VOL. XX.
GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER i, 1904.
No. 33.
FE
W
to reduce
25c hand pumps, 10c
Dixuns 10c Graphite, 5c
10c tubes Cement, 5c
M & W No. 1 Inner Tubys, 75c
Bicycle gas Lamps, $1.75
Brst Pedals, $1 per pair
Foot Pumps, seamless cast base the most
durable made, 50c
Coaster Brakes, any style $0 each
Chain Brushes, 10c per pair
Handle Bar grips, 5c each
Too Clips, 10c per pair
A large stock of bicycles, dont want to
carry them over, will make the prico
very low for cash only
A full line of Fishing tackle at
REDUCED PRICES
A remnant stock of base ball goods to
close, at prices to please
25c, 50c and $1 Boomerangs, 10c, 15c, 25c
$1.25 & $1.75 Maher fc Grose axes, 75c
and $1.00
THESE GOODS MUST GO S
to make room for new stock, nothing cheap
I but the price, at 6
y PaddocK's Bicvcle Den k
East of Depot
Grants Pass Banking & Trust Co.
HA I II IT CAI'ITAL STOCK
Transact." a Oenernl Hanking UU'.meKS.
Keceives deposits subject to check or on demand certificates.
Our cu-loinet aro vs.ne.l of courteous treatment and every' consideration con
stent with sound hanking principles.
Safety deposit buses fur rem. J. KKANK WATSON, Pres.
K. A. BOOTH, Vice-Prea.
L. L. JEWELL, Cashier.
The First National Bank
OF SOUTHERN OREGON.
CAPITAL STOCK, ... $50,000 OO.
llrreive fl.'pnitw suljt'rt to check or on certificate j-ayalile on demand.
fell? fi'hi ilriifiM on New York fan Kranriwo, and Portland.
Teierai'tiic trimeters sold on all points in the I'nited Slat.
Special Attention imyui t Collertionit and Kencral luirieif) of our customers,
t 'nllectionf made throughout Southern Oregun, and uti all accessible points.
K. A. ItOOTH. Fro.
J. C. CaMPHKU,, Vice Pres.
li. I,. (ill.KKV. Cashier
MAKHLK AND GRANITE WORKS
J. IS, PAIKCK, 1'boi b.
i am prenered to furnish anything in tho line of Cemetery work in any kind
of MARBLE or ORAMTE,
Nearly thirty vears of eiperience in the Marble business warrants my eavinu;
that I can till your orders in the very best manner.
fan furnish work in Scotch, Swede, or American Granite or any kind 1 1
M m b e.
J. li. PADDOCK,
front Street Neit to Greene'. Gonshop.
. Newell Bros,
Tull's I tiiililln,
.AMERICAN BEAUTY CORSETS.
Iu all the latest styles.
Light Weight Summer Corsets.
y Men's Working Gloves..
REAL ESTATE
I BUY AND SELL REAL ESTATE
OWN YOUR OWN HOME
No. 2.5. 2m acres; MOatres
acres iu iiraiu; 2't acres iu pasture,
of nine rooms. Birn 40 x Sj feet.
I'rice, fi-J p-r acre.
No. 244. W acres; good water
sold socu. ah
No. 2-':). IW acres alxiut 13 miles from the city. Good house cnt
about flwi. Abont i' i ,() feet of good saw timber. Will sell for
100U.
Stop payini rent. $10 down aud 5 a mouth will purchase a lot in
almost any portion of ttlie city.
Call on or address
JOSEPH MOSS
Headquarter fur Real EnUte.
OfBi on E Street, betwee-o Fourth and Fifth Street,
GRANTS PASS, - - OREGON.
PRICES!
stock
S'JS.OOO.OO.
Racket Store,,.
Kixth Street
m:wi:ll hi com.
K
cleared; 15 acres in alfalfa; 100
Good water right, and good house
Orchard with all varieties of fruit.
right; no improvements,
Must be
Special Excursion to St. Louis.
