THE 3I0RSISG..0REG0.MA', MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1907.
PHASES OF
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CENTER COOS W
C. A. Smith, Minneapolis Tim
ber Magnate, Increases
Holdings.
ECONOMY HIS WATCHWORD
AVealthy Mlllman First In West to
Make Scientific Isc of By-Protl-
ucts Woodenware Factory
Is to Be Built.
MARSHFIELD. Or.. Jan. .-rSpecial.)
The sale of the Dean Lumber Com-
yny'! plant to c. A. smitn, of winne-
apoli. is the largest transfer of water
TrontAfce In this city and of timber land
Jn Coon County ever made in one deal.
The signMcance of this sale Is not ex-
uressed by the 120ft foot of water front-
aire that covers every foot- of land from
the Southern Pacific coal bunkers on the
couth to within one block of the business
center on tlie north and reaching back
to Front and Broadway. This property.
at a conservative estimate, is worth
4300.000.
In addition to this ground, the com
pany's rtore and the big warehouse of
the Oregon Coal & Navigation Company,
the Dean sawmill, with a capacity of
75.000 feet In 10 hours and that now em
ploys 60 men. but the sale included 10,-
m acres of timber land on which stands
35A.OOO.OO0 feet of an fine timber as there
1 In Coos County.
"But this sale." said W. 1?. Squire.
manager of the Dead Company, "'is only
a drop in the bucket compared with what
Emlth owrrn In this county
It was learned t hn t man v of the Smith
TioldinRa of timber lands in this section
are In other name, but when it Is
known that the many big deals mads by
K. A. Ivrlos during the Ujat lO years
were for none other than for the Smith
Company, the extent of the timber land
owned by that concern reaches approxi
mately 300.0W acres.
Wlto Mysterious Mr. Smith Is.
And who Is Smith?
The daily output of the Smith mills In
Minnesota is in excess of a million feet
a day.
Minneapolis, which used to be the center
of ft groat lumber Industry, now boasts
of but one sawmill, and that is Smith's.
The timber lias been cut away so far
back that the mills have moved into the
Interior.
And the fnrt that Smith could remain
and Rive employment to hundreds of men
while all -his competitors were forced to
move is of particular interest to the
State of Oregon, and of especial Inter
est to Coos Bay.
His success is all attributed to the fact
that he didn't stop at the sawmill, but
manufactured every article that could he
made out of the lumber of his mills. He
not only utilized every scrap of lumber.
nut converted the Hs'-products into money.
the sawdust even gulns to swell hie bank
'account.
He was the first man in the West to
apply the economic treatment of by
products, which made the .Armours and
. Swifts and t'udahys rich in the meat
business, to the lumber Industry.
The Smith method will revolutionize
the lumber trade in Oreaon. 1'he shame
ful waste of filling; acres of low lands at
Portland and ' lighting the waters of
I'oor Bay with the bonfires of the waste
slabs of the sawmills wilt meet a merited
rebuke and be piven an object lesson by
the arrival of Smith and the applica
tion of his methods. And this economy
pays, for Smith, by exercising it. has
become one of the wealthiest lumbermen
In this country.
If the cheap pine of "Wisconsin is worth
saving, how much more so the fir. white
cedar, spruce, myrtle and chittim of Coos
Bay?
Means u City or 50.000.
The comliiK o Smith to Coos Bay not
only signals the ileatb of the lumber In
dustry at Minneapolis, but it means a
'city of 60.000 within a few years at Marsh
fleld. It was conlhtentially predicted that
the lfi.OOMm.WO feet of lumber In Coos
Cminly could not be cut and marketed'
and the $320,000,000 collected without build
ing a city of at least 2.000 on the bay.
But now that all the lumber is not to
be shipped by schooners to San Francisco
. and other markets, but every stick that
can be manufactured into wooden-ware
Is to be utilized in that way, it insures
thst this is to become a great manufac
turing center that will sustain a popu
lation of 50.000.
