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MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



they are to this, and no man who loves his family, 

 his race, or his country can fail to appreciate 

 the importance of constructive legislation for the 

 conservation of our natural resources. And I be- 

 lieve that legislation to provide a fair taxation 

 for such resources is of prime importance. 



For the information of those who may be inter- 

 ested in these remarks I have prepared a table 

 to show in which of the United States the relief 

 must come through exemption, classification, or 

 constitutional amendment. If I have overlooked 

 important features of Canadian constitutional 

 requirements or perfection of Canadian laws. 1 

 hope it will be attributed to my lack of opportun- 

 ity to inform myself fully as to such constitutions 

 and laws, and not to my lack of appreciation of 

 the admirable features of that government, the 

 wonderful resources of that country, or the energy 

 and patriotism of its citizens. 



It has been my good fortune to visit the 

 provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, 

 Alberta, and British Columbia, and to learn 01 



the wonderful forest, mineral (metal and coal) 

 and water power resources which are yet open to 

 exploitation, acquisition, and development in the 

 Rockies, the Selkirks, and the Coast Range. I 

 have seen the new communities of the western 

 provinces and have found there a happy and 

 prosperous people, made so by the opportunity 

 which ,wise laws have given to individual energy. 



The following shows which states may classify, 

 which may either exempt or classify, and which 

 may neither exempt nor classify, but must amend 

 their constitutions to give relief: 



These states may exempt : Alabama, Arizona, 

 Colorado (planted forests), Connecticut, Dela- 

 ware, Idaho, Kansas, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, 

 Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, 

 Nebraska (planted forests), New Hampshire, 

 New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode 

 Island, Vermont, Wisconsin. 



These states may classify : Arizona, Colorado, 

 Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Min- 

 nesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New 



Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, 

 Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming, Mas- 

 sachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Vermont. 



These states may either exempt or classify: 

 Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, 

 Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New 

 York, Rhode Island, Vermont. 



These states may neither exempt nor classify, 

 but must amend their constitutions to give relief: 

 Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, 

 Kentucky, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina, 

 North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, 

 South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, 

 Washington, West Virginia. 



Constitutional amendment to permit classifica- 

 tion will be submitted at the next election to the 

 voters of Ohio. 



The addresses of Mr. Hubbell and other 

 speakers will appear in the next issue of Roads 

 and Forests. 



Michigan Forestry Association. 



The Michigan Forestry Association was organized in Grand Rapids August 30, 1903, having for its object the promotion of a ra- 

 tional system of forestry in Michigan. The society is managed by the following roster of officers: President, John H. Bissell, of Detroit; 

 Vice-President, Morrice Quinn, Saginaw; Secretary, Henry G. Stevens, Detroit; Treasurer, W. B. Mershon, Saginaw, W. S. Board of 

 Directors S. M. Lemon, Grand Rapids; H. N. Loud, Au Sable; Thos. B. Wyman, Munising; E. C. Nichols, Battle Creek; R. Hanson, Gray- 

 ling; Geo. N. Brady, Detroit. 



TO HARNESS PERE MARQUETTE 

 RIVER. 



Events now in progress promise to trans- 

 form the Pere Marquette river, to harness its 

 power to electric motors and to turn its hith- 

 erto unchecked current to the uses of man. In 

 other words, it appears likely that a huge dam 

 is to be erected across the Pere Marquette 

 river near Scottville, one that will supply elec- 

 trical power to that city, to Ludington and to 

 other points for miles around. 



The site of the proposed dam has already 

 been selected. It is on the N. E. J4 of N. W. 

 */4 19-18-16, in Custer township, popularly 

 known as Duck Point. Consulting engineers 

 have already made exhaustive research and 

 compiled a lengthy report as to the suitability 

 of this particular spot for a dam and the 

 amount of water power that might be devel- 

 oped. 



The engineers measured the velocity of the 

 water at that point last July. The river at 

 that time was exceedingly low following a 

 long period of drought. Yet they found it to 

 be 1,845 feet per second, the area to be 336 

 square feet which gave a volume of 620 feet 

 per second. This the engineers estimated as 

 a minimum flow and figured that it would give 

 1,760 gross horse power, 1,410 horse power at 

 the generator with a wheel of 80 per cent effi- 

 ciency and 1,060 horse power at the end of a 

 ten-mile transmission. 



The engineers also declared that the contem- 

 plated dam would require a spillway 150 feet 

 long to be constructed of hollow concrete on 

 a sheet pile foundation. The remainder of the 

 dam to be of homogeneous earth with or with- 

 out core wall as later investigation might 

 determine. The power house will be 65x70 and 

 be a part of the dam. The equipment of the 

 power house will consist of three hydraulic 

 horizontal turbine units, each with two 54-inch 

 wheels of 500 horse power each, giving a total 

 of 3,000 horse power. While 3,000 horse power 

 is twice the amount of the minimum flow, the 

 engineers estimate that by storage the new 

 dam will develop a total of 3,350 salable horse 

 power. 



