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I - III THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1914. E OF BOOTH CAMPAIGN FOR ENDOWNMENT IS STARTED AND WEYERHAEUSERS IS HINTED IN REPORT Federal Office Says Facts May Indicate Purpose to Dominate Southern Oregon RAMFICATIONS DESCRIBED Control of Vt Acrag of Valnabls Timber BclUred to Exist Thronfli Interlocked Companies. Hints of Intimato business relatioh- hip between Kobert A. Booth, Repub lican candidate for United States senator, and the Weyerhaeuser Inter eats, with :oneequent ramtf icatlona through almost all the great timber holding of the northwest, are con veyed In an official report made to l'reflldrnt Wllaon by Joaeph K. Davles, commissioner of the bureau of corpo rations of the department of labor. How tuls relationship has grown and continues Is described In detail by the report, which declares that facts disclosed may "Indicate a pur pose on the part of the Weyerhaeusers and tbclr associates to becom doml-. Tiant fii the pine region of "Southern Oregon; for the Booth-Kelly Lumber company (In which associates of Mr. Weyerhaeuser are stockholders), also has great timber holdings in this ter ritory." "The likelihood of such 4 purpose," the report continues, "Is enhanced by the fact that the new Oregon Trunk railway (controlled Jointly by the Northern Pacific and the Great North ern, In both of which the HU1 interests are important stockholders) Is pushing from the Columbia river up the Des chutes valley to tap the country lying Immediately east of the Cascades." Xands la Oregon Acquired. The report had previously noted that the Weyerhaeuser policy In western Oregon had differed in a marked de gree from its policy in other states, 'particularly In southwestern Wash ington. "Instead of selling small accessible tracts as it has done in Washington," the report says, "the company has made practically no addition to its holdings since Its early purchases from the Northern Pacific; but In Klamath and Iake counties its policy lias been rapidly to infrease Its holdings by bujlng up lands from small holders." It Is apparently in connection with th building of the Oregon Trunk, the report continues, that the holding pre viously owned by Charles Altschul, trustee for hazard Kreres, was pur chased In 1910 by the Oregon & West ern Colonization company, the presi dent of which Is Watson P. Davidson, a director in one of the Hill banks. Much Is Valuable Timber. "This holding, comprising over 700, Oftf) ith of the grant for the Willam ette ViiHev and Cascade Mountain wagSn road, stretches from Albany on tl.e Willamette river to the eastern boundary of the state," the report con tinues. "West of the ("Hscudcs this wngori road grant consists mainly of heavily timbered fir lands and the 1 esstrn part, though mostly non timhrAfl hns very considerable areas of rilne lands. "Tbee farts, toeether with the ap parent harmony hptwwn the Hill in terests and the Weverhauser Interests, riosstbl indicate a plan to secure a dnminatmg position In this timber re gion. TrMs part of Oregon is one of the last Valuable timber regions of the country yet to be exploited In any ex tended way, and on., "where, on account of lark of railroads, the larsre timber peculators bad scarcely been Invest ing till the last seven or elsht years." Interlocked Companies Described. "The Booth-Kelly Lumber company has two allied companies, the Cali fornia Oregon Land company and thr Oregon Land & Livestock com pany. The timber holdings of these interests are based primarily on the federal grant for the Oregon Central Military Kond. The grant was made to the state of Oregon, which In turn designated as its grantee the Oregon Central Military Uoad company, now succeeded by the California & Oregon land company. "The heavily timbered fir lands of the grant west of the Cascades were purchased and are now held by the Hooth-Kelly Lumber company itself; and the pine binds east of the Cas cades In Klamath and part of Lake counties by the Oregon Land & Live stock company. Still farther to the cast, the open lands were disposed of to tne Hunter Land company, which i , 1 iff r-V, -v v-"' ' 'f-"v " i ' - - ' ?''- ' - ' $ Vi 111 I -V5W5i W EFFORT TO TO BE MADE AVID DOUBLE CENSUS NEXT YEAR Cooperation With Govern ment To Be Suggested at Meeting of Assessors. Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Attention Please FEDERAL COURT IS AID State's Work Always Unsatisfactory Because it Zs Impossible to Main tain Kecesaary Plant. Left to right Dr. Leonard W. Riley, president of McMInnville col lege; Dr. Myron Haines, of the Northern Baptist convention. To meet a pledge by James J. Hill, McMInnville college has undertaken a campaign for an endowment of $300, 000. Dr. Myron Haines, of the North ern Baptist convention, who will con duct the campaign, arrived In Port land Wednesday and was met here by Dr. Leonard W. Riley, president of McMInnville college. They left yes terday for McMInnville, Although the campaign is for an en dowment of $300,000. Dr. Haines will have but J200.000 to raise. Hill's pledge is for $50,000 if the endowment is raised within two years. The Northern Baptist convention has also promised $50,000 under the sam conditions. Dr. Riley told Dr. Haines that the outlook is most optimistic. He had just come from Olympia and other points in Washington, where he said the expression of interest and support of the movement to endow the Baptist college of the northwest was cordial. "I have just come from Indiana and an effort to secure endowment of $250, 000 for Franklin college," said Dr. Haines. "This effort was successful although Indiana people are much -tighter when it comes to giving than are the people of the northwest. I ex pect to be successful, because McMInn ville college as a center of high stand ard education more than merits the