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GOOD ROADS PROGRESS 



IN MICHIGAN STATE 



OSCEOLA COUNTY. 



Evart township, Osceola county, is to have 

 Rood roads. The taxpayers, following the 

 lead of Osceola township, have voted to bond 

 for $15.000 tr. huild state award roads. Actual 

 work on the roads will probably not begin 

 until spring. 



WEXFORD COUNTY. 



The Wexford County Good Roads Associa- 

 tion held a meeting at Cadillac recently and 

 voted to pay for one mile of road in Selma 

 township between sections 24 and 25 and 

 for one half of the 12,000 feet of the Manton 

 road which is completed, having been built 

 this year. The association promises to pay 

 the sum of $700 a mile for all roads up to ten 

 miles built in one year under the direction of 

 the county road commissioners. 



BENZIE COUNTY. 



Gilmore township, Benzie county, on July 7. 

 voted to bond itself for $5.000 for the purpose 

 of improving the highways. This township if 

 one of the good fruit sections of Western 

 Michigan and the fruit growers purpose to 

 have things fixed so as to market their pro- 

 ducts with as little waste of time and energy 

 a- possible. 



term of office expires, is not elected to suc- 

 ceed himself Mascn county will have three 

 qualified road commissioners after the first of 

 January. This unusual situation which exists 

 only in Mason and Wayne counties was 

 brought about by the legislature at its last ses- 

 sion. According to the provisions of a law 

 passed at that time the election of road com- 

 missioner was placed in the fall and the suc- 

 cessful candidate is required to qualify and 

 take his office by January 1 of the following 

 year. Under the old regime the commissioner 

 was elected in the spring and relinquished his 

 office to his successor on the first of May. 



MACOMB COUNTY. 



Erin township, Macomb county, will un- 

 doubtedly build good roads next year, and 

 may get_ started this fall. Sometime ago 

 a proposition to bond for $30,000 for good 

 roads was defeated. The advocates of better 

 highways were not discouraged. They kept 

 on preaching the doctrine of good reads and 

 a couple of weeks ago called a mass meeting 

 of the residents of the township to get a line 

 on the sentiment. They found that the major- 

 ity of those present were now in favor of the 

 movement, and a proposition to bond will 

 again be submitted. There is little question 

 that it will be carried this time. 



ers will probably be made within a 

 time. 





It is said that the opponents of 

 in Kalamazoo county will endeavor t<> havt 

 the question of the county road system 

 submitted to the people at the November dec 

 t 11. If they do succeed in having the ques 

 tion submitted again Roads & Forests be 

 lieves they will meet with a more decishri 

 defeat than when the system was adopted las 1 

 year. Kalamazoo has been the banner conn 

 ty in the matter of good mads constructioi 

 this year. State award roads have been 

 are being built in every section of the cou 

 and it is not likely that the enlightened pec 

 of Kalamazoo will take a backward step. 



Wm. Joyce has completed the job of build- 

 ing the culverts and grading a mile of state 

 reward road in Joyfield township, Benzie coun- 

 ty, and the work has been accepted as very 

 satisfactory by the township officials. The 

 contract for graveling the road has been let. 



MASON COUNTY. 



The election of county road commissioner 

 in Mason county present a unique phase this 

 fall in that if the present incumbent, whose 



KALAMAZOO COUNTY. 



At a meeting rf the Kalamazoo county road 

 commissioners it was decided to purchase a 

 :'.50 gallon sprinkler from the J. I. Case corn- 

 pan'- for ire in road building. Tt was also 

 decide' to lease a ten-ton roller from the 

 Port Huron Engine and Traction company 

 for the balance of the season, with the privil- 

 ege of buyintr it. 



Work on the roads in the vicinity of School- 

 craft starter! Sept. 1. The commissioners have 

 aln-Hv located several places where stme 

 suitable for toad building can be secured at 

 reasonable tales and contracts with the own- 



BERRIEN COUNTY. 



At a meeting of the Rerrien C> tinty Gooi 

 Roads Association held at St. Joseph report 1 

 were heard from various precincts in tin 

 countv relative to the pood roads propositici 

 regarding; its submission to the voters 



Those report? indicate that the adopti n 

 the county rrad system will be submitted 

 the electors of the county at the N"o\cr 

 election. 



According to the reports reccved bv 

 secretary from all parts of the county an ini 

 provement in the roads is greatly desired. 



The farmers consider the matter -f vitn 

 importance lo the cities as well as the rur: ; 

 districts, ard contend that what benefits on 

 helps the other. 



The proposition will come before the be 

 of supervisors at the next meeting and 

 it be favorably received, the election will 

 cur at the regular state and county elec" 

 in November. 



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County Road Commissioner Scott of Chf 



bovgan has practically completed work on 



half mile of macadam road running west frori 



Wolverine. This will be one of the be~ 

 strips of road in Cheboygan county. 



