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MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



IF YOU WANT 



GOOD ROADS 



BUILD 'EM WITH THE 



Port Huron Dumping and Spreading Wagons 



AND ROLL 'EM WITH THE 



Port Huron Road Roller 



Write us for Ways to Save Money in Road Building 



Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co., 



Port Huron, Mich. 



A CULVERT THAT MEETS ALL 

 REQUIREMENTS. 



Within the last four years roadbuilders 

 throughout the country have been exertmely 

 enthusiastic over the advent of a non-corro- 

 sive culvert whose merits have been actually 

 proven. The manufacturers do not ask the 

 people to take their "say so," but positively 

 prove step 'by step every claim advanced. 



For many years, there has been a steadily 

 increasing demand for a non-corrosive metal, 

 as common steel sheets corrode, and are unfit 

 for culvert purposes. After much experiment- 

 ing the Michigan Bridge & Pipe Company at 

 Lansing has succeeded in producing a sheet 

 of metal that resists corrosion better than 

 steel. In order to distinguish this material 

 from the common steel, puddled iron, charcoal 

 sheets, etc., after due consideration the name 

 "American Ingot 1'ron" was given. 



The name Ingot Iron is most correctly ap- 

 plied to this product, for it is iron made in 

 ingot form, and guaranteed to have an iron 

 analysis. 



The earliest known process of producing 

 iron, was the Catalan forge, from which was 

 developed the Cementine Process and later we 

 have the Charcoal Iron, Puddled Iron, and 

 Bessemer Steel, which leads us to the latest 

 and best rust-resisting product of iron, 

 American Ingot Iron. 



This iron is produced by an -entirely new 

 process by which the impurities in the metal 

 are reduced to a minimum. The sum total of 

 all impurities in American Ingot Iron is less 

 than is found in a Puddled Iron. 



This fact, together with the structure, and 

 methods of producing, rolling and annealing, 

 makes American Ingot Iron sheets the peer of 

 rust-resisting sheets made from iron. They 

 possess a combination of the strength-giving 

 quality of steel, and the rust-resisting quality 

 of pure iron. 



Duration tests have been made on American 

 Ingot Iron, Steel and Genuine Charcoal Iron 

 by submerging them in a saturated solution of 

 salt water containing ~ per cent sulphuric acid, 

 fur four months, with the following results: 



American Charcoal 



Ingot Iron. Steel. Iron. 



Loss due to corrosion... 271$ 541?! 409% 



Tl, have been very carefully con- 



ducted and are authentic in every detail. They 

 demonstrate mo-t forcibly the remarkable re- 

 sistance to corrosion of Ingot Iron, even ex- 

 celling Genuine Charco.nl Iron 



American Ingot Iron Sheets have been com- 



pared in analysis with the best Swedish Char- 

 coal Iron obtainable with results as follows: 



Ingot Iron 99.94% pure 



Swedish Charcoal Iron 99.s~% pure 



Prominent chemists declare that as impuri- 

 ties are eliminated from a metal, its resistance 

 to corrosion increases, and it has been demon- 

 strated that pure I'ron or Ferrite resists corro- 

 sion. Tests 'by the best chemists in the coun- 

 try have proven conclusively that the a : bove 

 statements are true. They have further dem- 

 onstrated that the impurities in American In- 

 got Iron have been reduced to a minimum and 

 that American Ingot Iron does resist corro- 

 sion in the accelerated acid tests and service 

 tests as well as the best iron sheets manufac- 

 tured in this country or abroad. 



The Michigan Bridge & Pipe Company has 

 made Purity their watchword, and positively 

 guarantee their American Ingot I'ron as made 

 today to be 99.94% pure. Compare this per- 

 centage with the percentage of the best rust- 

 resisting material made abroad and one real- 

 izes why American Ingot Iron sheets will and 

 do resist corrosion. It explains why they are 

 so eminently satisfactory to the company's 

 customers and why they till every requirement 

 and give entire satisfaction when used. 



GOOD ROADS ISSUE PROMINENT. 



The fact that the local option question is 

 to be submitted in twenty-five counties this 

 spring has overshadowed the other fact that 

 the matter of adopting the county roads sys- 

 tem is to be submitted in twenty-nine coun- 

 ties; but such is the case, and in many of the 

 counties there are active campaigns on for 

 or against the law, though with the general 

 outlook good for adding many counties to 

 the twenty-six that already have adopted the 

 county roads system. 



Good Roads Commissioner Earle naturally 

 is strongly in favor of the good mails idea. 

 He thinks the county plan, which involves the 

 raising of money by general tax on the county. 

 is much the best plan for getting good roads. 



"The old way of 'working out' the tax 

 didn't bring good roads." .-ay.- Karle. "By 

 gum! this will." So he is strongly for it. 



Following is a list showing the counties 

 that are now under the good road- system 

 and tlmse that expect to vote on the matter 

 this spring: 



Counties Under the County Road System. 

 Alger. l!ay, ("hippewa, Fmmet. Iron. Manis- 

 tce. '.M eco-ta, .Miiskcgon. \\ayne, Alpena, Hen 

 xie. Delta. (iladwin. Kalkaska. Marquettc, 

 Menominee, Occana, Wexford, liaraga, Che- 



hoygan, Dickinson, losco. Luce, Mason, Mis- 

 snakce, Saginaw 2(i. 



Counties That Will Vote on County Road 

 System in April. Alcona. Branch, Clare 1 . 

 Grand Traverse, Isabella, Lake. Midland. On- 

 tonagon. Otsego, Shiawassee. Antrim. Calhoun. 

 Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Lapeer. Montmor- 

 ency, Osceola, Presque Isle. Tuscola, Barry. 

 Charlevoix, Genesee, Huron, Kalama/.oo, Liv- 

 ingston, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Schoolcraft 29. 



These may also vote: . \llegan. Kewaygo, 

 Crawford 1 , St. Clair. Monroe 5. 



Manistee county is one of those that has 

 been long under the county law and has spent 

 more than $I.">0,()0() in the improvement of its 

 roads. The task was an especially hard one 

 in that county because of the soft, sandy soil 

 of the county. There is little or no gravel in 

 the county. 



SAGINAW MUST WAIT. 



The committee on roads and bridges of the 

 ii'iard of supervisors of Saginaw county, 

 which met recently to consider the question 

 of laying out the trunk line system of stone 

 roads, after considering the proposed action 

 looking to the perfection of the trunk line 

 system, held a conference with the prosecut- 

 ing attorney to determine the question as to 

 what date the question of bonding the county 

 could be submitted to the people. It was ad- 

 vised that the question could not lie submit- 

 ted until the legislature had passed a local 

 act authorizing the board to submit the ques- 

 tion of bonding-, and then not until the local 

 act itself had been referred to the people and 

 by them adopted, as provided by section :>(), 

 article V of the new state constitution, thus 

 making necessary two elections before the 

 county could bond for said trunk line system. 



Kent county taxpayers will have another op- 

 portunity to vote on the county road system. 



Fred A. Kaiser of Kawkawlin is a candidate 

 for re-election as county ruad commissioner in 

 Hay county. 



1'entoii township, Berrien county, will vote 

 on April i> on a proposition to bond fur 

 $:,(). noil for good roads. 



Alger county officials have discovered that 

 the county is already bonded to its limit, and 

 the proposition to bond for $'.m,()0(l for good 

 roads, which was to have been submitted on 

 April ."). has been withdrawn. 



I'ids for the contract for building five miles 

 of macadam road in Menominee county will 

 lie considered by the new county board of 

 that county when they meet on April 20. 



