MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



TURNING ATTENTION TO CITY ROADS 



When it comes to making an appeal for 

 goi il roads. Commissioner liryant of the Good 

 Roads Commission of Kalamazoo county, is 

 there with the goods. The comm ssmr.i 

 demonstrated this recently to the members u) 

 Kalamazoo city council, to whom he appealed 

 for better roads '" the city. 



"Din roads can be made into excellent roads 

 at a small cost." said .Mr. Bryant. "If you 

 , iemen will arrange some scheme to make 

 y ur city roads as good as the country roads 

 we are constructing, \ve will have some tine 

 roads out of the city and through the country. 

 If we could only get one road a year, it 

 W'.uld be only a short time before Kalama/.oo 

 would be well supplied with excellent street-. 

 \Yc can take the dirt streets and make splen- 

 did r< ads of them. There are systems that we 

 can adopt that would put the roads in excel- 

 lent condition. Several inches of the surface 

 should be taken off, the roads oiled, and a few 

 inches of .-and and gravel would do the busi- 

 ness. You would have a good hard road, the 

 equal to any paved street in the city." 



PLANNING LONG ROAD. 



Tom Mitchell, the man in charge of the 

 building of the stretch of state reward road 

 live miles west of I'.attle Creek, Calhoun 

 county, has completed another mile of the 

 road, a,- far towards Battle Creek as Urban- 

 i'ale. 1 1 is contract calls for the completion of 

 the live mile- by May 1, 1911. and he hopes to 

 be done ling before that time. An effort is 

 under way between Battle Creek and Kalama- 

 zoo, to improve the entire stretch of road be- 

 tween those two cities, and plans may mate- 

 rialize. 



Michigan Road Notes. 



Am ther niile of road ea-t from the siding 

 to the Cornwell farm and settlements in Clare 

 county has been completed. It is intended to 

 make the final link next spring which will 

 unite Maun Siding with the eastern part of 

 Hatton and the west part of Arthur townships. 



The Calumet township, Houghton county, 

 hi anl i- planning the extension of the town- 

 highway at Centennial north to Wolver- 

 The pn po-ed extension will be on a di- 

 rect line if right of way can be secured from 

 of the mining companies. 



John \V. Kderer, the new county road com- 

 missicner of Saginaw county, has appointed 

 Charles Gottschaltc as his deputy for two 

 years. Mr. Gottschalk served in a like capac- 

 ity during Mr. Ederer's first term, two years 

 Alphetts Green was 'commissioner dur- 

 'i09 and 1910. 



Deputy State Highway Commissioner F. F. 

 Rogers has accepted the mile stretch of new 

 road built out of Athens this fall. He compli- 

 mented Township Highway Commissioner 

 I'.itniear on his work. 



While inspecting a three-mile stretch of 

 gravel r< ad in Mccosta county. State Highway 

 imiSsil ner T. A. Kly viewed one of the 

 largest sink holes that has bothered Michigan 

 road builder-, in several years. It is just east 

 of Twin lakes and almost in the middle of a 

 mile if n ad to be completed next year, which 

 will prove the terminus of the road accepted 

 by the commissioner. The sink hole is over 

 Kill feet across and DO feet deep. Already LViixi 

 load- of dirt have been dumped into it, but at 

 l.ooo more will be needed to till it up. 



Manton experienced a wood famine this fall 

 all on account of bad roads leading into that 

 town. The roads were so bad it was practi- 

 cally impossible to haul the wood to town. 



I'omona Grange, of Pipeston* township, 

 IU rrien county, has declared in favor of em- 

 ploying prison labor in the building of high- 

 ways. 



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