DETROIT. MICHIGAN, MAY, 1907. 



Michigan Road Hakers' Association. 



"W. W. Todd, Jackson, President; P. T. Colgrove, Hastings, First Vice-President; C. C. Rosenbury, Bay City, Second 

 Vice-President; E. N. Hines, Detroit, Secretary; E. B. Smith, Detroit, Treasurer. 



Board of Governors: Royal T. Taylor, Cheboygan; D. L. Case, Detroit; Frank F. Rogers, Lansing; W. W. 

 Trayes, Hancock. 



What Will the Harvest Be? 



All newspaper talk to the contrary notwith- 

 ' standing, the present legislature will go into 

 history as doing more for the people than any 

 other legislature that ever convened in Michi- 

 gan. And the most important bills passed, 

 and to be passed, are the good roads bills, 

 even though little attention is being paid to 

 them by the public press. 



A primary election law that is used one day 

 in a year or two, to put some one out of office 

 1>y electing some one else to take his place, 

 has. and will, occupy columns of space in the 

 press of the state, for weeks, while bills that 

 will, stop a 25 per cent waste of road taxes, 

 and an equal reduction, on taxes that amount- 

 ed last year to $4,030,058.61 for repairs of 

 roads which are used every day in the year, 

 just barely receives mention. 



However, such accomplishment of good 

 roads legislation was never approached by any 

 legislature that ever met in this state, or any 

 other state, since there was a United States 

 of America. To summarize : 



First The county road law has been 

 amended, and there is no question as to its 

 constitutionality. It is also amended to per- 

 mit any township in a county under the county 

 road law to build State Reward Roads and to 

 draw aid from the count}' road fund, as well 

 as the state road fund. 



Second A law that allows township high- 

 way commissioners to build or repair bridges 

 or roads where it docs not cost over $300, 

 without going to the trouble and expense of 

 advertising for bids, provided, it meets with 

 the approval of the township board. 



Third The law has been repealed whereby 

 taxpayers could get a rebate on road taxes if 

 they used wide-tired wagons. 



Fourth A wide-tire bill has been introduced 

 with fair pn>spect> of becoming a law. 



Fifth A bill providing for the formation of 

 good roads districts of any combination of 

 townships, villages and cities, and permitting 

 them to work under the county road law. 



Sixth A bill which does away with the 

 statute labor tax .-yMi-m and substitutes there- 

 for cash road taxes has passed the senate and 

 will undoubtedly pass the house. It does 

 away with pathmasters and road districts. 



Seventh A bill that provides for the em- 

 ployment of 250 convicts at quarrying and 

 crushing trap rock for roads, and providing 

 that any township, village or city in the state 

 can buy it at fifty cents a ton, delivered at the 



nearest railroad or marine station, is receiving 

 very careful consideration of a favorable na- 

 ture. 



It is probable that every one of these will 

 become laws, so the "harvest will be" what 

 will make this legislature, a noted one for the 

 good it did good roads. 



State Reward Roads. 



The following applications for state rewards 

 for roads have been filed since Dec. 1, 1907: 



150 Manistee county, 1 mile gravel road, 

 reward $500. 



151 Manistee county, l l / 2 miles gravel 

 road, reward $750. 



152 Manistee county, 1J/2 miles gravel 

 road, reward $750. 



153 Orient township, Osceola county, 1 

 mile gravel road, reward $500. 



154 Chesaning township, Saginaw county. 

 2.499 miles macadam road, reward $2,499. 



155 Elmwood township, Tifscola county, 3 

 miles gravel road, reward $1,500. 



156 Sand Beach township, Huron county, 

 1.041 miles macadam road, reward Si, 041. 



157 Cheboygan county, 2.55 miles "C" 

 road, reward $1,912. 



158 Pine Grove township, Van Buren coun- 

 ty, l l /2 miles gravel road, reward $750. 



159 Morton township, Mecosta county, 2 



miles gravel road, reward $1,000. 



160 Bay county, 24-5 miles macadam road, 

 reward $2,800. 



161 Bay county, 2 miles macadam road, re- 

 ward $8,000. 



102 Kalkaska county, 1.214 miles gravel 

 road, reward $607. 



1(53 Kalkaska county, 1.156 miles gravel 

 road, reward $57S. 



164 Kalkaska county, 1 mile gravel road, 

 reward $500. 



105 St. Joseph township, Berrien county, 

 .642 miles macadam road, reward $642. 



166 Benzonia township. Henzie county, I 

 mile gravel road, reward $500. 



167 Aimer township, Tuscola county, 1 

 mile macadam road, reward $1.000. 



168 Xewlield township. Oceana county, J4 

 mile gravel road, reward $125. 



169 Xewlield township. Oceana county, J/ 

 mile gravel road, reward $250. 



170 Xewlield township- Oceana county, y 2 

 mile gravel road, reward $250. 



171 X'ewfield township. Oceana county, y> 

 mile gravel road, reward $250. 



172 Manistee county, .626 mile gravel 

 road, reward $313. 



173 Manistee county, .502 mile gravel 

 road, reward $251. 



174 Manistee county, .776 mile gravel 

 road, reward $388. 



175 Saginaw county, .991 mile macadam 

 road, reward $991. 



176 Saginaw county, .594 mile gravel road, 

 reward $397. 



177 Manistee county, 1 2-3 miles gravel 

 road, reward $834. 



178 Shelby township, Oceana county, 1 

 mile macadam road, reward $1,000. 



179 Shelby township, Oceana county, 1 

 mile macadam road, reward $1,000. 



180 Millington township, Tuscola county, 

 1 mile gravel road, reward $500. 



181 Millington township, Tuscola county, 

 \ l /2 miles gravel road, reward $750. 



182 Sparta township, Kent county, 1.02+ 

 miles gravel road, reward $511. 



183 Sparta township, Kent county, .957+ 

 miles gravel road, reward $4'88. 



l s:i Sparta township, Kent county, 1.004 

 miles gravel road, reward $502. 



185 Sparta township, Kent county, 1.06 

 miles gravel road, reward $530. 



186 Mancelona township, Antrim county, 2 

 miles gravel road, reward $1,000. 



187 : Ellington township, Tuscola county, 1 

 mile gravel road, reward $500. 



188 Eaton Rapids township, Eaton county, 

 Yi mile gravel road, reward $25(1. 



189 Eaton Rapids township, Eaton county, 

 l /2 mile gravel road, reward $250. 



190 Eaton Rapids township, Eaton county, 

 l /2~\~ mile gravel road, reward $262. 



191 Henrietta township, Jackson county, 1 

 mile stone road, reward $1,000. 



192 Henrietta township, Jackson county, 1 

 mile gravel road, reward $500. 



193 St. Joseph township, Berrien county, 

 .58 mile macadam road, reward $580. 



194 Paris township, Kent county, 1 mile 

 macadam road, reward $1,000. 



Shiawassee's Finest Road. 



The finest country road, showing without 

 dcnibt the best farms in Shiawassee county, is 

 the stretch of about a mile on the east and 

 west roads four miles north of Durand that 

 takes in the farms and houses of Bert Collins, 

 Charles Long and \Va>hington Bingham. The 

 road itself is as smooth as a race track, as 

 clean as a boulevard, and is shaded by trees. 

 The lawns leading from the houses to the 

 road are also clean and well kept, as is 

 everything about the places mentioned. 



