MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



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To those 9O,OOO Taxpayers who want a 



Road Culvert Which Can Not Rust 



GRAND TRAVERSE'S FIRST REWARD been before and that is that there should be have donated froni their pits all the gravel that 



ROAD. a four-X (XXXX) road every rod of the way Highway Commissioner Bradshaw, of Custer, 



The first mile of state reward road built in from Old Mission to Traverse City. The prbb- needs to repair the road. William Dawson also 



Grand Traverse county was constructed by leni demanding solution is that of quickly getting has agreed to donate 300 loads from his pit. 



Whitewater township. The improvement is on the fruit from the orchard to the car door. j t j s not the intention of those who are push- 



tbe main highway running east from Williams- There is but one sure way to solve this trans- ing this good road movement to lay down after 



burg to Barker Creek. The road building was portation problem, and that is a level, hard, wide the completion of their work this year, but go 



done last fall by W. A. Worden, township high- roadway from Old Mission to the heart of Trav- after it harder than ever next year, and the next 



way commissioner, at a total cost of $1,339.98, erse City. With such a roadway big automobile year, until all the roads leading into Sandusky 



and the amount of award received was $540, mak- trucks could be used to pick up the cases of will not be a subject of adverse comment as they 



ing the net cost to the township $799.98. berries and cherries and deliver them without have been for many years past. 



It is a gravel road and was improved at an transfer at the car door. With such an arrange 



expense less than the state average for gravel ment the fruit grower would have but to haul Hmm-TTniM'S NFW ROAHS 



roads, which is $1.500. The several "items mak- his filled crates to the main road instead of to 



ing up the total cost are as follows: the dock as now. Furthermore an automobile . Owin * to . the probability that meetings of min- 



Fngineering expense $ 46 49 would make the trip from Old Mission to Trav- '"K companies and concessions from farmers and 



Grading 453,'s3 erse City and pick up its load on the way in an others **** necessary before rights of way will 



Gravel 9744 hour, whereas the boats require several hours. b , e obtainable for certain proposed new roads 



Rolling 1200 With a good road to Traverse City the larger through Calumet township, Houghton county it 



Drains 36.51 fruit growers would provide themselves with ls " ol 1'kely that the township board will take 



Culvert 14.00 trucking automobiles and haul their own prod- ^ a f tlon thls summer on the road petitions that 



Labor 679.68 ucts, picking to within sixty minutes of the time have . Ue " presented. 



the car door was to be sealed preparatory to II . \ s '^^ however that the matter will be 



Total.. $1,339.98 starting on its journey to the central market. straightened out next fall or winter, so that the 



The total length of the road is 5 420 feet or s talk of a good road from Traverse City b . oard wl11 be m a PsUion to act on the peti- 



,4,1 fee! more tlan n^e, which fact" accoUs to Old Mission is no idle dream. It is one of the t.ons "f^*^* "J"^" ***' roads 



for the extra $40 received by the township. The V* " eeds of the P"* tlme a " d - h'ood th" thj rtft ** 



gravel used as a covering was obtained at an av- One pet ition is for a roadway running east from 



erase cost of seven cents a cubic yard. CORRFCTING THF DTI<?T NTITSAMCF Copper City through sections 9 and 10 to the 



The taxpayers of the township were so well IS A NCE ^ Rock ^ va " n North 56 R 32 . 



thaTat tTe town'meetin 51 "^" I - :mPr --^~ -- ^^ - - * I"-' : -*?-"-. "JL " ' u One petition is for a road on the line between 



voted increased appropriations 



re-elected Air. Worden higliv\a^ cummi^on-mci, i.v. n^m me .jinm-iuiu wn \^u. ui muictim. i ut Stil another netition 



and thus put themselves on record as favoring fluid b for use on the Midland road for three- road from section J6 to , he line between sec tions 



quarters of a mile west of the city limits of Bay and d from thero , th lake sho 



1 his season three strips of roadway are being City, which is now well lined with suburban res- R anKe r )6 North 33 



improved. The mile built last year is being ex- idcnces, and where the dust problem has been the ' 



tended toward Williamsburg and the picture source of complaint for many years. The con- 

 above shows the grade made near the John Ken- stain traffic over this road wears the limestone 

 nedy farm and shows the teams hauling the surface to an almost impalpable powder and all 



uu, win One petition is {or a road on the line between 



leetmg held this spring they asphaltiim as one of its components has been sections l and 2 on thc north boundar of the 



opriations for better roads, received by County Clerk Sweeney of Bay coun- count H North 56 and Ra 33 



rden highway commissioner, ty. from the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. The Sti ,j another petition has been received for a 



ROAD BUILDING IN BENZIE. 