Cs'ot only is the Minnesota man making
large Investments and big plans to manu
facture here, but the wealthiest wooden-
sre manufacturer of Wisconsin, the.
Manaslia C'ompwny, has expended $300,-
n during the last year buying tip im-
iviense tracts of timber. This company
at Its "Wisconsin factory turns out wooden-ware
by the train load, and employs
4f- hands.
When it becomes known that the largest
nnd richest lumbermen and wooden-ware
companies of the states have invested
hundreds of thousands of dollars in Coos
Bay timber and will within a few months
be erecting mills and factories, there may
be ''something doing" on Coos Bay.
Speculation as to Ijocatlon.
There Is some speculation as to at
what point the Smith Company will lo
cate Its new mill. A person, who Is In
position to know, save It as his opinion
that the new mill will be on the point
across the bay from the old mill. The
Smith Company owns lflo acres In this
' section, and as the main track of the
Southern Pacific ffoes through it, and
there Is a frontage on deep water, it looks
like a very favorable site. , (
Whatever land will be left over after
taking- all that Is needed for a mill site
will, no doubt, be platted into lots and
old to the factory hands.
The advantases of Coos Bay for manu
facturing furniture and wooden-ware of
all kinds depends not alone on the su
perior timber of the locality, including
myrtle, fir, cedar, chittim, alder and
maple. the best seaport on this part of
the Pacific, together with an abundance
of coal, but the freijcht on furniture,
which from Chicago and Michla-an points
Is 5fl per. cent of the manufacturer's price,
or m per cent of the retail price.
MRS. , WALDO IS IMORSED.
AVoodburn Oranfte Favors Her for
Itearent of, Ajrrictiltural ?olIcfre.
TOUJON, Or,, Jan, 6,-At a meet-
Inir of Wood burn Grartgre recently, a
committee was appointed to draft resolu
tions In favor of fro looks a Oregon
City, and the two resolutions follow in 5
wore adopted:
COMING
UMBER
INDUSTRIAL
r$nt of Agricultural College h&i about ex
pi red, and
Whemi, She has discharged her duties
f auoh resent to n acceptable manner to
the agriculturists of thin mat?, and w be
Have Ui Governor would honor himself ntl
us by appointing Mrs. Waldo to nurceed
herself, for ths full ttrm as resent. Thers-
for It
Riolvfd, By Wood burn Qranit that w
ask our Oovernor to appoint Mrs. Waldo as
rf-gent of tha Agricultural College, this
time for ths full term
Whareai. Wo bellev In and dealre rood
roida and have a. ntrnng uoplcion that we
could get them if moat uf our County
Courts of this Btatfl would exercise their
lawful prlvlUgei under th Camahan
wit hout any necessity of resorting to the
Iniquitous achom of th so-called Tutt 1
road law for bonding; districts for road Im
provement, to enable County Courts to
shirk their reiponslbillty to make undent
levy for permanent roads, and
Whreat. "We ?) leva bonds mean bond
age to tho who. give thexpi. to which in thla
instance we are decidedly opposed ; and fur-
ttier It Is one of our cardinal principles to
pay as we go, whlrh we would b able to do
In all cases, if w could shut alt political
grafteri up where some of them are going.
Therefore, be It
KeBoIvcd, That we call upon our County
Court" to quit playing politics nnd give us
a good fommon-en administration of
county affairs: making the necMiary levy,
under the law, for all the road Improve
ment that con honestly and economically be
made each" yar. beglning at all the busi
ness centers 6f trade In each county.
The following officers were elected: J.
M. W. Bonney, worthy master ; Miss Ina
Hornier, wormy lady; Mrs, Carrie Young;,
worthy secretary.
The metlrtjc of the Grange will be held
January 12 at 1 A. M.
BUSY DAYS AT HEBMISTOH
goi;rxment rcshi.no work
OF RECLAMATION.'
