| Show A VA GE IN I VALUES OF TIMBER Increase sQ s of the Acreage of Na National National National Forest Reserves Made the Pretext Pretext I WHAT JAMES J HILL SAYS One Omie Acre cre Gives Same eight s Wheat Harvest t Sup Supplies plies lilies lIles In lii II years Special to the tho tl News Portland Or Aug AuG 19 Increasing Aln the acreage of ot tho the national forests more i familiarly known as al the tho forest re ro reserves reserves serves us tam a Well 1 na If adding to tho to number of ot forest rangers Is claimed by the tho UI friends of ot the Roosevelt lt administration to bu be responsible to a largo large 11 extent extant for tor torto forthe the tho to absence of ot forest In lit this state Others Oters contend that we wo have havo hao had ha more rain iala rn than usual and nd still come SOlO of ot the tho old timers say sa that there thero have been bean summers In tho the past when the forest fOlt tire fe was WIS unknown Be Dc It may ma citizens o ot of Port Portland Por Portland land have ha vo not forgotten the tho remark o oHenry oHenry Henry Henr Ward Beecher when Interviewed by a a reporter us liS to tho the country and Its Is scenery ho h said ald 1 I might as 10 well wol haw hav been In a mall mail sack eack for tor all al I saw sw and there havo boon many man occasions during durIn August Augst when tho he smoke from tho the In Innumerable innumerable numerable forest fires Ires hid hiti the Ule scenery and amI almost obscured the sky sk Tho Tue Increased ale value of timber Imbor Is te hav having h ing much to do with tho the care caro the for tor forests eats ests are receiving r timid and Ild the tho private hold holders holc ers era nrc lra guarding their great store storo of at wealth von ven more moore zealously than tho ho government ENORMOUS E ADVANCE The Tho advance IdAle In to II time tho values of ot timber during tho ho last lat throe three years l Is in so enor enol enormous enormous as lS to be lm almost unbelievable There Them are oro billions of ot feet teet of stand ing timber In Oregon Olegon alone anti and count countIng cOUlt counting Ing the advance at only 5 per thou thousand thousand sand Band feet feat teet and In many kinds of ot lum lumn ber her It has been five lve times that the Increased value alue would bo ho a a billion and anda a halt half halt dollars or a hundred million milon more than tItan the tue capitalization of ot tho the United States Steel and ad Standard Oil companies combined J lilt Hill recently made the its statement that one ono micro of ot Oregon Oreon tim timber timber ber was worth as sa a much to a at railroad from tom a 1 transportation standpoint as ns acres of wheat or as mitt 01 he ho graphical graphically ly h put ut It I One harvest halest from your well wel timbered acres gives the hg transportation thin tion lon company as lS much freight as the same area In n wheat would supply In a hundred and sixty years The Te scarcity of timber throughout the tho United States and Europe Is probably probably ably obI the tho chief ronson ron why skilled tim tm bermen bernien from all al parts of ot the tho world are oro gathering In iii tho Pacific northwest It ItIs I ItIs Is not unusual unusual to meet men who have mode made their millions out of ot tho the develop development ment meat of ot tho lie Umber resources of Texas Louisiana and Mississippi joining with wih those from Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin In acquiring timber holdings hero here her and time the millions that have been beon transferred from the older states state to the tIme northwest In II such purchases have hao hal hail much to do with making Oregon and Independent of ot Walt Wall Vil street In their development SLAB SLAD WOOD A LUXURY Slab wood tho the outside or trimming from tom the tho log la Including tho the bark has become a 0 luxury Intend Instead of a I drug on the market as a formerly for years slab has been the staple Jo fuel tuel for forlie tho lie home A I few teu years ears ugo ago It was nas as do de delivered livered in any part of ot tho limo city for a adola dollar dola a II cord then th n It rose In price up to two years ago to 75 per por cord and the tho housekeepers groaned at the lie advance and Id figured over the tho Increased cost coat of oC running their furnaces and their stoves and many put In coal Now NOss this slab wood od brings J H 4 per cord where formerly the mills mis were so 60 anxious noxious to get rid of ot It that they used It as us n a tilling filling tUn for tor the low lands around their heir grounds gounds Ordinary fir Ir wood In lengths formerly 3 cord then than It was wal per rose roseto roseto to 4 t and Now 10 it Is 18 JO 6 per cord oord and the lie buyer buer Is I the ono one who unto Is fa favored favored SAVING SAVINO TI I KINDLING J The fe waste resulting from tho the eroc croc erection lion tion ton of now le buildings woe was WIS until unU last hut year stacked Blacked up tip lP In the tha street nod and uld burned It teemed scorner a a wasteful thing to o those from tho the eastern states stales where kindling Is la carefully cretul put away but time tha people out hero here have the tho habit now of ot saving this titis waste wate and It Is II stacked away 11 In la the lie basement for the time coming Canting winter wIn tor with will tho the some same sao care caro clO as all It would ho bo In Ohio or Illinois Then flier In 11 the tha yards of o the tho larger or mills mis cars car can bo be seen cecil seel loading lumber for Cleveland Now Y rk and oven Oon points In lii II Kansas and Oklahoma just north of ot time timber belt In Texas Louisiana lna and Ind Arkansas Thoro There seems scorns to be bo an is cc vigorous demand for rOl large tim thu timbers tm hurts bers berl which require two or three thieo care car carto to transport them anti and these go to ivory ery point of nt tho Ito compass com and are ale to today today day cay available only orly In lIt II the thu northwest When time Uio lo forest lands lams are cleared cleard they take the name of or logged oft off ar lands land or om cut over Umber timber lands anti and nrc then Ihen available for tOl farms fruit and nn dairying and tint those lands ara nrc 1 particularly b the tho Bought by The Tho 11 Increased cost of ot II lumber in bur for far fuel tuel and nod power has Imas ha caused the people ot of tho the St to realize tiro worth woith kit II t I thor their thol water powers I for while there therl la Is lann nn tn extremely population In Inthis inthis this section of at time tho country they ar nit 11 In iii not muot to Jl maliu a change until necessity compaU I Tho Increased value alue of at fuel tuel lute hAS brought Into service vailous coal oal field anti and there will 1 not to be b many be lie before ant fore tore good wood woo will swill wil not b used ull a as fuel filet oven oen In tithe Dili 11 where hero Uncle Bom Samu Rai holds hol l Ills his largest fund of ot wealth In direction 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