DRAMATIC,
REAL ESTATE
AUTOS, ROADS
SECTION FOUR
Pases 1 to 12
NO. 20.
PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY 3IORNING. MAY 19. 1913.
STATES SLOW TO
EXCHANGE LANDS
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Our Thousands of Pleased Customers Are Our Best Advertisements
Wbm you think f.f buying anything in Furniture. Carpets, Rugs or Stoves, jnst inquire among your neighbors about vchere they bought their home furnishings and how
thrv were pleased. You are sure to find many of them bought at Gadsbys', and that everyone who bought there has nothing but praise for this store. It is our aim to
make it pleasant and profitable for everyone to trade here. You are treated with every courtesy, whether you wish to buy or not. We never urge a person to buy; we
let our good and our prices speak for themselves. Open a charge account with us and we will give you more than a year to pay for it if you need the accommodation.
Our Replar Prices Always as Low as Much-Advertised Sales of Competitors There's a Reason, We Pay No Rent
Special Sale of
Dining Tables
We Have the Largest Display of
Dining Tables in Oregon
i w
ThU solid oak
Table, round
op and five
legs, reduced at
liadsbvs' from
$15.00 to
Solid oak Federal
Table, polden oak,
polished finish;
extends 6 feet long".
33-inrh top; heavy
pedestal ba.se, piv
injr table strength
and design. Gads
bvs special price
$12.50
f $10
Gadsbys' Gas Ranges Always Sat
isfy Buy Your Gas
Range While the Price Is Low
$20 Gas Ranges
SpeciallyPriced
ilwiii 9
v 1
H5
weather? This is a model range
th oven when you
boil : it docs not heat
the broiler when you
bake or roa.t. All
tlie valves have reg
ulating? openings for
the pa pressure. It
is of best construe
tion A $"20.O0 Kani;e
for 15.00
Free Connections
Made on All
Gas Ranges
AV a n t greater
comfort in
cooking? Want
to set away
from working
over a wood or
coal fire dur
ing the warm
It does not heat
We Have No Rent to Pay
That's Why We Sell for Less
For Baby's Sake
U T A
S TUEGIS
So other
rarriaC ran
pve such
p e r f e e t
.-omfort and
a t i f ae-
liou. It is
band tome
and etvlish.
Back is ad
justable t o
any posi
tion. Long
wheel base, suspension f priryrs and shock absorbers in
sure easy ridir.it. The turgis is most rjjv cment for
Mother. Folds with one hand to very uiail spare and
carried anywhere. Only carriage with push handles
placed to Mother's skirts will not touch wheels. Closed,
ran be parked in trunk, taken on ears;
is life-lit and eay to handle. Gadsbys' price S0, I J
ThU is a prxnl rart rheap; rickel mounting. Others
cheap as 9 1.30.
OLD HICKORY FURNITURE
OLD-TIME EASE AND COMFORT.
To sit in an "Old Hickory Chair" is to be literally back to Nature. Until you do you'll
never know the repose that has made "Old Hickory" and absolute comfort synonymous.
The earlr pioneers made furniture for ease, to relax the tired muscles. "We are making
the same kind of furniture the same way today. We offer this to you as the best lawn
and veranda furniture made, proven by 65 'y ears of successful furniture and growth.
Genuine Old Hickory is a luxury at the price of a necessity. YouH be surprised to
Know at now little cost you can secure .
a complete set of lawn furniture, a
porch swing, or a complete outfit for the
sleeping porch or Summer home.
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n
RUGS! RUGS!
