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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

I'm ltB time has come, nc-
oording 60 the experts OF
ltR:s the agricultural depart
Has ment when In order to
lE4 preserve the southern
>NlA-gss.Ssy Appalachian ard White
mountain Watersheds
from destruction 1t viii he necessary to
establish a system of great national
forests in tho eastern part OF tho con-
tinent The last congress Instructed
the secretary of agriculture TO look into
the matter thoroughly.
Secretary Wilson has recently sub
mitted to the present congress- a do
tailed report in which he advocates the
purchase OF as much OF tho White
mountain and southern Appalachian
wooded regions as is necessary. II
seems that tho cost of the land will
be insignificant compared with the
benefit To be derived from the pur-
chase. with the White mountain for
ests the public Is more or less familiar,
but the southern Appalachian region is
almost an undiscovered country to
most Americans.
ine tlTlDeT liIluS OF inc w Nllc noun
tain region are held nowadays by q
few large companies. nearly all of
which are engaged extensively in fell
ing the spruce for pulp or lumber
manufacture. For this reason the gov
eminent may not be able to acquire
large areas of virgin timber. 1t viii
be obliged TO content itself with small
er tracts surrounding points of special
scenic interest.
In the south the case Is quito differ
emit The land is still cheap, and in
order to preserve the rivers much
larger tracts VIII have To be taken i'm
mediately by the general government.
1t is the opinion Of Secretary Wilson
and also of Clifford Pinchot, the ma
tional forester, that not less than
5000 900 acres should be purchased by
the government in this southern APP
palachian region. They believe that
this would cover the higher water
sheds of the Potomac. James. Roanoke,
Yadkn, Catawba, Broad, Saluda, Sa-
vannali, Chattahoochee, Coosa. Tennes-
see, New, Cumberland Kentucky and
Monongaheia rivers.
1t is believed that this land may be
obtained for an average Of $3.50 an
acre, and an approximation Of $780,
600, to be available ut once. Is recon-
mended Secretary Wilson Is also OF
about $4,000 acres in the White noun
tain region win be sufficient. This
should include as much IS possible of
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

900 acres OF forest land are under the
jurisdiction of the forest service.
Rapidly as the population OF the
United States has increased, the lum-
Der consumption has increased still
more rapidly. In round numbers. and
allowing for incomplete reports, the
lumber cut in 1880 was 0e.0O0,oo0
feet: in 1890 $4,000. 600 900 feet, and
in 1900, OOOoOOoO0 feet. The in
crease in population from 1880 to 1900
was 90 per cent, but in lumber cut "a
per cent. The United States is now us
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

used to poverty like this. Its bad
times have never lasted SO long or
sunk so deep. And the trouble is the
people cannot get away. 1t is useless
to go to Kimberley or Durham, or Cape
Town or Port Elizabeth They are
just as badly off. They, too, are shrink
ing. The out-of-worE clerk or ac-
countant might as well starve on the
Rand as at the coast. To leave the
country altogether is too expensive
So he stays, misery to himself and Il
burden to his friends, a living example
of the shrinkage of johannesburg.
The European shareholder need not
feel nervous. The poverty of the Rand
will not hurt him Rather will it
bring him bigger dividends. 1t will
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
POVERTY IN The TRANSVAAL

Imported goods could never support.
Whatever was the cause, the effect
is clear enough. There are men here to-
day whose salaries have been cut down
by 30 per cent. There are others who
have no salaries at all. and whose
children live on bread and tea bought
with borrowed money. They may be
outwardly prosperous-loold like the
town. i met two men the other day,
well dressed, apparently well-to-do.
IT'S the clothes that last" one or
them confided to me. That's all. IL
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

force down wages and working costs,
and thus send up profits. His divi-
bends will not shrink, whatever is the
fate of the center from which the
gold is produced. But the only thing
for the out-of works to do is to go
away-perhaps the government will
expatriate them. There will be no
boom on the Rand; no sudden revival.
Steady, patient work throughout the
country will gradually restore pros
perity. But the shrinking process will
continue for some time.
Do not come to the Transvaal for at
least five years-and then stay away
If you can In five years It may have
settled down as a small but prosperous
commercial center-the commercial
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

