DETROIT MICHIGAN, OCTOBER, 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 COnniSSIONERS 



Alger County 



Chas. B. Beaulien, Grand Marais. 



Swan Anderson, Limestone. 

 ^ Alfred O. Jopling, Munising. 



Alpena County 



George W. Stovel, Hubbard Lake. 



Selden W. Flanders, Planners. 



James Briselden, Alpena. 

 Baraga County 



Simon Denomie, Assisins. 



Daniel McMillan, Baraga. 



Samuel McKircher, Michigamme. 

 Bay County 



Hugh Campbell, Bay City. 



Richard H. Fletcher, Bay City. 



Fre.d Kaiser, Kawkawlin. 



Clarence B. Chatfield, Bay City. 



Henry B. Lints, Linwood. 

 Benzie County 



Samuel Willis, Thompsonville. 



A. J. Spaulding, Benzonia, R. F. D. 

 Cheboygan County 



John B. McArthur, Cheboygan. 



Royal J. Taylor, Cheboygan. 



Mark P. Scott, Rondo. 

 Chippewa County 



Henry A. Osborn, Sault Ste Marie. 

 Delta County- 

 John Gasman, Bark River. 



Erick Anderson, Escanaba. 



Bazilio Lcnzi, Escanaba. 

 Dickinson County 



William Kelly, Vulcan. 



John J. Flanagan, Sagola. 



Edward G. Kingsford, Iron Mountain. 

 Gladwin County - 



Wallace McCracken, Gladwin, R. F. D. 1. 



W. H. McCulloch, Gladwin, R. F. D. 3. 



Arden G. Onweller, Beaverton, R. F. D. 1. 

 losco County 



John W. Waterbury, Tawas City. 



C. W. Luce, East Tawas. 

 ,Wtn. J Grant, Au Sable. 

 Iron County 



John H. Parks, Crystal Falls. 



W. H. Jobe, Palatka. 



James Long, Iron River. 

 Kalkaska County 



Louis A. Atkins, Lodi. 



Ira Eckler, Kalkaska. 



Wm. H. Marshall, Leetsville. 



Luce County 



Andrew Carlson, Newberry. 



John Fyvie, Helmer. 



Richard Hall, Newberry. 

 Manistee County _ 



John W. Bradford, Arcadia. 



James Henderson, Manistee. 



Marquette County 



W. H. Johnston, Ishpeming. 



M. M. Duncan, Ishpeming. 



J. E. Sherman, Marquette. 

 Mason County 



Frank W. Harding, Scottville. 



Robert Jameson, Ludington. 

 Mecosta County 



Willard B. Lyons, Big Rapids. 



Wilbur A. Reynolds, Remus. 



Charles Ostrander, Morley, R. F. D. 1. 



Menominee County 



George H. Haggersbn, Menominee. 



George Law, Menominee. 



Louis Nadeau, Nadeau. 

 Muskegon County 



Fred D. Hoogstraat, Ravenna. 



Charles Ellis, Muskegon, R. F. D. 7. 



Martin Ryerson, Holton. 

 Oceana County 



George C. Myers, Shelby, R. F. D. 



Claude E. Jones, Hart, R. F. D. 



Howell E. Sumner, Ferry. 

 Saginaw County 



John Ederer, Saginaw, W. S. 

 Wayne County 



Edward' N. Hines, Detroit. 



\\~ni. Murdock, Wayne. 



J. S. Haggerty, Detroit. 

 Wexford County 



Charles E. Haynes, Cadillac. 



Fred Usewick, Mesick. 



T. E. Standclift, Boon. 



GOOD ROADS BY CONVICT LABOR. 



The people of Michigan, in whose minds 

 the good-roads problem has for some years 

 been of growing importance, will wait with in- 

 terest the result of an experiment Georgia is 

 about entering upon under its new convict 

 labor system established by the last legisla- 

 fure, after years of agitation, as a substitute for 

 the executed convict-lease method long char- 

 acterized by leading Georgians of all parties as 

 a disgrace to the state. Beginning with April 

 next Georgia will enter upon a large and sys- 

 tematic plah to develop good roads through- 

 out the state by means of convict labor. Un- 

 der the old law the prison commission leased 



to private individuals all the able-bodied con- 

 victs and the rest were taken care of on a 

 state farm. Now the duties and powers of 

 the commission are greatly enlarged. It will 

 prescribe the work to be done by convicts; be 

 responsible for their health, comfort and safe- 

 keeping; as a pardon board be charged with 

 the duty of investigating their records before 

 and after conviction; it may parole prisoners 

 under its own supervision; and, if the terms of 

 parole are kept :t may recommend that the 

 governor grant a full pardon. 



It will act also r.s a state commission on 

 roads, bridges and public works, and as a com- 

 mission of revenues. Clearly, the commission 

 will have no lack -of work in looking after its 

 more than 5,000 convicts and keeping them at 

 profitable work. Road working machinery 

 must be bought and material for road construc- 

 tion obtained; a practical civil engineer and 

 three roatl supervisors are to be employed, to- 

 gVther with inspectors, physicians, wardens 

 and guards; and additional state farms are to 

 be established on which clotliing. shoes, wag- 

 pns, farming implements, road working ma- 

 chinery and provisions for the wjiole force of 

 convicts and the inmates of the 'various state 

 institutions are to be produced. 



One of the features of the new law is that 

 the prison revenues are to be supplemented by 

 a tax on "near beer," a beverage containing 

 not more than 1 per cent of alcohol, tin- 

 Strongest tipple permitted under Georgia's 

 stringent prohibition statute. Will the state 

 thus derive sufficient revenue with which to 

 work convicts to any considerable extent on 

 its own behalf, or will the commission be 

 forced to lease the convicts to private contrac- 

 tor-, as the law says it may do in its discre- 

 tion if other means fail though there is a 

 seemingly conflicting clause that forbids "their 

 lease to contractors having a personal inter- 

 est in the amount of work done by a convict 

 in a day?" 



WILL COMPLETE ROAD. 



The County Road Commission of Bay 

 cpunty has notified the county road commis- 

 sion of the county of Saginaw, that it is the 

 intention ot the county road commission of 

 Bay county to complete the balance of the 

 Saginaw road during the coming year in Bay 

 cpunty. and that it is the desire the commis- 

 sion that the commission in Saginaw county 

 take the matter up of the completion of that 

 road in Saginaw county in -order that a con- 

 tinuous thoroughfare between the cities may 

 be established in the near future. 



