The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, September 29, 1907, Image 42

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Newspaper Page TextTHE " OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNINO, SEPTEMBER' 2. 1S07' JEW LUPER RATE IS ' A PARALYTIC STROKE , " ' Manager of Lumber Company That Proposed Large Op erations in Southern Oregon Announces Indefinite ; Postnemeiit--Otlier Enterprises Are Balked. , (Special ' DUpatell to Tfc Journal) Hertford. Or.. 8ept. Jt. -Aa a result of the proposed advanoe In tha eastern rail rati on lumber, tha Iowa Lumber a. Box company's plana for an Im mense lumber plant hera will ba a baa doned, tha Pacific ft paetera will proba bly not -e-atad4tatha Butte creek forests and. tba large timber tracts ad jacent to tba Rogue rivar valley ba left uncut for many years. This proposed rate will- aff oct ovary lumber Industry In southern Oregon aa well as In Oregon In grnoral. and indirectly every business in uie country. - . Manager Hafer Statement, Edgar Hafer of the Iowa Lumber ft Box company staiea voumy . "ir Aiir intention to make exten Its lmoroveinents. including the build. Ins; of a modern sawmill with a capacity of lSfl.OOu feet per day and a. new boa factory with a capacity of 78,000 feet per dy. These . Improvements alone Uf.r QH T. 4 urmi . - -. - - would cost mo.OOO. but with the pro- Fosed eastern ratea staring us In the ace. wa certainly shall do nothing, and the only fact we regret Is the large amount of capital which we are com pelled to allow to lay dormant under existing condition - Tou asked me why the Paclflo A Eastern Is not heing oum as contem plated, and whether the failure of the Oregon Trust at Savings bank will have any permanent enc vn n - Aa to thia Question X cannot answer. hut do know aa long aa there is no lumber company contemplating the opening up . of the Kogue river and Butte creek Umber to aasure tne rail road tonnage. it would be folly on tholr part to make any further extensions without too assurance or guarantee of a tonnage which" would warrant a rea , aonable rata of interest on the Inveat- taent. , - , Kills Are Chat Xtowa. . , "The mills In southern Oregon and the Willamette valley are compelled to . find a market in the aaat, aa they can not get into Ban Francisco and bay points on the present rate of IS per ton, which is equivalent to tl.Jl per 1 000 feet, and compete with the water rate, which is 14.25 per 1.000 feet from Portland, the Columbia river and Wash- Ington points. .- "The advance in the eastern freight rate of 10 cents-per 100 pounds makes it Impossible for the lumbermen of southern Oregon to compete with the timber manufactured in the southern States, known as yellow pine. ",. " Waat Advanoe Xaaauu "In order' to demonstrate the condi tion let us take a mill manufacturing lumber in eouthern Oregon or anywhere In Oregon for that matter and aee what the advanoed rate means.- The rate to Omaha Is now 60 cents per 100 pounds, against a rate of 23 cents per 100 Sounds from southern mills, and it will e advanoed November 1 to 65 cents. "Basing a. mill cut of lumber at a reasonable value of 118 per 1.000 feet f. o. b. cars, and adding the 66-cent rate, which amounts to $18.88, makes the lumber cost 888.18 in Omaha. The Pres ent value of stumpage is about 81 per 1 000 feet, against the present value of southern yellow pine stumpage, which is about $. Therefore, the cuti of southern yellow pine lumber would be worth $3 per 1.000 more, or about 118 per 1,000 f. o. b. cars mill Figur ing their rreignt rate or is cems ;o Omaha, which amounts to 7., would make the value, of southern lumber f. o. b. cars Omaha 826.86. against ours of 183.83. which shows conclusively that It is out or tne question tor a souiu rn Oregon mill to compete with them even if the cost of stumpage and Uie sawmill manufacture was thrown In, as you can aee for yourselves the fabu lous profits which an be made by the southern yellow pine mills above the basis of 111 at their raUls. . Shot Out of Bnvta "Now wa will take up the Chicago rate. Our rate la now 60 -cents, which will be advanced to 0 cents on Novem ber 1. against the southern yellow pine rate of 24c. This makea a diirerence of . per 1.000 feet, taking the same haatu of nrlce t. o. b. mills, which is even greater than the Omaha advance. "Coming closer home, let us look at the Penver and common Colorado points. Which has been 40 cents per 10 pounds, against the rate from the south. ; which Is 34 cents. The rallrdad Is not content with taking from tne uregon lumber mills the central ststes