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DETROIT MICHIGAN, DECEMBER, 1907. 



Michigan Road flakers' 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. 



MICHIGAN'S COUNTY 



ROAD COnniSSIONERS 



Alger County Alfred O. Jopling, Mtmising; 

 Charles Beaulieu, Grand Rapids; Swan An- 

 derson, Limestone. 



A!pena 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; 

 Basilic 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. 



THE CEMENT SHOW. 



Portland cement and its products made a 

 formal bid for recognition from the general 

 public at the Coliseum in Chicago the week 

 of December 15. So rapid has been the growth 

 of this infant industry that in less than fif- 

 teen years the output of Portland cement in 

 the United States has increased a hundred- 

 fold. It is only about ten years since dry- 

 tamped cement blocks were introduced, and 

 but five years since machinery has been avail- 

 able for- pressing true wet concrete into blocks 

 that will make hollow walls, approved by 

 architects and engineers. 



Reinforced concrete construction has also 

 developed at a phenomenal rate, and many 

 are the systems of uniting concrete and steel 

 to form the structural parts, even to the floors 

 and roofs of buildings of every class. "Fire- 

 proof," "everlasting," "strong," "economical" 

 are the adjectives which most abound in the 

 literature and talk handed out by the exhibi- 

 tors of everything from fence posts to facades, 

 while some of the work shown actually bore 

 evidences of that beauty of appearance that 

 is to be expected when concrete is recognized 

 for other qualities than its cheapness, and we 

 become willing to spend a part of the saving 

 in embellishing this otherwise ideal material. 



For several years past exhibits have been 

 held at various places by budding organiza- 

 tions of cement makers and users, the one 

 just closed being officially the First Annual 

 Cement Show, but in conjunction with tin- 

 fourth annual convention of the Northwestern 

 Cement Products Association. The attend- 

 ance was very good, and much business was 

 transacted all during the week. The lectures 

 covered the entire field and told of much work 

 which could not be exhibited, notably, the 

 work of the United States Reclamation Serv- 

 ice, by E. Perkins, and Concrete and the Pub- 

 lic Highways, by A. M. Johnson, Illinois high- 

 way commissioner. 



The conclusion gradually dawned on one 

 th..t even for road construction concrete is 

 all right, and will soon supplant other ma- 

 terial for everything from conduits to curbing 

 and paving blocks, not to mention fence posts, 

 telegraph poles and railroad ties. 



WAYNE COUNTY ROADS. 



Edward X. Hines, chairman of the county 

 road commission of Wayne county, says that 

 tin 1 hoard has finished the survey of two miles 

 of road on Grand River avenue, starting at 

 the city limits in Detroit, and has forwarded 

 plans to the state highway department at 

 Lansing. 



It will be a "Class E" macadam road, six- 

 teen feet wide, with four feet shoulders on 

 each side, making a total of twenty-four feet 

 in width. 



The top course will be cemented with a 

 tarred preparation, making the road practically 

 dustless, and when approved by the state high- 

 way department a reward of $2,000 will be 

 paid by the state to Wayne county, to be 

 placed to the credit of the county road com- 

 mission for further road building purposes. 



The board of Wayne county road commis- 

 sioners is now preparing similar plans for two 

 miles of road on Michigan avenue, which will 

 also merit the state reward of $2,000 when 

 constructed and approved. 



STONE ROADS NOT EXPENSIVE. 



The one and one-quarter miles of state re- 

 ward road built out of Muskegon on the Cedar 

 Springs road has been approved by State High- 

 way Commissioner H. S. Earle. 



"It is a good piece of road." declared the 

 state commissioner. "It is a good piece of 

 work, really a remarkable piece of work for 

 a county just beginning to build state roads. 



"Xow what the people want to know," he 

 continued, "is whether or not, aside from the 

 quality of road secured, it pays to build roads 

 according to state specifications. Let me tell 

 you: 



"It cost Muskegon county, exclusive of the 

 cost of the stone itself, $1,085 a mile to build 

 the road out on the Cedar Springs road. The 

 state will pay back $1,000 of that amount. 

 That means that it has cost the county just 

 $85 a mile to haul the stone from the cars, 

 put it on the roadbed, roll the stone down, 

 and do all the work of building the road. 

 And yet there is an idea prevalent all over 

 the state I have heard of it here as well 

 as in other counties that it costs a tremendous 

 lot to build roads up to state specifications, 

 when as a matter of fact this example right 

 here in your own county proves that the state 

 pays back several times the extra cost." 



Clare county supervisors voted only $2.000 

 to be expended on the mirin roads of that 

 county next year. 



