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MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



NEW WATER POWER PERMITS. 



A new form of water power permit and new 



RAILWAYS AND FOREST PROTECTION we have heard so much in the rate hearings 



By R. H. Aishton, Vice-President of the lately, would be particularly disastrous. 



Chicago & Northwestern Railwav We a " rt member the day when the north- 



Kauway. ^ ^.^ ^ agriculture was -ib nt at Green regulations for water power plans on the na- 



s delivered at the Lake States Con- Bay> wjs Today we find> borderin the lakeSj t ional forests have been approved by the Sec- 

 successful agriculture carried on right up to retary of Agriculture. The important changes 



have been asked to prepare a paper on aiu i beyond Lake Superior, and where for- under the new regulations are, that they pro- 

 the interests of the railways in protecting mer i y the forest held sway we find today vide for the issuance of a preliminary permit 

 forests. First, let us consider what are the prosperous and contented settlers improving which secures to the party making the first 

 interests of the railways in these three states tne lan d > raising crops and sustaining not only application protection during the time neces- 

 represented in the conference, and through themselves but the large communities incident sary to make his final surveys and procure the 

 which these railways pass. In Minnesota to tnat territory Had this territory been data for the issuance of the final permit, 

 there are. approximately, 33,400.000 acres of deforested through fires, the ability to get The new permits will terminate at the ex- 

 forest area: in Wisconsin, approximately, set tlers to go in here would have been limited piration of fifty years, unless revoked sooner 

 20.300.000 acres of forest area, and in Michi- as _ ; n a great many cases, even the soil itself by the Secretary of Agriculture, and the 

 gan. approximately, 24,300,000. making a total j s destroyed or rendered unfertile through charge will be based upon the net horsepower 

 in the three great states of 78,000.000 acres of fires pass j ng over it, and the ability therefore capacity of the plant, beginning with a charge 

 finst that we are here to try to protect. to develop agriculturally is gone. of 10 cents per horsepower during the first 



In Minnesota, located within the forest area T[ie quest j on n ow occurs, what, with all year and rising gradually 10 cents per year to 

 alone, there are 2,000 miles of railway; in tneir var j e d interests in the prevention of for- $1 per horsepower in the tenth year, which 

 Wisconsin there are 2,300 miles, and in Mich- st fires nave tne railways done to prevent charge will continue thereafter, 

 igan there are 3,200 miles, or in the three tnem ? j know what the general practice has Computed for the 50-year period, the charge 

 great states 7,500 miles, lying wholly within been under the new permit is about 30 per cent less 



the forest area, and this does not include log- First Maintenance of a clean right of way, than that under the old form. Provision is 

 ging roads, double tracks, sidings, spurs or {ree from brush, stumps and rubbish. made for readjustment every ten years of the 



anything but mam tracks Second. Co-operation with the fire ward- factors upon which the estimated capacity of 



In the operation of these railways, and ns in keeping the right of way thoroughly tr , e plant is computed. 



used exclusively within ithis forested area. cleane d up and burned off. It is believed that the new regulations will 



there are. in the state of Minnesota, in regu- Third Absolutely prohibiting the setting encourage extensive water power development 

 lar service, 350 locomotives; in Wisconsin, of fireg by section men , or other employes, j n t h e national forests under provisions which 

 450. and m Michigan, 530, or an approximate t during the winter months or under the w ;n f u ll v protect the interests of the people, 



total of 1.330, employed regularly, and this direction or order of the fire warden. 



does not take into account extra locomotives Fourtn . Installation of the very best and END OF A PATRIARCH. 



required for relief, shopping, or to meet emer- approved netting in the front ends of ^ interested t-owd watched the destrnc- 



gencies or exigencies in business; and it is locomot jve S and constant investigation and 



safe to sav that to perform the service in. the " o that t.on of one of Philadelphia s old landmarks 



forested area in these states there are em- ^omieTalu relief from lire "n connection Twelfth street above Chestnut, the 

 ployed each year at some period of the year . , thj * thorough system of inspec- g'Pantic elm tree whicl 



or other approximately 1.800 locomotives. . terminals and record of the condition v ard of 



The magnitude of the traffic through these II " a * . "<" a "'" t f' re r> a irs of has a ct ' 1 K ree second to nine in Philadel- 



districts can probably be best indicated by o[ "'"8; a " d : phia. The old elm was a branch of the famous 



the statements that in the forest area of F f m , nnrincr jar'ticularlv dry periods the Pen " treat >' clm In Kensington, under which 

 Minnesota there are moving daily 126 pass- abandonment of freight service during ' day- William Penn made his treaty with the 

 enger trains: in Wisconsin, 240, and in Michi- j. '^ nours dians. 



gan, 230, or a total of 596 passenger trains c: tb \v 



daily moving through 



part or other of 



When dry conditions prevail the es- 

 ' either behind trains 



forest 



in Wisconsi 



total of 940 freight trains daily, all of which 



move through this forest district. 



