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DELTA COUNTY ROAD IMPROVE- 

 MENTS. 



Highway Commissioner Fred Bronse of 



laldwin township, Delta county, has started 



he uork of repairing a portion of the road 



-nil in" I'erkins. This piece of the road has 



un in a dreadml condition for some time. 



i Members of the Delta county board of road 



oinminsioners have decided to macadamize 



he remaining portion of the Bay shore road 



ason. The members of the board will 



dvertise for bids for the work. The new toad 



.-ill extend from the chemical plant location 



) the end of the portion that was macadam- 



'i-d last year, thus making the read from 



.-canaba to Gladstone one of the best in the 



unity. 



Bark River township, Delta county, is to 

 uiid three miles of macadam road this sum- 

 icr to connect the villages of Schaffer and 

 ark River. Voters of the township at the 

 >ring election endorsed a proposition to is- 

 K bonds to defray the cost of the work and 

 is planned to begin the road construction 

 irly this spring that it may be completed 



fall. 



The township of Fayette, Hillsdale county, 

 cd the following sums for good r< ad-.: 

 : >r permanent road improvement, fifty cents 

 ) $1,000 valuation; for road repair. $1.20 

 | r $1,000 valuation. The sum of $fi27 re- 

 ins of the permanent improvement fund 

 m last year, which, with the sum just ap- 

 ipriated, will leave $1,000 available for work 



car. 



\V. I!. Lyons, county road commissioner of 



jecosta county, will receive bids for the builil- 



' of one mile of county road between the 



of West Millbrook and Miilbrook. 



is address is Rig Rapids. 



Sand Beach township. Huron county, ought 

 t have some of the finest roads in the state at 

 ie smallest cost to the tax-payers. The citi- 

 iiis of Harbor Beach have agreed to pay $700 



a mile for every mile of State reward read 

 built in the township; the state will pay $500 

 per mile for gravel roads, and the Huron Mill- 

 ing Company has offered the use of a steam 

 road roller free of cost. It ought not to cost 

 the township more than $700 per mile in addi- 

 tion for the finest gravel roads in the state. 



IMPORTANCE OF GOOD ROADS 



Much has been said about the isolation of 

 farm life, and much has been done within the 

 past decade to eliminate it, and improve the 

 condition of farm dwellers. The telephone 

 and free mail delivery have done wonders, but 

 the important condition that has yet to be 

 attained in most section-, is the improvement 

 cf the highways. When you have good roads 

 between neighbors, you improve the social 

 conditions. Farm labor is becoming every 

 year more expensive, as is also the mainten- 

 ance of teams, so that the time saved in team- 

 ing by having a good road is an important 

 item. The load that a farmer can haul over 

 a good road will be much larger than the one 

 that is drawn under conditions that prevail 

 where the highways are not good. 



The state of Iowa is spending four and one- 

 half million dollars a year on her 100.000 

 miles of roads. With Michigan's favorable lo- 

 cation and the high prices that most of her 

 lands would bring when accessible, there is 

 really no good business reason that can be 

 given why every township in the state should 

 not bond if necessary for money to make this 

 desirable improvement. 



NOT HOW CHEAP BUT HOW GOOD. 



The board of County Road Commissioners 

 of Grand Traverse reports to Michigan Road-, 

 and Forests: 



"I), ring the fall of 1009 we graded three 

 miles of road. After the snow came, we grav- 

 eiea these r< ads. hauling all the gravel on the 

 snow, three yards t.. the load. We have put 



on from 2,000 to 2,700 yards per mile. We 

 have commenced the work of finishing these 

 roads. 



"We have also commenced grading another 

 mile and have about four miles more to com- 

 plete before October. The probabilities are 

 that after the first of October and before the 

 snow falls, we shall grade up three or four 

 miles in addition. This is the first year in 

 Grand Traverse under the County Road Sys- 

 tem. 



"We believe in building first class roads to 

 see how well we can do, rather than see how 

 cheap we can build and yet secure the State 

 Reward, believing 'in the long run it is better 

 to have a few hundred yards of gravel more 

 than the law requires." 



AN ENTHUSIASTIC ROAD BUILDER. 



The action of the Dickinson county board 

 of supervisors in re-electing John J. Flanagan 

 a member of the board of county road com- 

 missioners by a unanimous vote meets with 

 the approval of all Menomine range friends 

 of good roads. Mr. Flanagan has devoted 

 much time to the many duties of the office, 

 which is strictly honorary, and is an enthusi- 

 astic advocate of the building of highways 

 that will have a tendency/to develop the agri- 

 cultural resources of the county. 



Cedar Creek township. Wexford county, has 

 been divided into four highway districts. 



HOUGHTON COUNTY IN LINE. 

 Houghton county has adopted the County 

 Road system. The vote was 7,100 yea and 

 989 no. 



Burns township. Shiawassee County has 

 appropriated $3,000 for highway purposes this 

 year. For several years good-sized appropri- 

 ations have been voted and the township will 

 soon have a splendid r, ad system Perry 

 township voted $::.r,()(), of which $1.000 is to 

 go for state reward road. 



