MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



AUXILIARY WORK 



IN FORESTRY COURSE 



A plan for auxiliary work in connection with 

 the forestry course at the Michigan Agricultu- 

 ral College, which has reecntly been evolved 

 by Prof. J. Fred Baker, will enable the students 

 in that department to secure a more thorough 

 and practical knowledge of the subject than 

 ever before. The plan is to require the stu- 

 dents to take the summer school work in for- 

 estry and surveying at the end of the sopho- 

 more year, and during the next summer have 

 them work on the forest reserves of the west. 

 The original plan was to require the students 

 to take two courses in summer school, but it is 

 considered that three months of practical work 

 in the big woods of the west will be worth 

 more to the young foresters than the four 

 weeks of summer school. 



The past summer four forestry students 

 went to Montana and worked on one 'of the 

 large reserves located in that state. They are 

 J. Conley DeCamp of Lansing, Chester S. 

 Wagner of Port Huron, Roy S. Wheeler of 

 Athens, and Irving Gilson of Deerfield. These 

 young men are paid $75 a month and their 

 work consists of patrolling the forest on the 

 lookout for fires and other various duties such 

 as will give them an insight into the life of 

 the forester. These summer positions are se- 

 cured through the efforts of the forestry de- 

 partment at the Michigan Agricultural College. 

 A large number are planning to go west next 

 summer than went this year and it is likely 

 that this work will become a feature of the 

 forestry course at the college. The advan- 

 tages are that the student becomes familiar 

 with the forest service work and can soon de- 

 cide whether he will like the forester's work 

 and he will also become acquainted with some 

 of the big men of the United States forest 

 service, whose recommendations are valuable 

 in securing positions. The four young men 

 who were in the west are now back in college. 

 The summer school, the first term of which 

 was given this summer, was a grand success 

 and its permanency is assured. Twenty stu- 

 dents attended the course this summer and it 

 was entirely at their own option. Hereafter, 

 it is planned to make the summer school com- 

 pulsory. If possible, it will be held on some 

 of. the lumber lands of the northern part of the 



Brockway Hill, Grand Traverse County. 



Courtesy of Grand Rapids Daily Eagle. 



DAY OF BIG LUMBER 



PAMP m PA^TNP 

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"The day of the big lumber camp, such as 

 we used to have in this region from fifteen to 

 twenty-five years ago, is rapidly passing," 

 says a prominent upper peninsula lumberman. 

 "Groups of the big camps, in each of which 

 are housed from 75 to 100 men, are now few 

 and far between in the upper peninsula. I 

 remember the time when such camps were nu- 

 merous not far from principal cities, but of 

 late years there are not many people who 

 have a correct idea of how the 'lumberjacks' 

 live and how they conduct their operations. 



"The methods of removing the timber from 

 the forests have been simplified in recent years 

 by the introduction of larger and more modern 

 sawing equipment than was available a few 

 years ago, also by the introduction of motor 

 power sledges. The sprinklers used in mak- 

 ice roads have also aided in reducing the 



The company has some fine timber there and 

 it is at present cutting principally pine. Log- 

 ging operations are now in full swing and the 

 company will get out many million feet of 

 timber between now and spring." 



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th . e ,' r P erat ons to the best advantage 



l fr , on ? ne to ' hre . e feet of 



is the beTter "they like T 



FORTUNE IN TIMBER EVERY YEAR. 



i-asterday, of Sault Ste. Marie, county 

 commissioner of schools of Chippewa county: 

 " The P eo P'e of Chippewa county, as a rule, 

 do not ful 'y appreciate the amount of lumber- 

 lng that is sti11 g in g on in the country tribu- 

 tary ' to the So - For instance, during a visit 

 to Emerson I found the big mill of Ches- 

 brough Bros, had so far this season shipped 

 out 16,000,000 feet of lumber. The gang saw 



has been -hut dnwn fnr the cp^cnn Snf tv, 

 7 e season - but the 



two band says W . U1 . be ke P l ln operation for 

 s ' x weeks yet, giving employment to about 

 fifty men. There is timber enough left tribu- 

 tary to Emerson to keep the mill in operation 



for the next ten vears - e Chesbroughs 

 ^ * timber lands at a time when the 

 prices were cheap and as a consequence are 

 cleaning up a fortune every year. I predict 

 that wh . en the lands wi 'l have been lumbered 



high standing that the forestry course 

 at the college has all over the country was 

 made apparent this week, when Robert E. 

 Dickson, of East Lansmg, received word from 

 Dr. Henry Solon Graves, head of the forestry 

 department at Yale and. one of the foremost 

 men in forestry in America, that he might en- 



inta s the -titt e easily dis P s ed of. The Chesbroughs have 



quantit^standfn but ffl of it i, made a P racti l demonstration of the worth 



disant from he railroads and Ttrea A, f these Iands bv Bearing a fine farm, of which 



the "ars 1 H there is no better in the county. I saw grow- 



"' B there as fine vegetables, Lrn, etc/as I 



will be work- for * nJ have seen anywhere, and I have traveled over 



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, ther schools put in two years' work in order 



get the higher, degree and Michigan Agri- 



cultura College is the first institution to be 



fcood work n 5, r 1S c P o r Se Cg a C t'th?colSnd 



should hav 'little troub e "in obtiinini his de 

 Yale next spring He "the first 



ranied as a senarate dco 

 hifh^r degree in aTster n P instiutio n ^ 



Edward P. Bushncll, of Bronson, a senior in 

 the forestry department, has been working in 

 Utah this summer, getting considerable expe- 

 rience in forestry work. He will go into for- 

 estry real estate when he siraduates at MirW 

 gar Agricultural College 



too great a distance from them 



" Ab Ut V he best camps l know of at this 

 r ^ A S l J rl i ed by the L Stephenson 

 Q 5 n R* y - Uth & Mar( J uette ' b etween Wells 

 ? Chanmng. The company has been work- 

 - 1 " 8 betwee " 10 and 200 men all summer and 



d the comn.nv *J'"\* g -' J? a 

 fir,. The Tnnr ^nf ?h ? '" * 



vhicn Txtend^ hr?L the w c nl P an y s r u a ' Ir< ? ad ' 



] n f, v etv ^ n t We!ls . a "d Chanmng, 



recently extended to section 8, town 45, 



%"*? 2 {- " ear th ? se c ? m P s > so that the haul to 

 the loading station is considerably reduced. 



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Artlcles of association of the South Side 



^^ ^ ^ f>M 3t TraV6rSe Cit ^ The 

 purpose of the corporation is the manufacture 



and sa!e at wholesale and retai! of '""^r, lath. 

 shingles, etc., the operating of saw mills and 

 planing mills, the manufacture of the sill, sash, 

 doors and blinds, etc., the owning, purchase 

 and sale of other timber lands, etc as far as 



in its . business ' The P"P a ' P' a at 

 r .P"at,ons are to be conducted is Trav- 



C ' ty f T1 l e , ca P ltal st ck ls $ 50 ' 000 - The 

 amoilnt of "P'tal stock subscribed and actually 

 pa,d in ,s $50,000. Term of existence is 30 

 years. The mcorporators are Will E. Parr, 

 Margaret G. Vivian, Robert Duncan, Walter N 

 Kelly and George E. Nichols 



