MICHIGAN 



ROADS ^FORESTS 



DETROIT, MICH., OCTOBER, 1910. 



Michigan State Good Roads Association 



P. T. COLGROVE, Hastings, President. N. P. HULL, Diamondale, Vice-President. 



THOMAS SATTLER, Jackson, Secretary and Treasurer. 



GOOD ROADS EXHIBIT AT 

 FAIR A WINNER. 



The Good Roads exhibit ;it the State Fair 

 this year was one of its greatest successes, 

 and too much praise cannot he given to Vin- 

 cent V. Green, superintendent of the machin- 

 ery department who conceived the idea and 

 carried it out in such a splendid manner. The 

 i xrn'bit wa- considered by many to be the 

 chief attraction of the fair. The air-ship flights 

 were even passed up by the farmers who 

 crowded about to see the scientific building of 

 roads. And when the rain came at the end 

 f the week the interested spectators stood 

 "lit in the wet until work ceased. As an edu- 

 cational exhibit its effects will be far-reaching, 

 and it should be continued every year. 



Praise is also due to the manufacturers of 

 good roads machinery who co-operated with 

 the fair management at no small cost to them- 

 ~elves. 



The exhibit was under the direct supervision 

 nf George D. Marshall, who was sent to De- 



The Port Huron Road Roller at Work at the Michigan State Fair Grounds. 



The Stone Crusher at Work. The Pile of Material in Foreground is Crushed Slag 



Furnished by France Slag Company. ^ 



troit by the Public Roads Department at 

 Washington. Had the department sent a doz- 

 en men they would have been kept busy an- 

 -wering the questions of the thousands of 

 farmers who were seeking information. The 

 questions were of wide range, showing how 

 keenly the farmer is interested in the subject. 

 Perhaps one of the best developments of the 

 exhibit was the bringing home to the farmer 

 of the fact that material for building perma- 

 nent roads is right at his door, so to speak. 

 It was a common expression, "Why we have 

 any amount of stone like that you are using; 

 but we haven't known what to do with it." 



The rock crusher was as great a center of 

 interest as was the road rollers and other ma- 

 chinery. 



Until the rain interfered everything went like 

 clock-work from the hauling of the rock in 

 wagons to the crusher, dragged by a traction 

 engine, the crushing of the rock, the hauling 

 of the crushed material to the road bed. The 

 different courses of the road building were 

 kept well ahead so that a practical demonstra- 

 tion was being .given every minute. Mr. Mar- 

 shall says: 



"The demonstration was an entire success. 



