MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS. 



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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. 

 Advertising in the classified col- 

 umns of the "State Review" 

 will be inserted at the rate of 7 

 cents per agate line. 



Help Wanted. 



THE STATE REVIEW wants reliable subscrip- 

 tion agents in all parts of Michigan. Liberal 

 commission. Address State Review, 1406 Ma- 

 jestic Bldg., Detroit. 



BOOKKEEPER and general office work; sales- 

 man for gent's furnishing. 79 Home Bank, De 

 troit. 



COLLECTOR Experienced collector, with best 

 of references, wanted at once ; good money foi 

 right man. Business Men's Credit Exchange 

 325 Hammond Bldg., Detroit. 



YOUNG MAN, good habits and scholar, position 

 to keep cost and material in sheet metal works 

 W. J. Burton Co., 164 Larned st. west, Detroit 



Business Opportunities. 



BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Men of business 

 interested in a new field for making money will 

 find in our proposition what they are seeking 

 We have a new plan in the Mail Order line that 

 will please those seeking a good investment 

 with large profits. A fortune for the right 

 person. The F. H. Alden Co., 168 E. Fourth 

 St., Cincinnati, O. 



FOR SALE or will exchange for good real es- 

 tate, furniture and undertaking business in good 

 town in Gratiot county, doing good business; 

 will inventory about $3,000. Montney & Jones. 

 49 Hodges Bldg., Detroit. 



IF YOU WANT a business that will pay several 

 thousand dollars annually, start a mail order 

 business ; we furnish everything necessary ; only 

 few dollars required. Catalog and particulars 

 free. Milburn-Hicks, 708 Pontiac Bldg., Chi- 

 cago, 111. 



RESIDENT MANAGER wanted in each city 01 

 town to represent large manufacturer of com- 

 plete line high-grade automobiles ; must invest 

 small amount of money, which is amply secured : 

 good salary, expenses and commission to de- 

 sirable party with Al references. Send applica- 

 tion and references to our general manager, H 

 L. Palmer. 46 Dev shire st.. Boston. 



Real Estate. 



FARM FOR SALE. -On account of old age, 

 365 acres, part or all of it, about 100 acres 

 in cultivation, well located; three miles from 

 county seat, iy 2 miles from smaller town, 

 with canning factory, railroad crossing one 

 corner of farm; a young orchard; crops 

 good, climate fine; price reasonable; tele- 

 phone in house. P. T. JACOBSEN, Erin, 

 Tenn., R. F. D. No. 4. 



View of a Deforested Hillside, Showing Effect of Erosion, Southern 

 Appalachian Region (courtesy Forestry and Irrigation). 



BERRIEN GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION 



Berrien county is going to work as a wholi 

 to secure good roads. The Berrien Count} 

 Good Roads Association has been formed, 

 Henry M. Miller being elected president and 

 John F. Duncan secretary and treasurer. The 

 association will pull together as one man to 

 improve the county roads of Berrien county. 

 Petitions will be circulated among the property 

 owners, who will in turn send them to tin- 

 board of supervisors, who will see that active 

 steps in the right direction are taken next 

 spring: The men who have charge of the dif- 

 ferent petitions are: F. J. Elgas, Bainbridge; 

 Fred Washburn, Benton; Erastus Murphy, 

 Berrien; Stephen Scott, Bertrand; H. D. East- 

 man, Buchanan; George Parren, Chikaming; 

 E. A. Blakeslee, Galien; Thomas Daley, Hagar; 

 Jacob Raas, Lake; Dr. J. S. Beers, Lincoln; 

 C. H. Schultz, New Buffalo; George Franz. 

 Niles; F. M. Michael, Oronoko; Roy Clark, 

 Pipestone; Andrew Wissing, Royalton; Wilbur 

 Fikes, Soclus; H. M. Miller, St. Joseph; E. K. 

 Warren, Three Oaks; R. Congdon. Water- 

 vliet, and F. H. Morley, Weesaw. The next 

 meeting will be held January 12, at the Com- 

 mercial National Bank in St. Joseph. 



GOOD ROADS NOTES. 



There is a campaign on to secure good roads 

 leading into Kalamazoo, and a committee of 

 five of the Commercial Club of Kalamazoo 

 will be named to have charge of this matter. 

 It is planned to have this committee and the 

 automobilists of the city meet in January to 

 talk on the subject of good roads and push 

 things along in this line. 



The controversy over the payment of toll 

 on the South Division street gravel road at 

 Grand Rapids has been settled by the decision 

 of Judge Wolcott, which denies the company 

 the right to collect toll. This controversy 

 was started several years ago by B. F. Barend- 

 sen and residents in Paris township, who re- 

 fused to pay toll. 



The Greenland township board, Ontonagon 

 county, will open bids for the construction of 

 a highway for a distance of five miles north 

 of Greenland to the Firesteel river. The high- 



way is to be cut and stumped twenty feet in 

 width, but it is not the purpose of the board 

 to have it graded for the present. Several 

 attempts have been made to open a highway 

 through that territory, but each time the task 

 was given up after the outlay of considerable 

 money without accomplishing very much of the 

 work. 



SOO'S WATER POWER. 



William Chandler, of the Soo-Edison Com- 

 pany, of Sault Ste. Marie, says: 



"From a waterpower standpoint the ledge of 

 rocks leading from the middle of St. Mary's 

 river to the shore at the Soo forms a natural 

 dam and practically makes Lake Superior a 

 mill pond as far as any water development at 

 the Soo is concerned. There is a twenty-foot 

 fall between the upper and lower level of the 

 river and water enough flows out of Lake Su- 

 perior to produce at a minimum stage any- 

 where from 130,000 to 150,000 horse power 

 were it all to be utilized. If the water could 

 be conserved as in ordinary streams controlled 

 by power interests a water development at the 

 Soo of from 150,000 to 175,000 horse power 

 would be possible.." 



At present about 50.000 horse power is de- 

 veloped by the ChandlerDunbar Co. and the 

 Clergue Co. This power has to be used, how- 

 ever, in the Soo and the immediate vicinity as 

 there are few neighboring towns within a dis- 

 tance of reasonable transmission. The trans- 

 mission problem does not affect the situation 

 at all, but the future development of the Soo 

 depends on the utilization of the immense 

 power facilities by the location at that point of 

 large industries. At present there are between 

 12,000 and 13,000 people located there and a 

 substantial growth of the city is expected 

 through advantages being taken of the water 

 power, which can be developed at from 30 to 

 35 per cent of the cost of similar development 

 at other locations. Thus the Soo bases its 

 hopes for a greater business future in a large 

 measure on the opportunity it affords to manu- 

 facturing institutions for cheap power. 



The power development at the Soo is re- 

 markable from an engineering standpoint and 

 the Soo-Edison Company is said to have the 

 greatest low head power equipment in the 

 country. 



