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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1907)
THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. . ., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1907. ... vv. r;'r THE : MORNING ASTORIAN Established Il7 Ablished Dily Except Monday by tJU J. S. DEIL1HGEK COMPART. SUBSCRIPTION SATIS. tj mail, per year y carrier, pr month. .17.00 . JO WE?KL ASTORUK. wail, per year, to advance. .11.00 i. nari JlllV W, lift. MIW ' " ... pin, nnder the act of Cougres ol llxcb S. wmimiui 1 w -t. - in irroiuA.1 to either residence or place ol Uirouirti Ubooe. Anj trrularlty in de Uvwy should be ,mneditlJ reported to the olBeeof pubUosUoa. TELEPBOHK MAIN Ku nttlflnl nanar nf Ptlt&OD COUDtf and iheClty of Astoria. RADICAL AMENDMENTS NEEDED. On the threshold of her certain and justifiable expansion, as a center of com mercial activity and importance, Astoria must face a given condition that merits itstant official attention and amendment, namely, the readjustment and final de termination of the surveys and the lines governing the original plats and subse quent additions, constituting her munici pal territory. That there are numer our conflicts and known divergencies now existing, goes without saying; and the time is exceedingly propitious for the ie-establishment of these basic phases of realty aud the titles and equities resting thereon, both public and private, since the ambiguities involve the streets and ether popular reservations, as well in dividual interests. The office of every civil engineer in the city, and the court records of the county, contain evidences ij, sub-tantiation of these conditions, and the future security of the present hold ers, as well as that of the people to come here as investors, justifies the amplest and surest steps that "can be taken, under the most assured auspices and guaranty, to perfect the whole scope Oi property involved. I How this shall be done is a matter for future, though, nearly immediate de cision, but it cannot be done with com plete satisfaction to all concerned, with out the official sanction and certification of the municipality, and it is to be hoped the matter will receive very care ful review when it reaches the Council, as it will very shortly. It is a large question and one that touches the es sential life and progress of Astoria; and yet it is susceptible of ready and effect ual treatment and need not take undue time in its adjustment. It bears upon all alike and should be considered as a city matter not relegated to any particu lar group in interest to be neglected or forgotten. This is just a hint! NEW PHASE OF FISHING. "We shall be glad to see the efforts of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce to establish a deep-sea fishery here en ' tirely successful, as we believe such a departure has an immense future before ft, considering the variety and volumne of marketable fishes known to swarm in the blue waters of the Pacific off this river and coast. The business will certainly have a iragnificent advantage over that conduct ed On the North Atlantic by way weath er condition, and their duration, bad and good. It is a noble calling, and has its well-defined measure of profit, and all aorta of inducements for its establish ment An ocean fleet of boats manned by the hardy and skilful men who have been trained to their work on the quieter wat ers on the hither side of the Columbia bar, will not be long in materializing, and there is no estimating the scope of the business they might build up with speed and success. At all events the enter prise ia worth the attention and sup port of the host of men engaged in that line in and around Astoria if they un dertake it, we wish them the biggest and richest returns on their outlay of money and courage. For surely the emoluments of such an industry should be commen surate with the well known per centages cf risk inseparable from the venture. TO HENEYIZE OREGON. ' Francis J. Heney, the federal prosecu tor, who has succeeded in convicting and punishing more thieves than any other man in the history of the west, has said that he will be in Oregon to take up the work anew and carry it to a finality, purging the courts of every pending case now docketed This is gruesome news for certain, Individuals who had hoped the time-limits of the code were to oper ate in their, favor and secure immunity from actual trial and almost ' certain punishment for if he keep nis word, ho will make it decidedly hot for the most oi them. His rouud of suocosts in San Iran-cii-o has revitallW the mm mul made him even more invincible than he vva aiorllnj to those who have Wen in intimate touch with him lately, and it i- churned, he will make a powerful and brilliant crusade when he shall open P gain, and that he it equipped with a mass of incontestable testimony that is simplv overwhelming, lie has promised to absolutely clean up the docket of this district this time, ami it is known, pietty generally, that he is a man of his word. POOR SCHMITZ! Kugene Schmita. the felon ex-mayor o'' San Francisco, now gasing through a iv