The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-09-12

coiNeu anu IL Will ne erecteu soon.
-Escanaba will have new opera
house, to be opened about the holidays.
"A reunion of the Michigan Second
Infantry Association will be held at
Kalamazoo October 10.
The Bay City Tribune wants to know
what inspector on the Saginaw River can
beat this: From August to August so
Charles Kuehn inspected and shipped
from the wharves at William Peters saw
mill TAI, 1868 feet of lumber, 2O9, 600 lath
and 2, 500 barrels of salt.
George +. Lewis, of Saginaw, who
was in Alpena recently, says that of the
200 buildings that were burned in the late
great fire, there are ut least $50 already
being replaced and generally with better
buildings than those burned. The gen.
erous people of Alpena raised Sl2, 900 for
the fire sufferers in cash and contributed
a large sum in clothing, provisions. etc.
The September crop report for this
State, indicates a yield of 1856 bushels
Of wheat per acre, or a total yield of 49,
1913, 46l bushels, an increase of 5000, 900
bushels over the August estimate.
Mrs. Sarah Gill, wife of Alexander
Gill, a well-to-d do saw-mill owner at Can
by, strangled her year-old boy to death.
When found she had the child in her
arms rocking it. She gives as her reason
that people were trying to take her child
away from her.
The annual report of b. +. Fenrow,
Chief of the Forestry Division of the
Department of Agriculture, says that the
interest in the forestry problem is grow
ing in eveny direction; that the discus
sions have become of a more precise and
practical character. Michigan is one of
the States mentioned by him as having
just awakened to the conception that
their forestry interests deserve attention.
He gives the following review of the con-
dition of the forestry interests in this State:
Michigan still has $4,000, 900 acres of
woodland, or SO. per cent. of the State S
area. The forests of the Lower PENN =
sula, as much of them as remains, con-
sist of broad leaved trees, among which
the white oaks are prominent and but
little white pine is intermixed. Beyond
latitude forty-three the admixture Of pine
is increasing, and where the lumberman'
AK has not yet touched it the pine occurs
also IN pure stands, occupying sandy and
gravel ridges, and the sandy plains in the
Northern Peninsula, while the lower
ground is occupied by hard woods like
sugar maple ash beach, oak, and the not
unfrequent swamps abound in tamaracl
and yellow cedar of large size. Seyera
large tracts of sandy barrens occur in the
central and northern parts of the Lower
Peninsula on which the gray pine (P
Banks, Iono) forms the characteristic
growth, with birches, poplars and scrul
oaks intermingled, altogether of stuntet
growth. The hardwood forests of the
twenty southern counties, with about
ninety per cent. of the land in farms, ar,
more or less reduced to a state where
they can hardly furnish the needed home
supply. The white pine, which has fur
nished its lumber for the last fifty years
is said to be largely removed in all bu
the less accessible localities. 1t is esti
mated that not more than 20, 600, 600, 00t
feet of merchantable lumber remain
standing. The lumber industry in thi.
State within the last thirty three years
has developed in remarkable man
ner. Although there exists ter
ritorial law of 1917, revised il
1916, making willful and neg.
! ligent firing of woods misdemeanor
and, although the Statutes make the ex-
tinguishment of fires q duty of justices
of the peace, supervisors, and commits
sioners of highways, and make the refu-
sal of any citizen called upon to aid il
| their eXtinguishment punishable by {
| fine of from S. to $50; although tho liza.
bility of railroad companies with refer
ence to fires originating from locomotives
was established by Legislative act of 1878
yet the annual losses by fire are enormous
While this loss in the census year was
placed ut near 81 900, 600 various esti.
mates place the same at from $1,000, 00(
TO Sl2, 100000 worth of standing and cut
timber. Roadside tree-planting is accept
ed in lieu of certain amount of road tax
The first public step in the direction of {
more rational attention to this great in
terest upon which the prosperity of the
State has been based, and upon which
two-thirds of its manufactures rely, has
been lately taken. The State Board Of
Agriculture was, by act of the Legisla
ture, constituted a Forestry Commits sior
for the purpose of formulating the need
ed legislation. A forestry convention fol
the purpose of hearing various interests
on the question involved was held this
year, and the State is being canvassed b,
the Commission to obtain the needed in
formation upon which TO proceed, the SUI
pervisors being charged by law TO repor
forest conditions and forest fires occurring
in their districts"
Mrs. Ollie McCully, of Kalamazoo
while crossing railroad bridge, was ruI
down by a train and both her legs cut of