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About Klamath republican. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1896-1914 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1910)
f ■ ■I . . ■ there are many settlers who hare ised undor this regulation has been entry 3,830,000 acres of suppoaod oil subject. The people should be shown structed for that amount of moony land in California; about 1,500,000 exactly whnt Is needed in order that They say that from Deeenil>«r 18, been led Into taking up lands with 3408. The question which remains to be acres in Louisiana, of which only they make their repreaentativea In 1909, to August IS. 1910. Ito car* the hope and understanding ot haring water furnished In a short time, who considered is whether the existing ' 6,500 were known to b« vacant un congress and the atate legislature do of livestock and 11 can of grain worn shipped from that point and during are left In a most distressing situa law for tho sal« of «oft coal In tho appropriated land; 75.000 acres In their Inteillgent bidding. th* coming fall and wintar any that tion. I recommended to congress ground should continu« In force or Oregon and 174.000 acre« in Wyom 300 earn morn will bo aent out. Fur that authority be given to the secre be re pea I <>«! and a new method ot dis ing. making a total of "enriv 4.000 ■ NTATK GKTN g»17,IHM» Under the pres 000 acres. tary of the interior to issue bonds in position adopted. FIIOM BALDWIN KNTATTK ther, they any that the people of Mor The needed oil and gas law is ea- rill ar i desirous of seeing a depot and anticipation ot the assured earnings ent law the absolute title In the coal OON8KRVATION AN ISSI K OF NA by the projects, no that the projects beneath tho surface passe« to the sentlally a leasing law. In their nat LOH ANGKl.KH. Hept. 3.— Follow frelglw house at Midland, aa thay worthy and feasible might be prompt grantee of tho government. The price ural occurrence, oil and gas cannot ing the completion of the appraisal claim it la fivu mils« nearer to haul TIONAL IMPORTANO« ly completed, and the settlers might fixed Is upon an estimated amount of be measured In terms of acre«, like ot the ostato of Kila» J. (Lucky* from Morrill to Midland than to be relieved from their present Incon the tons of coal per acre beneath the coal, and It follows that exclusive Baldwin, it la announced that the Klamath Falla, and that th« roada are venience and hardship. In authoris surface, and tho price« ar« fixed so ¡title to these products can normally stato will rocolvo from It the greatest much bettar. ing the issue of these bonds congress that the earnings will only be a rea b« secured only sfter they reach tho Inheritance tax over paid Into the limited the application of their pro- I , sonable profit upon the amount paid surface. Oil should bo disposed of am treasury. The report of James II coeds to those projects which a board tn and the investment necessary. But. a commodity In terms of barrels ot Faulkner, apodal appraiser, has been (J Kit MAN (X>l>NT IN T9IROWN President Outline« His INHicy Re of army engineers to be appointed by of course this is more or !<«•• guess transportable product rather than tn FROM IIOKNK AND KILIJCD died In tho probate court, and allows specting Public Itomela—Should This la. of t1«- «state to consist fit R114M the president should examine and de work. and the government parts with acres of real estate. termine to be feasible and worthy of the ownership of the coal in the course, the reason for the practically 3 it 41 In real uetate and 3349,343.73 U m I Ilia Money After hr rarer Here Retqicct Power of State« universal adoption of tho leasing sys in personal property completion. The board has been ap ground. »nd Worked aa a Model tn a If tho government lease« the coal' tem wherever oil land Is in private pointed and soon will make its re Clothing Htoer After deducting from this 34,138,- ST. PAUL. Sept. 5.—In an address port. The government thus 373.41. which Is the amount of mort lands and acts as any landlord would, ownership. before the National Conservation -------------- not ----------------- be entering - --------------- on an expert r... gage on the property, tho total value Suggestions have been made that and imposes conditions In Its lease would I.OH ANGKl.KH. Sept 3.