we get one meal in two days we con-
slider ourselves lucky. Yesterday we
dined-perha we shall be able to
again tomorrow. Today we don't"
1t is the shrinking process. Some
financial geniuses manage to live fairly
comfortably ON nothing-how they do
IL nobody knows. The majority of the
retrenched who had not enough money
to get out of the sub-continent alto
gether are slowly starving. Their po-
sition is hopeless.
Perhaps you think the state of the
Golden City cannot be so bad as this
that the Aory is exaggerated. There
Is povert.xin other lands; distress in
others towns. They do not make these
Mutations. But the Rand has not been
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

palachian forest has been so damaged
that years will be required for it to
come again to q high state OF produc
tiveness Untl II does We may expect
n shortage In hardwood timber The
longer the delay in putting this forest
land under control the longer continued
and more extreme will be the short
age"
Tho Government Reserves.
At present only one-hfth of the
wooded area OF the United States Is In
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

an the last twenty five years the
combined lumber output OF Michigan.
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pennsyl-
vania was almost 25s,0o0. 100000 feet,
or 80 per cent of the total production
of the United States The western and
southern movement in timber cutting
is strikingly illustrated by the state
ment that the northeastern states
reached their relative maximum in
1870 and the lake states in 1890. The
southern states are near their maxi
mum today, with about So per cent of
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
DEsERET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY JANUARY % 1908

ing annually 400 board feet of lumber
per capita. while the average for Eu-
rope is only sixty feet per capita. 1t
is estimated that the lumber cut since
1880 would make floor one inch thick
over Vermont. Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island and Delaware,
an appalling area
According 20 an expert the present
timber situation is about as follows:
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

"The yellow pine states OF the south
are Alabama, Arkansas. Florida, Geor-
gia. Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
The present annual cut of yellow pine
is about 10000. 100000 feet or little
moro than one third the total cut OF all
species. 1t Is estimated by the forest
service that within ten or fifteen years
there will be a serious shortage of yell
low pine.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

government reserves. All Of these re-
serves are west OF the Mississippi river,
II Is a fact that the best of the coun-
try's forests are in private hands The
national forests now cover nearly
1852. 100000 acres and are confined to
fifteen western states, with four re-
serves in Alaska and one in Porto Rico
In each OF the states of California,
Idaho and Montana more than 10000
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

the total lumber product The time of
aacendency of the Pacific states is fast
approaching. Since the last census
the product of the Pacific states has
risen from less than 10 per cent of the
lumber output OF the country to 20 per
cent.
THE shifting Of the chief sources of
supply has, Of course, been accom-
panied by change in the kinds of
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
Movement For

the Presidential, Franconia. Sandwich
and Carter Moriah mountain ranges.
which are the scenic portions OF the
region
national forests" says Mr. Wilson
in his report to congress. "will mean
the development of the southern APP
palachian and White mountain regions
beyond any point that would be possi-
bic without them. Much of the APP
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

lumber produced. There was a time
when white pine alone constituted one
half OF the total quantity. In 1900 this
species furnished only els per cent,
and In 1905 only is per cent of the
lumber cut. On the other hand, Doug
las fir is credited with 5 per cent in
1900 and 13 per cent in 1905. The days
of white pine are rapidly passing.
Since numbering began in the lake
states, some seventy years ago it is
estimated the cut of white pine has not
been less than 100000, 900, 900 feet.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

capital of small colony But today
it Is shrinking.
BY the way. the gold output is still
rather more than e25,000, 900 a year.
But IL 1t were twice that amount It
would not help us much. It nearly all
flows out of the country, either as divi-
bends or in payment for imported
Correspondence of the London
Mall.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

DISTURBED THE CONGREGATION
The person who disturbed the congre-
cation last Sunday by continually cough
ing is requested to buy bottle of Foley's
Honey and Tar. +. j. Hill Drug Co.,
1.-THE never substitutors."
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
SIMPLE REMEDY FOR LA GRIPPE

