THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MBD.lKmi,, OREGON, MONDAY, DKCMMHUR (i, UK)!).
CARE 0N1ESTS
Little County Recognizes Need of
, Forest Protection and Handle
It in a Practical
: Way.
Switzerland recognized the benc
f Us of forest protection and devol
bnment COO years ago, when the for
est ordinance of Bern was Issued.
The Slhwald of Zurich, ono of tho
most perfectly managed and most
profitable forests In tho world, has
been handled under a working. plan
since 16S0. The little Alplno re
public still reports progress In for
est work, and the American consul,
-writing from St. Gall, says:
"Tho government of Switzerland
has so carefully regulated tho timber
output that It has never been per
mitted to exceed the natural growth.
The thick growth of timber on tho
mountain sides, purposely allowed
to become dense, has perceptibly les
sened tho danger and frequency of
avalanches and landslides, which In
former times -were so frightfully
destructive. To control the spring
floods In tho rivers and streams, mas
slvo dams, fortified by thickly plant
ed trees, have been erected at ex
posed placos. In the extraordinary
attontlon paid to Its timber lands,
tho government has taken into ac
count also the necessity for shelter
ing and pasturing cattle, the main
tenance of the soli and the roads.
"The actual forest area of Swit
zerland comprises 2.205.50S acres,
21.4S per cent of the entlro surface
of tho country. 77,004 of which be
longs to the state and 2.12S.504 to
tho cantons, communes, municipal
ities and private corporations. Seven
hundred and eighty-one acres of tho
state forest are sot asldo as a nur
sery. From this nursery in 1908
over 22,000.000 young trees were
taken and transplanted in the va
rious forests."
YOUNG BOY MEETS WITH
DEATH IN BOILING WATER
TACOMA, Wash-, Dec. 6. After
lying- in terrible agony as the result
of being pushed into a tub of scald
ing water, the 22-months' old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Alder, 192G
South O street, died at 1 o'clock last
liight. The accident happened at 10:
30 Sunduy morning, when the twin
brother of the dead child playfully
pushed the unfortunate buby into a
-washtub filled with boiling water,
which the mother was using to scrub
tho floor.
Tho child's back was terribly
scalded and cougestion of the lungs
and other, internni complications set
in soonjafter tho necitlent.
Dr." James Kelio and Dr. P. B.
Garter attended the child but were
unable to save its life. "
IN THE HOME, YES,
: BUT ELSEWHERE, TOO
Mrs. Belmont Says Woman's Work
I Isthe Uplifting of Mankind.
X
in General.
2NEW YORK, Dec. 0. In n recent
speech Mrs. Oliver IT. P. Belmont ns
Bertedjhnt the sphere- of woman is
not firmed to tho home, but that
hgr mission is a general one in tho
uplifting. of mnnkind. She said in
part: ,
"If woman merely stnvos to pro
duce a homo hygienicnlly perfect and
n race physically, perfect, he is not
meeting tho obligations of tho cen
tury. "Our political household must be
rcgonerntujl. , I am certain this can
not bo brought about except through
tho assistance and co-operation of
women."
Medford, Oregon : This certifies
tiint we have sold Hall's Texns Won
.dor for tho cure of all kidney, blad
der and rheuniatio troubles for ten
years, and hnvo nover had a com
plaint. It gives quick n'"l nnnnnent
relief. 00 days' treatment in each bot
tle. Medford Pharmacy.
THAT CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
A nlco ploco of cablnot work or
mission furniture makes an Ideal gift,
very appropriate and useful. Wo spo
ciallzo In making tho "out of tho or
dinary" pieces. In fact, anything in
tho mission furnituro or cabinet vork
linos mado to your ordor, any finish
you may dcslro. Drop In and got our
prlcos,
MISSION FURNITURE WORKS,
Shop near corner Eighth and Holly
Btroots. Phono 3302.
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Edw&rd
Whit.
