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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1940)
Illinois Valley News, Thursday, AUGUST 29, 1940 Page Four Timber Sales Increase On 0 & C Lands It has been announced by W. H. Horning. Chief Forester of the Oregon aid California Revested Lands Administration that income from the revested Oregon and Cal ifornia Kailroad Grant lands and the reconvtyed Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands has greatly in creased during the past year. The eighteen ¡anu grant coun ties in western and touthern Ore gon received 510,f08 dollars in 1939 as a return in lieu of taxes from these federally owned prop erties. The volume of timber sold during the fiscal year ending July 1, 1940, was valued at $1,376,000. It is therefore probable that the counties during the calendar year o( 1940 will obtain upwards of 600,000, which will be an increase crease of 100,000 over the returns of 1939. This means an unex pected return to the counties av eraging 25 cents for each acre of revested or reconveyed land in comparison to a return of 20 cents per acre in 1939. To many of Oregon’s land grant counties this return from the O. and C. lands represents a large proportion of annual revenues re ceived from ail sources. In one percent of all county funds are derived from timber sales receipts of the Oregon and California Re vested Lands. Josephine County received $38,303.68 as its share county in particular, from 15 to 20 of the revenues from the O. and C. lands in 1939 and will receive substantially more this year. The lands from which this rev enue is secured are being admin istered by an organiation of trained foresters under a plan of management and protection which will insure a continuous supply of timber for the operation of more than a hundred sawmills and other industries whose employees are engaged in manufacturing lum ber and a great variety of other products. Timber is being utilized accord ing to a plan which permits the continuous annual cutting of 500 million board feet. Seventy-five percent of all income from the cut ting of this volume of timber is I 1...................................................................... 11 « i ASK FOR ♦ a...................... mature saw timber. Young trees of sapling and pole size, while of no immediate market value, pro duce more actual net growth for future use than do stagnant stands of over-ripe timber. In this respect they might be compared to a crop of grain. Dur ing the spring months the farm crop is putting on rapid growth. It commands little value at that time because it is not in usable form. Later in the season, growth has ceased but the value which has accumulated because of the months of growth is then avail able. The plan in effect on the feder ally owned revested or reconveyed grant lands keeps them economi cally productive and guarantees to the counties that these lands will continue to produce a large revenue in lieu of taxes. --------------o PERFECTION BREAD With world events growing more and more complex, people are in clined to seek the simple, home- spun things for their relaxation, and such pictures as Autry’s “Rancho Grande,” which opens on W’ednesday at the Cave City Theatre are typical of this need for down-to-earth entertainment. "Rancho Grande” is a simple, engaging tale about a ranch fore man who saves the Dodge spread fiom foreclosure, but it is told in such a spritely manner, with lilt ing songs and gay dialogue, that its audience will accord it a fair better reception than that given to plot-heavy melodramas of the Quick - Easy - Safe “drawing room” type. Gene Autry plays the handsome Write or call young foreman of the Rancho for complete Grande who has been named guard- information— i ;an of the madcap Dodge heirs, 1940 Oregon Hunting Kay Dodge, her brother and boon ' Laws Now Available the companion, Tom, and their kid 1 Copies of the official synopsis sister, Patricia. of the 1940 Oregon Hunting laws ------------- o Head Office, Portland, Oregon are now available to all Game Subscribe for the News Commission license agencies, as well as at the Portland office of the Oregon State Game Commis Ki sion, 616 Oregon Building. Printing of the synopsis was de layed somewhat awaiting the fed eral government’s regulations on