EVERYBODY WANTS RUGS-GADSBY HAS THE LARGEST
SHOW OFRUGS IN THE STATE
SPECIAL SALE OF ROOM-SIZE RUGS
GOO PATTERNS TO CHOOSE FROM
Five racks like picture, each displaying 125
patterns. Rugs from ll'xlo ius. to 6x9 ft. on
display. Anglo-Persians, Indians, Arabians,
Koyal Worcester. Bagdads and Tepracs
all are here at bottom prices. Some special
bargains:
Oriental Wiltanas, 9x12. .. .$27.50
Wilton Velvets, 9x12. $23.00
Eureka Velvets, 9x12 $14.50
Metropolitan Brussels, 9x12 $18.00
Smith's Tapestries, 9x12. ...$15.00
Tyvan Art Rugs, 9x12 $12.00
Anglo Persians. 9x12 $55.00
Special Brussels, 9x12 $9.50
All other brands equally low.
Don't forget we have the extra large Rugs
in stock.
1 'tit cTlsSgZz.
Special Sale of Bed
Davenports, Only
Special This Week Only $25 Sold
on Easy Terms Has receptacle for
bedding; makes a comfortable bed.
Frame is of oak. Seat and back up
holstered over oil-tempered steel
springs. Covered in chase leather.
$12 All-Cotton Felt Mattress for $8.95
These splendid white cotton felted Mattresses, w
compressed down to six inches in thickness,
remain soft and elastic and do not wad; equal to
the mattresses so extensively advertised at $15;
absolutely sanitary, durable and comfortable.
CJadsbys price .$8.95
Ask the man who sleeps on one.
This is not a cost-you-more Mattress.
;hing oO pounds, are
See Our Window
Display of Gibson
Refrigerators
OUR 1912 MODELS
are equipped with new patent waste
pipe and trap in bottom of provision
chamber, all removable for cleaning.
Lined with enamel porcelain, galvan
ized steel or zine. Also have retinned
wire shelves. Case finished in hard
wood with round corners and raised
front panels. You make no mistake
in selecting one of our Gibson Refrig
erators; they will reduce your ice bill
25 per cent, and we guarantee them to
give entire satisfaction. Prices range
from family size $9.00 UP
Keep Cool Your Credit's Good
at Gadsbys.'
Bargains in Dressers
and Chiffoniers
This large
D r e s s e r,
French plate
mirror, f i n
ished golden
oak. Special
at Gadsbys'
to $12.50
This large,
roomy Chiffon
- ier, five drawers
and plate glass
mirror, finished
golden oak
$12.00 frn
$40 Leader Steel
Range
$29.50
Guaranteed equal to any $40 Kange
in the market. Oven 18xl6 inches,
asbestos liued throughout. You can
not break the lids. Special $29.50
1300 of these Ranges now in use in
Oregon. Ask the cook who uses one.
a
Tree Book "Tike Care of Baby." Ask Tor One.
Nn'MAtf rWhat You Want in Furniture
Gadsby Selte it "for Less
Use Our Exchange Department
If you have furniture that doesn't suit want some
thing more up-to-date and better, phone us and we'll
send a competent man to see it and arrange to take it
as part payment on the kind you want the Gadsby
kind. We'll make you a liberal allowance for your
goods, and we'll sell you new furniture at low prices.
The new furniture will be promptly delivered and your,
pieces will go as first payment. Easy terms on balance.
Have furniture you'll be proud of.
Idaho, Leading Way, Pleased
by Its Bargain With Fed
eral Government.
SOLID TRACTS OBTAINED
Scattering School Sections in Forest
Reserves, Isolated and Unsal
able, Given for More
Marketable Areas.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. May 18. Western states hav
been slow to follow the example of
Idaho and exchange their scattered
school sections in forest reserves for
compact bodies of forest reserve land,
and yet the Forest Service has ex
tended an invitation to every state to
negotiate for such exchanges. Under
recent negotiations between the Gov
ernor of Idaho and the Forest Serv
ice, 100.000 acres of school sections in'
forest reserves have been turned back
to the Government, and the President
has transferred to the state several
large tracts of land, of equal area and
approximately the same character and
value, which have been eliminated from
reserves.