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HAVE Tleluzmau's contract nil
drawn." said Newmark the next
morning, "and I think I'll go
around with you to the office."
They fouud the little German nwalt-
I ing them. Newmark Immediately took
charge of the Interview.
"I have executed here the contract
! and tho bonds secured by Mr. Orde's
! ami my shares of stock In the uew
! company." he explained.
Heluzmau reached his hands for the
papers, beaming over his glasses at
the two young men. As he read, how-
i ever, his smile vnulshed.
"Vat Is this'-" he Inquired, crlspness
111 his voice. "You tolt me." he ac
cused Orde. "dot you were not bre
pnred to break out the roll ways. You
tolt me you would egspect me to do
that for myself. Well, why do you
1 put lu this':" readlug from the paper
I In his hand:
1 "In case said railways belonging to snM
, parties of the ecoml part are not broken
1 out by the time the drive hns reached
t them, and In case on demand x!d par-
, ties of the seconu pa" " reiuso ur u
, not cxerclso due diligence In breaking out
said rollways. the said parties of the flrat
part shall themselves break out said roll
ways, and the said parties of Xhe second
pnrt do hereby agree to reimburse said
' Dartles of the flrst part at the rato of a
dollar per thousand board feet."
"That Is merely to protect ourselTes."
struck In Newmark.
"But" exploded nelnzman. his face
purpling', "a dollar a t'ousand Is ab
I surd!"
i "Of course." agreed Newmark. "Wo
expect it to be. It U intended as a
jvuu I iu juu uuu b uivu vu..
your own rullways in time."
"I vlll not stand for such foolish
ness!" pounded Hcluzman.
"Very well." said Newmark crisply,
reaching for the contract.
But Llclnzmau clung to It
"It Is absurd," be repeated In ajmlld
er tone. "See, 1 vlll strike It out." lie
dld.so with a few dashes of the pen.
"We have no Intention." stated New
mark, with decision, "of giving you
the chance to hang up our drive."
Ileinzman caught his breath.
"So that Is what you think!" he
shouted. He tore the contract in pieces
and threw it In the wastebaskct. "Get
oudt of here!" he cried.
Orde's hands twitched nervously.
"You to refuse our offer?"
"Itefuse! Yes you and your whole
rapoodlc!" yelled Helnzman.
Once In the open street Orde drew a
3ecp breath of relief.
"Whew!" said he. "That was a ter
ror! .We've gone off the wrong foot
that time." i
Newmark was amused.
Or "You don't mean to say that fooled
you! lie uiiirvuiru.
"What?" asked Orde.
"It was all rubbish, ne saw we had
spotted his little scheme, and be bad
! to retreat. It was as plain as the nose
on your face. We've KOt an enemy on
I our hands In any case and one we'll
have to look out for. ne'll try to mako
trouble on tho river. PerhapB he'll try
to block the stream by not breaking
his rollways."
The partners hunted out the little
frame building In which Johnson con
ducted his business.
"I see no use In It." said Johnson.
"I can run me own wldout help from
any man "
"Which seems to settle that!" said
Newmark to Orde after they had left.
"Now," suld Newmark as they trudg
ed back to their hotel, "this proposi
tion of Helnzman's has given mo an
idea. I'm not going to try to sell this
stock outside, but to the men who own
timber along tho river. Then they
won't bo objecting to tho tolls, for If
the company makes any proflts purt
will go to them. I'll tako theso con
tracts to show wo can do tho business,
nnd I'll see about Incorporation and
get a proper olllco and equipments. Of
course we'll have to make this our
headquarters."
"I supposo so," said Orde a llttlo
blankly. After un Instant ho laughed.
"Do you know, I hadn't thought of
I that!"
"Also." wont on Newmark calmly.
"I'll buy the supplies to tho best ad
vantage I can."
"And I?" Inquired Orde.
"Get tho booms built nnd Improve
tho river. Begin to get your crew.
You can 'start right off. We have my
money to begin on."
