MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



A TIP FOR MICHIGAN. 



The New York state commission is doing its 

 utmost to repeat in the Adirondack* the his- 

 tory of the forests of Germany, France, Switz- 

 erland and Italy. Operating upon the f'unda- i 

 mental principle that the: time is sure to come 

 when all the timber of the state must come 

 from the cultivated forests, the commission is 

 engaged in some interesting work of reforest- 

 ing burned over and denuded lands in southern 

 Franklin county. 



Within a radius of 20 miles of Saranac lake 

 several hundred thousand trees have been 

 planted, and their thrifty appearance attests 

 the success of the undertaking. The state is 

 operating in the Adirondacks three nurseries 

 for forest trees. One is near the railroad at 

 Saranac Inn station, and may be seen from the 

 car windows. There is another at Wawbeek, 

 on the Upper Saranac lake. The third is at 

 Axton. The Wawbeek and Axton nurseries 

 were formerly run by the Cornell college of 

 forestry. 



One of these nurseries alone guards nearly 

 1,000,000 useful seedlings, mostly spruce and 

 white pine, with a sprinkling of chestnut, North 

 Carolina hickory, Siberian larch and Japanese 

 tree seeds. 



At Lake Clear, not far from the Saranac Inn 

 nursery, is a plantation of 300 acres. Another, 

 toward Saranac lake, embraces 400 acres. On 

 the two have been planted upward of 500,000 

 trees of these varieties: White pine, Scotch 

 pine, Norway spruce, Douglass fir, European 

 latch (tamarack) and black locust. They range 

 in age from two to four years, and thrive so 

 well that only about 10 per cent have been 

 lost, either in the long droughts of summer or 

 the severe cold weather of winter. 



Many of these trees are now five feet in 

 height, and many have shown a growth of 

 fully 23 inches in a summer. The land on 

 which these plantings have been made was 

 burned over some years ago, and was a wide 

 arid waste, unfit for any purpose until refor- 

 ested and reclaimed. Today the trees stand 

 out distinctly on the hill sides, in beautiful 

 green rows. 



An interesting plantation has been made four 

 miles from Paul Smith's, on land adjacent to 

 the road leading from Smith's to McCollum's. 

 In 1905, 400,000 trees were planted here. Three 

 hundred thousand white pine were brought 

 from Germany. The remaining, mostly Scotch, 

 were obtained in this country. 





SOO APPRECIATES TREES. 



The sentiment shown by the city officials 

 of Sault Ste. Marie in attempting to save and 

 protect shade trees and shrubs wherever they 

 may be found within the city limits is occa- 

 sioning many remarks of commendation among 

 citizens of that city. 



All this is especially noticeable where public 

 improvements such as the grading and paving 

 of streets and the putting in of new walks are 

 going on. If a fine tree or shrub is found 

 within the survey of the improvement it is left, 

 if possible. If it is impossible to leave it where 

 it is found it is taken up and transplanted in 

 some suitable spot with care. 



The most remarkable instance of this sort is 

 that in connection with the sidewalk improve- 

 ments on Spruce street. The fine large shade 

 trees in front of Judge Colwell's property stand 

 within the lines of the survey for the new walk 

 and would have to be removed if the walls 

 were to be completed at this time. These trees 

 are too large to be moved at this time of the 

 year without great danger of their dying, and in 

 view of this fact the officials have decided to 

 complete the walk now, excepting where the 

 trees stand, sufficient opening being left 

 around the trees to permit of their being taken 

 up and transplanted at the proper time of the 

 year. When the trees are removed the walk 

 can be completed and the city will have both 

 the walk and the trees. 



Packing seedling trees for shipment. 



Norway pine seedlings, four years old, and two years after thinning. 



MICHIGAN'S CATTLE RANCHES. 



Miller & Kuhlman, of Toledo, have pur- 

 chased a block of 1,500 acres of land at and 

 around Lake Nettie, one of the picturesque 

 little inland lakes of Presque Isle county, for 

 a ranch, and will stock it. It is four miles 

 west of La Roque station, on the Detroit & 

 Mackinac railway, and the same distance from 

 Millersburg. Within a radius of fifteen miles 

 there are several lakes, and it is a fine grazing 

 location. 



Great development has been going on in 

 converting large bodies of land in the counties 

 north of Bay City into ranches. George A. 

 Prescott has a fine ranch in losco, and several 

 are in operation in that and Ogemaw county. 

 Sheep and cattle do finely there. In Oge- 

 maw county, near South Branch and Whitte- 

 more, there are three or four large ranches 

 stocked with cattle and sheep. 



North along the line of the Detroit & 

 Mackinac, in Alcona, Alpcna and Oscoda and 

 Montgomery counties, there are a number of 

 cattle and sheep ranches, and excellent re- 



ports are being received as to the adaptability 

 of the country for sheep, much of the coun- 

 try being rolling and dry; yet there are many 

 and streams scattered about, furnishing 

 in abundance of wholesome water. 



Along the Mackinaw division of the Michi- 

 gan Central, in Arenae, Ogemaw, Roscommon 

 and Crawford counties there are a number 

 < i ranches, some large ones, and increased at- 

 tention is being paid to growing cattle and 

 sheep. Of course the business is in its in- 

 fancy, yet it is capable of immense develop- 

 ment. 



WILL CUT FOR TWENTY YEARS. 



The M. Garland Company, of Bay City, 

 has shipped an entire sawmill outfit of ma- 

 chinery to Tower, Mich., for the Keys & War- 

 bois Company. The company has a large tract 

 of timber in the vicinity of Tower and, it is 

 said, can continue cutting lumber there for 

 fully twenty years. The mill will have a ca- 

 pacity of about 50,000 feet per day. 



