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for several years, but has always met opposi- 

 tion in the county board, with the result that 

 the county bridge across the Menominee river 

 is a useless structure and the county is the 

 loser to the amount of many thousand 

 dollars. 



The territory adjoining the proposed road 

 is well adapted for farming and would have 

 been settled long ago had there been any 

 road by which to reach the lands. The taxes 

 now paid on these lands are practically 

 nominal, while if the lands were sold to set- 

 tlers and improvements made on them the 

 taxes would increase and both the township 

 and the county would be the gainers. 



The policy followed heretofore to obstruct 

 movements toward such improvements that 

 would benefit the whole county is nothing 

 but short-sighted and penurious, and it is a 

 pleasure to see that the county authorities 

 governing such improvements have set their 

 seal of approval upon the movement. 



MARQUETTE COUNTY. 



Gust Fredin, who has the contract for the 

 improvement of the main highway for a dis- 

 tance of two miles west of the Ispheming city 

 line, has finished the job. When he was 

 given this contract he was also awarded the 

 contract for similar work on a part of the- 

 Witch Lake road, west of Republic. This job 

 has also been finished. 



The improvements on the Xegaunee end 

 of the main thoroughfare between Negaunee 

 and Marquette is finished. The job is the 

 most extensive one that the city of Negaunee 

 has done in some years. A stretch about a 

 mile and a half in length has been improved. 

 It extends from the old cemetery to the Carp 

 river bridge. Formerly this portion of the 

 road averaged about sixteen feet in width, but 

 it has been widened to an average of twenty- 

 three feet. 



In several places grades have been reduced. 



The surface of the road has been raised on 

 an average of oVer six inches. Some 4.000 

 cubic yards cf gravel was used and over 10,000 

 yards of filling was put in. The job cost in 

 rhe neighborhood of $3,000. The steam roller 

 will be operated on the road for nearly a 

 month. 



DELTA COUNTY. 



The Delta Contracting Company has been 

 awarded the contract for building a macadam 

 road between Bark~River and Schaffer, that 

 company having the lowest bid that was filed. 

 The meeting of the Bark River township board 

 was marked by a sharp wordy encounter be- 

 tween Road Commissioner John Gasman and 

 Supervisor Philip Labre in which the super- 

 visor was charged with paying out the town- 

 ship's money in an effort to induce an outside 

 contractor to bid for the work and when the 

 outside bid was presented it was found to 

 be over $4,000 above the proposal submitted 

 by the Delta Contracting Company. The 

 work is to be started at once and completed 

 as quickly as possible by the local concern. 



Road Commissioner John Gasman and En- 

 gineer D. A. Brotherton after a conference 

 with the members of the board of Bay de Noc 

 township. Delta County, decided to improve 

 the Portage road, which was recently adopted 

 as a county road and which extends for a 

 distance of one and a quarter miles. The work 

 is to be started immediately and finished as 

 quickly as possible. 



tered upon largely through voluntary subscrip- 

 tion, the fact that the last two miles were built 

 at public expense has demonstrated that the 

 expense has not been burdensome to anybody, 

 and that money is well expended when wisely 

 used in building good, substantial roads, such 

 as this one surely is. 



A. T. Overman, the contractor, has com- 

 pleted the mile of state road between the East 

 river bridge near Cass City and the Tuscola 

 county line. Now that this mile is completed, 

 the building of the mile of state road running 

 one mile south from the Bethel church has 

 begun. It will probably be finished in six 

 weeks. 



TUSCOLA COUNTY. 



Commissioner Henry Herman reports the 

 crmpletion of the stone road to Pattison's 

 Corners and nearly one-fourth mile west, a 

 job that has been under way for three years 

 past and a subject of interest to all business 

 interests of Caro and the farmers north of 

 town. This road is an object lesson to all 

 who pass over it and while the work was en- 



CALHOUN COUNTY. 



Bedford township, Calhoun county, has ac- 

 cepted the proposition of C. W. Post of Bat- 

 tle Creek to provide $25,000 toward a five mile 

 strip of road extending west from Battle 

 Creek city. The township pays the balance 

 except $500 per mile which the state stands. 



The township board of Hiawatha township, 

 Schoolcraft county, at their last meeting ap- 

 propriated $1,200 to be used for road improve- 

 ments, cf this $600 will be used for crushed 

 stone and $600 on the piece of road between 

 Tie Hill and the M. & L. S. Ry. 



BAY COUNTY. 



The Bay county road commissioners have 

 adopted a resolution to extend the Beaver 

 road one mile and voted a similar extension 

 for the Saginaw road. 



Chairman Hugh Campbell and Engineer 

 Bloomshield report that they recently made a 

 tour of inspection of several county highways 

 now in the course of construction and found 

 the work unsatisfactory in some instances. 

 The contractors in charge have been ordered 

 to bring the roads up to specifications. 



