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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
SATURDAY, JUNE 13
WOOD PULP REPORT
too
Established 1873.
Millions of Cords Used for Pap-
er Yearly
Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
By mail, per year ....
By carrier, per month
.$7.00
.60
MUCH SPRUCE IS UTILIZED
WEEKLY ASTORIAN.
By mail, per year, in advance.
.$1.50
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Entered as second-class matter July 30. 1906, at the postoffice at As
toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence
or place of business may be made by postal .card or through telephone.
Any irregularity jn delivery should be immediately reported to the office
of publication. '
Large Quantities of Hemlock Were
Taken by Wisconsin Pulp Mills,
and the Report Shows That the
Badger State Ranks High.
TELEPHONE MAIN 661.
THE WEATHER
Oregon, Washington
Fair.
and Idaho
TEMPERAMENTAL CHANGES.
One of the home-charms of As
toria, is the swift and radical adapta
tion of our people o the warm and
brilliant changes incident to the com
ing of summer; the quick rallying to
the genial bidding of the warmth, the
light and lustre, of the exqusite days,
as they play oyer the, magnificent
land and water scapes that are our
heritage; the sudden submergence of
the "grouch," the complaint, the
dubious and hopeless utterance; the
anxious and perturbed Jook; and the
rising of the happier aspect and
cheer inseparable from the smile and
word of the newer view of things
everywhere. (
Of course, we are no different from
our fellows; but the Astoria' summer
is different. It is the ideal season of
the Pacific slope and finds its perfect
expressidh here at the mouth of the
Columbia by every element of the
guage that is used to determine that
arch-conditions. The configuration of
figuration of the land; the great fun-
abuse Portland has directly and in
directly showered on Astoria, in this
relation, through a period far too
long to compute.
COLUMBIA BAR SOUNDINGS.
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Everybody in any sort of touch
with the great national improvement
embodied in the Columbia river jet
ties, is hoping the developments from
the soundings now underway on the
Columbia bar, may prove the further
marked and genuine success of the
huge undertaking; that the record
of depths attained to in 1908, may far
exceed any yet made; that certain
evidence may be secured showing
sharp reductidns of the curvatures of
that grim old barrier over the records
of the past, and that the work is
yielding sure and signal results.
The records of 1907 were distinctly
good and indicated that the real pur
pose of the jetty had been wrought
up to,and that the action of the big
rock-arm was what the engineers had
devised; and we shall rejoice in the
news from the surface that shall con
firm this state of affairs.
The task is, or should be, drawing
toward a consummation, and is being
watched with larger and broader in
terest than has been given it in years
irel of the majestic river which draws and what of tentative concern ... has
, the passing ocean breeze from its
vast habitat and cools it with the
mountain temperatures that cling to
the Columbian waters even as they
pass into the huge seas; the lay of
the hills that meet the winds from
over-sea and over-land, and holds
them in suspension until they take
on the delicious warmth that glows
inspiringly, yet never enervates nor
sickens. '
No wonder our people cheer up
and take on the livlier impress of the
sunny hours at hand; they are enough
to inspire the broadest possible
change in temperament, feeling,
speech, habit and inclination; , and
we want the thousands up in the in
terior, Portland included, to come
down and share the beauties and
charms and "perspirationless" quali
ties of the Astoria summer.
PORTLAND HOLDS IT NOW!.
There was a - day in the dim past
when Astoria bore a name for
"roughhouse" proclivities and people
and records, that, as far as it went,
was among the justifiable attach
ments to this city's reputation; but
Portland, with her usual faculty for
absorbing all things that make this
city and section distinctive to any
degree whatever, having relieved us
of the agencies that contributed to
that condition and repute, is now, ac
cording to despatches from there,
the "wickedest town in the State" ad
for her size and scope, parallels poor
old San Francisco in the raw degen
eracy of her popular morals and po
lice conivance therewith.
The news is shocking, of course;
but, once a big community starts in
to arrogate to itself all the peculiar
attributes that belong to sister cities
over the same state, she niust take
over the good and bad and make the
most of them; and Portland s doing
this with remarkable success. As
toria gladly yielded her the palm in
this relation a long while ago; and
counts herself practicaly free from
all such debasing fame and function
and in granting the metropolis the
distinction she has attained to, does
it wi'h a thankfulness she have not
felt for her interference, for many a
long day.
