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MICH. BRIDGE & PIPE CO., 



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MTT F OF GRAVEL ROAD read contractors' this year than ever before The various trunk roads on which the com- 



Her tta township Jackson County, 'now in its history," says one of the commissioners, mission has done work during the past year 



our miles ^" good road and is the only "All of the season's work was finished without or two have been subected annually each 



", u A h ., s taken a d- a hitch and without disagreeable complications, spring to severe floods. Last spring there was 



^ I P of 1 ?he s ate ap p"oprra\ion "for buHdfng The township work, with which we have noth- a noticeable absence of floods and the Wayne 



ge or tn aie ap y performed in the same man- County Commission has extended the scope of 



:u 'yea f ago* an M a buHt on 8 mile a Tear , and 1 bdieve that we can say in all fair- its drainage work that greater benefit will 



since State Engineer Smith, of the ness that this year's work was tne most im- accrue to the .roads in question. 



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r pronounced it the best in Michigan. It the county a good sized piece of money by 

 uil? of grave and is a splendid bit of work, letting a number of contracts in a lump and 



ast year a mile of good road was built thus secure wholesale prices." ample ot what can be accomphshed in improv- 



' .-* ing highways by electing county highway com- 



GRAND TRAVERSE FURN.SHES GOOD 



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Grand Traverse County furnishes a good ex- 



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ot S he y r stric makmg a GRAVEL TO BE USED FOR GENESEE missioners who have an excellent knowledge 



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COUNTY ROADS. of road building When the county system 



The board of supervisors of Genesee County was adopted in Grand Iraverse the commis- 



Highway Commissioner Leeke states he turned down the recommendation of the board sioners chosen Ron Frank Hamilton of Tra- 

 thinks the gravel road is better than the maca- of county road commissioners for stone roads verse City, and Charles H. Estes, of Bates, had 

 dam It costs less to build it and it is easier and selected gravel for the htghways to be given the good roads question a great deal of 

 ride over but will not be as durable as improved next year. The board also cut the study and were splendidly equipped to push 

 it was the latter kind that appropriation from one mill to half a mill, the work under the new system. With such 

 Henrietta built north from the Blackman town- The tax will yield about $17 000. energetic men at the head of the county system 



Five and one-half miles of road will be built it will be a joy to travel over all of Grand 

 next year, according to the approved plans. Traverse highways in a few years. The for- 

 The commission will build one and one-half mal opening of the county roads system took 

 miles of gravel road on the Saginaw road, place early in November on the Garfield road. 



Those who were present at the formal open- 



hm line for a distance of two miles. 



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The Wexford County road commissioners in commenc i ng at the southern limits of Flint, 



their first annual report show that four miles at a cost o f <jj3 ; ooO; two miles of gravel north ing were Messrs. Hamilton, Estes, County 

 of road were built in the last year under the Qn t jj e Saginaw road, commencing at practi- Clerk Robert E. Walter, who is also clerk of 

 supervision of Commissioners C. E. Haynes, ca jj y t ^ e northern limits of Flint, at a cost of the highway commission; Prosecuting Attor- 

 Fred I'sewich and Edgar Stanchft. The re- ^ 5;00 o; two miles of gravel south on the Fen- ney F. H. Pratt, Judge F. R. Walker, County 

 port show.- that the Wexford commissioners ton roa <j ; commencing at the southern city Treasurer Finley Hammond, W. H. Umlor, 

 have done better than the state requires for the ij m j ts; an d to spend not to exceed $4,500 for F. C. Hunter, Cashier L. F. Titus, of the First 

 state reward. The state requires 1,500 cubic road mac hinery. All roads are to be built in National Bank; Floyd Smith, L. K. Cleveland, 

 feet of gravel to the mile the new Wexford strkt ccn f ormlty w ; t h the specifications adopt- Frank Carver, W. F. Harsha, R. H. Ellsworth, 

 roads have 2,000 yards. The state demands a ed by the state highway department. E. E. White, for the Daily Eagle, and S. M. 



grade of IS feet, and a roadway of nine feet; Champney for the Record. 



