MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



GOOD ROADS PROGRESS 



IN MICHIGAN STATE 



ALGER MAKING GREAT PROGRESS. 



Sat building was 



made in . the past season. The 



;y road between Trenary and the Delta 

 county line about three miles long is now 

 mpleted. This is a tine piece of 

 road the building of which will be of immense 

 adv;>: the people of southern Alger 



county, to their nearby Delta county neigh- 

 bors and to many who in the future will avail 

 their '.irtunity to visit Alger 



county in automo : 



Two and one-half milt:- of the Mur: 



ham county road have also been macad- 

 amized with the Eben rock and surfaced with 

 Marquette trap rock. In all eight and one- 



;<!s have been so 



treated, making 1; - :hat have no supe- 



few equals. 



A GOOD ROADS LESSON. 

 There w -;iven the 



day in behalf of i: od roads in Grand 

 'in of the crrinary 

 :;ient in favor of t an ex- 

 f the wc.rk in the terri; ^uous 



ity. On that day a family who_ 

 live- -ever i :: the city ran out of 



eery line, and the 

 alk to the city and 



carry back what v. - the roads 



had that it was impossible to get a 

 team through them. This might seem a little 

 f.-.r-fttched. but i; fact that 



I the business men 



of Traver .v the condition' of 



- that lie between the woman's farm 

 the city. 



Oakland. County. 



A meet:- r January " in Pontiac is 



n the 

 - 

 hetwi - hway 



vt in P that date, 



g under the au.-pi 



per\ i- r;- will be : re at that time 



'. endeavor to 



Muskegon Ccunty. 



road, hither- 

 'i higl-.way and extend- 



. ere n r.h a. 



unty 

 - ,vay. 



The A exter 



the \\tr.it~ i t'.;c The in- 



north th' 

 the v: 



will probably be 

 in the 



InghEm Ccunty. 



are waking 



fact that f>' TV road- are 



much farmers are tak- 



:hem 



tomobile-. Fifty 

 per cert of the machr here th. 



by farmer-. A- there are 

 -ravel be .vnship an at- 



u> buy a bed in Rives and 

 el here over the electric road. 

 An effort so be mi-. ~,e a 



porta" crusher ard ut ; ; : Vim- 



e in the farmers' fields in 

 has the rn- 

 i reurtati' n the w< r 



n. Onondaga. Henrietta and other 

 ken the lead in this im- 

 vement. 



Wayne County. 

 The second mile of good road east out of 



MR. HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER 



CRUSHED SLAG 



20 Lighter & 20% cheaper than Crushed Stone. 



We want to 

 show what 

 we have and 

 will pay all 

 of your ex- 

 penses to 

 Detroit and 



return 



Letus know 



when you are 



coming. 



VERNON M. PIERCE 



U. S. Office of Public Roads Says 



" Basic Slag not only forms a physical 

 bond but a chemical reaction takes place 

 in them when subject to conditions which 

 exist in the foundations of roads, and re- 

 sult in the cementing of all the pieces 

 thus forming a sort of concrete foundation 

 and therefore such material makes an ex- 

 cellent foundation." 



Our first years 

 record produc- 

 ing and selling 



SLAG 

 52.OOO Tons 

 used in build- 

 ing good roads 



in 1910 



6 l.OOO Tons 



went into 



Concrete 



Construction. 



THE FRANCE SLAG COMPANY 



414 Ford Building DETROIT, MICH. 



outh has been completed, extending pasl 

 James Joy's house. That constructed a year 

 ago suffered considerably frcm the heavy loads 

 of gravel drawn over it with the heavy road 

 engines while the ground was soft. When 

 the final dressing and leveling is done in the 

 spring it will be a fine stretch of first-class 

 road. . 



Macomb County. 



By agreement of the Macomb County super- 



- abi-ut .-even miles of new concrete pave- 

 ment on the lake shore road and six miles on 

 the Gratiot road are practii red. Lake 



-hip once voted to bond for road building, 

 the vote \va- declared illegal on a techni- 

 cality. People of the western part of the 

 U wnship opposed the improvement, but it is 

 now very probable that the t wnship will vote 



- and carry out the proposed road im- 

 provement, which me tine highways 

 irom Detroit to the Bath Cit\ - . 



Charlevcix County. 



- meeting was held 



at East Jordan at which it was brought .n:t 



that the only soh:ti<m prr bleni there 



will be -i -. this material being there 



readily available. Application has been made 



for a state award road in Jordan Township 



leading into East Jordan, and there is money 



enough in the improvement fund to buy the 



materia'. Po spects are good for further im- 



'ents. Many of the supervisors are in 



c< unty roads system, and 



it is expected the people will be asked t' 



:he question in the spring. 



Houghton County. 



Portage township board will, at the ;: 

 .'pring caucus of the townsbip in April, rec- 

 ommend that the peop'e authorize a large ap- 

 propriation for road purposes. This will be 

 an innovation, for although the 

 law provides for this action, it has never been 

 taken advantage of in Portage township. 



Mencminee Ccunty. 



:nty Engineer Sawyer, of Menominee. 

 states that about seven or eight miles of road, 

 beginning at a point about 1 2miles from the 

 center of the city of Menominee, will be prac- 

 tically rebuilt as a new road. The other portion 

 will be repaired and placed in such condition 

 that it will be as good as new. 



It is a questii n whether the county will go 

 in for state awards or not. If this is done it 

 will be necessary to tear out all of the culverts 



on the entire stretch of road and replace them 

 with stone. It is not known whether this 

 I be practicable because the extra ex- 

 pense the road commissioners would have to 

 go to would mean almost as much as the state 

 award. 



Bay County. 



The county road commission have decided 

 to put at least 75,000 gallons of oil on the 

 reads in Bay county next year. During the 

 past two or three years oiling the roads has 

 been tried in several sections as an experiment, 

 and the plan has proved so successful in build- 

 ing up the thoroughfares that next year many 

 more miles than ever before will be oiled. 

 Last year there was only 35.000 gallons of oil 

 used on the county roads. The oil costs about 

 $3.16 for 100 gallons and 75,000 gallons will 

 cost $2.730. More than that amount may be 

 used, however, for the committee provided "that 

 75,000 gallons should be the minimum. 

 Alger County. 



During the season just closed two and one- 

 half miles of the Munising-Chatham road, in 

 Alger county, have been macadamized with 

 Eben rock and surfaced with Marquette trap 

 rock. In all eight and one-half miles of the 

 road have been treated, making a highway that 

 has no superior and few equals. A good de- 

 mand is made for Marquette trap rock for 

 road surfacing and the plant producing it has 

 no trouble in disposing of its product. 



NO FORTUNE IN HEMLOCK. 



"Making fortunes as the lumber disappears?" 

 says Thornton A. Green of Ontonagon, one of 

 the leading lumbermen in the upper peninsula. 

 "Well, hardly! Just now it looks as if most 

 of the dealers in northern Michigan, especially 

 the hemlock men, were pretty close to bank- 

 ruptcy, and I guess that most of them would 

 be glad to sell out for 60 cents on the dollar. 



"One of the main reasons is because we 

 cannot cut our hemlock and market it against 

 the competition of the southern yellow pine 

 men with any profit. At that, too, they can 

 cut as much in a month as we can in a year. 

 One prominent lumberman in Wisconsin of- 

 fered to give the lumber on his million acres 

 of timberland to anyone who would cut it off 

 and remove the stumps so that the land could 

 be used agriculturally, but he found no tak- 

 ers." 