August 8, 9, 10, September 5, 6 aud
7 aud October 8, 4 aud 5 are the re
maiuiug dates upon which ticket will
lie sold at the re laced rates to the St.
Louis Fair. . These rates apply over
the Denver & Rio Grande -aud Mis
souri Pacific. For the patrons of
these roads special excursion cars will
be run through from Portland to St.
Louis without change.
See the many points of. Iiterest
about the Mormon capital aud take a
rldo through Nature's pciture gallery.
During the closing months travel to
tho Fair w ill be very heavy. If you
contemplate going write W. C. Mc-
Bride, geueral agent ft Portland for
tho Denver & Rio Grande, for partic
ulars of these excursions.
Fruit wrapping paper can
be Be-
cured at tho Courier office.
L. G. IIIGGINS
Assay Office
CHARGES:
Gold, Silver, Copticr, Lead, 1 each.
Gold and Silver, $1.
COLD DUST
Bought and Refined for Dental Trade.
Each and every assay done with the
idea that it may be checked.
JRED'K. D. STRICKKR, M. D.
HOMEOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Masonic Temple, Rooms 2 & 4
Grants Pass,
'Phone 633 Ohkgon.
G.
DOUGLAS, M. D.
Physician and Surokon
OftIeo: I'i''noy's residence, cor. Cth
and E street.
Day and ni'lit phono No. 6.H.
Grants Pass, Ore.
P. LOVE, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Oflloe ill Williams Bros, block, over
Grants Pass Grocer
Kcsideoce Phone 414.
Utlice Plione 141.
(HANTS PASS, - . OlIKUON
M.
C. FIND LEY, M. D.
I'rRctice limited to
EYE, EAR, NOSE and Til HO AT.
(Illice hours I) to 12; 1 :w to 5
Kvcning hours Tuesdays and Fridays,
T:Wuott.
Telephones 2U1 and 77.
Ukanih Pask,
OlIEdON.
C. HOUGH,
ATTOKN KY-AT-LAW,
Practices in all State and Federal Courts
Uthce over First National Bank.
Grants Pass, - . . OnooN.
SWEETLAND & CO.
FRESH and SALT
MEATS.
Puoni 21
N. E. McC.REW,
PIONEER
TRUCK, and DELIVERY
Furniture slid Piano
Moving
CRANTS PASS, OREGON.
The popular barber shop
Get your totisorial work done at
IRA TOMPKINS
On Sixth Street Three chairs
Hath room in connection
House Moving
If you hive a building
that you want Moved,
Raised or Levelled up,
Call on or address
Work reasonably and prom
ptly done. Kcsideoce 2
in i U s went of Orants Pass.
A. E: Holloway. E
E. A. WADE
DIlY GOODS,
UXDEKWEAn,
NOTIONS, Etc.
Front Street, west I'alace hotel
GRANTS PASS, ORE.
II. 11, 3I:ioii,
Carpenter,
Contractor and
l Architect.
I All work done with neatness
; and dispatch and in workmanlike
manner. Job work a specialty.
Give me a call.
) Am prepared to rejair, or raise build
I iogi and pot iu underpinning.
Front street, bet. 3rd and 4th.
M
IB H
'PROSPERITY SMILES
Good CroD and Big Price Make Josephine County Grow
ers Happy.
Acreage ol Hop Yards Is
creased SO per Cent
This Year.
In-
Hop picking began on Monday iu
most of the Josepliino county yards.
During the past week crowds of pick
ers have beeu flocking to the various
yards which now a'l present busy,
picturesque and interesting scenes.
The hop pickers find here an oppor
tunity to combine business with
pleasure aud to enjoy a ramp outing
aud bring a goodly supply of the
"needful." The hop picking habit,
otieo established, is hard to overcome
and many young people iu Southern
Oregou await the coming of the hop
picking season with much the same
impatience with which the small boy
longs for the Fonrth of July.