It is hardly necessary for me to call your 



warthmnrc col- 

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and will be for years to come, the greatest {o stQp their trains wher ever practical and put o\A landir 



venues of the rail- car is identically the same car. te actor} o 



many of the rail- the Pierce Company being in w under the 



life and prosperity, management of the J. I. Case Threshing Ma 



tection of the for- chine Company, of Racine, Wisconsin. A 



an additional number of people who are ca- ests m be bettered by more efficient con- though the Case car is not generally known 

 pable of earning a livelihood, and for whom tro] b the orncers o f the states over all the in the United States, the 

 they must transport the necessaries of life. ;,,,,,.*, 



single ccnsumers of the products of this tim- jt ou[ Qr jn cases wnere their own, or any 



her country, and furnish a ready market for o{her train _ wou , d be endangered by such * "- -""" " ~-~"~ 



the settlers, lumbermen, and for other inter- steps b y leaving word with the first agent At ;he recent automobile show held af.Ma 



ests. and they realize fully, I think, the bene- or se ' ct j orl crew ?n d having them start back ison Square Garden. New York, a feature that 



fits accruing to them through conservation of a]1 {ne j. poss ;bl e to put out the fire. attracted special attention and commendation 



the remaining forest areas in these states \yhat further can the railways do? I am was the simplicity of the Case car. 



lying right at their doors, and they also real- v , f ran k to say that I do not know. One of the most popular cars of last 



ix.e fully that for every dollar they pay for j*. believe that the protection of the for- was the Fierce-Racine, and the present < 



pil'ng, posts, lumber or tics throughout this c ^ n ' lw conserves the revenues of the rail- car is identically the same car. the tactors ol 



district a certain portion of it comes back to wavs ^ n the future and to ma n: r~~~ !,;,. ,-,., mirier th f 



them necessarily through the cleaning up and . s it me ans their future life 

 cult vation of the country; the bringing in of xhey believe that the protection 



"input con- tl'oiiL'li tne vase car i. 



ie great interest shown 



interests engaged in business in the timber in this car and the large number of ore 



and to whom they must look for their sup- aleas taken at the show have encouraged thi 



port. They believe in taxation that will enable a Company to believe that the Case car will be 



From another standpoint: Minnesota north- wei] tra j ne d and efficient force to be organ- one of the most popular cars in America i 

 ern Wisconsin and Michigan forest , zec , an( , n iaintained in each state, and en- 1911. 



country is today the most attractive lishmg, ,| O wed with police powers for the protection The Case car has earned a reputation 

 hunting and summer resort territory left in OJ - tne f ore sts I'ol' 1 simplicity and silence, then- being no 



this great country of ours and is tributary to xhey believe the interests are so great and freakish ideas embodied in its construction 

 the greatest centers of population in the so identical that settlers, lumbermen, manu- which, although extremely light, is never" 

 country with the single exception of the At- f acture rs and railways, and every other inter- less very strong and rigid. Through a 

 lantic seaboard. The railways, more than tst sricm ld unite in a plan to which all can designs in valve motions, extreme < 

 anybody else, appreciate the possibilities of wnrk w hj cn would be harmful to no interest obtained in the motor. 



the pn per conservation, care and develop- bm beneficial to all. When the J. I. Case Company deM ed 



ineiit of these areas, and that where they now incorporate the selling of automobiles in their 



carry people by the hundreds to these resorts organization, they were one ol the oldest 



nil soon be carrying them by the thou- A Case Torpedo car was driven by Mr. engineering firms in America, doing business 



-and- with resulting benefit both to them- Stephen Bull Robinson, son of Mr. Frederick since l*.|?j. It was decided to buy one \ the 



M and to the communities residing within Robinson. Vice-1'resident of the J. I. Case V er\ best automobile factories and |o turn 



districts. Threshing Machine Company, from Denver, out a Case car that would be unsurpassed bjj 



We have beard a great deal lately about the Colorado, overland to North IMatte. Nebraska, any other builder of automobiles, and the 



cost of living. With the wiping out of the a distance of 279 miles, in nine hours. As the favor with which the public have looked npoi. 



post and lumber supply through this country is not a prairie this is somewhat of an the Case car is a compliment I" (lie brains 



northern lumber country, the effect on the endurance run. The Case Torpedo came (; f the Case organization when they selected 



maintenance cost to the railways, about which through u. c.v.e'Iem shape and good condition, and acquired the Pierce-Racine, 



