Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-30
EUGENE IN OREGON
Residents Consider It Garden
Spot of World.
BUSY AND ENTERPRISING
City Well Kept and Up-to-Date in
All Ways.
STATE UNIVERSITY IS THERE
Educational Center Where Culture
and Learning Is Impaired Ac-
cording to Approved System.
BUSY AND ENTERPRISING
STATE UNIVERSITY IS THERE
RY WILLIAM z. CURTIS.


EUGENE, Ore, September Il. 1909 ,
You can recognize the thriving town
of Eugene by the pretty rose garden
which the ladies of that place have
planted around the railway station.
1t gives people who pass through
pleasant impression. The departing
stranger goes away with an attractive
picture on the retina OF his eyes
If the women of every town on every
railroad would follow this example it
would improve the appearance of the
earth's surface. and make life happier
for all Of u.s.
The women Of Eugene have also built
resthouse in a public square in the
center of the business section, where
the farmers wives can eat their lunch
cons and nurse their babies and find
toilet conveniences while their hus-
hands are out attending to business.
There are similar institutions in many
New England towns and elsewhere in
the east, and the first 1 ever saw, I
think, was at Burlington. Iowa.
The good Samaritan is che patron
saint of these rest houses. Nobody but
a tired farmers wife, with a couple of
little children hanging to her skirts on
hot day, can realize how great
blessing they are.
Busy Oregon Town.
Eugene is one of the busiest places
in Oregon. and one of the most progress
sive and enterprising. It is situated
about midway between the Washington
and California boundaries. and is the
seat OF Lane county, which is as big
as some of the eastern states, being
10 miles long and SO miles wide, and
covered with what they tell me here
is the heaviest stand of timber in
all the world.
Eugene is a city of homes; it has
about 10000 people. who live in COM
Portable cottages, with we'll kept yards
and shade trees and flowers. which give
1t an attractive appearance. The in
'habitants are firmly convinced that it
is the finest place outside of paradise
There are five miles of asphaltum
pavements and concrete sidewalks: the
those of large city.
The high school is the largest and
finest In the state outside Of Portland
and had nearly 500 students last year.
There are five other school buildings,
public library, ffty-thousand-dollar
Y NJ. c. A. building. and a one-hundred-
.thousand-dollar hotel is now in course
of erection.
1t has been dry" town and a dry
county for four years, and the law is
strictly enforced. The saloon question
Is brought up annually. but the major
ity in favor of prohibition has increased
at each successive election.
Many early settlers came rom southern
states. When the civil war broke out, in
1851. 1.-THE people Of Lane county seeded
from the United States and organized
what was called 1.-THE Long Tom Confed-
eracy, because the leader of the move
<ment bore that nickname.
Products Of Eugene.
The staple products of Eugene are edu.
cation. lumber. fruit and English walnuts,
named in the order o. their Importance,
but lumber is the chief industry, and the
sawmills turn out 81. 10000 worth of
the finished products annually, which are
shipped to all parts of the United States.
fhe principal establishment belongs to
the Booth-kelly Lumber Company, of
winch Mr.. Dixon Is the manager and it
owns about 100 square miles or approx
imately s4O0O.OOO.0OO feet, o. Douglas fir
In this neighborhood, the heaviest timber
that ever grew.
Oregon and California men, 1t has four
dig saWm1lls and employs about 900
men, one-half of whom are in the mills
ana the rest in the woods. 1t is said to
snip more lumber to the east by rail
IMAM any other company on the Pacific
coast and its output IS enormous
Mr. Dixon tells me that the policy OF
.ne company Is to follow the lines of the
conservation movement as proposed bv
Hinord P1nchot, because they consider il
wise and prudent not only 10 the country
Al Al large. but to their personal interests.
MT. Dixon says that all of the large tim.
per interests in Oregon have the same
disposition. and that there is a perfect
understanding and cooperation between
tne forestry service and the lumbermen.
Forest Reservation Advocated.
he lumber companies of Oregon ac-
cept the forest reserve policy of the adj
ministration absolutely" said Mr.. Dxon
Inc iand-grabbers are the only ones who
oppose it. WIZ
The sheep men formerly sisted but
I'm nce .ney nave come to understand what
the Forest service means thew have
changed their attitude. They saw thew
are getting a fat- DEAL and admit that the
cost OF grazing on government land is en-
tfrely reasonable.
There IL close cooperation between the
Forest service and the lumber Companies
IN hre protection. Lumbermen are cut
ing oy selection more and more and are
taxing bette care of the new growth.
NO planting is being done in the state SO
Tar as know. but young trees are pro-
'ected and are given chance to grow
49,, me future OF Oregon is to manufac-
lure timDer products. and everything that
promotes that industry will increase the
prosperity OF the people We want fu nj
lure factories and other establishments
10 utilize the timber; we want SETTLERS TO
take up the cleared lands that are ready
LOT REPRESENTATION and for fruit orchards.
stump lands can be bought all the way
iAoHh GU W Sou Ill acre, ana there are no
better fruit lands In the world The
greatest need Of Eugene is Immigrants
ana additional transportation facilities"
Lumbermen in Accord.
Clark w. Thompson Of the Wind River
Lumber Company. at Cascade Locks on
the Columbia river, who deals exclusively
with the forest service and handles none
but government logs. tells me that the
lumbermen and the forest service have
reached perfectly harmonious agree
ment. have removed all misunderstood
ings. and the people of this state have
given the forest reserve policy their hearty
Endorsement
"A few years ago, when people made
speeches denouncing the TO. estry policy of
the administration and Clifford Pinchot
personally" said Mr.. Thompson. every
body cheered. Today the same men are
making equally earnest speeches com
mending that policy and praising Pinchot
personally. and the same audiences cheer
louder than before The reason is that
the lumbermen and the public generally
have come to understand the pu pose and
the advantages of the forestry policy and
10 realize that 1t is for their benefit Only
few months ago the chief anxiety Of the
lumbermen was to stand off the forestry
officials.
Now they never hold meeting with
out the presence of Mr. Allen, the local
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