lHE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. JANUARY 19, 1913.
9
IRE MONEY FOR
FARMERS IS NEED
Joel Shomaker Discusses
Weakness of American
Financial System.
SAVING FALLACY EXPOSED
Demand for Properly Handlin
Financial Cares of Agriculturists
Declared to Be One of Most
Vital In Country.
BT JOEt. SHOMAKER.
Ex-President Waihlimton Logtced-Otf Land
Asauciatton.
The distribution of money is one of
the moat intricate problems confront
Ins; the American people. It has.
a companion, the handling of farm
products, and the proper regulation of
commercial channels between producer
and consumer. On the right solution
of these questions depends the settling
of such difficulties as the hign cos
of lIvinK. better rural conditions and
more general agricultural prosperity,
Money is the life of commerce, on
the farm. In the factory and along; the
lines of transportation, connecting the
city and country. It is the medium of
exchange, the measure of value and
the debt-paying token, without which
business cannot be carried on success
fully, or in a satisfactory manner. The
clearing-house certificates, put In cir
culation during the panic of 1907, did
not take the place of money with tne
masses nor did It really fill tne dfr
mands of a stable circulating medium,
Artificial Views Fall.
When the money of the Nation Is
not In circulation, the volume of bust'
ne-sa Is curtailed, the people become
dissatisfied and the financiers wonder
what is the matter with trade. Stu
dents of political ethics generally fall,
In making their deductions, because of
not taking into consideration both pro
ducers and consumers. They see the
artificial end of life questions, but
look through dark glasses when the
real objects appear on the philosophical
telescopes.
The new State of Wyoming has dem
onstrated to the modern financiers that
the wealth-producers demand and in
sfst on having the use of the natural
resources. The State Legislature
enacted a model law. governing the
appropriation of waters, for domestic
and culinary purposes. That law pro
vides that the ownership, control and
distribution of all waters. In the nat
ural laJces. rivers, Borings and other
places in the state shall be held by
the people of the state, but the use of
such waters belongs to the Individual
citizenship for reclaiming the deserts.
American farmers add approximately
$10,000,000,000 to the wealth . of the
Nation every 13 months. They secure
that volume of commercial values.
through legitimate and intelligent
combinations of earth, air and water,
In the manipulations of various
branches of agriculture. The farmers,
are generally alike, in all sections of
the United States In that they require
the use of money, for developing their
farms, orchards and gardens and that
without unnecessary red tape, exorbi
tant charges or unfair methods of
usurers or exchangers.
Idle Mtacr Is Mesace.
We. the people of the United States,
boast of having, an Immense volume
of money in circulation $34 26 per
capita and attempt to do business In
proportion to our representations, when
in reality the cash is locked In treasu
ries, safety deposit vaults, home-savings
banks and other boarding recep
tacles. Our National Treasury holds
about 11.000.000,000 In gold against cer
tificates and carries a net gold sur
plus of from (300.000.000 to $300,000,
t 000, enough to finance and maintain
a greater bank than the famous Bank
of Kngland.
Idle money is of no value to any
body, and constitutes a menace to pros
perity. It matters not whether the cash
is held by the treasury of the United
States, the banks of the country, the
vaults of the city or the tin cans of the
misers. Every dollar taken from cir
culation robs the people of the use of
that which rightfully belongs to them,
for buying daily necessities and paying
operating expenses. We have been
teaching the theory of saving and
brought about a condition of finances
wholly undesirable to the individuals
and the Nation.
It is asserted that the banks of the
United States have about $16,000,000,000
In deposits, on a money foundation of
$1,500,000,000. Those who ought to
know say that bank deDoslts ran be
built up on a ratio of ten dollars for
one dollar of cash on hand. That illus
trates the fallacy of carrying large,
useless and Idle deposits, by the Nation
the banks, or Individuals. Money li
for circulation, for use. building up and
retaining business, and not for lying
idle, rusting and wasting because of
non-use. Money Is the National re
source that should be utilized, at all
times, for the benefit of the whole
people.
Present Methods Crude.
