Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-03-19
SUBSIDIARY TO
WEYERHAEUSERs
Sc Says Major Penn While
Discussing Timber
Companies

Frank A. Fem, superintendent of
forest reserves in Idaho, Washington
and Montana, arrived in Lewiston on
the boat last evening en- route to the
reserve headquarters at Kooskia,
where he goes to confer with Super
visor c. M. Day relative to reserve
matters.
In my travels and tour of inspec-
tion through the state / find the for
est reserve matters in excellent condi-
tion. In several localities where dis
sentions have arisen preparatory to
the creation of new forest reserves,
find that after citizens have become
conversant with the reserve policies.
they have been willing and anxious to
bring about the creation and often
times extension of the reserve boun.
daries.
II find that condition especially good
among the cattle and sheep localities
where large bands of cattle and sheep
are kept on grazing lands belonging to
the government" said Superintendent
Fem today.
Owned by Weyerhaeusers.
When asked if he had met any din.
nultias in dealing with the huge tim.
ber syndicates recently formed, Mr.
Fem said:
IT venture to say that at least %
per cent of the timber companies
which are formed and being formed In
f0 Afl AK.A
direction of the Weyerhaeuser Timber
company, and are simply subsidiary
organizations which will in time re-
vert to the original money investors.
81 find that at least one-half of the
homesteads which have been taken up
of late by people residing in tim
bered locality, under the timber and
stone act, have been filed on with the
ultimate purpose of selling to the tim.
ber trust companies.
81 have asked several of these all
legged timber lncaters the reason for
their filings and they as frankly own
ed up to the fact that the claims were
taken up for the sole purpose of max.
ing what money they could of them
by selling them to the larger timber
companies.
High Praise for Hepburn.
"The policy which has been advo-
Gated by Senator Hepburn is meeting
with approval in most localities.
plan has been submitted to the presi-
dent, the governor, and other STATE
representative men, and has met with
their approval, regarding the sale o
barren lands owned by the state, de
nuded of their timber, to the govern
ment in exchange for timbered land
which might be held for an indefinit
time, the timber sold, end amount o
money equal to s per cent Of the in
vestment secured, and the money de
rived applied to the school funds Q
the state, particularly in outstandin
committees where sections of land un
der cultivation are so fas separate
as to make the sustainance of pnh
lie school almost impossible.
Good Business Proposition.
Presidents of the state are comm
40 to a realization of the fact that the
can no longer afford, from a financi
standpoint, to pass up huslne'
] proposition which will in less than
years yield an amount of money equ
to so per cent of the investment ar
in so years repay the $12,000,0o0 e.
pended on the proposition"
Mr.. Fem left this afternoon {
Kooskia. On completion Of his wo
there he will go farther into the moul
tains to the Salmon river reserves.
He will then return to Lewiston
await orders from the departmei
possibly returning to his home