MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



there was shipped out 47,673 cubic yards; in 

 1907, 97,746 cubic yards. As the quarries be- 

 come opened doubtless this output will be 

 greatly increased. The crushed stone thus 

 prepared is, by law, furnished free to the town- 

 ship highway commissioners. 



The law provides for the manufacture of 

 various other articles than crushed stone. 

 Nothing, however, beyond making crushed 

 stone has been attempted from the fact that 

 it was not found practicable to do anything 

 else. The question of furnishing tile drain 

 was investigated to some extent but found 

 to be impracticable. 



In conclusion, it can be said, that after a 

 practical trial of over two years of this plan, 

 it has worked successfully from every stand- 

 point and there is a very strong sentiment for 

 opening additional quarries in other parts of 

 the state .thus increasing the areas of prac- 

 tical distribution. 



ROAD NOTES. 



The Chamber of Commerce of Muskegon 

 has appointed a committee on good roads. The 

 committee will co-operate with the farmers and 

 the county road commissioners and it is hoped 

 to better the conditions of the rural thorough- 

 fares. 



Livingston township is the first township 

 to take the step in the direction ot the con- 

 struction of permanent roads in Otsego county 

 and thereby making a move to attract the 

 trade to Gaylord and enhance the value of that 

 place as a market and shipping point. The 

 township has purchased a stone crusher which 

 will be put into operation this fall. 



Work has been done on the short hill be- 

 tween the city of Hillsdale and Ash-tee-Wette 

 beach which has been in poor condition. The 

 cut has been widened, gutters for drainage have 

 been excavated, and a quantity of road ma- 

 terial placed on the hill. Work in reconstruct- 

 ing the Bacon street road leading east of 

 Hillsdale, in Adams township has also started. 

 This latter work is being done under the 

 surveys and regulations of the new state road 

 law. 



T. A. Farrand, who was appointed by Hora- 

 tio S. Earle to secure names to the "good 

 roads" petition in Eaton and two other coun- 

 ties, states that he does not believe the prop- 

 osition will carry in Eaton county. It is easy, 

 he says, to secure signatures to the petition 

 in the cities and larger villages in the county, 

 but the rural districts are turning it down to 

 the extent that the idea will probably be de- 

 feated so far as Eaton County is concerned. 

 In the several townships where they -have a 

 few miles of the "state reward road" it is easy 

 to get signatures and the farmers are in favor 

 of it, but in other localities it is a hard prop- 

 osition to get them interested enough to put 

 their names on the petition. 



The proposition to bond Higgins Township. 

 Roscommon County, fur the sum of $9,500 to 

 be used in constructing gravel roads was al- 

 most unanimously adopted at the special elec- 

 tion for that purpose, there being only four 

 dissenting votes out of the 98 that were cast. 



Charles E. Haynes, of Cadillac, has been 

 elected chairman of the Wexford County road 

 commissioners. T. E. Stanclift, of Boon 

 Township, and Fred Usewick, of Antioch 

 Township, are the other members of the 

 board. Much business of importance was 

 transacted. The board has made a trip 

 through Cedar Creek. Clam Lake and Haring 

 Townships to decide as to the roads in these 

 townships that should be rebuilt, and also for 

 the purpose of learning the amount of money 

 that the commissioners will ask the super- 

 visors to provide by a special tax to be levied 

 this fall. 



On Clyde avenue, out of Grand Rapids, 

 there is a piece of road improvement work 



being done that presents a very peculiar sit- 

 uation. The state good roads employes are 

 doing the work, while the city of Grand Rap- 

 ids is also seeing to a portion of it. 



It appears that the township line runs down 

 the center of the street. The good roads peo- 

 ple decided that the street should be improved 

 and accepted the west half of the thorough- 

 fare as their task. The city couldn't allow 

 the other half to remain unchanged. So the 

 city's and the commission's employes may be 

 seen working side by side. The street will 

 also be improved several blocks south from 

 Hoagland avenue. 



