MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



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GAINES 



Grand Rapids, Michigan 



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will become an important connecting thor- 

 oughfare. 



The building of this road will be the biggest 

 job in the road building line that the people 

 (if Mecosta county have, undertaken. This 

 is (hit- t<> the fact that before the road could 

 be built a big swamp had to be drained, and 

 the water let out from one of the Twin lakes 

 into another.' It is also a safe- prediction to 

 make that when it is completed it will be a 

 tine object * lesson and the- people who have 

 occasion to. use it, and there are many, will 

 be thorough.' converts to the- county road sys- 

 tem. Mr. Lyons thinks- the building of this 

 road will take all summer and continue until 



Mr. Lynns has graveled the road in Mill- 

 hrook township, connecting West Millbrook 

 with "Millbr ok. The work of grading the 

 Deertiekl mi!e is also completed. This was 

 l.r.min la.-t fall, bul the graveling will not be 

 all completed until next fall. 



GOOD ROADS PROGRESS 



IN MICHIGAN STATE 



GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY. 



After a tour of inspection of the roads' of 

 Grand Traverse county. L. ('. Smith, assistant 

 engineer of the State Highway Department, 

 Lansing, declared that the work in the county 

 was getting started in .mod shape, that the 

 right kind of roads arc being built, and that 

 the Fast Hay and Blair roads arc equal to any 

 gravel roads in Manistee county. Manistcc 

 county, he says. |, ns been under the county 

 road system for nearly in years. It has had 

 the benefit of long experience, and is getting 

 the main thoroughfares of the county pretty 

 well unproved. 



"fiive Grand Traverse c< utity the same 

 length of time, and there is no reason in the 

 world why she cannot bring about the same 

 results." l:e -ays. 



Mr. Smith reports Mast Hay and 1'dair town- 

 ship roads O. K.. and the state reward of $500 

 per mile will be paid. A gravel road, he said, 

 is not necessarily completed when accepted, 

 but must be ready tor the smoothing process. 

 This, he said, c. uld be done by the roller pro- 

 cess much quicker. 



Mr. Smith also inspected roads in Ben/ic. 

 Manistee and Newaygo counties. 



Another mile of state reward road has been 

 begun in (Irand Traverse comity. This stretch 

 n the 1 ,ong Lake road. 



elected: President. Frank \orton: Secretary. 

 Fred Hargrcavcs; Treasurer. John Mclntosh. 



Four hundred dollars of the amount sub- 

 scribed by the business men are now on de- 

 li sit in the Huron County Savings Bank and 

 Cashier Babcock says that the remainder will 

 be there in ample time to be used in the build- 

 ing of these two miles of improved roads. 



No township in Huron county can boast of 

 having more improved roads sentiment than 

 Sand 1 Beach. 



CLARE COUNTY. 



Following are the townships in Clare county 

 and the amounts apportioned for road work 

 by the Board of Supervisors: Arthur, $144.24: 

 Franklin. $32.12; Freeman. $55.12; Frost, 

 $57.51: Garfield. $55. (il ; Grant, $2:{'.'.<i7; 

 Greenwood. $80.39; Hamilton, $87.!)5; Hat- 

 ton. $73.30; Hayes. $21). 65: Lincoln, $52.05: 

 Redding, $8fi.74: Sheridan. $278.85: Summer- 

 held, $40.85; Surrey. $172.50; Winterfield, 

 $fi6.47; Clare City, $3(55.14; Harrison City, 

 $88.85. 



ISABELLA COUNTY. 



John S. Weidman, II. A. Sanford and R. O. 

 Doughty are the members of the good roads 

 ^committee of the Board of Trade of Mt. Pleas- 

 ant. State Highway Commissioner Ely has 

 reccmended that stone roads be built in Isa- 

 bella county. 



Union township has voted $7.000 for two 

 miles of state reward road. 



HURON COUNTY. 



The Bad Axe and Sand Beach State Road 

 Gravel Club has been organi/ed in Sand Beach 

 township. Huron county. The club will build 

 one mile t f slate reward gravel road this sum- 

 mer. It will be built on the Slate road, begin- 

 ning at the Cowper corner and running east. 

