VERNONIA EAGLE
Our Flowing Wells
Of Wooden Wealth
The folowing address was broad­
cast from Seattle, Wash., recently,
by the publicity director of the
‘West Coast Lumber Tride Exten­
sion bureau, in the interest of
education and information to the
end that the lands of this region
which are the best suited to the
growing of tree .crops may be put
to work at the earliest posisble
moment.
Did you ever see one of those
Siwash war canoes?
It is doubtful whether any other
savage race ever built their vessels
of such enormous size and capa­
city. Think of canoes hollowed out
of a single cedar log sixty feet
long and capable of carrying fifty
or sixty people and a heavy load
of freight- It was not so much
the mechanical excellence of our
Indian navigators as it was the
fortunate presence of the colossal
red cedar tree of this coast that
gave them their pre-eminence, it
was well it was possible advantage
of the open waters, teeming with
otter and fish and providing easy
transport, inasmuch as the density
of the forests greatly restricted
their utilization of the land re­
sources of the country.
The wonderful forests of mar­
velous trees of this North Coast,
not only cedar, but douglas fir,
spruce, larch and hemlock, have
made it possible for the successors
of the Indians to enjoy an incal­
culable economic advantage. The
forests, dark and dense as they
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may be, are virtually no obsta cle
to the white man with his mech sn-
ical power and his vast equipim mt
of machinery. Collectively speaking,
men may do even with our colossal
forests as they please. '
We do not appreciate our good
fortune. It happens that, just at
the time when the nation has be­
gun to realize that its forests are,
after all, exhaustible and that for­
est depletion is already far advanc­
ed, this region still has inconceiva­
bly great reserves of standing tim­
ber of the best quality. Although
the states of Oregon and Wash­
ington have a combined area that
is less than one-fifteenth of that
of contiguous United States, they
have almost half of the remaining
saw timber of America.
We are in a position here, if
we use care and thought, to main­
tain a large volume of lumber,
paper and other forest products
output throughout an inevitable
period of relative shortage of for­
est products, taking the nation as
a whole. That means that no mat­
ter how discouraging the present
over-production situation may be
to our lumbermen, the future is
bound to smile on them. It means,
too, the ultimate shifting of the
pulp and paper industry from the
Northeast to the Northwest. The
appreciation of the necessity of a
policy of continuously productive
forests did not come to the nation
until most of tbe other forested
regions had witnessed the near or
complete removal of the original
forest^. These regions m.ist now,
to a large extent, begin at the
beginning. They must resort to ar­
tificial planting; or wait, with little
forest yield meanwhile, for the nat­
ural second growth to reach n stage
of maturity. Before them there are
long years of expense without in­
come and hope deferred. With us
the realization of the nation’s for­
est situation has come while we
are still in the full tide of pro­
duction from the primeval forests.
So extensive are these forests, and
so mature, that there is no reason
why we should not continue indef­
initely producing lumber and other
forest materials at about the same
rate as now, provided we are fore­
handed enough to look ahead io
that far time when the last of
the great stands of timber provid­
ed by nature shall have fulfilled
their destiny. It would be easily
possible for an all-powerful dicta­
tor in possession of these states
so to arrange that they should he
always producing forest good on an
enormous scale, without ever ap­
proaching forest exhaustation. It re­
mains to be seen whether our de-
morcracy can even approximate in
this field the intelligence and ef­
ficiency of a dictatorship.
Timber is industrially unique in
at least one respect. It is the one
great natural resource which may­
be forever used without exhaus­
tion. It is a curious fact that
some of the industries that use
exhaustible mineral resources are
today urging the public to use
their products as a means of con­
serving the forests. Sound public
policy advice would run just to
the contrary. The people would be
advised to be especially provident
and cautious in the consumption
of non-renewable mineral resources;
and to use timber as freely as
the capacity of the forests will
permit, so that the burden will fall
upon the renewable, instead of the
non-renewable, resources. It, there­
fore, becomes obivious that a prime
factor in promoting, through pri­
vate ownership, that wise fore-hand­
edness that a dictator might exer­
cise is that there shall be no un­
necessary curtailment of the con­
sumption of forest goods.
The situation, it is true, would
be different if the nation and the
state were to take over the entire’
burden of raising the new forests,
stepping into the place of nature,
as it were, and seeing that future
generations shall be provided with
timber for their buildings and man­
ufacturing industries, just as this
and preceding generations were so
supplied by nature. In the present
state of the public mind, there is
slight reason to believe that legis­
latures and congress can be count­
ed upon to acquire public forests
covering practically the whole of
the remaining forest land area in
the United States; that is to say
470 to 500 million acres. The pub­
lic forests with their present acre­
age cannot be relied upon, even
in the remote future, to suppiy
us with more than a third of our
timber needs. The deathless state
can easily afford to raise timber
without immediate, if any, profit
but is axiomatic that private in­
dustries must profit or perish; con­
sequently, a brisk demand at good
prices is an indispensable condition
of intensive reforestation aryl con­
tinuous forestry on the four-fifths
of our forest land area that be­
longs to private owners, commercial
timber companies, and farmers.
Imagine, if you can. that the
people of California had an oppor­
tunity, by using some thought and
effort, to make their gold mines
inexhaustible, with the gold spon­
taneously replaceable. Just think of
a gold mine where gold grows. We
have the equivalent of it in our
great forests which are as good
us gold, or will be, and that to­
day grow so fast that with care
they can be mined forever and yet
never be exhausted.
So far as anyone can look into the
future and make any definite state­
ment it is certain that timber is
the one crop that can never here­
after be over-produced in this coun­
try. Much of our timber scands on
land that it is not physically poss­
ible to use for agricultural pur­
poses and, if it were, would pro­
bably never produce as good a rev­
enue as the future has in store
for timber.