market, but has swooped down upon the coast mills even in Colorado, where they pro- Fose to raise the rate November 1 to 0 cents per 100 pounds, which Is 60 per cent greater man tne oumiro ti low pint mill rate. Way Bates Are malsed. wk... a ti. actual fAnriltlAnS imnfrani tha lumbermen of south ern Oregon- as well as Oregon In gen eral, and It is certainly not a very cheering prospect. If the railroads had been bankrupt,, or the net earnings had been too small to give a fair rate of In terest on their Investment, there might k. anm ,tiiiu for the advance. XOU aay, then, why Is the rate ralsedt I do not know, but candidly think that the real teason for the advance is either the desire on the part of the railroad . hnv ii m atructural material at tta own price by eliminating competition. i mav ha ranrded aa the easiest means to get rid of a surplus of busi ness, which would require considerably more rolling stock than they oare to equip their lines with at this time. As a quick and ready plan for destroying the prosperity of the lumbermen the In tended advanoe rate, however, will cer tainly do the buslnesa ajpaiis Kola or industry. Tha attnrt nnon the country by this nnM-hinndad and coollv calculated plan of the railroads to curtail the output of the greatest Industry of toe Paclflo I coast will bring not only dire ruin to V. lnmhKrm.n Hilt Will IHrVW IDDU- sands of men out of employment, and Its ruinous effects cannot but affect every business man, large or small, in the state. Eighty per cent of the cost of lumber represents labor. These are the conditions which confront the peo nle of Oregon today. It almost looks like a farce to spend thousand of dol lars advertising Oregon in the east as a country, of great resources when the first thing tnat greets tne new arnvm is to find that millions of dollars in in vestments are lying absolutely Idle waiting for the time to come when the railroads will again, see fit to allow the state OI uregon to resume us natural business conditions." Er.1BilLf.IED HEADS ARE DISPLAYED ATMUSEUM (I III Trophies of Maori Battles Secured by Curio Hunt ers of New York. Special Dispatch to The Journal.). New Tork, Sept l8.8tartllngly real- lstlo Is the display of human heads once tha adornment of the shoulders of Maori warriors and yesterday placed on view in tha American Mu seum of Natural Hiatory. For those who like that kind of thing it may be aid that the collection is the largeat and best In the world, for it contains IS BDaclmana. which is five times the number in the next largest assemblage. All these heads were oDtatnea at a considerable expense and were present ed to tha institution by Jt gentleman whoaa benefactions have 'already been extensive. To the anthropologist they are invaluable. It waa once a custom pleasing to the Maoris to line up for what may be called a head rush which resembled a football scrimmage reinforced with bats i tie axes and long knives. The women and children acted ss quarterbacks and when a bead was obtained it was given to them. One of them then rsn around the end with the grewsome trophy and hid it In the woods. AH the Maoris paid much attention to tattooing, and the price of a head was greatly enhanced by the decora tions which It bore. 8ome of the chief tains even- spent much time In over seeing the facial decorations of slaves who later appeared In portrait galleries over the abode of their masters. Tour ists visiting New Zealand In the old days often purchased a head or two to take home with them, and this great ly enhanced the prices and also caused truly strong men to specialise In the fine art of murder. Officers of the British government fut a stop to the practice entirely, and he heada which may now ba obtained are of no very recent period. They are elaborately tattooed, although after the prices went up it was aa much aa a man's life was worth to have any adornments out of the ordinary on his i cheeks. The specimens are la a mar velous state of preservation, for the Maoris had a secret method of em balming or curing the heads which pre vented withering of the features and kept the tattoo marks Intact. From the viewpoint of the scientist the col lection Is considered a notable one. and It la being carefully examined and cata logued. MONTANA SAPPHIRE MINERS' GOOD YEAR MISS BUSLEY IN LOVE WITH PORTLAND AS WELL AS STAGE 1 "With tha same frankness and sin cerity that characterises her work on tha stage Miss Jessie Busley, the star "In the Bishop's Carriage," greets any- . one who la fortunate enough to meet her In her dressing room behind the scenes.: