MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



stretch through the village is to be paved brush notices on all county roads and will county, and extending north one mile, th 



with concrete, it is believed that the com- enforce the law to the letter. township of Carlton has completed a piec 



munity will contribute $5,000 by subscription of state reward road, which is pronounced b 



und taxes. xhe Wayne County Road Commision let expert road men, the finest piece of goo 



Ihe rest ot tlie money necessary ior the to the Qwcsso Construction Company a con- road yet constructed in Barry county. Th: 



proposed improvement will be made up as tract ca nj ng f or 8,465 linear feet 16 feet wide road was begun last fall under supervisio 



follows: State reward, $0,500; subscription by out Grand River 'road. It will complete the of Bennett Fisher. The finishing process c 



Edward S. George and others, $16,000; sale j ob f or $16,422.10, or $1.21 per square foot, putting on the top layer of gravel was don 



of bonds, $40,000 total $72,500. r; ne commission figured that its cheapest pos- under the direction of H. A. Nichols. Ov 



sible charge if it did the work itself, would 600 loads of screened gravel were used. Th 



SANILAC COUNTY. be $1 32 per square foot. state highway department sent Deputy Con- 



Residents of Marlette township, Sanilac On the Mack road, where 1,630 linear feet, missioner F. F. Rogers to inspect the wor 



county, are advocating the building of state 16 feet wide, are needed, R. D. Baker & Com- and he pronounced the road to be excellent 



reward roads. They are awakening to the pany bid $1.27 per square yard, and although The state has acepted the work, which mear \ 



fact that a large amount of labor and money this is 2 cents higher than the cost as figured that the $500 state reward will be allowe* 

 have been wasted on the highways of Mar- bv the commission, the contract has been and leaves the expense to the taxpayers (j 



lette township. Money has been spent freely signed on the part of the county. the township very light. The total cost c 



and yet the fact remains that the township "We had several reasons for awarding the this mile of good road was about $1,400. At 



has the poorest roads of any locality around contract to the Owosso people," says Edward about $500 was raised by subscription, onl | 



Marlette. The gravel that lias been poured N. Hines of the commission. "In the first $400 will have to be raised by taxation. Cei 



on the roads leading to the east and north place, the people out Grand River road have tainly there could be no better investment fc 



of Marlette, particularly was so put on that been shouting to have the work rushed, while the farmers of Carlton. 



the road bed was never in condition to with- W e have only two concrete mixers and they Another mile will be built under Mr. Nicl | 



stand the heavy traffic and rains and the re- are both busy elsewhere. Besides, we have ols" supervision, starting at the corners on< 



suit is that if something is not done quickly been talking about how low our figures were half mile west of Carlton Center, and runnin l 



all the work heretofore done will be lost. The but have never before called in an outside straight south. 



east road is full of spots where a heavy load nrm to make an exact test. We wanted a 



goes through the gravel, and the north road direct comparison. In the third place the KENT COUNTY 



has never been free from them. Owosso company's machinery is considerably The d roads commission of K ent com , 



rr - like pur own and they agreed to get the ma- t h comple tely skirted the city of Gran 



MARQ.UET.rE COUNTY teria l from us and let us do the ditching and |ds ^ th / im ed d e of 



The macadam highway being built by the tiling, so that we figured it was better to let roadSi constructea w j t h the fund of 25 cem 



Marquette county road commission into Cho- them take the responsibility of coming out f rom every ^ 000 assessed upon the propert 



colay township is being extended rapidly to even than for us to take it. in the district 'embraced, in addition to whic 



the point it is hoped to reach before the Ihe Mack road deal was a little different Jt receives a stat , reward o f $500 for ever 



close of the season. This is far the most That is only a small piece of work. It would m j| e Q f road tllus j mprove d 



valuable improvement that the Marquette road take us about six days to complete it after Thus far t , ]ree and a ha]f mi]es of thg Can; 



commission has yet undertaken. Ihe highway we got set up. lo do that six days work street r0 ad north from the city limits an 



between Marquette and Negaunee is a fine it would take us two days to set up camp and extend i ng through Mill Creek have been cot 



piece of show road, and an admirable speed- two days more to tear it down and we thought s tructed' two mfles on the Plain field road an 



way for automobiles, but is not to be compar- the additional expense of moving our equip- a mj]e s ' tri in ' the village of pjainfield; tw 



ed in utility to the road through Chocolay ment more than equalled the difference in the m ;i es on Knapp avenue east from Plainfiel 



township. The country tapped by the latter bids. _ avenue; one and a fourth miles on Walks 



highway has been wonderfully developed by avenue three miles en East Leonard stree 



the farmers. Nearly all the land abutting on ALLEGAN COUNTY. two and a half miles on Kalamazoo avenm 