 The road i- to be built by subscription. The 

 farmers will have to subscribe only $300 which, 

 together with what Harbor Beach business 

 people will give and $500 from the state, will 

 take care ol the money end i f this excellent 

 proposition. John Sclimyscr, superintendent 



of Sigel. has agreed to furnish the gravel for 

 eight cents per yard. 



At a meeting of Fast Huron Grange it was 

 decided to form a simlar club and build a mile 

 of improved gravel road commencing at Frank 

 Norton's corner running south. The club was 



organized and will be called "Farmers' G 1 



Roads Club." The following officers were 



MECOSTA COUNTY. 



County Road Commissioner \V. B. Lyons, 

 of Big Rapids. Mecosta county, has begun 

 work on the Colfax road, east of the city. 

 This road is one of the most important thor- 

 oughfares in the county and the section that 

 yill be improved, four miles ill length, is about 

 the worst. Hence its improvement up to 

 state specifications will mean much for thous- 

 ands of residents ol the county, and especially 

 those (,f Colfax. Martiny. Morton and Chip- 

 pew a townships as well as those in Big Rap- 

 ids. 



This ri ad will reduce the distance to Chip- 

 pcwa Lake about three and a half miles, 

 In cause il will do away with the need of going 

 around by Rodney, which all tanners must 

 do at present when they have any sort of a 

 load to haul. It will benefit not only the 

 east and west sections but also the north and 

 south, because the road that will be improved 



HOUGHTON COUNTY. 



The question of roads is the big cne before 

 the Portage township board, Houghton county, 

 this year. The township covers a very large 

 territory, the largest in the county and the 

 most nearly virgin. New highways are neces- 

 sary, but the township cannot afford to build 

 all the required, roads in any one year.. And 

 in many cases, the. township cannot legally 

 appropriate money for the petitioned roads 

 because they would be on private property. 



Portage this year raises $7,000 for road pur- 

 poses and this would hardly build two miles 

 of new road, such as is required. The problem 

 appears to be one which the board can solve 

 only in time.. Money would solve it, but the 

 township has not the money. It has the time. 

 and will probably in a few years give the 

 farmers all the reads they need, if the farmers 

 can hang on long enough. 



The township board of Calumet, Houghton 

 corinty' has passed resolutions that the Trap 

 Rock river and Lake Shore districts, in the 

 jurisdiction' of the township board, be provided 

 with new. pads where needed, and that the 

 old roads now in use be put in a better state 

 of repair. 



GENESEE COUNTY. 



The macadamizing of the North Saginaw 

 and the Fenton reads in Genesee county 

 started June 15. The contract was awarded 

 to the God Roads' Construction Company of 

 Port Huron at a price of 53 cents a lineal foot. 

 The material is being- furnished by the county 

 road commissioners. There is G.fiOO feet of 

 macadam roadway .to. be laid on both North 

 Saginaw and Fenton roads, and it will be 

 built nine feet wide. 



It is believed that we will have one of the 

 best: macadam roads in the state when the 

 work is finished." says George H. Sellers, one 

 of the commissioners. "We will construct it 

 according to specifications thai are better than 

 demanded in the state specifications. The 

 road will be seven inches thick, one inch 

 thicker than named in the state specifications, 

 and it will, have a limestone bottom with a 

 bard cobble top. containing native trap rock 

 and granite to a large degree. Limestone 

 screenings will be used as a binder." 



The survey i.f the South Saginaw road for 

 one mile has been started, and it is the inten- 

 tion of the commissioners to macadamize this 

 portion if the funds are available. 



EMMET COUNTY. 



The B<;ard of County Road Commissioners 

 of Emmet county has exlended its jurisdiction 

 over the following road heretofore laid out, 

 vi/. : Beginning at a point on North line of 

 Section 3 Town .".fi North of Range 4 West. 

 738 feet West ( I" ' i post, and 83 feet East of 

 th center line of the Grand Rapids and Indi- 

 ana Railroad, ami running southeasterly par- 

 allel to. and 83 feet from said center line of 

 Railroad, to East and West 1 A line of section 

 10, same Town and Range being 8072.5 feet, 

 to be known as Mackinaw Turnpike, part two, 



