8 MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



MICHIGAN proposition, so long as it does not interfere with EXAMINATIONS FOR FORESTRY 

 rj/^\ A P\C CVM~> VOT'O the one ~' lalf nli " appropriation which we have SERVICE. 

 r\X>)/\LyJ AND p C^/rx.ll.O 1 b asked for - but ua6 averse to taking any stand Notification of a change in the time of hold- 

 official Paper of The Michisan Road Makers Association and or action which would interfere with the granting ing the civil service examinations for senior 

 Michigan Forestry Association. of the one-half mill tax." forestry students at the Michigan Agricultural 



70 Larned Street West. Detroit. Michigan. The present road tax is one-third mill, or 3:; College who wish to become forest assistants 



Entered as second-class Matter April 27. 1907. at the Post office at De- 1-3 cents on $1,000. The one-half mill tax will was received recently by Prof. J. Fred Baker, 



troit. Michigan, under the Ac, o. Confess of March !. 1879. faise tfae ra{e up tQ 5Q cents Qn $lflM Jhe head of the forestry department at M. A. C. 



Frank E. Carter Editor road commissioners argued that they must have Hereafter the exam will be held the first Wed- 



" the appropriation, to carry on their work next nesday in March instead of in April. The 



PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH year, and that if the bonding issue alone carried, change was made because it was impossible for 



BY and no provision was made for the regular tax, the civil service commission and the forest serv- 



THE STATUS REVIEW PUBLISHING CO., good roads work in Wayne county would be at a ice to notify the students of the outcome of the 



SUBSCRIPTION* ONE DOLLAR A YEAR standstill for at least a year, before the bond exam until after school was out in the spring. 



P\YABLB IN ADVANCE. ' ssue was fi na lly negotiated. Hereafter, the students will probably receive no- 



If the county raises $2,000,000 in bonds, the tification before the close of college. The exam 



WE LEAD IN ALL BUT GOOD ROADS. commissioners are f the opinion that 'they will to be taken by the present large senior class will 

 Years ago our forefathers fought their way be able to work continuously for n ve years on the come March 2. Twenty-two students, the largest 

 through nature's domain and overcame the virgin t)ond mone y- senior class in forestry in the history of the 



forests, laying the foundation for this great " We are e ' ated over the outcome of the dis- state college, will probably take the exam, 

 country we rule today. Because their days were cussion > and nnd tnat tne country road commis- All of the forestry students who received prac- 

 long and the work hard, blazed trails or wood sioners and tne members of the board of com- tical experience on the western national forests 

 roads were sufficient for their time and needs. merce were not so lar apart after all," said this summer have now returned and the technical 



Pressed with their spirit of progress we have P resldent Lamed. work of the year is well under way. 



gone on expanding, developing all but completing The <l uestion of approving the bond issue will 

 a work so well begun. " come before the voters on Nov. 8. A rousing RESEEDING BURNED FORESTS. 



We have tied the oceans together with a knot campaign ls being conducted to keep interest in A new industry .has sprung up in South 

 of steel, paralleled the Great Father of Waters the 1 uestion stirred up, and the Board of Com- Dakota growing out of the recent great forest 

 with railroads which carry every season commo- merce believes the people will vote overwhelm- rires. Almost before the ashes of the fires 

 dities whose value would astonish even Solomon in 8 lv for d roads - which raged over the Black Hills, destroying 



in all his glory, tilled our fertile plains and made thousands of acres of primeval pine forests, 



even the desert to blossom as the rose. GOOD ROADS CONTAGIOUS. have grown cold, the government rangers and 



Co-operating with nature's secret forces- we Ihe good roads movement has been contagious foresters are preparing to reseed the blackened 

 wrested from her, power to turn night into day all over Michigan, and in Western Michigan, par- mountain sides and repair the damage done by 

 and drive the machinery of a thousand factories, ticularly, the development of iruit culture and the flames to the great watershed of the con- 

 In short we actually proclaim ourselves today agriculture has shown the necessity of improved tinent. Already arrangements are being made 

 the rulers of water, earth and air, but what of thorough tares. In times past, when good roads for gathering 250,000 bushels of pine cones for 

 the blazed trail, the cart path, the wagon road were mentioned to the farmer, some of the less use as seed, and at the proper season these seed 

 which answered well enough for a handful of progressive opposed better roads, one reason be- wl11 . be strewn from one end of the burned-over 