Seven Carloads of Materials and
Machinery for Cold Springs
Reservoir Arrive.
IIERMISTOW Or., Jan. .-(Speeial.)-
X.ant week was the most ' active in
the history of the work of the reclama
tion service on the Umatilla project, seven
carloads of building material, machinery
and' supplies hRvlng arrived and Ions;
lines of four and nix-horse teams havlns
been engaged in freighting; the contents
to tho site of the Cold Springs reservoir
and dam six miles from this place.
The mammoth steam shovel. being'
moved to the site, is making a-ood prog
ress, having reached a point four miles
from the railway.
Four standard narrow-gauge locomo
tives which arrived last week and which
will be used In the construction of the
reservoir and dam, have been started
on their journey. They weigh IS tons
each when fuel and water tanks are
full and were especially constructed for
this service. In being moved they are
coupled In pairs, steam being kept up on
two. The track i built In short, mov
able section and as the locomotive pans
over a section, gangs of - Greeks shoulder
It and carry it on ahead. The sections
are, in the aggregate, about 400 feet in
length.
A quarter of a, Grille of progress was
made yesterday and It Is expected that
with practice It will be possible to ad
vance at the rate of half a mile each
day.
C'oncrete pipe making Is in full progress
at the Government works . at this place
The pipes, which win be ufled as in
verted syphons to conduct the water of
the main nnd principal lateral ditches
acrOFN gulches, are 4 Inchoa inlJte
ameter, three Indies, , flush, Jn thickness
and eight feet in length and weigh" about
two tons each. They are cast In steel
forms" and around a coil of one-fourtli
inch steel wire, the colls about two Inches
apart and held in position by connecting
stay-wires. They ar cast n a set of
12 forms in which they stand several days
until set to maintain, their form, when
the moulds are removed and the pipes
remain standing upon the iron foundation
until sufficiently set to permit of being
handled, when they are removed to the
storage yard, where the process of hard
ening continues.
The construction and iise'of these pipe
for the purpose statecj Is one of tbe most
important features of the work on thla
project.
Owing to the . growing proportions of
the passenger and freight traffic at this
point the O. Ft. A N. has determined upon
the Immediate construction of a depot, to
carry out which purpose C. E. Carter
and R. H. Huff., of the engineering corps,
arrived Thursday from Portland and yes
terday completed netting stakes. A. force
was put at work this morning with plows
and scrapers, leveling the ground.
The necessity of a depot, and increased
yard capacity was manifest yesterday,
when 14 cars stood on the house and
passing track In process 'of being un
loaded. The unusually long season of wet and
cloudy weather, which has prevailed for
the past six weeks, seems to be broken
and today the sky Is clear, 'the sun is
genially warm and the meadowlarks are
singing.
LUMBER OUTPUT OF COOS
One Counlj snips I,I)S8.000 led
, to California.
NORTH BEXD. Or.. Jan. . (Special.)
During the year "lflofi Coos Countv shipped
S4.03S.tmo feet of lumber to the California
markets, the shipments being divided as
follows: Coos Bay. 46.78n.000 feet: Coyullle
River. 21.9O3.0O0: I'mpqua River. 17.317.0O0;
Suislaw River, S.01S.O0O. The total produc
tion of lumber on the bay tor the year
wag 52,964.000 feet, of that amount 3S.4i3,(M)
feet being turned out at the Slmpnon
iriiils at North Bend and "13,121, 0O0 beina;
produced by the Dean Lumber Company
at Marshfleld. The value of the output
was 1779.4(10 and $177,557 was paid for logs
from which the lumber was cut.
Roads Better in Klamath.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Jan. 8.-(Siie-
clal.) After a period of unusually warm
weather for this portion of the state,
with rains and light snowfall that put the
stage roads in bad condition, the usual
seasonable conditions are again present
In Klamath County and the stase road
between this place and Pokegama is again
assuming fair condition. The steamer
Klamath has again resumed Its run to
Keno, connecting there with the stages
from Pokepamn. The. steamer will also
connect with the stages from Grass Lake
early In. the Spring, when a new route
will be established between the end of
the California Northeastern Railway and
Teeter's J.andlna.
