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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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