it is cleared and under cultivation. Hundreds . . nnp nnr i u a if ml i es on p^oh Alnine and Bu 



of farmers will be benefited bv the imorove- An important meeting of the directors of 



the Roarri of Trade of AlWan was held re- terworth avenues, and the same distance o 



ment. They can haul larger loads than pre- ' Clinton road in East Grand Ranids Tr- 



iislv with les wear on their horses Thev cently. The question under consideration was v 



vipusiy witn ies wear arses, iney !_.._.__* f i - hicrhwav hetwee -, AlUo-nn construction crew is now engaged in finishm 



will save much time in getting to town with improvement of the highway between Allegan *> s 



their oroduce and eettintr back home with and South Haven, notably in Lee township, a strip ot a . lie in ciyae fa 



- a ?.?, S etlln S Da cK where four miles of very ooor road deorive also a mlle on South Division street, in ac 

 their supplies, ihe good roads policy that ver t h e distance between the two ditio " to the portions of both of those tho, 



will give the most valuable returns will be a . . tn P ? ver 3 uzhfares oreviouslv fixed 



opening up new country to agricultural set- "ties of most of its pleasures and profits. 



tlement and improving the means of commu- : he , township 01 Casco has improved all its nr^AWA rniTMTV 



nication with those regions already well set- roads from the Lee line to the South Haven OCEANA COUNTY. 



t ] e d U n. 'me, but Lee has done practically nothing, The citizens of Shelby township, Ocean 



_ although much assistance was promised' from county, believe in good roads, and have gor 



GENESEE COUNTY Allegan last year. This is the main highway about building them in a business-like mat 



,, between the lake shore and the county-seat, ner. Three years ago they bonded their towi 



Construction work on the 6,600 teet of maca- and is a irnp ortant artery of trade and s hio for $20,000 to buy machinery and I 



dam road on the North Sagmaw and Fenton commerce between Allegan and the country build crushed stone roads. To date they ha\ 



roads in Genesee county began this month al the , ak as well s as from mts b * ^ ^ n h fi miles .* % 



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a mes 



The Good Roads Construction Company, of tween The Boar(1 of Trad recognizes this> of d f* and prepared for t he stone ar, 



rt, J ?' > A K , and for that reason is willing to assist ma- money on hand to finish two miles. So sati 



,h lie l^w He" h'el ,a V n n n h teriall y in maki "S the roads in Lee what the y ^d are they that a special election will t 



' i f h g l shouk ' be - The board voted a sum o mone y called this summer to vote on bonding fc 



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n he He i f h 

 and "a 'hard' C* "> aSS ' St buM '^ ^ ^ $10,000 more all to be used in the constru, 



BARKYOUNTY. 



cost is to be 53 cents a foot, the commis- reward road and another stretch of highway the village roads that first called attenl 



sioners to supply the rock has been surveyed for another proposed mile a forcible manner to the stone road 



and a half. Interest in road building has been and 8 av . e the P^tical argument necess 



WAYNE COUNTY. greatly revived in Barry county, and other to convince the citizens of the econoi 



On account of the inaccessibility of the car townships are planning to build miles of good va i!,'. e of such roads 



lines on some of the roads, and the lack of roa d this summer. John T. Lombard has T1 ? e township owns its road roller, s 



accommodation for the hundred or more offered the township of Baltimore $1,000 for Fisher, etc. It :s using the field stone 



men comprising ;. road crew, it has become the improvement of the McOmber hill, five "' the township, and is paying tor n 



necessary for the Wayne County Road Com- miles south of Hastings, on the Battle Creek that enables the farmers to make wages whi 



mission to establish camps for the feeding and road, this hill being the most difficult to climb P' ck .mg and hauling the stones to a point < 



housing of their men. with heavy loads. It is estimated that the venient to the stretch of road to be built 



County Road Commissioner Edward N. cost of improving this road, according to state 



Hines has estiblished the fir^t camp on Mount reward specifications, will be $4,000. The DELTA COUNTY. 



Elliott road, which will be the base of opera- township of Rutland leads in good road con- Officials of Wells township, Delta count 



tions for the building of Mount JLIliott and struction, the first mile having 'been pro- have awarded the contract for constructir 



Van Dyke roads. The camp has been chris- moted by Hon. P. T. Colgrove several years one mile of macadam road in that townsh 



tened "Camp Haggerty, in honor of the ago. to the Solid Rock Construction Compan 



chairman, John S. Haggerty. The work has The roa d j s to be a continuation of the mac; 



been started or. Mount 1 illiott Road. Commencing a* Barber's corners, on the dam laid last year on the Danroth road ar 



The commission is posting weed and southern line of Carlton township, Barry will run one mile west from its present te 



