Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-05-10
is DOING GOOD WORK
DEVELOPMENT BUREAU EXPLOIT
ING WESTERN MICHIGAN.
Has No Land to Sell, and Its Only In
terest Is to Push Development
Work in the Best Section
of the State.

d. II. Day of Glen Haven, president
of the Western Michigan Develop
ment bureau, recently put himself on
record regarding the Western Michi-
gan country and the present move
ment in behalf of its development
Time was" he said, when the av-
erage farmer was termed mossback.
We hear no more of that. Farming
today is a scientific proposition, and
the tiller of the soil is the peer OF
any man.
The great question before the
American people is, who is going to
feed the masses? With ninety-three
million population now, one hundred
and twenty million ten years hence,
and one hundred and fifty million in
twenty years, the problem is a serious
one, and | say to those who make
farming their occupation, If you will
stick to your farms the results are as
sured. Public lands will soon be
gone, there will not be enough to go
around You don't know the value of
your holdings. The soil is the gentle
mems heritage and will so prove to
those who are wise in their day and
generation.
Money In Crops.
TT was thought when the lumber
man cut the timber from these lands
that his was a great profit. But his
was but one crop, the growth of CEN
turtles, and while his profits per acre
may have seemed large, they were as
nothing compared with what can be
done with these lands properly han
died. You can produce more money
per acre yearly than the lumberman
took with his one crop. Do you want
any better argument than this?
I'm thirty years, short space of
time when one considers it is not half
the life time of the average man, the
drive from Traverse City to Glen Ha-
ven was through an unbroken forest,
with only occasionally the home OF
some hardy pioneer in sight. Today
the reverse is the case The forests
are gone, beautiful farms and build
ings line the way-all this in that
short space. With the advantages of
today. the start made by the pioneers,
II only remains for us and our children
and the newcomers to continue the
work of development to insure coun-
try of which there is no better.
Charges have been made by those
not informed that this bureau was or
gained by those interested in lands
to boom the sale OF the same. These
are not facts, and l challenge anyone
who makes such a statement to prove
his assertion.
The Western Michigan development
bureau was organized along the lines
OF the cleanest endeavor. The bureau
has no lands to sell, it takes no part
in transactions, it is organized in
the interests of the twenty counties it
represents. 1t exploits the general
proposition, leaving il to the several
counties, local organizations. real es-
tate dealers, etc, to promote. the in
terests OF their localities.
Only Motive to Boost.
"All the officers of the bureau, ex-
cept the secretary work without pay.
and spend their time and money be-.
sides, believing that they are en-
gagged in the grandest work for the
state of Michigan and the people in
the bureau territory that has ever
been conceived
Much attention has been called to
the region, but we must go further,
we must improve our roads. improve
our transportation facilities, secure
the location of canning factories, or
ganize associations for the proper
handling of farm products, educate the
people as to the proper methods along
the lines of agriculture. horticulture.
stock raising, etc