endowment." Strengthening! There's a tonic in fluence in good beer Beer that is scientifically brewed and prop erly aged. is the standard of beer excellence. It's brewed for your table. Phone your grocer or PORTLAND BREWING COMPANY sold them to the Oregon Valley Land company. "The California & Oregon Land com pany now is, in effect, simply an in termediary for the Booth-Kelly Lum ber company, and the Oregon Land and Livestock company to receive patents from the government under this grant. The two companies together have about 15,000 acres of wagon-road lands. Other Valuable Holdings. ."The Booth-Kelly Lumber company's holding In western Oregon does not consist solely of lands granted for the military roads. It has been augmented by purchase of between 65,000 and 70, 000 acres from the Oregon & Cali fornia Railroad company, part of the federal grant to the railroad. Some 17,000 or 18,000 acres of this land are still under contract, deeds not having passed. Besides military road land and railroad land, the Booth-Kelly and Oregon Land & Livestock companies have some 90,000 acres, part of which, presumably, was originally secured from the government by individual entrymen under the timber and stone laws and the homestead laws." "It should be noted," the report continues, emphasizing the statement by including it in an Independent par agraph, "that a large proportion of the stock of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company is now owned by individuals closely affiliated (through other com panies) with the Weyerhaeusers." Connected With Hammond Interests. The report points out also that the A. B. Hammond companies are con nected with the Booth-Kelly interests through an important stockholder. H. K. Huntington, a director of the Southern Pacific, is said In this con nection to be a director also of one of the Hammond companies. Other relationships, either actual or surmised by the government in vestigator, are explained In the class ification of timber holders under the "second group," which consists 'of 532,116 acre? and 36,000,000,000 feet .of standing Umber. The holders in this group are: The Oregon & Western Colonization Co., associated with the Hill interests; the Wheeler interests; the Southern Oregon company; the Western Timber, Kir Tree Lumber and Chapman Tim ber companies; John K. DuBols inter ests; Kribs and Villsbury Interests, In which I? A. Kribs and C. S. and C J. Pillsbury are the chief individuals; Whitney company (Ltd.) (connected with th Booth-Kelly Lumber com pany through some of the individual stockholders, but not closely enough to identify the two concerns as a single Interest). Booth-Kelly Banks Third. The timber land holdings of large interests in Oregon, held in fee, are in to hi o Inrrlurled in the ra- J port. This shows that the Booth i Kelly holdings are third In size. The Southern Pacific is the largest holder, with 2,079,000 acres; the Weyerhaeu Bers second with 393,000 acres; the Booth-Kelly company third with 324, 000 acres. R. A. Booth explained in his speech at Albany that the hold ings of his company amounted to only 139,000 acres. The report had previously stated the connection between the Southern Pa cific the Weyerhaeusers and the Booth-Kelly interests. The table also shows the Southern Pacific's total land holdings in all the districts in vestigated by the bureau to be 4,522,000 acres and the Weyerhaeusers' total holdings, 1,936,000 acres. Dr. Higgs Praised For Helping Others Personal Xiettar Tails of Good Work of Democratic Candidate for County Xeprasentatlve. Although he will have no vote for Dr. A- K. Hlgg.s. Democratic candidate for county representative with the in dorsement of the Prohibition party, D. Brooks Hogan of Suver, Or., has written to the Higgs Booster .club con veying the earnest hope of his elec tion. "I wish you people to know," writes Mr. Hogan, "that it was through his instrumentality that it was possible for me to finish my four year course In agriculture at the O. A. C. I am now in charge of a large diversified dairy farm, where I have a chance to use my training which he male possible for 'me to attain." It has come to light after the re ceipt of this letter that Dr. Higgs has assisted many young men to an I education, the doctor being mindful of his own struggles after virtual Im poverishment in a flood " disaster. A rally in behalf of Dr. Higgs will be held at the -Higgs headquarters. Grand avenue and East Morrison street, next Tuesday night. Dr. Higgs and two or three others will speak. Arrangements have been made for overflow meetings in case the night is rainy. Minister Goes to Jail. San Francisco, Oct. 16. The Rev. E. E. Robblns, formerly of the Methodist church at Salinas, was sentenced to three years in the MxNeil's island fed eral prison for writing an improper letter to Miss Edna Rogers. Germans Protest Prohibition. .Los Angeles, Oct. 16. A resolution protesting against statewide prohib ition was adopted by the directors of the Los Angeles Saenerfest, represent ing 80,000 German-American citizens. Cooperation between the United States government and the state of Oregon and its counties may be a means of avoiding duplication of work and saving of money. This coopera tion will be suggested by the county assessors of the state who meet in Portland next month in their efforts to abolish the census taking portion of their work. Taking of census by assessors began in 1865 and each 10 years thereafter all people In various classifications and all products, livestock and the like have been enumerated. Next year is census year for the assessors and un less . some arrangement is made by which the taking of the census is abolished or shifted, officials must perform the work. Several reasons are advanced why the assessors should not be made to do the work, the most important being that the