MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



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To those 9O,OOO Taxpayers who want a 



Road Culvert Which Can Not Rust 



r PH ROUGH the Agricultural Dep't at Washington, you have made a demand 



for a rust-resisting material, which you can use for roofing, road culverts, and 



agricultural purposes. Engineers and Chemists the world over endorse American 



Ingot Iron as the material you have asked for, and Ingot Iron Pipe as the culvert. 



You owe it to yourself to investigate the product resulting from your own demand. 



Write for information regarding Ingot Iron Pipe, the culvert which can not 



rust, collapse, or be injured by the frost. Address, 



MICH. BRIDGE & PIPE CO., 



Dept. T. LANSING, MICHIGAN 



No. 773, Comstock township, Kalamazoo 

 county. 



No. 774, Pavilion township, Kalamazoo 

 county. 



No. 775, Cooper township, Kalamazoo coun- 

 ty- . 



No. 776, Cooper township, Kalamazoo coun- 

 ty. 



No. 777, Charleston township, Kalamazoo 

 county. 



No. 778, Charleston township, Kalamazco 

 county. 



No. 779, Richland township, Kalamazoo 

 county. 



No. 780, Ross township, Kalamazoo county. 



No. 781, Ross township, Kalamazoo county. 



No. 782, Alamo township, Kalamazoo coun- 

 ty- 

 No. 783, Walker township, Kent county, .546 

 mile, gravel, state reward $273. 



No. 784, Lincoln township, Isabella county, 

 1.025 miles, gravel, reward $512. 



No. 785 



No. 786, Newfield township, Oceana county, 

 4!is mile, gravel, state reward $249. 



No. 787, Jordan township, Antrim county, 

 .492 mile, class B, state reward, $246. 



No. 788, Jordan township, Antrim county, 

 .512 mile, gravel, state reward $256. 



Michigan Road Notes. 



If the tax-payers of Scottville approve that vil- 

 lage will issue $1(1.1)00 df bonds for the purpose 

 Hi paving Main street with crushed stone with 

 a tar top dressing. 



The township board of Bangor, Bay county. 



has decided against the proposed road to he con- 



strdcted between the Hangor road and the bay 



^Imre. The arguments against the project were 



made by Attorneys L. J. Weadock and S. L. 



Brigham, representing the traction company, and 



\lpin. respectively, who are extrnsur 



rty holders along the route of the pru- 



1'iM-d road. The road was recommended by 



lighway Commissioner Carlson. 



The township of Eckford, Calhonn county, has 

 lecided tn ihi the work itself necessary to com- 

 the two miles of macadam road, the con- 

 ract for which was awarded to a Detroit con- 

 >Tii last fall. Shortly after the work was start- 

 il the concern threw up the contract. 



Davison and Richfield townships, Genesee 

 "tinty. have the good roads fever, and the ques- 



"f bdiiding to secure funds for building state 

 < -ward roads will lie decided on April 4. 



The county of Honghton will decide 'on .April 

 . whether or not the county road system shall 

 prevail in that county. The advocates of good 

 r ads have been trying for years to get the ques- 

 ,ion submitted to the people of country. They 

 elieve that the proposition will carry. With an 

 bundance of trap rock to be had for hauling, 

 longhton and her sister counties ought to 

 ast of some of the most perfect highways in 

 lichigan. 



The Saginaw county road commission has 

 warded gravel contracts to the Peter Malcom 

 .state and Hugh Campbell. The Malcom bid was 



95 cents per cubic yard and 99 cents for cement- 

 ing gravel, delivered on the Michigan Central 

 tracks. Campbell's bid was '.(8 cents delivered on 

 the Pere Marquette. The Wallace Stone Com- 

 pany received the contract for stone, prices rang- 

 ing from 95 cents to $1.25 per ton, according to 

 quality and point of delivery. The Hurt Port- 

 land Cement Company's bid for cement at $1.25 

 per barrel paper, and $1.55 per barrel in sacks 

 was accepted, the cloth sacks to be redeemable at 

 10 cents apiece. A resolution was adopted di- 

 recting that work proceed on the following roads : 

 Deerfield, Vassar, Watrousville, Genesee. Birch 

 Run townline. East street, Jamestown, Gratiot, 

 Hemlock, Shattauckville, Mackinaw, Lawndale, 

 Carrollton, Brady and Washington. 



Huron county is blessed in having enterpris- 

 ing concerns and citizens who believe in good 

 roads and who are willing to help the move- 

 ment along with hard cash. The township of 

 Sigel is especially 'fortunate. The Huron Milling 

 Company and the Mihletaler Company, of Harbor 

 Beach, have decided to assist the township in 

 building an improved state reward highway for 

 a distance of three miles, commencing on the 

 state road running west. The Huron Milling 

 Company will let the township have the free use 

 of its new road steam roller, and will also give 

 $300 per mile toward paying the expense of con- 

 structing the improved road, and the Mihlethaler 

 Company will add $150 per mile. 



