THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON.
. ., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1907.
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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.
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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.,
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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, -
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14th I
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Merchant! Lnnck From
11:30 a. m. to 1:30 m.
1 Cent,
b and Commercial
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of Fishing, Cannery i
Mill Supplies
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