Tho hop picking business iu this
couuty has beeu growing rapidly iu
the past few years. At first of iu
significant proportions, the protfis aud
possibilities of tho hop crop were
quickly observed aud the acreage
was soon increased. The industry
may uow be clussed among the princi
pal enterprises of tho couuty.
The hop ynrds of this county are
located iu two districts, one on Rogue
river from one to six miles bolow
Grants Pass aud the other on tho Ap
plegate iu the viciuity of Provolt.
Hop raising at the preseut time, is
confined mainly to tho bottom lands
of Rogue river and the Applegate,
lands that never fail to yield rich
returns from any plant iug.
The lust two seasons have been con
clusive tests of the excellence of this
comity as a hop district. Last year,
while tho Willamette valley hops
were being ruined by rain, the Jose
phine county vards were experiencing
as near a drought as Southern Oregon
bus ever known. In spite of tho ex
treme dry weather, the crop iu geu
erul was very good. The yield was
saiisrnctory and the quality unusually
excellent. This year tho Willaiuotte
vallev is suffering from a season of
extreme dryness; wlncli lias cur
tailed all sorts of crops and tho hop
crop as well.
In consequen-e of tho exoelleut com
parativo showing of Josephine county
ynrds in the pnBt two years aud the
high prices which have prevailed, the
acreago iu this county has been mater
inllv Increased. Tho number of acres
MAKES GOOD PASTURE
Glasses for Semi Arid Land It
Pays to Plant.
Bronio grass
dronght resisting
perhaps the most
semi-arid and dry
has remarkable
qualities, aud is
suitable for tho
portions of the
country. When properly set and es
tablished, it will withstand extremely
low temperature without iujnry and
will successfully stand the beat of a
long dry summer. It starts very
early iu the spring and remaius green
late in the fall, standing almost any
amount of pasturing without serious
injury. Its peculiarity is that it
forms very thick bunches of leaves
closo to the ground, making a heavy
sod and is without many seed heads.
Tho first year's growth yields a good
crop of hay, but it is distinctly a
pastur) grass.
Italian ryo grass grows rankly and
is excellent both for pasturage and
hay, being mors greedily eaten by
stock than almost any other kind of
hay. It requires a good amount of
moistnro and will perhaps do hotter
on irrigated laud. It yields enormous
lv, sometimes eight and ten tons to
the acre. Because of tho fact thut it
i gives a fine color to the butter, dairy-
men who have pieces of most fertile
soil set iu this grass can be assured
that they will huve pasturage from
! March until Christmas in this region,
i Fescues is a suitable grass for
either hay or pasture and is well
j adapted to all parts of this country.
Thorn are two varieties, meadow
fescue and tall fescue, the latter being
more valuable of tho two. It holds
sod a long time in low lying lands
and is best adapted for cultivation on
rich lands.
Bermuda grass makes the rankest
and deusest growth of any species.
It pobessi'S also the peculiarity of
jointed roots aud when the roots are
cut or broken they immediately
sprout sgaiu at the broken point and
it is almost impossible to exterminate
it on moist laud. This gras makes
an excellent hog forage and for the
reasou of its Droliilo growth from
broken roots, farmers who have given
it any attention find that it pay to
plant it. Its long season in the
equable climate of this territory adds
greatly to its value tor pasturing, as
it keeps green and furnishes au
abundance of food for Dearly the en
tire year.
Timothy is the old reliable for wet
and heavy land but it Is not suited to
light land even with irrigation. In
the heavy soils of the foot bills and
river bottoms wlx-re the rainfall is
plentiful growing of timothy is a
conspicoos iinlajtry and on that is
yielding big profit to their owners.
Homeseeker and Investor.
TOO pieca of vocal and instrumental
sheet music at 10 ceut each at the
J rants Pass Music House.
IN THE HOP FIELDS
iu bearing hops is about 20 per cent
more tlinn last year aud next year
will have a 60 per cent iucrcase over
the present acreugo.
