DETROIT MICHIGAN, NOVEMBER, 1907. 



Michigan Road flakers' Association. 



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

 Vice-P resident; 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. 



MICHIGAN'S COUNTY 



ROAD COnniSSIONERS 



Alger County Alfred O. Jopling, Munising; 

 Charles Beaulieu, Grand Rapids; Swan An- 

 derson, Limestone. 



' Alpena County George W. Stovel, Hub- 

 bard Lake;; Selden W. Flanders, Flanders; 

 James Briselden, Alpena. 



Baraga County Simon Denomie, Assisins; 

 James McKercher, Michigamme;; Daniel Mc- 

 Millan, Baraga. 



Bay County Hugh Campbell, Bay City; 

 George L. Frank, Bay City; Richard H. 

 Fletcher, Bay City; Fred Kaiser, Kawkawlin; 

 William Houser, Bay City R F D 1. 



Cheboygan County John B. McArthur, 

 Cheboygan; Mark P. Scott, Rondo; Royal J. 

 Taylor, Manning. 



Chippewa County Henry A. Osborn, 

 Sault Ste. Marie. 



Delta County John Gasman, Bark River; 

 Basilio Lenzi, Defiance; Erick Anderson, Es- 

 canaba. 



Dickinson County William Kelly, Vulcan; 

 James H. Cundy, Iron Mountain; John J. 

 Flanagan, Sagola. 



Gladwin County William H. McCulloch, 

 Gladwin R F D 2; Wallace McCracken, Glad- 

 win, R F D 1; Arden G. Onweller, Beaver- 

 ton, R F D 1. 



losco County John M. Waterbury, Tawas 

 City; C. W. Luce, East Tawas; William J. 

 Grant, Au Sable. 



Iron County J. S. Parks, Crystal Falls; 

 James Long, Iron River. 



Kalkaska County Louis A. Atkins, Kal- 

 kaska; Ira Eckles, Kalkaska; William H. 

 Marshall, Kalkaska. 



Luce County M. E. Beurmann, Newberry; 

 Andrew Carlson, Dollarville; John Fyvie, 

 Helmer. 



Manistee County John W. Bradford, Ar- 

 cadia; James Henderson, Manistee. 



Marquette County W. H. Johnston, Ish- 

 peming; J. E. Sherman, Marquette, M. M. 

 Duncan, Ishpeming. 



Mason County Frank W. Harding, Scott- 

 ville; Robert Jameson, Ludington. 



Menominee County George Law, Meno- 

 minee; Charles Kinsella, Spalding; George 

 H. Haggerson, Menominee. 



Muskegon County Fred D. Hoogstraat, 

 Ravenna; Martin Ryerson, Holton; Charles 

 Ellis, Muskegon, R F D 7. 



Saginaw County- John W. Ederer, Saginaw. 



Wayne County Cassius' R. Benton, North- 

 ville; Henry Ford, Detroit; Edward N. Hines, 

 Detroit. 



GOOD ROADS SENTIMENT. 



The great importance of good country roads to 

 the well-being of cities, as well as to the sur- 

 rounding country, has been too long either widely 

 overlooked or given nothing like the attention it 

 deserves. Bad highways often make it a saving 

 for farmers to cart their products to a nearby 

 station rather than to a further off larger and 

 better city market, when a good thoroughfare 

 would have made the latter course more profitable 

 in which case both city and country residents 

 would profit. Bad roads often mean more than 

 double cost in marketing farmers' products, for 

 on a good road twice as many trips a day are 

 generally practicable and much heavier loads can 

 be transported, thus effecting great economy in 

 time, labor, horseflesh and wagon wear. 



The overshadowing importance of railway and 

 water transportation for the shipment -of products 

 from primary collecting centers to the great mar-' 

 kets of the country and world has led, until com- 

 paratively recent years, to the costly neglect of 

 the great value of and the growing necessity for 

 good country wagon roads. 



State Highway Commissioner Horatio S. Earle 

 has done much to develop a healthy good roads 

 sentiment in Michigan, and legislation of -which 

 he was one of the most urgent promoters will 

 result in Menominee county receiving several 

 thousand dollars in the course of a year for the 

 betterment of the thoroughfares of the county. 

 Menominee Herald. 



INGHAM GOOD ROADS HALTED. 



The good roads district in Ingham county in 

 which the cities of Lansing and East Lansing 

 were included will have to be reorganized. Some 

 legal complications were encountered through the 

 board of supervisors, and rather than have a legal 

 fight it was decided to start all over again. It 

 will halt the progress of the good roads movement 

 in Ingham county for many months, however. 



E. V. Chilson, secretary of the Business Men's 

 Association, says: "If the people of the town- 

 ships adjacent to Mason want to tie to that place 

 instead of Lansing we will not ask them to come 

 in. We will offer Williamston a chance to come 

 in, but anyway there will be a good roads district 

 organized, consisting of Meridian and Lansina 

 townships and the cities of East Lansing and 

 Lansing. If the others do not want to come in 



with us, they can build their own roads later with- 

 out our assistance, for 1 do not believe the people 

 of any of the townships will be content to haul 

 their crops over bad roads and in deep mud long 

 after they once understand this proposition. We 

 will make it a campaign of education as well." 



STONE ROADS PAY. 



Advocates and friends of the stone road have 

 multiplied in Tuscola county since the beet haul- 

 ing season began, and if there is a single person 

 or animal connected with the transportation of 

 goods over the state road who would not hold up 

 both hands or kick up two heels in a vote favor- 

 ing its extension, he or it has not made the 

 thought known. 



Positive evidence of its value to the farming 

 community have been many, for almost without 

 exception teams hauling heavy loads' to Caro have 

 been straining and sweating when they struck the 

 new road, and by the time they reached the sugar 

 factory have been dry and handle the burden with 

 perfect ease. The reduced strain on wagons, 

 harness and horses impressed all beholders, and 

 the saving in a single year in wear, tear and feed 

 would amount to more in dollars and cents than 

 any individual- of them all paid for the section of 

 road. 



The road itself is standing its first hard wear 

 perfectly and does not show a sign of giving way. 

 Fall rains cut the sand borders to some extent, 

 but these will be repaired in the spring and seeded 

 to grass, when that trouble will be largely over- 

 come. 



$20,000 ROAD FUND. 



There will be $20,000 at the disposal of the com- 

 missioner of highways next year for road im- 

 provements in and around Calumet, Houghton 

 county. 



The Calumet & Hecla Mining Company assists 

 the township greatly in macadamizing. It looks 

 after practically all its own roads, and Calumet 

 avenue and the Red Jacket town road are evi- 

 dences of the work of the big corporation in this 

 respect. 



With a nucleus of about $20,000 to work with, 

 more than has ever been granted the commis- 

 sioner of highways before in any one year, the 

 prospects for better roads in the township are 

 bright indeed. 



The board of supervisors of Mecosta county 

 have voted to submit the county road question at 

 the next general election in April. Only a short 

 time ago the supervisors were almost solidly 

 against the submission of the question on the 

 ground that good roads would benefit the city 

 folks more than they would the farmers. 