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With us, not as it has been with
other regions of America, the forest
industries need never cease or even
dwindle. The .forests are such a
commonplace to our people that
they do not appreciate What a
blessing they are and how great
áre their possibilities. Although we
enjoy the exceptional situation that
has been described and have In our
grasp the equivalent of perpetual
gold mines of unequalled richness,
our people are not willing to adopt
public measures that will promote
the continuation of our happy sit­
uation. Neglect of that sort will
simply delay our coming into the
full enjoyment of our unique econ­
omic position. However, it epn
only postpone it for the day will
come, though the sooner, the better,
when all of our forest land in
this natural tree-growing country
of the northwest will be producing
timber as fast as it is consumed,
thus insuring to our posterity a
steady flow of profitable income,
the employment of hundreds of
thousands of persons in product­
ive industry, and the replacement
of the burned cut-over lands of
our time with a forest cover that
will always clothe the earth in a
protecting mantle of grateful green
and yet be endlessly yielding its
indispensable material for our bene­
fit.
The Siwash made and p.-.d lied
his own canoe. Nothing wil more
certainly contribute to maintaining
the white man of this Coast in the
enviable condition of paddling h.s
own canoe with calm assurance of
well being than the maintenance
of the productivity of opr forests.
We need not worry over the utili­
zation of the old, ripe forests.
Our concern should be to see that
as they go others shall grow.
NOTICE OF CALL OF BONDS
Notice is hereby given to the
holders of the following bonds of
the City of Vernonia, Columbia
County Oregon;
Bonds No. 6 and 7 of sewer im­
provement bonds, dated January 1,
1925, said bonds being in denomin­
ation of $500 each.; All of the
above bonds being redeemable at
the option of said city on Jan., 1,
1926. That pursuant to said option,
said bonds will be redeemed within
30 days from the date of this no­
tice, to-wit: On the First day of
July 1927, upon presentation to
the fiscal agency of Oregon, in
New York City, to-wit» The na­
tional Park Bank.
In case the holders of said bonds
fail to present same at the time
and place mentioned herein for
the redemption thereof, then the
interest thereon shall cease and
the agency aforesaid will thereaf­
ter pay only the amount of such
bond and the interest accrued
thereon UP to the said first day
of July 1927.
Dated at Vernonia, Oregon on
this 1st day of June 1927.
J. C. Lindley, Treasurer
City of Vernonia, Ore.
Annual
School
the 2nd day of July, 1927“, said
date being more than six weeks
after the date of the first publi­
cation of his summons herein; and
if you fail to appear and answer
or otherwise plead to plaintiff’s
said complaint, for want thereof
the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief prayed for in
her complaint, to-wit, for a decree
forever dissolving the bonds of t
matrimony now existing between
plaintiff and defendant; requiring
defendant to pay all necessary suit
money and costs in this proceed­
ing ,and for such other and further
relief as to the Court may seem
equitable and proper:
This summons is served upon you
by publication for six consecutive
weeks in The Vernonia Eagle, in
pursuance of an order of Honorable
J. A. Eakin, Judge of the Court
for Columbia County, Oregon, made
and entered on the 18th day of May,
1927.
Date of first publication Thurs­
day, May 19, 1927. Date of last
publication Thursday, June 30, 1927.i
DILLARD & DILLARD, Attorneys
for plaintiff.
Residence and Post office ad­
dress, St. Helens, Oregon.
This summons is served upon you
by publication for six consecutive
weeks in the Vernonia Eagle, in
pursuant of an order of Hon. John
Philip, Judge of the County Court,
of Columbia County,. Oregon, made
and entered on the 31st day of
May, 1927, in the absence of Cir-
THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
THE STATE OF OR ECON
FOR THE COUNTY OF
COLUMBIA
JESSIE EDITH CAUGHRON,
Plaintiff.
SUMMONS
vs
FRED CAUGHRON,
Defendant.
To Fred Caughron, the above
named defendant:
In the name of the State of Ore­
gon: Yon are hereby required to
appear and answer the complaint
filed against you in the above en­
titled suit on or before Saturday
cuit Judge of said county.
Lester Sheeley,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Residence and postoffice address,
Vernonia, Oregon.
Date of first publication June
2nd, 1927. Date of last publication
14th day of July, 1927.
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SUMMONS
In the Circuit Court for the State
of Oregon for the County of
j
Columbia
Katarzyna Jablonski,
Plaintiff,
vs
Adam Jablonski,
Defendant,
To Adam Jablonski, above named
defendant:
In the name of the State of Ore­
gon, you are hereby required to
appear and answer the complaint
filetT against you in the above suit
on or before six weeks from the
date of the first publication of
this summons, to wit, six weeks
from June 2, 1927, and if you fail
to so appear and answer said com­
plaint, for want thereof the plain­
tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in plaintiff’s com­
plaint to wit:
For a decree of absolute divorce
dissolving the bonds of matrimony
heretofore existing between plaintiff
and defendent, awarding plaintiff
all of the real property owned by |
plaintiff and defendant in Wash­
ington county, Oregon, for the sum
of Nine-Hundred and Seventy-five
dollars, and for such other and
further relief as to the court may (
seem meet and equitable.
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Notice is hereby given to the
legal voters of school district No.
47 of Columbia County, State of
Oregon, that a special school meet­
ing of said district will be held
at Washington Schoo), on the 20th
day of June 1927, at 2 o’clock in
the afternoon, for the following
objects: To elect a board member
for 3 year term and a clerk for
1 year.
Dated this 1st day of June, 1927.
ATTEST: Lillian Brown, District
Clerk. O. S. Poynter, Chairman
Board of Directors.
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