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THE SUNDAY OREGbXIAX, PORTHXD, JAXUAE V O, 1910- TIBER USE' FAR EXCEEDS GROWTH Three Times as Much Taken Yearly From Forests aV Nature Replaces.- UNCLE SAM OWNS. FIFTH -Itiiluiior or Timber Idinds of United stales Supply Industries " Annual Oulput A Wlileh Is Com- JMitea at $3,000,000,000. ORKGOK1AX NEWS BfKEAU, Wash itiKton.' .Ian. 8. "The forests of the ITritPd States: Their fee,"' is the title or a pamphlet just issued by the Forest Service. The following extracts are made, without comment: ' Our forests now cover 550.000.000 acres, orbout one-fourth of the United States. The original forests covered not less than vA'K'U.000 acres. 'Forests publicly owned contain one lift li of all timber standing. Privately wiiPd forests contain four-fifths of the rtandln? timber. The timber privately owned is generally more valuable than that owned by the Government. The faclnc Coast forest probably contained originally w.000,00 acres, -with a stand of l.-iOw.OTO.OOO.OuO feet. The Itocky Mountain forests covered about 11.0O0.0iX acres, with :i stand of 4O,000.00u.0"K feet. The Pacific licst. now cover So.000.000 acres", or 80 ;-,- cent of the original acreag' the ISoi-ky Mountain forests- cover lOO.WO.OuO ac-rex. or PI per cent. Annual Products S3, 000, 000. 000. "Our industries whih "subsist wholly or mainly upon wood payie wages of more LoOO.ouO men and women. The in dustries which use wood wholly or mainly v'u manufacture represent an investment of over ti.lWUWO.OuO and yield each year a product worth nearly &i,u00,000,0u0. "Tho National forests in the Rockv Mountain and Pacilio Coast States afford Summer ranges to over 12 per cent of the 'Title and 21 per cent of the sheep in the stales in which they lie. 'Forests publicly owned t-Ontain over l.m.onO.000 acres of merchantablo timbr with a stand of 4M.2O0.Ouo.o00 feet board measure, distributed as follows: -Nniiuiial iark rnr..prvl public lands ImhniT -Teservntlon s ..... - -Vllttary- reservation ... Sfnlc forests ............. uch settlements contemplates the Bur render of certificates by the Water Users" Associations and all parties who have cer tificates or claimB on account of work done or materials furnished, or the filinfr of claims for the work done where cer tificates have not been issued. . "Upon the receipt of such certificates, vouchers will be prepared on the usual forms in the name ..of the persons to re ceive payment for the amount found to be due. evidenced by attached co-operative certificates of various denominations; in case the liability is not represented by the certificates surrendered, the detail of work done or material furnished to be shown with unit rates in lieu thereof, with proper deductions for settlements previ ously made.' These vouchers are to be certified to by the claimants, by the project engineer, and approved in the usual manner and submitted to the spe cial fiscal agent tor payment. "All certificates heretofore surrendered and filed In the Department, but not wholly applied, will be forwarded to the project engineer and the cupdit yet re maining in favor of the persons surren dering them included in the vouchers pre sented. "Water Users who 3esire may avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by this plan for making settlement of con struction, maintenance, and operation charges due the Government. This may be doneon their request, by the pay ment of the amount due by two checks, one representing- an amount equal to the charges for construction, malntenanee and operation, the other covering the balance of the claims and the indorsement by the water user of the oae check, which latter tie will turn over to the fiscal afrent or forward direct to the receiver of the local Land Office In settlement of his -charges. - "It is estimated that about 81,000 worth of these co-operative certificates are out standing. Supervising and project engi neers will be fully advised as to the- de tails of the above plan at an early date." OKANOGAN IS DROPPED ARIY EXGIXEKHS OPPOSE IM PKQVEMKXT OF STREAM. DID FERGUSON Kf LC?- Tacoma Striker Arrested for Slaying Mississippi. Girl. - DETECTIVE PLASt FRIEND .2!4AlMHI.OtM.Ofin . J 1 .OOH, OOO.U'Wl . 