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BENEFIT TQ BE GAINED FROM PROPOSED BILLS SET FORTH IN DETAIL first, an exclusive permit -r driUing, and upon discovery within a given time an area be given as a reward for prov ing the ground and adjacent lands leased upon a royalty basis. .Xaaa of baad Za Bug-rested. There is another charge to be made this was regarded by engineers and less than a challenge to the capacity of a . democracy. Pastor's Wife Passes Away. KansasCity Put in V . Spendthrift Glass r- " . Thrift Xxpert Bays CUiseas aaTUgw ; Accoaats et 7,000,000 Are Bat Third . financiers aa too tentative and hazard ous a tenure where millions of money NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT MEASUBE IS' POINTED OUT which would -be unforgivable, and IsJ were needed for the installation of the moreover, unnecessary. The people de sire' these lands used; not held as a mere basis for speculation in stocks or bonds. Where there is need for such, a plant the lands should be available on necessary plant. ' ' ' Pexrle Measure Meets slf fleulty. The Ferris bill meets this difficulty by proposing a lease of these lands for a definite term of 60 years. The objection Is made that the lands should be given outright. To this there are several answers of substance: Mo en lightened government gives such a franchise. . There is danger, very real Roaeburg. Or., Sept. 27. Mrs. Elisa beth Howard, aged 69, wife of Rev. James Howard, pastor of the Baptist against the existing law more serious than its unworkablllty. It Is supremt- ly wasteful. If the land Is leased some ' control can be exercised over the man ner of development. Millions of bar rels of oil have been wasted by being 1 allowed to flow into the streams, by being mixed with water or by evapora- most generous terms. riaat Could Be Bomgli. At- the end of the , 60-year period what becomes of the plant? If it has been so managed as to best serve the country there would be no reason why the holding company should not have a new lease. If it had not been so managed the plant should be bought st its value by whoever the new lessee might be, or by those who took over the lands on which it was situated, the state, for instance. As already said, with the passage of these two measures there will be no land or resource that will not be at the full service of the people. And yet.-the romantic enterprise of reveal ing America will not be done. To get church at Myrtle Creek, died in Rose- of What They Bhoald Be. Kansas, City, Mo., Sept. 27. (U. P.) Kansas City was put in the spend-v thrift class today by W. H. Waterman.: thttf t campaign, representative at the , American Bankers' convention. - According to Mr. Waterman, the av erage Kansas City citizen saves only about a third as much as he should. Compared with the average Phlla . delphian or Bostonlan, he is a happy- -go-lucky sort of person, who scatters his Income in every direction. .. ; : "You have only $7,000,000 on de posit In the savings banks," the thrift expert aJd. "The amount should be at least three times as much." Waterman says the man with the Income of from $1500 to $2600 la the worst spendthrift. burg on Monday. She Is survived by her husband, six daughters, Airs. J. D. Baker and JUrs. A. F. Simmons of New Pine Creek. Or.; Mrs. U E. Mil ledge of North Bend; Mrs. J. C. Broill of Reno. Nev.; Mrs. O. H. Pickens and Mrs. 8. 8. Wardwell of Roseburg. and one son, Clifton, who resides with hla parents. Dalles Girl Is Hart. The aDlles. Or., Sept. !7. Miss Frieda Herbrtng. a popular local girl, jumped from an auto in which she was riding Saturday night when she thought the csr was going to strike a tree, and sustained a broken collar bone and other painful injuries. She was riding on the running board of the machine. Secretary of Interior Gives lauQ nn nownlnnmnnf of danger, too, of a complete monopoliza Ltuu. j u r rc ui uvea nv sum tion of such power sites it the tanas go forever from the people. The value of water power is not yet fully real ized, and its full value can not be known at this stage In our Industrial life. The purpose of the government in am told, in any other mining. And pe troleum is a priceless resource, for can never be replaced. Resources, Accompanying the general develop ment bill in its passage through the house was a measure intended to pro mote hydroelectric development on WEST TO COME INTO OWN transferring these lands is to secure their use, becsuse it does not choose to use them itself, but the time may come when it may be most desirable to the full development of our life that 4. :W public lands, named after the chair man of the public lands committee of the house, Mr. Ferris. This bill was called for by the fact that existing lertalatlon Dermltted onlv a revocable TTtUlsatloa of Water ?owtr Is FoinUU Oat as On of Important Part of Tatar Program. they shall be operated by the nation or the states or the municipalities in the from our resources their fullest use 'permit to be granted for such use. and this is our goal. And this Is nothing tates, and to transfer tnem forever would cast a burden upon the future - . ' . : I . J ..1 - isy 1 Bjr Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of Interior. Two years ago I presented In my report what might be termed a pro gram of Internal development with respect to land; a railroad Into the Interior of Alaska; a coal-leasing law for Alaska; a new reclamation act