Show BETTER ROADS IN MICHIGAN improvement of right kind making profit of per cent in wayne county upkeep it Is less money spent in road improvement of the right kind is making a profit of per cent a year in wayne county michigan the county spent on construction st and maintenance during the tha eight years from to 1914 1014 inclusive and in this period the assessed valuation of property properly in the county outside of the city of detroit increased from to 10 0 or sac per cent of this increase 35 per cent or is credited to road improvement because the assessed valuation of detroit increased only per cent the increase in county valuation above the rate of increase in the city was eleven times the cost of road read work or 1000 per cent profit in eight years on the total investment in improved tind imd prove d roads more than miles of concrete road have been put down by the wayne county commiss commissioners loners since the hie county system was adopted in 1900 and the roads built mith the bond issue are still in good condl condition on and give every promise of more than outliving the bonds bond the commissioners commissioner state in their ninth annual report for last year that they never have had to take up and replace a single 25 foot section since J good roads in michigan they have been developing this type of road although some of tile the roads have been down more than seven years every mile of durable roads laid is cutting down the cost of upkeep last year the commissioners had 45 miles milea more roadway to care fur for than the year before yet they spent less for cor maintenance notwithstanding they have supervision over 1245 miles of other ather types of road such suell as macadam and gravel outside of incorporated cities and villages it is estimated tinia ted that eliat 90 00 per cent of the traffic in the county is carried on 20 per cent of the road mileage and that concrete construction should be continued until there are about miles of such roads |