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MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



if a few corporations. Any woman can as- 

 sist this movement who will" u-c her influence 

 in her own family and community. 



Why not get up a Mother's Club in your 

 neighborhood, asking the children's school 

 teachers to help to organize it? Send to me 

 for reading matter and information. In this 

 way you will be helping your husband's and 

 children's future welfare. 



Through this reading matter, you can learn 

 any particulars in regard to power site de- 

 velopment and what it is going to mean in 

 your own home, and just what legislation is 

 necessary to protect your home against the 

 encroachments of monopolistic influences. 



An authority says: "The nation owns the 

 undeveloped power sites in national forests 

 and on the public lands of the west and 

 south. As landlord the federal government 

 had a right and duty to compel the power 

 companies to develop them pn.mptly and ful- 

 ly, to pay a reasonable rental, to give the sites 

 back to the public after a reasonable time, 

 say fifty years, so that the lease may be re- 

 newed on terms dictated by the better knowl- 

 edge of people as to their rights. 



Power companies should furnish all facts 

 ; relating to cost of construction and operation, 

 and submit to such regulation of service and 

 prices by the States as will allow fair return 

 for the money invested. Violation of any of 

 these conditions should work a forfeiture of 

 the lease. This system has been in vogue in 

 the national forests for many years with very 

 beneficial results to all concerned. It should 

 be extended to power sites on the public 

 lands which have been withdrawn under Presi- 

 dents Roosevelt and Taft: also to power sites 

 en the navigable rivers in all parts of the 

 country, because the consent of Congress must 

 be given before any power dams can be built 

 in a navigable stream. Power sites which are 

 neither owred by the Federal" Government nor 

 situated on navigable streams should be de- 

 veloped under State laws imposing like re- 

 strictions. 



Trusting to an immediate and hearty re- 

 sponse from every one who reads this letter. 

 Fraternally yours, 



ALICE BENNETT, 

 419 East 64th Street. 



New York City. 



BUYS MORE TIMBER LANDS. 



It is stated that the I. Stephenson Company 

 has purchased a tract of timber land in the 

 counties of Delta, Marquette. Dickinson, Iron 

 and Menominee. comprising in all about twen- 

 ty thousand acres. This is one of the largest 

 deals of its kind reported in the upper penin- 

 sula in a number of years. The transaction 

 is of more than ordinary interest to the people 

 of Delta county, because it means that an 

 Mi'inense amount of timber will be taken to 

 Wells to be manufactured. 



A PIONEER IN 



REFORESTING WORK 



NEW LUMBER TOWN. 



The Tula Lumber Company is the latest ad- 

 dition to Gogebic county industries. The com- 

 pany has laid out a town and is now erecting 

 :\ store and office building, to be followed later 

 by a sawmill, planing and lath and shingle 

 mills at Tula on the South Shore road, twelve 

 miles east of Bessemer. As soon as the mills 

 arc in operation to furnish the lumber, a num- 

 ber of dwellings and other buildings will be 

 erec.ted. The men back of the enterprise hail 

 fr< in Traverse City and control several thous- 

 and acres of good timber in the vicinity of 

 the new town. 



A DEAL IN TIMBER LANDS. 



i )nc of the largest real estate transfers in 

 Delta county is now being arranged. It has 

 been under consideration for a year or so 

 the sale of the Jerry Madden Shingle Com- 

 pany's timber lands to the Escanaba Lumber 

 Company. About seventy-five hundred acres 

 are involved, for which abstracts are being 

 made. The sale does not include, as originally 

 planned, the Rapid River mill, which Madden 

 & Schaible will continue to run on their Trout 

 Lake timber. 



Merited recognition has recently been given 

 in the press of Michigan to the work of David 

 H. Day, the well known hardwood lumber 

 manufacturer of Glen Haven, Mich., for his 

 practical work in reforestation. Mr. Day be- 

 gan his practical efforts to renew the de- 

 nuded timber areas in the vicinity of Glen 

 Haven as long ago as 1875, and today it is 

 said that he could begin cutting on a tract 

 of 1,400 acres of hardwoods with a sprinkling 

 of pine and hemlock, there being oak and 

 ash trees there fully 20 inches in diameter 

 and many others of standard timber size. Mr. 

 Day went to Glen Haven in those early days 

 for the purpose of establishing a wooding 

 port for the Northern Michigan Transporta- 

 tion Company, as at that time the lake steam- 

 ers burned wood under their boilers and had 

 to put into port frequently to renew their fuel 

 supply. In 1878 the lumber production in 

 western Michigan was at its height, but 

 around Glen Haven the timber had been 

 practically exhausted and the cut over lands 

 could be bought for a song. Mr. Day began 

 investing his surplus earnings in some of this 

 land. As his accumulations increased he 

 bought more land, and is today the owner of 

 not far from 30.000 acres, and has enough 

 timber on the virgin pine land which he pur- 

 chased in the early days to keep his mill at 

 Glen Haven in operation for fifteen years. 



Some time ago Mr. Day secured working 

 plans from the government for the more sci- 

 entific reforestation of his lands and the net 

 results since then have been improved. He 

 has seen that the timber was properly thinned 

 out, that fire lines have been maintained, that 

 the underbrush and tree tops and logging 

 waste were properly disposed of, until now 

 he has a tract that is not only referred to 

 with pride by all who are interested in for- 

 estry, but is indeed a convincing illustration 

 of what can be done in the way of profitable 

 reforestation by private parties. 