She chats easily and readily about anything' you may mention and there Is nothing of the word "pose" about ' her. "Something the weather, or tha )imkm nD trine, or hit big Jump from Kan Francisco got on my nerves," she aaid. . "and I have been laid up most ' f the time since I came to rortiand. i By the way, don't you nate to say that word " nervesr' It sounds SO so . well, I don't like it, but that's all it ; Js nevertheless." - . . . , But one almost decides that It should J be "nerve" instead of "nervea" when one hears that she haa been ill In bed the r greater part of the week and haa arisen to play her part at night the same 1 as usual. Miss Busley is a New Tork girl of '. more than the ordinary mentality, with -'a charmingly unaffected - manner and in her quick way of speaking she di - rects conversation away from herself ' . as much as possible. j "Don't make me talk of myself," she. laughs. Well, yes, I suppose I do in tend to leave the stage soon since I - least I want to -leave before I am i.' driven off ' as most of them are. I . Should like to have another play and do something reaJb" great and then '"quit while people are still saying nice things about me, so they would al ways remember me so. But so many don't do that, that perhaps the life takes hold of them and they can't give It up. "I would like to come west to stay. I am so fond of the west and of Port land and since my trip last year I have been looking forward to this one for I have so many good frlenda here and Portland is so warm-hearted. ' When- I met.XHhel Barrymore in Chicago last year she waa talking of coming west but said she couldn't stand to come out into this country and she laughed at my enthusiasm, but I notice she came when she got her chance and she waa entnusiastic, too. isn t it un fortunate that people Jump at conclu sions and form their impressions too quickly? Now that Saturday Evening Post man, I think, waa entirely wrong about Portland, an - waa sorry that he didn't see more of its warmth. He made me think of Harrison O. Wells In his "Future of America" the Eng lishman who said Americans were so business-rushed and Indifferent that you'd stand on the corners for hours arai none would stop to speait to you, As if he expected strangers on the street to do that and he would have snubbed them if they had." Miss Busley is well informed on lit' erary subjects and it ia said can give any quotation from Shakespeare off hand. She has read everything and Is conversant on subjects of art. music. and orama. uut Desio.es mis sne is a hot politician, and though she has not a vote coming she can. argue the next man into voting ner way quite easily, aa naa neen demonstrated on one or two occasions. It Is said that she has completely converted one of her com- JLondoners Find Many Splendid Gems In Yogo Fields Crow Reserve Mineral Belt. . : GREAT 1 . . - - - . ' h , ; '. a - V.J . SALE Tomorrow's Specials Include: saVea," ' . -asanas.' 1 " ' ' asSBw -mbbb ' ' Sm f f JL U1XUJ, UU1U ailU VUU J, IVWbJt VUU Aa vuhvai; wiuu vaiav.w Morris Chairs, Mission Clocks, Mirrors, Weathered Oak Library Suits, Velbur Couches, Brass and Enamel Bedsteads Mattresses 'v JLstra MONSTER BUOY OF THE LUSITANIA ' ' -"i2ji -I T . I PA I;; -ra y- , f-'A , 1 m I! ft : " iiMt.' na i rawniiiniH ommmmmammmmmmmmtmmmimmammmmmmmmmmmummmmaiiima ,-,Tlie LuslUnia'g Buoy, , the ' Largest Ever Made. , When swinging to her moorings in the Mrey, the . Lusltanla,, tha largest atamship afloat, Just previous to her nialiU'ti ' voyage to the United States, took m provisions and coal.. The moor inq were to Liverpool fcwople almost as rniicn aifaaturo as the vessel ber- The tmo of the Cunarder ia the larg. et ever made. It was specially con structed by the Pintsch Lighting com pany of London. It is 18 feet in diam eter, displaoes 865 cubic feet of water and weighs lt tons. k It haa a tensile strength of 2 tons per square inch. On top the buoy carries a naa lantern re plenished by two cylinder, each nlna feet long and 80 inches in diameter, that are capable of supplying gas to the lantern for a month. Thia, lantern is i aknn off the buoy while the ship is bing moored. . . . ' (Speclil PUpateta to The Jon rati.) Helena, Mont., Sept 28. The New Mines Sapphire syndicate of London, England, has Just closed the most prof itable year it has experienced in the Togo fields of Fergus county! The matrix contained a far greater number of precious stones and the number of sapphires or exceptional size has also been unusual. In one week 17 big gems estimated to be worth 1 1.000 each here were