The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-15
||FAVOR STATE STOCK Mattresses ANGRY
Would Give State Stock Reserve DemandThaEmpyoers Shall Quit
II drazins Privileges. Swearing.
II lISTATUS OF MINING PAPERS HOLD INDIGNATION MEETING
Give Mining Publications Chicago
II Admitanc Mails and the Employers Shall Not
II Right of Appeal in Fraud Them Reprmand
II Order. Before Guests
Would Give State Stock Reserve
drazins Privileges,
STATUS OF MINING PAPERS
Effort to Give Mining Publications FreeI
Admittance to Mails and the
Right of Appeal in Fraud
Order.
ASToRIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash

ASTORIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash,
ington, d. C., June li,-TNking his cue
from the situation developed at the
Wenaha forest reserve, in northeastern
Oregon, Senator Fulton has set about
having such changes made in, grazing
regulations is will give the stock OF the
state in which reserve or part OF n
reserve is situated, preference over all
others. The forest service officials admit
that this principle is proper and give
assurance that il has been the stead.
fast purpose to work to that end in
time, but do not indicate how many
years it will require to eliminate the
outside sheep. The senator. after con.
ference with stock interests OF his state,
feels that this principle should be estab'
lished at once, without approaching the
result over prolonged period OF elimina
tion. lie yet hopes that the general
rules will be SO modified as to give the
preference to the states interests bur-
dened with the reserve withdrawal.
Geological Survey.
A determined effort is to be made by
the Oregon delegation to provide for Il
careful geological survey, with refer.
ence to artesian water, in the great
central Oregon region. Senator Fulton
took the question up some time ago with
the reclamation officials. but found the
rules OF this bureau forbid use of the
fund for any experimental work, where
there is not engineering assurance of
success, Since he has been working to
have the experiment made by the geo.
logical survey, from what is known as
the general photographic fund. Officials
OF the survey do not want to undertake
the boring, as they have not done so
elsewhere, but are ready to make a scien.
tifc survey whenever funds will permit.
by means Of which private capital may
be safely guided in boring operations.
Important artesian discoveries have been
made through these surveys, and the
Effort will now be to have such sur.
'ey made OF the central southern Ore. :
gon region. The only contingency is the !
appropriation.
Help Mining Publications.
Mining publications OF the West which ,
laye struggled with the postal depart
nent for second-cass mail privileges. e
md butted against the stonewall of a /
department conclusion which would not /
,e altered, will sympathize with the
fort being made to have established the
light OF appeal from post office depart
nent officials to the courts on such ques-
ions as the fraud order, classification,
tc. For period the officials of the de-
'artment held to the ruling that min.
ng paper publishing the boosting re.
'Orts usual for the average mining camp,
orgeited its right to second class privi-
eyes, unless its mining news embraced
noe than one district. Thi, ruling was
dhered to after the officials were shown
hat some Of the papers covering several
i5tricts had more Of the "hot air" news
han those cOnfinng their optimism to a
ingle district. But because there had
een ruling, it had to stand.
Little Complaint Made.
In regard to fraud oltlers. there has
een little complaint, save from victims
Tho had attached to their operations a
trong shade of suspicion. Issuance of a
raud order is great power, but one
hat seems not to have been abused in
uch manner as to enlist public interest.
is probable that whatever is finally
one in the way of giving court review
0 complainants coming from the post
ffice department, will be confined to
raud order cases. The committee on
judiciary of the house has made this
recommendation. Such action would not
e with the purpose Of impeaching the
ost office officials for misuse of their
over in any wilful sense, but merely
. insure important interests that jude.
u hearing that has been held sacred