—Count congress now in session in St. Paul. the United States ought to aid in t‘ ' like those which are now imposed by , ment. but simply putting into effect a of tho («state Is 37.350.038.38. August Hchoffelaky da Mukadnl do Minn.. President Taft yesterday dis drainage of swamp lands belonging tho ownors In fee of coal mines in the ' plan successfully operated In private Judge Rives has ordered the ex ('aatelane Seymour of Germany wax cussed at length the public domain of to the states or private owners, be various coal regions of the Hast, then contracts. Why should not the gov ecutor of the ostate. II. A. Unruh, to thrown from a homo horv thia morn tl»c United States, going into the vari cause. if drainad. they would be ex it would retain over the disposition ernment as a land owner deal directly pay tho stato 3347.000 Inheritance ing and hie ahull waa fractured. He ous phases of the question exten ceedingly valuable for agriculture of the coal deposits a choice as to the with the oil producer rather than tax. which la said to be the largeat tax will die. Ila camo to America some sively. His address in part follows and contribute to the general welfare I assignee of the lease, a power of re through the intervention of a middle of the kind by 3100 000 ever paid in time ago. and loot all bln money. It« Gentlemen of the National Conser bv extending the area of cultivation. suming possession at the end of the man to whom the government gives California. then worked aa a model, displaying vatfon Congress—Conservation as an I deprecate the agitation in favor of term of lease, which might easily be title to the land? men's clothes In a retail oatabllah- economic and political term has come such legislation. It is Inviting the i framed to enable it to exercise a llm , Tbo principal foaturo of such letto- MIDLAND PKOFLK OIUKIT ment hero. * to mean the preservation of our general government into contribution : ited but -effective control in the dis- ' latlon should be tbe exorcise of beno- TO THK H. I*. DKIN XT natural resources for economical use from its treasury toward enterprises ' position and sale of the coal to the ficla! control rather than tho collec so as to secure the greatest good to that should be conducted either by : public. It has been urged that the tion of revenue. Tell the Htste Railroad Commisaion the greatest number. Todsy we de private capital or at the instance of I leasing system has never been adopt- j I*ho«|>hate laind. That the H4IO Hhml and llst- sire to restrict and retain under pub the state. In these days there is a ed in this country, and that Its adop- i fonm Will Not Do Phosphorus la on«, of the three es lic control the acquisition and use by disposition to look too much to the tion would largely interfere with the 1 sentials to plant growth, tho other the capitalists of our natural re federal government for everything I investment of capital and the proper ciomenta being nitrogen and potash. HALKM, Hept. I.-—People of Mid- sources. For an up-to-date wheel, get I am liberal in the construction of development and opening up of the Of these three, phosphorus Is by all land, on the Southern Pacific, have The danger to the state and to the the constitution with reference to coal resources. I venture to differ a Rambler, on sale at the GUN odds the 'scarcest element In nature. protested to the state railroad com people at large from the waste and federal power; but I am firmly con I entirely from this view. My inves STORK. For sale or rent. It la easily evtracted In useful form mission to the railroad's plan tn dissipation of our national wealth vinced that the only safe course for tigations show that many owners of Tents to rent. Guns. Wo carry from the phosphate rock, and tho erect a platform and shed at that is not one which quickly impresses us to pursue is to hold fast to the mining property of this country do a full lino of Sporting Goods. United States contains tho greatest point tor depot purposes, stating they itself on the people of the older com limitations of the constitution and to not mine it themselves, and do not in- known deposits of this rock In tho desire facilities at least as good aa munities, because its most obvious regard as sacred the powers of tho ve8t their money In the plants neces world. thoae located at Dorris. instances do not occur in their neigh states. sary for the mining; but they lease The Southern Pacific agreed to con During thia administration there I their properties for a term of years THE GUN STORE borhood, while in the newer part of lias been withdrawn and classified struct at a cost