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Show FORDSYSTEWIISIN EFFECT AT ORE : in Shower Rooms Provided for Miners and New Stucco Homes 1 af ICHIOAMME. Mich.. Aur. 4 ( By A P.) Msrkln what 1b believed here to 1 the start of a great development proirmm by Henry Ford, the first shipment ship-ment of Iron or from Mr. Ford's mine here tins been sent to Klver Mouse, near Jetrolt. fur conversion into Iron and steel that next will be seen In auto-tr.ohllea auto-tr.ohllea and trart or. About Boo tons of or la being aent dally to Karauai.a by rail and there dumped on an ore boat for the detrott district. At Htver Kouk the ore will be ptit through the Ford blaat furnaces. fur-naces. Tha only break In the proces- ion from the Ford owned mine to the r Kord produced automobiles, la In the 1 nil road and boat linen necessary to carry the ore. Mr. Ford haa not vet attained control of theac tr.iri sport af ion gsKilttles. Bl(i AHKOR NERD, The mine, known aa the Tmpar'wl, will supply but a amall percentage of tha Iron needed In the Ford industries lut It la believed her other similar developments will follow, th manufacture manu-facture r o wn 1 ng u 'nd 1 Ich deposits of ore are believed by experts ex-perts to underlie at leaat a part of thla vaat tract. Operation of the Ford mine near here la aa almtlar to tha other Induatrlea carried on by the manufacturer aa la permissible. Working condltlona for the men are revolutionary, mining men aay. When the worker com out of the mine they remove their work In a clothe, stand under warm showr hatha, don street clothing, and then so to their homea. Th wage la $ a day for older mploya and 5 a day for those mor recently added to the payroll. pay-roll. The eight-hour day prevails. The rooms In which the miners miners change their clothing are as carefully maintained as Is the locker room of a club or university gym-naslum. gym-naslum. Driumng changed. Mr. Ford alao haa changed the atvle of buildings at the mouth of the mine. Moat mine structures ar corrugated iron over wooden frames. The Ford buildings are of metal lath und plaster. The manufacturer also Is laying plana to build stucco homes for his workers. Twelve f thes structures ar to go up this year. The lord plan ao far has had lttt!e effect on working condition, -in mines throughout the peninsula.-aa his mine employes hut 10 men of the total of I6.000 on th Michigan ranges. Th Imperial Is an old mine acquired by Mr. Ford In a property deal. Several 1 months were required to put It In a hap .w. -i '. ininf opersiions were started last Uspfinr and a ptls of ore amountlna to 600.0Q0 tons hud bean ic cumulated up to tha time that orders from 1 stroll mnt a steaiu jfaovei Jill- C-,nt0 ,he m"8- I The mining- railrosd im constructed of old rails taken from the roadbed . of Mr. Ford's railroad, the Detroit, To- ' ledo and Ironton. Tha owner haa announced an-nounced he aoon will begin construction construc-tion of a steam electric plant at the West end of Lake Michigan and develop power for tha mine and the village of Mlchlsjamme, aa well as for other enterprises en-terprises he may develop. American Ited Cross has now a membership mem-bership of 4,500 000 sdults. Judsre I'ayne announced, and about fl.0fo.0oo school children enrolled tn the Junior Ited Cross. With tha prospect of better commercial and Industrial conditions. Ked Cross officials look for a substantial substan-tial increase In membership from the next call. Tha yearly membership will remain at $1, It waa announced. An Innovation this year will ba the uniform card indaxln of the millions cf members. The stub of each card, or a slse handy far card case or pocket-book, pocket-book, will b (riven each person enroll-Ins; enroll-Ins; as a certificate o membership. |