FIR TIMBER IS GOLD
A GOOD PIANO
Great Are the Resources of the
State of Oregon.
FOREMOST AMONG
Is the Best Xmas Present
OTHERS
Some Interesting Facts and Figures
Regarding Our Wealth of Timber,
and the Probable Length of
Time It Will Endure.
Just at this time when the value of
the timber resources of the territory
immediately surrounding Cottage Grove
are being discussed at length, it may
be interesting to thé average reader of
The Sentinel that more Than three
billion dollars has been added to the
market rating of Oregon’s wealth in
this resource alone during the past
seven years. Forests did not grow new
trees representing this stupendous ad
dition to the state’s wealth, but the
existing stand of timber enhanced in
value more than $3,000,000,000. In
another ten years from this date the
enhancement in selling value of Ore
gon’s products will be $3,000,000,000
more. This will not represent new
growth, either. It is only development
of natural, inevitable, amazing demand
[for a resource Oregon possesses. There
lis nothing to compare with this wealth
I accretion in any. other state of the Un
ion, says the Evening Telegram, after
a study of the subject. The most po
pulous will not touch it. The United
States is estimated by economists to
increase National wealth at the rate of
only $5,000,000,000 a year. Oregon is
taking unto herself an enormous pro
portion of this increment. This state
is heaped with an asset that will real
ize more gold than the official produc
tion of all the gold mines of the two
Americas. 'This asset is timber. Un
assuming, once despised forests have
in a half decade become, golden. In
the next decade they will nearly double
the weight of gold that must be paid
for them. Five years ago Oregon for
ests could be bought for a song—mag
nificent trees, the like of which earth
; has given no other region than the Pa
cific Northwest. In five short years,
without any intelligent, thoughtful or
even conscious effort, citizens of Ore-
igon have fallen heir to a fortune that
is most conservatively placed at $3,-
.000,000,000. In the next ten years,
I with barely more thought, no expense,
■no farsighted business policies, the cit
izens of Oregon will see this fortune
doubled in value.
I Timber is a potential of such magni
tude that it is not fully appreciated by
its beneficiaries. It will be the source
of a living industry. Not in 100 years
of cutting at the rate 4.000,000,000 feet
a year would the present stand be ex
hausted. With any decent system for
reforestation in vogue, the present
stand of fir and pine could be duplicated
in yield in less than a 100-year period.
These three billion dollars added to
Oregon’s wealth in the last five years,
and the like sum that will be added in
the next decade, will establish and
maintain a big manufacturing industry
for 100 years at least, and in perpetu
ity, if the people have any sane regard
for the future.
DOES TIMBER BENEFIT?
Does the enormous increase in mar
ket values of Oregon timber benefit all
citizens of the state? Is this three-bil-
lion dollar increment a state-wide be
quest? inquires The Telegram. And
on this particular point Cottage Grove
is directly interested, for adjacent to
it is the largest body of standing tim
ber in the .world. Answering the in
quiry The Telegram says: Truly as
ever natural resources and their pro
ducts enriches any people. Every far
mer of Oregon got a share of the stu
pendous sum added to his state’s wealth
in the five years closed, and will get
more. Every man owning property in
the state gained his share. Every firm
doing business in the state is in line
for its allotment, and every one com
ing in the next ten years and thereaf
ter will share fully in the harvest.
Forests mean a lumber industry.
Manufacture of lumber requires many
strong hands, which m*tst be paid good
wages. The. men wio work in forests
or mills must eat and be clothed, will
invest, build homes and rear families,
Oregon’s forests cannot be taken to
some other place for manufacture. The
payroll, inevitable in reaping this tim
ber harvest, must be here in the~state.
Standing where it grew, the state’s
timber is today worth from $500,000,-
000 to $700,000,000 only.
But it is
worth nothing less cut and delivered to
sawmills. This same stand of timber,
when felled and delivered at the saw
mills, is worth to the state and to the
world $3,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000
more than when standing in the forest.
Labor, suppiles and logging equipment
represent the items making the total
increase up to this stage of manufac
ture, and practically all of the money
expended for these must go to resident
Oregonians, By the time the sawmill
has turned the logs into finished lum
ber the Oregon forests is worth to the
state and the world nearly $2,000,000,-
One of the big logs brought to a Cottage Grove Sawmill.
000 more, which is also made up al
most entirely of labor, supplies and
manufacturing equipment.
No matter how shaped or schemed,
Oregon’s timber wealth cannot depart
the state without leaving in its stead
approximately $4,800,000,000 gold, if
current lumber prices prevail. But
lumber is going up in value. Prices in
the Northwest will be much greater in
another ten years.
The measure of gold given Oregon
before another decade passes, for her
forest resources, will mean that the
state gets in return for the total pre
sent stand something like $7,000,000,-
000.
A GREAT INDUSTRY.