of 3410 a shed and Mineral IxuttLs the country the sympathy with expan | varying from twenty to thirty and 437 000 acres, so that today there platform, but Midland people state J. It. t'HAMllKIUI sion and development is so strong By mineral lands I mean those forty years, under conditions requir Is classified as phosphate-rock land that nothing respectable may bo con- that the danger is scoffed at or ig lands bearing metals, or what are ing the erection of a proper plant and 3,115,00 acres. This rock Is most I nored. Among scientific men and called metalliferous minerals. The the investment of a certain amount important In tbo composition of fer thoughtful observers, however, the rules of ownership and disposition of of money in tbe development of tbe tilizers to improv« the soil, and aa danger has always been present; but these lands were first fixed by cus mines, and fixing a rental and a royal the future Is c«rt«,-i * —«e’e an it needed some one to bring home the tom in the West, and then were em ty. sometimes an absolute figure and enormous dem.-»* ^roffgfiont this crying need for a remedy of this evil bodied In the law, and they have sometimes one proportioned to tbe country for fertilization, the value of so as to impress itself on the public worked, on the whole, so fairly well market value of the coal. Undor this the public of such deposits as these mind and lead to the formation of that I do not think It wise now to at latter method tho owner of the mino can hardly be exaggerated. Certain public opinion and action by repre- tempt to change or better them. The shares in the prosperity ot his lessees ly with respect to these deposits a s<”'tat'ves of the people. Theodore apex theory of tracing title to a lode when coal la high and the profits .X choice Hai«? 4>f Invente careful policy of conservation should Roosevelt took up this task in the has led to much litigation and dis good, and also shares to some extent be followed. Half of tbe phosphate nientM tlnit laiailct? last two years of bis second admin pute. and ought not to have become In their disappointment when the of the rock that 1« mined in private t he pnrelniMer a>b<»n«d^r istration, and well did he perform it. the law. but ft is so fixed and under price of coal taila. z fields In the United State« Is export t At president of the United States stood now that the benefit to be I have looked with some care into ed. As our farming methods grow I have, as It were, inherited this pol- rained by a change is altogether out a report made at the Instance of better the demand for tbe phosphate lev, and I rejoice in my heritage. I weighed bv the inconvenience that President Roosevelt upon tbe disposi will become greater, and It must be prize my high opportunity to do all would attend the Introduction of a tion of coal lands In Australia, Tas arranged so that the supply shall that an executive can do to help a new system. So. too the proposal mania and New Zealand. These are equal tbe needa of the country. great people realize a great national for the government to lease such min peculiarly mining countrlea. and their A law that would provide a leav amb'tlon. For conservation is na eral lands and deposits and to Impose experience ought to be the most val ing avstem for the phospi ate depos tional. It affects every man of us, rovaltles might have been in the be uable. In all tbese countries the its. together with a provision for tbe every woman, every child. What I ginning a good thing, but now that method for the disposition and open separation of the surface an* m'n* can do in the cause I shall do, not as rdbst of the mineral land has been ing of coal mines originally owned by eral rights as is elrea<^ r rovfded for president of a party but as president otherwise disposed of It would be the governmeqt is by granting lease in tbe case of coal, would seem tn of the whole people. Conservation bardiv worth while to assume the em hold, and not by granting an absolute meet tbe need of promoting tbe de is not a question of politics or of fac barrassment of a radical change. title. The terms of the leases run all velopment of tbese deposits and their tions. or of persons. It is a question tbe way from twenty to fifty years, i utilization In the agricultural land« A that affects the vital welfare of all of while tbe amount of land which may I ' of the West. If It 14 thought desir 9 us—of our children and our chil Nothing can be more Important In be leased