Oregon Horses for Alberta.
HEPPNER, Or.. Jan. . (Special.) W.
"F . Penland. of Iedtcine Hat. Alberta,
has Just shipped lO carloads or horses
from here to that place. These horses
were purchased in Morrow and Grant
Counties and were mostly rantre stock.
Ex-Sh.rffT PrMl.r. of Portland who
has been here the past week buying draft
horses, has shipped a carload to Portland.
They are fine animals and represent the
best of thin sifx-k.
Men from., their eeaentnry Habits,
are often subject to headache and con-
wtipation. These are cjulcUly removed by
Carter's X-lttZo I.lvcr puis.
GROWTH IN
COOS BAY WILL
Many Improvements to Be In
stalled During Present
Year.
BUILDING MOVEMENT HEAVY
Half Million to Be Invested by Ta
coma, and Local Capitalists In
Electric Road Between Xortk
lion (I and Marshf leld.
WORTH BEXD, Or.. Jan. s. ISpeoial.)
Now that 190B Is past tbe people of
orth Bena and Marshrleld are beginning-
to talk of what they will do during- the
comlna- year and are perfecting the plans
that are already well under wav. . It la
safe to say that more than JIMom will
be spent i Improvements at Coos' Bay
hit- nrat srjc months of 1907. The
chief item of expenditure will he .vm.flon
In' building an electric. line between North
.tjena and IHarslifield by Hewitt &' Bell
of Tacoma and Mayor Simpson of North
Bend. A portion of this amount will be
Spent in improving the electric light and
power plant for the two Cities and the
installation of a gas plant. Several
large sawmill will be built during the
early part of the year,, and the mill
recently purchased from the Dean Lum
ber Company at Marshfleld bv C. A.
Smith, the Minneapolis lumberman, will
be greatly improved.
.The wholesale grocery store at North
Bend is now well under way and will be
ready for occupancy by Februarr 1. Con
tracts have also -been let for the con-
struction -of mo houses and cottages in
the vicinity of North Bend and many
other residences will be erected along the
line of the electric railway between this
city and Marshfleld. "Give us some place
to live," has been the cry for the past
six months and now the petition is In a
fair way to be answered. The men who
are putting up the dwellings will either
sell or rent the buildings and promise
that the rental will not be exorbitant
and that sales will be made on easy
terms. With plenty of houses it i.s hoped
that more carpenters, painters, miilmen
and common laborers will come to the
country where there is work for all.
5111k Industry brows.
It is not to the cities alone that peo
ple are expected to come next Summer.
Within the last few months many pur
chases here been made in the farming
districts, both in the lowlands along the
Inlets that (low into the bay, the river
bottoms and the bench lands, the latter
being especially adapted to the raising
of fruits of a flavor that' cannot be ex
celled In the state with a national xeputa-
tiOn aS a frillt nrnllnlnaF nnlThtn-' T na
year- there were 1" creameries and onei
..n. iuiititiir.ing iiiu opermea in v nos
County. The number will he increased
this year. If milk can be had. Thc-)ro-
auction of butter last year was ",000(000
pounds and a like quantity of cheese
whs manufactured. Some casspin, a by
product, wan also produced. The output
would have been much greater could milk
have been obtained to keep the canneries
running" to their full capacity.
The mlllc cow s feed I n the pastu res of
the many beautiful little ranches that
border on the rivers and inlets tributary
to Coos Bay and along the CoquiUe RJi'er.
No better dairying land could be desired
by the man who enters that line of busi
ness. The noil on the tidelandg 4s a peat
bog with a sediment deposit, and along
the creeks It Is a sandy loam with a
R-ravel subsoil. The timber lands, as they
are cleared, make a fine range and the
grasses prown on all these lands are
great milk producers.
