MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



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1.062 miles gravel road. Re- 

 ward 



Coe Tp., Isabella Co., 1 mile 



gravel road. Reward 



Coe Tp., Isabella Co., 1 mile 



gravel road. Reward 



South Arm Tp., Charlevoix 

 Co., ] mile gravel road. Re- 

 ward 



South Arm Tp., Charlevoix 

 Co., 1.06 miles gravel road. Re- 

 ward 



Saginaw Co., .068 mile macad- 

 am road. Reward 



Saginaw Co., .191 mile macad- 

 am road. Reward 



Kalkaska Co., 1.004 miles gra- 

 vel road. Reward 



Rutland Tp., Barry Co., 1.27 

 miles gravel road. Reward.... 

 Lyons Tp., Ionia Co., l /2 mile 



gravel road. Reward 



Lyons Tp, Ionia Co., y 2 mile 



gravel road. Reward 



Aimer Tp., Tuscola Co., .502 

 mile gravel road. Reward 



Sand Beach Tp., Huron Co., 

 1.064 miles macadam. Reward. 

 Bay Co., .274 mile macadam 



road. Reward 



Bay Co., 24 mile macadam road. 



Reward 



Cheboygan Co., .100 mile "C" 

 road. Reward 



Bedford Tp., Monroe Co., 1.004 

 ir.lles macadam road.. Reward. 



531 

 500 

 500 



500 



530 

 68 

 191 

 502 

 635 

 250 

 250 

 251 



1,064 



274 



750 



75 



1,004 



WAYNE COUNTY ROAD MAKERS. 



Edward N. Hines, John S. Ilaggerty and 

 \\ m. Murdoch have been appointed members 

 of Wayne county's good road committee. All 

 . three are energetic and enterprising young 

 men, who take a deep interest in good roads. 

 That Wayne county roads will become a joy 

 and delight to farmers and others who travel 

 over them is assured with men at the helm who 

 take an interest in the work. They will have a 



Edward N. Hines. 



handsome fund to back them as well. Mr. 

 1 lines is the secretary of the Michigan Road 

 Makers' Association. He is also the head of 

 the Speaker Printing Company, of Detroit. He 

 is well qualified for. his new position, as are 

 also Messrs. Haggerty and Murdoch. Mr. Hag- 



The above cut is taken from life. Samantha 

 "jest had to hev sum flour," so Darius drove 

 the team as far as he could without getting 

 stalled, and then took a bag of grist on his 

 shoulder. On his way he passes the shade- 

 tree, cider-jug .convention, which has been 

 called for the purpose of working out the road 

 tax, and it isn't hard to judge from the grim 



expression on his face, that he's saying to him- 

 self: "Make much uv it, yer time's short. Nex r 

 year ye'll be paying taxes, by Jinks, 'stead uv 

 drawin' pay fer takin' vacation. Earle's fixed 

 ye, -all right. Ye'll keep yer plows an' yer road 

 machines an' yer scrapers in yer own fence 

 corners, an' set under yer own shade trees, at 

 yer own expense, not mine, by jinks." 



gerty is a brickmaker and Mr. Murdoch is a 

 farmer who has had experience in road build- 

 ing. 



The Board of Wayne County Supervisors 

 has appropriated for road improvements as fol- 

 lows: 



Michigan avenue, running through the town- 

 ships of Springwells, Dearborn, Nankin and 

 Canton, $16,000. 



Grand River avenue, through the townships 

 of Greenfield, Redford, Livonia and Northfield, 

 $16,000. 



Fort street, through Ecorse township, $10,- 

 000. 



Gratiot avenue, to Macomb county line, $10,- 

 000. 



Mt. Elliot road, $8.000. 



River road, from City of Wyandotte to Mon- 

 roe county line, $5,000. 



EARLE'S PLAN BEARS FRUIT. 



The enthusiasm of State Highway Commis- 

 sioner Earle, of Michigan, for convict crushed 

 trap rock has already borne fruit, and commer- 

 cial enterprise has taken hold of the matter. 

 Not that the commissioner has given up his 

 plan at all; on the contrary he is positive that 

 tin- legislature of 1909 will put it into operation. 

 However, a company has been incorporated 

 under the laws of Canada to be known as the 

 Georgian Bay Trap Rock Company, with offi- 

 eea in Detroit. It has purchased the quarry 

 from which Cleveland took the trap rock to 

 surface the boulevard in that city some seven 

 years ago, and the quality of the stone speaks 

 for itself when it is known that no repairs 

 have been needed on this boulevard since it 

 was surfaced. It is believed that it is as line 

 trap rock as was ever quarried. This corn- 

 pan}- is in shape to begin shipping stone, or 

 \ ill be very soon, and it is understood that it 

 expects to ship to Port Huron, Saginaw and 

 I'.ay City as well as to the Commissioners of 

 Parks and Boulevards of Detroit, and the 

 Wayne County Road Commissioners. 



Officials of the Duluth, South Shore & At- 



lantic Railway Company have interested them- 

 selves, and private capital is forming a com- 

 pany for the quarrying and crushing of trap- 

 rock for the surfacing of roads. Their quarry 

 will lie located some little distance from Mar- 

 quettc and they expect to be in active opera- 

 tion before long. Their idea is to have a load 

 of stone for cars which go north located with 

 coat from Bay City and the Saginaw Valley, 

 and which at present are returned empty. This 

 makes the coal freight proposition an expensive 

 one, and it is believed there will be consider- 

 able profit at both ends of the line in having 

 the trap rock crushed to ship down in these re- 

 turning coal cars. 



EDUCATE ROAD BUILDERS. 



The office of Public Roads of the United 1 

 States, Department of Agriculture, proposes to 

 inaugurate a campaign of education on the 

 building and maintenance of roads, through the 

 medium of the newspapers. Statistics recently 

 compiled by the Washington bureau office show- 

 that there are nearly 2,500,000- miles of public 

 roads in this country, only a small percentage 

 of which are improved. Necessarily it will be 

 many years before a large percentage of this 

 great mileage will be improved and in the 

 meantime it is of the utmost importance that 

 we make the best possible use of facilities at 

 hand. An expenditure of nearly $80,000,000 per 

 annum is being applied to the maintenance of 

 these roads, and it is safe to say that the loss 

 from improper methods is well up in the mil- 

 lions. 



"There arc certain principles which underlie 

 the art of road building and maintenance, and 

 certain methods known to many engineers and 

 road builders which are easily understood and 

 as easily put into practice. Unfortunately, these 

 simple principles and methods are not univer- 

 sally known. 



Marquette County Road Commissioners have 

 completed plans to improve all of the highways 

 in that county. The improvements will be of 

 a permanent character. 



