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Euti ted al the Bandon Pi»t<>flt<-e hr Second Clans Matter
Octolier 7. 19t■>
FRIDAY
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j ard doing nothing to help ourselves,
while other ports are spending
An editorial in the Spokesmen- money in a legitimate way and
Review of Spokane, Wash., says: great results are coming from it.
“Anu man who thinks that King We have the possibilities of one ol
Automobile is crowding King 1 toise the best harbors on the Pacific
o't the face of the earth had better coast if we get busy and do some
study the sides of livestock Pull- thing. hut if we sit idly by ami do
man horses have just sold at an nothing while all other ports are go
average of $136 apiece, prices rang ing ahead, it will not be long until
ing from $ ji to $256. a demon we will be one of die smallest polls
stration that good hordes are in de instead ol one of the Inst.
Horses vs. Automobiles.
mand still, even at high pi ices, and
that the supply does not equal rhe
d-mand. It is a singular coinci
deuce that the day of the sale al
Pullman also saw a Vollmer farmci
deliver the most valuable load ol
produce ever marketed there. He
brought 7143 pounds of timothy
seed and a Seattle firm bought il
for 7c a pound, which netted th«
grower $70 an acre. Such succesr
with live stock and with grasses ar<
at least as valuable as those with
wheat and fruits, and perhaps de
serve greater commendation.’
For Better Roads.
The State Good Road? Associa
tion is very anxious to have tin
people of Oregon thoroughly under
stand petition No. 354 on the bal
lot which re? ds: “No county si a
create any debts or liabilities whici
shall singly 01 in the aggregate c.\
ceed the sum of $5,000; excrpl t<
suppress insurrection or repel in
vasion or to build permanent road
within the county; but debts Io
permanent roads shall be incurred
only on approval of a majority < I
those voting on the question.’’
Those who are interested in geo»
roads are woiking lor the amend
ment permitting the b nding of tli<
county for road work, arid sav th-
passing of petition No. 354, which
gives that privilege, will be one of
the biggest steps toward pennant n
road improvement that has be< n
taken in a long time.
Oregon certainly needs bettci
roads, anti this fact is particularly
true of Coos county, and any meth
od by which the work of building
better roads cctthl be accomplished,
should certainly be taken 1 p.
What Other Ports Are
Doing.
Tillamook and Bay C ity hax <
taken effective steps to secure tin
imprvement of their batbors. Th-
port commissions of these two cit"
will co operate with the nation
governmt nt in the work and wil
add to the fund provided for th
purpose in the rivers and harlxti
appropriation, It is estimated thaï
the work ol improvement u ill cos
about $2,000,000. Tillamook an
Bay City have pledged $650,000 ol
this amount. The preliminary ex
amination of the Tillamook water
ways has just been made by Majot
Jay J. Morrow, the government cn
gineer in charge of this district, am1
woik on the improvement will In
gin as soon as feasible.
This goes to show what can be ac
complished by people in a seaport
t >wn il they only take it into their
Examination for Assis ant
Forest Rangers.
The Civil Service C ut mission
w II hold an examination for Assisi
ant Forest Rangers on October 24
25, 1910. The U. S. Department
ot Agiiculture estimates that 400
eligibles will be needed during the
field season of 1911.
Assistant
Forest Range is are paid an entrance
salary of $i,ioo per annum.
The examination will be held at
National Forest headquarters in
Alaska, Arizona. California, Colo
rado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Mid
igan. Minnesota, Montana. N
braska, New Mexico, Nevada, O k
gon, South Dakota, Washington
ami Wyoming
No examinations
will be held in Arkansas, Oklahoma
and Utah, except Kanao, Utah, the
headquarters of the Kaibab National
F01 est
Since all of the Kaibab
I orest is in Arizona, residents of
Arizona will under the law, have
prelerence in appointments forthi.
forest.
Forest Rangers must be, wlun
practicable, citizens of the State or
Teiritory in which the National
F rest on which they arc to be ap
pointed is situated. In I he states in
which no examinations are to be
held, there is a sufficient list of e-igi
bles to make the h bling of another
examination unnecessary.
The requirements and duties of
1'oresl Rangers are thus described
in “Ihe Use Book,” which con
tains the regulations and instruction-
lor the use of the National Forests:
“A ranger of any grade must be
thoroughly sound and a'>le bodied
capable of enduring hardships and
performing severe labor under trx
ing conditions. He must be able to
take care of himself and his horse.--
in regions remote from settlement
and supplies. He must be able to
uikl trails and cabins, ride, pack,
and deal tactfully with all classes ol
people, lie must know something
of land surveying, estimating ano
scaling timber, logging, land law.-,
mining and the live stock business
‘‘On some fores’s the ranger must
be a specialist in one or more o
these lines of work. Thorough fa
miliarity with the legion in which be
seeks employment, including it*
geography and its forest and inelus-
irial conditions, is usually demand
ed, although lack of this may be
supplied by experience in similai
regions.
