MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



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A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. 



A most successful experiment in the care 

 and maintenance of country sand, clay, and 

 gravel reads, whereby they can be kept in the 

 best of condition all the time at only a slight 

 cost, has been tried at North Muskegon by 

 a group of residents of that city and Muske- 

 gon, among whom are Daniel Christie, Frank 

 Storrs and several others. The experiment is 

 to drag the reads about twice a month and 

 immediately after a good rain with a home- 

 constructed "King" road drag. 



The machine was built after suggestions 

 made by John S. Walker, of Muskegon town- 

 ship, who is an earnest student of road con- 

 struction and maintenance, and has been 

 studying the principles 'of the drag for some 

 time. It is modeled in part after a commercial 

 road drag of a recent type now being commer- 

 cially exploited. 



The drag picks up the gravel, clay or sand, 

 whatever the road is made of, from along the 

 edges, where it has been worn or washed 

 down, and works it up to the crown, round- 

 ing it off nicely. In this way the crown is 

 always kept up, so that no water can stand 

 on the road, this being ruin to a highway. 

 The use of the drag at regular intervals pre- 

 vents holes or ruts from coming in the road, 

 and makes a level and hard thoroughfare. 



It was tried by Mr. Christie and the others 

 interested in a worn-out sand road running 

 west from North Muskegon along the side of 

 Muskegon lake. It crowned the road in fine 

 shape and the highway is now a general mat- 

 ter of comment anrcng residents in the sec- 

 tion for its excellence as a sand road 



GOOD STRETCH OF ROAD 



A couple of years ago Hamlin township, 

 Eaton county, built a stretch of state reward 

 road from a short distance west of Spicerville 

 to the city limit of Eaton Rapids, along with 

 it other sections of highway built on the same 

 plan. As the road through the outskirts of 

 the city to the "unbeatable" highway in Ham- 

 lin doesn't line up very well with the road it 

 joins, to put this stretch in the same excellent 

 condition of the Hamlin road, the automobile 

 owners and others most interested have club- 

 bled together and contracted with W. J. Fow- 

 ler, highway commissioner of Hamlin town- 

 ship, and a man who has built many miles 

 of the state reward road on contract in differ- 

 ent sections of Michigan, to build the same 

 style of road from the city limits to the point 

 where the Michigan Central railroad crosses 

 the Spicerville road, a distance of half a mile, 

 thus giving an almost "straight away" road 

 as level and hard as a brick pavement for a 

 distance of more than three miles from the 

 business section of Eaton Rapids. For its 

 length it will be the finest stretch of road 

 in Eaton county. There are other pieces of 

 road in the county as good as this will be 

 when completed, but none for as great a 

 distance. 



MICHIGAN ROAD NOTES. 



The Bay County Road Commissioners has 

 let the contract for grading and ditching one 

 mile of road between sections 26 and 27, Mt. 

 Forest township, Bay county. 



The Bellevue road in Ionia County has been 

 Mirveyed between the Ionia city lower bridge 

 and Tremaynes Corners, by F. W. Redman, 

 of Ithaca. The profile of the road has been 

 1 sent to the state highway department, thus 

 completing the application for the state re- 

 ward. It will require some histling to finish 

 the work this season, but it can be done if 

 the funds can be secured. 



At the monthly meeting of the Calumet 

 I township board of Hcughton county a report 

 ! of the highway committee and recommenda- 

 tion of that body for further improvements on 

 highways was submitted. The Bear Lake 

 highway, extending northwest from Section 16, 



Log Cabin Inn 



EMIL MARTY, Proprietor 



Frog and Chicken Dinners 

 Automobile and Private Parties 

 a Specialty. <J Woodward 

 Ave. cars make ''Log Cabin" 

 stop at the door Summer and 

 Winter. 



At Entrance of Palmer Park 



4001 Woodward Avenue 



Tel. North 1880. 



Highland Park, Michigan 



Established 1864. 



LAUDER'S 



Same Place 191O. 



WINES AND LIQUORS 



My Own Importation of 



SCOTCH AND IRISH WHISKIES 



Best American Grades of 



RYE AND BOURBON WHISKIES 



YE OLD BURTON ALE 



Also All Wines of My Own Importation 



THOMAS DICK 



Cadillac Square 



will be repaired, and farmers residing in that 

 vicinity will then have direct ingress to the 

 metropolis. This highway incidentally will 

 benefit Hancock townshp farmers who hereto- 

 fo e have been transacting their business at 

 Hancock, and a detour of several miles will be 

 eliminated by making the old highway passi- 

 ble. 



< f bonds in the sum of $30,000 for bet- 

 ter roads. It is believed that with the state 

 .lid that could be secured, twelve miles of 

 first class road could be built. There are 

 thousands of acres of good farming lands in 

 IVnvt'r township and good roads will en- 

 hance the value of the farms many fold. 



A proposition is being considered by the Mazatlan, Mexico, is one of the few seaports 

 taxpayers of Denver township, Newaygo coun- of the world where the American flag is occa- 

 ty, the acceptance of which will mean the is- sionally seen. 