Our methods of money distribution
are crude and far behind the up-to-date
plans of other Nations. We have given
too much time to partisan political
questions, and neglected the duties of
citizenship. We are wasting at the
National bungholes of prosperity and
making a show at saving at the spig
ots. Our monetary system makes of
us the laughing stock for intelligent
financiers in some of the far-away
Junslelands of Europe. And the lack
of business methods in dealing with the
farmers of this Nation is one of our
lamest features.
The farmers "of this country do not
seek charity or political favoritism.
They would quickly spurn any attempt
at trying to do them favors because of
povert;. or mismanagement, but they
would not object to reasonable plans
for relieving the money situation, so
as to guarantee the use of cash for de
veloplng their producing acres of fer
tile soils. Under the present system of
oistrihution the banker. merchant.
manufacturer and railway builder gets
money tor less Interest and with less
publicity than It is possible for the
farmers to secure.
There are remedies for the" evils in
the money situation. But reforms that
try to bolster up the existing monetary
system and not make necessary
changes In our National ways of doing
business will not materially benefit the
farmers. It would be useless to estab
lish farmer -banks and expect them to
be ever ready .to assist the farmers,
when, uncer our system, the entire
money output may be controlled by In
dividual speculators, without even an
attempt at Government regulation. The
history of panics, and close money cer
tainly shows the weakness of our sys
tem and demonstrates that even far
mer banks could not help the farmers
when gamblers In securities, or mani
pulators of gold bring on panics.
Oac-tklrd of Karma la Debt.
There are 1,31!. 034 farms In the
United States, carrying an average
FARMING INDUSTRY IS GIVEN BIG
STIMULUS IN REDMOND DISTRICT
Settlers Eager to Adopt Modern Methods in Soil Culture Co-operative Movement to Aid Central Oregon Wide
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tablished a central sailing agency to
handle the crop production of the two
districts. .
Broad Market la Aim.
The bulk of the potato crop, esti
mated at 200.000 bushels, which is now
held by the farmers, will be stored in
the warehouse for distribution. From
orders being received from the South
and Middle West, it is expected that
most of the crop will be -disposed of in
a short time at 'prices entirely satisfac
tory to the farmers. With the central
selling agency, the producers are en
abled to eliminate the middleman en
tirely. Orders for 13 carloads of pota
toes were received last week from Tex
as and the prices received ranged from
JO to 25 cents higher per 100 pounds
than prevailed at the Portland market.
The agency plans to handle root prod
ucts,' grain and livestock for the farm
ers this year. Not only is there every
indication thai .a wide market will e
found for the products, but It has been
demonstrated already that the plan
will result ita saving to the growers
thousands of dollars annually.
Wrlth a fine farming country on all
sides Redmond is making a substantial
growth, now having a population of
about 800. The- business district is at
tractive, the stores are up-to-date and
there, is an air of prosperity about the-
little city. One of the new features of
the town's development was the Instal
latlon this month of electric service by
the Big Bend Power Company, which
recently took over the power plant at
Cllne Kails, on tne uescnutes reiver,
A larger plant will be Installed at
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mortgage debt of $1715. That shows a
percentage of about one-third of the
farms, operated by actual owners, un-
er mortgage. In the w estern states
the mortgage debt runs--up from $2017
n Washington, to $4.32 in Nevada. The
mortgage indebtedness on farms In
South Dakota averages $2897 and in
orth Dakota $2493. Iowa goes ahead
of many Western states and reports an
average farm mortgage of $4048.
An Investigation of the sources from
hifch farm mortgage money is ob
tained would probably show that local
banks had very little to do with the
deals, except to act as sub-agents for
mortgage companies. .The banks, doing
business in farming communities, gen
erally are kept pretty well drawn on
by correspondents in larger cities for
money to supply the big banks in New
York City with sufficient call money, to
be used largely in speculative deals,
often of a questionable character, and
frequently detrimental to the Interests
of the farmers with whom the money
for such deals originated.
The legal rate of interest in the state
of Washington Is 8 per cent, but very
few farmers ever get the use of money
for less than 10 per cent. Loans gener.
ally come from mortgage companies or
private lenders, and the loans carry the
cost of examining land, attorney fees
for examining abstracts of title, record
ing charges for documents and some
times bonuses for the privilege of mak
lng the loan, or rather tips to the
money lenders or their agents, for spe
cial favors.
Moral Riak Important.
