DETROIT MICHIGAN, JANUARY, 1908. 



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 COfiniSSIONERS 



Alger County Alfred O. Jopling, Munising; 

 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; 

 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. 



ALGER COUNTY ROADS. 



The work of surveying for the new Alger 

 county road is to continue throughout the 

 winter, until completed. The surveying party 

 is now in camp along the line. A. O. Jopling, 

 chairman of the Alger county road commission, 

 expresses himself as well pleased with the 

 progress that has been made. He advocates 

 the continuation of the survey, as does the 

 engineer of the commission, L. E. Adams. 

 "The advantages of the winter survey are very 

 great in hastening the completion of the road," 

 says the former. "By getting the surveying 

 done now, the estimates made and the grades 

 determined in the spring, if the work is com- 

 pleted by that time, the surveys can be pub- 

 lished and bids received. The contracts could 

 be let so that work could be begun early, and 

 by pushing it during the summer jt could IK 

 practically completed." 



The road is to be eighteen miles long, con- 

 necting Munising and Chatham. The total 

 cost is estimated at $100,000, for which sum 

 the county has been bonded. There are some 

 cuts as great as twenty-nine feet to be made. 

 The grading is estimated at from 7,000 to 

 10,000 cubic yards to the mile. Portable tracks 

 will be used. The contract for the first four 

 and one-half miles was awarded last summer 

 to George Coates, of Munising. ' He began 

 work at once and pushed the work far into the 

 fall. 



The road will be of much commercial im- 

 portance both to Chatham and to Munising. 

 At present there is no road to Chatham from 

 Munising except by going to Au Train an-1 

 from there to Slapneck and then over to Chat- 

 ham, a distance of between 20 and 30 miles. 

 As a consequence the road is almost never 

 taken. 



"SPEND BETTER, NOT MORE." 



The Illinois highway commission has a slo- 

 gan which is carrying weight with the farm- 

 ers of that state in the campaign for goo'l 

 roads. The slogan is "Spend better, nol 

 nore, for good roads." The commission is 

 teaching the fanner the way to get the best 

 roads without wasting a dollar of the high- 

 way fund. Out of 102 farmers' institutes in 

 Illinois, 100 have accepted the commission's 



offer to send good roads experts to tlieir 

 meetings to discuss the road question and il- 

 lustrate to the farmer how such roads arA 

 built. 



Circulars containing printed suggestions of 

 topics to be discussed by the speakers and 

 the audiences at the institute gatherings are 

 being mailed to the farmers of the state. 

 Many of these suggestions deal with the de- 

 tails of scientific road and bridge building. 



Designing of road bridges will be made a 

 special feature of the commission's work. The 

 farmers will be told and shown how to build 

 these structures at the right price. The spe- 

 cial value of reinforced concrete for this class 

 of work will be emphasized by all the lecturers. 



The corps of lecturers selected to peregrin- 

 ate among the farmers' institutes includes the 

 following: A. N. Johnson, chief engineer of 

 the state highway commission; Clifford Older, 

 C. F .Terhune, T. H. McDonald, W. S. Gear- 

 hart and H. E. Bilger. 



The Illinois highway commission has three 

 members, President E. J. James, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Lafayette Funk of Bloom- 

 ington, and Chief Engineer 'A. N. Johnson. 



MERCHANTS FAVOR GOOD ROADS. 



Kalamazoo merchants are feeling good over 

 the condition of the roads leading into that 

 city, which were a prominent factor toward 

 increasing the holiday trade. This fact has 

 caused the business men of the city to begin 

 talking about the effect on trade good roads 

 would make the year around. 



A well known merchant of Kalamazoo says: 

 "I have watched things, and I know that coun- 

 try customers are slow in coming to the city 

 often when the roads are in bad condition, 

 and from the experience in other cities it 

 is evident that the one big drawing card to- 

 induce people froni the rural communities to 

 come to town is good roads. I believe that 

 the business men of Kalamazoo are coming 

 to realize this, and it would not surprise me 

 to hear that the Commercial Club committee 

 recently appointed will take the matter up 

 and push it. Good roads mean better 

 business." 



A strip of road, planned thirty years ago,, 

 which will shorten the distance between Mil- 

 turd and Brighton by about one mile, is about 

 tn be completed. When work on the high- 

 way was begun a legal battle followed, which 

 caused operations to be suspended. The road 

 builders have found the abutments for a bridge 

 which were built thirty years ago and will use 

 them in completing the structure. 



