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OUR VALUABLE FOREST WARDENS. 



During all these days of terror and dismay 

 in the northern counties has any one wonder- 

 ed why we have heard no word from Forest 

 Warden Pierce? Today for the first time we 

 have news of him. And the news comes from 

 Lansing, lie says that he has been in Ogemaw 

 and losco counties investigating- and that lie 

 found the fires have been "largely caused by 

 the settlers themselves." 



This might have been of some importance 

 if it had been news, but Prof. Roth told us 

 . about it several weeks ago. The time for in- 

 vestigating has gone by. While Mr. Pierce 

 was in Ogemaw and losco learning what the 

 rest of us already knew people in Alpena 

 , and Presque Isle were being burned to death 

 towns and hamlets were being destroyed and 

 scores of square miles of country reduced to 

 a smoking desert. A forest warden is sup- 

 posed to prevent or to fight tires, not merely 

 in tell us about the causes after those fires 

 have burned themselves out. 



At the Saginaw forestry convention last fall 

 Mr. Pierce said that 'he had learned little of the 

 fire part of his business. He excused him- 

 self on the ground that he has so large a 

 territory to cover and so few deputies to help 

 him and he has to confine himself to fish and 

 game inspection. Therefore he and his depu- 

 ties could not spend much time studying fire 

 problems. Moreover, though Mr. Pierce did 

 not mention this, there is a gubernatorial elec- 

 tion every other autumn. The present fires 

 had the had taste to break out just when Mr. 

 Pierce and his deputies were rushed with other 

 business. 



The organization provided by Michigan to 

 prevent forest fires is a. farce. It makes little 

 pretense of doing its duty. It never appears 

 on the scene until the fires are over, and then 

 it devotes all its energy to arguing that they 

 did not amount to much, anyway. Mr. Pierce 

 in losco and Lansing while the fires are in 

 Alpena and Presque Isle is typical. Mr. Pierce 

 will probably shift the blame to the township 

 fire wardens. But the law provides that with- 

 out special authorization from him or his dep- 

 uties these township wardens shall not spend 

 more than ten days a year fighting fires. And 

 instead of marshalling fighters Mr. Pierce has 

 been investigating causes. 



Michigan is learning several lessons in the 

 hard school of experience this fall and pos- 

 sibly not the least valuable of them will be that 

 which shows the folly of permitting an or- 



ganization which has important duties to be 

 primarily a mere political machine. It is up 

 to the next legislature to see that a change is 

 made. Grand Rapids Press. 



Bringing Deep Seated 



Iron Ores to Light 



FORESTRY COMMISSION REPORT. 



The annual report of Charles W. Garfield. 

 chairman of the Michigan Forestry Commis- 

 sion, will be the most extensive (J f any yet 



The diamond drill has been an instrument 

 of untold value in the discovery of ore in the 

 Lake Superior field. It is true that its use has 

 not infrequently brought a property into in- 

 jury, for many a mine has been narrowly 

 missed by the drill, but in the more recent 



prepared, as Mr. Garfield -will incorporate some da ^ S t! ] e fail . ure , to , locate re is t t ak e" so 



" seriously as in the times when our iron ore de- 



new features that will make it the most valu- 

 able state paper ever presented on the subject 



posits and their enclosing formations were not 

 so well understood. 



of reforestration. It is now well known tnat in some diamond 



Much time has been spent in c< 'Heeling data ( ' r ''' ; borings there is great deflections from the 



and the subject of forest fires will be treated a1 m , lon<ied course. It is said of one drill crew 



who were rather green at the business, that 

 they could not account for the cutting of rock 

 at eight hundred feet below surface which 



this year and the commissioner may incorpor- stratum they had passed through just under 



ate in the report some suggestions bearing on tllc 'l~nt, but that they were enlightened one 



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length. The state has been particularly un- 

 fortunate in the destruction of timbered areas 



the subject, together with recommendations. 

 One of tiie new features on reforestration will 

 be the story told by pictures. 



Commissioner Garfield has spent much time 

 in having taken and collecting views which 

 cover every phase of the subject and anyone 

 looking over the 100 or more views cannot" but 

 be convinced of a strong story Without words 

 of the great work being done in the way of 

 reforestration. The argument it presents is 

 stronger than words for a continuation and 

 further fostering of the work Already in hand. 