Inland township, Benzie county, is m'aking a 



gravel ToV'tlie'wheertrackV'^hTsccond^mprove- day"icngrif"there""is L any' "breeze at" aiC'the" 1 resr- re . ( : ord * or hi g hwa y improvement. Last fall 

 ,_u ,..r \i7.'ii: i _ _i -.i- _ .i- _i _. *ii .' _ _ j i_ j i_ , , i , mile anil a nnartor nf roan WAV 11 ear the rnrnii 



ment is north of Williamsburg, and the third will dents are exposed to dust to such an extent that m ' le and , a <5 uarter of roadway near the former 



be west of that village. they can scarcely have their windows opened vlllage of Inland was tampikfd and covered wtih 



Whitewater township is entitled to great credit during the summer months. gravel, after which it was rolled with a home- 



for what it has already accomplished and is ac- "I believe this stuff, if it's anywhere near what ade cenl eHt roller. The result of this was that 



complishing in the matter of road improvements, it is represented, will solve more than the dust the township received an order on the state treas- 



She is helping 'to open up the territory to the problem on our stone roads," says County Clerk urer for $625 ' I he taxpayers were pleased with 



northeast of Traverse City. The road from the Sweeney. "If it acts as alleged, it will save more the deal because the .y fou . nd themselves at the 



city to Five-Mile corners, to Acme village, in repairs than it costs. One of these ingredients is dose ot the transaction with both the road and 



through Bates, Williamsburg, Barker Creek and an asphaltum product and this is said to soak in the mon ey. The total cost of the improvement 



on to Rapid City and Alden is the most im- and hold the particles of stone together. The ^as $ 2 . 200 - Thls year Inland township will use 



portant highway leading to the northeast. Every stone road dust is practically a cement and it is abo . ut $1 ' 500 for the P ur P ose of bettering its roads, 



rod of it should be good road. Acme township said that after a half dozen applications of this ""J mone y wlU be used about the township at 



is improving a mile of this highway between the sprinkling fluid, the road is hard and wears but such P laces as !t appears the most good can be 



villages of Acme and Bates. Whitewater tax- slightly. The amount of dust that is made and donc ' 



payers have improved nearly two miles near the blown away every year is quite an item in the 



village of Williamsburg; Clearwater township maintenance expense account, and if this fluid MACADAM ROAD COMPLETED. 



tavpayers in Kalkaska county are improving a holds the stuff on the road, it will save money. -T)IP rirsf Lrl ; 



mile near Barker Creek and the Kalkaska county If it goes further, and binds the limestone, it will ei , her Houghton o *Kewn^counties has bee 



road commissioners are improving a mile and a make a pavement as good as that in the city." l" g ,, ," l r $%"??'. Z,T t " '"J w *! 



n 



been 



half between Barker Creek and Rapid City. By 

 the close of this year six miles of this highway 

 will be improved. Furthermore there will b 



completed and a stretch of about two miles, ex- 



MAKING A START AT <5AwnTTCK-v tending from Mohawk in a northerly direction is 

 AT SANDUSKY. now ready for traffic The length of the new 



The condition of the roads leading into San- highway is 2.2 miles, for which the state will pay 



,000 for each mile constructed in 



, , , ,. , ,. . , . , u- * utiu.-s ictumiy into oan- nixnwav is z.z i 



nnproved roads leading out of the mam highway duskv north , sotlth- east and wesl ha ^ e for m sum f $ 



?he fi' "'"to "^ t^e Flk' SrlSr^and'tiie W* ^" ? ^"^ ' ^ U ?V leSS ? ^ C ^ accorda " ce with the requirements of the state. 



ecoid to rench 3 Ka : iska vilhe , v a ," y meetln S s bave be u c beld to , d ! scuss wa y s The road is almost perfect in construction. It 



s -it f KiK-i couiitv' and means to bring, about a solution of this is of macadam rolled with a heavy steam roller 



problem. Several citizens, working in conjunc- until almost as hard as cement and so graded as 



TRAVFRSF CTTV RnAF PRnm FM V-?" the highway commissioners of Custer, to withstand the effects of rain. It is probable 



BLEM. l,i, ucr and Mo ore townships, have at last been that the road will be extended to connect with 



lie transportation troubles of the past few able to make a start. Thc road running west of the county highway between Calumet and Cliff 



weeks in connection with the Peninsula fruit Sandusky has been selected to do the work on and should this action be taken the distance 



crop make one thing more clear than it ever has this year. The townships of Elmer and Moore would be lessened by several miles 