Mr. Day has not been boastful regarding 

 his achievements. He makes no claims to 

 the distinction of having been the pioneer in 

 reforestation in the Wolverine state, but he 

 is that just the same. H'e is credited with 

 considerably more than the modicum of sense 

 a"d when he started to encourage the growth 

 of the young timber among the blackened 

 stumps and desolate areas of northwestern 

 Michigan, he did so because he believed it to 

 be a good th'ng for him and for those who 

 might come after him, and that some day he 

 "light realize from his work and investment. 

 Pictures of the second growth forest belong- 

 ine to Mr. Day are ' to be found herewith, 

 and it is-* one of the handsomest tracts of 

 yonpnr timber to be found anywhere. 



Efforts made by Mr. Day that are now 

 looked upon to some extent in a philanthro- 

 nic way are not confined to a renewal of the 

 forest growth. He has done and is doing a 

 great deal for western Michigan and his splen- 

 did energy and public spirit have accom- 

 n'ished wonders for the people of western 

 Michigan. For years he has been a prime 

 mover in everything that has contributed to 

 the conversion of the barren waste of a few 

 years ago to what may be probably termed 

 today one of the garden spots of the country. 

 His work has been appreciated in his being 

 mpde chairman of the Western Michigan De- 

 velopment Bureau. Some of the things that 

 he has done have already been of immense 

 benefit, but the spirit which he has fostered 

 will make his past efforts far more valuable 

 in future. He was foremost in endeavoring 

 to interest the government in the establish- 

 ment of life saving stations on South Mani- 

 tou Island and on Sleeping Bear Point, one 

 of the most dangerous hits of coast on the 

 cast shore of Lake Michigan. This station 

 has prevented the loss of thouands of dollars' 

 worth of property and has saved many lives.- 

 He had a cable laid from Glen Haven to 



North and South Manitou Hands by way of 

 the Sleeping Bear station and this one thing 

 added greatly to the efficiency of the station. 

 Through his influence and active effort the 

 roads in the vicinity of Glen Haven have been 

 systematically rebuilt and kept in good order, 

 so that his part of the state is widely known 

 for the excellence of its highways. 



Mr. Day's farm at Glen Haven is one of the 

 sights of the country. He has a fine tract of 

 land under cultivation, his farm comprising 

 400 acres. Among its chief attractions are an 

 orchard of 4.000 fruit trees and a large herd 

 of thoroughbred Holstein cattle, in which he 

 takes a commendable pride. An attractive 

 and substantial house and an immense barn 

 ador his property. Amid such surroundings 

 and with the care of his saw mill, his ft. rest 

 and his farm to occupy his time, Mr. Day lives 

 a happy, contented life, as all who know him_ 

 can testify. He is one of the leaders in the 

 association work of the Michigan Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Associati n. and is a pri.miiu-ut 

 factor in the National Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation, and his counsel and advice on mat- 

 ters of legislation or along practical lines, 

 arc sought in both organizations. 



In speaking about his forestry work, Mr. 

 Day says: 



"This forest of 1,400 acres was originally 

 cut over for wood for fueling steamboats and 

 was afterward burned over, the year of the 

 Chicago fire. 1871. Vt sprung up to a line 

 second growth of hardwoods, pine and hem- 

 lock. Thirty-two years ago, when I came 

 here, it showed a fine stand of young timber 

 and I conceived the idea of a forest and left 

 it for that purpose. 1 claim I am the oriy,- 

 inal ft rester of 1 the state. I have kept mad^ 

 through it as fire lines, clearing up from time 

 to time the older timber and rubbish. I have 

 not thinned it to any extent, as I be 

 that all the timber is valuable. I expect 

 later to begin taking out the smaller treejjl 

 working them up into small articles for com- 

 mercial purposes. Why should I skin 

 destroy young trees that the forester of i 

 is planting the seed for and setting the - 

 trees? I claim that my forest is the product 

 of nature, and we cannot improve on that 

 might hurry it. but to me the survival oi 

 fittest seenis the true policy to pursue. 



"A forestry course of thinning out the trac 

 would mean a great expense and the des 

 ing of a great stand, when in a very 

 years every pine will be of commercial vahr 

 for small material work. Thin when you ca 

 do so at a profit; cease the minute you canal 

 Later, of course, take out the larger trees 

 nak. nsh PIT! cherry for veneers an< 

 purposes which will produce the greatest re 

 suits. By this course the young stand is con 

 tinually coming and as time goes on all 

 material of value. 



"I am now ^taking out some of the sma 

 stuff for turning purposes at a profit, thes 

 being trees that but a few years ago I wa 

 afraid to thin out. I am experimenting, as 

 learn the best methods and profits to be de 

 rived. I expect to handle this small stoc' 

 this way (but only when it shows profit). 

 is my pride and pleasure. I do not expect I 

 live to see its best results, but I am pavin 

 the way. It is a perpetual forest proper!; 

 handled and will last forever and my son ai: 

 hi*- s r and son's son can have s metl'iiig 

 enjoy as long as the world last, provided 

 course the elements do not detroy it. Th 

 oak rises now from the smallest sapling i 

 to 20 inches on the stump and is a goo 

 stand from 6-inch to 20-inch. Cherry we hay 

 as large as 16 inches and down, and ash 

 inches There is quite a little poplar and ]' 

 of white birch, which is a spool proposiifl 

 and which 1 am 'ocking up. as it is better 

 the land and the strength of the soil can 

 thrown to other trees. 



''There are some fine stands of pine trees, 

 lots of them being 12 inches in diameter and 

 growing thickly. The maple is flourishing 

 and ranges in size from saplings up to and 

 8 inches diameter." 