Climate Is Iild.
One of the great advantages of Coos
County for dairying !a the mild climate.
It is not necessary to feed at any time,
the lands affording plenty of Winter
range. Some of the dairymen feed a little
during the Winter, because tttey find it
better for the cattle. From most of the
ranches the milk Is easily transported to
the various ' creameries by gasoline
launches.
Milk produced in Coos County is of the
finest quality and creamery records show
that there are Cows In this county that
will earn as high as $75 annually for their
owners. No nicer butter can be found
anywhere than that turned out at the
'arious creameries and experts passing
upon the cheese manufactured In Coos
County pay that it is as fine as any found
in the United States and that It would
hold its own in the English market. Some
of the output -of the creameries is con
sumed In the county but the greater
part Is shipped and always commands
top prices.
PROSPEROI S YEAR. IX PALOUSE
rami Product; Valued at $500,000
Shipped From Garfield.
GARFIELD, Wash., Jan, 6.-(Special.)
The year of 1906 has been one of great
prosperity for the people of Garfield and,
vicinity. Many new buildings have been
erected, the streets have been macadam
Ized and a splendid electric lighting sys
tem Is now in operation, the power being
turnished by the Moscow Electric Light
& Power Company, which is in reality
the Washington Water-power Company,
of Spokane. The power is generated by
the company at Post Kails, Idaho. The
lights were turned on at CJariield for the
first time December 23.
The Spokane & Inland electric road is
nearly completed, and in a short time
electric cars will 'be' running into this
city, which will give Garfietd transpor
tation facilities second only to Spokane,
Garfield being located on the 0. R. & X.
and the Palouse branch of the Northern
Pacific, now has 10 passenger trains a
day. The Inland people expect to run
six trains daily to Garfield and six from
Garfield to Spokane, which will give this
city a total of 22 passenger trains a
day.
Oar field is one of the principal shipping
points of Eastern Washington. Although
the past season was not up to the stand
ard aa a grain year, the Garfield grain
buyers have received for shtpmont 555.000
DueneiH - ox wneat ana oaia mis an
3u0,000 were oats and ?25,0W bushels wheat,
The lhestock shipments from Garfield
for the year 1906 were greater than for
any year lr the town's history. Accord
ing to statements from the shippers here,
there was shipped from Garfield u
carloads of cattle, sheep and hogs, of an
avemge value of SSOO a our. or a total of
The value of " the grain and livestock
shipments, aclcM tft the shipments o
hay. potatoes, fruit, dairy products, eggs.
and poultry, will r-lref tne OsarJleld farm
SPEND
DUD
THE STATE
ers' cash receipts not far from 500,ooo
for the year.
The merchants have all done & splendid
business this year, and all lines of busi
ness had a healthy tone. The local banks
are full of money, the deposits being
ftreater than at any time tn their his
tory. The- deals In real estate the past
year have been larare. esoeclally In farm
lands. At present there tire several
deals of magnitude pending, which may
be closed In a few days. There haa been
good demand her thle year for small
tracts of land, alao a fair demand for
city property, house ana cheap lota ror
residence purpose.
The coming of the Spokane A inland
electric railroad haa probably been the
cause of all the cheap lota betner quickly
picked up. Lots that were valued at and
sold for 125 each a year a no can not be
purchased now- for leaa than SlOO to S1BO
MAXY CORPORATIOXS FORMED
Baker Has Sew Companies AVith
Large Capitalization.
