The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-08-09
Editorial Notes.


fore. They are learning that Puget
sound is the only sure place of getting
crops every year, and that the home
markets are better than in the East.
The largest spars and masts ever ship
ped from Puget Sound were taken to
Hong Kong, by the Northern Pacific
steamer Evandale, Tuesday. They are
fir, twenty in number, ten OF which
are 100 feet long and weigh between
ten and eleven tons each. The re-
manning ten are of the same length,
but only about half the diameter.
JUDGING by some Of the parties who
have recently been admitted to prac-
tice law in this county, it requires no
more grey matter nor higher cultiva-
ton to secure entrance to that alleged
profession than it does to edit q news
paper. At the present time, In this
vicinity, there are as many and as
irredeemable fools at the bar as in the
editorial rOOms.-Everett News.
PRESIDENT BRYAN, of the state agri-
culture college, with Profs. Fulmer
and Piper, are arranging to hold an
institute at Tacoma the latter part OF
this month. The plan is to meet the
farmers of Western Washington and
discuss needed experiments to be made
ut the new Puyallup experiment sta
ton, also farm chemistry and other
important topics. Each horticultural
society in the state will be asked to
send a delegate to the institute.
CONSERVATIVE estimates place the
stock of logs on the Sound at 25,OO0,-
600 feet. The daily output of the saw
mill is as follows, (partly estimated)
Port Blakely Mill Co., $4,000; Taco
ma Mill Co., 100000; st. Paul &
Tacoma Lumber Co., 100000; Slim
son Mill Co., 100000; Puget Mill Co.,
100000; Washington Mill Co., 10O,-
600; and others, 100000. Besides a
number of mills catering to the local
trade and single mills possessing
facilities for manufacturing cedar
siding-P. c. Lumber Trade Journal
THE establishment of a steamship
line between Puget sound and Cen.
trail America means great deal fol
the Pacific Northwest. We have &
good many things to sell the Spanish
republics and can use large number
Of their products. a good trade might
be worked up and the merchants and
manufacturers OF the Sound should
lose no time III making thorough
investigation OF the matter. With g
regular steamship line our people
ought to be able to make satisfactory
arrangements for sending representa-
tives down to see what can be done in
the way of supplying the Contra
Americans with Puget sound pro
ducts.-P.I.
IT certainly is Il rank injustice upor
the farmers and actual settlers in thi.
new country to assess them for every
clearing and improvement they may
make to enhanse the value of theil
holdings and make their homes self
supporting-while the timber wealth
OF the county escapes with moderate
tax. The clearings and improve
ments are part and parcel of the
lands and will remain to be taxec
each year for the support of our loca
and general government, while the
other lands are being rapidly denud
ed of their timber, which is taker
from the county, and thenceforth the
majority of these lands are classed az
"logged OFF, and receive the mini
mum tax. Perhaps the owner feels
that he has all he wants from the
land and he refuses to pay even the
small tax and the lands fall to the
county, while other tax payers must
make up the deficiency. While the
timber is with us, it should provide
the bulk of the taxes, and the actual
settlers relieved of some of the tax
burden.
The Washington State Land Com
mission has adopted the following rule:
governing applications for right-of
way for logging purpose throught ane
across state lands. 81. The appli
cant shall file a plat, certified to by
the county surveyor of the count,
wherein the land is situated, showins
the route of the proposed right-of-way
also statement under oath, corrober
ated, showing the necessity of thu
right-of-way through the land, alst
the estimated amount of timber or
the proposed right-of-way, which viii
have to be cut or destroyed and sucl
other data as may enable the boa r. tx
determine the merits of the applica.
ton. 2. The board shall make the
appraisal of the timber on the plopos-
ed right-of-way, basing it upon the
affidavit of the applicant and of one
disinterested persons as to the amount
and value of such affidavlts shall be
submitted to the board by the appli-