behalf—which they have now made I The figures show whu an eiu»r-
Bandon Recorder some
preparation to take unless mous resource the standing timber
Published Every Thursday by the
railroads are soon built.
But the of Oregon has come 'o be.* Ore
Journal will also be foremost in an gon now sells $20,000,000 worth
Recorder Fu-tiialiiilg Company.
K. KOPr,
...
Managing Editor nouncing «md rejoicing at tic 1 of lumber per year. Of this amount
news of new railroad building,, a $14,000,000 is paid t > wage earners
ttubweviptioti, $1 50 p*» Yewr in Advance. Advertising Rates Made
little of which is now in progress, who put it in local circulation, and
Known on Application. Job Printing a Specialty.
and more of which is apparently every per on in the stat , directly
Entered at the Bandon Pont office aa Second Claim Matter.
Each
to be done soon.
This paper can or indirectly, shares, it.
THURSDAY
not agree that the press for year year about a billion feet of standing
A lthough it is the old story, |>ortance of this great work. The after year and from one decade to timber in Oregon is destroyed by
still every Oregonian, who reads lands to be reclaimed are practically another should keep supinely s'- fire. On every 1000 feet burned,
Re lent under a great wrong to the the stumpage owner 'oses $2 and
the weather reports of the eastern worthless and uninhabited.
states, notes the heat prostration, claimed and irrigated, they will state; but none can outdo it in her the community loses $8 in wage-,
the people killed by cyclones, elec support probably 40,000 families, alding the news ot even the par The figures in the foregoing are an
tric storms, and other atmospheric a population of 200,000 people. tial righting of that wiong, and nounced in a circular issued by the
conditions, has ample reason for And what is being done in the Ya the betterment of conditions in this state boaril of forestry, in an effort
to awaken in the public a realiza
congratulating himself that he live- kima valley in this respect can be respect.
tion of what Oregon's vast timber
in the best summer climate in the done to a greater or less extent in
resource
means to each inhabitant,
T he editor ot the Oregonian is,
many sections of Oregon. Re
United Sûtes.
el imation of semi-arid lands where generally speaking, a well informed and to Stimulate an earnest pill -
man, but he is decidedly weak and pose among all to prevent to the
T he country in general would ap ever possible, and the irrigation oi
uttermost the destruction of tini-
prove his action if President Taft lands now more or less under culti shows his extreme ignorance on
her by fire. The forestry board is
would decline to attend any of the vation, will in a few years double some points, one of which is his at
spreading its printed matter broad
numerous celebrations, fairs, anni Oregon’s population and products. tack on Secretary Wilson, of the
department of agriculture in Presi • cast, going even to the extent of
versaiies and other local and com
dent Taft’s cabinet.
This is what having | osters conspicuously dis-
paratively trivial public ceremonies
No member of the United States the Oregonian says. “From Wash played on mountain roads and
It is a
to which he is invited.
Senate has a firmer intellectual ington comes the pleasant news that I wherever else they may be of ser- I
matter resting entirely with him-
grasp on the subjects that come b
James Wilson, Secretary of Agri vice in spreading the gospel °f
self, though a president certainly
fore that body than Senator Gore culture, will retire from that office protected forests.
The billion
cannot attend scores of such af-
of Oklahoma; no member discusses in December. The news will not feet of timber that is laid low by fire I
lairs in a year and make a speech
the various questions of public im be surprising to anyone vho has each year is literally $8,000,010 in
at each anti very thoroughly per
port with more vigor or clearness followed the policy ot President wages burned. It is literally $8.000,
forin the duties of his great office.
In the tariff debate which has been Taft in surrounding himself with . 000 snatched from the children of
Moreover, he is entitled to a summer
dragging along for weeks, there has men who were familiar with, or at I Oregon, It is a waste of substances ,
vacation, like other hatd working
been no single Senatorial partici least have some knowledge of the that may well inspire each person
people, and he cannot get it unless
pant who handled the subject statis work for
which they are drawing I in the state to be a sworn enemy ot
.
he tnrns most of these invitations
tically, from memory, in the fashion salat ies from the Government. reckless fires and those who light
down, as he would be quite justi
Senator Gore handled it. This great The administration of “Tama Jim tl and leave them to spread among
fied in doing. There is such a thing
mental fe at of the Oklahoma Sen Wilson would have been less ri. the states gold bearing forests
as being too good natired. -Journal
ator was upon tite cotton schedule diculous had the Secretary of Agri It should inspire every hunter
Possibly it was the most marvelous culture sufficient business sense ' every camper, every travelei r, never
I n the report of the schorl
exhibition of its kind ever wit nessed to appoint assistants familiar with ! to throv a lighte 1 m itch on dr)'
meeting last week we stated that
in the Senate But it is not merely the important work which the depart leaves’ or rubbish, never 11 leave a
the district issued warrants to the
by feats of mental gymnastics that ment essavs to handle.
