MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



Xo. :i^l Manistce township, Manistee coun- 

 ty. */2-m\\e gravel road; reward, $250. 



No. 322 Bay county, 1 mile macadam road; 

 reward. $1,000. 



Xo. :;:>:-! Bay county. 1 mile macadam road; 

 reward. $1,000. 



Xo. 324 Bay county, J^-mile macadam road; 

 reward. $:><>(>. 



Xo. 32.) Bay County, 1 mile macadam road; 

 reward. $1.000. 



No. 326 Hersey township, Osceola county, 

 1 mile gravel road; reward, $500. 



No. 327 Bennington township, Shiawassee 

 county, 1 mile gravel road; reward, $500. 



No. 328 Arbela township, Tuscola county, 

 2.004 miles gravel road; reward, $1,002. 



No. 329 No. Branch township, Lapeer coun- 

 ty, 1.306 miles gravel road; reward, $653. 



No. 330 Manistee county, 1 mile gravel 

 road; reward, $500. 



No. 331 Muskegon county, .131 mile ma- 

 cadam road; reward, $131. 



No. 332 Muskegon county, 1.033 miles ma- 

 cadam road; reward, $1,033. 



Xo. 333 Arcada township, Gratiot county, 1 

 mile gravel road; reward, $500. 



No. 334 Mancelona township, Antrim coun- 

 ty, y 2 -mi\e grave! road; reward, $250. 



No. 335 Mancelona township, Antrim coun- 

 ty, 1.718 miles gravel road; reward, $859. 



No. 336 Arcada township, Gratiot county, 

 1.038 miles gravel road; reward, $519. 



No. 337 Gilmore township, Benzie county, 

 .438 mile gravel road; reward, $219. 



No. 338 Gilmore township, Benzie county, 

 .562 mile gravel road; reward, $281. 



No. 339 Otisco township, Ionia county, 1.06 

 miles gravel road; reward, $530. 



No. 340 Wayne county, 2 miles macadam 

 road; reward, $2,000. 



No. 341 Bay county, .798 mile macadam 

 road; reward, $798. 



No. 342 Bay county, J^-mile macadam road; 

 reward, $250. 



No. 343 Bay county, J^-mile macadam road; 

 reward, $500. 



No. 344 Bay county, .804 mile macadam 

 road; reward, $704. 



INGHAM'S GOOD ROAD MOVEMENT. 



Lansing and Meridian townships, Ingham coun- 

 ty, have revived the project of constructing some 

 good roads leading into Lansing. It is proposed 

 to construct a gravel road south from the cor- 

 poration line on the state road leading to Mason 

 in Lansing township, and a mile west from the 

 corporation limits south of the river. 



Meridian township has decided on adding a 

 mile of fine gravel road to the macadam college 

 road. The new road will not connect with the 

 macadam, however, as there is a short stretch 

 inside East Lansing which it will be up to that 

 city to improve and complete the road. 



Delhi is also swinging into line, the residents 

 of that township beginning to appreciate the value 

 and convenience of good roads, and are consid- 

 ering graveling at least a mile of the state road 

 this year. The state will pay $500 of the total 

 of each mile constructed. 



WASHINGTON TAKES THE LEAD. 



Convicts from the state penitentiary at Walla 

 Walla will be employed at quarries in producing 

 crushed stone for the construction of roads in 

 the various counties in Washington. Gov. Albert 

 E. Mead has appointed a commission to advise 

 with officials of counties and municipalities to 

 encourage the establishment of quarries through- 

 out the state. The commission is composed of 

 Judge H. Hanford, of the United States court of 

 western Washington ; Judge Edward Whitson, of 

 the United States court for the eastern district 

 of Washington; Samuel Hill; Joseph M. Snow, 

 state highway commissioner ; Prof. Henry M. 

 Landes, of the state university and state geolo- 

 gist ; John W. Arrasmith, state grain inspector ; 



Karl Bowers, county surveyor of Benton county, 

 and Samuel C. Lancaster, consulting engineer of 

 the federal good roads department. The commis- 

 sion will probably recommend to the legislature 

 at its next session that the state take over such 

 plants as may be established, repaying the cost 

 of the plant. The governor believes the move- 

 ment a meritorious one and he desires to provide 

 the machinery for making it general throughout 

 the state. 



VILLAGES ARE OBJECTING. 



Kalamazoo county villages are up in arms over 

 the recent road law which makes it compulsory 

 for the villages to help pay for the care of roads 

 in the townships in which they are located, but 

 prevents any of the money raised for road or 

 bridge improvements from being spent within the 

 village limits. 



Ever since the good roads agitation was started 

 in Kalamazoo county, much has been asked about 

 the working of the new township law. Recent 

 inquiry of the attorney general brings the follow- 

 ing reply : 



"Our supreme court in the case of Ryerson vs. 

 Laketon. 52 Mich., p. 509, held that it was 'per- 

 fectly competent for the legislature to provide 

 that all of the taxable propery in the township 

 should be assessed for the repairs and improve- 

 ments of highways in the township, although 

 those highways should lie wholly outside of the 

 village.' 



''In regard to any part of the improvement fund 

 being expended within the limits of the township 

 (village) we have held, owing to the fact that 

 section 10. of Act 108 of 1907, provides that the 

 improvement fund shall be expended by the town- 

 ship highway commissioner under the direction 

 of the township board, that such fund cannot be 

 expended upon the highways and bridges within 

 the village, except upon such bridges as the vil- 

 lage act places under the jurisdiction of the 

 township." 



