THE OIlEGOrJ SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,' SUNDAY LIOHNING, AUGUST 21, 101D.
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Oil
U. S. Steel and Other Leading
( ' Stocks Decline-Standard
; , Rakes in Usual Modest DM
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yC," - PuiHib' Prw leand WIr.l
, New YorK, Aug. 20. Trading nn the
stock market was dvU and narrow to
Tday, and owing to tne fact that many
trader -wejje out at -town,' the volume
was liaht.v United States Steel was one
of the weakest features, and 'the HarrM
' t mari Issues were heavy. - Southern . Fa
ctflc started' with ft decline of three
eighths and Union aci He vltt a reces-,
slon of about th eame amount. .Amal
gamated .Copper and' American Smelt
ing and Refining both .closed three
eights higher. 0 i
The market ; was exceedingly- dull
-after the opening. This was a holiday
fon London stock , exchange, which was
another? element making for dullness.
- The healthy bank statement lent a
. good tone to what tittle trading there
-was. There was an interesting rumor
that a Brooklyn' -syndicate" had been
formed to take a great amount of. bonds.
s Thia, it is - said, , would herald ; a . big
'stock-buying campaign.
Hock Island became 'somewhat heavy
, and it closed one-fourth off, - .An ef
fort was made to bid up Pennsylvania.
As it was, this stock closed ne-half
" to one point Klgher.Commlaiion houses
.were almost entirely deserted during the
' short ,es1oh. i VY -;.: :"i;-H.
. The directors ' of the standard Oil
'company this week , declared .the regular
quarterly dividend of $6 per share on
its million shares of stock. John D.
Rockefeller's portion of this dividend
Issue is -$1,120,000. ' w
; The report of the American Smelting
company., for the ..year ending April SO
last has been Issued and it shows 7
. per cent earned upon its common stock
in that period. tit report shows the
company had total earnings of $1,548,
'287 aurnlna over the ' dividend. A?'
though this Is not as good as 1909,
nevertheleseJit is satisfactory.
i The , directors of the International
Harvester company will meet on Mon
day to take a dividend again. In the
matter of dividends there is 'no Indus
trial company better fortified, than the
International Harvester company.. The
i earnings of . the company this year are
expected to -show a substantial increase
' av those renorted last year. '
.-. Indications pointed to' a substantial'
increase in buslnes for the year, And
deducting a-4' per Cent dividend from
- thisr.ths sum of 48,600,000 wouW be
' left for surplus; In fact, the reveriue
is about 15 per cent on the company's
common etocR.. 'S. ;xA...
xnex report., of.., the Kansas City
: Southern railway will appear next
- month, arid it is confidently expected,
. according to statistics already In, that
the company wIi show earnings of be
tween S-and 4 per. cent. on. the com
mon stock.The gross earnings are the
largest in" lh history Of the company.
r- Thfe-earnings, of thaTere ; Marquette
rail waf for.tha fiscal year just tlosing
were the highest; in , the roada history.
, The road' -earned, between 4 and
per cent on its preferred stock. This
1 the -first time. that the roadjhas
earned dividend upon its first pre
ferred ' stock, .and .it is now assured
that dividends will be. disbursed begin
ning June,1 1911, whan the 'cumulative
clause goe Into effect.
Increased business on the Colorado Y
" "Western railroad Is leading to a new
stock and bond' issue".
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as soon as they were available. They
- 'will probably , be here within the next
three days.
Fearing that enough men could not
ba secured in this manner, Acting
Supervisor Swennlng tcfisk the matter
up with tha reclamation service asking
tnat the men engaged on the irrigation
system at, Klamath Falls be sent to
Buck Lake to. fight the fires on Clover
' creek. - He has not received a reply at
' a jaxe nour inis evening.
Ashland's Water Supply Threatened,
The fires that are beyond control on
the Ashland divide have already burnel
over two square miles, and are spread'
ing with the greatest rapidity. Over
100-men are flglmng this fire and IS
"additional were sent out late this after-,
noon. This fire la working havoo with
tha Ashland water supply, as tha 'tint
v ber being burned Is , entirely on the
water shed of Ashland creek. Ashland
has had a short supply In the past and
It la feared that With Impaired storage
-tha supply will ba so greatly diminished
. , .that It will work a great injury to tha
city. Several private holdings of tim
ber have been burned over and tha dam
age is tremendous. It is for the pur
' pose of controlling this fire that the ri
'quest for- the .Ro8eburg' company of
muiua was sent in.
. The fires in the nftlrhhorhnni nt M
McLoughlUi are of a. far greater extent
'than those neiv Anhinnd u on
square miles ; of territory nava been
burned over and. tha loss is extremely
heavy, .especially in tha forest reserve.
