MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Iss- face, which is the beginning of the formation 



land, Maryland and Washington. of water pockets and repairs. The reason for 



AMn tTODITQ'TQ N - P - Hul1 ' master - cf the Grange, says: this is that the stones brought to the crusher 



AINU r VXrvLLkJ 1 O "I wish to make it clear that the Grange is are dumped in regardless of their quality. 



l Pap of The Michigan Road Maker, Association and not committed to the details of this bill, but Loads of hard and soft stone are piled to- 



Mk-binan Forestry Association, that it is merely submitted for the purpose of gether, and stones with no bonding qualities 



70 I .arned Street West Detroit Michigan eliciting the views of the people of the state mixed in without consideration. When the 



as to what changes in our present highway road is finished, the spots where the softer 



law are desirable." stone was employed wear down first. The 



Entered as Second-class Matter April 27. 1907. at the Post Office at DC- stones without bonding qualities quickly work 



ADVOCATES DETROIT ASSOCIATION, loose and appear on the surface, and if not 



"If the good roads sentiment is to be per- promptly removed act as a deadly weapon, un- 



Frank E. Carter Editor manen t a Detroit Through .Roads Association der traffic, to destroy the surrounding surface. 



should be formed at once, that the efforts put A light buggy will do more harm to a road 



forth may be systematized, and the money surface, by grinding loose stones against it, 



PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH expended equitably and to the best advan- than, a two-ton team will in passing over a 



tage," says Horatio S. Earle. surface free from loose stones. 



"Detroit should pay only what is equitable The stone before going in the crusher should 



THE STATE REVIEW PUBLISHING CO., an d jt is not expected that every public-spirit- b e carefully assorted, and that with the poor- 



ed citizen in Detroit who is willing to ccn- est bonding qualites crushed first, and used 



SUBSCRIPTION i ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, tribute something toward the cost of build- for the foundation course, and after this has 

 PAYABLE ijf ADVANCE ' n K good through roads, knows all about the been spread to a depth of four inches, about 



laws and 1 the art of road building. But if one-inch of screenings from the best bonding 



======^===^^^==^== an association were formed, officers could be stone shall be spread over it, and slightly 



\7AMTC MI?/ T?nAn T AW elected and committees appointed of just the raked in before being rolled. After dry rolling 



WANTS NK.W KOAD LAW. right men for the places, and they would see it should be watered enough to insure some of 



In compliance with a resolution adopted at that the money was given only where it was the screenings reaching the bottom. Do not 



the last meeting of the Michigan State Grange, equitable to give it. carry this far enough to wash all of them from 



the executive committee has been working on "For instance, it is not equitable for De- the surface. The roller should again be put 



a new road law. Logan W. Page, director of troit to give as much as we are now giving on. The screenings obtained from crushing 



the office of public roads, United States de- to build the Michigan avenue road out the non-bonding stone should be promptly 



partment of agriculture, has prepared a road through the townships of Dearborn, Nankin, removed from the crusher and thrown away, 



law for the State Grange and should this prove Canton and Van Buren, to the Washtenaw The remaining stone can be roughly consid- 



satisfactory to the majority of the people o 1 county line, and when the figures are given ered in two classes, hard and soft, and a man 



Michigan efforts will be made to pass it at everyone in the city of Detroit will agree with a hammer can rapidly determine this. At 



the next session of the legislature. to it. some plants, all of the hard and soft stone 



The bill itself proposes to do away with the "The approximate amounts paid as county are crushed, separately, and placed in separate 



present system of state supervision, creating, road tax by the five townships who would piles. Some stretches of the road are built 



in the place of the state highway commis- be the largest beneficiaries in having this road of the soft and others of the hard, each of 



sicner, a state highway commission to con- made first-class to the county line, are as fol- which present good wearing surfaces, 



sist of a professor of civil engineering from lows: Good, practical results can be obtained by 



each of the two leading universities or col- Dearborn $ 73953 mixing, either in a uniform feed of both kinds 



leges and one civilian member to be appointee 1 Nankin 513 04 m t o the crusher at one time practically stone 



by the governor. It is claimed that this would Romulus- 261 36 for stone of hard and soft or after crushing, 



result in a non-partisan and technically com- Canton 35 18 if carefully don'e. When such stone is placed 



petent commission. This commission would Van Buren 388 74 on the road, the wear will be practically uni- 



serve without pay. form, because if the mixing has been properly 



Then it is proposed to engage a man with T tal ........................ ....$2,247 85 done, practically each alternate piece of stone 



technical qualifications to act as a state high- A S against this Detroit city s tax amounts will be alike and the harder pieces will pro- 

 way engineer, the commission to engage him to I 114 .' 91 , 8 - 21 - "SlLv" softer ones from wear. 

 and fix his salary This official would be em- So if the county road commissioners should This method may sound complicated, but it 

 powered to appoint all of his assistants with eject to build Michigan avenue to the county is not very little additional time is consumed, 

 the advice and consent of the commission l' ne next year, and the tax levy remains the and the results in. the improved wearing quali- 

 to receive all bids, award all contracts and, in same tne ci . l y w uld contribute $57 for every ties of your road will pay a divdend many 

 fact have full authority in all executive work dollar contributed by these five townships. times greater than the best railroad stock in 

 of the department "Now, there is no equity in this, and if we the country. 