14.00n.0o0.000 . o4,U'K.OOO,on0 200,000.000 . 85.000, Ouo.000 Tol1 484.200,000.000 .. "Corporate holdings with the larger In dividual holdings contain about 1,700,000 -"-"000 feet of timber. This is, on the a erase, the most valuable timber in the United States. .Forestry is practiced on lc-s than 1 per cent of this area. Uk Mnde of AVood. ' "We take SPrn' our forests ' annually. Including; warn? in logging and in manu facture, 20,000.000.000 cubic feet- of wood. We use in a normal year 90,000.000 cords of firewood. 4O.O00.0U0.000 board feet of lumber, . 118,000.000 hewn ties, 1.500.000 000 staves, over 133,009,000 sets of headings, nearly 600.000.000 - barrel hoops.' S.OOO.OuO . ords of native pulp wood. 165.000.000 cubic r.'-ct of round mine timbers and 1.260,000 cunls of wood for distillation. "Forest fires burn over millions of acres and destroy billions of feet of timber an nually. The young growth destroyed by lire is worth far more than the merchant s' ule timber burned. The loss in the mill is from one-third to two-thirds of the limber sawed. The loss In the mill product through seasoning and fitting for ii"e is from one-seventh to one-fourth. ire at damage is done by insects to forests i.nd forest products. An average of only :; fpef of mn,hf,r iw llsrd f,,r each 1(X;, let t which stood in fc forest. f Csc Exceeds GrovilR "V taka from our focests each year, not countinig the loss bv 4ire. three times Uieir ycarty growth. We take 36 cubic tcet per acre rr each 12 cubic feet grown: lake 2S cubic feet per capita, while Crummy iibcb 37 cubic feet and France -.1 cubic feet. , "The condition of the world supply of timber makes us already dependent upon what we can produce. We send out of ""' country one and one-half times as much timber as we bring In. Except for tinishlng woods, relatively Insignificant in quantity, wo must grow our own sup ply or go without. We have tuken our Cividends out of .our forest capital, until we have greatly reduced the capital imcir. We have tC.00o.0oo acres of cut over and burned-over forest land, upon which actual planting wil.l lie necessary" to produce n merchantable chrnp of tim ber, ill- (he tt.soo.onn acres of forest cut o.-r each year, l.ooo.ooo acres is cleared for farms; B.7W.O0" acres is restocking naturally and 2.750.000 acres go to Increase nr National task in forest-planting. '"Douglas fir and yellow pine, now our vhii-f source of supply, are going far I'licker J than they grow. Imiglug fir com 85 per cent more at the mill In 1307 than it did in Vm." PAPERS TOBMEEMED 3TABV BAILINCKH Al'THOR. 17.KS PAYSlEXT. 'llmae Who Helped Ilulla Government Irrigation Srilrms Can Have I rVle Sum's "I. . I Cashed. Itcsulls 'on Hiver Xot as Exet-tctl, Harbor Bill W ill Xot Provide A More Funds. ' OREGOX1AX NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Jan. 8. The rive? and harbor bill will make no provision for improving the Okanogan River in Eastern Wash ington, because of the adverse report of the Army Engineers. This river was ex amined last Summer from Its mouth to Riverside, 42 miles distant, and conditions were not such as to justify a favorable report, t The report of the chief of engineers de clares that to June SO. 1908. SSS.000 had been spent on this river below Riverside, but the expected results were not ob tained. It is doubtful if -the navigable period has been extended, for boats now. as before, operate only during three or four months of high water, and in that period commerce Is very light, not more than 1000 tons In a year. , The va-lley of the Okanogan is develop big rapidly, especially since the Govern ment has undertaken the building of a big irrigation project, and it is recognized that navigation is badly needed, but the Great Northern has built a line through the upper end of the valley, to tho-great relief of the farmers. If this river could be opened to navigation for eight months every year, from March to November, the engineers would recommend the nec essary appropriation, but' it, is believed that nothing short of canalization will be effective for that length of time. In fact, the report says that, based upon work already done. It seems - ddiibtful whether this can be accomplished except