THE STATE REVIEW. 



AN ANNOUNCEMENT. 



With this issue of the State Review the an- 

 nouncement is made to its friends and patrons 

 that a change has occurred in its management, 

 that it has been purchased by gentlemen long 

 familiar with the newspaper business and that 

 beginning with this issue, its place of publication 

 will be the city of Detroit instead of Grand 

 Rapids. 



The State Review is now over three years old, 

 and during the management of the gentlemen 

 who founded and controlled it, it has deserved 

 and received the respectful attention of a large 

 and representative body of readers. 



During the past year the State Review has 

 pajd much attention to the subject of reforestiza- 

 tion, having been practically the official paper of 

 the Michigan Forestry Association, organized 

 upwards of a year ago for the purpose of promot- 

 ing a rational system of forestry in Michigan. 

 The State Review has also been an advocate of 

 the good roads idea in this state. It proposes, 

 under the conduct of the gentlemen who have 

 taken it over, to continue the advocacy of these 

 two important subjects in the hope that it may 

 furnish to those who are interested in the re- 

 production of the timber wealth of Michigan and 

 in the development of its means of internal com- 

 munication, a standard about which they can 

 rally and a publication which shall be at once 

 earnest and intelligent in the advocacy of the two 

 propositions. 



The importance of reforestization has been, by 

 this time pretty thoroughly impressed upon the 

 people of our state. The methods of securing it 

 and the advantages accruing out of the applica- 

 tion of those methods have also been well dis- 

 cussed, and it shall be the purpose of the State 

 Review to continue that discussion along the lines 

 that promise the most successful results. The 

 people of the state have given their approval to 

 the policy of making good roads on the state 

 day plan and our counties are one by one drop- 

 ping into line in raising money to improve their 

 main thoroughfares upon a rational and scien- 

 tific system. 



If the State Review, during the continuance of 

 its present management, shall have some favor- 

 able effect upon the advancement of these two 

 important ideas, the best hopes and ambitions of 

 its present proprietors will be realized. 



