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THE SUADA1" OKJiGO.MA., OKl.LAil, J AS LAKV 12, 1913. Read. Ponder and Reflect as to Portland and Latir elhuir s t s Oregon, The writer hereof, engaged steadily in real estate business in Portland during the past twenty-three years, upon retir ing from active commission brokerage business, intending to remove to Southern California in the near future, solely on account of personal family reasons, desires to point out some of the reasons for his abiding faith in Oregon, Portland, and Laurelhurst in particular. Oregon, from now on, must and will grow with very great strides, as no other section of the United States presents as attractive opportunities for on coming population. . The Avhole Pacific Coast will receive a great influx of people upon the completion of the Panama Canal, and Ore gon offers more lands and better opportunities for the great numbers of industries, frugal and thrifty people and laborers and home-seekers who, while helping develop the state, will seek and acquire lands in the state for homes. Let us consider. Of the forty-eight states in the Union all of the lands in twenty-one states have been appropriated, according to the U. S. Statistician, and of the remaining twenty-seven states in which lands may yet be had under the Government laws, only nine have. more lands than has Ore gon, while Oregon has 50 per cent more land open to public entry than all the following fifteen states combined: r Alabama 100,200 Arkansas 515,455 Florida 477,169 Kansas 108,400 Louisiana 70,313 Michigan 105,130 Oregon has 17,258,179 1 Minnesota 1,804,000 ACRES of Lands open M-i-siss-ppi &i,9bo to public entry, as com- rC,a , pared with J North Dakota 1,300,333 Oklahoma 42,919 South Dakota 3,673,293 Washington ". .. 1,977,791 Wisconsin 13,500 Total 11,578,445 Just think of it! Oregon has. open to public entry 5,679,734 acres more than all the above states combined. Oregon with 96,000 square miles has but 673,000 people Italy with 110,000 square miles has 34,687,000 people Japan with 147,699 square miles has 50,752,000 people Think of it! Italy, but a trifle larger than Oregon, has as many people as Ave have plus 34,000,000 more. Oregon has less than 7 people to the square mile Italy has less than 313 people to the square mile Japan has less than 343 people to the square mile Four counties in Oregon with but 26,000 people, having 1000 square miles more territory than six of our states in which there are over 8,000,000 people, as follows: Malheur County.. Harney. .. Lake Crook Sq. M. Pop. 9,883 9,933 7,920 7,778 8,601 4,059 4,658 9,315 Sq. Miles Massachusettes 8,266 Rhode Island. . 1,248 Connecticut 4,965 New Jersey.... 8,224 Delaware. 2,370 Vermont 9,564 Pop. 3,366,415 542,610 1,114,756 2,537,167 202,322 355,956 34,637 8,119,226 35,514 26,633 Or compare Harney County with 9,933 sq. miles, having 4,059 people Maryland . with 9,941 sq. miles, having 1,295,346 people Lake County. . .with 7,920 sq. miles, having 4,658 people Massachusetts . with 8,266 sq. miles, having 3,366,415 people Think of what Oregon will be when the people, now com ing to the Coast, can reach the lands open to settlement in this great state over our new and additional transportation facilities; railroads from Northern California coming into the southern part of the state; railroads being built across the state from east to west in the southern portion; new electric roads on both sides of the Willamette River heading south to the state line, doing more to develop the state in the next five years than has been done in the last twenty-five years. . Oregon, with its vast lands and agricultural opportunities, also presents the greatest fields for labor and home-building endeavor on the part of new peoples in its timber resources. The recent Forestry report shows that Oregon has 545,000, 000,000 board feet of standing timber, worth not less than $680,000,000, affording an immense field for laboring men in all the branches of the lumbering -business. Every man must see clearly that Oregon has a great future, and it behooves every man in the City of Portland to assist in getting people onto the lands in the state. As to Portland, there has been a great deal written about Port land's advantages, and there will be more. In this issue the writer will but cite the fact that in last Sunday's Journal there appeared a photograph of Mrs. Comstock, mother-in-law of Mr. A. D. Charlton, of our city, with an interview in which she stated that when she came here, "there wasn!t any Portland." A little hamlet on the Willamette River, this side of Linnton, called Springville, was the town. They built their home there, as Portland started and began to grow, they moved their house from Springville to'the corner of Park and Alder Streets, which stood there until taken away to erect the present Medical Building. Think of that! Such a short span of life for such a great city to grow in. Pessimists and knockers, stop and think! Portland is singular, in that it is the one great city in an enormous state.