BAKER CITY. Jan. . Special.) More
taiization of 31 corporations which have
had birth In Baker City during the past
year, and although mont or trie corpor
ations are organised for mininn. they
embracer on the whole a wide range of.
industries.' from mining and real estate to
merchandisirrg-HanM- fiffitwttactunnic. The
capitalisation ranges from 9SUtQO.OOO. the
capitalisation of the Banirer Gold AIlnen
Company, to that of the Eagle Telephone
Company, at JS40. '
The various concerns organized In the
past year are: -
Mc Watty Mercantile Company, Sump-
ter, capitalized at UNO;-American Copper
Mining: & Exploration OomDanv. $1,500.-
O0O; Undiay-JohiM Company. merchanJl-
ma- ana mtninK. Humpter. aO,coo; I miner
Canyon Mines Company, Jl.dOO.OOO! Sanger
Gold Mines Company. .2,000.000: Inde-
-pffndent Investment Co. Veal estate and
mining. Kb.oon; Carl Adler Co.. merchants.
Jo.ooo; fcagle Telephone Company. S40;
Conquest Gold Mining Company, tf.COO,
000; Dan Gold Mines Company. Jl.oOO.ftfiO:
Manhattan Gold- Mines QmiDinv. 11.000.-
O0O: Baker InJ Company. oO.OOO; Lilian
irrigation company, $.,000: McCrary Ditch
Company, 2500; White Crystal Line Com
pany, HO.000: Mattoon Gold Mining Com
pany. $100,000: Harney Uola" Minina- Com
pany. Jtoo.OCO: Radium Klectrle Company.
50,eoo; Northwestern Railroad Company,
il,000.(M; Eastern Oregon Railroad &
Power Company. $35,001): Eastern Oresron
Bullrtina- & Loan Association. S25O.00O: Hub
Olotljlns; Company, of Snmpter. S50Q.00O;
Blue Mountain Iron Works, $40,"00; Inde
ppndence Mining Company. fcOO.OOO: Baker
Valley Land Co.. $10,000; Success Gold Min
ing Company. S20O.O0O: Homestead Invest
ment Company, real estate, etc., $20,000;
Sovereign Consolidated Copper Company,
$2,000,000: Snake River Ind Company.
$10,000; HuntinRton Keal Estate Company.
$nO0o, and Zodiac Mining Company, capi
talized for $1,000,000.
VALE TAKES $50,000 OK BONDS
Co-operative Clirlotlan Federation
Meets With Favor In That City.
V A I .! Or.. Jan. H (Snaplnl
opeiative Christian Federation lias been
holding meetings in Ontario and Vale for
the last several days and the people are
taklllE hOld Of the frflPDlli,n . . , H - r. 1 . 1 1 n
rapidly. Ontario agreed to take $50,000
in Donds and -contracts are being made
for Vale to take ?23,000 in them.
Ontario has made her fight for the rall-
riutd termln,,. in. . a
at Vale the only,, consideration naked Is
me completion or the Irrigation scheme
on the' Willow Creek.. . . . f .
some few months aa-o. through R. O.
neeier ana regtiy & Boyd, purchased
the .Ransom Been ranch for $15,000. This
ranch is to be one of the reservoir sites
for the federation. At the time the deal
was closed a payment of a few thousand
dollar? was made to bind the bargain and
a bond for a deed was given. Since the
officers of the federation have "been here
they nnlshed paying on the same. The
reservoir sites which they have under
contract in ths Willow Creek country ara
high enough to cover about 300,000 acres
of the best un-lrrlgated .land In Malheur
County.
The federation officers held ome seven
or eight meeting in Ontario' and ara
holding several meetings in Vale. It. is
too early to state just how much will be
subscribed in Vale at the present time.
but the outlook is for the full amount
asked, if the contract is made that the
citizens of Vale are asking.
Tiie officers state that they expect to
go Into Harney County as ?oon as they
can complete the work here. v eiser,
Idaho, has asked the officers to go there.
as business men there are Interested In
tiie project and would take bonds if they
were assured they could get the railroad
to reach that point. A delegation from
Dead Ox F"lat called on the federation
officers at Ontario and asked for water
and a chance to subscribe 'or bonds.