In loaning - money to farmers the
moral risk should be considered of
greater Importance than the real seeur
Ity offered. Along the Pacific Coast
for instance, are millions of acres of
cut-over lands tracts once covered by
forests that are fertile, well drained
and within easy reach of good market
centers. The intrinsic value of such
lands, when measured by the rule of
producing power, is probably not more
than ta per acre. Vet. with the lands
cleared and under cultivation, the val
ues go up to $300 to $1000 an acre, be
cause of annual crops that can be har
vested.
The owners of logged-off lands.
swampy tracts, desert areas or other
undeveloped earth, even though the soli
is fertile and would be productive when
developed, cannot secure money on
their land properties, with such peo
ple the moral risk is the important
thing to consider, let. under our pres
ent financial system, the bankers would
not listen to such men. the mortgage
people would not entertain them in
their offices, and the private money
lenders would simply smile and pass
them on as poor people the good Lord
intended should always be poor.
It U proposed to establish farm mort
gage banks, farm loan societies, farm
banks and various other things in
which the farmers are to be the sole
possessors. The question of advisabil
ity Is more easily answered by the
parable about cutting off the branches
to improve the tree. If the trunk Is
diseased, how can we expect It to bring
forth good fruit? We do not-doctor
fruit trees successfully by pruning the
branches. If the tree does not bring
forth good fruit, it is best to lay the
ax at the root and cut the tree down
and cast its trunk into the fire. We
can give money assistance to the farm
ers by changing our money system so
that the currency of the Nation will Ve
at the command of the people.
Three accidents on one rallwar have
Ithin 15 months coat the road lI.SrtiiotKt.
Osune works for tha sterilisation of drtok-
ine water have been erected in iiermaov.
France. Italy and Huaaie ,
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Cllne Falls at once and will develop
from 3000 to 6000 horsepower. Within
a short time a line wlM be extended
to Prineville and other points in Cen
tral Oregon.- With electric service now
at Redmond, several industrial enter
prises already have been projected.
One of the new projects will be a flour
mill, plans for which will be -completed
in a short time.
Warehouse Is Dedicated.
The greatest occasion since the coin
pletlon of the joint railr.oad a year
ago was the opening of th6 fine ware
house of the Redmond Union Ware
house Company last week. Three hun
dred residents of the district were in
attendance. A gratuitous dinner was
given at noon, followed with awro
gramme of music and addresses. The
festivities concluded with a ball given
on ttie second floor of the warehouse.
A feature of. the programme was an
address given by ex-Congressman J.
N. Williamson, of Prineville. on-VThe
Pioneer and the Tenderfoot.
"Things have come to such a pass
In this section of the country that the
differences and relationships ot the
pioneer and the ' tenderfoot may be
safely analyzed without dealing dis
couragement to the one or giving af
front to the -other. The pioneer Is the
first man on the ground, consequently
he knows. The tenderfoot Is the man
who comes along later' and therefore
don't know," was the way Mr. Wil
liamson facetiously described the two.
"The pioneer is' the man who says
our soli won't produce anything. The
tenderfoot goes ahead and raises
everything. -The pioneer Is the man
who stands around and says all things
can' be done. The tenderfoot goes
ahead and does them."
The speaker then related some of his
personal experiences as a pioneer.
I saw a lenuflnuoi over a i ruwtii
Butte four or five yeans ago, plowing
up one of my old wood-trails, over
which, long years ago, I hauled my
Winter's wood." said Mr Williamson. "I
hailed him and asked him what he was
doing. He replied that' he was doing a
little plowing and tiat he proposed to
raise a few oats. As .1 resumed my
seat in my buggy, I. thought to my
self, 'what a shame it is for that man
to be spoiling a pretty fair quality of
grass In such a manner.'
rtow do you suppose I leit, wnen
two years later I passed that same,
way and found that same man thresh
ing 3&-bushel-to-the-acre wheat - from
that identical piece of land.
Kfeaehntea Gives Up Wealth.
'I went up to Bend last Fall and
found that they had a town there,
where, back in the .'70s I had a calf
pasture fenced In with logs and brush.