The fact that Portland is the only
big city in the State, adds emphasis
and color to the rottenness where
with she is charged, and leaves her
without competition in the ugly
premise; with no other city in the
realm to share the notoriety nor to
qualify the extraordinary and subli
mated pass to which she has arrived.
We regret it, of course; but there is
a touch of justice in the mere pos
sibility of evening up the measure of'
been felt ,is giving way to a more
pronounced regard, and always with
the best hope for. specific and fixed
achievement.
EDITORIAL SALAD
A statement is wise who learns to
choose his historians with due cau
tion. '
The farmers in many states con
tinue to say that they can find places
for many of the unemployed.
pne Democratic objection to the
new currency law is that .it is an
other obstacle to the adoption of the
greenback policy.
Time, money, experience and pluck
will certainly bring a practical and
reliable airship. The American in
ventor never surrenders.
In a recent address in Parliament
Lord Avebury said: "I am sure that
if ladies knew how cruel the traffic
is, they would never wear the plumes
of birds, for after all they do not look
nice in them." If one of these rea
sons fails, the other is certain to get
in its work.
The adjournment of Congress gives
the Republican senators a chance to
get ready for the Chicago Conven
tion, where they will take possession
of the chair, dictate the resolutons
ancj do the nominating., These
ubiquitous and versatile senators are
the mainstay of the government.
Without them there, would be no
cohesion of party, liberty would
languish and the convention would
be a fizzle.
WASHINGTON', June 12. A pre
lmunary report of the consumption
of p.ilpwood and the amount of pulp
main i. "urcd last year has just been
issued bythe Bureau of the Census,
The advance statement is made from
the statistics collected by the Census
Bureau in co-operation - with the
United States Forest Service.
Many of the figures bring out in-
'esting facts which show the rapid
growth of the paper making and
allied industries during the last
decade. Nearly four million cords of
wood, in exact numbers 3,962,661)
cords, w re used in the United States
ii the manufacture of paper pulp last
year, iust twice as much as was used
in 1899, the frst year for which de
tailed figures were available. More
than two and one-half million tons
of pulp were produced. The pulp
mills used 300,000 more cords of
wood in 1907' than in the previous
yeu.
The amount of spruce used was
68 per cent of the total consumption
of pnlpwqod, or 2,700,000 cords. The
increased price of spruce has turned
the attention of paper manufacturers
to a number of other woods, hem
lock ranking next, with 576,000
cords, or 14 per cent of the total con
tumption More than 9 per cent was
poplar. Mid the remainder consisted
of relatively small amounts of pine,
cottonwood, balsam and other woods.
There v. as a marked increase last
year in the importation of spruce,
which has always been the most pop
ular wood for pulp. For a number of
years pulp manufacturers of this
country have been heavily importing
spruce from Canada, since the avail
able supply of this wood in the north
central and New England states,
where most of the pulp mills are lo
cated, is not equal to the demand.
Figures show that the amount of this the sulphite process, and about onc-
viiluable pulpwood brought into this third by the mechanical process, the
countrv was more than two and one-1 remainder being produced by th
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Grays -'River; WiniJ
Saturday Eve., July 4
j Dance Will Be Given in Meserve's New i
Hall
f FLOOR MANAGERS: Jack Malone, M. Sverdrup, O. P. f
Sailing, Frank Sorcnscn
Music Will Be Furnished By Grays River Orchestra
I Tickets for Dance, $1; Including Supper, $1.50 I
THE STEAMER WENONIA WILL RUN AN EXCURSION FROM ASTORIA, LEAVING CAL-
LENDER DOCK AT 3:30 P. M. Will call 'it Knappton and all way points, arriving at Grays River I
at wu u hock r. m. , t
A PICNIC DINNER will be aerved during the day in the beautiful parks a patriotic program la being f
prepared xor me occasion Dy tne Dramatic uud. AU are invited to come.
W. N. MESERVE
being cut into suitable sizes and bark
ed, is held against revolving grind
stones in a stream of water and thus
reduced to pulp. In the chemical
process the barked wood is reduced
to chips and cooked in large digesters
with chemicals which destroy the
cementing material of the fibers and
leave practically pure cellulose. This
is then washed and screened to
render it suitable for paper making.
