8 MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



Inquiry whose report he had esteemed very you satisfied with its enforcement? Let your 



A I^VO rVVr> r'GTO lligllly - The Governor doubted whether a member of the legislature have your views. 



f\O.r\.L)ij AND F Ol\.LL.O 1 iJ -special message, so late in the session, would Let the press of the state know your views." 



<.IM,I Paper of The MM,!... Road Makers A 8S oda,ion a,,,! accomplish any good, but such good offices as There ought to be an instant and over- 



Mkhinn Forestry Association. he could render would be very gladly given by whelming response from the people of this 



70 Lamed Street West, Detroit, Michigan. him. .-tale. l'n view of the forest fire damage last 



What effect the visit of the delegation may year and the loss of life, the legislature should 



. im*'' " have is now only a matter of conjecture, ana be urged to pass the forest ' lire legislation 



= _^-^ can be better told when final action is taken j^ttel* 1 >'> Hie Commission of Inquiry in its 



Frank E. Carter ....................... Editor on the measures proposed. It was quite ap- ___ 



parent that many members of both houses had CONSERVATION OF THE FORESTS. 



PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH not read the report of the Commission of In- Henry M. Hyde in the March number of the 



BY <iuiry, or, if they had, had scarcely appreci- Technical World Magazine shows the differ- 



r K STATK REVIBW P.BHSHmo CO. ated the logical results of such a study. J ^ t ^ n ^ f ^l 



If a Public Domain Commission is estab- stadt, he says, is a town of 7,000 in the Black 



SUBSCRIPTION: ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, ij sbe d by the present legislature, from indica- forest region of Germany. 



_ PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. _ tions to d h seems Hkel that it must hav( _ Chisholm was a town of 6,000 in the Big 

 ---- - ! - , , ,, . . , , T . Woods country of Minnesota. 



THE FORESTRY HEARING 3S nlembers the Commisstoner of the Land Eyery year> from the tall black pine trees 



Office, the Auditor General, probably, the which grow on the 6,000 acres of publicly own- 



At the general hearing on the 14th by the Governor ex-officio, one of the Board of Re- ed land about Freudenstadt, a regular crop of 

 Senate Forestry and Public Lands Commis- gen t s of the University and a member of the lum'l'er is cut which pays all the expenses of 

 sion. at Lansing, respecting the several for- State Board of Agricu'ture. While the out- {^ f fifTdSES^T^ fiST? wH 

 estry bills now before the legislature there ]ook for legislation is not as comprehens i ve '^ o^^Ster.^Th" thrifty people of P f^- 

 was present about thirty business and pro- as that out lined and recommended by the denstadt may devote their whole attention to 

 fessional men from different parts of the Commission of Inquiry it was the unanimous thd r thriving iron and chemical industries, 

 state. There were representatives of the inion of those assernbled to urge forestry knowing that the beautiful and beneficent for- 

 Retail Lumbermen's Association, lumbermen legislation that it was , probab i v , t h e best that P< '' y a " he C St f ^^ munlcl P al ac ' 



ancl timber owners from Muskegon, Grayling, cou i d be sec ured and would be, at least, a For years greedy private corporations sent 



Bay City and Saginaw, business men of De- step j n tbe right direction. their hordes into the country about Chisholm, 



troit, Grand Rapids and the Upper Peninsula Minn., to loot the great pine woods, leaving 



TV,,. =;<ifi,-ani-p attnrViprJ to thp nrpspnrp behind them a trail of ruin and desolation and 



AROUSE THE LEGISLATORS. piling the dry slashes like kindling wood 



of three members of the late Commission of The following circular letter has been given rea dy for the match. Every fall the patient 



Inquiry who had been appointed under the act wj( , e drculation ln Saginaw count b a num . people of Chisholm went to bed with the 



of 1907, and who had joined in the commis- - acrid smell of burning pine in the nostrils. 



sion's reoort which -s reallv the basis of all prominent cit.zens of that county: f h , t , f th awakened the forest 



ot all 1<The undersigned deem jt essential above nli llt * take its fiery revenge. Last summer it 



the proposed legislation at this session. The everything else that action be taken immedi . came . For weeks thick clouds of smoke lay 



ex-commissioners were: Robert D. Graham, ate , tQ erve and bui]d Qur ; d j over, the town Then on a Saturday night the 



of Grand Rapids, president; Carl E. Schmidt, , T,, hurricane of flame swept down and burned 



f Detroit- i C V R Townsend ,F Ne & *f*" m * forests ' There IS no t!me t(1 Chisholm to the ground. In the morning more 



wait, as two years' delay means not only that than 50 o families were homeless. 



