O ut of th e W oods
Pine and Prairie
On a high bluff of the Au Sable
River in Michigan there is a
monument to the greatness of the
past of Lake States lumbering,
in a group of three giant figures
in bronze. It is a work of art
that revives th? great days of th®
Michigan pineries for all who see
it.
Michigan’s lumber history il
lustrates that of the other two
I.ake States — Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
Twenty-fiv? million acres of
timber were harvested in Michi
gan over a period approximating
a century. The state's first saw
mill was built at Flint in 1830.
Hundreds of small mills arose
in the hardwoods of Southern
Michigan in the following decade.
The white pine harvest did not
.«■tart in force until 1850. By that
time settlers were staking out
homes on the treeless praries. Old
Fort Dearborn had become Chi
cago the City. The riches of the
black soil of Iowa, less sensation
al but more enduring than the
gold of the Sierras, were dis
covered.
The prairies wanted
towns and homes. The pines of
Michigan, Wiscon in and Minne
sota were the sourc ■ of material.
The Old Saginaw
By 1855 the Saginaw valley
was flourishing as the lumber
tapital of the Mid-West. In 1880
the region was the world's great
est lumber center. Year of 1883
the piney valley produced more
than a billion fe t of saw d lum
ber. In the decade of the 1880s
the entire state produced an av
erage of three and one-half bil
lion feet of pine lumber per year.
At Cheboygan a sawdust moun
tain grew sixty Let high and
covered ten acres.
In 1890 the gold image of “the
inexhaustible forest” was fading
before the inexorable fact of mil
lions of acres of fire-blackened
tump lands. The end was in
ight.
There were still, how-
ever, 700 logging camps, em
ploying 25,000 men. In 1910, there
were ten camps, with crews to
taling 500 men in Michigan.
And year after year settlers
burn-d seed trees that had been
left in logging and burned new
tree growth, in vain efforts
farm and graze land that was
for nothing but the growing
trees.
The Land Looker
The true pioneer in the Lake
States was the land-looker, the
woodsman of compass and book.
His crew would hike to an as-
ugned district, usually toting
mough supplies to last two or
three we *ks.
The first job was to locate the
■ takes of the government sur
vey and discover the variations
of the north and south lines.
From a stake, compass in hand,
the cruising land looker marched.
He counted his paces, five hun
dred for eighty rods, two thous
and for one mile. Sure of the
boundaries of a section as marked
in the government map, the
cruiser would then estimate the
timber in the section.
An average track some
Oregon traffic accidents claimed
440 Lives in 1951 according to a
preliminary count made Thurs
day by state traffic officials. Sec
retary of State Earl T. Newbry
reported.
This is an increase of 12 over
the 428 fatalities recorded in 1950,
and almost matches the 1947 toll,
second worst in the state's his-
tory. Worst year on record was
1946 w hen 482 were kill- d
The toll of non-fatal injuries,
certain to reach an all-time high,
will hit more than 13,500 when all
reports are in, Newbry said, as
compared with 13.332 during the
preceding year. Total accidents
hundred feet square was paced
off. about an acre. The trees
in the plot were counted and
-.ome of them scaled to get an
average of the number of board
feet to a tree. After estimating
the tree, this figure was multi
plied by the number of trees on
the acre, and the result multiplied
by 640, the number of acres in a
section.
This was the shrewdest practice
of the land-looker. Of course, he
was not always so circumspect
a rush cruise of a vast area of
timberland the cruiser would fre
quently estimate the pines from
the crown of a hilltop tree, mak
ing aerial surveys. He had to be
a man of keen judgement and re
sourceful mind, woods wise, and
with a back and legs of iron. The
land-looker was th • trail tamer of
Michigan.
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