MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



WAYNE COUNTY 



ROAD IMPROVEMENT 



The First Course of Stone Spread. 





Rolling the Second Course. 



Before snow flies the Wayne County Road 

 Commission expects to have all of the work 

 undertaken this year completed. The com- 

 mission has been hampered by the failure of 

 the contractor to deliver crushed stone as 

 rapidly as needed, and several times it has 

 been forced to go into the open market and 

 buy stone, at the expense of the contractor, 

 in order to keep things moving. Messrs. 

 Tlines, Haggerty and Murdock have given the 

 work in hand the closest attention and the 

 result is stretches of road which are not sur- 

 passed in any section of Michigan. The ac- 

 complishment of the Commission for the year 

 1908 will be between seven and eight miles of 

 dustless macadam highways. The Commis- 

 sion has also constructed two bridges of con- 

 crete and steel bridges that will endure and 

 be a great money saver to the townships. 



A stretch of road on Grand River avenue 

 8,500 feet in length, beginning at the city limits 

 of Detroit, was thrown open to traffic on 

 Sept. 19. Everyone who has used the road is- 

 loud in his praise of the work of the Com- 

 mission. 



The accompanying views are of the Mt. 

 Elliott avenue road, which is also being built 

 by the Commission. The views speak for 

 themselves. This stretch of road is 5,600 feet 

 long. On Gratiot avenue 3,550 feet or road 

 is being built; on Fort street 4,550 feet; Jeffer- 

 son avenue east 5,280 feet; Mack avenue 1,300 

 feet; Gratiot avenue 3,550 feet, and the River 

 road 5,280 feet, starting from the south town 

 line of Wyandotte. All of these roads are of 

 the same construction tar macadam water- 

 proof and dustproof. 



On Michigan avenue 5,300 feet of brick 

 pavement is being laid. 



Next season the rebuilding of these main 

 roads will be continued, and others will also- 

 be taken care of. 



ROAD IS ACCEPTED. 



The state highway department has approved 

 the mile and one-half of new gravel road 

 north of Birch Creek, Menomine county, and 

 the district will receive a reward of $750. 

 Menominee county is one of the few counties 

 in the upper peninsula which avail themselves 

 of the opportunity offered by the state in help- 

 ing communities to built permanent roads. 

 This season Menominee county has built three- 

 miles of macadam roads, receiving a bonus 

 from the state to the amount of $3,000, or 

 $1.000 per mile, and $500 for gravel roads per 

 mile, making a total received from the state 

 of $3,750 in one year. 



Three and one-half miles of road built with 

 the state reward was near the city of Menomi- 

 nee and the building was superintended by 

 Joseph Sherry of Nadeau, who has charge uf~ 

 all the county road work south of Daggett. 



Section of Finished Road. 



Good roads has become a hobby at King- 

 sley. Grand Traverse county, and in a few 

 years the highway leading into that progress- 

 ive village will be among the best in the 

 county. Some work is under way this fall. 

 Fred Nixson is the leading spirit in the 

 movement. 



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