federal government is to take an agricultural census of the country next fall or a few months after the local census would have to be taken. This federal census. It is pointed out, would be of far more value than the local census because It Is to be taken after crops are har vested, while the local census could be only estimates. The only items lost by substituting the fedral for th local by substituting the federal for the local census would be the facts about the people of the state, but it is believed that the state and counties, by paying a portion of the cost, could Induce the federal government to tak over that work In addition to its own census. "Federal censuses are of real value," - said Assessor Reed of this county yesterday," but who would care to use a state census when one pul out by the federal government is available? Our work has always been unsatisfactory as it Is impossible to maintain a proper census taking plant and our men are not trained census takers. With all parts of the state growing, the cost is rapidly rising. In 1905 the census cost Multnomah county $3694.65. It will cost much more next year. Merry del Val GiTen Place. Rome, Oct. 16. The pope has ap pointed Cardinal Merry del Val secre tary of the congregation of the holy office. Chehalia, Wash.. Oct 1. Dr. E. i.C Truesdell, who Is ranching near Silver Creek, In eastern Lewis county, reports what is probably the champion high diving pig record of th world. While driving a herd of hogs across the Cowlitz river bridge at Mayfield, one lively fellow, three months old. either waa pushed off the structure, fell off, or jumped off purpose- ly: At any rate, a splash of the water 95 feet bejow re- vealed the fact that the pig had left his brothers and sisters and was rapidly being carried down Etr-am by the swift cur- rent, which at that point passes through a rocky gorge. The animal was rescued next morning from a rocky ledge onto which it had landed, some 300 feet down stream from where the plunge was made, supplies. That is Insurance of a mar ket, and of stable prices for now and later. The export tonnage Is grow ing weekly, and regardless of whether England or Germany controls the seas, the people of both nations must eat England, France and Germany are not poor In credit" . That prices for horses and mules and cattle will also reach the top notch are also predicted. The situation is sized up as fol lows: Xeturas Are Generalized. First A very large Increase in crop returns from this year's product, due to higher prices and sure demand. Second A real need and safe Hi- ",trJ practically all the surplus we can raise, tn grains as well as In livestock. Third Possible higher prices for work animals on the farm. Fourth Possible higher prices for farm labor, due to greater manufac turing activity in this country. rum More profit for the farmer Insuring himself against drouth, who uses ample power to plow deep at the right time, and who utilizes all his feed to turn out more meat ani mals at less cost Sixth The best business tactics are in pressing hardest for volume where conditions are healthiest this country can profitably use Its capital at nome. WIft Extend Senrlce. Chehalis,;; Wash, Oct 16. At the Che halls ;;ity commission meeting Mayor CoVtman announced that it is proposed i spend an additional 19, 000 in expending the gravity water distributing; service to every part of tne city. Tne voters originally voted TTTL M!:? with which to build the pipeline fp?fi the intake into the city including ihe work at the Intake, and to Install Hthe distributing system In. town. Commissioner Brunswig took exception o the attitude of Mayor Coleman td insisted that the com mission oi ght to stop when the $185, 000 Is spcit It is proposed to con tinue the yrork with the monthly re ceipts froi). the plant AMERICAN FARMER BE TO CHIEF GAINER IN DEMAND FOR CROPS War Situation Looks Good So Far as Tiller of Soil Is Concerned. That the present European war has Increased the total sum to be re ceived for this year's crop by from $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 Is a re cent estimate made by experts for the M. . Rumely company, manufacturers of power farming machinery, of La Porte, Ind, with a branch in Port land. The American farmer, it Is pointed out is the most fortunate financially of all people on earth today, due to the surplus of grain in this country and the need for that surplus, due to the war In Europe. Although part of this export ad vantage is offset by the lessened de mand for cotton, say the Rumely people, steps are under way to ut'Uia the crop in manufacturing at home, trade Sam on Top. "More strongly are we coming to believe," they assert "that business depression is partly a state of mind, and that in the world wide upheaval th United States is on top, no'dlng the pursestrings of the world. We know that the sea commerce of th world Is not going to be wiped out and foodstuffs pile up at Bhipplng ports of this country while people in Europe starve for want of bread and meat An army fights on Its stom ach, and some of the European na tions will see to it that they get TOMORROW, buy the best school suit in Portland at the price- Second Floor Elevator an all-wool Norfolk with two pairs of full-lined trousers; taped seams, workman ship thorough in every re- Norfolks With Extra Trousers $6 to $12.50 All Day, Saturday: Boys' $1.50 Felt Hats 50c Boys' $1 and $1.50 Shirts 75c Boys' $1.50 and $2 Sweaters 95c Boys' 50c Caps 25c Boys' $1.25 and $1.50 Underwear, Garment 75c . Boys' 25c Ribbed Hose 17c BEN SELLING LEADING CLOTHIER MORRISON STREET AT FOURTH Special for Tomorrow Saturday Get SO Stamps and Save Money Cut Glass Tumblers late and new de signs Regular 75c. Your choice, IP each .ssUt Cut Glass Water Jugs A 9 Regular 4.00 Special. 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