MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



Lake Superior 



Genuine 



TRAP ROCK 



F'or Road Making and Fireproof Con- 

 crete. 



Rail and Lake Shipments. 



Write for prices. 



MARQUETTE STONE CO., 



Marquette, Mich. 



Weekly and Expenses 



Selling Chinaware. 



No capital required, exclusive ter- 

 ritory, permanent rapid promotion. 

 FREE SAMPLES. 



REX CHINA CO., Harrisburg, Pa. 



$12 



SUGGESTS NEW STYLE OF CONCRETE ' 



to property will be entirely obviated in this 

 section. 



The construction planned on Mack will also 

 lini-h this road to the county line, the same 

 thing being true on Jefferson avenue. With 

 the completion of Woodward, Mack and Jef- 

 ferson roads during the coming summer, the 



ROAD. 



US EISCONSIN BLUE LIME STONE 

 FOR ROADS AND CONCRETE 



96% of , the Macadam roads and 



streets of western Michigan have 



been built with our stone. 



LAKE SHORE STONE CO. 



Michigan Headquarters, Muskegon, Mich. 



usual "bump" found on most bridges. Wood 



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city hall in Detroit to the county line out in every form, and any other material sus- 

 A. \V. Wolfe, of Kscanaba, has a suggestion M ac k road is twelve and onejiajf miles. From ceptible to decay, is strictly tabc 

 'or a new kind of country road which he says (h,. dividing line between Wayne and Ma- "We found after a year or mere of wear 

 cost only a quarter as much as the comb counties on Jefferson avenue to the city on our trunk roads, that owing to the crown 

 i improved rural highways and would hall is thirteen and one-half miles, and from there was a tendency of vehicles to follow 

 ngcr. He writes as follows: "First, there on down River road below the village one track, with a consequent starting to rut. 

 .repare the road bed, having it well turn- O f Trenton sixteen and one-half miles, a total This led us to look about to see if we could 

 liked, then in its center dig two parallel distance of forty-two miles of good road and not find some other form of material which 

 renchcs eight inche.- wide, the inside walls paved streets all the way, except a stretch would net exceed, to any great extent the cost 

 K-ing about forty inches apart. Then full , f about six blocks in the southerly part of of a first-class macadam, and as a result of 

 hese ditches up with a good concrete, in the city of Wyandotte. The tctal mileage to our investigation have evolved, and are build- 

 docks 'about four feet long, the concrete be- be constructed in 1910 will approximate fifteen ing our roads of, concrete. This is one of the 

 1114 built similar to the manner of building miles. oldest and most valuable forms of construc- 



ide walks, but no top dressing being used, The maintenance of roads already built will tion, and has been used for years as a base 

 d the concrete being rounded or crowned receive adequate attention, this being a spe- or foundation for some form of brick, cedar, 

 the center with still more rounded or in- cial feature of the county commission's plan. cedar block or asphalt wearing surface. 

 ining corners. To build a mile of this kind Contracts have been awarded on cement, "We are building roads cf this character at 

 I will require 8,800 cubic feet of con- gravel ,stone and other commodities, cf which a mucn lower price per square yard than the 

 ,\ hich could be built for 10 cents per the board uses large quantities. It is planned average cost of macadam roads built in New 

 bic foot, or $880 per mile. The space be- to push the work rapidly on a given section York and Pennsylvania from trap rock, and 

 een the concrete can be filled with gravel, of the road, and the board has devised sev- think they are better in every particular than 

 il. or -tone for the foot path of horses, eral labor-saving contrivances with a view of anv macadam road which can possibly be 

 hile the concrete will carry the wheels. Of cheapening the cost and expediting the work, bruit We have formulated plans for between 

 ursc. the outside of the concrete must also seven and ten miles of this class of roadway 



leveled up with soil for turn out conven- ,,.,, T MPT?nVFMFNT<5 TAIMNrnT to be built during the season of 1910, abandon- 

 nces. Here is what I maintain is reasonable NECESSARY IMP MOVEMENTS CANNOT tQ & y , g extent the construction of 



m for tin- kind of road: First, its cost macadam." 



ill be less than half the cost of roads we are The supreme court of Michigan has affirmed 



i\v building; second, it will never be in- the decision of Judge Smith in the case of 



red by water; third, horses will always have John W. Smith vs. Ora L. Barrett, highway 32 MILES OF ROAD TO BE BUILT. 