Orde laughed.
"My! Sho's a nlco big Job, isn't she?'
ho cried Joyously:
ON his return homo into Monday
afternoon Grandma Orde in
formed tho river boss with a
shrewd twlnklo that she want
ed him surely at home tho following
evening.
I
I
I Chapter
iverman
By
Stewart
Edward White
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"I've nskod three or four f in
young people for a !d , a. sou.
she.
"Who, mother?" ikUii! Orde
"Your crowd-tho Smith lolllnst-s
Jane Hubbard and Her." said Grand
ma Orde.
The young people straggled In at an
early hour after supper Orde stopped
Into tho hall to help them with their
wraps. He was surprised as he an
proaehed Carrol) Bishop to lift her
cloak from her shoulders to And that
the top of her daintily poised head.'
with Its soft, tine hair, came well bo
low the level of his eyes. Somehow
her poise, her slender grace of move
ment and of attitude, had lent her the
Impression of a stature she did not
possess.
"Oh, It Is so quaint nnd delightful,"
Carroll exhaled slowly, "this dear old
house with Its low ceilings and Its old
"Oh, It U 10 ijvaint and delightful."
pictures and queer, unexpected things
that tako your breath away."
"It Is one of the oldest houses In
town," said Orde. "and 1 suppose It Is
picturesque. But. you see, I was
brought up here, so I'm used to It."
"Walt until you leave It." said she.
"Then all these things will come back
to you to make your heart acho for
them."
After the company had gone Orde
stood long by the front gate looking
up Into the Infinite spaces. Somehow,
and vaguely, he felt tho night to bo
akin to her elusive spirit. Farther and
farther his soul penetrated into its
depths, and yet other depths lay be
yond, other mysteries, other ungucssed
realms. And yet its beauty was the
simplicity of space and dark and the
stars.
The next time he saw her was at
the bouse of the friend she visited.
Orde was lucky enough to And the
girls homo and alone. Jnnc made an
excuse and went out. They talked
with a considerable approach toward
intimacy. Not until nearly time to go
did Orde stumble upon the vital point
of the evening, ne had said some
thing about a plan for tho week fol
lowing. "But you forget that by that time 1
shall be gone," said she.
"Gone!" he echoed blankly. "Where V"
"nomc," said she. "Don't you re
member I nra to go Sunday morning?"
"I thought you were golngjo. stay a
month."
"I was, but I certain things came
up that made It necessary for me to
leave sooner."
"Will you write me occasionally?"
ho begged.
"As to that" sho began "I'm a very
poor correspondent. I do not make It
a custom to write to young men."
VOh!" he cried, Uplleylng himself en
lightened. "Will you answer if I write
you?"
She began gently to laugh, qulto to
herself, as though enjoying n Joke en
tirely within her own personal privi
lege. "What is your address in New
York?" demanded Orde.
Sho sank Into a chair near by with a
pretty uplifted gesture of despair.
"I surrender!" she cried, and then
sho laughed until the tears started
from her eyes. "Oh, you nro dell
clous!" she Kald at last. "Well, listen.
I live nt 12 West Ninth street. Can
you remember that?" Orde nodded.
Two days Inter Orde saw the train
carry her away,
T
HE new firm plunged busily Into
pressing activities. Ordo con
stantly Interviewed men of all
kinds riverine)), mill men, con
tractors, boat bulldert), lurdvur deal
ers, pile driver captains, bulldeiM,
wholesale grocery men, cooks, axuien,
chore boys- all a little world In Itself.
Downstream eight miles, below the
mills, and Just beyond where the draw,
bridge crossed over to Monrovia, Dilu
ent' Mcl.cod's shipyards steamed and
bt I : ,d bolted awny at two tugboats.
The spring burst Into leaf nnd Hot
tied Into summer. Orde wus constant
ly on tho move, As soon as low wa
SiiChapiex" fcfj
Lll 15. ZJ
Cost
Per
Monday , .