In which I separated ana weaneu my
calves each Fall. ' I do not believe those
people up there knew of my loss, at
least none of them referred to it. A
talkative friend showed me the power
plant and chattored away about - some
thousands or so of power units, acre
feet flow, initial velocity, and a lot of
such stuff, most of which I did not
hear, for there was that good old river,
tne Deschutes, which in years gone by
had nothing to bother or disturb It save
to quench the thirst of my calves as
It hurried and hurtled good-naturedly
along on its way ,to the sea. There
was that good old river tearing itself
into shreds, lashing Into a perfect fury
of rage, all because ft - had just been
dammed by a tenderfoot. I missed my
calves. I saw them nowhere lazily loi
tering along the banks of that crystal
river as hey did back in those faraway
Os.
"And that poor old river, so furious
at this first interference, I wondered
how few more Summers It would be
until It should be loaded down until It
would fairly groan out the balance of
its existence groan out Its existence
under the load of the 'white man's bur
den.' '
Some of us are tryin&-to adapt our
selves to the changing conditions. We
will all adapt ourselves to the new, or
sooner or later we will stand aside and
give room to those who will: for God
undoubtedly intended this country to
provide for the many and not for the
few, even- If those few were on the
ground first.
Settlers Empire Builders.
Have not most of you wondered why
It Is that all these best lands were not.
owned long ago- by those who were
here first? But, you may say, any
body should have seen that these lands
are productive. But. there you are
again, up against the same serious
BT CHARLES W. MYERS.
EDMOND, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.)
Central Oregon is about to enter
upon its greatest era ' of prog
ress and prosperity. The little
cities, ..towns and business cen
ters made . substantial headway
last year, a great amount of new
acreage was placed under cultivation,
many new. families took up their per
manent homes and tlie crops were gen
erally satisfactory. Yet, probably the
most notable fact that Impresses tne
visitor Is the optimlwm of the people.
the genuine faith which they hold for
the future of this vast inland empire.
The residents of this broad district
fully realize that they are stilt some
what In the pioneering stage of devel
opment.' They are putting themselves,
the soil and climatic conditions to a
test, so to speak. They are finding out
what Is most practical and most econ
nomlcal to do in the way of soil culture
and what to plant and cultivate to pro
duce the best results-. It is a process of
adaptation that is working out admir
ably.
The people who have been taking up
these lands come from'all parts of the
United States, They represent various
walks of life. With the interchange of
Ideas., habits of living and methods of
work, they are not bound by customs
and traditions that-are so pronounced
n some of the old-established parts of
the state. They are not prejudiced to
stereotyped and hard and fast rules.
The logical conclusion is- that in time
the soil and physical conditions of the
territorv will be subdued with signal
success, a great producing district will
add to the richness of the state many-
fold and a vigorous and thrifty com
munity will be built up. .
('-operation la Keynote.
In a newly-developing district it is
only natural to find a feeling of local
pride in each of the business centers.
There may be little jealousies .existing.
Bach place has its peculiar advantage
over the other, perhaps. There has been
some hint of this situation here In Cen
tral Oregon, but there, is little evi
dence of it. now. On the other hand.
there is a growing feeling ot co-opera
tlon and a general get-together spirit
from Sisters to Prineville, from Madras
to Redmond, from Metollus to Bend.
The common development of these vari
ous places and Immediate districts is
the end sought; the general advance
ment of Crook County is the chief
aim.
With the central part'" of the state
making progress in this respect, the
residents of the Redmond and Powell
Butte 'districts' are carrying out a co
operative programme that is bound to
bring greatly remunerative results. The
agricultural production of these dis
tricts has been increasing at at a rapid
rate. Up to the present time the farm
ers have not been getting current prices
for a large proportion of their products
by reason of the lack of a proper mar
ket. . The advent of the railroads, of
course, has been a great aid to this
section of the state and lias given a
wholesome stimulus to the farming in
dustry. But the farmers now have reached a
better understanding of the importance
of modern transportation facilities te
the district. They realize that It only
remains for them to take proper steps
In acquainting the. outside world with
the high quality of their products In
order to place Central Oregon In the
first rank of agricultural districts of
the Northwest. To that end the busi
ness men and residents of the Redmond
and Powell Butte localities organised
the .Redmond I nlon warehouse Com-
cany. bunt, a large and substantial
warehouse At a cost ot $10,000 aU es-ij
charge. It takes no supernatural fac
ulty In anybody to discover that oil.