La grippe coughs are dangerous as
they frequently develop into pneumo-
mia. Foleys Honey and Tar not only
stops the cough but heals and strength
ems the lungs so that no serious re-
suits need be feared The genuine
Foley's Honey and Tar contains no
harmful drugs and is in yellow
package. Refuse substitutes. For sale
by f. j. Hill Drug Co., the never sub
stitutes.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

little. Perhaps ii was the Liberal gov
eminent in England. Perhaps 1t was
Chinese labor--or the lack of Chinese
labor. Perhaps it was swim
ding hotations. Perhaps it was simply
the fact that we built for a popula-
ton that a country which lives upon
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

THAT good Coal" So 80 delivered,
s5.25 at yard. Bamberger, l6l
Meighn St. U. S. A.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

"The devastation OF the hardwood
forests has kept pace with the slaugh-
ter of the pine forests The supply of
Indiana and Ohio, the original center
of hardwood production, is practically
exhausted. The cut of hard wood is
now widely distributed and is heavy In
every state where there are even small
bodies of hard woods. In 1899 Illinois,
Ohio and Indiana produced % per cent
of the hard wood. In 1906 they pro-
duced only IA per cent. 1t is declared
by the forest service officials that these
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25
Farm News

farm
o N Amcric
app farme and
in Is IL has
mott
by
practical people r. L. Vincent, D. p.
NJ p. G. r S
A X M. M.
To will dded
exceptional
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

ND really the case is so hope
less. There is no prospect of
\ an immediate revival. What
caused the collc use matters
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

he time has come, ac-
cording TO the experts OF
the agricultural depart
ment. when In order TO
preserve the southern
Appalachian ard White
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-25

We prepay the postage, but the tn
Old subscribers to the Daily, Semi,
FREE on the same terms, by paying up ar
This offer will be open only shor
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-08-07

d, s. Mascoll returned home last
Saturday from Rock Island, ILL.,.
where he had been spending the past
three months in looking after business
interests. among other things disposing
Of his last years corn crop in Illinois
at o61t cents per bushel. Had no held
1t four days longer he could have sola
IL for 20 cents, but was we'll satisfied
with the price received. Mr.. Mascoll
was very glad TO get back to Grants
Pass. While II Is hot here. he says II
is not that sultry heat Of northers
Illinois which kills people of.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-08-07
SOME BARGAIN POINTERS
News Notes From tho Business
Men to Req ders.

DIR. Flanagan,
Physician and Dentist
Go to Corun for Plumbing.
1900 Washers at Hair. Riddles.
j. 4. Peterson, Pioneer Insurance Man.
M. Clemens, Prescription Druggist.
A splendid line Of Royal Charter Oak
Ranges at Coron's
Dewitt's Oarbolizea Witch Hazel
Salve. 1t is especially good for piles
Sold by Model Drug Store. 4.3 IS.
Alfred Letoher. Registered Optom.
etrist and Jeweler In Dixon sold stand,
Front street. Eyes tested free.
Get prices on the Alamo Gasoline
Engines and Woodssws before buying.
j. ID. Franklin, agent. Office in Ran.
MES Plumbing Shop. II street, be-.
tween 9th and 7th. 4.A II
Hose 10, 1s1s, l5c foot. Cramer
Bros.
j. ID. Franklin has the agency for
the Alamo Gasoline Engines. Office
in Rannie's Plumbing shop. II.
street, between Oh and eth. 4.24 tt
Massies' Gslice stage now takes
passengers from Grants Pass direct to
Galice, leaving Hotel LAYTON at . a.
m. and arriving at Gslice at II 100.
Returning leaves Uslice at D. m. ar.
rivinR. here at 7 80 A stop of 45 min.
utes will be made at Merlin both ways.
III 81
Dot nc horn to toot, but got best
buggy on earth, the john Decree. p.
Hardware Co. 1881 At
Oostain's launch will now run every
afternoon and evening to the White
Rocks and rapids. Fare loo for round
trip. Parties of to 10 can charter
at u per hour. The launch now has
canopy and new coshions and is in
charge of praoticed engineer from,
the coast. Dock at city park. 81 II.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-08-07
COMING EVENTS.