TuoBdny ,
WtMlnvmlay
Tliurndiiy .
l'rlilny . . .
Saturday .
tfuntlny , . .
Total . .
Our rate for cooking and heating is 5c per K. W. BL,
making the cost $1.55 per week
ROGUE RIVER ELECTRIC CO.
MEDFORD, OREGON
ter came with tutdouinmor ho departed
to Iteddlni. I lore ho Joined a crew
which Turn N i th ! .ad collected nnd
wont t tho lioiid . i tho river. Par
back on the houhv.ifcrs he built a
dam. The gate por.ind simply and
could 1 mixed tot l.-o?o nn entire
llood. And. indeed. i'.iN ris the whole
purposi. nf tho d:iiu I' rnted a res
ervoir from whirl) eou;d be freed new
supplies of water to eke out the drop
ping spring freshets.
The crow next moved down ten miles
to where the river dropiwl over a
rapids full of Iwwlders, Here were
built n row of stone tilled log cribs In
n double row downstream to define
tho channel and to hold the drive lu
It and away from tho shallows. At the
falls twenty-five miles below Orde pur
posed his most elaborate bit of rough
engineering. The falls, only about
fifteen feet high, fell straight to n bed
of sheer rock. This had been eaten by
the eddies Into potholes and crannies
until n Jagged Irregular scoop hollow
had formed Immediately underneath
the fall.
In flood time the wnter, roared
through this obstruction In a torrent.
The logs plunged end on into tho
scoop hollow, hit with a crash nnd
were spewed out below more or less
battered. Sometimes, when the drive
brought down a hundred logs together,
they failed to shoot over the barrier
of the ledge. Then followed a Jam, a
bad Jam, difficult and dangerous to
break.
This condition of affairs Orde bad
determined. If possible, to obviate.
"If." bald he to North, "we could
carry an apron on a slant from Just
under the crest nnd over the potholes
It would shoot both the water nnd the
logs off a better angle."
"Sure." agreed North, "but you'll
have fun placing your apron with all
that water running through. Why, It
would drown us!"
"I've got a notion on that," said
Orde.
Into tho forost went tho axmen.
Tho strnlshtest trees they felled,
trimmed nnd dragged down trnvoy
trails they constructed, on sleds they
built for the purpose, to the banks of
tho river. Here they bored the two
holes through either enil to receive the
bolts when later they should bo locked
together side by side In their places.
As fast as they were prepared men
with ennthooks rolled them down the
slope to a lint below the falls.
After the trees Iind been cut In suf
ficient number Orde led the way back
upstream n half mile to n shallows,
where ho commanded the construction
of n number of exaggerated snwhorites
with very widespread slanting legs,
Whon tho snwhorsoH were completed
Orde directed tho picks nnd shovels
to bo brought up.
Ordo set his men tollgglng n chan
nel through the bank. It was no slight
Job, as tho slopo down Into n swamp
began only nt n point forty or fifty feet
Inland; but, on the oilier haiiil, the
earth was soft and free from rocks
When completed tho elumnel gave pas
sage to a rather feeblo Htreamlet from
tho outer fringe of the river.
Next Orde assigned two men to each
of tho queer shaped snwhorKes nnd In
structed them to place the horses In
a row across tho shallowest part of tho
river and broadside to tho stream.
This was done, Tho men, halfway to
their knees In tho swift wnter, lre
down heavily to keep tholr charges m
place. Other men Inlil heavy plunks
side by side perpendicular to and on
the .upstream sldo of the horses. Tho
weight of tho wnter clamped them In
plno.-. Big roeks nnd gravel shoveled
on lu quantity prevented tho lower
ends from rising. Tho wide slant of
tho legs directed tho pressure ho far
downwnrd that tho horses wero pre
vented from Homing uway, and slowly
tho bulk of tho water, thus raised n
good three feet above Its former lovel,
turned aside Into tho uew channel und
pou. '.'(1 out to Inuudnto tho black ash
swamp- beyond.
