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THE CHAIR, referring to a balance in the treasurer's statement 

 of $16.46, carried over from the special nut prize fund, asked for the 

 action of the meeting to place this in the general fund. This was 

 voted. 



THE CHAIR asked Senator Harvey A. Penny of Saginaw, Mich., 

 if lie would speak to the convention about ex-president Linton, re- 

 marking that Mr. Linton was first of the ex-presidents to pass away. 



Senator Penny gave a brief sketch of the long and useful life of 

 Mr. Linton, most of which was spent in Saginaw, Mich. Among 

 other things he said: He attended our schools and later on became 

 interested in the lumbering business. His father was a lumberman 

 but he worked for other people, and for years was a lumber scaler, 

 then bookkeeper for a while, and later on became engaged in the 

 lumber business himself in Saginaw. I presume it was then that he 

 acquired his love for nature and for the big pines that he helped to 

 destroy. That was then considered their only use. You raise nut 

 trees because you want their fruit, but a pine tree was considered only 

 good for its lumber. Up near Saginaw we had the finest white cork 

 pine in the world. This pine has all disappeared. Great fortunes 

 were mnde in Saginaw. In our city of Saginaw 25 years ago, I think 

 there were more wealthy men than in any city of its size in the 

 United States. Most of those men have gone and have passed their 

 business along to the public, building fine institutions, schools, etc. 

 Mr. Linton never acquired much wealth, but I have often said that 

 he did more for our city than any other one man. He was eternally 

 working on some proposition for the benefit of our city. He was 

 president of the Board of Commerce before he became a member of 

 this association and he bought carloads of shrubbery and sold it at 

 cost around the city. While I was in the legislature I never had any- 

 one give me the help he did on a great many things. One of the things 

 he did was to draft a bill for the planting of nut trees on the high- 

 ways. He prepared the bill and gave it to me and I presented it to 

 the legislature and got it passed. The highway department has a 

 man whose business it will be to pay special attention to the planting 

 of trees on the highways. So far they have not done a great deal, 

 although they have a lot of trees ready, because they have been more 

 anxious first to get the rights of way and have the highways laid out. 