- Laurelhurst was the welKknown Ladd's Hazel Fern Farm less than four years ago. It has been fully improved to the highest state of perfection, and home-owners, realizing that it costs no more to build a good house on choice Laurelhurst lots than it does on cheap lots, have built two hundred and thirty residences since platted. The writer, owning about one hundred lots in Laurelhurst, offers the same for sale at prices established a'year ago, and on easy terms of payment, through HENRY & WILLIAMS, Henry Building, or members of the Real Estate Board. FINLEY ASKS HELP Farmers' and Homesteaders' Co-operation Desired. ECONOMIC ASPECTS SHOWN Game Warden Objects to Protecting Birds From Hunters to Feed Predatory Animals and to Fish Becoming Manure. William I,. Finley, State Game War den, has written a letter to Governor West to accojnpany his report, in which he says that he will lay stress on the economic and educational aspects of the game laws. His object, he says, is not to minimize the enforcement of the law but to get the real interest of the farmers, homesteaders and other land owners. To do this, he has prepared educational leaflets with colored Illus trations relating to fowl and fish, the rearing: of same birds and the propa gation of trout. In his report Mr. Finley says: "The game protective fund is derived from two sources, licenses and fine. The former produces J70.000 to 80,000 an nually, the latter J5000 to $10,000 an nually. The fund was established In 1905. Since then $215,000 has been paid In and the Commission has spent about HS0.O00. "The state owns 13 different fish sta tions and hat,he,rics. These were for merly used almost solely for the propa gation of commercial fish. After the State Board of Fish and Game Com missioners took charge game fish were also propagated. In 1912 the amount or game fish handled was 9.350.436. Forty WardraR Employed. "The largest item of expenditure in the game protective fund is for deputy game wardens. The average salary of a deputy is $75, but district wardens get from $SS to $100 per month. Ore gon has 40 regular wardens and this amount Is insufficient to cover the Mate. However, the United States Bu reau of Forestry has ordered its rangers to assist actively in the enforcement of the game laws. "In order to stock the state with game. Gene Simpson's pheasant farm was leased and from it nearly 1000 China pheasants have been released over the state. In addition 300 Reeves', Golden and Silver pheasants have been distributed. Fifteen elk were purchased in Wyoming, four died and a calf was raised, leaving a herd of II. The peo ple of Wallowa County have offered to purchase other elk If they are landed in Joseph. The present herd is kept on a reserve of 2500 acres in Wallowa County. Governor Given Authority. "The last Legislature passed a game refuge law. This law provides that the Governor may set aside all public lands surrounding state Institutions for game refuges, and also allows the game warden to enter into agreement with private owners allowing them to set aside land for game refuges. Many of such refuges have been established. -The Slate Board of Fish and Game Commissioners desires to make fishing and hunting an Important resource of Oregon. Fields and forests that abound in game and streams that are stocked with fish furnish a most attractive ad vertisement for any state. Hunting and fishing are two drawing cards for a desirable class of tourists, who have money to spend and money to invest. Game protection and game propagation is a business proposition, not only for the man who lives In the city, but for the farmer, the fruitgrower and the timber man. ' State Law Desired. "One of the main efforts of the Com mission at the present time is to se cure a code of flBh and game laws that have ' some idea of uniformity throughout the state, so as to get rid of the individual laws now in force in different counties. If this can be done, it will be a much easier matter for the ordinary citizen to understand the game laws and it will be easier to se cure a common-sense enforcement of these laws. This cannot be done under the present system, which