This year's crop shows an increase
per acre from 20 to 33!, jwr cent over
last year. If the price this year are
fully as good if not better than last
year, tho hop growers are among the
happy people of the county. The
prices at the present time are quite
uear the 23 ceut mark. Some of the
growers have contracted a portion of
their crops nt lees figures but at rates
which insure them a good profit.
Four firms of buyers, two being the
largest iu tho market, havo local rep
resentatives here und the result inn
competition insures the top prico to
tho growers.
Following is a partial list of the
Josephine couuty hop growers with
the number of acres iu ouch yard iu
bearing hops. Tho figures aro not
accornto but will bo found iu gen
eral, nearly correct :
Johu P. Kanr.iiu Jr., (15 acres.
DoAriunud, 20 acres.
Bowler, 0 acres.
Baldwin, 10 acres.
Loescli, 20 acres.
Rehkopf, ;i0 acres.
Liucoln, 10 acres.
Weidnmn, 2." aero
Weston, fij acres-.. -
Roymers, 15 acres. ,'
Jennings, 8 a cres
Johnston, U acres,
York, 15 acres.
Mrs. J. Ituuzau
Conwuy, 8 acres.
Fiudley, 17 acres.
..Robinson, 14 acres,
Tho following shows the acreago of
new hops set out this year and which
will bo iu full bearing next year:
Raur.au, 10 acres. -
DeAnuond, 15 acres.
Harmon, 20 acres.
Howler, 8 acres.
Baldwiu, 8 acres.
I.oesch, 8 acre.
Liucoln, 0 acres.
Ilolloway, 10 acres.
Law ton, 8 acres.
Alverson, 0 acres.
Uniphlette, fl acres.
Jennings, 8 acres.
Miller, !)5 acres.
Cook, 8 acres.
Wowull Bros., 20 acres.
The total acreago of hops iu full
bearing is about !)o0. This will bu
increased next year to over 500.
BIG RAILROAD CONTRACT
Arlington Condon Road
Finished Jn. 1st.
to Be
Iho Baciflo Coast Constru 'lion
Company of Portland, has been
awarded the contract for building tho
Condim-Arliiigtou branch of the O.
K. & I., which is to tup tho great
wlieat and f uttlu country of Gilliam
county.
Iho road to ho constructed will bo
4 miles in length mid the work to be
done by the contractors will be
varied, as the contract provides for
bridges, culverts, cuts and fills.
Work on the road will ho com
iiioiioon ac onco and tho contract
stipulate that nil of tho bridges aud
track work shall be finished hy De
cember HI. 'iho track will be con
strutted iu a modern manner am! as
substantially as possible. Owing to
the lightness of the soil ami the
ueavj ami suiideii rains common to
that part of Iho country, a great deal
of rot k work will be put in ulong the
low places w here there might be d in-
ger of tlie winter's (lends cutting tho
track iiml endangering tliu safety of
the trains.
The bridges also will m con
strueted with n view to withstanding
the suddeu ra!ses in tho water of the
stream of the section and ample pro
tection will be given the piers from
tiie brushwood or drift that might
m washed down from the mountains.
The culvert and all opeuing un
der tho track through which small or
occasional streams will run, will be
faced witli masonry and so protected
that Ihcru will bo no uced of contiu
ued repairs after each storm of the
winter.
The road is the one which General
Manager K. K. (,'alvlii, of the O. U.
V . und tlie .Southern 1'aciflo de
cided to build during his recent trip
through Gilliam County and over the
line of the proposed track. To It will
he tributary the great wheat Iwlt of
Gilliam county ami the stock district
nf tlie interior. For years niucl
wlieat lias been raised along the linn
ol liio new road from Arlington to
Condon, hot owing to the lack of
transjxjrtation it has been impossible
to g t more thau a small portion of
the produce to tho market. The resi
deuts of the district have Ihm-u forced
to feed tho greater part of their crot
and drive the cattle and sheen to
Arliutgou in order to ship them to
the Portland markets, losing hy the
process both time aud money. The
adveu-t of tlie road will be a great ad
vantage to tho people and will do
much to bring the district before the
country at a deslrat-e pah; for invest
ment iud location.