harvested. All the stones are sent direct to London for cutting and they were practically all marketed abroad, a few being reshlpped to the United States. Judalna from the number of flllne-a WDicn ara DRiiuawaoa on mineral tanna ah tha ceded minion of tha O.rctvr raa ervation, that section is destined to be come an important mining district in the near future. Coal and copper have been found and it Is understood that emissaries of W. A. Clark have made examinations of the district and that they will locate claims in his behalf if they have not done so already. - Thompson Loften, who are operat ing a placer claim in California gulch, Madison county, have unearthed a gold nugget weighing 44 ounces and valued at upwards of J700. Two years ago an even larger one was found In the same vicinity. This district is among the oldest in the state, it being in that county that gold was first discovered in Montana in 1863. RAILWAY COMMISSION MEN TO CONVENTION (Special Dhpatch to Tht Joaroal.) Olympla, Wash., Sept 28. Railroad Commissioner H. A. Falrchlld and Jesse 8. Jones left here today on their way to Washington, District of Columbia, to attend the meeting of the National As sociation of Railway commissioners. Oc tober 8 to 12. Commissioner Lawrence is already on his way cast. Commissioners Falrchlld and Jones will hold a hearing at Tacoma tomorrow on a switching charge complaint af fecting the Tacoma yards, and also on a complaint asking for a snur track near Rainier, In this county. During the day also a conference will be held with rail road traffic officials on the question of car supply. pany from a rabid Roosevelt man to a fairly enthusiastic Taft man. for, be it understood that Miss Busley is not an admirer of the Teddy bears' godfather and has a strong mind of her own on his manner of conducting the govern ment, nne nas. too, a clear Dusiness head and confesses that she finds pleasure in looking out for business opportunities in her travels. She rather fancies some of the opportunities of Investment the west offers and may eventually plant some of her "stage money" here. Miss Busieys youtnrui entnusiasm one of her most charming character istics. She Is deligined with her work in spite of the hardships It offers; lives in her play, and on the stage when she is there: boosts her friends readily and she has a lot of them; frankly ad mires actresses who have already reached the goal toward which she is aiming; announces that Mrs. Flske whose vounaer edition she has been termed is a worthy "Idol"; naively asks your opinion and accepts it generously about points in the play as if you with your casual stuay or a rew productions might have the same knowledge and rlaht to opinion, as she with her minute study for a two years' run; and is al together one o the most human and lovable stars on the American stage. UNIVERSITY LORE BY CORRESPONDENCE (SDeclel frlstMtcb to The JonraaLl University of Oregon, Eugene, Sept.' 28. The university has inaugurated the first of the correspondence courses an nounced last year, the present one being provided especially for teachers who cannot attend any Institution. . There are five divisions in the course English classics (state high-school course), Shakespeare, history of Eng- jana, peaagogy ana ugeDra. For any of the work done prepara tory units or credits may be given for entrance into the university. For tha course .in Shakespeare and pedagogy a certain amount of college work ia al lowed, While tha work is primarily for teach-; ers. others may take . it un. Othar courses will also be given la every de-l . In the courses there Is no tuition or other expense except that of postage frl viler e of drawing on the library, of . he state library commission for outside reading. The traveling libraries nf thl commission will ba at thair-dlaDaaal tnr limited, times, , - 12 SOLID OAK SIDEBOARDS, worth $35.00; C 1 Q flft reduced to . ,. 5 1 0.UU 7 SIDEBOARDS, in genuine oak, 7 feet high, 52 inches wide, djO T C A French bevel mirror, 1 8x36,, worth $38.00 ; reduced to 3) hi O O U 7 PARLOR SUITS, upholstered in Verona, three pieces, flJIT'Kfl'' worth $25.00; now J) 1 OU 10 BOOKCASES, in golden oak or mahogany, worth $38.00; 0)C A A for, only , , . ..... tPawOUU 7 MAHOGANY FINISHED COMBINATION BOOKCASE 1 L AA AND DESKS, worth $25.00 ; bargains at 4 1 U.U U 20 KITCHEN TREASURES, regular price $4.50, 1J " P A sale price. ) L0J 10 STEEL RANGES, 4 or 6 holes, sold everywhere at $35.00; C A our special price, guaranteed, is only )-W I OU 12 $20.00 PEDESTAL. 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