A. P. Carr and E. J. Quirk have been en- 

 gaged in promoting the new dam. They have 

 secured the flowage rights along the river, the' 

 last of them only this week; they have engaged 

 engineers to make the necessary investigation 

 and reports, have done all the preliminary 

 work necessary for promoting so great an 

 enterprise. It yet remains to finance the enter- 



prise, but from the figures given out by the 

 engineers it appears that the latter part of the 

 work will be comparatively easy. It may 

 therefore be expected that within a compara- 

 tively short time the Pere Marquette will be 

 turning the wheels of industry in Ludington. 

 Furthermore, with so great a power at hand 

 an electric railway is more than a likely pos- 

 sibility. Ludington Record-Appeal. 



FIRES DELAY LOGGING OPERATIONS. 



"The forest fires have put us back at least a 

 month in starting our logging operations this 

 fall," says B. J. Goodman, Sr., the upper pen- 

 insula lumberman. "We do not feel that we 

 can wait any longer, though we realize that the 

 danger from forest fires has not yet passed, 

 and it is our intention to start operations at 

 our camp north of Clowery at once. The forest 

 fires last month did the greatest damage in the 

 soft wood districts, but the hardwood will 

 surely suffer if the drouth continues long.' 



Mr. Goodman says that he will work a force 

 of about fifty men all winter at his Clowery 

 camp, and he will also handle the timber of a 

 number of the jobbers operating south of 

 Negaunee, on the Chicago & Northwestern 

 line. Several of the jobbers intended to begin 

 work two or three weeks ago, but they held 

 off on account of the fires. They are now de- 

 laying a start for the same reason, but Mr. 

 Goodman expects that most of them will have 

 their crews at work before the end of this 

 month. The fires are more likely to be re- 

 started with men working in the woods than 

 they are if operations are put off, as the 

 woodsmen as a rule are careless about smok- 

 ing and building fires to warm their dinners. 



Mr. Goodman has started work at his new 

 sawmill at Little Lake. The plant is conven- 

 iently located between the Marquette & South- 

 eastern and Northwestern tracks, some dis- 

 tance from where the old Remille plant stood. 

 The site of the former plant, which was de- 

 stroyed by fire several weeks ago, was not 

 large enough for the new one, which will have 

 a daily capacity of 50,000 feet. Mr. Goodman 

 expects to cut more than a half million feet of 

 timber before suspending work for the winter. 

 This will include practically all of the cut tim- 

 ber he owns in that vicinity. 



The Remille plant was one of the oldest in 

 the upper peninsula. It was established over 

 forty years ago, soon after the Chicago & 

 Northwestern Railway Company extended its 

 line to Negaunee. It was operated by the 



Northwestern people until it passed into con- 

 trol of Isaac Johnson, who ran it for a number 

 of years before disposing of it to Mr. Remille. 



ADDS LATH MILL TO PLANT. 



A mill cutting lath from hemlock during the 

 summer months onlv is an improvement to 

 the W. D. Young & Co. hardwood flooring 

 plant at Bay City which will be made within 

 the next few weeks. Work on it has already 

 been begun. The building of the new addi- 

 tion to the saw mill has also been begun. The 

 old saw mill will be shut down while the addi- 

 tion is being built. 



When the work is finished the mill will be 

 one of the finest in the state and the daily 

 output will approximate over 75,000 feet. The 

 addition to the main building to accommodate 

 a second band saw and edger alone will be 

 22 feet wide and 128 feet long. It will be two 

 stories or 30 feet in heighth and will have a 

 foundation of concrete. 



The addition of a lath mill is something of 

 an innovation at the Young plant. In years 

 back lath, though one of the principal lumber 

 commodities, was hardl-- a paying manufac- 

 ture and the Young people never cared to 

 trouble with its production. Now, however, 

 the price has arisen very materially over that 

 of earlier years and it is believed lath can be 

 manufactured profitably. The new mill will 

 be operated only during the summer months 

 when hemlock is being cut at the saw mill. 



BIG LUMBER DEAL. 



The Empire Lumber Compan" of Empire, 

 through the T. Wilce Company of Chicago, 

 has purchased a large tract of hardwood tim- 

 ber on the North Manitou island. 



The purchase will include somewhere be- 

 tween 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 feet, although 

 a close estimate has not yet been made. The 

 timber was purchased of Frank Newhall & 

 Son and will be brought to Empire to be 

 manufactured. The deal for the timber is by 

 the thousand, delivered to the boat at the 

 island. 



The Newhall company will begin getting 

 out the timber this coming winter. This pur- 

 chase will mean a big thing to the lumbering 

 interests of that region as the amount of tim- 

 ber to be cut up at the Empire mill will make 

 a big addition to the amount of work done 

 there and extend the operations of the mill 

 just that much longer. 