In the townships of Eaton Rapids and Hamlin, 

 Eaton county, there is much agitation this spring 

 over the matter of building more of state reward 

 roads. The question seems to be very niuch in 

 popular favor, since both of the townships have 

 enough of these roads to know from actual ex- 

 perience what they really mean to the farmers, 

 and the prospects now are that there will be 

 several more miles of the road built in that lo- 

 cality the present season. 



There will be a warm contest in Elkton town- 

 ship at the spring election on April 4 over cood 

 roads. A proposition will be voted on that day 

 to bond for $12,000 for the purpose of building 

 state reward roads. The advocates of better 

 highways, always the progressive element in anv 

 coinimmitv. arc very hopeful of the result. State 

 Hiirhwav Commissioner Ely and Deputy Commis- 

 sioner Rogers have attended meetings in the 

 township, and their educational work has done a 

 great deal of good. Elkton is in Huron county. 



The Kalamazoo county commissioner is to have 

 the advice of an expert from the agricultural de- 

 partment at Washinaton. and work on the roads 

 will not begin until he is on the job. 



Following the adoption of the cotmtv road sys- 

 tem in Genesee county the board of supervisors 

 b;is decided to employ prison labor in the con- 

 struction :md improvement of higbwnvs. Pri c - 

 oncrs confined in the county jail will be requisi- 

 tioned as needed. 



highway which is to connect the Marquette and 

 .Menominee ranges, is planning to commence the 

 work at once. He will make his headquarters at 

 Witch Lake, working north, and will_ employ as 

 many men as can be worked to an advantage. 

 J. E. Blomgren, of Norway, who has the contract 

 for the Dickinson county end of the highway, will 

 commence work within the next few weeks. 



County Road Commissioner Green, of Saginaw, 

 has been over the county roads and found them 

 in very good condition. There is some repair 

 work to be done, but not more than would nat- 

 urally be expected nor so much as was anticipated 

 after a hard winter. 



The construction of an automobile driveway 

 along the shore of Lake Michigan from the park 

 at Muskegon to Port Sherman is being planned. 



The Good Roads committee of the Industrial 

 association of Battle Creek is made up as fol- 

 lows : J. I. Gibson, F. C. Stillson, Minard Le- 

 Fever, C. E. Kolb and Henry F. Bechman. The 

 object of the committee is to study the relation of 

 good roads to the development of the city and to 

 encourage the building of state rewards roads in 

 the country and the improvement of the city 

 streets 



The Bay county road commission has re- 

 ceived a petition from residents along the 

 road that becomes Michigan avenue inside 

 the city limits, for a stone road from the city 

 limits of Bay City to the Saginaw county 

 line. The distance is about four miles and 

 16J3 farmers signed the petition. 



The Kalamazoo county road commission has 

 purchased a large wagon which will be rebuilt 

 for the accommodation of prisoners who are 

 employed in road building this summer. The 

 wagon will be constructed three tiers high 

 and will accommodate eighteen prisoners. 

 With the use of this wagon the prisoners 

 can remain on a job all of the time and do a 

 great deal more work than when transported 

 to and from a stationary house, as was done 

 last fall. A tent will be carried and used as 

 a mess tent. "Most of the read work this 

 year will be let on contract, although there 

 will be plenty of work for the prisoners to 

 do,' says W. M. Bryant. 



The tax-payers of the township of Sheri- 

 dan, Clare county, will vote at the spring 

 election on a proposition to bond for $6,000 

 for good roads. 



The tax-payers of the township of Thetford, 

 Genesee county, will vote on April 4 on a 

 proposition to bond for $10,000 for good 

 roads. The township voted the issue seme 

 months ago but there was an irregularity in 

 the election, which made the bonds undesir- 

 able. Hence the second election. 



The three miles of new stone ropd leading west 

 from Deckerville are assured for this rear. The 

 last '<>ad of stone has been hauled, ft is the first 

 step toward greater improvements of the same 

 character. 



Giis Ercdeen. of Norway, who has the contrnrt 

 for building the Marquette county section of the 



The tax-payers of the township of St. 

 Charles, Saginaw county, will vote on April 

 19 to bond for $16,000 for good roads. De- 

 nomination $1,000; interest not to exceed 5 

 per cent per annum payable annually, ma- 

 turity $1,000 each year beginning one year 

 fn in date of issue. The assessed valuation of 

 the township is $863,100 and it has no debt. 