J. Frank Cook, county road commissioner 

 of Livingston County, has been deposed by 

 State Highway Commissioner Horatio S. 

 Earle for alleged drunkenness. Cook, whose 

 home is in Fowlerville, was once before 

 dropped by the good roads department, but 

 through the importunities of his friends was 

 reinstated. It is allegecl that while Cook was 

 sunoosed to be working for the state he was 

 in jail in Howell, having been arrested on the 

 charge of drunkenness, but was released later 

 after paying a fine. 



The Chamber of Commerce of Monroe has 

 taken up the subject of good roads for that 

 county and will push the question from now 

 on. The result, it is hoped, will be the build- 

 ing of fine highways in all sections of the 

 county. 



The Rice Lake road from Lake Linden to 

 Rice Lake will not be built this year as an- 

 nounced. A year ago in the neighborhood of 

 $600 was raised for the purpose of building 

 this road and it was thought that more could 

 be raised this summer, and perhaps get the 

 townships to do something toward the work. 

 The townships would not assist and the peo- 

 ple will not subscribe any more money. 



There was a great deal of opposition to the 

 new road. Sportsmen claimed that if the road 

 was put in good condition there would be so 

 many go to the lake that the hunting and fish- 

 ing would be destroyed, while if it was left as 

 it is, a hard road to travel, very few would 

 undertake the trip. There is talk now of see- 

 ing what can be done toward putting the Gay 

 road in good condition. 



WILL EFFECT BIG SAVING. 

 The General Machinery Company, of Bay City, 

 has had its plant steadily in operation all season. 

 The company is now manufacturing a tree and 

 log saw, which promises to fill a long-felt want 

 of lumbermen, as well as others in a wooded 

 country, for a method of cutting down trees and 

 also sawing trees into logs less tiresome and 

 slow than the ax and crosscut saw by hand. The 

 "tree and log saw" is operated by a small gaso- 

 line motor. In a demonstration a pine log twenty- 

 one inches in diameter was sawed through by a 

 saw propelled by the motor in two minutes and 

 forty seconds. The entire outfit weighs only a 

 little over 300 pounds and can be easily handled. 

 It will effect a vast saving, not only in time, 

 but in economy, as well as in stumpage, as it 

 will cut down trees closer to the ground than 

 is done under existing methods. It is calculated 

 that this saw outfit will accomplish as much in 

 a day in sawing down trees and converting them 

 into logs as twelve to fifteen men by the ordinary 

 methods. 



W. E. Wooding, lumberman with offices at 

 the Soo, is optimistic regarding the outlook for 

 the trade. He states that business is getting 

 steadier and it is his belief it will continue so. 

 With the elections going right, as he believes 

 they doubtless will, Mr. Wooding expects to see 

 business go forward by leaps and bounds. He 

 has returned from Little Current, Blind river 

 and other neighboring towns, where he put 

 through several lumber deals. Mr. Wooding 

 said : "I have done more business in the last 

 ten davs than during the entire season so far. 

 My orders during the last few days have amount- 

 ed to about 6,000,000 feet." 



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POWER COMPANY'S GROWTH. 



The Stearns Lighting and Power Company 

 is making changes to its plant in Ludington 

 which will double its capacity. The improve- 

 ments include enlarging the power house, the 

 installing of a new generator and a new engine 

 of 1.000 horse power each. The addition to 

 tht building when completed will be 26x70. 

 The plant will then have a capacity of 2,000 

 horse power and there will be a constant load 

 on the dynamos of 500 horse power for motors 

 alone. Since taking over the business of 

 manufacturing electricity, the Stearns plant 

 has grown rapidly. It is only four years ago 

 that the plant's capacity was doubled. The 

 entire capacity of the plant when the Stearns 

 people took it over was about 175 horse power. 

 Besides the improvements already mentioned 

 a power line was run to Scottville this year 

 and motors have been established in the city's 

 pumping station and in the grist mill. 



