Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-18
YAQUINA HARBoR.
Esrnment Engineers Listen to
Our Tale Of Woe.

large number OF Lincoln county
ns we're at Newport Tuesday to
,he board of government engin-
and listen to the discussion of the
inn of further improvement of
uina harbor.
aboard consisted Of Lieutenant
Duel lIeuer of Sa9 Francisco, Major
/ Of Seattle aud Major Langfitt of
land,
sides local representatives there
present United States Senator
hon Of Astoria, Hon. j. K. Weather
Hon. W. r. Bilyeu, Hon. S. A.
,son, Hon.,,W. II. Davis, S. e. Young
asger Edwin Stone of the Corvallis
|hstern Railroad, Hou. J. j. Whitney,
h Stevens and Hon. G. b. Montague,
Of Linn county,
lieutenant. Colouei Heuer presided
be meeting, and briefly stated that
board was there to listen and in
gate.
Ion ], X. Weatherford fired the first
md made a bulls-eye. He opened
. splendid argument in favor of
uina bay consisting of document
the Board of Commerce of AL.
\. This paper set forth all the re-
ices developed and undeveloped-
% several counties tributary to va
ba pay, aud showed, as has often
done in the past, how hundreds
ousands of dollars could be saved
be producers of this territory by
rowing Yaquina bar for the accom-
alton Of deed draught vessels. Mr..
btherford closed with an earnest and
uent appeal in behalf of ihe pro.
raral of the Linn county repre-
Patives made sound and interesting
pments, necessarily along the same
Of thought. All were appreciated
the audience and literally ap-
hded.
nited States Senator Fulton's re-
ks we're received with enthusiasm.
Senator INDUCED in no fancy fights.
calmly and earnestly pledged his
efforts. to the cause, endorsing
arguments of the gentlemen who
Ceded him. But he reminded the
Eminent engineers that Oregon's
Fesentatives in Congress could
ily hope to accomplish much toward
prlng an appropriation without q
Prable report from them
letter from was read Hon. Binger
Fmaln, addressed 10 the board of
Peers, and containing substantially
same argument.
+. Jones of Toledo presented
ptr statistics for Lincoln county
Gu are appended:
mere are 100000 acres of timber
ls In lincoln county that expert
Der cruisers have estimated will av.
s $4,000 feet per acre, aggregating
saormous amount Of 1000, ,oOO,OOO
Ot merchantable saw timber. AL.
ing that this timber at the present
els only worth the sum of 81 per
usand feet, as it now stands in the
Tue present value of this timber
be sSSppo@
'uu'acture it into lumber, and vt
present price of SIS per thousand
round, it would be worth the sum
fiVo"O'ooo. To move Ibis timber
manufactured into lumber it
~ take a vessel with a carrying
''''y OF 100000 feet, il she made
ulp out Of this harbor every day,
1en years to move this lumber, and
Ou'a require ten saw mills of a
capacity of 100000 feet nineteen
y" manufacture this timber into
o'sa oer' and it would require the labor
NV IN en- every day in the year for
''ea years to operate the mills
n 'aey manufactured this lumber.
we present prices paid for labor,
aou'hiy pay roll of these men
/ amount to $4,000 per month.
IS less than twenty years since. in
a'es OF Michigan, Wisconsin and
aesota' that timber standing in the
/ was worth only twenty-five cents
thousand. The present value of
|,h III 'hese states is from $40 to sl5
'usand !. standing in the tree, or,
commonly called, "stumpage." !"
.'f experts estimate that at the
| .l' ' :, rate of consumption for lum.
~ 'he timber in the United States
practically exhausted in twenty
years. TharafA