WHOLE VILLAGE MOVED.
TRIP OF FORTY MILES.
REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT.
Some Americans of Michigan are now carrying through one of the most re markablo house-moving enterprises ever undertaken. They are- moving for 40 miles a whole village.
About 25 years ago the owners of a huge forest in Michigan decided to make use of the timber. After a short time tho small town of Jennings was built, with a church, a town hall, a hospital, and several public buildings. Apart from these, the trading company had a sawmill built, a big establishment for the chemical treatment of tho timber, and dwellings for tho housing of t'leir staff.
But the wealth of the forest slowly ex hausted itself, leaving enormous wastes behind, and the time came when the work had to stop. Yet the company never thought of abandoning tho village and its people. Why not move them all to Cadillac, 40 miles off in the woods, where the business could easily be carried on?
The idea having been worked out, tho company ordered motor tractors with giant hauling engines to move each houso as a whole, instead of taking it to pieces. A strong platform for a house was built of steel 'beams, supported on four powerful wheels. But that was not all, for tho
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18457, 21 July 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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