by canals, the cost of which would be very great compared with present and prospective commerce. "As to the possible development of watcr-poweiy-for industrial and commer cial purposes," adds the report, "sucij power installation would doubtless bo advisable if the river were canalized. and the income derived therefrom would serve to reduce the ultimate cot of improving the river for navigation. i "It is understood that tfce Croat Xoih orh.RiiroHd is planning to construct a line from Oroville through tile Okanogan and Columbia Valleys to Wcnatchee. If this plan is carried out it is believed that river traffic on the Okanogan will cease entirely." Tragedy of a Mall Carrier. ' Boston Record. A duck hunter who has just returned from the Maine shores tells a story typical of tlic hardy men who live there. On one of the islands near where he went lived a man who acted as postman Tor-' the few scattering houses on the island, , and who would row to the main land every day and bring back-the mail, for which he received Eo cents. One morning during a terrific storrn the hunter saw the postman pull over: sev eral times during the trip the boat was nearly swamped, and the man 1n danger of his life. "Why In t!w world did you make that trip?' asked the. hunte-f "surely not for tile oO cents?" "Well, you see," replied the postman, "if I rais a trip I have to write a long letter to -Washington. IV C. explaining whv and so 1 thought I had rather pull the boat." - An Irish Tension Trust. London Standard. Mrs. Annie Gallagher, two of her sons and one daughter, who live at Finaghan. County Xerry, are in re ceipt of old-age pensions, and within a year ber third son and second daugh ter will also have qualified .for pen sions. All the sons and daugh ters live with their mother. Family of Jailed Man -Sick and Poverty-Stricken Wife Stoutly As serts That Husband Is Wrong-,- fully Accused of 'crime. TACOMA, .Jan. S. (Special.) A. B. Ferguson was arrested here today by Detective Llewellyn Calhoun, of Jack son. Miss., for the murder of Ethel Maxwell there in February last. Fer guson Was working here as a switch man and was one of those out on strike. Calhounposed as an anarchist and gained Ferguson's friendship. He made certain of Ferguson's identity, when Ferguson dror.ped the remark con fidentially. "I did a little trick down South that will send me to bell," and showed Calhoun a. picture of the girl he had murdered. The man was placed In jail. Calhoun has a requisition from the Governor of Mississippi for "him. Ferguson -reaves a young wife here destitute and ill and without so much -AS- a piece of coal in their cheerless living-rooms,' for he has been out of work since the strike began. -Mrs. Ferguson said today she met her hus band in Bakersfield, Cal., two - years ago" and was married to him nine months ago in Montana. They, came here from Pocatello. Idaho, she says) where Ferguson had been ill. "Jle surely is guilty of no crime," said Mrs. Ferguson., "He knew the Chief of Police at Jackson well, having served under him on the police force there and had written to him since coming out here and New Year's day sent njiim a postal card of greeting. When he was sick in Idaho the lodge to which he belonged at Jackson came to his aid and paid his expenses. I do not see how he 'could have been a fugitive from Justice. He has also been writing regularly to his people at Jackson. His- only fault was the drink habit. J do not believe there can be any foundation for this charge." - I"- Writing- a Play. John Galsworthy, ih-the Atlantic. In writing a play there are, philoso phically speaking, three courses open to the serious dramatist. ' The firt is definitely to set before the public that which It wishes to have sot before if the views and codes of life by which the public lives, and in which it believes - .Special ClearaiiGe Prices J a n Sale includes our entire line of fancy Suits and Overcoats and Raincoats. This is your qppor tunity to secure the finest ready-to-wear apparel at prices that mean a great saving to you. J - ' $25.00 VALUES $30.00 VALUES $35.00 VALUES $37.50 VALUES $40.00 VALUES $45.00 VALUES NOW $19.50 NOW $23.50 NOW $28.75 NOW $31.50 NOW $32.50 NOW $3450 All Fancy Vests and