THE " 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
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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-
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(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, , -
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