is full of inconsistencies and errors. "The propagation of game birds and animals is not efficient without a good ly number of game refuges scattered throughout the state. The protection of game birds and animals by prohibit ing men from hunting is not sufficient without a rigid protection, at the same time, from predatory animals. The pro tection of fish is not sufficient, if we allow our streams to be polluted with filth of factories, mills and cities, which Is a quick method of diseasing and de stroying young fish. Nor is propaga tion sufficient if the fry are to be car ried out in unscreened irrigation ditches to die In the fields." MILK COMPANIES COMBINE Five Creameries Succeeded by One With Two Distributing Stations. The reorganization into a single company of five of the creamery plants of Portland, which was announced a few days aso by W. J. Patterson, who has been heading the plan, was ef fected yesterday. The new company will control about 70 per cent of the milk and cream supply oC Portland, as well as a large proportion of the but ter business. The stockholders in the organization are W. J. Patterson, S. H. Graham. Robert Ireland. W. W. Terry, J. S. Manly. W. L. Wilsey. A. Welch. H. It. Carey, A. T. Jones, of Salem; Henry Roth, of Troutdale; A. N. Allen, L. En derod, William Graham and W. H. Edwards. The companies included in the reor ganized company are the Portland Pure Milk & Cream Company, Damascus Creamery Company, Swiss Sanitary Dairy Company, Portland Dairy Asso ciation and Mountain View Dairy Farm. The name of the new company Is the Portland Milk Company. It is believed by those organizing the company that operating expenses will be materially cut down in the new company and that the public will be benefited noticeably by the consolida tion. Instead of several distributing stations and overlapping creamery routes, only two will be operated in future. OLD FAMILIES ARE JOINED Miss Fay Himes Is Married to T. William Mann in Portland. In the marriage of Miss Fay Himes to T. William Mann, which occurred on January 4. two pioneer families were united. The wedding ceremony was performed by Dr. W. B. Hinson at the White Temple. Mrs. T. W. Mann is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Himes while Mr. Mann is the son of Thomas Mann, both families being old pioneer Ameri can stock, going back to 1630 and 1633 respectively. The marriage was a quiet one. and the newly-married couple will live in Portland. Business Woman's Club to Klect. The next meeting of the Business Woman's Club will be held at the rooms of the Catholic Woman's League, on Fourth street, near Washington street, tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. New officers will be elected for the coming year and all members are urged to attend. $16,399.56 YET DUE Auditor Martin Checks Books of ex-Clerk Fields. SUMS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR Of Total "Off," $15,522.43 Is In volved in Defunct, Bank $ 111.10 Dne Jmt Library and $854.83 Probably N'ot Disputed. Ex-County Clerk Fields owes the County of Multnomah $16,399.56, ac cording to figures given out yesterday by County Auditor Martin after a de tailed examination of Mr. Fields' ac counts. This is $877.13 more than the ex county official lost of county funds In the wreck of the American Bank & Trust Company, the amount of county money which Mr. Fields states is still due him from that institution being $15,522.43. In addition Mr. Martin's figures show Mr. Fields owes the Law Library Asso ciation $117.70. This sum the ex-County Clerk admits to be correct, explaining that it was in the American Bank & Trust Company together with, other PROMINENT ATTORNEY" TO TOESIOK AT TRESS CLl'B "BEEFSTEAK." T C. E. S. Wood aa a Butcher. Colonel C. E. S. Wood will pre sent one of the most striking ap pearances in his career while he is presiding at the Portland Press Club's "Beefsteak," which will be tendered to the life members of the club on' Monday, January 20. So will everyone else who partakes of the "beefsteak." The invitations to the "beef steak" were placed in the mails yesterday, and are unique as well as artistic. The programme for the even ing. which is hedged in mystery, is to be a novelty so far as this city is concerned, and. with humor the one predominating feature, is to be a riot of laughter-producing stunts from begin ning to end. Nothing that approaches seri ousness will be tolerated during any part of the evening. ( funds. Another Item which Auditor Martin was told In advance would be found short is $22.50 collected as ex aminers' fees in land registration