The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-03-22

Two hundred and thirty-one miles
of good roads, radiating from Flint
the county seat, and extending to
the farthest points in the county
connecting every village and town
with others; giving Genesee ini-
proved highways from north to
south and from east to west
through Flint; offering continu-
Gus good road from the northerly
part of Forest to the southern
point in Argentine and from the
easterly part of Dawson to the west
erly part of Clayton-these are
the good roads inducements which
the board of supervisors and coun-
ty road commissioners offer the peo-
pie of Genesee county in their COM
prehensive and far-reaching scheme
to bond the county for 100000 for
highway Improvement. 1t is a plan
not conceived in the minds of the
supervisors and the county road
commissioners but is the result of
investigations pursued in every
township of the county and repre-
sents the concentrated judgment of
many township boards, good roads
advocates, experts in county road
systems, the supervisors and the
road commissioners. rs
Map Shows Roads.
The map, which is presented
shsws the location of the proposed
roads and the constructed roads.
There are 321 miles of proposed
roads and 81 miles of constructed
roads. The plan calls for 1876 SO
miles of gravel road, Is IL miles of
stone road and Is IL miles of COM
bination stone and gravel roads at a
total estimated cost of $685., 312.5O.
But Genesee county, if the electors
decide to bond, will be relieved of
more than one-fifth of the total cost
through the state reward that will
be received. The state reward on
the construction Of the roads pro-
posed in the map will amount to
S131 900, leaving Genesee county
with less than four-fifths of the
cost to pay.
II the good roads bond issue is
adopted by the people or April 1,
the roads designated on the map
will be built. The supervisors de-
clared the map to be a part of the
issue that is4to be presented to the
people, and when the electors cast
their ballots they are voting not
only to bond the county. for good
roads but also to construct the
roads shown in the map.
Must Follow This Plan.
There can be no deviation from
the plan outlined, because it has
been incorporated in the bonding
proposition. The expenditure OF
the good roads money is safeguard
ed in this respect and also by the
provision by which the county road
commissioners must apply to the
board of supervisors for the funds
with which to make the improve
ments on the highways that they
designate in their request.
Several inquiries have been made
as TO whether the roads designated
in the good roads map really will
be built or If they can be changed
after the plan is adopted by the peo-
pie. The resolution of the board OF
supervisors expressly states that nc
variation can be made in the plan
designated and that all roads named
in the map must be improved
before any work Is done with the
bond money in other places.
BY the following the map outlines
II will be possible for every farmer
in Genesee county to note the prox.
unity of his farm to the good roads
II the plan is adopted, the roads
will be constructed within two or
three years and the lines on the
map will become actual stone and