Three car loads of brick will soon
arrive tiotu (Jrants l'sn, then the
uew bank building will soar upwards.
All i ready for the brlik. Gold Hill
News.
X
SOUTHERN OREGON IS RICH
No More Inviting Region for the
Homeseeker.
Tho Portland Journal lias the fol
lowing artiolo relative to Southern
Oregon aud its advantages: 1
Crops this year iu Southern Oregon
meauiug by this term that part of
the state lyiug between the Callipooia
mountains aud the Caiforuia liue,
north aud south, and between
the Cascade and coast rangos of
mountains east aud west, are on the
whole as good if not better than
usual. Grain and bay there, as in
tho Willamette valley, are somewhat
short, yet by no mean a total or bad
failure, a they are iu a dry season in
California. Hops for a good many
hops are raised iu Douglas, Jackson
and Josephine counties, though not
nearly so many a in Willamette val
ley counties promise a full yield, of
superior quality. Fruit aud this
section of Oregon is as fine a fruit re
gion as there is iu tlie United (State
is abundant aud excellent, and will
bring largo returns to the growers,
Tlie stock Industry In that part of tho
stute is flourishiug as well as it cau
iu these prosperous times, wbeu beef
ou foot is low and on the table high.
Lumber mills are active aud ap
parently prosperous. In brief, South
ron Oregon i in excellent shape In
every way, and deserves to attract a
very large immigration in the near
future. v
A to climate, that part of Oregon
cannot bo excelled, if equaled, any
where in the United State. Thoro is
no excesmo and prolonged rainfall,
as sometimes hapm'i.a ou the coast.
There Is no very severe winter
weather, as sometime occurs ou the
elevated plain of eastern Oregon. It
is as a rule a delightfully equahlo and
healthful climato, such as, once lived
in awhile, Is never left for long, ex
cept on strong inducement or for ur
gent reasons.
The soil of southern Oroogu is vari
able, but mostly a fine volcanic
gravel, exceedingly fertile whoii lufll-
oieiitly moistened. Portion of the
Iloguti river aud Unipqua river vl
icy need irrigation, most years, to
produce large crops; but stream aro
numerous anil- contain abundance of
water; and iu timo nearly. all thut
very rich volcanic surface ash will be
undo to produce Iniineusp ctops.
Perhaps Southern Oregon excels in
fruit rather than in anything else.
tine need not get oil a oar movloa
throuh Jackson oounty to see thou
amis of acres, mile aud mile of or
chards bearing tho finest fruit, os-
IH-cially, iu point of value, apple,
raised iu tho United State. Paclie,
iiruuos, piums, apricots ana grape
are also produced iu profusion, and of
first rate quality. Most of these or
chards ami vineyards aro now young,
fresh, vigorous, and well carod for,
Mr. J. D, Olwull and others havo
set an example in first cl.isa lxirtlcul
turn that many aro following, to their
own and tho whole statu' advantage,
Wo look to see next year at the Lewis
aud Clark fair, the finest exhibition
of fruits from Southern Oreuon ever
displayed anywhere in the world.
Its tieoplo can do this.
Southern Oregou i also noted for
its poultry, rsieclally turkeys. From
one little town alone many thousands
of turkeys aro shipied annually just
before Thanksgiving aud Christmas
to Portland and Sau Francisco; and
many tuns of thousands from that
part of tho state, which seem e.
pecially adapted to raising fine
poultry, an industry by no means to
bu despised, aud which (lifers gulden
opportunities to hundreds of home
seekers with small means even right
around Portland.
Southern Oregon is rich iu minerals
also, aud produces annually much
gold. Its mountains are rich, too, in
timber, some of which la of the choice
and exceptionally valuable varieties.
To go into details no further, there
is not a plcasantcr or more inviting
region between the great oceans for
tho homiiseeker than Southern Oregou.