to any Individual there Is able to dlacourage tie exportation of t dren’s children. the matter of conservation than the from 320 acre« to 2,000 acres. It phosphate rock and the saving of it t I shall divide my discussion under treatment of our forest lands. This appears that a full examination was for our own lands, this purpose could t t the heads of (1) agricultural lands; was recognized by congress by an act made and tbe opinions of sll the lead be accomplished by conditions In the f (!) mineral lands—that is. land con- authorizing the executive to reserve ing experts on the subject were solic lease granted by the government to 9 ta'nlng metalliferous minerals; (3) from entry and set aside public tim ited and given, and that with one ac ita lessees. f forest lands; (4) coal lands; (5) oil ber lands as national forests. Speak cord they approved In all resp-cts the t Water Power Hites and gas lands; and (4) phosphate ing generally, there has been re leasing system. Its success Is abun t The subject is one that calls for ■ t lands. served of the existing forests about dantly shown. It Is possible t^at at MRS. M. McMILLAN, Prop’r. I feel that it will conduce to a bet 70 per cent of all the timber lands of first considerable latitude will have new legislation. It has been thought 0- ter understanding of the problems the government. to be given to the executive In draft that there was danger of combination J Moderi« presented if I take up each class. We have, excluding Alaska forests, ing tbese forms of lease, but as soon to obtain possession of all the power A >HRI|)I> a total of about 144,000,000 acres of as experiment shall show which is the sites and to unite them under on»* I Agricultural Landa F I'oofii»» There is no crying need for radical forests belonging to the government most workable and practicable Its control, What ever the evidence of this, or lack of It. at present we have reform in the methods of disposing of which is being treated in accord with use should be provided for specific*!!« > SPECIAL RESORT FOR TOURISTS % a had enough experience to know that Î what are really agricultural lands. the principles of scientific forestry, by statute. The change from the absolute combination would be profitable, and The present laws have worked well. The law now prohibits the reserra- The enlarged homestead law has en t'on of any more forest lands in Ore- grant to the leasing system w'll in the control of a great number of couraged the successful farming vf gon. Washington. Idaho. Montana, volve a good deal of trouble tn the power sltea would enable the holders IMUC'ITOWa Colorado and Wyoming except by act outset, and the training of experta In or owners to raise the price of power lands in tbe semi-arid regions. •rd diet. It I IO at win within certain sections: and of congress. I am Informed by the WFMB !■ V WMli ■ r the matter of making proper leases; r ambit« Then conservation of agricultural Mmnle Mroal M »4el ••fVfil n;'fF' ‘ - ’ <_hl «««Ata » * * bT M Our >1*44« A/« itn*in< r.yim Is»! Mr*/# lands Is shown in the reclamation of department of agriculture that the but the change w'U be a good one and the temptation would promptly at ------ui ow f NO MONK! ILEQITI ¡KRúlA y.*u mH** ag 4 . jpi'rove -q -n»ve «< «4 y «Mir I r-x- until — '-------- — arid lands by irrigation, and I should government owns other tracts of tim can be made. The change is In the tract Inveatora and the danger of to anyon», an/whrr« in the ___________ ___ _ ... , advGfi .3 ndvADa «./r. IV. »S td/MWdrrw/^.^ >• •l uw ir.M i>AYM* » KIIEE a.r.a» THIAL a «»«/»a. U'nnkj «imh wngn time -unr >«»u n nuyrii iy devote a few words to what the gov ber lands In these states which should interest of conservation, and I am monopoiv would not be a remote one. it it t» «ny trai m widl. Il yoq «rw thrf. noi perir» tly mux A w I « r *»«•«» IO However this may be. it 1« the dtp ihu t«cyc*« RMh k lo ma at our ( i . wah otuiyo* oo- t W. ernment has done and is doing in be Included in the forest reserves. I glad to approve it. FAfITORV PRICF1 ”* ,ur»'*h .»'• h.(ha«i *»*•<« h u I pi««« ide u> nuke plain duty of the government to see t MVIVRI iRiVLw gt — un« firn probi abov« ab«»vfi actual a<tiul fuu-ry Uet'-ry tv — ili II profit X -.»*• t expect to recommend to congress that this regard. Alaska Co«! I«ndx *- *J------- profili by by buyir~ * direct H un a»«d have tho tu.cxdx furor • ru.»r- Io - mMillemeo • profits huj-tnc to <t that in the utilization and de Mcycl«. IMA •otse U .d your buycle. IH> fa NOT |t<; Ï a buycla m a p. o <4 tire. t. m .