Sept l4-Monday Public school opens.
Sept. "a, Thursday conclavs
of the Grand Commandery, Knights
Templar, at Grants Pass
Sept. 0, 10, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday Annual encampment Of
the Southern Oregon Veterans as.
sociation. Grand Army Of the Re-
public. at Central Point.
Oct l.. 3, 3. 4. Rogue River In
dustrial Fair at Medford.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-08-07

For lunch goods we have
Everything to fill an empty
head or a tired stomach.
Sliced Beef in bulk or in
glass jars.
Minced Ham-we slice in
thin.
Oregon Fall Cream Cheese
Large Queen Olives.
Finest Italian Olive Oil.
Columbia River Red Sal
mon.
Lunch Mackerel, Sardines,
etc.
Snider's Pork and Beans,
(very good) 123c, 20c and 25c.
Roned Chicken, Deviled
Ham, Lunch Tongue.
Comb Honey and White
Rose Strained Honey in bulk.
Evaporated Peaches, Apri-
cots and Pears now cheaper.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-08-07

Daughter-''Yes, have graduated.
but now I must inform myself in
psychology, philology. bibli-
Practical Mother -''Stop right
where you are. have arranged for
you thorough course in rosstology,
biology, stitchology, darnoleey and
general domestic hustleology. Now
get ON your working Clothes
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-08-07

Fruit canning season is
now on. We have the now
celebrated Easy Vacuum Jar.
Nothing better on the mar
ket. We have them in pints
quarts and half gal. Fluted
Fluted jelly glasses Grounded
rim) 45c dozen. Parafne
and all kinds of jar rubbers.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-08-07

Fruit Jars. Stone Jars. Tin Cans
Jelly Glasses at Cramer Bros.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-10-22
Our Literary Clubs.

The first meeting of the club year
will occur tomorrow, the opening ses-
sion of the Town Improvement So
ciety. The association just named
and Sorosis have already issued their
annual calendars, and the calendar
of the Skowhegan Woman's Club is
practically all in type, to be issued
early next week. The clubs unite in
three of their meetings called FEEDER
ated days, as follows: Wednesday,
afternoon, January Is, Forestry, y
with the Skowhegan Woman's Club;
Tuesday evening, January 9, Good
Reading with Sorosis; Friday after
noon, February 26, political Equal
ity," with the Town Improvement
Society.
The calendar of the Town Improve
ment Society contains programs for
twelve meetings, the last of which is
on April 8. While miscellaneous sub
jects may be noted in many of the
meetings, the titles of the larger
number of papers indicate that Can
ada is the principal subject for the
winters study. The most notable
topics, aside from Canadian subjects,
are those devoted to Lincoln, Remin-
iscences of War Times, Etc, on Feb
ruary Il, the Federated meeting OF
February 20, and the meeting OF
March II which takes up the city OF
Washington and the presidential in
auguration. The club begins the year
with a membership roll OF eighty six
, Skowhegan Sorosis has arranged
j for thirteen meetings in its calendar
The first is Tuesday evening NoYem-
Der Sd and the last is on April Doth.
The successive meetings take up mis-
cellaneous subjects. Gentlemen b
evening occurs on Monday evening,
December IA and ON that date Miss
Elizabeth Pooler of the Powers
School of Oratory VIII be present to
entertain the members OF Sorosis and
their guests. SUrcsis now has a
membership roll OF seventy four.
The first meeting OF the Skowhegan
Woman's Club will occur on Novem-
Der 4th. There are thirteen meetings
in all, the date of the last being April
28th. Miscellaneous subjects are
taken up. The Woman's Literary
Club of Waterville will be present as
guests on November sth, and will
furnish the program. Miss Elizabeth
Pooler will be the entertainer on
April 2sth. Seventy five ladies are
now members OF the Woman's Club.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-10-22
Death of Judge Bachelor.

