MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



GOOD ROADS PROGRESS 



IN MICHIGAN STATE 



LAPEER COUNTY. 



Arthur J. Fox. highway commissioner of Al- 

 mont township, Lapeer county, has completed 

 one mile and 189 rods of state reward road 

 built of clay gravel that tests 95% stone. This 

 is the only township in Lapter county that is 

 building state roads. The new road is conceded 

 by good authority to be as fine a gravel road as 

 can be found in Michigan. The township officials 

 are proud of it and invite inspection of the road. 



Next year the township will build a longer 

 stretch of good road. The township is fortunate 

 in having a highway commissioner who can build 

 such roads as Commissioner Fox has constructed. 



SANILAC COUNTY. 



Engineer Smith, of the state highway depart- 

 ment, was taken over the mile of new road lead- 

 ing east from the village limits of Marlette. 

 After the inspection he declared that it was a 

 good piece of road and with a very little work 

 could be kept up to the top notch of perfection. 

 He particularly mentioned the cementing qualities 

 if the gravel and gave as his opinion that if 

 gravelling on other roads had been done with a 

 little care as to spreading, rolling and packing 

 the township would now have many miles of 

 first class roadway. He said that the road was 

 acceptable in every way and that the state re- 

 ward of $.")00 would be forthcoming at once. 



The mile of road is an example of what can be 

 done in road building with materials at hand, and 

 should also be an incentive for the construction 

 of more. Marlette township, like many others, 

 has gone on year after year spending good money 

 for road building that has been done in a hap- 

 hazard way thai was not beneficial in many cases 

 and not permanent in any. 



IONIA COUNTY. 



Work ha> ln-uiiii mi the Bellevue road, Ionia 

 county, with John Waters, of Hastings in charge. 

 Mr. Waters is an experienced road builder. He 

 built the stair reward road at Stanton. The 

 work will IK vigorously pushed that it may be 

 completed befores winter sets in. This five miles 

 is the longest state reward road in that section 

 of the state. Its completion will place Ionia 

 county in the front rank in the good roads move- 

 ment. While more funds will be required than 

 have been subscribed, those in charge are going 

 ahead with the work, believing that the full 

 amount required will be forthcoming. 



WAYNE COUNTY. 



The Bord of County Road Commissioners of 

 Wayne has opened up Jefferson road between 

 the Weir and Vernier roads, which now give; 

 an improved road to the M acorn b county line in 

 this direction. While Jefferson road was being 

 opened up to the Macomb county line, River road, 

 which is a continuation of Jefferson, was opened 

 between Sibley and Trenton, making one of the 

 longest stretches of continuous good road in 

 Wayne county, being about thirty miles from 

 Trenton to the Macomb county line. At the 

 present rate of progress, two years more work 

 will see this road finished to the Monroe county 

 line, giving one continuous good road in this 

 direction across Wayne county. 



The crew from River road has been moved to 

 Eureka road, which is one of the leading roads 

 coming into the city of Wyandotte, and on which 

 a mile of concrete will be built. 



MENOMINEE COUNTY. 



The Bay Shore road in Menominee county has 

 been adopted as a county road by the board of 

 supervisors. The road is 18 miles long and will 

 make one of the finest highways in the county. 

 It is proposed to improve the road the full 

 length next year. 



OSCEOLA COUNTY. 



State Highway Commissioner Ely gives high 

 praise to Contractor McLean and Highway 

 Commissioner Anderson who built the mile of 

 state reward road out of Reed City towards the 



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 <>m- of the best roads in the state. It gets the 

 state award. 



Ecorse township, Wayne county, has appro- 

 priated $0,535 for road work and bridges, and 

 $2,500 for road repair work in 1911. 



CASS COUNTY. 



Deputy State Highway Commissioner Rog- 

 ers of Lansing has inspected the half mile of 

 state road just completed by Township High- 

 way Commissioner Arnold, west of Marcellus. 

 He pronounced it the best piece of road build- 

 ing he had visited anywhere in the state. 



The question of submitting the county road 

 system to the voters of Cass county will come 

 up at the Januray meeting of the board of 

 supervisors. 



The tax-payers of Berrien county will vote 

 on Nov. 8 on the proposition to adopt th 

 county road system. 



Deputy State Highway Commissioner F. F. 

 Rogers has paid the county road commission 

 of Kalamazoo a high compliment on the roads 

 built by it this year. 



At a meeting of the town board no bids were 

 received for the new state road to the east of 

 Rochester, Oakland county, leading to the Park- 

 dale farm, and Highway Commissioner Tucker 

 was instructed to go ahead and build it. He is 

 the man who can do it, for the state roads south, 

 east and west of Rochester, are the best in the 

 county and built a great deal chaper than they 

 could possibly have been by contract. 