«ar the limitation herein Imposed shall Reclamation The Investigations of the geological velopment of all thia Immense' st oojr Mgo until you roreivo our couhwue» and loam ou# laniMMrd • t / a«/#ry be repealed. /rtett and r/MMrSod/r 9j7tr» to rtomr a*mta. survey show that the coal properties amount of water power, conditions' By the reclamation act a fund has YOU WILL RF Ml ASTÛRItMFB whr.n rnu - ai..i In the present forest reserves there WILL DK UN lentil Mudy our »«pwfb m-wkla at the tout t. ...»/««/> tn Alaska cover about 1 200 square shall be Imposed that will prevent | Ztrrw/race/wer»o make you tJJ« year. We «ell the hi*heat gr*k bk’t le» |..r ra.«.- ncy been created of the proceeds of the are lands which are not properly for llun any o’h*r factory. We are 84ti3i>ed ut<h |t <#> proni a «.ve U> i»»r t«<aL public lands of the United States est land and which ougvt to be sub miles, and that there are knewn to monopoly, and will prevent extor-1 IlK'YCl.E DI. ALEIIN, you can sell our bkyilva uixlar your t un. pute «I doubl« our pneea. Ordere filled the «’ay received. with which to construct works for ject to homestead entry. This has be available about 15,000,000,000 tfonat# charge«, which are the accom-1 FICCO ND HANI) Dit V< I.H.M. We d<> tu.t rr<u1arly handle fiemn.l * ---------------- ' ufiUAlly lave a t^mlwr cm ban ! - a-n .» • x panfment of monopoly. storing great bodies of water at caused some local Irritation. We are tone. promptly at prtcee ran<tn< from S3 to Oil or 010. brsrnptive I trip. g hate ta« «d |r- - In my judgment It is essential In --------------------- .-» wheels. Impaartm«! roller r|» .f... t p. daU, p.n., i ..r« a.d proper altitudes, from which, by a carefully eliminating such lands from It Is contended that through Its C0ASTEI4RAKES, aquipmrat <4 «II Linda at al hoif kai/ tho Ma Maa/ ntail av. ---------- ----------------------- il «inda ar. the proper development of Alaaka suitable system of canals and ditches, forest reserves or where their elimi mere proprietary right In th« site, the water is to be distributed over nation Is not practicable, listing them that tbese coal lands should be open the central government ha« no power i the arid and subarid lands of the for entry under the forest homestead ed, and that the Pacific elope should to attempt to exercise police juris id OAMPLE PAIR gS > TOIHntODUO£fOHl.T government to be sold to settlers at a act. Congress ought to trust the ex be given tbe benefit of tbe compara diction with reference to how the Tho regular rrtail grtro of t^oto tfoot ft ¿Jfi£S> price sufficient to pay for the Im ecutive to use the power of reperva- tively cheap coal of fine quality which water power in a river owned and for joir, bnt to introdmo Wf will «1 fuL —----- provements. Primarily, the projects tlon only with respect to land cov can be furnished at a reasonable pries controlled by tb« state shall be used, —JI__ W from these fields; but the publie, are and must be for the improvement ered by timber or which will be use snd that It is a violation of the state's 10 MOtETROIBLE FROM PUNCTIRES IJ through the government, ought cer rights, I question the vslldity Of thia MAIL*. Tsek. or Ola«« will not Int th« of public lands. Incidentally, where ful in the plan of reforestation. A . air out. Slaty thousand pair* sol<l last year. tainly to retain a wise control and objection, __ The government may Im- Over two hundred thouaand pairs now in ua<. private land Is also within the reach Coal Lands I Interest in these coal deposits, and I pose any conditions that It chooses I OrROUfFnOIVf Msdeinallfiixea It I a lively MKn| of the water supply, the furnishing • nd easy r td i ng ver v d u t a ble a nd 11 net! i naide w I th think it may do ao safely If congress The next subject, and one most im- at cost or profit of this water to pri In its lease of Its own property, even a special quality or rubber, which never bo?conics which cloaea up smsll punctures without allow vate owners by the government Is portant for our consideration, is tbe will autboris« the granting of leases, though It may have the same pur poeouaana IXofle« tho thlok »ro.'l ing the air to eacape. We have hundreds of fetters from Mtla> ••A’* and puuetur. wlr.p« ••It’* held by the Federal Court of Ap disposition of the coal lands in the as already suggested for government pose, and In effect aceompllsh