“ I he examination of applicants i-
dong the practical lines indicated
above, and actual demonstration I y
performance, is required. Individ
uals seeking light out of door < in
plovment need not apply. Experi
ence, not education, is sought, al
though ability toenake simple map*
and write intelligent reports upon
ordinary forest business is essential.
“For duty in some parts of Ari
zona and New Mexico the ranger
must know enough Spanish to con
duct forest business with’ Mexicans.
“Where saddle horses or pack
horses are necessary in the perform
ance of their duty, rangers an* re
quired to own and maintain them.
The forest service furnishes no per
heads to do something. Here 01 sonal or horse equipment.
“Rangers execute the work of the
Coquille river we re silting down
divbion.
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The iNmndarv lines of Nesmith
1 patrol to prevent fire, trerfuss, esti
have been dr twit in strict adherence
mating, surveying and marking »
to
I the topography of the couitiv,
timber, the snpert i.ii<>n oi cvltmg
its natural watersheds l a i g b< - n
and similar work They i--ue minor Proposed Nesmith County considered m every particular The
permits, build canir.s and tiails.
people ot the new county have no
Merits Suppoitof Voters
oversee grazing business. iiivestigat«
desire ¡0 do am thing that would re
claims rejtoii on applicaiiorw and
suit detrimentally to either ol the
report upon the arrest lor violation
old counties.
ol foiest laws and regulati ms
The people ot Southern Lane and
Jointly Lan-* and Douglas have
The examination will consist o' Not the. n Douglas Counties, num 5,800,000 acres, or more than the |
questions regarding the use ol tln- Bering more than eight thousand entire Willamette Valley, and of
forest, supplementeel by a hcld test souls, feeling that they are qu ilified this vast area, only a i-iillion and a
to show the applicant s fitness t • do to economically administet their own quarter are aske 1 by the new county
the actual work of a ranger, Edu affairs from a governmental stand
I he people within uie territory of
cation and experience will be rated point, have initiated a bill for the
the proposed Nesmith county are
on the answers to the questions on creation of a new county to be
presenting their case to the voters of
these subjects in the application
known as Nesmith, in honor ol the state without the slightest mis-
form and <n the applicant's use ol
Jan es Willis Nesmith, a pioneer 1 epçesentation, pinning their faith in
English in the writt n test. Horses whose name shine» in the firmament
the voters to support their conten
for tests in riding and packing will <>f illustrious Oregoni ms The pro
tion that local self government is the
be i rovided L»v the forest service.
posed countv would contain 1,940 ideal form of government; that the
Details regarding the examination square miles, of which 1.472 would nearer home government is cheaper;
including the names of the places a’, come from Lane and 4 -8 from that laws are more effectively en-
which it will be held, will he sent to Douglas, leaving the former 2,908 forced ; that greater development
anyone applying to the United square miles and the latter 4.393 of country is possible; that better
States Civil Service Commission, square miles, a sufficient area from highways are attainable; that its
Washington, D. C.
which to still form several counties citizens aie convenienced by nearness
the size of Multnomah, Hood River, to the seat of government; that tax
Columbia and Washingion.
The ation and representation should go
Dredge Oregon tit oos Bay.
total assessed valuation of Nesmith hand in hand, and that by the cre
county would be $5.309,575, Raving ation of Nesmith county the efforts
Lane $18,000,000 and Douglas of a large and progressive commun
The Coos Bay Times savs:
over
$27,000,000.
The country ity would be rendered more effect
” I he dredge Oregon will leave
Grays Harbor, October 10th, for within the proposed new comity is ive in increasing population, de
Coos Bay. according to information capable of maintaining an organiz veloping the resources and enhanc
given at the engineer's office in Port ation that would, we believe, be to ing the greatness of Oregon.
(Paid advertisement.)
land,” remarked Colonel William I the best interests of the people em
Grimes, who returned from Port- braced within the territory, and at
1 ind, where he has been a couple of the same time not deprive any othei
A remarkable telescope that ena-
weeks on business and pleasure. “It affected of their rights, nor increase
seems that they have decided that their burdens, nor work them any bles men stationed at Fort Stevens I
they can overhaul the Orego. and injuiy whatsoever.
to detect the approach of an enemy
Owing to the large area of while they are still more than 22
put her in seaworthy condition at
Grays Harbor,’’ said Mr. Grimes, the two old counties affected miles off shore, has just been in
put to stalled there. By its aid the range
residents
are
‘ and this will save considerable time. many
They are anxious to get her here to great delay, inconvenience and ex- of the approaching fleet can be ob
begin work and also to avoid the pense in transacting business at the tained, an I the mechanism is so ad
county seats.
