Show Y MICHIGAN HIGH V HIGHWAY AY PROGRAM IS READY Michigan's highway program which contemplates the construction of or approximately ap tip proximately 73 miles mills of new v turnpike at nt n cost cot of ot about l I has has' Just been completed and submitted to the board hoard Of ot the proposed 1 mileage 5 miles will w bo lie pavement and out of ot tills this n ti total of ot miles will be newly authorized d construction construction and 11 miles will be In completion of work started daring 10 1023 The The remainder remainder re re- will Include gravel grading eroding and drainage In nil all the 10 1024 plan Is not rot only the largest undertaken by the state since the present system of ot highways highways high high- wn ways s 's was planned but exceeds the largest target previous pre years year's construction by almost per cent When the construction program for forthe forthe forthe the present nt year lIr first assumed definite dlf form the contemplated es e expenditure ure represented about 3 OOOO but n's ns as a n result of many ninths of work by Governor GO Alexander Groesbeck and the state highway commissioner lon r this was pared to the amount now Indicated Of Ot this this' the federal government Jq will pay ra TO m per cent ClIt of ot the construction ro cost t of ot nil all ro roads which have been en approved d I I under tip the 11 federal aid plan and the tho state l find nd counties will bear the re- re of the expense On nil all other roads rond the state stale and sup ply the entire construction capital all nil of the more Important tent tant and heavily traveled trunk lines will come rome In for tor n a share of the proposed proposed pro pro- posed work work and nt at the completion of ot I this seasons season's activities It Is d that the n ninth main arteries both belli north and south routh and east t and ond west nest will have liil e been practically practicably completed ne of ot the most Important stretches of highway highway high high- way woy to be affected will be the Grand river road rond from Detroit and ond Muskegon which will be he practically finished About forty mill of concrete cone will he be required to fill In the gaps gnps on n th the stretch between Detroit and Lansing The stretch l lying Ing In Ionia buma count county between between be be- tween Lansing and Grand will Ill probably remain ns as n 0 gravel et road due Ito to the failure of the officials of that county to appropriate the necessary funds to cover the county's share hare of this construction Some paving amounting to 3 will be done on the roal road between Lansing and ond Jackson Jack Jack- Bon son but hut this road will not lIot be completed completed com com- due to the Insufficiency of ot money mon to cover r the whole cost |