed stone roads To date T^ey have 



built 113 ^ miles ' hav * five miles in procels 

 o f grading and prepared for the stone - 

 money on hand to finish two miles So sad 

 fied are they thal a specill eTecdon wi 1 be 

 called this summer to vote on bonding for 

 $10)00 more/all to be used in the conftruc- 

 tion of crushed stone roads 



Besides the 11-Vi miles in the township, the 

 vi 'lage of Shelby has some three mile's of 

 stone roads. In fact, it was the building of 

 tne vil 'age roads that first called attention in 

 a forcible manner to the stone road idea, 

 and 8 ave the practical argument necessary 

 the citizens of the economic 



establsh rm , W th H A mlles south of Ha stings, on the Battle Creek that enables the farmers to make wages while 



h camps for the feeding and roa d, this hill being the most difficult to climb P icki "g and hauling the stones to a point con- 

 County Road Commissioner Edward \" W '^ heaVy Io - ads " J 1 is estimat ed that the venle "t to the stretch of road to be built. 



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tened "Camp Haggerty," in honor of the go 

 chairman, John , S. Haggerty. The work has 

 been started or. Mount Elliott Road. 



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Colgrove several years one mile of macadam road in that township 

 to the Solid Rock Construction Company. 

 Tne road is to be a continuation of the maca- 



