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is being undertaken all over the state, with 

 apparently Ionia county the one lone excep- 

 tion to the rule. Wake up, you highway com- 

 missioners. The Lord knows, any maybe you 

 do, too, that there are many highways in the 

 county that need fixing. Ionia Sentinel. 



MUSKEGON COUNTY. 



Work of building the two miles of roads in 

 Holton township, Muskegon county, for which 

 $5,000 was appropriated by the Board of Su- 

 pervisors last fall, is rapidly progressing. The 

 new road is between Holton and Twin Lake, 

 beginning about two miles south of Holton 

 and going one mile west and one mile south. 

 I'yru^ M (.Council, now acting as County Su- 

 perintendent of Roads is in charge of the job. 



Work in grading the road north of Kelley's 

 Corners in Casnovia township toward Bailey 

 has begun. Gravel will soon be put en this 

 road. 



These are the only two projects the road 

 commissioners now have in hand, but others 

 will be begun soon. 



AiHoists of Muskegon who are boosting the 

 proposed lake shore drive for Lake Michigan 

 park this year have found that the roadway 

 will cost them more than $1,000, five times as 

 much as they first figured upon. The auto 

 men will push the project through to comple- 

 tion, however. The roadway, when completed, 

 will skirt Muskegon lake from the city to the 

 channel and thence down the Lake Michigan 

 beach to the big pavilions. 



WAYNE COUNTY. 



County Road Commissioner Edward N. 

 Hines of Wayne says: "We have started our 

 outside work in earnest, and from now on 

 until winter sets in we will make things fly. 

 The tiling on Woodward, Michigan and Grand 

 River roads is all completed. The further 

 work of making a good road en these thor- 

 oughfares has been started simultaneously, and 

 will be vigorously pushed. They will all be 

 built of concrete, 24 feet wide at their nar- 

 rowest points, and from 16 to 18 feet of metal. 

 Woodward read will be completed its entire 

 length to the county line, a distance of about 

 \y% miles; about l-)4 miles will be built on 

 Grand River Road, and about 2 l /> miles on 

 Michigan avenue road. Woodward and Grand 

 River reads will be ready for travel about 

 July 1."), and Michigan about Aug. 20. Work 

 has also been started on Jefferson road. As 

 fast as one road is completed the other roads 

 in the order of their importance to the public 

 will be started, Gratiot being the next in rota- 

 tion to receive consideration." 



The Board of County Road Commissioners 

 of Wayne have started active work on Wood- 

 ward, Grand River and Michigan avenue roads. 

 The reads have been blocked in consequence, 

 and for the convenience of the traveling pub- 

 lic they suggest the following routes around 

 the work: 



Around Woodward avenue Going out, or 

 northerly, turn to the right at Rosedale Court. 

 Take Rosedale Court to Oakland; Oakland 

 and the old Rochester road to the 8-mile road, 

 and the 8-mile road back to Woodward, where 

 Woodward intersects the Oakland county line. 



Around Grand River road Going out, or 

 northwesterly, turn off Grand River road to 

 the right at Turner avenue. Follow Turner 

 avenue to Glendale avenue, and take Glendale 

 to Grand River, striking Grand River at the 

 intersection of the Meyer road. 



Around Michigan avenue Going out, or 

 westerly, turn off Michigan avenue at the 

 Schaefer road. Go north on Schaefer road to 

 the New road; westerly on the New road to 

 the Reckinger road, and south on Reckinger 

 road to Michigan avenue. Later on it will be 

 advisable to turn off Michigan avenue at 50th 

 street, near Addison's Switch. 



The Board will prosecute the work vigor- 

 ously, and with the greatest possible despatch, 

 in order to inconvenience the public as little 

 as possible. All the above roads will be of 

 concrete, and when finished and opened to 

 public travel, the public will feel amply repaid 



Michigan Forestry Association 



HAS FOR ITS OBJECT 



The modification of our laws which will enable the holding and 

 reforesting of forest lands. 



The protection of forest property against fire and trespass. The 

 disposition and management of our state lands. 



Every citizen should be interested in this work and join the Asso- 

 ciation. Membership fee $1.00 per year, including yearly subscription 

 to Michigan Roads and Forests, the official organ of the Association. 



PROF. HUBERT ROTH, Secretary, 



Ann Arbor, Michigan 



for the inconvenience caused now by the 

 blocking of the road. 



Michigan Road Notes. 