To compel residents justed that it overcomes the effects
stormy fall weather ”
to travel from 20 to 60 miles over of the curvature of tire earth on an
bad roads in order to pay their taxes, ordinary telescope.
serve
on juries, or as witnesses, is to
Advance in Freight Rates
inflict a a hardship upon them; yet
The longest way across the state of
Texas »spin Is the dlstunce from Chi
cago to the gulf of Mexico or to the
Atlantic ocean. Texas is less than
half as large as Alaska.
Ostrich farming, about 5.000 birds,
has become a profitable Industry in
Arizona, particularly adjacent to the
city of Phoenix. the capital to be of
the Stat* till nt least 1!'J5
New Mexico will Is* the fourth state
of the Unian in area, larger than any
other except Texas, California and
Montana. Its area of 122.580 square
miles makes it more than double the
size of Illinois, which has an area of
56,630 square mile«.
Air Flights.
Talk nlxmt exciting life! Think of
being postal clerk on an airship mall
express. Harrisburg Telegraph.
French aviators tell 11s air flights
will soon be as safe as train travel
Better make it a little safer.—Omaha
Bee.
The railroads will have to sit up and
take notice when the airships begin
bidding for the mail carrying con
tracts.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Interstate commerce commis
sion may as well brace itself for th«-
problems the airship will bring up in
tlu* near future.—Washington Star.
Political Quips.
Tho presidential campaign of 1912 is
yet young, but it is already extremely
active.—Florida Tlmea-l’nlon.
Some of the fences the politicians
are trying to mend this summer are
found to be made of live wire.—Hous
ton Chronicle.
The presidential booms are still play
ing one night stand engagements, and
it is impossible to decide which wtll
presently settle down for long runs.—
St. Louis Tinies.
High Prices.
One of these days an aviator will
establish a world’s record by soaring
six inches higher than the cost of
living—Cleveland Lender.
There is only one thing lacking to
•lake the nuinmef of into n lifelong
tnemory, and that is an ice famine.—
Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel.
While the high cost of living is not
receiving much public attention Just
at present, the man who pays the bills
has not forgotten it.—St. Louis Post
Tlispatch. .
Suspended.
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Washington, D. C., Oct. 4 —The
advances of transcontinental freight
charges, varying from five to ten
cents a hundred pounds, from points
of eastern origin to Pacific coast
points, were suspended today by the
interstate commerce commission until
February 6 1911, pending an in
quiry by the commission into their
reasonableness. The order of sus
pension affects seveial hundred inter
state curlers east of the Rockv
Mountains. Tariffs tiled with the
commission were to have become
effective October 10th. They’apply
to all comm 111 ity and class freight
oil the westbound shipments to the
Pacific coast, including lumber and
furniture.
Teachers’ and Patrons’
Great
Combination
Offer
’JpHE RECORDER management has
made arrangements with the
San Francisco Bulletin whereby we
C ol J ames W illis N esmith
Illustrious Oregonian, whose iiam<
the proprosed county would
perpetuate.
Meeting.
it is more, a matter of self govern
ment for which the progressive
A most cordial invitation is ex people of this proposed county are
tended to ail parents of school chil contending. Taxation and repre
dren and others interested in the sentation should go hand in hand,
work of the schools to be present at but not so under present conditions
t Teachers’ and Patrons' .Meeting to For instance, Cottage Grove, the
be held in the High School Audito second city in size and iinfrortance
rium this evening at 7:30. An inter in Lane county, has never been per
esting program is being prepared, milted to name a county judge, and
and the question of forming a perma it has been a quarter cei tury since
nent organization among teachers it had representation on the county
ami parent:; lor the mutual consider board of commissioners; wit le the
ition of school and educational t p territory taken from Douglas comity
ics will t>e presr tiled.
has never had either a county judge
Such organizations are cariied on or commissioner. The represents
in many communities, ami when lives in the state legislatures are
wisely conducted are very helpful to from the county seats— Eugene and
the schools. All parents are urged Roseburg—thus leaving a large tax
to interest themselves in this matter. contributing community without
voice in either local or slate affairs.
Ninety- two per cent, of the residents
The Forest Service plans the seed* w thin the proposed Nesmith couhtv
mg ot between 5000 and 6000 acres signed the petition, praying the
of burned over lands at a cost ol voters -f Oregon to grant them sell
approximately $26-,000. Altout 700 government by the creation of the
acres, situated at the Bull Run wat- new county, while one particular
ershed, file source ot Portland’swat* section immediately outside the
er supply, will be reforested in this original boundary lines petitioned
way. The largest amount of plant the N e s m i t h
committee lor
ing will be done in the Mt. Hebo admission to
the
new
district, south ot Tillamook, which county, preferring to take chances
was burned over in 1847 and never with the new rather t ian to remain
iciorested. O11 most ot this area with the old. This shows conclus-
Eastern hard < oods will be planted. ively that the sentiment of the tax
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Fast and Commodious
S. S. BREAKWATER
Leaves Portland (Ainsworth Dock) 8 p. m. every Tuesday.
Leaves Coos Bay every Saturday at service of the tide.
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