Mr. Garfield is one of the pioneers in re- 

 forestration and his long identification with the 



day when they found the end of their drill 

 whirling about in the air, the curvature having 

 been such as to bring about this remarkable 

 result. We do not vouch for the truth of the 

 story, not having been a witness to it, but 

 there are drill runners who 

 talc to be founded upon fact, 

 that drill holes have a strange way of follow- 

 ing off with the dip of rocks, and the angle of 

 deflection is now readily measured in a very 

 simple manner. Glass tubes partially filled 

 with acid are lowered in the borings and per- 

 mitted to remain long enough for the acid to 

 etch the glass, thus showing the angle. 



will declare the 

 It is well known 



subject officially makes him o ne of the best Of late years there is more being done in 

 posted on the subject and his report this year the way of deep borings than formerly, it hav- 

 will be awaited with much interest. 



ing been proved that iron ore. as well as cop- 

 per, sometimes makes a long way under day- 

 light. This has been proved in the Iron River 



It is now getting to be a common sight to i ^Tf' Hlcre s ? m ? finds P f v f y luable 

 --!--!- . ' ' kind have recently been made. At one prop- 



UTILIZING PINE STUMPS. 



see loads of pine stumps drawn in to Cadillac 

 to the grounds of the Cadillac Turpentine ! 

 Company, which is now building a plant near 



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the factory of the Cummer Manufac tun c , t " e f be.ng ,00 feet ot overburden. This hole 



Company. The company's buildings are fast was S ' '" 



going up. Pulling machines are at work in a 

 few places near the city and after the stumps 

 are reduced by the aid of dynami e to Two 

 men's size" they are being brought to Cadillac 

 for storage on "the grounds of the new com- ' 

 ny 



The clearing of territory adjacent to Cad- 



S3yS 



]t was stopped ana as- 

 U to , be ,a very high-grade besse- 

 in that held In the ron River 



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" able dlscow ' P 1 ' 1 " 8 nature at other points 



"-f, " e '" 'T^ a " d i* ks 3S ?f the d ' S ~ 

 wl " grow to he one of the most important 



- ^ 8 ^ , T ' le work P revious jy don f in 



iliac of pine stumps is the beginning of a new " f ' dd has f bccn . vcr >' " ear s " rlace ' where 

 era in the history of tnat section and means ' J herc , we , re .toppings ot non-bessemer ores 

 great things for Cadillac industrially and agn- '" t ' '" ma ," y , seaso " s ' th ? re was n 



culturally. In a few years thousands of acre, 



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at a pnce at whlch , the miners could live 



now regarded as valueless for farming | e consequence was that the Iron River held 



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poses, will be well under cultivation. 'Mean- 

 while experiments are being made with the 

 pulp left after the turpentine has been ex- 

 tracted from the pine stumps, and there is 

 every reason to believe that a good paper can 

 be manufactured from it. In that event the 

 pine stumps of Michigan will become decidedly 

 valuable, and Cadillac will be the center of 

 entirely new industries as good or better than 

 any it now has. 



DOUBLING MILL'S CAPACITY. 



An increasing demand for its product has 

 led W. D. Young & Co., hardwood flooring 

 manufacturers, of Bay City, to contemplate ex- 

 tensive improvements. The first improvement 

 will be the installation of another band saw in 



one irom a 



standpoint. It has excellent agricultural abil- 

 ities and this has assisted greatly in maintain- 

 ing the population, but now it seems that the 

 mining of ore of high grade is to be very ac- 

 tively carried on, for the market demands ores 

 of this class. That there will be a very gen- 

 eral searching of the rocks for these high 

 grade ores which underlie those of poorer 

 quality is certain, for the mines productive t>f 

 them will lie wanted. 



While there has been a lot of talk concern- 

 ing the mining possibilities and probabilities 

 of other fields, west and southwest, it looks as 

 if there might be some very profitable work 

 done at home. Mines producing high-class 

 iron ores arc worth a lot of money, and there 

 is an opportunity to find them upon all the 



the mill. This addition will mean the doub- Michigan ranges. It is often stated that the 

 ling of the mill's capacity and also the doubling t corporations hold all of the available mineral 

 of the force now employed in that department, land, but this is not true, as recent ore discov- 



Fur this improvement the mill will close down. 

 The construction of an addition to the mill to 

 house the new saw has been under way for 

 some time. Tt had been intended to put the 

 lew band saw in the mill early in the summer, 

 but the necessity of running the plant full 

 }last causesd the matter to be delayed. The 

 company is waiting now for the mill to cut 

 about a half million feet of timber which lies 

 n the yard. This must be gotten out of the 

 way before the mill can be closed down. 



eries have proved. When the Cleveland-Cliffs 

 went into the Swanzy range lands could be 

 had for a song, nearly, and there was an 

 abundant acreage that could have been secured 

 just as the Cleveland-Cliffs gained possession 

 of it. 



Deep diamond drilling has resulted in the 

 discovery of rich ore deposits in the west of 

 Ishpeming, and in this direction there is the 

 opportunity for a great tonnage to those who 

 have the enterprise to look after it. It isn't a 



