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MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



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, Flanders. 

 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. 



Fred 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 Lenzi, 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. 



Wm. 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. Haggerson, 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. 



Wm. Murdock, Wayne. 



J. S. Haggerty, Detroit. 



Wexford County 



Charles E. Haynes, Cadillac. 

 Fred Usewick, Mesick. 

 T. E. Standclift, Boon. 



MICHIGAN ROAD NOTES. 



The good roads system will not be voted on 

 in Lenawee county at the spring election. The 

 committee of the board of supervisors, to 

 whom the petitions of the several cities, vil- 

 lages and townships in the county asking for 

 its submission were referred, reported that 

 they had examined the petition and found they 

 had not received enough signatures of bona 

 fide freeholders to require the submission of 

 the question to the voters. 



The county road system will be voted upon 

 in Calhoun county at the spring election. 



The supervisors of Allegan county have 

 voted against the submission of the county 

 road system proposition at the spring election. 



Representative Sanders, of Ingham county, 

 proposes to revive the old time and oft recur- 

 ring agitation in favor of working short time 

 prisoners in county jails on the roads of the 

 state. He would have the chain gang system 

 or any other effective system of preventing 

 escape and would have the work done under 

 the direction of the highway commissioners 

 of the several townships. 



Basing the proposal upon the resolutions 

 adopted at the recent state grange meeting-, 

 charging that motor vehicles are the principal 

 item of damage to country roads, Representa- 

 tive T. A. McNaughton, of Kent, is preparing 

 a bill to introduce in the Michigan legislature 

 to tax automobiles to help keep main roads in 

 country districts in repair. 



Wayne County Road Commissioner Hincs: 

 "There is no doubt that advertisements are 

 read. We advertised for rollers to use in con- 

 struction work. Yesterday we received a 

 bunch of specifications from a Cleveland house 

 turning out printers' rollers. The firm thought 

 that we were in the printing business." 



Representative Whelan, of Shiawassee coun- 

 ty, has introduced a bill in the Michigan legis- 

 lature repealing the law creating the state 

 highway commission. 



Twenty-one petitions asking that the proposi- 

 tion of submitting the county road system to 

 the voters of Barry county were received by 

 the board of supervisors, and the question wiK 

 be voted on in the spring election. 



The supervisors of Cheboygan county voted 

 down a resolution providing for the submission 

 of a proposition to the tax-payers to bond the 

 county for $75,000 fr good rads. 



The Arenac county board of supervisors de- 

 feated by one vote a proposition to bond the 

 omnty for the purpose of building roads. 



At a meeting of the Battle Creek township. 

 Calhoun county, board the proposition . was 

 discussed of rebuilding the road from the old 

 Kane mill three and a half miles south of the 

 city of Rattle Creek, south for two miles to 

 the township line tn connect with the new 

 road recently built in l.eroy to\vnshit>, under 

 the state award nlan. Mr. Van Valin states 

 that it is hoped that all of the money neces- 

 sary for this construction could be raised in 

 Battle Creek township, and the work carried 

 on without state aid. 



The supervisors of Sauinaw county have or- 

 dered the building of the following roads: 



Town Line road (Bridgeport and Spaulding 

 townships), one mile; Washington road (Bue- 

 na Vista township), one and one-half miles; 

 East Street, road (Spaulding township), one 

 mile; Deerfield road, one-half mile; Genesee 

 road (Bridgeport village), one mile; James- 

 town road, one mile; Gratiot road (Richland 

 township), one mile; Center road (Chesaning 

 township), one and one-half miles; Cross road, 

 one mile; Kochville road, one mile; Shattuck- 

 ville road (Saginaw township), one mile; Wat- 

 rousville road, one mile. 



According to City Engineer Roberts' report 

 to the board of public works of Saginaw, the 

 total cost of macadamizing several streets in 

 Saginaw in connection with county stone roads 

 is as follows: State street. Bond to Bay, $12,- 

 885.32; State street, Bay to Mackinaw. $7,- 

 505.10; Court street, Bay to State, $8,901.09; 

 Brockway, Wright street to west city line, 

 $5,611.05; East street, Washington avenue to 

 south city line, $5,749.26; Sheridan avenue, 

 Holland to south city line, $19,432.48; William- 

 son street, Gallagher to Jefferson, $3,051.47; 

 Washington avenue, Sixth street to east city 

 line, $5,504.80. 



The Michigan College of Mines will ask the 

 legislature for an appropriation of $5,000 for 

 improved roads and sidewalks. 



CALHOUN TO VOTE ON GOOD ROADS. 



The supervisors of Calhoun county have 

 granted the petition to submit the question of 

 the adoption of the County Road System to 

 the taxpayers at the spring election. It is be- 

 lieved that the proposition will carry when it 

 is submitted. 



PEOPLE WANT GOOD ROADS. 



There has been considerable talk since the 

 adjournment of the board of supervisors of 

 Schoolcraft county about calling a special 

 meeting to re-consider the county road matter. 

 There are a great many persons who want the 

 proposition submitted to the voters at the 

 coming spring election and who do not seem 

 satisfied with the result of the vote at the 

 county board meeting. Some of the reasons 

 given for calling a special meeting are that 

 several of the members have since talked with 

 their constituency and they can see no harm in 

 letting the voters have a change to determine 

 what they want along this line. They feel that 

 the electors are entitled to the plebescite in 

 this matter and therefore, as there is not much 

 added expense in submitting the proposition 

 at a regular election, they feel that it would 

 not be out of the way to call a special sessio^l 

 to tke the matter under consideration and have' 

 it discussed more full}'. 



A FARMERS' MOVEMENT. 



The farmer alone is the victim of bad roadi< 

 He is the only citizen who is absolutely and 

 entirely dependent upon the public highways 

 for the transaction of his business affairs: his 

 convenience; his comforts and his necessities* 



The good roads movement is the fanners' 

 movement, and until the farmer himself real! 

 izes this fact he will be at the mercy of the 

 demagogue in politics who fattens his own in- 

 terests by preaching "economy" to the agri- 

 culturist; he will be at the mercy of the rail- 

 roads that profit by making rates which the 

 farmer cannot avoid by patronizing competing 

 lines, for the railroads know that he must haul 

 his produce to the nearest shipping point 

 rather than the best shipping point; he wil' 

 be at the mercy of the local merchant whCi 

 places the market value upon the farmer's! 

 products to his own advantage because hel 

 knows that the bad roads will not permit thtl 

 farmer to take his grain to any other market | 

 The farmer will do best by himself and hisii 

 posterity that lends his influence and aid tC 

 this, one of the most urgent improvements. 