cases. Mr. Fields will remit his personal check, be told the County Auditor, to cover the law library items and this other amount of $22.50. Undisputed Balance J 8a4.3. The amount of $15,522.43 is in dis pute between the County Court and Mr. Fields, the latter asserting that it was deposited in the name of Frank S. Fields, County Clerk, and that be can not be held responsible. This leaves a balance of JS54.63. and this Mr. Fields probably will pay with out any dispute, provided a recheck of tne Auditor's figures show It to be cor rect. No Importance is attached to this item for the reason that county of ficials generally recognize that an error of this amount could occur in such a large" office as that of the County Clerk without any culpability on the part of Mr. Fields personally. The statement issued by Auditor Martin shows that Mr. Fields should have turned over to his successor $104, 057.99, not including the law library and examiners' fees items, and dupli cates of receipts in the possession of County- Clerk Coffey show that the amount actually turned over was $87. 680.93. leaving a balance due of $16, 377.06. Deduct from this $15,622.43, the amount involved in the bank failure, and the result is $854.63, the amount already referred to. Bondsmen Fare Suit. Announcement was made by the County Court some time ago that suit ould be commenced against Mr. Fields' bonding company, the Oregon Casualty Company, to collect. Subsequently Mr. Fields asked the court to defer action until the bank had paid out com pletely, which he expected would be in a couple of months. The County Court agreed to do so. providing none of the county's legal rights would be jeopardized, and District Attorney Kvans has been asked, for an opinion on this "question. The law is not specific as to how the County Clerk shall handle funds and It is predicted that the outcome of the suit will depend on whether the court finds the former County Clerk used reasonable care. Z. W. COMMERFORD REPLIES Ex-Clergyman Says Suffragist Wife Has EspcnsivcTastes. Too expensive tastes are charged against Sarah 15. Commerford by'Zetolus W. Commerford, her husband and a for mer clergyman, who yesterday filed Jn Circuit Court an answer to her divorce complaint. Further, he states that the court has no jurisdiction for the reason that neither his wife nor he has been a resident of Oregon for a year. In sup port of this he introduces a copy of an affidavit in which they swore on March 29, 1912, that they were not residents of Portland, but of Spokane, Wash. Mrs. Commerford is now lecturing on eugenics at a local picture house un der the name of La Moyne L. Living stone, the name which she asks In her divorce complaint tbat she be allowed to resume, although she has been a wife for 12 years. Her husband says that her family name was not Living stone, but Morrow. He states also that he is making only $25 a week and that tbe family trouble was caused princi pally by his wife's desire to reside at high-priced hotels. Mrs. Commerford was prominent in suffragist circles in the State of Wasn ington and was active in a lesser degree in Portland during the late votes-for-women campaign. Infantry to Be Instructed. The Winter term for the infantry forces of the Oregon National Guard has opened. Under the instruction of Francis C. Endicott, U. S. A., the vari ous classes are expected to make much progress. Lieutenant Endicott will have Captain Harry Hoekenyos. Major L. A. Bowman and Captain C B. Hotch jtlsM to assist him. D..C. IRELAND IS DEAD VETERAN OREGON EDITOR IS BTTRIED AT MIORO. Pioneer Newspaper Man Who Once Gathered Copy for The Oregonian Passes, Aged 76. With tbe death of D. C. Ireland, editor of the Sheiynan County Ob server, at his home in Moro on Janu ary 7 from cerebral hemorrhage, Ore gon lost one of its most widely known newspaper men. Mr. Ireland was 76 years old. During the past year Mr. Ireland had been weak, though apparently in good health until early in December. On Christmas night he was taken suddenly ill, but recovered until January 5, when he suffered a partial stroke of par alysis. From that time he grew steadily worse until the end came on Tuesday evening. Funeral services were held at the Moro Methodist Episcopal Church, the edifice being crowded. County Court was adjourned and the schools dis missed to allow attendance at the serv ices, which were conducted by Rev. W. C. Johnson. Born in Rutland. Vt., on July 4. 1S36, Mr. Ireland moved to Indiana when still a' boy, beins educated at a private Episcopal Church school. 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