The Michigan Sugar Company has pur- 

 chased a steam road roller for the use of its 

 plant at Sebewaing and has offered the free 

 use of it to Sebewaing township. There is 

 perhaps no other concern in Huron county 

 that has shown more interest in the good 

 roads movement than the Michigan Sugar 

 Company. In fact, had it not been for its 

 activity, year after year, in getting the farmers 

 interested in the idea, Sebewaing township 

 would not today have as many miles of stone 

 road to her credit. Since a taste was had of 

 the many benefits that arise cut of good high- 

 ways the taxpayers have each succeeding year 

 voted to build more of them, and each year 

 the sugar company has been of very material 

 aid in giving sums of money to help defray 

 expenses. This year, besides the roller ex- 

 pense and its annual share of the taxes, it is 

 donating $500 toward the construction of new 

 roads. 



Oliver township. Huron county, has voted 

 to bond for $12,000 for good roads. Elkton 

 village is included in the township. 



The Washtenaw County Automobi'e Asso- 

 ciation is working to secure the improvement 

 cf a two-mile strip of the Whitmore road near 

 Horse Shoe Lake. The strip that the associa- 

 tion is working to have improved is low and 

 marshy and is badly in need of the improve- 

 ment urged. It is proposed to improve with 

 rolled gravel 18 feet wide. Another petition is 

 out to have the Ypsilanti read along the trac- 

 tion line improved by filling the chuck holes 

 with gravel. 



Contracts for sign-boarding all the turns and 

 danger points on three main Michigan high- 

 ways. Detroit to Saginaw, Detroit to Grand 

 Rapids, and Detroit to the Indiana state line, 

 were approved at the annual meeting of the 

 Michigan State Automobile Association. 



Charles Rathbun of Eden is a candidate for 

 County Road Commissioner in Mason ccunty. 

 He has had considerable experience in road 

 building. 



The Emmet County Road Commission has 

 finis'hed the Harbcr Springs turnpike, and is 

 working on the turnpike between Pellston and 

 Petoskey; also the road between Petoskey 

 a-rl Charlevoix. In all about five miles of 

 new road wil be completed this year. 



Residents of Grant township, Newaygo 

 county, are showing themselves to be wide 

 awake to the fact that the people who are 

 neglecting their highways are sadly behind 

 the times. Last year the residents of the 



township spent the greater part cf $7,000 in 

 the graveling of highways and this season 

 about as much more will be laid out. It is 

 expected that four inches of gravel will be 

 spread over the work that was done last year 

 in order to draw the state road reward. 



A company is being organized at Grand 

 Rapids for the purpose of quarrying rock in 

 Eaten county for use on roads. 



The contract for macadamizing the three 

 miles of stone road in Wheatland township, 

 Sanilac county, was awarded to the Good 

 Roads Construction Company of Port Huron 

 for $7,700. Under this contract the first mile 

 of road is to be completed by July 1, 1910, 

 and the remaining two miles by Oct. 1, 1910. 



Wolover & Brewer, of Owosso, have been 

 awarded a contract to construct seven miles 

 of gravel road and three and one-half miles 

 of cement read in Redfield township, Wayne 

 county. This is the biggest contract the 

 Owosso Construction Company has under- 

 taken and was secured against some strong 

 competitors. 



The city of Escanaba, if it can dispose of 

 the big road roller it now owns, will probably 

 be in the market for a smaller and lighter one. 

 The roller was bought many years ago at a 

 cost of about $3,200 and has never been of 

 much use, because it was to heavy for prac- 

 tical service on the streets, whose foundations 

 are mostly of loose sand. 



The special election held in the township of 

 Raisinville, Monroe county, relative to the 

 bonding cf the township for $32,000 to con- 

 struct eight miles of stone roads, called out 

 about half of the voters of the township. 

 There was strong opposition to the proposi- 

 tion, the main objection seemingly to be the 

 proposed route and the length of time the 

 bonds were to run. Only 83 affirmative votes 

 was cast out of a total of 314. In all proba- 

 bility another proposition will be submitted a 

 little later on. 



The Berrien County Good Roads Associa- 

 tion has been organized with the following 

 officers: President, James M. Ball, St. Jc- 

 seph; Vice-President, L. L. Filstrup, Benton 

 Harbor; Treasurer, L. T. Burridse, Benton 

 Harbor; Secretary, I. W. Allan, St. Joseph; 

 Directors, W. H. Hull, St. Joseph; Henry M. 

 Miller, St. Joseph township; Frank J. French, 

 Niles. The association will work for the im- 

 provement of highways and their safe and 

 sane use. 



STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER. 



John G. Cox, of Coldwater, has been ap- 

 pointed engineer of the state highway depart- 

 ment by Commissioner Ely and has assumed 

 his duties. 



