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DAILY EAST OIXEUOXIAN. PENDLETON. OKEUON. SATURDAY, JLXE 25, 1910. PAGE THREE Pink, Blue and Ecru Summer Underwear 25 c the Garment Porosknit, Union Suits 65c Each You're going away to celebrate the 4th. Dress up! Show your Pride for Pendleton We offer you the opportunity to be the best dressed man on July 4ih and at a price that will leave you some celebration money besides. Come and see for yourself. HIGH PRICES EXPLODED. NO FIZZLES HERE TEX PAGES. NEGLIGEE SHIRTS For hot siunmcr days at cooling prices. $5.00 Silks - - All colors and sizes. $3.50 SHOES JJig Reductions in low quarters. Tans, Oxbloods, Blacks and Greens, lace and button. Bang They Go ! Good work SHIRTS 50c Each BANG w ... i . VTA. - w - m r . 1 1'. , $30.00 Suits .... S23.50 $27.50 Suits 921.50 VVj . j. TJ.O.)i nuns tpv.w V IS? : 1 1 '" ;cy .... r. . m-i r -ri ?T ' T SJCU.UU OllllS ipiO.OU : ,f $18.00 Suits $15.00 ,'1 i to? $15.00 Suits $12.50 KJJr$k $12.00 Suits $9.75 Y ''- jj and our special line of Irl tt Summer Suits U 1 i $10 to $12 values, ( Q iM Celebration Price P1WV - HATS In endless variety from Autos at 75 to John B. Stetson's at ?5.00. STRAW HATS 75c value $1.00 Value $2.00 Values $7.50 Panamas 40 50 $1.00 $5.00 Bang They Go ! WQRKINGMEN'S CLOTHING CO. Fancy Ties Latest Patterns 35c and 40c val. 25c Each FOREST PROTECTIONNORTHWEST LOANS .Vidros by K. T. Allen of Portland, Forester of WcMcni Forestry niul Conservation Association, Delivered Before State Bankers' Conveiillon (Stenographic-ally reported by Abncr Jones for the East Orogonlan.) If you were asked to lend money to n man who had little actual assets j except a highly inflammable build-; Ing exposed to Increasing fire risk; and you knew he carried no Insur ance on it. maintained no fire equip- 1 nicnt, and even kept no watchman, ycu would be pretty likely to hesitate. ; No matter how good his business and j personal (-landing, there would bo too much danger that accident would weaken or destroy his ability to meet obligations. i To a large extent Northwestern ' banks are taking Just this sort of risk without realizing it. In transac tions behind which timber is the only real estate. Lumbering is our most Important industry. Either directly or Indirectly, therefore, it Involves a large portion of bank loans, especially on the west side of the mountains. ( And back of the lumber Industry, every time, timber constitutes the real resource upon which Its solvency de pends. Destroy all our timber and , our lumber business Is completely, wrecked, and with it numberless de-' pendent enterprises. Tartlal destruc- ', tion has the same effect proportion ally. This is particularly true of the j lumberman himself ' as a customer, I although probably oftener than . you J realize the business of other custo- mers would be seriously affected by injury to the lumber business of one or moro concerns or localities. Al- I though you seldom take timber as actual security by means of mort-1 gage, you do furnish money to meet . pay rolls, build sawmills, or buy tlm-! ber land, when destruction of timber would certainly weaken the borrow-; or's ability to meet his note. And as a rule you make no Investigation of , Its safety. I Interest In this subject from a banking standpoint was first shown by eastern houses making a specialty o timber land loans, who are moro : and more Insisting that borrowers meet certain standards of Insurance In the form of fire preventive effort. Recently it has begun to attract at- , tentlon hero at home and Mr. Hart man kindly Invited mo to discuss It briefly hero today. In considering tbo flro hazard to which timber is Bubject, we must re member that while protection is In creasing, so is the possible source of fire. Every year sees more campers in the woods, more settlers clearing land, more locomotives throwing sparks, and more logging activity to create dangerous slashings. All this still more than counterbalances the undoubted Improvement of public sentiment on the fire question. Too few people realize that the great menace is the abnormal year which Is certain to come occnslonnlly when a combination of wind and hot weather will fan beyond control some of the small, apparently Innocent, fires bound to be smouldering some where. We had such a year in 1902, when in a few days six billion feet of timber was consumed In Oregon and Washington. Wo will have another sooner or later. Theso things, with the rise of. tim ber values and consequent heavier losses, hnve led to a great change In the attitude of timber owners as a class. One by one they have be gun to realize that to consider fire damage ns the act of Qoj, to be reck oned as a certain percentage of risk on their investment, Is to take a course unknown In any other line of business. In other lines, the proprie tor protects himself and his credi tors by Insurance and every additi onal safeguard ho can install, yet almost never is his property so peculiarly exposed to fire. Conse-' fluently the timber owner, although ' he could not Insure, begins to protect. J The first -step was patrol. The best way to prevent fire is to pre- j vent it, not to fight It after It starts, j Any other system Is like lowering the' life boat after the ship has struck. ' One patrolman can put out a hund-'j rod incipient fires cheaper than a ' hundred men can fight one real fire, ' and the timber Is saved besides, j Naturally