Private holdings have not been damaged
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Property at southwest coraer of Sixth-and Yamhill, owned by J. C. AIns
. - ' worth.
Negotiations are in progress betVeen
John C . Ainsworth . and Ellers Piano
company for the lease to the latter, for
a term-of 3a years,. of the quarter block
at the southwest corner of Sixth and
TamhiH streets.1 While no definite con
tract has been tmade, it is kntfwn that
Mr; Ainsworth has submitted a propo
sition to the Ellers company in which
he offers to put up at once an eight
story , class A, building on; tna property
and lease it for a term of 20 years.
That tha proposition will be. accepted
and the contract of lease closed within
the next few days is believed by; both
parties to the negotiation. v w
Mr. Ainsworth said last night that
If. his proposal were accepted that he
would Immediately begin the erection of
the building, and that It would be
modern, $ story, fireproof structure
adaptedJto mercantile purposes.
TRADE SUPPLIED BT '
rfA7WrAIlen-&Co:
. wholesale-and Retail Drugglata,'
!5th & Marshall Stj., Foffland, Or.
PACIFIC COAST AGENTS. - v.
to any great ; extent as '.y'et.T.trat: are in
imminent dtw,!; :-3.4''&f
&ala May Ba Only .Bopa,'i.:.
Troops have reached this firs "and are
at present engaged In an endpavor- to
control it. So great, however, is the
teritory covered , that it is feared that
tha only possible check tha flames can
receive now is from rain, and there is
a prospect of that. : -"' - "
A number of settlers on the lands
northeast of Butta Falls known as "un
surveyed," are said to have lost their
homes' in a branch of this great fire
which swept .their neighborhood. Two
sawmills in this . neighborhood, Olsen's
and Hawk's, are also " said to have been
burned.' Twenty-five soldiers wr sent
into this territory today ' -
Supervisor M. I Erickson of the local
forestry service, has. nearly ,160 -men
fighting flames; near Four Mile' lake.
On Friday he drew on the timber crews
around Pelican bay and these men.
equipped with three weeks supplies, are
now at the front,
Bnok to Assist In Work.
C J. Buck of Portland, assistant dis
trict forester, will arrive in the morn,
ing for the purpose of assisting Acting
Supervisor Swenning in the directing
the. work from this cRy Mr. Buck
formerly had charge of this forest and
la familiar with it It seems unlikely
tonlgitt that the local officials will suc
ced in getting men from Roseburg, as a
fire Is reported on the south Umpqua,
which is said to ' be beyond control
Acting Supervisor Swenning was noti
fied this evening- that all of the avail
able ' men In that neighborhood were
neded there. However, this does not
apply to the militia
A new fire was reported this evening
to have broken out on the south fork of
Rogua river, about -4' miles southeast
of Prospect This Is said to be gaining
greatly in volume. Another new fire
was reported on the north fork of Lit
tle Butte creek.
There is but Jittla djjubt but that the
firea were, for tha most part, set out
It la understood that , the government
now has: secret service men on the
ground In an effort to apprehend the
miscreants, j ,v ' :
FIRE IN DOUGLAS IS
.NOT DOING GREAT DEAL.:
OH DAMAGE IS BELIEF
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Roseburg, Or., Aug. 20. Forest fires
are raging on .; the headwaters of; the
South Umpqua above Tiller, about 75
miles southwest of Roseburg While
there has been a call placed' with the
local forestry office for 100 men, it is
thought by people who know the sec
tion that the fire is not so damaging to
timber j as lit U , reported. "The fire
sweeps over many hundreds of acres.
burning the dead brush and leaves under
the big timber without any . material
damage to the standing timber. This
section burns over every year, and la not
thought to be in any danger of loss,
even If a call has been placed for 100
men to -fight fire. A company of the
local militia will be called out Medford
placed a call for 100 men. from . Rose
burg today to .help - fight fire in the
Crater Lake fire. Probably half of this
number will be supplied by tomorrow.
TlMBER:BAR0NS
PLOT TO GRAB ,
1 -"7 OREGON'S FORESTS
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interests ff "theTteople, but . rather for
the benefit of the larger interests which
have, mentioned.
Wo Merit In Tlea.
There is very little land within the
reserves of Oregon that is fit for home
stead settlement and the plea lor tnose
who are in search of homesteads is ab
solutely without merit, for, under the
law as it is today, the actual homestead
er can procure title to lands within
these reserves under the homestead law
where the lands are more valuable for
agricultural than for other purposes.
"This," conunuea (senator unamDer-
laln. . "explains ' why Mr. Hill of the
Great Northern Is so anxious to have
the. forest reserves of Oregon opened
up to settlements- am . m iavgr oi
opening--up--the agrloultural-.lamls for
settlement, but not f handing ovet- Vie
timber lands to tne interests mai nave
already hogged as much as thejr can.