like. -water, will run down hill, and If
confined, will run , a good waya down
hill. Any child of school age can un
derstand as primitive a proposition, and
yet this whole American continent
stood back and allowed John IX Rocke
feller to become the richest man in
the-world by putting that simple fact
into -practical operation. Andrew Car
negie solved the colossal problemof
building each year twice as arge a
furnace as he smelted ore in the year
before, and as a result ruined his sat
isfaction in his old age by finding
himself burdened down with more
money than he can give away. So
simple are the principles that under
lie the enormous .wealth of those men
that they do not In any way attract
my particular admiration, much less
excite my wonder.
' "But there is something about the
men and women who go out upon these
plains out upon these vast and deso
late reaches and subdue, and till, and
plant, and replant, ; until the whole
scene Is reversed and whole townships
of desolation are transformed Into pro
duct'lve farms and happy homes. Tliey
tare the men who have solved the dif
ficult problems and who both com
mand my respect and excite my won
der. And yet, you ask me. with all my
God-given limitations, why I did not
solvo those problems when I 1 was a
mere boy.
"In view of conditions as we have
them here today on every hand, such
a consummation would have been noth
ing short of a catastrophe. Instead of
this promising city, instead of the pro
ductive farms on every hand, instead of
the schools, the churches, the homes
and the happy children there would
have been or years to come the same
dreary, trackless desolation In every
direction, as of yore."
STUMP-TESTS MADE-
Forest Service to Conserve
Wealth From Wood Waste.
DISTILLATION IS METHOD
ACRES OF LAND WASTED
DR. WITHYCOMBE SAYS WEST
ERX OKEUOX NEEDS AID.
Tiling With Drain Pipe Would Make
Doubly Productive. 4.000,000
Acres and Add to State Kiches.-
, SALEM. Or.. Jan. 18. (SoeclaD
That there are 4.000,000 acres of land
in Western Oregon' that, if properly
tiled with drain pipe, would be doubly
productive and add $25,000,000 annually
to the output of the Willamette Valley,
Is a statement credited to Dr. Withy
combe in the report of the Bureau of
Mines, which has just been forwarded
to the state capital.
The report states that 'the .outpu
of clay in Oregon Is approximately
$1,000,000 and that about . $5,000,000
worth of clay Is Imported annually. The
report says that the state is paying
an exorbitant price for Its structural
materials. As an instance It says tha
pressed brick, such as Is used in the
Multnomah Hotel, costs $16 per thou
sand in the Middle States and $2? per
thousand in Oregon.
The cement situation Is even more
appalling, says the report. Whije ac
curate figures are not. available, it li
id 1.500,000 barrels of Portland ce
ment werA shlnneH into Pnrtlnnil nlnne
while not a barrel Is manufactured in
the state. It Is pointed out that Ore
gon must have resources which would
produce good Portland cement.
The report also states that Oregon
should produce all the lime that she
uses.
Suggestions are made that the Bu
reau of Mines, if properly equipped for
Investigation, could save Immense sums
to the state. The following suggestions
are made In the way of appropriations
for the .work or investigation: Invest!,
gating clay, $47501 investigation of ce
ment, sjZou; investigating coal, oil, gas
and the extent of fertilizer. $3500; hire
or a mining geologist and assistant
for both Eastern and Western Oregon,
$10,000, and cost of other aids in Inves
tigation bring the total desired up to
134, SU0.
NEW PLANT IS PROBABLE
Condon Expects Cheaper Lights im'J
i Power as Kesult. '
CONDON, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.)
Condon Is rejoicing over the proposed
new electric light system, with prob
able cheaper lights and power. .At the
present time the residents are paying
lis cents a kilowatt hour for lights,
while George Jacobs, the promoter of
the new system, says that lights should
not be higher than 15 cents a kilowatt
in Condon. Mr. Jacobs was in Condon
yesterday. It Is understood that he is
planning to build an electric plant on
the John Day River, through which he
will light numerous towns of this sec
tion of the country. Mr. Jacobs is in
terested in electric plants In Oregon
Washington and other states.' He ex
pects to return to this city soon with
engineers to look over the ground. It
Is probable that Fossil also will be
connected with the plant.
Cornelius to Pave Streets.