It la believed at least $150,000 in bonds
can be seemed in this country. Wallis
Nash was here at the last public meeting
and spoke to the people, it is under
stood that several parties here are willing
to take $1000 in bonds if they can be post
tivelv assured that the Willow Creek pro
ject will be completed, and it looks now
as if the contracts would De maaa in re
g-atd to thii.
Strike In Baker "Olstrlct.
s
EAKER CITY,. Or., Jan. MSpecial.)-
The Prairie Diggings mine haa just been
placed in the ranks of the valuable mines
of Kastern Oregon by a discovery of a
big deposit of high-grade ore, which i
reported by Manager Joseph adriell. ur
"Waddell has Just returned from the prop
erties, where placer operations and
quartz development have been going on
for the past few months. A cross-cut
was made from a 700-foot tunnel, and a
raise exposed an ore body of 40 feet, of
which 6 feet snows great values.
It haa been determined that the ore
will bear thellong wagon haul and rail
road transportation to the smelter, while
raw, and the result Is that a heavy hoist
ing apparatus will be put In and the
mine opened up at once.
Plant Many I'm It Trees.
KIONA, Wash.. Jan. 6. (Special.)
Five thousand fruit trees have been ship
ped in during the past month for plant
ing in the Klona Valley. A number of
farmers are preparing to set out orchards,
and large quantities of trees of all kinds
will be planted in the Spring.
Managers of the two Klona' warehouses
say that approximately 1TO.00O bushels of
wheat have been marketed this rall. A
large amount of it is still In the ware
houses, and the farmers are still bring
ing t In.
Apples Go to Wisconsin.
LA GRANDE. Or.. Jan. 6. (Special.)
The A. A. Guit warehouse in packing
nv car of applet for shipment to Mil
waukee, Wis. Thev wilt also fend five
Cars Of spltzenbergs to the same marKec
from Eastern Oregon points.
Pioneer Educator Is III-
J. TV. Brock, a retired educator and
pioneer, is quite atcK at hla home at
Mount Scott. his condition bvi nmr re
garded r f Brloiifl. Air. Brock la one of
I lie oldest teachers on the coast, he hav
ing went more than 50 ynrn In echioa.
tional work. Mia health haa been failing
for soma .time.
OF OREGON
HUOE PROFIT IN
E
Owners of Oregon Military
Road Grant.Gain by
Exchange.
poor Land for good
Government Losses 31 ore Than 2,-
000,000 In Trading 87,000 Acres
of Klch Klamath Timber for
Acreage of - Poor Quality.
BT-FHANK IRA TTHITE.
JC LA MATH FALLS. Or.. Jan. 6.
(Special.; Men njggt tamUiar wltli t
land involved In the now famous trans
fer by which- th owners of the Ore
gon military road grant exenanpred
111,000 acres of land for 87,000 acres
of timber In the Klamath Indian res-
ervation. declare that the profit gained
h- the dOHl is between $2,000,000 and.
J3.500.000. Plenty of asaurance can be
had from men wlio have been over
that rsrion thoroughly that somebody
must 'have been -very much deceived
as to the real character of the land
involved, or the officials who approved
the exchange and aided In bringing it
about were victims of hallucinations.
It Is stated here that Commissioner
of Indian Affair! lupp made a trip
to the Klamath Indian agrency preced
ing the consummation or the exchange
and that somfe months afterwards he
anln made a trip to -the coast and
mopped nt Kugrene, presumably when
the negro t la t ions were in progress. On
the occasion of the visit to the agency
be addressed the Indians and informed
them that no complaints or business
on their account should be dono
through outotde parties or attorneys,
and that anything: sent through chan-
neis other than the regrular course such
matters should take would receive no
attention. This advice was ut tered, tt
is stated, in reference to matter? gen
era 11 v affecting the relations of the
Government with the Klamath Indians,
but repetition of the story now leads
some people to place a double mean
ing to the advice meted out to the
wards of t'nrle Sam.
Basis of tlie Deal.