1 believe in a policy or sane conserve
tlam. That is the policy of Theodore
Roosevelt and of Glfford. Pinchot It
means the withholding of valuable tim
ber from Interests. that will use If in
creating monopolies and In maintaining
extortionate prices. It means usig dis
crimination in restojaAig lands to entry
so that the homesteader who actually
builds a home can secure farm lands
while at-the same time preventing the
big timber interests from obtaining a
greater hold than they have at present
Vrho conservatism advocated by Bai
linger and proclaimed by bis local organ
as to apportioning the lands among the
people really means giving the. people s
splendid heritage bodily to monopolls
tio f Interests." The , conservatism s of
Roosevelt and Plnchbt prohibits the big
interests from possessing the remnants
of the publlo domain, prevents wanton
waste' and destruction or our resources
and preserves the rights and opportuni
ties of the home maker. '
Bill Important factor.. Y
VI voted for the bill presented at the
last session of congress, empowering
the president to make temporary with
drawals of lands, I believed that such
withdrawals '-would go far toward the
solution of the question Of our natural
resources. . xao ' growin oi me consei
vatlon movement has been slow but in
volvlng a it does a great moral ques
tioir tt will never be retired from politl
cal or economic discussion until it has
been rightly solved, and the party or
the Individuals who opposes It must
eventually be crushed by an outraged
public opinion.
"The man to whom the country owes
more than to any other individual for
calling attention to the wanton destruc
tlon and waste of-our timber resources.
to the dangers lnoident to this destruc
tion' on the upper reaches of the streams
which feed, the navigable waterways of
the country, . both as affecting water
flow and soil erosion is Glfford Pin
chot; and President Roosevelt did not
hesitate 'to say hat he himself received
inspiration in thr-efjforts he made for
the , conservation . of our " national re
sources from this distinguished forester,
"No greater tribute can be paid to him
in the midst of the bitter controversy
that has , surrounded him and his act
than the fact that the president of the
United. States and the secretary of the
Interior profess to be as ardent support
ers of the policy of conservation as he
has ever been, differing only As to the
methods which are to be pursued in
that behalf. .
"Those were the sentiments I ex
pressed in my speech before the United
States senate and those are the senti
ments I bear now. I am opposed to the
release of our timber lands to" 'the mo
nopollstlc timber Interests."
ome Inevitable. TV asked that B0 men
ba recruited In -Roseburg. When . only
25 had been found news came of the big
fire in the Umpqua valley. The 25 men
that we had expected, to use in Crater
Lake park had to be sent to the Umpqua
and we need 76 more men for this one
re. . , . . ... . ,; ,,
There is now in th fiM th
lar fire patrol of 500 mep, together
with about 800 others, doing special
service. For the government service
alone hundreds of men are imperatively
needed. '.This, does not include the
forces that fight fires on private hold
inga The eost of fire flahtinr to date
has been more han $25,000. With the
spread of flames the dally -cost is
rapidly increasing." ' - - -..Y i r
W'sglo Threatened. Y
Reports of. leaser fires
day from the John Day .country,: west
Cf Burns, In eastern Oregon. A fierce
fire is burning on the east bIods of the
Mount Rainier reservation. No. news
came from Buck Lake,- where a big
area has been burned overs, j.
Many ; of the . fires are caused bv
campers. " Due to - the extreme gravity
of thesltuatlon, Associate District For
ester Cecil asked yesterday that the
greatest care be taken, not only to aid
in preventing the spread of the flames,
but not to start the fires. He said:
Few of the thousands of campers
who annually make excursions to the
forests on pleasure trps realize what
great damage results from a little care
lessness on -their part It is known
that at least 25 per cent of the forest
fires which have occurred In .Oregon in
lores reserves, m uregon win mean
their irobblln uo by the timber inter-
Wtar-Bn' aef5r mrcr ClSil, the
presiaent was empowered to from time
to time set apart as national reserves
timber landaf in the various states and
terrltoriea This power was; used by
President Roosevelt,, thus setting at
naught . Bellinger's assertion while in
Portland that the present admlnistra-'
tlon has made the only substantial prog
resa toward true conservation. By ne
cessity the work, had to be quickly done,
qiuu.. many liuich ivinmm taaciui cinm-.
Inatlon of the soil or the growth wlth-r
lh the reserve. Many of the lands in
cluded in the new reservatons had been
granted to the railroads. In these In
stances the railroads were given the
right to deed over their holdings to the
government receiving In return equal
areas in lieu thereof without the re
serves. , . - ' ' '
: Blow Bauroaa rrontea.
'The Northern Pacific was one of the
railroads, said Senator Chamberlain,
that availed itself of this opportunity.
