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WORK UNDER WAY IN KALAMAZOO. 



Grasping a big shovel, W. M. Bryant, chair- 

 man of the county highway commission, Kala- 

 mazoo, turned the first earth in the construc- 

 tion of the mile of new highway in Portage 

 township known as the West street road, lead- 

 ing into the city of Kalamazoo. 



Under the supervision of Deputy Sheriff 

 Loomis Nash, sixteen men from the county 

 jail were then set to work on the highway. 

 General supervision of the construction is be- 

 ing made by George D. Marshall, government 

 expert, assisted by Engineer Harris Fleming, 

 who has been assigned by the road construc- 

 tion bureau of the United States agricultural 

 department. 



As scon as the work on this highway- in 

 Portage is well under way, tents will be pro- 

 vided for the men for sleeping quarters and 

 a cook engaged, so that they will not be com- 

 pelled to return to the city every night. 

 Deputy Nash will then be left in charge of 

 the gang, while Superintendent Marshall and 

 Engineer Fleming will devote their time to 

 overseeing the labor of another gang in 

 Schoolcraft township. The road there will be 

 a difficult one to build, lying on low ground. 

 It will be diked up ai'd a new foundation of 

 gravel laid before surfacing is begun. 



It is expected that Ihe entire work of con- 

 struction Dti the two roads will be completed 

 within a month. 



MORE MONEY FOR KENT ROADS. 



Rubcrt D. Graham, chairman of the good 

 roads commission of Krnt town-hip. Kent 

 county, has anm umvd that the comnii 

 will follow a suggestion made last fall to keep 

 definite record* of tin- work done with maps, 

 and also that an appropriation of $500 \ v ill 

 he made fr m the fund this year to keep in 

 repair the road* already improved. The fund 



will be increased from 25 cents to 50 cents 

 on each $1,000 valuation in the district. 



The Standard Oil Company will furnish ma- 

 terials for improvements i nd the superintend- 

 ent of the committee will provide two labor- 

 ers to oil a stretch of North Canal street, 

 Grand Rapids, to show the effect of this treat- 

 ment in suppressing the dust nuisance. The 

 Tarvia Company will do the same on South 

 College avenue. 



Efforts will be made to interest the farmers 

 along the roads to plant shade trees. The 

 new state law gives a rebate of 25 cents per 

 tree for trees planted along the highways, but 

 'to an extent not exceeding 25 per cent of the 

 frontage in any one year. The company will 

 furnish elm and maple trees for planting at 

 40 cents each, and it is hoped the farmers 

 will take kindly to the plan. 



INSPECTING STATE REWARD ROADS. 



The State Highway Department has begun 

 a thorough inspection of all state reward 

 roads in Michigan. The inspection will be of 

 great benefit, as the experts of the depart- 

 ment will give minute advice as to the repair- 

 ing of the roads where needed and their up- 

 keep. 



GENESEE MAKES A START. 



The first stage of the building of trunk lines 

 of macadam road to extend from Flint north 

 and south to the limits of Genesee county has, 

 been completed with the surveying of the 

 Saginaw road from the new city limits of 

 Flint at the old Edward I'.lack farm to a point 

 one and a half miles north, which will be ma- 

 cad;, mixed from the north limits of North 

 Saginaw street, a p rtion of the Fen ton road, 

 extending -outh from Flint one and a quarter 

 miles has also been surveyed. 



The survey has been under the direction 

 oi tin' county road commission, composed of 

 Gei rgr II. Sellers, chairman; Linus Wolcott 

 and Wilbcr Becker. When the work planned 



for this year that is. the macadamizing of 

 the parts of the Fenton and Saginaw i 

 already surveyed is completed, the lir.st 

 cadam road ever made in Genesee county 

 be ready for use. 



$500,000 FOR ROADS. 



A bill is pending in Congress which *eck? 

 appropriate $500,000 with which to make 

 pcriments looking to the formulation and adc 

 tionof a plan of co-operation bv the g vr 

 ment and the states and counties in a cc 

 prchensive system of road construction 

 maintenance. It is argued that a policy of 

 kind must necessarily begin as was the 

 with rural delivery, when a small appropriat 

 was made for experimental purposes i.nly. 

 results were such that the people demand 

 the extension of the service until now it 

 one of the most impi.rtant branches of 

 po*toffice department, and its discontinua 

 would not be considered for a moment. 



INGHAM NEEDS AN AWAKENINC 



With the election of county and towns 

 road commissioners, the question of roads 

 Ingham county is now up for considerati 

 Ingham county does not boast of the fir 

 state reward reads. According to the opiii 

 of the state highway commissioner, 

 county has been strangely indifferent to 

 advantages of good roads built under 

 state road law. The miles of road built 

 the immediate vicinity of Lansing are 

 and far between, that r'ne to and out of 

 Lansing being the most notable. 



The requests for good roads, to be 

 under the state reward law, are piled 

 at the state highway commissioner's oil 

 and the department is prepared for a 

 spring. Active interest has been shown 

 the question cf constructing new roads *ir 

 the many institutes held by the commiss' 

 last fall and throughout the winter, and 

 is anticipated that many miles will be bu' 

 as soon as the weather permits. 