Trousers at'Reduced Prices U-FFUM & PENDLETON 311 MORRLSOlNrSTREET, OPP. POSTOFFfCE This way is the most common, success ful, and popular. It makes the drama tist's position sure, and not ioo ob viously authoritative. The second course is definitely to set, before the public those views and -codes of life by which -the dramatist himself lives, those theories in which he him self believes, the more effectively if they are the opposite of what the public wishes to have placed before it, pre senting them so that the audience may l.HIKGONlAN NEWS Bl"HKAl Wush-iii-ton. Jan. S. Vnder the plan of settle tii- nt devised by Secretary Ballinger. all settlers on Government irrigation projects ivho assisted in building the same, and vie paid off in water users" certificates, will be Repaid for their lauor, if their cer tificates have not heretofore been ac cepted as part payment for water rights.. The fiscal agent on each project wlierif' tliiwi co-operative certificates were is sued, will immediately be authorized to pay. by Government check, ail settlers who performed such work, tho check to be equivalent to the face value of the ertiib-ates presented. No such payment, however, will bo made to speculators hold, iiig certificates. Their only recourse will be., to reach an understanding with the settler whose certitlcates they bougit at less tha face value. The Secretary of the Interior Issued' the following state ment e-xplanatory of his refunding plan: "Secretary' Balllnger has approved a tentative plan for the settlement of claims outstanding against the reclamation fund for work done under the co-operative aprc-ements. whereby such certitlcates as do not show on their face that they have been assigned may be accepted as evi dence that the holder performed the serv ice or paid some one else to perform- It for hhn. j'ayments to he made on the project by check drawn by the local fiscal "The method to be followed in makiiiif Kllzabeth la the popular name among ! royal families at present, and the lorg-con- 1 tinued favoritism for Victoria has passed, 1 showtns: they are rapidly losing touch vltn j TODAY IS THE DAY . AT ALAMEDA PARK Free Auto Service From End of Broadway Line Into Alameda Park.- From 2 P. Jl, to o P. M. today auto will be in wniting- at present end of Broadway carline to carry all those who wish to be shown into Alameda Park. No matter what tiie weather, every one who wants to reap a share of the increasing lot values at Alameda Park should investigate today. This highri-ade residence district lies adjoining and overlooking Irving ton, commanding a matchless view of Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams The Broadway carline is being ex tended out to Alameda Park, and is contracted to be complete iy the first of February. tens in Alameda Park are priced SO per cent lowerthan surrounding values on properties not- so desirable. The completed carline will mean substan tial advance m prices. -wameua L.and ompany. owners of 1 Alameda, i'ark. Corbett Building. J swallow -them like powder In a spoon ful of jam. There is a third .course: To set be fore the public no cut-and-dried codes, but the phenomena of life and charac ter, selected and combined, but not dis torted, by the dramatist's outlook, pet down without fear, favor, or prejudice, leaving the public to draw such poor moral as nature may afford. This third method requires a certain detachment: It requires a sympathy with, a love of.' and a curiosity as to, things for their own sake; it requires a far view, to gether with patient industry for no im mediately practical result. V Prime Donne Measured. , New York Morning Telegraph. An audible sigh swept through the Manhattan Opera -House when Mary Garden interposed that huge fan 'twlxt herself and the audience. It was a pity to spoil a picture so beauti ful that it would have beguiled many Into remaining seated through the entr'actes. But Miss Garden was as coy as Madame Tetrazzinl, and. by the way. what a blind-eyed decree of' Fate .it is that Madame Tetrazzinl cannot pick up a figure like Miss Garden's, or that Miss Garden cannot somewhere find a voice like Madame Tetrazzlni's. In either case, however, the Manhat tan auditorium would have to