The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-04-24
SUPERVISORS MEETING
Official Report Of Proceedings Of the
Board at Session Held
April LIST, 1909.
Continued from last week.

DcSH oiiu CofIicu w Iic Notc lOiOWlB,
the board of Superintendent of Poor
was instructed to pay the bill of C. P.
Blankenhorn amounting to $500 for
rent of dwelling to Anton Matitzke
from April 1st 1907 to March 1st 1909.
Yeas-Been, Hid, Elfman and
Foote.
Nay-McKercher.
On motion of McKercher, supported
by Elfman, the bills and accounts al
lowed by the board of County Road
Commissioners at its meetings held
September 30th 1908 and January 23rd,
1909, were accepted as correct and so
audited by the following vote.
Yeas Been, Hid, Elfman, Foote
and McKercher. Nays None.
On motion of Hid supported by Been,
Frank M. Ennis was elected member
of the Board of County Canvassers to
fill vacancy, by the following vote.
Yeas Been, Hid, Elfman, McKer-
cher and Foote.
Nays-None.
On motion of McKercher, supported
by Elfman, the following resolution
was adopted by unanimous vote.
Whereas, For nearly sixty years a
large proportion of the iron ore con-
sumed in the United States has been
mined from the Iron ranges of the
Lake Superior District, including the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the
mining and shipment of iron ore has
become one of the great industries of
Baraga County, in which vast amount
of capital has been invested, which in
dustry gives employment to thousands
of men in the Upper Peninsula, and
forms the basis of its industrial well
fare; and the development of the iron
mining industry of the United States
has been and is of incalculable benefit
to the whole country, and its growth
and development have been fostered
and encouraged by reasonable protec-
tion against the importation of iron
ore from other countries; and
Whereas, 1t is now proposed in the
tariff bill introduced in the House
of Representatives at Washington to
place iron ore on the free list, chiefly
for the benefit of the iron mines of
Cuba, by reason of which the miners of
this country will be brought in competi-
ton with the cheap and poorly paid
labor of Cuba; and such competition
will surely tend to lessen the wages of
our American workmen, and to make
it Improbable to mine and produce
anything but the high grade ores from
the deep mines of the Marquette range,
where mining operations are necessar-
lily expensive, and
Whereas the development of the min
ing industry of Cuba or other foreign
countries will tend to discourage the
investment of capital in the Lake Su-
perior district, and to lessen the pro-
duction of iron ore therefrom without
particular benefit to anyone except the
owners of such mines in Cuba or else
where,
Now Therefore, Be 1t Resolved, That
the Board of Supervisors of Baraga
County, Michigan, hereby protest
against the provision in said tariff bill,
placing iron ore on the free list, as be-
ing injurious and detrimental to the
rich mining industry of Michigan, and
as contrary to the best interests of the
country as whole, and
Be it further resolved, That we urge
upon our Senators and Representatives
in Congress to use every means in their
power to oppose placing iron ore on the
free list, and to endeavor to restore it
to its former position.
Whereas, one of the principal indus
tries of the County of Baraga, State of
Michigan, is the production of forest
products which forms the chief wealth
of the County, and the industry gives
employment to great many men in
said County, and forms the principle
basis of its industrial welfare; and
whereas the proper conservation of for
est products and their use under wise
laws is of great interest to the said
County and to all of its industries, and
whereas it is now proposed in the tar
iff bill introduced in the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington, to make a
material reduction in the tariff on for
est products from foreign countries.
And whereas such reduction will
greatly tend to the injury of capital in
vested in numbering interests and will
also greatly injure the interest of la
Dor without benefit except to foreign
countries.
Now. therefore, Be It Resolved, that
the Board Of Supervisors, in and for
said County, hereby protest against
the provision in the proposed tariff bin
making reduction Of tariff On forest
producs q bsing injuious and dstzs-
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