MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



F. Johnson. Witnessed, Lulu K. Cronin. L. L. 

 Moiles. Notary, Ella L, Moiles. My commis- 

 sion expires April 20, 1910. Liber 34, page 

 180." 



The lands in question were 700 acres lo- 

 cated in town 22 NR 2-w, Roscommon county. 



One of the items touched upon by the in- 

 vestigators in connection with the alleged fail- 

 ure of the state to receive money collected 

 for trespass by state trespass agents is set 

 forth in the report in the following manner: 



(Copy.) 



$76.00. 



Kalkaska, Mich.. May 10, 1907. 



Received this day from Dick Hunter the 

 sum of seventy-six dollars, for trespass on 

 state lands. Being for 304 hemlock ties at 

 So.:.'.") cut and removed from southeast' quar- 

 ter and by William Coghlan, section 22, town 

 26-n, range 6-w, prior to May 10, 1907. A. E. 

 Imler, agent for the commission of the state 

 land office. 



(Telegram.) 



William Rose, Land Commissioner, 

 Lansing, Mich.: 



Please wire immediately trespass collected 

 mi southeast quarter of northwest quarter sec- 

 tion 22>, town 26, north range 6-w. 

 Charge. Carl. 1C. Schmidt. 



(Telegram. ) 

 Carl E. Schmidt, Detroit, Mich. 



Southeast quarter of northwest quarter, sec- 

 tion 22, town 26. north range 6 west, not held. 

 No trespass reported. 



\\". H. Rose, Commissioner. 



The efforts of the commission's committee 

 cover something more than a year's work of 

 searching investigation. Of the 800,000 odd 

 acres of land sold by the land commissioner's 

 office within the last five or six years, the two 

 investigators. Burgess and Wilson, have had 

 time to examine but little more than 21,000 

 acres. The committee shows no hesitation 

 in basing on this showing charges intimating 

 not only losses to the state through lax busi- 

 ness methods, but through fraud in some cases, 

 as well. 



FORESTRY MEANS BUSINESS. 



"Forestry today means business," said Prof. 

 Roth at the first meeting o f the year of the 

 Forestry club of the University of Michigan. 

 "It requires tact, energy, perseverance. It 

 means hard work in school and still harder 

 work out of it. Five years ago when this 

 school was started there were two of us in 

 the class. Today I enrolled the forty-fourth 

 new man. We have 40 men out working in 

 the fields and there are a hundred men in our 

 club at the present time. 



"When this school was opened here the 

 government had 50.000,000 acres of forestry 

 preserves from which foresters were excluded. 

 Many states had the title of state forester, and 

 forestry lands, but the titles and the land never 

 got together. At present the government has 

 150,000.000 acres o f land in forest preserves in 

 control of foresters, an enormous increase in 

 five years." 



MAKING READY FOR LOGGING. 



Woodsmen departing for the forests along 

 J. B. Nicholson, R. B. Loveland, G. G. Tows- 

 Linden and preparations for the fall cut will 

 soon commence. From all appearances, the 

 cut during the coming fall and winter will not 

 equal previous records, owing principally to 

 market conditions, but an improvement is an- 

 ticipated shortly. Each year operations in the 

 woods are carried in a more southerly direc- 

 tion, though extensive operations are still in 

 vogue in the north end of the upper peninsula. 

 The Buschell camps at Copper Harbor still 

 employ the usual number of workmen and 

 other loggers in the copper country expect to 

 engage a similar number as heretofore. 



RESOURCES OF SOUTH 



TO BE CONSERVED 



The National Conservation Commission has 

 received word that at least l.ooo of the lead- 

 ing business men of the South will be pres- 

 ent in Washington when the commission holds 

 st full meeting there early in December. 

 This information comes in a letter from G. 

 Grosvenor Daws. Secretary of the Montgom- 

 ery, Ala.. Commercial Club, wh'o tells of a 

 meeting of the representatives of numerous 

 business associations in the southern states, 

 held in Atlanta. These men formed a work- 

 ing organization, and. after receiving as.-ur- 

 ances of support from commercial bodies all 

 through the south issued a call for a Southern 

 Commercial Congress. The time and place- 

 were set so thai the members can be in Wash- 

 ington during the lirst meeting of the Con- 

 servation Commission on Dec. 1. the confer- 

 ence between the Commission and the Gover- 

 nors of the States or their representatives 

 which follows on Dec. *. and the meeting of 

 the National Rivers and Harbors Congress 

 which will be held in Washington during that 

 time, in the proceedings ,,i all of which the 

 men who will compose the Southern Commer- 

 cial Congress are intensely interested from a 

 business standpoint. The chief purpose of 

 the Southerners in holding their big meeting 

 is. in the words of one ,,f the originators, "the 

 provoking of a fuller understanding by the 

 people of the South of the gifts that nature 

 has placed under their control." 



Without discounting the vital importance of 

 promoting the business interests of their sec- 

 tion of the country, the promoters of this 

 Congress in Washington say they hope that 

 it will have an even deeper significance and 

 bring about a closer union between the North 

 and the South. "Of course, the Congress has 

 practical and commercial aspects," says one 

 of these men. "but there lies in the minds of 

 the originators an ethical purpose looking to- 

 wards a fuller understanding and union be- 

 tween those who have for a generation suffer- 

 ed from misunderstandings and a seeming 

 separation of interests." 



