The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-12-02
VOTERS ASKED TO.
BOND FOR $4,000.
supsrv sors Submit q Proposition to
D md for Building Trunk Line
Road. Through County.

At meeting of the board Of super
visors Of Baraga county held at L'Anse
Wednesday, it was decided to submit
to the voters proposition to bond the
county for $l10, 900. 90, to be used as
the county's quarter share in building
the trunk line road through Baraga
county under the federal aid system,
by which the U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture will pay one-half Of the cost
and the state one-quarrer. The spec
ial election will be held Monday, Janu-
ary 9Th.
State Highway Commissioner G. F.
Rogers was present at an informal
meeting of the board Tuesday morning,
and explained the Avs that would be
passed in Michigan in regard to Federal
Aid roads, as well as how the proposed
road through Baraga county will be
built of and how, giving figures as to
the estimated cost of the highway.
He stated that Baraga county will be
one of only nineteen counties in Mich
igan which will be required to pay only
a quarter of the cost of the road, the
other counties paying from thirty per
cent to one half of the cost. In the
case of Baraga, the county will pay a
quarter of the cost, the state quarter
and the U. S. Government one-half of
the cost. The state makes all the
surveys without charge to the counties
and puts in all the steel bridges besides,
as well as having an engineer on the
ground at the time the road work is
going on, this all at TO cost to the
county or government. The county
pays in its share of the proposed cost
Of the road to the state, and the state
looks after the letting of the contracts
and the building of the road and from
then On the road passes out of the
countyys hands altogether, as far as the
repairing and maintaining of the road
is concerned, the county only being re-
quired to raise a maintenance fund
each year, equal to not over fifty dollars
per mile, and the state pays the
balance for keeping the roads in condi-
ton, no matter what the cost may be.
The engineers having surveyed "a
miles of the highway already and esti-
mating the remainder, Mr.. Rogers es-
timating that 1919, 164 will be needed
to complete the road. Adding ten per
cent to the total as required by the
government, the total will run up to
SALT, 0S0. 40, and recommended that the
county bond for $110, 100000, to have
little money extra for possible extra
expenses and for buying right.of-ways.
The road through from the Marquette
county line to Houghton county will be
Strengthened out considerably and the
southern half of the road il is expected
will be built Of gravel and clay, with
tie northern portion or half Of stamp
sand clay, the mixtures for the road to
be approved by the government. Con-
crete bridges will be used at the head
Of the bay, with also one steel bridge.
the heavy hills will be cut down along
the right-of-way, and the road at the
head of the bay will be raised so as to
be at least three feet above the water
leyel. A retaining wall will be built Of
concrete at the red rocks, and there
will be concrete laid in the villages of
L'Anse and Baraga, as well as concrete
at the head of the bay where there is
any danger of wash from the lake.
Mr.. Rogers figures on the road work
follows.