extending the time within which pay ments were to be made by water users and under which land would be forced Into use; a water power bill governing the use of public lands for hydo-el--trtc development; a general develop ment bill providing for a practicable ; method of disposing of our oil. fca. roal. phosphate, and potash without danger of monopoly or nonuse. Of this program the larger portion has Deen. adopted, and the last two have been successful In the house. The plan in to make the west help In Its own development. The royalties from oil, gas. coal and phosphate lands and from water-power developed on public lands should be used for the reclaiming of the arid country and then divided with the states. Alaska Xs Being Opened Up. The Alaskan railroad Is being built. The Alaskan coal leasing bill has already been put into effect In ti small way by the granting of per mits for the operation of small and Isolated tracts for Industrial and local use. The leu.se under which t lie larger fields which have been reserved may be taken up has been drafted In co operation with some of The most emi nent mine operators of the country. Its utilization must, of course, await tb opening of means of transporta tion. The new reclamation act hs brought courage to the water users, who fout.d their difficulties almost overwhelming, so new and strange to the people of our northern blood are the problems of Irrigation. The need for the general develop ment hill Is not difficult to present. The lands of the Pacific coast are oe lng used intensely In some parts and mono laiias can ior leriuizauon. wn of the elements which must be re stored to the soil is phosphorus. This . Is native In most soils but is needed by all sfter long use. Orchards Heed WourUhment. The orange orchards of California and the apple orchards of Oregon and JNVashlngton. not to speak of othcrr, 'draw heavily upon the soil. Anif for its replenishing the orchardlsts a.r-3 buying phosphate rock In Florida, which is carried 6000 miles by water and tlin inland, while In Idaho, Mon tana and Wyoming we have undr withdrawal nearly 8,000,000 acres cf land that are underlaid with p h - phate rock. There ,1s no law today under which this can be secured. In Montana and elsewhere throughout the ., V,,' " ' v? J IB. - ' r .: 6, t Secretary of Interior Franklin K. Lane. west are smelters whkh produce ".ho' sulphuric acid necessary for the con version of this rock into practicable fertilizer. So that the development of Oils Industry waits only upon the passage of a law which will put this mineral at the command of those who need It. Our coal lands are now subject to sale at appraised values based upon an estimate of the content of the land. This is at best an expert's . guess, and converts each purchase into a gemote, both on the part the government and the purchaser. BUI Will Md the Miner. The bill does not exclude this meth od, but supplements It with a simple provision by which the purchaser, in stead of buying at hazard, may pay a royalty upon vrhat he produces. It gives the man of moderate means an opportunity to secure a mine. As to oil and gas, the house commit tee had extensive hearings at which no practical man engaged in the Industry offered any obction to the plau pro posed. The eisjtlng law. under which been taken up, is to by no politer word than as a plain misfit. Oil is found hundreds and sometimes thousands of feet below- the siirface of the earth, yet the law applicable to Its acquisition Is the placer law. Intended to apply to the such lands haVi be characterized recovery of superficial minerals. This law, lj of, romantic origin, for it Is the outgrowth of the experience of the Ar gonauts who went to California In the days of '49. The measures adopted by inese men ior me government oi meir claims along the mountain streams, where they did no more than lift the river sands to the pan or rocker, finally were Incorporated Into law. law Described as Impossible. And the governing principle of this law was. that before a man could claim ownership in a placer claim he must have found gold there; and until he did. others might, at their bodily risk to be sure, attempt to make prior dis covery. The utter inapplicability of such a principle to a mineral found per haps 2000 feet below the surface, and where the discovery must be made at a cost, of twenty, fifty, or a hundred thousand dollars. Is clear beyond com ment. Now, under this Impossible lsw a large amount of public land was "taken up" and by that is meant that It was located n and thereafter became a general basis for speculation and some times was developed. That the law is as hazardous to the Investor aa It is unsstlsfactory to the government is universally conceded, and In its stead should come a measure under which the government would give a permit at "8 m i ! ; illllm i ? : J T 1-1 " flit'. CVT f mm wt j. M mix & IP Ml 1 Ik Fahey-BrockmaE U pstairs Clothed Shops weep Away All Gompetiitioini Through the power of tremendous purchases for our two big Up stairs Clothes Shops enormous volume of Cash business Low Upstairs Rent, and Reduced Cost of Operating We Save You $10 on Every Suit WE PROVE what we say our power is felt in the clothing; mar ket. Portland people NOW have the OPPORTUNITY of FINDING OUT what "Real Clothing Values' Mean "THESE railroads all recognize the B. & O. T. baggage check. 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