Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-09-07 | Page 3 | Places Blame on Lumber Company

PUCES BLAME ON I LUMBEHOMPfll I PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 6. Placing upon the shoulders of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company blame -for the Har-riman Har-riman order of 1903 withdrawing 2,800,000 ncrcs of tho Oregon and Cal-ifornia Cal-ifornia grant lands from entry or sale, C. W. Eberlein. former land com-missionor com-missionor of tho Southern Pacific, in-troducod in-troducod a novel idea into the land forfeiture hearing today. Bocauso the biff lumber and timber company of the Willamotto valloy irant-od irant-od a monopoly and thought it could oo-erco oo-erco tho railway iu to soiling its timborod holdings to tho one great concorn, Eb-exloin Eb-exloin said war was declared on the Southern Pacific. One result of this struggle wbb that the Southern Paciiic concluded to withdraw all its grant lands from tho market. Eberloin also said that the records and fitlos had become badly confused and that tne withdrawal waa partly to enable the company to get these af-fairs af-fairs in shape. The San Francisco -ftte of 1906 destroyed a largo part of ail records, making it necessary. to main-tain main-tain the withdrawal for an indefinite Noreferenoe was made by the for-mer for-mer land commissioner to the alleged. declaration of E. H. Harrimnn that he would keep these grant lands preat -woodyard for tho entire Ham-man Ham-man system.