T-, had an association we could direct public sen- 



The building of roads under the county sys- ; h . GREAT HIGHWAY 



tern is favored, each county to go before the 



highway engineer with plans for approval. All A GREAT ROAD PROTECT Rivaling in scenic environment and excel- 



surveys, plans, specifications and estimates r-. T ,, v ; r , J ,,',, , fence the finest roadways of Europe the Great 



woulclbe made by the highway engineer. Im- Dn McKay ! ' Coleman would like to App , e Way; connecting the cities of Spokane , 



provements to cost $2,000 and more would be ' , V-u V Wash., and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is now as- 



Fet by contract. The supervision and direc- Pnnc.pa meridian of Michigan from Cheboy- sured ' when completed | t wil , ' be a monu . 



tkn of all such work would be vested in the ga " R S " th tO ' he llttle Sp , Ot n l he . fV kn , wn ment to modern road builders and a standard 



highway engineer a *. ^ tter % F r several years he has been f generations to come. Bisecting one of the 



* . thinking of the advantages of such a thor- fertile irrisited fruit districts in the In- 



Ihe h.ghway engineer is to keep al state oughfare, what it would do for automobilists 5 l m l ire for 31 m les th ro'dwa 



reward roads in good repair, the counties be- an d farmers and the countrv adjacent to the i .^'"P 1 / 1 es . tne roaoway, o 



ino- linhlp tn him for thr rAsr Th P ' feet in width, will be built of macadam with 



Ine cost ot roa d, and he has been talking the matter over asnhaltum binder Fverv mi 



all work of building roads is to be paid first w ; t h several well-known citizens of Saeinaw aspnaitun, 



bv the state the ronnrips to rrimHiireo thp -ru mzens or sdginaw. stan d ar d construction and properly crowned 



.if' c i Reimburse the They readily saw the benefit of the road. , nf , drained with fountains for man doe and 



state partially for such work. A property tax The nrincinal meridian is -in irmeimrv Imp i , .,' ' " 



iprpscirv for tho *,.' ' horse placed at intervals of a mile. The raa- 



ssary lor tne states running north and south through the lower t,,..;,.! SL r t)lf 



participation in road improvements is prov.d- peninsula, and the road can follow it straight, ' 



r provemens is provi- peninsula, and the road can follow t straight, crpr . 

 ed for and the state highway fund is intended there beiite no deviation for lakes a con 



to he distributed "imono- thp rnnnrios laKes a finished stone effect equal to granite. 



M Junties in an t ion that is somewhat of a rarity. Imagine a The feature will be the planting of app 



stone road from the southern line of the state trees 40 feet apart on either side of the roa' 



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A provision is made in the bill to utilize clear through to the straits wa these bei alternated with English elm 



the state convicts m the preparation of read Wouldn't that be an ideal driveway? The trees which afford ample shade, at the same 



By haying great quantities of road roads feeding into it would be built by every ti me withstanding the common pests which 



material prepared at state institutions, its dis- township near the road. The distance be- work havoc amont? the American shade trees 



tribution throughout the entire state easily tween the north and south ends would be 276 not native to the district. The Spokane Ccun- 



mlles - ty Good Roads Association, of which J. A. 



A provision also is made in the bill direct- Perry is secretary, will supervise the road 



ing the state highway engineer to prepare a FIELD STONES FOR ROAD WORK. work. The cost is estimated at $10,000 per 



tentative system or trunk line of state roads It is customary, in many sections employing mile - 



to be paid f-or entirely at the expense of the portable crushers, to utilize field stone and 



state aid laws in the many roads constructed of this material, in an Golden township, Oceana county, has pur- 

 tor any length of time intelligent manner, present even surfaces and chased a 10-ton road roller from the J. I. Case 



adopted the principle of state aid has been to- give good service; but where a haphazard Threshing Machine Company of Racine, Wis 



Conspicuous ex- method is employed, disappointment often re- The roller is one of the company's latest mod- 



ani.e? found in the states of New suits. The road soon presents an uneven sur- els, which is meeting with popular favor. 