But Mr. fire until )| has been completely
amount of $15,000 owing to the
Senator Gore is known, or will be Wilson at all times has seemed j extinguished, and never to light a
fact that the building cost more
known. He is a man of poise a nd averse to having anyone in the em fire until all the pr.cautions of
than the architect’s estimate. This
character, who has made a place ploy of the department who knows 'dealing away inflammable material
may have been somewhat misleading
for himself among the statesmen of any more about it than he knows from the vicinity of the blaze have
and some seem to have gained
the country. Suffering from the himself, which, of course, makes beep cafefylly attended to. But it
the impression that the architect
physical defeat of blindness that ¡it difficult for the public to is not in the value of the fintber alone
figured $15,000 less than the struc
that the real wealth of the forest lies
would bar most men from ambitious i realize on the heavy investment it
There is the relation the forest
ture cost, however, this is not the
undertaking, and especially in pub j has made in maintenance of the de- bear in sustaining the flow of water
case. The district voted a bond of
lie life, his success is the more re ‘ partment. Mr. Wilson has remain- courses, and the vital relation the
$35,000 but $5,000 of these bonds
markable.
We understand the | ed in office for twelve years, and streams in turn bear to the growth
were never issued. The architect’s
It is all a mighty con
matter more clearly, and that with through all that period his crop re of crops
estimate of the building complete
sideration
to
tlfis and the coming
out depriving Senator Gore of any ports, which have cost the Govern
and furnished was $25,000, and we
generations, a consideration to nerve
credit, when we learn that behind ment millions, have been regarded I
every hand to devoted protection of
are told that it is a better building
lim is Mrs. Senator Gore—a sole- as jokes. It vas during his adminis- the forests against the annual fire
than either the Marshfield or 1 North
cisin tint
may
be permitted 1 tration that “leakage’’ of cne of loss. The state board of forestry is '
Bend buildings each of which 1 cost
Mis. his carefully prepared trap reports I a good leader for all the people in
under the circumstances
several thousand dollars more.
I tl;e sfate to follow in its activity
Gore is the valuable other half. She enabled a coterie of Wall
street .
___ ___
serves the people of her state and gamblers to cleanup a fortune in I ' for saving tl;e trees, life streams,
T he customary crop of Republi the United States as well as her il-
I the cropsand the wages for wage
cotton. The immediate cause of his earners. —Journal.
can candidates for governor is being ustrious husband. To him she is
downfall, and undoubtedly the
sown throughout the state that all that he lacks physically, plus a
reason for his retirement, was his
promises, as usual, to ripen into a companion in intellect, one entirely
March crop report, showing suchj
harvest of a Democratic crop to be and invaluably in harmony with 1rs
vast stock of wheat in farmers' J
housed at the State Capital. But work and plans. Mrs. Gore is a
hands that the Wall street gam
HAS A SELECT STOCK Of
Oregon Republicanism is never wise woman who is in public life in the
blers who sold the market “short”
to its own interests. There ate too best sense of the term, virtually
millions before the .ridiculous
.
on-
.1 made
nature of the Wilson report
u„- Wl"eS' L1(lUOrS * CigafS
many ambitious and selfish office a participant in one of the highest
seekers in the ranks to insure party official positions in the country; yet,
der stood, and the market tebound-i
success, Theri will probably be a no one has heard of her as a suf
.Nttotm Heer on Draught
ed. It does not make much dif- .
dozen candidates, more or less, up fragette. —Telegram.
ference whom President Taft ap
COURTEOUS TRfiTMENT
before the primaries for Cover nor,
points to succeed Wilson.
The |
one will be nominated and the rest,
I t Is injurious to Oregon, says change will be for the better.” Now
with few exceptions, will get revenge
| as a matter of tact, Mr. Wilson BANDON
OREGON
at the polls in the November elec the morning paper, to say that
knows more about agriculture than
Oregon
is
“
bottled
up,
”
that
it
lacks
tion, when the old story of a Dem
any other man in the United States,
ocrat walking up and taking the railroad facilities, that therefore its
and knows more in a minute than a
pie away from the whole Republi development is retarded, that gieat I
thousand editors of the Oregonian
can bunch will again be repeated areas are and will remain practically
' ever heard or read about. When
If the party leadership could cen unsettled until railroads are built into
1 men or newspapers so completely
tralize and agree on one nun for them. The Journal, the probable
show their ignorance or maliciously
Governor, then go to the polls and object of criticism, has a clear, con-
prevert all semblance of truth,
support him. there would be a dif stant record as a booster and not
Rasmussen Bros., Props.
which
ever the case may be it is
ferent story to tell.—Eugene Regis a knocker, but in such a matter as
O
this it believes in telling the truth 1 time that some take them to task. |
ter.
and telling it plainly, [t does not Mr. Wilson has done more for the
L ast week representatives of ten believe in deceiving eastern peo agricultural interests of this country!
cities and many districts in the Ya ple on this subject, and probably than any other ten men that ever WINE5 , LIQl/OR.3 ANP
kima valley met to consider an ir could not if it would. The situa lived in it.
rigation canal pioject by which it tion for more than a decade has
CI6AR.5
is proposed to irrigate 300,000 been lamentable, humilating. shame
O regon
has 350.000.000,000 Bandon
Oregon
acres. With this and another project ful, and the United press of Oregon I feet of standing timber. Even at
lN C*TTL« CAN m
under consideration, and the United ought to have been roaring abput it present stumpage prices this timber
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