MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 11 



GRAND TRAVERSE ROAD WORK. road. More than 60 days elapsed since the Ensley and Croton township farmers have 



The grading of the mile of county road in notice was served, and no steps having been promised to donate considerable team work 



East Bay township, Grand Traverse county, taken to comply with the provisions the pa- and with two weeks' good weather a good 



pers declaring it abandoned were tiled. start has been made. When completed 



beginning at the city limits of Traverse City, this will mal < e 2 y 2 miles of permanent high- 

 has been completed and the road is now ready MEANS MORE MONEY FOR ROADS. wa y built this fall by this township and vil- 



for gravel. This will be hauled by sleighs. W hen the Wayne County Road Commission Iage ' 



The work on this mile was done under the was asked to pay certain demurrage bills ASK RTDS ON NTFW T?nAr> 



personal direction of Commissioner Estes, and which accumulated in the course of its work, T , 



t u A , . , .,, , ., on cars of crushed stone, they looked into the VV. H. Johnston, chairman of the Marquette 



ad, when completed, will be one of the question and foul]d that ' the railroads allowed county road commission, announces that sealed 



finest in the north. It has a cut of 30 feet f rc m three to ten days in which to unload a proposals will be received by the board at its 



and will have a graveled roadway of 16 feet, carload of coal without charging any demur- office in Ishpeming until 5 o'clock p. m. Satur- 



wide enough for two teams to pass easily. ra 8. e . while onl y two da y s were allowed in day Jan 8, for the clearing grubbing and 



The work will be done entirely according to which to unload a carload of crushed stone, grading of two miles of the Witch Lake road 



state specilictions Tlle commissioners went before the Michigan beyond Republic, leading toward the Dickin- 



In making the cut, the brush was removed freight committee asking for three days on son county line 



and the telephone poles set back, so that the stone, but the.r request was refused. The The road will begin on the north ban* of the 



entire width is entirely clear. The depressions commission then appealed to the Michigan Michigamme river, and will extend thence 



have been filled in and the hills leveled so Railroad Commission and has just been ad- northerly two m.les toward Witch Lake The 



that the road practically has no grade. For vlsed by the latter body that their request has clearing and grubbing will be for a width at 



hree-auarters of i mile it is as straight as been granted. any point equal to the cut or fill and guttering 



ml in the si er this The commission feels highly elated over its at that point. The successful bidder must sign 



etch will ' e 1 r- rifnl victory, as it means considerable saving to a contract for the completion of the work not 



the the people of Wayne county and the state oi later than July 15 next. 



formation lend .^itself very Slv to - -Michigan. The money which was formerly A meeting of the members of the boards of 



the fills and Icuts all be nr minor l id for demurrage will now be available for road commissioners of Marquette and Dickin- 



mes Gravel w 11 be brought from the T icin read-building. son counties is to be held soon to close up 



matters pertaining to the bridge work on the 



MICHIGAN'S SYSTEM FAVORED. proposed highway, which is to be paid for 



It will be remembered that - number of It is not at all unlikely that Wisconsin will JP'^H? -5 y the tw c ? untie . s ; , Zt is understood 



-.rlrmt thn Mirhicr-m 1 that bridge construction will be started as soon 



years ago a stone road was built at this point, aoopt tnc Michigan system ot 



This had been worn so badlv that no attemot roads, the award system, which is known to be as Possib] m the spring. Members of the 



, well in tin,- \Vnlv,M-.n The commission expect to have the road connect- 



was midf tn rpmn\ p trip ctnnpc nut- trip^p WOiKlIlK ^O Well in ilic VVOlvcrlllC sidle. _L lie . 



svstem fin, nibers cf m the two counties in passable condition be- 



were graded under, so that the road will have system f c Pas on is verv fir idvanrprl 



one of the very best foundations. It is sum- the spec.al legislative committee on good 



ciently crowned so that it will shed water r 5>ads. Th fy have no statement to make at o~ Ar > Q 



readily, this time, however, as to what they will re- VILLAGE ROADS. 



