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Show TESTIMONY GIVEN J IN SPRUCE HEARING PORTLAND, Ore., Rent. 9. Testimony to fhoiv that spruce produced under the administration of Brice P. Dlsque, head of the aircraft spruce production corporation, corpora-tion, ln the Yaqulna Bay district of Oregon Ore-gon coat J1O00 per thous.nnd feet, exclusive of the expenditures mado ln the district for rallroadH and mills, was Riven before the congressional subcommittee here today to-day by A. Welch, a tlmherman. Including Includ-ing these expenditures, the cewt per thousand thou-sand feet would be $5000, he declared. Other testimony brought out was to the effect that the Warren Spruce company conducted negotiations for tho acquirement acquire-ment of the rslodgelt tract of timber in Lincoln county previous to the construction construc-tion of a railroad to It, and that an official of the company had threatened the Blod-gctt Blod-gctt agent that unless the tract was sold, Lisiiuf., who held a rank of brigadier general gen-eral in the orrny, would commandeer it. |