Skowhegan loses one of it's best
known and Oldest citizens in the
death Of Judge Oliver R. Bachelor,
which occurred at his home on Water
street at an early hour Saturday
morning of last week. He had been
i'll for several weeks past and the end
was not unexpected.
Judge Bachelor was born in Fay
cite, Kennebec county, June l, 1921.
His education was at Pennington
Academy and at Kent's Hill Semi
nary. He read law in the Office of
John S. Cutler, Esq, of Pennington
and was admitted to the Franklin
county bar in March 1850. Very
shortly after this he moved to Scion
in this county and practiced law
there for twenty five years. During
his residence in Scion, Keystone
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
was instituted and Judge Bachelor
was it's first Master. A few years
ago, on the occasion of the fiftieth an
niversary of that body, the lodge
sent Judge Bachelor special invita-
ton to attend, which he accepted,
this enabling him to again fill the
chair, which he first occupied half a
century before, a privilege greatly
esteemed by himself and of much
qualification to the members of Key
stone Lodge.
Judge Bachelor became a resident
of this place in October 1879. He
was for many years a trial Justice
and, on the establishment of the
Skowhegan Municipal Court by the
act of the legislature of 1901, he be-
came it's presiding justice, a position
which he continued to hold to the
time of his death.
His wife, formerly Mrs. Paulina
Drew Freeman, to whom he was
married in Norridgewock, July 9Th,
1857, died i'll 1905, and no relatives of
the immediate family Of the deceased
survive. A strong affection existed
between Judge Bachelor and George
r. Freeman who became his stepson
by the marriage above noted. Mr..
Freeman fastened from his home in
North Dakota, on being notified of
Mr.. Bacheller's serious illness, and
arrived in time to find him conscious
and able to converse with him for
some hours before his death There
were also present at the funeral,
which occurred on Monday, conduct
ed by the Rev. B. b. Merrill, Mrs.
James Adams. of Bangor, Mr.. and
Mrs. William II. Everett OF Westfield,
Mass, Mrs. Edwin J. Keyou of Med
field, Mass, Mrs. Frank Emery of
Skowhegan, Miss Anna Drew of
Portland, Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott b.
Bachelor of Pennington and John
Drew of Canaan, nephews and nieces
of the deceased. Interment was in
the family lot in the Sonth Cemetery.
The Somerset reporter., 1908-10-22
A Miraculous Escape.

An accident occurred on Madison
avenue on Saturday afternoon Of last
week in which Miss Florence Adams
was injured and from which her
escape without even more serious
results may be regarded as providen-
tial.
Miss Adams was driving along
Spring street toward Madison avenue
and arrived at the junction of the
two streets named just in time 10
collide with the car on the Somerset
traction line, which is due at the
Skowhegan terminus at two O'Clock
The car struck the forward wheels
of the vehicle, crushing them down
and throwing Miss Adams out. She
fell between the rails and the car
passed completely over her. The
injuries sustained are bad scalp
wound and severe bruises. 1t seems
that no bones were broken and 1t If
believed no internal injuries resulted
The collision freed the horse and be
was captured later, comparatively
unframed. The wagon was, of
course, very badly damaged
The car stopped before the accident
at the top of the hill to take on
General Dyer, about opposite his
home, and other passengers state
that it moved slowly down the grade
and was running very moderately at
the time of the collision. Those who
noted Miss Adams approaching in
her team also state that she was
driving slowly. 1t does not seem TO
be the impression that the horse was
frightened or beyond control until
about the moment of the collision,
and it is quite difficult to understand
why the accident could not have
been avoided. Miss Adams is about
twenty years of age and of slight
figure, and escaped the adventure
much better than a heavier person
would have done. The space be-
tween the roadbed and the car, az it
passed over her could not have been
more than ten inches. 1t was a
most perilous experience and one
that might easily have resulted
fatally.
The car was in charge of conductor
Joseph Adams and was being run by
motorman Roscoe Abbey. Miss
Adams is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Milford Adams and makes her
home with her parents who live on
Carvell hill in the town of Norridge
wock, about four miles from this
village.