 sy footing; fourth, its maintenance will be commissioner of the township of Eaton Rap- Kalamazoo CO unty, which adopted the coun- 

 ty nominal; fitth, it will a ways be in good ids Eaton County. The case involved the d , J {a ,, js p i anning t o build 

 mdition and unlimited loads can be hauled; right of the township to construct a tcur-foot * , c BOOC i rO ads this season It is 

 xth. automobiles could not tear up this kind cement conduit through and across the high- '7 H to build two miles of rcad in every 

 road; seventh it will be dustless If this way. The electors had voted an appropria- P ^ nshi If the new board of county road 

 nd oi road should prove practical the high- tion to defray the cost of this improvement, commisl f ioners accomplishes the task it has 



sections and the commissioner was about to _ let the f ; , f Kalamazoo county will make 



here the traffic demanded it. You all know e ntract when Mr. Smith hied an injunction A 



at in the country, no matter how well a bill enjoining the commissioner from further ' l , , , 



ad is macadamized, after a little time the prosecuting the same, on the ground that a Th e roads will be construct [rave 



.mis will be following a path and rut. With four-foot conduit across the highway would as there is an abundance ot that mate l in 

 is kind * f road we will have the path but permit a large amount of water to flow down Kalamazoo county. The county lias made 

 t the rut." up, . his lands, causing him thereby irreparable application for state .reward en 3- mil 



damage and injury. The township stood be- road, which would give it $16,000 1 he road 

 hind the commissioner and insisted that the commission _ will 

 improvement was necessary for the proper work with in 



WAYNE ROAD WORK IN 1910. 



nl of Wayne County Road Com- protection of the highway and those travel- 



ers have practically completed its i ng over it, and that so long as the proposed 



ins for roadwork for 1910, and the concrete improvement did not exceed in dimensions 



will be largely favored, plans having the size of the original channel the commis- 



TO VOTE ON GOOD ROADS. 



Branch county tax-payers will vote on t 



, - 



l<-n made for this form of construction en sioner had a right to go ahead with his work, adopticn of the county road system at the 



ward, Grand River, Michigan, Gratiot, The case was stubbornly contested on both spring election. An active campaign of ^ edu- 



. Elliott, Fort, Eureka, Mack and the sec- sides, more than forty witnesses being sworn, cation is in progress in the county, and will 



River road to be improved below Tren- and the case taking the attention of the court undoubtedly do much towards swinging 



:*i. Bituminous macadam will be used on f, r nearly a week. Judge Smith decided that Branch county into line. Branch county is 



Jver rcad up to the village of Trenton, and the commissioner had a right to make the im- not entirely deficient in good roads, but those 



j-k asphalt is planned for Jefferson and Van provement for the township and dismissed built so far have been by townships. No 



1 ke roads, and gravel for the Plymouth and the bill of complainant. definite plan for the improvement of the trunk 



: rthville roads. The 1010 appropriation has _ roads has been carried out. 



steady been expended on the Wayne road _ __ 



dith, this being a combination of concrete, CONCRETE ROADS ARE COMING. 



riivel and limestone. F.dward N. Hines, of the Board of Road William J. Tully, of Iron River, has been 



dward avenue road will be the first Commission of Wayne county, in an address elected a member of the Iron County Road 



'if work started and will be finished to before the commissions <>f Saginaw, Midland Commission to succeed James Long, resigned. 

 t( county line, a distance of one and one- and Tuscola counties, said in part: _ 



qirter miles now being unimproved. The "The general idea of permanency is kept ... , 



c vert at the Seven-mile road and Woodward to the fore in all cur work. All culverts which Marlette township, Sanilac county, will prob- 



ws built last fall, and it is expected that we make are re-enforced concrete. We have ably build a mile of state reward gravel road 



wen its construction, together with the dig- adopted as a standard for our bridge con- this year. The township in the past has madi 



g of one-half mile of ditch connecting with struction, steel and re-enforced concrete, with liberal appropriations for road work, but tw 



county ditch, the annual springtime floods, concrete decks, which we flare at the inter- work has not been done systematically. Now 



h their attendant annoyances and damage section cf the roadway, thus preventing the it is proposed to start right. 