shooting of migratory birds. These regulations arrived from Wash ington, D. C., about 10 days ago. Every sportsman who plans to hunt this fall is urged t. obtain a copy of the synopsis in order that 2 Blocks NORTH of the American Legion Hall he may be familiar with new reg ulations, both federal and state, HOT MEALS ALL DAY now in effect. (’old Drinks — Ice (’ream—Sandwiches ------------- o------------- Bert Badden and Milt Akerill made a business trip to Medford, CHICKEN — RABBIT AND HAM DINNERS SPECIAL Rogue Rive and Grants Pass, to ad vertise the Labor Day Miners Jam IT boree. A New Modern Deposit Plan to save your Time Grants Pass Branch o/ United States National Bank Cave City Coffee Shop [TJiiiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii a •13 : 7 : I : s 30 I II BOUTS I è...................... I ROUNDS I I I I I I : I : •G : - - = s à............................................................................. Q CAVE JUNCTION MAIN EVENT - 10 ROUNDS At Your Grocer EAT Where Particular People UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN LEGION ♦ The first hundred years are the easiest with respect to using Ore gon’s land and other natural re sources, says E. B. McNaughton, chairman of the governor’s econ omic council. Farmers and forest ers of the future must be real hus bandmen rather than promoters and exploiters if the state is to continue prosperous, he said. Of 753,346,750 acres. in the 11 western states, slightly more than 50 per cent are devoted to range use only. Less than 14 per cent are devoted to other types of farm ing. Total income from agricul ture in these states in 1937 was $1,597,013,125 of which $555,- 889,380 came from livestock and livestock products. “RANCHO GRANDE” WITH GENE AUTRY SUNDAY, Keibel’s j distributed by definite percentage schedule among all of the land grant counties regardless of the lo cation of logging areas. With this rate of cutting, the present stand of mature timber will last for 100 years, at the end of which time the areas where timber is now being cut will again have on them a crop of mature timber ready for cutting. This plan of manage ment makes it certain that there always will be productive forests kept growing on these federal lands. Timber lands after they have been logged frequently become tax delinquent because they can produce no more saw logs for a long period of years and conse quently are considered valueless, they no longer help to support the counties but become a burden to the remaining tax payers. The federally owned O. and C. lands do not share this fate. Each acre of them continues without inter ruption to yield its annual revenue and will not become tax delin quent. Recent cut-over areas of O. and C. timber, even where over-ripe conditions may have required clear cutting, are accredited with the continuous production of rev enue. This is made possible because such areas are promptly restocked with young trees either by plant ing or otherwise. The growth of this young timber accumulates, while old timber is being used up, and eventually becomes ripe for the axe. This new growth on cut-over areas is counted on to perpet uate the allowable annual cut of 500 million feet of timber, which can be cut regularly as the total yield of the entire acreage. While recent cut-over areas of O. and C. land may temporarily have no saw timber on them, generally speaking they are actually more productive 1 st mo I (i>................... ■•(*) THERE’S MONEY Claude Tucker «• Frankie Hyde ( AVE JUNCTION — 146 POUNDS WILLIAMS — 145 POUNDS OLD TIRES Tour Set may be Worth SEMI FINALS - 4 ROUNDS WHEN vou •UY NEW TIRES FROM US Depending en alle BRING IN YOUR OLD TIRES TODAY If tbey'r« Rood mouth Io drive on thef're worth real money la as. leve HEAVY WEIGHTS Howard Yarbrough Johnny Rodenquez vs. smooth rims *st Mncmous • Ul US SMtTY-CMC* «MM I«li tOMT « Liberal on Allowance Your Old TIRES Bobby Stanfield CAVE JUNCTION — 124 POUNDS HAPPY ( AMP — 126 POUNDS He, BIRMINGHAM. ALABAMA — 146 POUNDS THE TIRE MAN Guy Brooks OREGON CAVES CCC CAMP CAVE JUNCTION Grover Gates Duckworth vs. vs. Elwood Hussey ( AVE JUNCTION — 115 POUNDS < 3 OTHER BIG BOUTS ) GENERAL ADMISSION $1.00 CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS. 25c FIGHTS START AT 9:00 P. M. MATCHMAKER AND PROMOTER — BUCK SMITH