FOREST GROVE, Or., Jan.,18. (Spe
cial.) Cornelius, a busy little town 24
miles from Forest Grove, with a popu
lation of 700 is planning hard-surface
pavement for the coming Summer for
Its main thoroughfare. The City Coun.
cil Is conducting a test of the various
kinds on the market and contracts will
soon be- let. An up-to-date water sys
tem has been completed, bringing its
supply from the Forest Grove supply
head, and fire-fighting apparatus has
been Installed. i
MILLIONS BEING SPENT IN NEW BUILDINGS:
Modern structures under way and to be built in Portland immedi
ately will Involve a total expenditure of more than $9,000,000. In
addition to business buildings, scores of new dwellings, flat buildings
and apartment-houses that are to rise within the next few months in
volve an additional expenditure in building construction of approxi
mately $2,000,000. Among the larger structures under ' construction
and planned are the following: ,
' Multnomah County Courthouse, costing $1,500,000.
, . Central Library building, costing $450,000.
' Thirteen-story Oregon Hotel annex, with equipment costing $1,000,000.
Fifteen-story building, of the Northwestern National Rank, costing
$800,000. . ; 4 .'
Eleven-story home of the Pacific Telephone 4 Telegraph Com
pany, with equipment, costing $900,000. ; '
Six-story structure on Plttock Block ol Northwestern Electric,
Company, costing $700,600. r? ' . - i
Ten-story office building of Multnomah Security Company, cost
ing $300,000. - - f ' . -
Eight-story office building of Morgan - Bushong , Investment Com
pany, costing $500,000. .
' Five-story Empress Theater building, costing $350,000.
Twelve-story Physicians' building, costing $350,000.
Slx-stdry building of Fidelity Security Company, costing $100,000. f
. Three-story laundry building oh East Side, costing $75,000. -
Five-story annex to Golden West Hotel, costing $45,000. . -
; Four-story building at Second and Couch streets, costing $30,000.
' ', Three-story apartment-House for C. W. Miller, on East Side, cost-. t
ing $60,000. ' - , ,
Five-story at Third and Yamhill streets, costing $75,000.
Five-story building at Third and Ahler streets, costing $75,000.
New edifice for First Methodist , Church at Twelfth and Taylor
streets, costing $150,000. ,
Three-story theater building at Sixth and Stark streets.
$80,000. ''
Three-story apartment-house on First, Bear Sherman,
$30,000. .
In Addition to Determining 4Jlit
" of By-Products, ;ovcrniicnt Alms
lo Hetltiee Cost of Clearing
Cut - Over Lands.
The United States Forest Service, In
co-.operp.tion, with various local inter
ests, is planning to make an Investiga
tion of the merits of wood distillation
as a means toward reducing the cost
of clearing logged-off lands and cre
ating a revenue from the wood waste
cn timborland and In sawmills. The
Government has appropriated $5000 for '
this work and experts to show conclu
sively the adaptability of Douglas fir
for yielding the various products ot
distillation.
The plan is to obtain a quantity '
stumpwocd from a characteristic sec
tion of logged-off land along the Co
lumbia River and also In the viclnfty
of Tacoma, Wash., since these regions
represent the two distinct soil forma
tions of the Douglas fir ' belt. This
stumpwood will be distilled In the re
torts of the Oregon Wood Distilling
Company near Llnnton, and an exact
record kept of the yield of the products
of distillation, such as turpentine, tar
oils, tar, pyroligrneous acid and char
coal. . .: Analyses to Be Made.
The Oregon Wood Distilling Company
Is contributing the use of Its plant
and the stumpwood is being obtained
from the owners of Scappoose Acres,
near Scappoose, Or., and the Chamber
of Commerce of 'Tacoma.
After extracting the distillates from
the stumpwood obtained In these two
regions, these distillates will be sub
jected to chemical analysis to deter- ,
mine their suitability for commercial
uses. The chemistry department of
the University of Washington is made
available for the analyses. If It can be
shown that the yield of distillates Is
sufficient and their quality satisfac
tory. It is believed that this method of :
obtaining revenue from the woid in '.
the stumps removed from logged-off '
lands will in part pay the cost of
land-clearing and thereby greatly help
the settlement and agricultural devel
opment of lands formerly demoted to
a timber crop.