the Wexford roads have a 24-foot grade with WAYNE COUNTY HIGHWAY WORK. The ground was formally broken by Messrs. 



a 10-foot roadway. The commissioners recom- "There seems to be a general impression," Estes and Hamilton, Mr. Estes holding the 

 mend a one-mill tax for county road building. says (j ollnty R oat i Commissioner Edward H. grader and Mr. Hamilton driving the four 

 It also recommends six new roads to be built HmeSj o f Detroit, "that the county commis- horses down the grade. 

 during the coming year as follows: sioners cease their efforts to improve the high- Work has also begun on a mile of road in 



One in Clam Lake, two miles; one in Haring ways of \yayne County along in October. The East Bay township. 

 two and a quarter miles extending into Cedar fiscal year of the county e nds Sept. 30, but the 



Creek, joining with the Manton road, now coullty road commission continues its work WORKING PRISONERS ON EATON 

 completed; one in Selma, two miles; one 11 unt il well along in December. While no actual ROADS. 



Selina. one mile; one between Hanover and maca( iani work is attempted after Nov. 1, there According to a resolution adopted by the 

 sford, one and a half miles; one in Cherry are nlany ot her phases of the work which Board of Supervisors of Eaton County, ac- 

 Grove, one and a quarter miles. During the enters ; nto the improving of a road that can, knowledging an act passed by the last legisla- 

 pa-t year the commissioners spent $9,492.09. and are> b<;ing copcd w j tn . The commission ture, Sheriff Donovan has had the jail prison- 

 Charles R. Smith, of the committee raising has const ructed reinforced concrete culverts ers under jail sentence at work on the Eaton 

 funds for state award road building in We - over t h e county drains on the Woodward, Van Rapids road in Eaton township There were 

 ford county, reports that about $800 a : Dyke and Grand River roads. only three of them, the smallest number al- 



has been pledged for the work for the ..- rhe comm ission is laying some seven miles lowed to be used by the Board. The Board 



three years. That sum includes $300 a mile o{ ti , e cn the trunk roads along the car trac k s , o f Supervisors is given the authority to reim- 

 Erom W. W. Mitchell and $300 a mile , om on Woodward, Gratiot, Grand River and burse the sheriff for any expenses incurred in 

 the Cummer-Diggms and Murphy & Digg: 5 Michigan. A large amount of pitching has conveying the prisoners to and from the jail. 

 companies. The balance given n sums also been taken care of this fall _ The com . The commissioner of highway or any town- 



mission has also started to manufacture its ship, village or city authorities may make ap- 



r><->Ar> \imT>v TTTMTCMtm concrete crock for drainage purposes. Stone plication to the sheriff to have the prisoners 



DELTAS F .iJ. ; s being shipped in at convenient unloading Vork in their locality. No prisoner shall be 



The board of county road commissioners of points in order to obviate possible delays entitled to any pay. This resolution was pass- 

 Delta County have wound up its work for this when the season opens in 1910. ed by the Board to try to better the tramp 



season. The members have performed splen- The gravel road under construction on the question. 

 did work. The inability to secure a $100,000 Northville road has been finished. This will 



apprcpriatiort for road work to be started make a mile of gravel on the Plymouth road One mile of road in Kochville and one-half 

 next spring was a disappointment, but the an d a mile on the Northville road constructed mile in Bridgeport, Saginaw county, were in- 

 commissioners express the belief that the next ,-ince Oct. 1. All culverts and drains have spected by Deputy State Highway Commis- 

 few years will see many new roads and pieces been cleaned out, guard rails and bridges have sioner Rogers and County Commissioner 

 of road linking the great Delta county sys- been repainted, and holes, ruts or any weak Green. Both pieces of road came fully up to 

 tern together. spots in the roadway have been repaired, that the required standard and state reward money 



"I believe that Delta county has been saved the roads may stand the hard winter's usage, will be paid, $1,000 to the Kochville road and 

 more money and received better results from and require a minimum of repair next season $500 to the Bridgeport road. 