Continuing the subject The Telegram
says lumber has in the past often been
-a transient industry. • Like mining, it
pioneered civilization, became a dazzle
of profit and faded. It will be other
wise in the Pacific Northwest. Ore
gon alone now has nearly 30.000,000
acres of forest land. Much of this will
yield higher returns when held as a
forest reserve for its timber, and graz
ed by livestock during the summer,
than in any other use. On the western
side of the state, where there are more
than 15,000,000 acre of permant forest
land, it is found that fir will reproduce
when fostered properly at the rate of
about $7 an acre a year. So rapid is
the growth of Douglas fir in this region
that a stand is had in 50 years that
will often cut nearly as much lumber
as the primary growth, due to the
greater density of the forest and the
uniform thrifty condition of each tree,
thus compensating for the difference in
size between the new crop and the
trees that are from 300 to 450 years old.
Careful measurements made of young
growth at periods of from 40 to 75
years of age indicate that Western
Oregon fir forest land will add about $7
an acre to its value annually during
these ages. The 15,000,000 acres of
forest land west of the Cascades would
be able to yield, under intelligent for
estry, $105,000,000 a year, with stump
age prices the same as now. The other
15,000,000, acres of forest land in the
state should add nearly $20,000,000 to
the total for fir, giving an average an
nual yield from new growth of about
$120,000,000 a year. With reproduction
going on at this pace, Oregon’s annual
lumber harvest should be at least this
figure, giving only stumpage valuations
for the marketable product. As the
manufacture price of lumber is much
greater than this basic figure, it fol
lows that the state will be able to
maintain its annual lumber yield at
more than $120,000,000 a year, even
after the present stand of % timber,
worth from $4,000,000,000.t $7,000,000,-
0Ö0, has been cut and marketed. This
is not the earmark of a transient in
dustry.
Timber alone will make Oregon one
of the greatest and richest states of
the American Union. It is the leading
industry here, and will continue so far
at least many years. The annual cut
of lumber has run from 1,000,000,000 to
2,500,000,000 feet since 1903, worth to
from $12,000,000to $30,000,000. There
are about 640 mills in the state, capa
ble of cutting 4,000,000,000 feet of
lumber a year. Early estimates of the
stand of timber put it 300,000,000,-
000 feet, but all the later cruising, sur
veying and computation gives Douglas
fir alone credit for that heavy demand
stand, with g.t least 100,000,000,000 feet
of other classes of timber.
Off Year for Prunes.
According to prune dealers and com
mission men 60 per cent of the 1909
crop of the entire Northwest has been
sold. Growers and dealers united in
the statement that this has been an off
year in the prune business. The quan
tity of the fruit is generally satisfac
tory, but sizes are smaller than in many
years. Also, for some reason which no
one seems to be able to explain, fruit
dried down more this year than for
merly.
WINTER COURSES.
BASKETBALL TONIGHT.
At Oregon Agricultural. College .Tann
ery 4 to February 18.
Practical work, lectures and demon
strations will be given in such vital
subjects as General Farming, Fruit
Culture, Animal Husbandry, Dairying,
Poultrykeepiag, the Business Side of
Farming, Forestry, Carpentry, Black
smithing, Mechanical Drawing, Cook
ing, Sewing, Dressmaking, Home Man
agement, etc.
All regular courses begin January
4th and end February 11th. Farmers’
Week February 14th to 18th.
A cordial invitation is extended to all
interested.
Good accommodations may be secured
at reasonable rates. No age limit
above 16 years. No entrance require
ments. Prominent lecturers have been
secured for special topics. The in
structional force of the College num
ber 100. Excellent equipment.
A special' feature is the Farmers’
Week which comes this year Feb. 14th
to 18th. Lecturers, discussions, and a
general reunion.
For further information address
Registrar, Oregon Agricultural College,
Corvallis, Oregon.
Nesmith Team to Again Try to Win
From Harrisburg.
The Harrisburg basketball team will
meet the Nesmith sphere manipulators
at the Armory tonight and an interest
ing contest is anticipated. In a recent
match at Harrisburg the Cottage .Grove
team was defeated in a hotly contested
game by a score of 19 to 16. Hastings,
playing center, was disabled during the
first five minutes of play and was forc
ed to retire. He will not be in the
game tonight, but will have a strong
substitute.
The Roseburg ball tossers will come
to Cottage Grove on December 16,
for a return game, and. Nesmith will
make a desperate effort to even up
matters with them -for the defeat re
cently suffered at that place.
Protests Against Irrigation.
Coast Fork Grange, No. 262, met in
regular session at London on the 18th
instant, and passed a resolution, after
considerable discussion, protesting
against the irrigation scheme planned
for the Willamette valley. A. H. No
well made some pert remarks, followed
by Frank Peeleye with a song and Mrs.
Thorndenberg with a reading. Messrs.