t-work of steel bm at the world he has misused, utters the, to him. signitl- (hiit hope that the Labor Union party cf San Francisco will be successful at the coming polls; such hope being bol stered by' the further liope that the party once again in power, will see to it that he is freed from durance and j placed upon a newer pedestal of place and influence. If sucha nope can. be wrought into realitation in the city that ha suffered so much at this man" hands, then were San Francisco well served with another and worse disaster than befell her on the 13th of April, 1905 for if such men and such influence are to remain per-eminent, and predomi nant, there, her abandonment and utter negation as a home and mart for the honest people of today can be but a niat- ter of brief time. To our thinking, his calculations constitute a desperate and distinct insult to organized labor, there, and everywhere else! ' Mesmer GROWS RAILROAD TIES. The Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe Failroad has gone into tree growing in order to provide for its future supply of cross ties. The Santa Fe has adopted the eucalyptus as the most suitable spe cies for tie purposes, because of its r pid growth, great density and dura bility, and is now planting 700 acres in 3 ranch of 9,000 acres in southern Cali fornia to eucalyptus seedlings, with the intention of repeating this amount of acreage each succeeding year for a total of twelve years or more, when it will have planted several thousand acres. The seedling which are sprouted in boxes to the number of 100 to the box, and stored in "lath houses" until they are three or four inches high, at which time they re three of four months old are set in rows eight feet apart, at a distance in the rows from each other of five feet. Their cultivation after that for three or four years is thorough, but simple enough, and includes their watering two or three times a year. Thereafter the plants are expected to take care of themselves, although in the course of time, they require thinning cut, which is accomplished by cutting out every other one so that they stand ten feet apart in the rows. The young saplings thus removed make excellent fnce posts, and hence no loss befalls their taking away. The remaining young trees, numbering about 550 to the acre, will, at the end of fifteen years of growth, each yield six ties, it is calcu lated, or some 3300 ties to theacre. These ties will be cut from 700 acres of the big orchard each year, after fif teen years from the first planting, with the result of obtaining more-than 2, 250,000 ties per annum; and, seeing that the rate of removal will be exactly equal to the rate of planting, the same total acreage will , theoratically at least, maintain the same annual supply of ties to the end of time. The cost per culti- vater tie is, far and away below that of ties of the best quality, such as white oak, now bought on the market. Mesme r Me smer EDITORIAL SALAD. ) acsa Mir. Lantry complaint that Mr. Mur phy is violating the basic principle of Tammany. If a Tammany boss abould be accused of wording for his own pocket only part of the time there ought to be a bill of particulars filed. The Governor-General at Odessa pro claims that excesses will not be toler ated. In the matter ' of . massacres, Russian officials are doubtless' already amazed at their moderation. It is all right for Michigan or any other state to instruct its delegates now ii it is afraid they will forget. Bill Ward says: "Jumping at con clusions, often brings tie jumpeT tJo grief. ' ' - " ' Mesmer Mesmer Mesmer NATIONAL FORESTS Progress of the Country is Made by Aid of Forests. POOR QUALITIES NOW USED Timber Has Been so Depleted ia Some Sections That Lumber Once Despised is Now Considered Merchantable Tim ber Now Purchased from Nation. WASHINGTON. 1. C, Sept. 12. A point in the industrial progress of the United SUles has now been reached whore development of the country is made, not in the face of the forest but with its essential' aid. The old process of exhausting t'ie supply of timber in a region and then seeking new fields is practically over,' Already the lumber in dustry is turning back on it track. A quality of timber i eagerly sought in the Lake States which a few ?ear ago was ignored as utterly worthies, and in the South the whole pine region ij being gone over iu a close seaali for the old field pine, a tree once despised but now bought up at prices much higher than those formerly piid for the mag nificent timber of the virgin forests, A publication just issued by the De partment of Agriculture, entitled"Na tional Forests and the Lumber Supply." di fines the important part which the National Forests are destined to play in t'lie ccouomic (Development of the ecuntry. Abuses have grown up under the laws which provid for the dispo ition 0? public land, notably the segre gation of large holdings of timberlunj for speculative purposes. Timber from the National Forests is now purchased by the thousand board feet, and pay ment is made upon the actual sole of the logs when cut. Two dollars and a halt" per thousand feet is