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will be a perpetual commercial forest that from year to year, indefinitely 

 will keep the Glen Haven mill busy and furnish timber right at home in 

 Michigan when lumbering will be an industry crowded into the remote places 

 of the extreme north and west of the continent. 



"David H. Day's forest is growing upon land that originally furnished fuel 

 for what was in its time the greatest line of steamers that plied the great 

 lakes. It was because Glen Haven was a wooding station for the boats of the 

 old Northern Transportation Company which ran from Ogdensburg, N. Y., to 

 Chicago, that Mr. Day had his introduction to the Glen Lake country. And 

 before any other person in the United States had conceived the idea of scien- 

 tific reforestation, the young steamboat agent, looking out upon the cut-over 

 acres that had given fuel for the boilers of his steamships and seeing nature's 

 determination to replace the slaughtered trees, conceived the idea that some 

 time in what to him must have seemed the dim future timber in Michigan 

 would be in such great demand that nature's work on this particular ground 

 would yield up a fortune. 



"When he obtained title to the lands he began giving nature the aids now 

 recognized as a part of scientific reforestation. And he has watched the 

 young trees shoot straight up as they reached and reached to place their foliage 

 within the realm of the sun until now the day is not far distant, certainly 

 not beyond the limit of his expectancy, when the forest will realize all his 

 dreams and even more. 



"During all these forty years since Mr. Day conceived the idea of growing 

 a new forest upon the veritable graveyard of the virgin timber, this acreage 

 has been one of his chief prides. He has seen his own ideas taken up and 

 put into execution by national and state governments. To him there is 

 nothing new in the term conservation. It has been the watchword of his 

 operations. 



"Forty years ago he was laughed at by the lumbermen of that day. The 

 men who laughed were those who cut and slashed ruthlessly, made their 

 fortunes and left the slashings an invitation to fires and devastation. David 

 H. Day's methods are and always have been different and his reward will 

 come when this 2,000 acres begins that period of perpetual yield toward which 

 he has worked and planned. 



LOOEING FAR AHEAD. 



"His foresight today seems so extended and penetrating and calculating 

 as to be just as much ahead of the times as in the days when he was alone 

 probably in all the United States in his ideas of the value of reforestation 

 and conservation. There can be no question that were his future plans de- 

 pendent upon present conditions they probably never could be fulfilled. But 

 Mr. Day has taken into consideration the inevitable increasing demand for 

 timber. He has studied the methods in Germany, where the population de- 

 mands have so restricted timber growth as to force upon the government the 

 necessity of a conservation as yet undreamed of in America. He sees the 



