Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-13
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ceiyed and it will be erected 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 TO-
The Bay City Tribune wants 10 know
what inspector on the Saginaw River can
beat this From August to August 80
Charles Kuehn inspected and shipped
from the wharves at William Peters saw
mill |, ,747, 1863 feet of lumber, 209 900 lath
and $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 at least $50 already
being replaced and generally with better
buildings than those burned. The gen
erous p,opie of Alpana raised $4,000 for
the fire sufferers in cash and contributed
large sum in clio hing, provisions, etc.
Tho September crop report for this
State, indicates yield of 1856 bushe' s
of wheat per acre. or total yield OF 2S,-
1913, ,46I bushels, an increase of 100000
bushels over the August estimate.
Mrs. Sarah Gill, wife of Alexander
Gill. a we'll to 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 we're trying to take her child
away from her.
The annual report of b. f. Fenrow,
Chief of the Forestry Division of the
Department of Agriculture, says that the
interest in the forestry problem is grow
ing in every 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
lust 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 3S.l per cent. OF the State
area. The forests of the Lower PENN
sula, as much of them as remains, con-
sist of BIO Id leaved trees, among which
the white oaks are prominent, and but
q little white pine is intelmixed. Beyond
: latitude forty three the admixture OF pine
: is i1c easing, and where the lumberman'
AK has not yet touched it the pine occurs
al O in pure stands, occupying sandy Anc
gravel ridges, and the sandy plains in the
, Northern Peninsula, while the lowe
Quad is occupied by hard woods like
d sugar maple, ash, beach, ok aud the nc
- -nfreouent swamps abound in tamaracl
i -,E.sa. :, "a l-ey~ .;na- Satnnn
large tracts of rndy barrens occur In tn
central and northern parts of the Lowe
4 Peni lsula. on which the gray pine (P
Banks. Iono) forms the characteristic
10 growth, with birches, poplars and scrn
olks interminglel, altogether OF stunte
loS.h. The hardwood forests OF tn
wenty southern counties, with abor
r ninety per cent. of the land in farms, al
more or less reduced to state whel
they can hardly furnish the needed hon
"a supply. The white pine, which has ful
+ ii .he its lumber for the last fifty year
n is said to be largely removed in all b'
the less accessible localities. 1t is est
mated that not more than 10000, OOO, IN
feet of mel chantable lumber rema
standing. The lumber industry in tn
- State within the last thirty-three yea
=. has developed in o remarkable maj
on ner. Although there exists te
. ritorial law of 1917, revised
N Is46, making willful and ne
ligent firing of woods a misdemean'
and, although the statutes make the e
tinguishment of fires duty of justiC
of the peace, supervisors, and comm
sioners OF highways, and make the ref
sal of any citizen called upon to aid
their extinguishment punishable by
oa ost. fine of from So to $50; although the j
lec- bility Of railroad companies with ref
n. ence to fires originating from locomoti'
= was established by Legislative act OF ls
vet the annual losses by fire ale enormo
T While this loss in the census year v
u, placed at near 81, 100000, various es
mates place the same at from $7,0OO,'
to $l2, ,OO0, 900 worth of standing aud
near timber Roadside tree-planting is acce
'ee% ed in lieu of certain amount of road
. The first public step in the direction o
more rational attention to this great
terest, upon which the prosperity OF
~ State has been based, aud upon VII
tyo-thirds of its manufactures rely,
been lately taken. Tho State Board
esti- Agriculture was, by act of the Leg
lecto a ture, constituted a Forestry Commisf
- for the purpose of formulating the ne
: ed legislation. A forestry convention
:" the purpose of hearing various inter
on the question involved was held
wear. and the State is being canvassed
the Commission to obtain the needed
formation uIol which 10 proceed, the
soId' pervisors being charged by law TO ie
paid, forest conditions and forest fires occur
- in their districts"
J. Mrs. Ollie McCu'ly, of Kalama
while crossing railroad bridge, was
down by train and both her legs cut
death resulting in two hours.
~ Two thousand people attended
Il1 soldiers and sailors Of Antrim Co
reunion at Mancelona.
The boarding house Of the Macl
l. no