MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



TURNING ATTENTION TO CITY ROADS 



When it conies to making an appeal for 

 good roads. Commissioner Bryant of the Good 

 Roads Commission of Kalamazoo county, is 

 there with the goods. The comin -- 



his recently to the members of 

 Kalamazoo city council, to whom he appealed 



tier road.\ in the city. 



"Dirt roads can be made into excellent roads 



at a small cost." said Mr. Bryant. "If you 



men will arrange some scheme to make 



good as the country reads 



we are constructing, we will have some tine 

 - out of the city and through the country. 

 If we cculd only get one road a year, it 

 w uld be only a .-hort time before Kalamazoo 

 would be well supplied with excellent streets. 

 an take the dirt streets and make splen- 

 did reads of them. There are systems that we 

 can adopt that would put the roads in excel- 

 lent condition. Several inches of the surface 

 should be taken iff. the r< ads oiled, and a few- 

 inches of sand and gravel would do the busi- 

 You would have a good hard road, the 

 equal to any paved street in the city." 



PLANNING LONG ROAD. 

 Tim Mitchell, the man in charge of the 

 building of the stretch of state reward road 

 five miles we-t of Battle Creek, Calhoun 

 county, ha- compjeted another mile of the 

 as far towards Battle Creek as Urban- 

 I'alt. His contract calls for the completion of 

 the five mile- by May 1. 1!H1. and he hopes to 

 be done ling before that time. An effort is 

 under way between Battle Creek and Kalama- 

 i improve the entire stretch of road be- 

 tween th<-'-e two cities, and plans may mate- 

 rialize. 



Michigan Road Notes. 



Am ther mile of road east frcm the siding 

 to the Cornwell farm and settlements in Clare 

 county has been completed. It is intended to 

 make the final link next spring which will 

 unite Mann Siding with the eastern part of 

 Hatton and the west part of Arthur townships. 



The Calumet township, Houghton ccunty, 

 brard is planning the extension of the town- 

 highway at Centennial north to Wolver- 

 ine The pn posed extension will be on a di- 

 rect line if right of way can be secured from 

 f the mining companies. 



John \V. Ederer, the new county road com- 

 ner of Saginaw county, has appointed 

 Charles Gottschalk as his deputy for two 

 Mr. Gi ttschalk served in a like capac- 

 ity during Mr. Ederer's first term, two years 

 Alpheus Green was "commissioner dur- 

 ing 1909 and 1910. 



Deputy State Highway Commissioner F. F. 

 rs has accepted the mile stretch of new 

 road built out of Athens this fall. He compli- 

 mented Township Highway Commissioner 

 Eitniear on his work. 



While inspecting a three-mile stretch of 

 gravel road in Mecosta county. State Highway 

 Commissioner T. A. Ely viewed one of the 

 largest sink holes that has bothered Michigan 

 :n several years. It is just east 

 of Twin hikes and almost in the middle of a 

 mile cf read to be completed next year, which 

 will prove the terminus of the read accepted 

 by the commissioner. The sink hole is over 

 100 feet across and 30 feet deep. Already 2.500 

 loads of dirt have been dumped into it. but at 

 least 1,000 more will be needed to fill it up. 



Manton experienced a wood famine this fall 

 all on account of bad roads leading into that 

 town. The roads were so bad it was practi- 

 cally impossible to haul the wood to town. 



Pomona Grange, of Pipestcne township. 

 Btrrien county, has declared in favor of em- 

 ploying prison labor in the building of high- 

 ways. 



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