DETROIT MICHIGAN, FEBRUARY, 1908. 







Michigan Road fiakers' 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, 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. 

 Sault Ste. Marie. 



Osborn, 



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, Nprth- 

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

 Detroit. 



COPPER COUNTRY ROAD BUILDING. 



The building of good roads throughout the 

 copper county is going to be quite general 

 next spring and summer. Plans have been 

 discussed by those in charge in the various 

 townships, and nothing remains in the way of 

 the improvements being made. It is impos- 

 sible to eliminate the amount of money which 

 will be expended for road improvements, but 

 it promises to run well into the thousands. 



It is likely that the county road between 

 Calumet and Hancock will be given attention. 



It is understood that in Keweenaw county 

 there is going to be extensive road building. 

 A road to the Ojibway mine is needed, and 

 will probably be provided before long. There 

 are also parts of the county road which will 

 come in for attention. Trap rock distribution 

 along the required places will make the road 

 almost self-built. It will be in good condition 

 by summertime if the rock is put down in the 

 spring. 



Keweenaw county has never taken advant- 

 age of the bounty offered for good road build- 

 ing. The opening up of the mines in that 

 county and the attendant increase in popula- 

 tion has made the demands more imperative, 

 and much highway work is to be undertaken 

 by the .officials in the different townships. 



While there is to lie much highway work 

 done in both Houghton and Keweenaw coun- 

 ties, particularly in the rural districts, yet the 

 money to be expended in Calumet township 

 mid in the village of Laurium promises in 

 he not far from $.")().()()(). The township au- 

 thorities have outlined a campaign of road 

 build'tig which will make the streets and thor- 

 Mim'lii'ares much better for travel than ever 

 before. 



In Laurium there will be the pavement of 

 two streets at an expense of a little more thai; 

 $IO.W>n. Besides this, the village authorities 

 are planning on macadamixinu; .it her streets. 

 1 i fact some of this work has already been 

 started, trap rock being laid before the first 

 snow fell. The roek w'll lie settled when the 

 snow is KiHie and give Laurium a line system 

 of streets. 



TOLL ROADS VICTORIOUS. 



The Supreme Court of Michigan has handed 

 down a decision in favor of the Crapo Toll 

 Road Company, of Mecosta county, and the 

 Bridge Street & Allendale Gravel Road Com- 

 pany, of Kent county, declaring that the act 

 of 1897, giving the highway commissioner 

 power to declare the rights of toll road com- 

 panies forfeited in case they fail to keep the 

 roads in repair, is unconstitutional. 



James Besson, a highway commissioner of 

 Green township, Mecosta county, having given 

 notice to the Crapo Toll Road Company that 

 a portion of the toll road was out of repair, 

 save notice under the act referred to that the 

 company must cease to take toll on that por- 

 tion of the road that is in Green township, 

 on the ground that it had abandoned its rights. 

 An appeal was taken to the Circuit Court, 

 where the authority of the highway commis- 

 sioner was sustained and a temporary injunc- 

 tion granted. An appeal by the toll road was 

 taken to the Supreme Court. In reversing 

 the decision of the lower court, the Supreme 

 Court holds the law of 1897 unconstitutional, 

 because it gives the highway commissioner 

 judicial power to determine whether toll roads 

 are maintained in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of their charters. 



"The law," says Judge Montgomery, "gives 

 the order of the toll road commissioner the 

 force and effect of a judgment unless an appeal 

 shall be taken therefrom. 



"This is plainly the exercise of judicial 

 power. The violation of the charter cannot 

 legally be made to appear except on trial in 

 a tribunal whose course of proceedings is 

 devised for the determination of questions of 

 this nature." 



The Kenc county case was parallel with the 

 one from Mecosta county. 



$20,000 FOR NEW ROADS. 



Mason county supervisors have accepted the 

 report of the road commissioners, which calls 

 for an expenditure of $2.">,0.">(t for new road 

 building and repa'rs for next summer's work. 

 If present plans are completed. Mason county 

 will be eligible for $7,000 state highway re- 

 ward at the end of next season's work. 



Since Manistee county adopted the county 

 :<(!! >d roads system, two years ago, the county 

 lias received about $1<).(!00 in state awards, 

 and fifty miles of line roads have been built, 

 .11 a cost of only about :>0 per cent of thr 

 '.ax under the old township system. 