The chemicals ordinarly used are
cither bi-sulphite of lime or caustic
soda. A little over half of the pulp
manufactured last year was made by
h .H '.imes as great in 1907 as in 1899.
In 1907 the importations were larger
than ever before, being 25 per cent
greater, than in 1906. The spruce im
ports last year amounted to more
tlwn one-third of the consumption of
spruce pulpwood. Only a slightly
greater amount of domestic spruce
was used than in 1906.
Earge quantities of hemlock were
usd by the Wisconsin pulp mills,
and the report shows that the Badger
State now ranks third in pulp pro
duction, New York and Maine rank
ing first and second, respectively.
Poplar has been used for a long time
in the manufacture of high grade
paper, but the supply of this wood is
limited and the consumption of it
has not increased rapidly.
Wood pulp is usually made bv
either Vine of two general processes,
mechanical or chemical. In the
mechanical process the wood, after
ucuig produced oy me
soda process. Much of the mechan
ical pulp, or ground wood as it is
commonly railed, is used in the mak
ing of newspaper. It s never used
alone in making white paper but al
ways mixed with some sulphite fiber
to give the paper strength. A cord of
wood ordinarily yields about one ton
of mechanical pulp or about one-half
ton of chemical pulp. , y
POST CARD HALL
Entrance Whitman's Bookstore
$3O00 Post Card Stock
, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Free writing desk and material in connection, alio atamp depart
ment; stamps of all denominations; poit cards, books of stamps
and newspaper wrappers aold.
SEE fHOW WINDOW.
itman's Book Store
Wh
W. R. Ward, of Dyersburg, Tenn.,
writes: "This is to certify that I have
used Orinr Laxative Fruit Syrup for
chronic constipation, and it has prov
en, without a doubt, to be a thor
ough, practical rekedy for this
trouble, and it is with pleasure I offer
my conscientious reference."
There is nothing else "just as good'
as Kemp's Balsam, the best cough cure,
and the other kinds cost just as muih
s this famoin remedy.
A man who is in perfect health, so
he can do an honest day's work when
necessary, has much for which he
should be thankful. Mr. L. C. Rodgers
of Branchton, Pa., writes that he was
not only unable to work, but he
couldn't stoop over to tie his own
shoes. Six bottles of Foley's Kidney
Cure made a new man of him. He
says, "Success to Foley's Kidney
Cure." T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
COFFEE
Why Schilling's Best?
Because it is best and
your . money; is yours if
you think you don't find
it so.
Tear groctr rerarat iwm Bossy it fm 6n't
Bull; par bin
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They are passing round the hat, boys, Uncle Sam's men to greet,
In the harbor of Astoria, on the coming of the fleet!
Just wait a while," said Murphy, "there is time enough for all,"
The fleet has passed Columbia's mouth, they wont come here at all!
They are on their way to Seattle, or some port on Fuget Sound.
Yes, they will give the go-by to Astoria, as they sail the world around.
The ladies are disappointed; the jackies they would meet,
And entertain the officers, of Uncle Sam's white fleet.
I sawthose warships once before, in the southland far away.
As they calmly lay at anchor, in San Francisffo bay.
I wished I was a soldier then, with a heart as loyal and true,
And could cheer as lustly as once I did when too, I wore the blue. ,
There they lay at anchor, on waters bright and clear,
With Old Glory floating o'er them and the sailors' ringing cheer.
Each loyal heart beat gladly, indeed as well they may,
For such a grand sight was never seen in San Francisco bay.
I saw the army marching with Fred Funston at its head,
And the marines and bluejackets, by martial music lead,
And the noble, hoary headed O. A. R. (not as in "sixty-four"),
When they made' a record for themselves, that will live forever more!
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Tickets on Sale... For Rates, Steamship and Sleeping-car
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12th St., near Commercial St. ASTORIA, OREGON.
FREE TR
Of any Household ELECTRIC AL DE
VICE including
SMOOTHING IRONS HEATING PADS
TOASTERS CHAFING DISHES
. TEAPOTS COFFEE PERCOLATORS
FRYING PANS
SEWING MACHINE MOTORS
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Astoria, Oregon, May 20, 1908.
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