BITTEN BY RATTLE SNAKE
Slieepherder Ha fin
F.nperlenco.
Fuelling
James Uemiiig, a slieepherder,
working a few miles east of Kennet,
Cab, while climbing up a ledge
Saturday of last week, put Ills hand
in a rattlesnake bole aud a rattler
coiled therein sank Ms fangs Iu It.
Doming rushed to his cabin, a quarter
of a mile away, but bis comrades
were out with their flock. He ap
plied a soda bandage to the wound,
left a nolo to the other herders telling
them hn had beeu bitten by a rattler
and that be had started for Keunet, a
distance of tlir.ie miles.
As the snake's jmlaon coursed
through his veins, he became derang
ed from the pain and lost his way 011
a well traveled trail. It was sil
hours later that Harry Keiley,
another herder, found the note. He
started after the injured man, and
found lii in in a dillrous state beside
the trail a mile from Kennet.
lie i ley rushed iJeming on to town,
only to find that there was no physi
cian there. Hut there was plenty of
whiskey, aud the victim of the snake
bite was given lot of It. Sunday
morn lug be was still living, much to
the surprise of hi friends, and was
Uken to 1:1 home in Red Bluff,
where it I said he will renover.
Everyone know who "Suuuy Jim
Is. But everyone dou't know that all
his correspondence I handled on ev
enty-fiv Underwood Typewriters.
inese remark ar backed by " rorce.
Of Special Interest to
House Furnishers
WINDOW SHADES Our Special is a good one. Send us
your orders for special aud large sizes.
LACE CURTAINS In great variety, 45c to 16 a pair.
CURTAIN POLES and fixtures; all sizes and prices.
PORTIERES An immense assortment $3 75 to $10 a pair.
CARPETS AND MATTINGS 15c to $1.25; large variety
and of the kind that wears. None better, and few as good.
RUGS Exceptional values; 30x60 for $1.50 up.
REFRIGERATORS at cost.
HAMMOCKS Regular $1 goods for 60c. A big reduction
to close out.
TENTS Big sizes at little prices.
WALL PAPERS and Wall Paper Paste A new idea and a
great invention.
GLASSWARE aud Semi-Crockery going at little prices.
R. Thomas (Si Co.,
Ue Housefurnishers
Grants Pass, - Oregon.
What' in a name? The question is
asked again because of Bishop Pot
ter' appearance at tho "dedication"
of the Subway Tavern in. New York.
Subway Tavern aud Potter' Field 1
A religion that stays In the olonda
ia of no use to anybody, Heligion
must be definite, practical, useful a
binding rule of dally life or else it
ia as much a mockery a the gildod
prayer wheel of the Buddhist.
We dcslro to direct attention to the
first plank iu the platform of the Pro
hibitiou party; "The widely pre
vailing system of the Uceuaad aud
legalized sale of alcobolio beverages
la to rulunu to Individual luterest,
so inimical to publlo welfare, so de
structive to national wealth aud so
subberslvo of the right of great
masse of our oltiaenship, that the de
struction of tlie trafllo is, and for
years has been, the most Important
question In American politic." Is
there an honest oitizon in thlaoonutry
who will deny this declaration?
A Mew York paper fiuda fault with
a representative of the Womau's
Christian Temperance Union, who
said, in referenco to the ojieiilug of
the Subway Tavern: "We object to
the uew tavern, on the very ground
npon which it Indication la attempt
edthat it seeks to make drinking
respectable." The principle of the
Woman'! Christian Temperance
Union ia that drlaking should bo kopt
a thing of degradation. The paper
regard this sentiment a "lament
ablo. " and declares that It seriously
"Injures tho cause of temperanoo,
Of course, the secular pros which ha
business relations with the liquor Iu
terests la an iufallahlo and uupieju
diced Judge on these matters
TO WORK FOR GOOD ROADS
Leglslativi
1 Commit! of Stat
Good
Road Association.