the next step is co-opor- j ntlon. If one man can patrol the buildings of two or more owners. It is cheaper to hire him Jointly than ', to maintain several men independ- , cntly. In Idaho nnd Washington they j soon went farther yet" nnd formed co-operative associations, assessing the members upon their acreage. A j few years experience taught that this brought great advantages beyond more economy. It furnished inpans ot bringing In the non-resident own-, er who cquIJ no nothing otherwise, the non-progressive owner who j would not, and the small owner who could not afford to hire a man at all. It resulted in training an efflcl ent force of men working harmonl- ously, nnd In simplifying having them authorized nnd backed to some ex tent by the state. In short It afford ed Just the same advantages for offi cering that a city fire department does over any protection which could bt maintained independently by each city property owner. Hut even more important still, the a;-soolatlon began to Influence public sentiment. Being semi-public and broad In Its field, it was not subject to the prejudice which the Individual timber owner may encounter. By af fording means of advertising the sums spent In protecting a great pub lic resource. It put Its supporters in a strong position to ask for reciprocal help. legislatures soon appropriat ed for state assistance. Railroad com- I pnnles were reached and made to be! more careful with fire. Careless ! lumbermen were forced to stop set ting a bad example and warranting charges of reckless vandalism. The result has been that in Wash- ! Ington, for example, at a cost of loss ! than a cent and a half an acre, nearly three million nores belonging to association members, with about five million acres more which did not pay hut had to be patrolled with the rest, was brought through n very dry year with but 1600 acres loss; about a fiftieth of one per cent. Over 1300 fires were put out and not 6 reached any importance. Idaho shows the same record. Now we are trying to do .the same thing in this state. Oregon Is be hind the rest of the northwest In this work. Its legislature appropriates only $250 a year for fire protection .against Washington's $23,000. It has a grent many progressive timber , owners. They spent $40,000 on patrol last year. But in some cases this , came to 6, 6 or 8 cents an acre be cause others did nothing. We have too many owners who do nothing be- , cause they think their neighbors , must protect them anyway. We have organized several associations but find difficulty in getting this class to Join and bear their share. We also find many . good individual patrols which will not co-operate and so re nsain loss effective just because they fear this Indifference. Gentlemen, I have told you these things because I believe they affect your business. Even aside from your relations with lumbermen, you are more Interested than perhaps you re alize. Oregon has a fifth of all the merchantable timber in the United i States. If manufactured and not l-urned. It will bring five billion dol-j lars Into the state. Even now, when we have hardly begun to cut, we sell nearly J30."on.niio worth of lumber' a year. It constitutes 80 per cent of all the freight which leaves the state. It brings more money than our apples, wheat, salmon and wool j combined. It Is sold elsewhere and brings in outside money, whereas ; many of our boasted products are consumed nt home and merely effect exchange. And fully 80 per cent of this $30,000,000 which will soon be $100,000,000, goos to pay for labor and supplies and is circulated In every i hannoi of agriculture and commerce In the farming counties as well as in the timber districts. The people of Oregon lose $S on every thousand foot of timber burned, while the owner may loso $2. Nevertheless, some years nmre and some less, on an average ve burn up timber which saved for manufacture would bring In seven to tfn million dollars to be shared by every industry including the banks. We burn cutovor land which If pro tected could bo cut again In 60 years. The additional loss on this is at least $."..000,000 annually. There Is prac tieally no difference to the communi ty between losing Its wealth In this way and in riot or invasion actually plundorlng our banks nnd treasuries of $15,000,000 every year. And I bnvo said nothing of the damage to stream flow-and countless Indirect In juries. For one example only, the cost of your ticket to Pendleton and o'' your groceries at home is directly affected by the lumher traffic which helps support the railroads and buy their supply of ties, poles, and car material.. But to return to the Immediate point. Clearly timber protected by its owner Is a safer asset or security than unprotected timber. The more systematic the union of Its owner with surrounding owners, for supporting machinery for patrol, fire fighting and moulding public sentiment, the less the danger of actual loss and the greater the sale value of the property. Hankers should impress this on their clients and adopt an attitude toward prospective borrowers which will In fluence the lattor's action. While it may be going too far to Imply pros sure, you can at least ask the lum bi rmnn what protection he supports and show him that you think he should maintain patrol and Join his neighbors In associate effort when ever the opportunity exists. 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