Mr. Dawes. in his letter, suggests that the 

 attainment of a fuller understanding between 

 the South and other parts of the country 

 would have its effect in bettering business 

 conditions in the South also. He writes: 



"The Southern Commercial Congress is also 

 intended as a means of combating hindering 

 prejudices that exist against the South in both 

 Northern and Eastern States. We have felt 

 that such prejudices are most easily removed 

 by personal contact, and we shall therefore 

 work to have present on Dec. 7 and 8 1,000 

 or 1 ,.")()() leading business men of the South 

 who will later participate in the deliberations 

 of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, 

 and also be present in Washington to receive 

 inspiration from the reports made to the Na- 

 tional Conservation Commission." 



"Beyond all this we feel that the presence 

 of our solid business men in meetings made 

 up largely of solid business men of the North 

 and East will act as a guarantee and pledge 

 of business men's participation in further polit- 

 ical affairs of the South and thus guarantee 

 safety to investors." 



Many of the men who arc most active in 

 organizing this Southern Commercial Con- 

 gress have for a long time been preaching 

 that the South should not only develop its 

 agriculture to a higher degree of efficiency, but 

 that it is time for the men of that part of 

 the country to take more energetic measures 

 to expand their manufacturing and business 

 interests. They believe that the attendance 

 of a large number of the most enterprising 

 men of the Southern States at the conference 

 between the National Conservation Commis- 

 sion and the State Governors of their repcr- 

 sentatives will lead to a fuller realization of 

 the immense natural resources of the South. 



In this connection they cite a recent report 

 by the Geological Survey which staled that 

 there is a minimum of about 2..M]0.<:oii indicat- 

 ed horsepower developed by the rivers rising 

 in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, half 

 of which, at the very least, could be utilized 

 for power. So far hardly enough has been 

 developed to make an appreciable showing 

 compared with the enormous possibilities. Full 

 development of storage facilities in these 

 ii\er basins would increase the horsepower 

 from three to thirty times, according 

 the experts. Hut taking the mi mint in of 1 .401),- 

 000 horsepower, its rental at $20 per horse- 

 power per year would amount to an annual 

 return of .S2s.ooo.(jno. Water power is much 

 cheaper than fuel power and will become more 

 and more so as the available supply of fuel is 

 depleted. This means that the demand for 

 water power will increase. These Southern 

 business men foresee a great manufacturing fu- 

 ture for their section and are determined to 

 instill their ideas into the minds of others. 

 They point out also that the usefulne- 

 these rivers can be increased not only for man- 

 ufacturing, but for transportation. The im- 

 provement of the lumber business and of the 

 allied industry the manufacture of turpentine 

 has also received much attention from them. 

 In some States, they say there are very rich 

 mineral deposits which might be worked with 

 great profit. 



CADILLAC'S LUMBER BUSINESS. 



Although its shores are still piled high with 

 sawed lumber and an occasional if diminutive 

 log run comes down to the mills in the old way 

 Lake Cadillac figures in the lumber business 

 now practically only in the retrospect. Fully 

 half its shore line bristle with great clusters 

 of piling to which giant timbers are bound with 

 massive steel chains, reminders of the old days 

 when each company sorted and confined its 

 logs from the run that came down out of the 

 timberland. . Every few hundred feet a great 

 pier rears out of the transparent lake water and 

 on its shining surface are the reflections of 

 many a tall sawmill stack that still belches 

 smoke and caps a busy scene of industry. The 

 big saws still eat their way through logs, but 

 the logs come in on standard trucks and over 

 steel rails instead of amid foaming rapids and 

 under the steel shod boot of the lumberjack. 



Lake Cadillac is today growing to be a great 

 beauty spot. Cadillac is proud of it in its pres- 

 ent role and because of the part it played in 

 the building up of the great fortunes claimed 

 out of the forests by Cadillac business men. 

 The city has long since completed a seven-mile 

 boulevard round the shores of the lake which 

 not only gives the sightseer glimpses of the 

 scenic values of the lake, but indicates to what 

 great extent the body of water figured in the 

 lumber industry. 



LUMBER BUSINESS BETTER. 



Guy Moulthrop, of the Moulthrop Lumber 

 Company, operating a plant on Johns Island, 

 says that business is good over in the Geor- 

 gian Bay district. "There has been a decided 

 increase in the lumber business over there and 

 some 40.000.0(10 feet have been sold during the 

 last three weeks. The mills are all running. 

 Good white pine prices have not been shaded 

 to any extent but mill culls and norway are off. 

 Mill culls are now worth $12, whereas they 

 sold at $15 and $16 last year. Norway has 

 also gone off $5 a thousand. There will not 

 be over 60 per cent of the logs cut last winter 

 put into the streams the ensuing winter. The 

 Sable and Spanish Boom 4 & Slide Company 

 will handle out about 160,000,000 feet of logs 

 this season." 



William Henry Loveless, an early lumber- 

 man of Muskegon, is dead, aged 60 years. 

 He had been a resident of Muskegon for 40 

 years. In lumber days he was the senior 

 member of the firm of Loveless & Wood, in 

 partnership with the late Frank Wood of 

 Muskegon. A mill was operated by them at 

 North Muskegon. 