It surrendered and deeded to the gov
ernment practically worthless lands in
the Mount Rainier forest reserve to re
ceive In return thousands and thousands
of acres of Oregon's best timber lands
by what is called indemnity selection.
The act authorised the railroad to se
lect lands in any state where its lines
extended. The Northern Pacific rail
road had at the time about 20 miles
of railroad in Oregon.
"This right of Indemnity .selection
granted to the . Northern Pacific rail
way and the scrip which it had said
Senator Chamberlain, "would enable
that company or Its assignees to secure
title and get possession of the splendid
forests of Oregon now. held" In reserve
If those reserves are ever, opened up by
congress or by executive proclamation.
"I have been Informed that the North
ern Paclflo railway company has a con
tract with the Weyerhaeuser interests,
under the terms, of which much of the
right of indemnity selection has been
sold to the Weyerhaeuser Interests, but
selections are made in the first instance
under this contract by, the Northern
Pacifio railway company. In addition
to this there Is danger that the timber
and stone act would be availed of in
the future as In the past to secure these
timbered lands In the Interests of east
ern syndicates. Tobody understands
this situation better than Louis W.
Hill, and nobody understands better
than he that the fight against conserva
tion In the west Is not a fight In the
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: WINDS, FLAMES
.DEVOUR FORESTS
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man yesterday evening to go to Wal
Iowa and Ikkn chnrsa Aaalatonf Til.
trlct Forecaster Buck left on the Shasta
umitea,jast night to take charge of the
an.. . V. Ml .
uuuiiiiu vrsjun urg campaign,
. . Clamor for Xilitla. ' 1
The fire fighters of southern Oregon
are clamoring that the militia be de
manded at once. Without the organised
aia or aruiea men they consider the sit
uauon nopeiess. Mr. Cecil said: ,
"Only as a last resort do we want
call for the aid of tha miiin nut .iti.
the shortage of regular troops and the
impossiPy or getting enough men oi
the ground to hold the fires it may be
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Washington and 6th
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the Ja.ft two years were started from
abandoned camp fires or In some other
way by campers. A camp fire, though
it may be ever so small, if left with
but a spark of life, may smoulder .for
days and then when fanned by .the
wind, break out and oftentimes spread
over thousands of acres of timber land. !
Y Campers Are ''Cautioned.
"Listen, campers! Think a mlnetel
The forest fire means an enormous loss
to the timber grower, to the community
and to yourselves as well. Large forest
fires drive out the game and in some
Instances even , kill the fish in the
streama-besides - converting th-.area
burned over into a desolate; God-for
saken country, unsuitable for recrea
tion of any kind. When you go to the
woods for a camping trip the forest is
your home, and you should treat it as
such. . Furthermore, it Is a borrowed
home and Should be cared for even more
carefully than your own property,- You
would not think of leaving a fire in or
near your home that might possibly
break out and destroy your house as
well as the houses of your neighbors.
Is it not, therefore, your duty to take
the same precaution to protect the for
ests, which are one of the greatest re
sources of the northwest? ;
'Some campers are careful, others
make a haphazard attempt to put -out
their fires, while still others go heed
lessly on and leave their camp. fires to
go out 1 they are so disposed or to
smoulder and later be the source of a
great conflagration. . Some of you may
ssk Just whit U t!'. lr.y - r -
Here are som-i hint:
Hints for C.iwp !'.
"First 'With a shovel. -cr r.
remove all -the grin.-i, loaves. !!
and other debris from it sjifit s s
more feet in diameter and-bui'M a
fire in the center. Be ur you h n-
down to the mineral soil. u only Y
era! soil can be depended upin t'5
conduct fire. ; O
"Second. Do not build a flr Psa! t
a rotten log or stump, for the fi.-
works Into the decayed wwd and if U
then impossible to determine whether
It is extinguished or not.
1 "Third. Do not leave a fire until yru
are absolutely sure that it is out.
"Fourth. Do not throw away burn
ing matches, cigars or cigarettes.
WFifth. If you see ' a V fire. evm
though it be a small ground fire, put
it out, and If tha fire is so large 4ht
you are unable to fight it alone, reroft
It at once to some forest ranger or fire
warden, who will take the proper action.
A rass fire can often be beaten out
with a wet sack, blanket or grea
boughs. Dirt or. sand, whether wet r
dry, is also effective. ' Going a short
distance in advance of the fire and rail
ing a path a foot or more wide is often
effective.'' s Water, of course,; is effec
tive lf.lt is obtainable near by.
Y Eugene Guard: Y Officer Bonney has
collected 160 in tdog taxes jjunng the
past, week. Pe says dogs are scarce in
Eugene, and he hardly finds any fe
males, the tax on which is 1 5, while that
on males Is 12.60.. ' ' !
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