Th hni fov Vie ovr lin n era wn a In
the allotment of about 10,000 acres of
the land embraced within the military
road rrnnt. which was taken bv mem
bers of the tribe during- the time that
Major C. K. Worden was employed as
allotting officer. This land borders tne
river and whil the 1 0.000 acres or
thereabouts were selected it is not all
desirable land by an v means, a por
tfop. of the allotments taken including
rough land that had to be Included
with ome more choice acreagre alonpr
the stren m. ; nder tne leadership of
Jesse KirK, an educated Indian who
preached to his brethren under, the au
thority of the Methodist conference, an
effort was made In behalf of the tribe
to have the timber cruised on the land
afterwards secured in the 87,000-acre
tract,, in order that the timber on a
portion of it might be sold to pay for
the land taken in tbe allotments. The
Indians did not desire the timber land
disposed of in a body, or at all, but
instead wished to sell a portion of the
timber and hold the land.
As to the value of the land which
the Government received It Is asserted
by one man familiar with the region
and who has been on many sections
of the land that it is practically worth
less as a whole, lie makea the state
ment that it is not worth paying taxes
on. The statement of Senator Fulton
that the land is -tilled and in a hiarh
state of cultivation as agricultural land
( referring to tiie portion taken in al
lotment) is erroneous, and leaves the
impression that the Senator was also
misled. There is very little if any
of the land in cultivation, accord Ins
to C. F". Cronemlller, editor of the Her
ald, and other Klamath Falls men who
have been over the ground. It is s-rnz
ing- land and aside -from that skirtinic
the stream is of poor quality. The
general character of th major por
tlon of that embraced In the 111,031)
acres Is said to be pumice stone wit h
scrub pines as the chief timber growth
Value of Timber Great.
Timber of very great value was ob
tained in the tract of 87.000 acres, and
in order to make the exchange it is
stated that the portion which the Gov
ernment received was put in at a val
uation of 15 on acre, and the heavy
timbered sections taken as of the value
of $20 an acre. The value placed on
the timber Is probably about the-same
as has been paid to private owners of
quarter sections during the past year,
whse holdings were acquired by. the
Weyerhaeuser Interests, but there is
no record of any rales of land of the
character described as composing the
$1.1 an acre land. The actual value of
the heavy timber land, however. Is very
much in excess of tne price realised,
and aside from the fact that it has
lost to the Klamath IndlansVery valu
able land, it lias been another long
step toward tying up the immense tim
ber belt of oft pine on the east slope
of the Cascades In the hands of a very
few boldersrto whom the consumers
of lumber in development of Oregon
and the whole West will have to pay
tribute.
REFUSES A $15,000 OFFER
Mayor Mott, of Oakland, Prefers In
dependence and $3000 a Year.
SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. .-(Speclal.)
Mayor Frank K. Mott, of Oakland, haa
foregone an annual salary of $15,000 aa
president of the People's Water Company,
to retain his mayoralty with a $,1000 salary
and Mb independence.
The position was offered to him about
a week ego and since then lie haa been
considering the possibility of becoming
the chief officer of the big syndicate
which haa absorbed the interests of the
Contra Costa Water Company. His re
fusal was issued in a written atatement
lat night, in hla special letter Mayor
Mott says:
'After much thoughtful and careful de
liberation. I have finally and irrevocably
declined to accept the office. This decis
ion was reached after much study of the
whole situation, my own closest desires
and the condition existing; aa to my own
career.
'After canvasmng all phases of the sit-
uatlon, the question resolves itself mtq
one of two propoBitlonB. either voluntarily
to retire from all participation In the pub
lic affairs and to assume private renponBi-
billiles exclusively, or to remain re
from nil possible Interest (hat might tend
to constrain my Independence of thmig-ht
And action., and if tne people should so
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HARRIMAN NEEDS REST
Railway Magnate Able (o Come
Down to Dinner.
NEW YORK. Jan. , At the residence
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operation about a week aj?o, was, !n the
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