In accordance with a resolutlou
adopted at the last meeting of the
State Good Kosils Association, held
ill Portland last year, Presideut Scott
ha announced the personnel ol the
legislative oominitteee, tho purpose of
which will lie to draft and oflur to
the legislature suoli legislation a is
deemed best fur the good roatl movo
ineiit In till date, a follow: M.
A. Miller, of Lebanon; C. J. Smith,
of Pendleton; W. W. Steiwer, of Kos
sil; J. II. Albert, of Salem; M.
A. Wortz, of Orauts Pass.
Among matter augvostod to the
committee, to cover which it I pre
sumed bill will be drafted for pro
scutatlon to the legislature, I the
matter of publlo road construction by
convict labor.
Other prospective law 1 oue per
mitting the couuty court to condemn
iroperty for the purtsise of straighten
ug out roads, and another for the
purpose of requiring petitioners for the
establishment of new roads to pay tlie
costs of survey and viewing.
ROYA1
Baking Powder
Mockes Cleacn Brewed
With Royal Baking Powder there is
no mixing with the hands,no sweat of
the brow. Perfect cleanliness, greatest
facility, sweet, clean, healthful food.
Full instructions in the "Royal Baker and Pastry Cook"
book for making all kinds of bread, biscuit and cake
with Royal Baking Powder. Gratis to any address.
SOY At OAKINa SOWOCR CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NIW YORK.
TO PREVENT FOREST FIRES
Think Policy of Government I
Wrong..
"The" goverumeut may mean well
iu setting aside vast tract of timber
laud aud letting them become brush
oovered and mere firo trap, but tlie
ystom 1 Just a mistaken a if the
thing was 'done with malice," said
Dr. W. W. Oglesby of Cottage Grove.
in the Portland Journal.
'I have boon on every reserve in
the Paciflo northwest," continued the
doctor, "aud for 60 year I have
traversed mouutalns, valley and
thicket, aud I know whereof J spoak,
whou I ay the entire system put lu
foroe by tho government la radically
wrong.
"Tree have their life like a crop of
hay or a patch of cabbage.. When
their period of usefulness eud they
begin to deteriorate aud are worth
lcsi in a few year. We would call a
farmer a fool, who year alter y6ax
allowed hi hay crop to euoamber the
ground without ever catting an acre
of It, and we would term him insane
If he allowed this Hold to become so
weed choked that a spark of fire
would duvaatato the entire farm In
the dry season, but this 1 the policy
adopted by the governmeut, mid it is,
as I said before, dangeroo aud fool-
h.
"There are vast forest of rottiug
tree in the governmeut 'reserve that
might have been used a sawlog had
they been out when they wero ripe.
There are thousand of acre of big
treo that aro ouly shell, the entire
Inside having decayed and left but
the bark and a thin crust beneath.
Why not cut this timber before It
goes to waste?
"Another bit of folly 1 preventing
fire to be set In the reservations un
til the brush and undergrowth be
comes so high that when the In
evitable lire come, the whole forest
t destroyed. Old settlors aud Indiau
kuow that tho ouly safe method 1 to
annually burn oil the undergrowth,
when it I so thin that It would not
eudangor the big tree. Thou tho
grass cau grow and yon have a beau
tiful forest, Instead of a firo trap. "
In speaking of the method to be fol
lowed lu preventing big forest fire
and the waste of valuable timber,
Mr. Oglesby said:
"Use tho ranger to act a ovorseera
and lit them allow annually the cut
ting of such timber as ia ripe. The
Pacific coast, year alter year, pro
duce enough timber for all lumber
needs if the waste is stopiied and
merely the annually ripe product Is
cut. Thou let there be fire staited
each year in the reserve and allow
them to burn oft the year' brush,
and by taking proper back fire pre
caution, no los will result. Had
the government adopted this plan in
stead of tlie one uow iu vogue, wo
would havo had vast areaa of produc
ing forest instead of tlie bleak hill
and barren valley that mark the path
of great forest fires. "
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