Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-23
government except a soldier returning
from battle.
View Of Portland Editor.

As one of the Portland newspapers said:
"It Is healthful and wholesome for Ore
gon to breathe the Pinchot spirit, even
fer a few moments. He sees in the mag
nificent fir fthis land an asset that the
native of Oregon, wont to gaze for years
upon the forest monarch, is unable to
appreciate. He knows what such tim
Der must bring into the state and what
it means In national strength and the in
dividual comfort of the teeming masses
who are soon to inhabit the American
continent. If Oregon could get the Pin
chot perspective for once and behold as
he does the place its forests must soon
occupy In the peerless national develop
ment just ahead. every man, woman and
child would rush fervently to any duty
which opened for the conservation ana
The significance Of this cannot be I'M
derstood fully until you know that tim
Der of Oregon now standing is estimated
at from 100000, 600 to 100000. 600 600
is almost inconceivable. The city of
Portland will in the future control the
fate of one-sixth of all the forest trees in
the United States. and the power in the
streams Of the state available for manu-
facture is estimated at 1917 600 horse
power. Only an insignificant portion Of
this great asset has been developed, pos
sibly $4,000 horsepower. and now that the
people have got to understand what Pin
chot is driving at. and his efforts to
wealth. which belongs to them and which
they and their descendants will some
time need and use. 1t Is perfectly natural
that they should support and applaud
him..
There are already ga sawmlls In the
state of Oregon. employing 10000 men.
with an annual payroll Of $20OOO.O0O. and
representing an investment in the plants.
teal .,It ~ 80 H. L.
the timber. Of more than $4,000. 900.
Aside from these sawmills there are many
factories engaged in working up this tim
Der from the raw material to finished
products-making everything from q
toothpick to the masts of ships.
Cargo Of Fir Tree Trunks.
The papers contain an interesting story
of the steamer Emma S. Dollar, which is
being loaded at the port Of Linton with
the trunks of fir trees 155 feet lone and
40 feet In circumference at the butt.
which have been ordered by the Chinese
government for the repair of the Ling
Yen Temple. They are to be landed on
the Yang'tse river. towed 200 miles up
les a distance of six miles into the in
terror It will require several hundred
men to transport one of these sticks" as
they call them. but that Is the only way
been loaded on the main deck of the
steamer with the bark left on. so that the
logs will not be chafed. When they have
reached their destination in China the
bark will be peeled off and they will be
made smooth and clean.
A very large amount Of Oregon timber
is owned by eastern capitalists. chiefly
from Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota,
who came out here a quarter OF CEN
fury ago and bought up all of the forests
they could secure realizing that sooner
or later the timber in the central states
would be exhausted. Throughout all the
timbered sections. therefore. the capital
Of lumbermen from the great lakes Is in
vested, and 1t has not only been multiplied