 -" * "vanced that they did not propose to con- ^^ ^oSd squa^ So^netr' 



t we are honest we have to confess that the tnoute to the pleasure 01 automouiusts. lliis ests have been destroyed, and before the falling 

 roads we travel up hill and down through shift- sentiment is rapialy being dissipated, however, snow puts an end to further fires as much more 

 ing sand or heavy clay are very little improved more especially since very many larmers today nlav ^ e burned over. 



since the first blow was struck to make men rulers are driving automobile. 01 their own. ltf?& The Bla^i, a^eat 



of nature s wilderness. producers of Irish potatoes, and the selling price 



Thousands of dollars to increase crops, millions NEW YORK HAS NEW FOREST j s 6 cents a bushel. But a bushel of good pine 



for railroads to distribute our produce arid a few COMMISSION *JR. cones will bring 75 cents when delivered at any 



cents now and then for improving roads this oro James S. Whipple, State Forest, Fish and one of tne half dozen receiving stations which 



duce is hauled over. Game Commissioner of New York state, and his " K T Kovernmen : has established. 



, Ihe gathering of pine cones has become an 



There is a hopeful sign, however, in the chain special counsel, irank D. Bell,; John K. Ward, industry in itself, and the forest rangers are 



of good roads slowly but surely stretching across chief of counsel; John H. Inman, examiner of encouraging men, women and children to em- 



this country from ocean to ocean and from the Adirondack land titles for Air. \\ hippie and the 1)arl< therein. The cones must be carefully 



Gulf to the Great Lakes. " State .Forest Preserve Land Purchasing Board, l and so , rtcd as , seeds illf f s ' ed with insects 



. . a. or otherwise damaged will not be accepted. 



en, and you may hear the voters north, resigned their offices following the report hied The government is advertising for an unlim- 



south, east and west striking blow on blow to with Gov. Hughes by Roger P. Clark of Bing- 'ted number of pine cones, delivery to be made 



forge their chain and by their votes furnishing hamton and District Attorney H. Leroy Austin at Deadwood, Newcastle. Keystone, Hill City, 



funds to make it continuous. ' of Greene county, appointed last February to r a " d a number of other P'aces. 



Surely the voters of Michigan will not be satis- look into Mr. Whipple's administration of his FAVORS CONVICT LABOR 



fied until this great state takes her proper placr department and to inquire into the purchase of Gov. Fred M. Warner, of Michigan who 



in the front rank as to mileage of modern im- Adirondack lands by the State Forest Preserve inspected the state highways built by convict 



proved roads. Land Purchasing Board. labor in Colorado, has declared himself in 



The report severely condemned the adminis- c^r 1 4? the 7? tem a trial in Michigan. 



COMPROMISE ON WAYNE COUNTY, tration of Mr. Whipple's office. In presenting Sfwhri ^onvfcT fabo? Th'e" cones' Hv'irfg 



,OAD PLANS. his resignation Mr. Whipple said: in camps along the highways in course of con- 



The officers of the Detroit Board of Com- "This is not the time to discuss either the facts structi n- 



merce and the Wayne County Road Commission or the conclusions set up in the report, but I do , *!"57 Commissioner Ely, in a re- 



who have been at loggerheads over the proposi- emphatically deny the truth of the facts stated SSlS^ JSlSe'JUS t^convic?^ 



by the former of bonding the and disagree from the conclusions reached. I the Marquette prison in quarrying trap rock 



county for $2,000,000 for good roads, have recognize, however, that as a result of this re- for use in the construction of good roads 



reached an agreement. After a lengthy session port my usefulness to the State in this depart- nort g Thl, J^i ?** - He app , ended to ' lis 



with the Board of Commerce men, Chairman ment has been destroyed." S^^'1^^ i S^Si^p3tS: 



Haggerty of the road comm.ss.on gave out the H. LcRoy Austin was appointed to succeed a " d a letter from the owners stating the state 



following statement: Mn Wh ip ple . He was a member of the inves . may have the rock for 5 cents a ton for all 



The board is not opposed to the bonding tigating committee, rock shipped the taxes on the property 