much longer before we can hope to have mer- Kreudenstadt is a town without taxes. The 



It is, of course, impossible to say what the chantablc tim . ber once more produced in our forest pays them. Chisholm is a town with- 



exact effect of the hearing was upon the mem- statCj ]n]t a , SQ wi ,, quadruple the cost of rc _ out homes. The vandals of the forest destroy- 



bers of the committee, but such questions as forestatioil . We are not directly or indirectly < 



were asked were very satisfactorily answered concerned in i urnbering operations nor inter- YEAR'S CUT WILL BE HEAVY. 



by some one of the attending delegation. Very ested ag timber ]and owners We havc si , Despite the pessimistic reports which were 



pointed addresses were made by Mr. Graham, Jhe a , we , fare of Qu homc communit sent out early in the season the logging in- 



Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Townsend. The latter's , dustry in the upper peninsula is now in lull 



P=,I fnr cnmp firp nrnt-prtinn nn thp nart nf staKe - swing, and the indications are that this year's 



the par ,, TO {he nd that adequate atte ntion to this cut will be considerably larger than antici- 



the state, as well as the counties and town- a| , important prob i em may be given at thc , pated, says a correspondent. In the copper 



ships, was very forcibly presented, and seemed m gessi we n tQ af e country the operations are less extensive than 



to evoke a response from the committee, al- , . ^ . for several years past, nevertheless there will 



thourfi 10 the greater oart of the anneal made a conference next T " esda y- lf possible. be f j , d cut made a , the line of 



lft , Ol - with the greatest number of the legislators the Copper Range Railroad, and in the south- 



there was no indication from a part of the at whjch we and citjzens from Qther pafts of ern pa ^ of H oughton county. 



committee whether a favorable impression was Jhe state can attend and haye fu ,, heari The Worcester Lumber Company's mill at 



"in 6 accordance with a previous engagement, ^ **<** *f" 



the same de.egation, who had attended the *S?Z* " . 



hearing in the senate chamber, called upon ., This js a subject whjch we jn co y considerable trouble. N. M. DeHaas, of Mar- 



Governor Warner at the executive office. wit h thinking people throughout the state are quette ' wh P cra ? es extensively in Baraga 



They were very cordially received by the more than 'JS&, inte g restc(1 in and ' we Carmen' in" Mich igT b H ves b t " 're"^" 



Governor, and on the suggestion of Mr. have no doubt that you> represe nting us in the becS^^^ 



Schmidt, acting as chairman, short appeals i eg i s i a t ure , will co-operate with us to the full- than last. He has a contract which this win- 



were made to the Governor to attest his in- est extent ; thus advallci the common ter will mean a cut of over -8,000,000 feet 



terest in securing needed legislation like that ood .. of timber. All these operations are confined 



rpmmmpnHpH hv thp rommissirin nf Tnnnirv to ne district near the Huron river. This 



nquiry Jt WQuld be an excellcnt thing jf thc advo _ tjmhcr wi ,, bc ^ next summer at the skance 



and covered by some of the bills already pend- catcs of forest preservation in ;lll scct i on<i of mi n and shipped from there by boat. Three 



ing before the legislature. The addresses were thc state would bring , inlila ,. pressure ,,, |,ear c;im P s arc bein & operated. The biggest one 



made by the representative of the Forestry on wjslators w '" get out over ^ our anc ' one - na 'f million 



Association, the Michigan Forestry Commis- foct of the entire cut. 



sion, the Commission of Inquiry and others. PEOPLE SHOULD AWAKEN. ,J s h ^'Lr'^om^ 



The Governor reminded his callers that he W. B. Mershon, of Saginaw, treasurer of the Pequaming, having several camps operating 



had, in his general message, submitted to the Michigan Forestry Association, is sending out i that immediate vicinity. The largest camp 



legislature when it convened in January, urged broadcast a -copy of Michigan's forest fire law operated by this firm this season is on Point 



careful consideration and judicious action which was passed in 1007. He asks each read- ^ 



along the suggestions of the Commission of er: "Are you satisfied with this law? Are timber. 



