MICHIGAN 



ROAM 



Vol. 5. No. 11. 



DETROIT, MICH., MAY, 1909. 



Price: Ten Cents 



OfffiPHICfiL R'EPRESEnTflTlON OF FfZSULT OF GftMPftlGH Ifi 

 FOR flDOPTIOn OF THE. 60UHTY ROflD SYSTEM BY THE GOUflTiES, 



COMMISSIONER. HORHTIO EARLB-. 



AMOUNT OF TERRITORY UNDER THE COUNTY KURD SYSTEM, i6.izs.873 



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AMOUHT OF TERRITORY NOT UNDER THE. BOUNTY Roao SYSTEM. 19,735,711 ACRES. 



1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 i i i i i i M i i i i i 1 1 i i i i i ITTTI i i i i i i i n n 1 1 LI i i I I 1 1 I I I IJ_LL 



OF TERRITORY UNDER THE BOUNTY RORD STSTEM, $872, jso, 195. 



1/fiLUflTlON OF TEffRITOftT NOT UNDER THE BOUNTY ROAD SYSTEM, $70Z.07Z.S75 . 



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OF fllGHIGfln 1 TERRITORY UNDER. THE 6OUNTY ROAD SYSTEM 

 OOHPflRED WITH THE TOTHL flffCfl OF 3EVER.HL EflSTERN ROfiD 6UILDIH6 STATES: 



TOTAL AREA OF GONN., Mass., R. I., 



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16.748,000 ACRES. 



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MICHIGAN TERRITORY UNDER COUNTY RORD SYSTEM, I6.TZ3.S73 



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MMIV .Michigan people seem to think that 

 they must go east to see good roads. 



Michigan has today enough state reward 

 el and slone roads to reach from Detroit 

 to Port Huron, Detroit to Saginaw, Detroit 

 to Lansing, Detroit to Kalamazoo, and from 

 Detroit to Toledo, and will have enough more 

 by July 1 next to make another road from 

 Lansing to Grand Rapids. 



Four hundred miles of good road is going 

 in the first four years. 



Following is a tahle of amounts appropri- 

 ated by different states and amount of state 

 reward road at the present time: 



Miles 

 Amt. of money. of road. 



Xew Jersey $2,475,441 1,380 



Massachusetts 9,250,000 750 



Connecticut ::,, ION. (ion 600 



Pennsylvania 7,500,000 725 



New York I4,22:i.r.'ii:, 1,700 



Michigan 360,000 350 



The above table speaks for itself. Yet 

 Michigan people are not satisfied. Michigan 

 has nearly one-half of her territory under the 

 county good roads system and over half of 

 her valuation under 'that system, and in less 



than five years every county in the state will 

 have adopted it. 



The area in Michigan now under this system 

 is as great as the area of Vermont, Massa- 

 chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Dela- 

 ware. 



The good roads wagon is in motion, let 

 everybody push and it will soon cover the 

 state. 



Seven counties voted for county road sys- 

 tem this spring: Kalamazoo, Grand Traverse, 

 Ontonagon. Gogebic. Schoolcraft, Ogemaw 

 and Genesee. Kalamazoo and Genesee will 

 have a great influence on the other southern 

 conservative counties. 