Large quantities of land from which ,
the timber has been removed Is excel- ,
lent for agricultural purposes, and tha
stumps are the only Impediment to Its
conversion Into rich farms. Under pres
ent conditions, without revenue of any
form from stumpwood or from the '
clearing of lands, the expense of clear-
lng is so great as to - be almost pro-
hlbltlve. ' '
The Government has already made a '
prelimlna'ry survey of the situation. '
The present work Is undertaken be- '
cause of the prospective satisfactory ''
results from the use of the process of -distillation
as practiced by the Oregon
Wood Distilling Company.
Special Plant to Be Built.
After completing Its Investigations of
stumpwocd the Forest Service Intends.,
to conduct similar distillation experi- ,.
ments on stunted growth timber aVid ,
on the various forms of waste peculiar 1
to Douglas fir sawmills. This invest!- ,(
gation will.be made at an especially--..
erected distillation plant which will ba
located on the campus of the Univer- !
sity of Washington at Seattle.
The Forest Service Is assuming the
entire cost of these experiments, and '.
the University of Washington Is co-
operating In the work by tendering the,,
use of its chemical laboratory and cam--.,
pus in advancing the project. ,
costing '
costing
TOWN.S1TE TO BE DEVELOPED ?
Mctzger Station to Be Handled by
Cn I la n ' Kaser Realty Active. 'l
Callan & Kaser have taken over the '.
Metzger Station townsite, sltuatod'
about eight miles south of Portland on "
the Oregon Electric, and will place the
property on the market early in, March.
There are about 200 lots In tho town
site. Improvements now being installed .
include graded streets and a water sys- :
tern. - '
The town now has two genera stores,
a school building of two rooms and a ,
church. A Postoffice was established
last month and recently a commercial
club was organized. The country trfbu-
tary to this business center is settling ..
rapidly.
This firm reports active business in
the realty field. Among recent deals -;
was the sule of a- six-room modern '
bungalow In Belle Crest Addition from
Dr. B. P. Shepherd to C. K. Oliver, of ' '
Olds, Wortman & King, for $2600. Mr. .,
Oliver already has taken possession.,,,
John Gray purchased a five-acre tract
at Glenco Acres and will Improve the,,,
place.
The firm sold to M. N. Cain, of Tort- ,
and, a tract of 20 acres of fruit land ..
at Hermlston for $4000. Two lots In
Mock's Addition, improved with dwell-
ngs, were sold to A. K. Itohb for $7500. ly
Luke Purk Tracts Sought.
A movement'has been started on the '
South Kast Side to secure a tract of"
land near the Reed College grounds t or '
a park to Include the main portion ot
Crystal Springs. The Reed College-,
grounds Include an extension of these
Springs, the lake park, but the main
portion is Outside, and to secure the'
lake will require about 45 acres of land.
That a beautiful park with this lake"
can be developed is the opinion of all
who have Inspected the territory. G.
A. Carter, former . president or the
Westmoreland Improvement Associa- j
tlon, declared that the lake can be dc-'
eloped into one of the finest parks in;
the city, and that It would bo an as-;
et for Portland, besides being a part :
of the Greater Portland Pluns and also"
the Olmsted plans. In his addresses
on Reed College development Presl- '
dent Foster has pointed out the possi-.
bilitles of this lake park. It would be.
accessible from several . thousand
acres of territory which is being rapid-'
ly settled. The new consolidated Im-
provement club will urge that this lake,
park be secured before the land about
It has been used for other purposes.
Knetory Building Planned. ;
Charles Wackrow, manager of the
North Pacific Auto & Wagon Works,,
has taken a 20-year lease on the half
block at Ninth and Hoyt streets and;
will erect a two-story brick building,
on the site to be used for a factory.
Plans for the building are now being"
prepared by the Oregon Architectural!
& Knglneeilng Company. . The building;
will cost about $10,000.
t
Laundry Buildln- Complete. '
The American Laundry Company has
completed a modern building for Its'
new home on East Third, near Kast;
Irving street, at a cost of about $35,-;
000. The building is of brick 'construe-,
tion and partly one and partly two;
stories. It is one of the first buildings
to be built in the territory adjacent t
the approach to the railroad bridge.
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