J. G. Powell, W. M. Hotes. It was de
cided to hold an open meeting on De
cember 4, at 10 o’clock a. m. There
will be an interesting program. The
Grange at this place has a membership
of forty, and is doing a good work.
Transfers in Bohemia.
The following transfers of mining
claims in the Bohemia district have re
cently been recorded at the . county
seat:
Sherman Clark to Combination Mines
Co. Topekak Quartz Mining Claim;
$1.00.
R. H. Clark to Combination Mining
Co., Kokoms Mining Claim, Bohemia
Mining Dist.; $1.00.
R. H. Clark to Combination Mining
Co,, Delphas Mining Claim, Bohemia
Mining Dist.; $1.00.
Poultry Premium List.
A meeting of the Calapooia Poultry
Association was held recently to
give final action to the premium list,
which is now in the hands of the print
er. There is much interest manifest in
the coming show, and the outlook for
a large exhibit is bright. The different
raisers of high grade poultry are en
thusiastic about the meeting and have
signified their willingness to do all in
their, power to make it a success.
Coffey is a Candidate.
John B. Coffey, state Senator from
Multnomah county, has announced that
he will be a candidate before the re
publican assembly for the' nomination
for secretary of state. Mr. Coffey is
the first aspirant for any public office
to be filled at the general election next
November who has flatly declared he
will go before the assembly for its in
dorsement.______
Blake Held for Trial.
Blake, the robber whom Marshal
Snodgrass recently captured after a
desperate struggle, has been held to
trial by' the Federal grand jury at
Portland. The man was admitted to
bail in the sum of $2500, but being un
able to secure bondsmen, now lan
guishes in jail.
Creswell Forges Ahead.
The Chronicle makes a comparision of
Creswell’s progress for two years,
which shows conculsively that the town
is rapidly forging ahead. Its popula
tion has increased 125 since 1908; eight
new industries have been secured; $41,-
625 were expended in civic improve
ments this year as against $8,500 in
1908 ; postal receipts have increased
from $950 to $1,350; Jand sales in Cres
well and vicinity for 1909 aggregated
$235,000, against $59,000 in 1908. The
citizens of Creswell have raised a pub
licity fund of $2,500.
Buy it at
Marion Veatchs
MUSIC STORE
At A Special Holiday Price Before
the First of the New Year
We have Other Makes from Six Different Factories
Will Do More Wonk.
Mr. J. J. Craig has been in Cottage
Grove for several days, coming down
from the Bohemia district, where he is
interested in the Hiawatha group. It
is the purpose of the owners to soon
commence development work on a
larger scale. While the showings thus
far made are fairly good, running from
$7 to $10 per ton, they are not what
maybe expected by further operations.
,
would rather walk in the snow beside the walk,
than anywhere else.
This is hard on the shoes—no shoe will stand it in
definitely. All you can do is to get the strongest shoes
you can buy, without getting therfi too coarse and
heavy,
jccurity School Shoe*
rorßoys
These shoes are made of the best leather, especially selected. The
boys shoes are made by the welt process—the best known method of
fastening soles and uppers together. The girls shoes are made in both
welt and turn soles.
They are made on good fitting lasts and will not hurt the feet or injure
their shape. Both boys and girls shoes are dressy and attractive looking
with wonderful wearing qualities.
FINGAL HINDS
Security Watch with Every Pair
REAL ESTATE
INSURANCE
AND
COTTAGE GROVE,
LOANS
OREGON
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Improved and Unimproved Farms
Choice Acreage Adjoining Town J* Bus
iness and Residence Property for Sale
Reference: First National Bank or Any
one in Cottage Grove.
Price List, etc.
ForGirlsil
Send for
jS
Beaulieu & Woodard
Each purchaser of Security School
Shoes is entitled to one of these hand
some watches for only 50 cents.
Ther" isn’t a .dollar watch on the
market as good. It is guaranteed for
one year. We couidn’t afford to make this offer except
as an inducement for you to try Security School Shoes.
Bring the children in and let us fit them out with a
pair of Security Shoes—they will prove a revelation
to you in shoe value for childrens shoes
Rees-Wallace Co.
“WHERE YOU DO BETTER.”
FASHION
STABLES
POWELL & SHORTRIDGE, Props.
REAL ESTATE
“My wife is a happy woman now,”
• • • '
said Bill, with a broad smile, and his
listener’s mouths just watered to hear
him tell of that nice bread she made of Sales - Promptly - Effected.
Waldo Hill flour. And he said, “Spray
& Co. and all grocers handle it and it Office corner Main and Second Sts.,
costs no more than any other valley one block west of depot. ’ Phone Main
921.
no35mchl9
flour,”
.
Courteous
and
Prompt
Treatment
Reasonable
Rates to All.
TRAVELING
COTTAGE GROVE.»
MEN
A
ORÇCON
SPECIALTY