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GOOD ROADS PROGRESS 



IN MICHIGAN STATE 



KALAMAZOO COUNTY. 



With between twenty-seven and thirty miles 

 of new road, and a large amount of repair 

 work which will be finished during the early 

 part of the fall season, Chairman Bryant, of 

 the Kalamazoo county road commission, says 

 that the county will have accomplished more 

 on the county highways this year than any 

 other county in the state. The apportion- 

 ments received from the state road fund will 

 be proportionately high. 



The work accomplished this year will be 

 the nucleus for one of the best country road 

 systems in the west, and in seven or eight 

 years the commissioners expect to see every 

 main traveled thoroughfare leading out of the 

 city of Kalamazoo in a perfect condition for 

 at least ten miles. 



Embraced in the new road work which has 

 already been finished, or will be completed 

 this year, is a mile in Charleston township, 

 south of Augusta; two miles in Ross town- 

 ship, two miles in Richland township; two 

 miles in Pavilion township; one mile in Cooper 

 township; one mile on the Williams road, 

 south of Williams crossing; one mile on the 

 West Main street road; a long stretch on the 

 territorial road; one mile on the Center road, 

 east of Vicksburg; several stretches in Ful- 

 ton township; two miles in Comstock town- 

 ship; one mile east of Schoolcraft; one mile 

 in Prairie Ronde township. 



At Richland, the commissioners had a great 

 deal of difficulty, because 'of the wrong loca- 

 tion of the drain, which was laid many years 

 ago. This was shifted, and the highway is 

 now considerably widened. Trouble was also 

 experienced in Cooper township, where a big 

 hill was eliminated, and from which 3,000 

 yards of dirt was taken. Another factor in 

 increasing the expense in some localities was 



the inability to secure good gravel. In such 

 instances, rock had to be used, at a great addi- 

 tional cost. 



"Our roads will cost about $1,500 a mile, 

 and they are all good, substantial highways," 

 says Chairman Bryant. "This is much cheaper 

 than the state and national good roads au- 

 thorities thought it could be done for, and 

 we are also going to complete a much greater 

 mileage than they said we could finish this 

 season. 



"When completed, the Gull road will be an 

 ideal country thoroughfare. We will do two 

 miles of it in Richland township this year, 

 with a fifteen-foot roadway, and in the future 

 we expect to make all the main roads- this 

 width." 



After the good roads system is completed. 

 Commissioner Bryant states that a man will 

 be hired for every ten or fifteen miles of 

 highway, and will devote his entire time to 

 keeping it in repair. A drag will also be left 

 this fall with a farmer in each mile of high- 

 way completed. He will work the stretch 

 allotted to him after every big rain, and will 

 be compensated for it by the board." 



Charles H-. Russell of Kalamazoo, has been 

 awarded the contract for constructing a mile 

 of the Center road in Brady township Kala- 

 mazoo county, to be improved this year, the 

 contract price is $1,700. The award was made 

 by the county highway commissioners. The 

 commissioners authorized R. D. McGregor to 

 improve a mile of road in Cooper township 

 and George Wakefield that known as the 

 Augusta and Climax road south of Augusta, 

 under the commissioner's supervision. Work 

 on the latter highways will be commenced at 

 once. 



"Work was commenced on the crushed 

 stone reads west and south of Fulton, Aug. 

 15," says County Highway Commissioner 

 Bryant of Kalamazoo. "To hurry along this 

 work a new road camp was established, to be, 



known as 1 Good Reads camp No. 5. 

 hope to complete the entire thirty-two 

 of road laid out this season, and will prob 

 do so, as there are yet four months in 

 work may be done. 



IONIA COUNTY. 



The Ionia and Berlin-Bellevue associa 

 has been organized for the purpose of inj) 

 ing five miles of Bellevue road from 

 south to Tremayne's corners. State Cor 

 sioner Ely attended the meeting and the 

 ciation, was permanently organized with 

 Loomis, president; Jay Harwood, secre 

 and an executive committee from Orange 

 lin and Ionia townships and Ionia city, 

 improvement will cost $7,500. More thar 

 of this is already on hand. 



GENESEE COUNTY. 



Senator Arthur Tuttle, of Leslie, wt 

 touring the state with Charlie Town 

 for the Republican nomination for U. S 

 tor, is responsible for the following ret- 



"We have traveled through several 

 ties and I have reached the conclusior 

 Genesee has the best roads of any of 

 We were in Livingston county a few 

 ago and the roads there do not begin t*> 

 pare with those in Genesee. In our to 

 Genesee county we only struck one pie 

 poor road, that between Flint and Fentc 



The work of macadamizing the Flint-F 

 road in Genesee county will be corrtp 

 about the middle of September. 



MENOMINEE COUNTY. 



The Menominee county road comr 

 has adopted a proposed road between 

 and the Wausaukee bridge across the 

 nominee river as a county road, the wo 

 building the same to be begun at an e : 

 date. W. J. Oberdorfer, of Menominee tc > 

 ship, has advocated the building of this i 