be en larged to the size of several blocks. We Jbr e Not Getting Rich. Quick BUT We Are: Exchanging Our'--Rugs,l6r Gash AND IN PLAIN WORDS sh- Ruir - e are really overstocked at present. , Our large collections that hive been Seattle, Spokane, and other places are now stacked up together at 3!M Wa jngton street. AVe have; made this city our headquarters for the last eight years and we have seen during that period a great chance in the Oriental B business. We have sold rugs tcrpeople wlto never thought of buying, and not only that, but we have seen these people get so enthusiastic about Oriental Ru that in many instances they acted as our special advertisers and boosters. We do not ieed any introduction to the people of Portland and the Northwest". Our method of business has, always been satisfactoryto our customers, our customers have always been friendly and liberal towards us. and now, at the beginning of this new year, we are trying to increase the confidence of our customers, and to interest our customers-to-be in this, th'e highest and best collec tion of Oriental Rugs that we ever had and that we ever will have, at. the lowest prices that you ever heard of. The finest pieces that are the cream of the latest importation made by our SU: Atiyeh during his last trip to the Orient, specially for-the A. Y. P. Exposition, and that won the Grand Prize, which was of large CARPETS. K1IIVAS, KAZAKS. MOUSSOLS. awaiaen py a-committee ot experts.viil be ottered now at wonderful reductions. Our T "I 1 III TTrtT ft rT-r ft -v - , . , - . T . , --.. .- . . ' ' J1"3'' oiLtiAo, ;iA45Aur, aiiiKVAAS. litiiAj L UllitS l AiN S, BOKHAKAS, KILMS, RUNNERS, etc., etcmust be reduced, and the only way to ttfxit is to, cut the prices instead of cutting the rugs, and to please the ciistomers instead of pleasing ourselves. " ' ' Following you will see a list of certain prices cut down from their regular prices, and along the same rate you can figure the rest of our huge stock: r stpek c , KILMS, No. 73-3 126-3 "HL34-3 135-3 41-4 26-4 109-4 103-4 95-2 56-2 129-2 Name. Senna , Senna Senna Senna Seruk Seruk Size. 4- 9x3-6 6-5x4-3 5- 4x3-7 6- 0x4-0 5- 0x3-3 6- 8x4-0 Seruk 6-10x4-3 Seruk 4-10x3-3 Kerman r 6-2x4-4 Herman Kerman 29-19 Herat 155-17. Khiva 150-17 Khiva 160-17 Khiva . 6-2x4-4 . 6-7x4 4 .5-11x3-2 . 9-6x8-2 . 9-5x7-2 . 8-5x8 0 164-17 Khiva 9-0x7-9 180-17 Khiva 161-17 Khiva 189-17 Khiva 128-17 Khiva 196-17, Khiva . 9-3x8-4 .9-10x8-1. . 8-6x8-1 . 10-2x8-1 . .9-0x7-6 Reg. Price. $ 55.00 65.00 48.00 55.00 . ' 60.00 150.00 . 140.00 75.00 150.00 125.00, 150?00 65 00 : 120.00 r ... 135.00 140.00" . 142.00 155.00 135.00 130.00 115.00 100.00 Sale Price. $ 3O.O0 40.00 SO.OO ,33.00 40.00 S7.50 S7.50 x 40.00 - 87.50 0.00 87.SO 45 .OO 80.00 GST ecrv ' C3 4 . V 90.00 9.T.0O 119.00 . 95. OO 90.00 80.O0 72.50 7 No. Name. Size. Reg. Price. 34-20 Serapi 16-11x11-6 $475.00 344-20 Tabriz . . . . 12-2x 9-1 425.00 312-20 Mohal 13-5x10-2 250.00 230-20 Mohal ... .11-10x 8-7 278.00 317- 20 Mohal 12-6x 8-8' 150.00 314-20 Kerman 15-10x10 2 J750.00 235-20 Seruk ...... ll-5x 8-4 -510.00 318- 20 Kerman .'. 11-3x 8-7 275.00 343-20 Seruk 13-7x10-3 650.00 3JL1-20 Meshed . 12-3x 8-2 : 400.00 283-20 Seruk . . . ... 13-6x10-2 475XK) 287-20 Meshed 12-2x 9-0 450.00 142-20 Serapi 13-llx 9-9 385.00 278-20 Ispahan V- . ... . ll-8x 8-4 500.00 262-20 Kerman . . 13-,10x 9-0 560.00 60-21 Camel's Hair 15-9x 3-7 . 115.00 - 56-21 Cabistan ..... .i'. 14-0x3-5 100.00 101-21 Shirvan 16-3x 3-6 118.00 90-21 Bijr ; 15-lx 3-8 - 175.00 93-21 Iran ..... V. . 15-8x 3-2 125.00 16-21 Seraband 13-8x 3-2 85.00 Sale Price. $320.00 275.00 185.00 1 195.CO -100.00 510.00 300.00 175.00 425. OO 235.00. 345 .OO 265 .OO 27500 325.00 375.00 75.00 65.00 75.00 100.00 90.00 55.0O This sale has been -going on for the last four days and jnany took advantage of it. Be one of them and get the best of the deal The goods are the best and the prices are the lowest. Don't let time pass and lose the chancef buying what you want at such t prices. Xow it is up to you to furnish your house with the' prettiest and most durable ot lurolture, tne UKliiiJN TAij KUCx. ' 394 Washington Street Y Atiyeh ros. The Largest Exclusive Importers of Oriental Rugs in the Northwest