A good volume- still poured down to
tho fall, but It was so fnr reduced that
work beennio posslblo.
"Now. boys!" cried Ordo. "Lively
while wo'vo got tho chancoj"
of Electricity
week for the average family for
heating and cooking
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The tuont ix f i t I.:- "ore plmod
side by side, slanting from a point two
feet below tho rliu of tho full to tho
lodge below. They wero bolted to
gether top nnd bottom through tho
four holes bored for that purpose. The
task finished, thoy pried the tlaHh
boards from the Improvised dam,
plied them neatly beyond roach of
high water, rescued tho sawhorsos nnd
piled them also for a possible future
use and blocked the temporary clinn
nel. The river, restored to Its lmmo-
' mortal channel by theso men who had
so nonchnlnntly turned It aside, roared
' on. Orde nnd his crew tramped back
to the falls anil gnzed on tholr hnudl-
work with satisfaction. Instead of
plunging over an edge Into n turmoil
of foam and eddies, now the wnter
Cowed smoothly, nlmost without n
break, over an "Incline of thirty de
grees. "Logs '11 slip over that slick as a
gun barrel." said Tom North.
Quite cheerfully they took up their
long, painstaking Journey back down
the river.
The trail led the crew through many
minor labors, all of which consumed
time. At Heed's mill Ordo entered Into
diplomatic negotiations with old man
Iteod. whom he found singularly
amenable. Tho skirmish In the spring
seemed to have tnken all the fight out
of him, or perhaps, mora simply, Orde's
attitude toward him nt that tlmo had
won htm over to tho young mnn's sldo.
Orde's crew built a new sluiceway
and gate fnr enough down to aasuro n
good head In the pond above.
In September the crew had worked
dowu as fnr as Bedding, leaving be
hind them n river harnessed for their
uses. Homnlued still tho forty miles
between Bedding nnd the lake. Ordo
here (mid off his men. A few days'
work with n pile driver would fenco
the principal shoals from the channel.
Ho stayed overnight with his par
ents nnd took the trntn for Monrovia
to meet Nowmnrk.
' "Hello, Joe!" greeted Orde. his teeth
flashing In coutrnst to the tan of his
face. "I'm done. Anything now slnco
you wrote Inst?"
Newmark had acquired his articles
of Incorporation und sold his stock.
I'erhaps his task had in It as much of
dllllculty as Orde's taming of the river.
Certainly he carried It to as successful
a conclusion, The bulk of the stock
ho sold to log owners. Some blocks
even went to Chicago. Ills own little
fort one of twenty thousand he paid lu
for the shareshat represented his half
of tho majority retained by himself
and Orde. The Intur gave a note nt
10 per cent for his proportion of tho
stock. Newmark then borrowed fif
teen thousand more, giving as security
a mortgage on the company's newly
acquired property-the tugs, booms,
buildings and reul estate. Thus was
the llunncliig determined. It left tho
company with obligations of $l.r,oo n
year lu Interest, expenses which wmld
run heavily Into tlie thousands and an
obligation to mako good outsldo stock
worth at par exactly $lt),0)0. In addi
tion Orde had charged against his ac
count a burden of S'-'.OOO n year Inter
est on his personal debt. To ofTset
those liabilities, outsldo the river Im
provements mid equipments, which
would hold 111 He or no value lu case of
failure, the linn hold contracts to tie
liver about 100.000.d00 feet of logs.
After some iIIm'-iishIou the partners de
elded to allow themselves $'r00 apiece
by way of xalary.
"The only point that Is at all risky
to me," nii Id Nowmnrk. "Is that wo
have only one season contracts. If for
any reiuoii we hang up the drive or
fr.ll to deliver promptly wo'ro going
to get loft the 'cir following, and then
It's b-u s t l'it,"
(To ho continued.)
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miiww of imilu. tliu' ioot t.po i
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CRESTBROOK ORCHARD TRACTS
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