This, however, is only the start, and
before the close of the present season
about 4U0,000 acres of land will be so
exchanged. By this method of ex
change, the state is turning over to
the Government isolated sections 16 and
36, and is getting in exchange tracts
of 60,000, 75.000 and even 100,000 acres
each, and so situated that the state, if
it desires, can readily dispose of them,
or can administer them without being
forced to cross the forest reserves in
getting to them.
State Gains by Exchange.
As sections 16 and 36 lie scattered
through the mountains, surrounded on
all sides by forest reserve, they are
of practically no value to the state.
There is almost no demand for thesa
small tracts, especially where they are
unsurveyed and remotely situated. The
land is there and the timber is there,
but neither is sufficiently attractive to
command sale. By turning these tracts
over to the Government, the state re
ceives large tracts which can be sold
and thereby it adds hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in value to its prop
erty. The same opportunity that was ex
tended to Idaho has been extended to
every other Western state, but as yet
the other states have been slow to
avail themselves of the offer, and
actual exchanges have not been made,
except with Idaho and North Dakota.
The plan of exchange Is substantially'
this: The Governor of the state in
dicates a desire to make the exchange.
Thereupon a board is appointed repre
senting the state and the Forest Serv
ice, and this board determines the ares
and character of the land which the
state wishes to relinquish; divides il
into forest land and grazing land, ap
praises it, and then sets about hunting
up large tracts of land of the sama
character as that which the state
wishes to relinquish. When such tracts
are found, an agreement of exchange
Is siKned, and the President issues a
"proclamation ordering the exchange.
Actual Timber la Basis.
Thus, if there is 100,000 acres ok
school land in reserves, and 70 per
cent of it is timber land and 30 per
cent grazing land, tlie Government
gives to the state one or more large
tracts of timber land aggregating 70.
000 acres of timber land and 30,00)
acres of grazing land. If the timber
land turned back is valuable, timber
land of like value is given the state;
if the-timber is of second quality or
stand, land containing a similar stand
is given the state, and so on, until th
exchange is adjusted equitably. And
in reckoning the value of the land, no
account is taken of its proximity to
market. The actual stand of timber
is the basis of valuation.
Now that Idaho has its exchanges
well under way and the state officials
are highly pleased over the result of
their efforts, the Forest Service is hope
ful that other states will fall into
line. This plan of exchange was first
proposed by the Forest Service, for
that bureau is anxious tOgeliminate the
scattered state holdings, so that the
Government areas may be compact. In
this way, the Forest Service will have
jurisdiction of all lands remaining in
forest reserves, except those held by
settlers and entrymen, and it can ad
minister the reserves to better advan
tage by having absolute control.
As. it has been, the service has had
no actual Jurisdiction over school sec
tions, and they have been Isolated
tracts which were utterly without ad
ministration and without use.
NEW BOULEVARD TO OPEN
Sooth Portland and Fulton Park
Residents Plan Celebration.
Preparations are being made by resi
dents of South Portland for a formal
opening of Terwllliger boulevard early
this Summer. The boulevard is con
sidered one of the finest driveways In
the city. About one mile is completed.
The South Portland boosters and the
Fulton Park Improvement Club were
largely Instrumental In getting the
project under way.
The two clubs have appointed a join!
committee to arrange a programme for
the opening of the boulevard. R. I.
Hepburn, chairman of the committee,
announces that the entertainment plan
includes addresses by prominent citi
zens, special music and other features.
Invitations will be extended to state
and city officials, various improvement
clubs and commercial bodies. The date
of opening will be announced soon. This
street will be Included In the Itinerary
of the Elks' parade, in which it is ex
pected 30,000 persons will participate.
Eastern Oregon Cattle Marketed.
ECHO, Or., May 18. (Special.) F. W.
Andrews sold one car of beef steers
yesterday to John Gruleick, who imme
diately shipped them to Pendleton,
where he will market them.
An International gas and yas appliance
exhibition IH be held at Amsterdam la
September and October