just AedcuMomersstating that their tirethaveotily been pumped and "I.,” nlw rl.n «tri,» ••I!" a ponce or twice in a whole season. They weigh nomorethan coal lands In the United States, with what the state would accomplish by to prvtonl rim nutting. Till« peals not to be a uaurpation of power. United States and In Alaska. an ordinary tire, the puncture refiiatingquahttes beinggiven tlr. will .Hitlnut nnr other by aeveral layera or thin, aperially prepared fabric on the Under the laws providing for the provisions forbidding the transfer of the exercise of its sovereignty. But certainly this ought not to be wt.t. norr. r.LXxfK aud tread. The regular price of three t ireak pi yo per pair,bu‘ f jf the leases except with the consent of Illi IllltINU. done except from surplus water, not disposition of coal lands, the min I beg of you, therefore. In your ad vert I ting purposes weare making a special factory pr let to the rider of only ¿4 Ko per pair. All orders ahipped i Mtne.liy letter 1« rrrr(v«1. We »hip C. o n ml .. the government, thus preventing their needed for government land. imum price at which lands are per deliberations and in your informal approval. You do not pay a • cent until u *“ you ----- *-------------- h«v« examined and found lltt m atrlclly •« ret.rr wia.-d. We will allow a raah <11 I«m>unt soon nt ot a per centIIhereby making th* prne e-t.M p r p«e if you The total sum already accumulated mitted to be sold Is 310 an acre; but acquisition by a combination or mo discussions, when men come forward i send Il OtlDKil OIIOt.ll and «nd «nclo«* You rwn no rl-lu nLL C'AAII WITH enclose tin« thia «dvertiarmrnt. advertisement. You rw no ri-k (n H in the reclamation fund Is 340.273 - the secretary of the Interior has the nopoly and upon limitations aa to the to suggest evils that the promotion •ending u. an order aa th. tlr.a may be mturnrd at (ft tl cifu-»«* If for any r. aaon they «ri not aatlafaclory on eaaminatlon. We are perfectly reliable mid tnoney «ent to u« H «« mu - In * 258.22, and of that all but power to fix a maximum price and to area to be included In any one lease of conservation Is to remedy that bank. It you order a pair «•! thee* Urea, you will find that they will rid* eualer. rim faelir, to one Individual and at a certain «rear better, law longer and look finer than any tlr* von hare ever uwd or •• •i at any pri< e We 956.34 has been expended. It be sell at that price. Under the new reg you Invite them to point out the spe know that you will b* ao well ple«*ed that when ymi want a bicycle ymt will uh yum vnl«r. came very clear to congress at its last ulations, adopted April 10, 1003, the moderate rental, with royalties upon cific evils and the specific remedies; We want you to «end u»a trial order at once, h-nce th I* remarkabf« tire offer. *»• V/kfff TTiDF^ <lon't buy nnv kind m any prkt until wit»» ml fwa link of the coal mined proportioned to the session, from the statements made by maximum price was Increased to 3300 that you Invite them to come down to •• * "XZ aVKKSw s Tfedgci'u.rn 1’unctnre-l‘rtxif tire« on npprov. I a id ii'nl at apecUl Introductory price quoted above; or write for our the Tire and Mun-I » LaUl-igae u lik II exports, that these projects could not except in regions where there are market value of the coal either at details In order that their discuseions the dewribea and quote« all nuke, anil kind«of tire» nt nhotit hall the unuil prkr- AMBV lAfAlT b»it write na a poa-nl lotl.y, Ifk NO r TH I N k <»r It I'd t Ml u ’ 'de be promptly completed with the bal large mines, where no maximum limit Seattle or San Francisco. may flow into channels that shall be CZ4Z fw«Z« Ww^e. or a pair of lire« from nn*.one until y<>u know the »> w a ul t.< ierlul Oil awl Gao Lands ance remaining on hand or with is fixed and the price is determined useful rather than Into periods that afiera wc arc making. It only coal« a poatal Io I -aiu everything. Wiueit NOW. funds likely to accrue in tbo near by the estimated tone of coal to the la the last administration there shall be eloquent and entertaining, future. It waa found, moreover, that acre. The highest price fixed for any were withdrawn from agricultural without ahedding reel light on the GOVERNMENT BICYCLE S M ASON & S l OU G H ABSTRACTERS I a nd s Ranches City Property Farm Mortgages MASON 4 SLOUGH Lakeside Inn, I *4 50 HEDGETHOIH HEDGETHORH PHH PUNCTURE-PROOF ‘a 80 ‘<>50 X SELF-HEALING TIDES J. L MEM CYCLE COMPAHY, CHICAGO, ILL