The Ransom road is also ready for gravel P ort to the legislature in January. County Road Commissioner Edward N. 



and the mile between the Rennie school house State Highway Commissioner Ely was in Hines reports the following action at a meet- 



and McWethy corners is rapidly being gotten Stanton recently and with Mayor Stevenson ing at which Commissioners Haggerty, Mur- 



into shape. Gravel is available near both a " d a "umber of other gentlemen inspected doch and Hines were present: 



these miles. These three miles complete the the ne c w c state reward gravel road north and- "Whereas, state reward cannot be secured 



work don this fall. The commissioners have west of Stanton Commissioner Ely pronounced , on roads built within the limits of incorporated 



lost no time and have pushed the work with the , Job . a nrst -class one and was much pleased villages; and, 



the greatest zeal wlth the work done ' The rcad ls completed- "Whereas, it is not contemplated by the state 



In the earlv sorinir work will be beeun on and a " who have contributed toward the ex- highway law that village streets should be im- 



one ^mile soufh of H% Abridge 'one miL east Pense feel highly elated over the fact that ; proved by the Board of County Road Com- 



f Kineslev one mile west of Fife Lake and what a few weeks a *? seemed an impossibility mif.sion.ers, except under special circumstances, 



also a 'mile' on the long' Lake 'road The \. re ^ m U > S nt thc ""^ r ad '" that ! ,'*' board ^^ said law; and 



pring and fall are the most advantageous ^^^wnX wS'ne county, will pro.,- fo Vo'ic" SonWe Sdoote" wi^XeTce 



sons to work, as in the summer everything , , }._ j <,,_ a; nnn < o-n^H marfc , 



, (j r y. a bly boncl to the improvement of roads and streets within 



the limits of incorporated villages, whereby the 



TOLL ROAD ABANDONED. WAYNE ROADS OF HIGH CLASS. letter and spirit of the county road law may 



The Cascade gravel road, the only 'relic of All roads built by the Wayne county road be carried out, and the county road fund ex- 



the stage coach days in Kent county, has been commission on the state reward system have toended in the interest of the greatest mileage 



abandoned as a toll road. From now on the been accepted by the state highway depart- f",J :l P rove< } r ads >.be it 



hk'lnvay will be under the direct control and ment, and the county will draw a total of \ .Resolved, That it is the sense of the Board 



MiiK-rvision of Grand Rapids township and $11,733 state rewards this year. of County Road Commissioners of Wayne 



Kent county According to papers filed the Two classes of roads arc built, Class B. .'County that hereafter no new roads should be 



| Cascade Gravel Road Company has not com- gravel roads, which draw $500 a mile, and taken over or improved ; within the limits of 



1 plied with the requirements of the charter and Class E, macadam construction, $1.000 a mile, any incorporated villages, 



the laws of the state. The collection of the Macadam construction roads include concrete 



toll will have to be eliminated. Highway and brick roads. On all classes, the roads GOOD ROADS WANTED. 



Commissioner David R. Walker states that built by the Wayne county boards arc over A petition signed by a number of taxpayers 



he thoroughly inspected the road and found the specifications. northwest of the village of Athens has' been 



it in need of repair and that it is filled w'ith rnwTTNTTi? unAr. HTTTT nrvr presented to the highway commissioner ask- 



hill rocks, ruts, etc., contrary to the provis- WU-X. <-<JiN i irg un, KUAL) hSUlLUlNU. jng {or a state awar( j roa j f rom t h e old Bunn 



ions of the working charter. On September Application has been made by Reynolds farm, south to the George Mellen property, a 



u'6 Mr. Walker notified the president of the township, Montcalm county, to the state to distance of a half-mile. The road is wanted 



company, William H. Andersen, that he was build a state award highway on the state road because of the location of the school, which 



not complying with the legal agreements, and west of Howard City from Peterson's corner makes a long distance for some of the schol- 



. called attention to the repairs needed on the one-half mile south to C. S. Young's corner., ars-to-go. 