comparatively low as present charges go, but since the cut ranges from 5,000 to 20,000 feet per acre, the Government receive from five to twenty times as much for the timber as it did under the stone and timber act. Public oponion now demands, not that the Government should dispose of it remaining timlf-rlands as rapidly as pos sible and leave it to private enterprise to exploit the forest hastily, but that what remains of the National Forest should be more conservatively used. The Government has been forced into the lumber business solely in order that a supply of forest products may be guar anteed to future generations. Probably 65 per cent of the 4 total stand pf merchantable timber within the Forest is located on the Pacific Coast, where for a long time the enor mous supply of privately owned timber will supply 'most of the demand. This more accessible private timber sur rounded the forests as the meat of an apple surrounds the core. It has been entirely eaten away in many places, while in others it is locked up by specu lators. The thing to remember, then, U that this immense body of public timber is there as a great reserve against the time when private timber lands will be depleted, and for use as a weapon -against monopoly. The first effect of National Forest upon prices, especially where there is still a great deal of available timber, ie to raise the price of outside stumpage toward its actual value by withdrawing the excess of low-priced timber from the market. But later, as the supply of timber dwindles and prices are forced upward by speculative holdings, the effect of the Forests will be to check the advance of prices. In the virgin forest, growth is just about balanced by decay. In the west ern forests, however, natural deteriora tion is greatly augmented by forest fires. The fires usually do most barm by dam aging merchantable timber, but, great as this injury is, vastly more actual loss in forest wealth results from the yearly burning over of the grass and UNIVERSAL ii Stoves and Ranges Every one i We Buy them :! The Foard & Stokes Hardware Go Incorporated ; Successors U Foard k Stokes Cs. i HHHtH MOTS The CHICAGO PAINLESS DENTISTS, of Portland, will open their Branch Of fice on or about I September I Corner Eleventh i North-West Cor., ; rl 1 "111 1 1 uDicsp i siniBss HIMHHMIIIinHMHMMMMM IrltUMHHMMtHUMUMtMMimiMlM undergrowth of the forest. Ground fire do not consume the large trees, but they destroy seedlings outright and in jure growing trees so that they quickly decay. Finally, the forest floor, com poed of a mold of needles, twigs and moses, is burned away. Far beyond the present Influenne of the National Forests upon the lumber upply will be their importance in the future. The United States U now facing a shortage in the supply of available timber. The yield from, the National Forests will aid greatly to bridge over the period in 'which mature timber will be lucking, a period which will lat from the time the old trees arc gone until the young ones are lafge enough to tuke their places. The definite result, therefore, of the sale of timber from the Forests will be to sustain the lumber business, to maintain a.steuly runge of timber mi nes and so (littcmunge speculation, a:; !, far more important still, steadily In further the uninterrupted development the great industries dependent njur-i wood ( Mesmer Mesmer Mesmer Had Tetter For Thirty Years. I have suffered with tetter for thirty years and have tried almost countless remedies with little, if any, relief. Three boxes of Chamberlain's Salve cured me. It was a torture. It breaks out a little sometimes, but nothing to what it used to do. D. H. Breach, Midland City, Ala. Chamberlain's Salve Is for sale by Frank Hart and leading Druglsts. Guaranteed in Car Load Lots , TAM Commercial Sis. 1tTtfl2 WOULD be pleased to have every man, woman and child, to call at the office on the opening day and have their teeth ex amined FREE OF CHARGE. We will also give away on that day a beautifull souvenir consisting of an Ivory Tooth IJrush and Powd er. Nervous people and those afflicted with heart weakness can now have their teeth tilled without the least pain or danger. We will give $100 to any charitable institu tion for a tooth we fail to extract without pain. These offices will be equipped with the latest appliances and formulas fordoing high-class dentistry. Lady In attendance. Dr. Austin will spare no pains or mouey in making this office one of the best in the Northwest. COMMERCIAL a ELEVENTH Streets THE GEM C. F. WISE. Prop. Choice Winaa, Liquors and Qgari Hot Lunch at all Bonn Comer II event A3T0KU I Fisher Bros. Company !; Sole Agents for Barbour's and Finlayson's Salmon Twine and Netting Hardware, Iron Steel and Ship Chand lery. Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Brass Goods, Paints, Oils, Glass and Hardwood Groceries J A Complete Line Logger and I Fisher Bros. Co. 3 546-550 Bond Street, s Astoria, - CEJ 14th I v Merchant! Lnnck From 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 m. 1 Cent, b and Commercial 0KZ00N to of Fishing, Cannery i Mill Supplies Oregon ! enlists ft T t