MENOMINEE COUNTY TO HAVE ROAD 

 ENGINEER. 



With $20,000 to be spent on Menominee county 

 roads this year, both in the repair of old high- 

 ways and in the building of new ones, the county 

 board of supervisors has decided to act with the 

 county road commission in the appointment of a 

 a road engineer, who will devote his entire time to 

 laying out and building the county roads and 

 bridges. A first-class civil engineer will be se- 

 cured. Menominee county has one 'of the best 

 road systems in northern Michigan. Many thou- 

 sands of dollars have been spent on the roads and 

 they are in perfect condition. Many of the roads 

 have taken state prizes because of their perfect 

 construction, and the officials are justly proud of 

 their work. The road commission, together with 

 the members of the road and bridge commitee, 

 will leave next week for a junketing trip over the 

 roads of the county. Automobiles will be used 

 for the trip, which will take fully three or four 

 days. On this trip the officials will determine 

 just where the money will be spent and where new 

 roads will be opened. 



EATON'S GOOD ROADS. 



The several pieces of state reward road that 

 have been constructed in Eaton county in the 

 vicinity of Eaton Rapids during the past two 

 years are creating more interest than was ever 

 dreamed of when the work of putting in a 

 "trial order" of this ' quality of highway was 

 started. Highway commissioners, township 

 boards and committees from various townships 

 and cities have come to Eaton Rapids at dif- 

 ferent times to inspect the roads and all have 

 grme away feeling that the new idea in road 

 building, which was practically given a try- 

 out there as a "test case," will grow in popu- 

 lar favor in the farming community and the 

 cities and villages as vveii, until the principal 

 highways leading to every town will be built 

 on the new and more modern plan, because 

 they arc almost as good as a paved street 

 and are in fine condition for comfortable 

 travel and hauling large loads the year round. 

 There are already .several miles of these roads 



just outside of the city limits at Eaton Rapids, 

 and the experiment has proven so successful 

 and given such universal satisfaction among 

 the farmers and business men that many more 

 miles will be built, not only there but in ad- 

 joining counties. 



STONE ROADS COMING FOR WAYNE. 



"It won't be so many years before we have 

 a stone road from Port Huron to Toledo," 

 says Edward N. Hines, president of the Wayne 

 County Board of Road Commissioners. "They 

 are working this way from Port Huron, and 

 St. Clair is working both ways. Wayne coun- 

 ty is building roads to meet them, while on 

 the other side of the city the commission will 

 continue to work toward Monroe. That town 

 will be the base of operations toward both 

 Detroit and Toledo. 



"A road of that sort will run through a rich 

 country and will be a benefit to everybody. 

 The extension which we are to build this year 

 on Mt. Elliott avenue runs in the direction of 

 a good stone road in Macomb county, several 

 miles in length." 



CALHOUN'S ROAD MOVEMENT. 



The good roads project has not been lost 

 sight of in Calhoun county. Thos. Mitchell 

 has taken the contract for the construction of 

 a road in Battle Creek township. The work 

 will be done under the supervision of the State 

 Highway Department and consequently the 

 township will receive the award offered in 

 such cases. The road will be one and three- 

 quarters miles long. Two miles of road will 

 be similarly constructed in Leroy township. 



NOVEL PLAN OF ROAD MAKING. 



Highway Commissioner Stevens, of Riley 

 township, Clinton county, has hit upon a novel 

 plan for road-making. He hitches two road 

 graders side by side to a 24 horsepower trac- 

 tion engine, thus scraping the road on either 

 side at the same time and Bounding it higher 

 in the center for good drainage. A disk har- 

 row is also attached behind the scrapers, which 

 cuts the sod in the center of the road. 



Mr. Stevens says he can scrape twelve to 

 fourteen miles of road in a day at a cost of 

 about $12. He also thinks that a four or five- 

 ton roller to follow the scraper would leave 

 the road in still better shape and make travel- 

 ing with a single rig much easier. "Good 

 Roads" Earle is quoted as saying that the 

 method in use in Riley is a good one. The 

 only criticism heard is that the graders do not 

 scrape wide enough that they form a second 

 gutter on either side of the highway, and that 

 the road is a trifle too steep. 



MASON COUNTY ROADS. 



The county road commissioners of Mason 

 county have let a number of jobs for road 

 building. In Custer township a job was let to 

 William Metcalf of cutting down the hill south 

 of Custer village and across Pere Marquette 

 river. The contract calls for the moving of 

 8,000 yards at a price of 24 cents per yard. 

 During the past winter the sides of the cut 

 have shelved in making the road almost im- 

 passable. When completed there will be ce- 

 ment walls at the side of the road and the 

 beds will be gravelled, putting it in first-class 

 condition. 



A contract calling for the construction of a 

 gravel road three miles south of Scottville, on 

 the line between Eden and Riverton township, 

 was let to Charles Smith. The contract speci- 

 fies 2,000 yards at 75 cents per yard. 



A third contract for a road across Branch 

 township was let to John Shoup. According 

 to the terms of the contract Mr. Shoup will 

 grub, grade and widen the road from Weldon 

 Creek to the county line. When completed 

 the road will provide a sand and a clay high- 

 way. 



Besides these large jobs various other small- 

 er jobs were let; the sanding of a clay road 

 in Sherman township, the cutting of a hill at 

 Mills school, three miles of grading and ditch- 



