MICHIGAN 



ROADS ^FORESTS 



DETROIT, MICH., AUGUST, 1910. 



Michigan State Good Roads Association 



P. T. COLGROVE, Hastings, President. N. P. HULL, Diamondale, Vice-President. 



THOMAS SATTLER, Jackson, Secretary and Treasurer. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



H. S EARLE. Detroit. P. T. COLGROVE. Hastings. W. W. TODD, Jackson. 



Exhibition of Good Roads Building 



Will Be Striking Feature of State Fair 



( )tu- of the mrst striking features of tbe 



lichigan State Fair to he held at Detroit 



ept. I'.i-'.'-t, w'll he the exhihit rf good mads 



>n -traction. The Michigan State Fair is the 



r-t in the country to make such an exhibition. 



There will he the actual building of good 



<>ing on during every day of the fair. 



isitora will have an oportunity of seeing not 



uly the preparati n of all material, hut the 



pi-ration of building sample roads hy at least 



di /en exhibitors of the most improved 



i.-i.l machinery. A strip of road 600 to 1.00(1 



:et in length will he laid (luring the week 



id there will he lectures hy competent offi- 



als from the Department of Gcod Roads at 



Washington, D. C, under the direction of 



t-.rxe 1). Marshall, who will explain the pro- 



!SS of preparation and advantages of the 



irinus materials used in construction of im- 



oved highways. The United States Govern- 



i-nt is taking a particular interest in this 



splay, and proposes to do everything pos- 



.Ic 1" make Mich an exhihit both interesting 



d instructive. 



ll i> an opportunity that ought not to be ne- 

 ..cted by the highway commissioners of 



ichigan. If the townships have funds which 

 ui be used for the purpose it would be an 



rellrnt investment for it to pay the expenses 



its highway commissioner to the fair. The 

 i -traction he will receive, and the knowledge 



will acquire of road making machinery in 

 operation ought to be worth a great 

 limy dollars to the township when it begins 

 lilding good roads. Every highway com- 

 i -sinner should be conversant with the latest 

 od roads machinery. At the state fair he 

 wl see half a do/en or more firms giving 

 1 ictical illustrations of the work their ma~ 

 cines can do. It will be an exhibition such 



as it would hardly be possible to give even 

 thrugh a township were in the market for 

 road making machinery. 



Among the concerns who will build sections 

 c f roads with their machinery are the Port 

 Huron Engine & Thresher Company, repre- 

 sented by Jas. W- Kennedy, of Detroit; Kelly- 

 Springfield Road Roller Co., represented by 

 W. I. Thompson, of Jackson; A. D. Baker 

 Company, of Swanton, O., by F. W. Marquette 

 of Lansing; Huber Manufacturing Company, 

 of Marion, O., by C. H. Shoemaker; Good 

 Roads Machinery Company by H. K. Wilson 

 of Hillsdale: Galion Iron Works, by Charles 

 W. Carter of Detroit. In addition there will 

 he any number of firms represented who build 

 dump wagons, road plows, scrapers and any- 

 thing and everything used in connection with 

 the building of good roads. 



The exhibit will be conducted in such a 

 manner as to appeal to every section of the 

 state, no matter how bad the roads may be 

 or how poor material the commissioners may 

 have at hand. 



It is the purpose to demonstrate with all 

 kinds of read material. In this way the town- 

 ship .commissioner that has only gravel at 

 hand will be instructed on gravel roads; where 

 hardheads abound the crushing and laying of 

 this material will fit the case of the commis- 

 sioner who has this material to deal with. 



Supt. V. V. Green of the Machinery and 

 implement division of the fair is the man to 

 whom credit should be given for this effort 

 on the part of the association to educate the 

 people in the building of better highways. 

 The exhibit should become a permanent fea- 

 ture of the fair. 



Branch township, one mile: Cedar Creek 

 township, two miles: by the County Road 

 Commissii-ners, six miles. Other roads are 

 projected but not yet under construction. 



Throughout the county there were eighty- 

 three persons who donated an aggregate of 

 $750 per mile for state reward roads up to 

 a minimum of ten miles each year for three 

 years. Then, added to this, is the $500 re- 

 ward paid by the state for each mile of road. 

 As no roads have yet been wholly completed, 

 the exact cost is not known, but the average 

 for the thirteen and one-half miles is esti- 

 mated at $2,000. After receiving the $1,250 

 rewards this will only leave an average net 

 cost of $750 per mile to the townships. 



The work has been under the ' personal 

 supervision of the three county road commis- 

 sioners, assisted by the officers of the asso- 

 ciation. The three commissioners are: 

 Charles E. Hayrtes, Cadillac: Fred Usewick, 

 Sherman; H. E. Stancliff, Boon. , 



The following are the officers of the Wex- 

 ford County Good Roads Association: D. B. 

 Kelley, president, Cadillac; V. F. Huntley. 

 vice-president, Manton; F. H. Meyer, secre- 

 tary, Manton; Henry Knowltcn, treasurer, 

 Cadillac: Charles E. Mitchell, Cadillac; Ed. 

 Brehin, Cadillac, and A. B. Southwick, Sher- 

 man members, who, with the officers, com- 

 pose the executive committee. 



DOING GOOD WORK. 



Deputy Highway Commissioner Rogers 

 has made a trio throughout the extreme north- 

 ern portion cf the lower peninsula, in which 

 he attend-ed several good roads meetings and 

 looked over a number of miles of new 

 highway. 



Mr. Rogers states that the farmers of the 

 northern section of the state are showing^ a 

 laudable desire for good roads, and that, while 

 all of the highways are not built in a manner 

 which will win state rewards," they are valu- 

 able because they open up new territory and 

 replace old trails and log roads with a very 

 modern form of highway. 



While the department is anxious to see state 

 award roads constructed, it is likewise inter- 

 ested in seeing some of the worst road's of 

 the state bettered in any manner and thor- 

 oughly approves of the course which the 

 weaker townships are taking, realizing that 

 they are doing all in their power to better 

 conditions. 



THIRTEEN MILES OF GOOD ROAD. struction within the county thirteen and one- A gravel road is to be built out of Boyne 

 The Wexford County Good Reads Associa- half miles of state reward road, as follows: An- City to connect with the B'ohemian settle- 

 tin, which was organized last year to work tinch township, one and one-half miles; Hen- ment. Residents of the city have subscribed 

 i; conjunction with the county road commis- derson township, one mile; Slayle township, $1,000, and the towns-hips to be benefited have 

 s n, reports that there is now under oon- one mile; Boon township, one mile; South appropriated $3,000. 



