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The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20
Lumbem1an Prominent in Work of
Conserving Nations Timber

mountains and foothills of California,
Oregon and Washington to provide a
quite material supply of timber for the
actual necessities of future generations
if entered upon Immediately, and pro-
visions made to preserve the growth of
timber from it's being balanced off by
the annual waste by fire and decay. But
present conditions will not permit of
the accomplishment of this purpose.
The discriminating methods of the gov
ernment under which the present hold
ings have been acquired. the excessive
rate of taxation which is levied on the
standing crop of timber and its pros
pective increase, the free access of lum-
Der from Canada, where lumber can be
nroduced and placed in our market at
much less than the American lumber
man can meet, and less than the cost
of producing and delivering the COM
monest grades of lumber in their mar
ket, and the unexpIainable prejudice
of the public against the lumberman
renders conservation absolutely i'm
practicable, and point unerringly to
the destruction of the remainder of the
forests, unless public policy and public
prejudice shall be changed sufficiently
to make the necessary conditions un-
der which conservation and reforesting
can be accomplished.
CONSERVATION
MAY BE PRACTICED
Conservation means very large ex-
penditure in protecting the forests
against damage by fire, the cultivation
and reproduction of timber in the pres
ent forests and more extensively as the
timber lands are cut over 1t means the
careful cutting of the timber in such
way as to leave a large stock standing
on the ground as 1T is cut over, and
the removal and burning of the limbs
and brush, and the cutting out of un-
dergrowth, which, to considerable ex-
tent, means clearing the land, the hold
ing and carrying of large areas of tim
Der, which viii require a sufficient
number of years for each numbering
plant to reproduce the forest so that
at the end of the time of one cutting
there will be a sufficient amount of
timber standing for a new round of
cutting equal to that taken on the first
cutting.
"As this reforesting or new growth
can not be expected to reach more than
two per cent, it will take fifty years, at
least. to make the growth for the sec
ond cutting equal to the first one. And
in the meantime new areas or waste
places must be brought under cultiva-
tion in order to increase the supply to
meet the demands of increased popula-
Der per capita should be very materi-
ally decreased. as this has been in all
the past one great source of the waste
in the consumption of lumber.
ITO make this conservation policy
possible, or practicable, there must
come the cooperation of the counties
in which the timber is standing, more
particularly through the change of
methods OF taxation, which has been in
the past one of the most serious draw
backs toward anything like conserva-
tion or reforesting.
SHORTSIGHTED
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

controlling idea in the policy of han
ding these forests He has well es-
tabIished recognition that the forests
were created for the public, and that
he and others who hold them in prl-
vate ownership are in duty bound to
handle them to the very best advantage
that is consistent with a reasonable
cooperation and helpfulness on the
part of the public in accomplishing
this purpose. He has carried fire pro-
lection in the forests in certain areas
different from, and more extensive.
than any one else has done, and he de-
sires to continue this to a greater ex-
tent and in manner that will be
quite expensive, but which cannot be
reasonably successful under present
conditions. He is desirous of securing
for the future the. best timber supply,
rather than to apply only the question
of the greatest profits out of the tim
ber
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

Mr.. Walker suggests as one of the
means of conservation and prevention
of waste the making of what NAV be
called composition" lumber. This can
be accomplished by cutting thin We
neertng from steamed logs and cement
ing three or more of the thin sheets to-
gether, or two of the thin sheets. with
a sheet of cotton canvas between, can
be cemented together. These thin com
position boards will be much stronger.
in proportion TO thickness, and less
likely to warp, than ordinary lumber.
and will serve equally well for a large
number of purposes. The making of
this composition lumber, taken in con-
nection with other economies made
possible by better conditions of man
ufacture. would produce three times as
much surface measure of lumber as
would be afforded by the same timber
If handled by the wastefuI methods
that have prevailed This would be
equivalent to working a very material
enlargement of our timber supply.
Mr.. Walker is clear in his conviction
and the statement of it that the na-
tonal government alone can not secure
adequate conservation of our forests.
He declares that to accomplish salts
factory results in the way of conserva-
ton will require the cooperation of
the natlOnal government the states
the timber counties and the individuai
owners This will necessitate mutual
consideration and mutual concessions
In the interest of a wise public policy
vast good TO all concerned and to the
public at large.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20
SHORTSIGHTED
TAXATION PLAN

"The heavy taxation levied on the
standing crop of timber as the only
growing crop that is subject to taxa
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

ton which, by its accumulation on the
same crop during many years growth
required by any conservation method,
is practically a confiscation of the
value of the timber when, in the
course of years, it is utilized. This
fact and feature has come to be recog-
nized by all those who have given at
tention to conservation, and is unques-
tionably so important an item that its
continuance will certainly waste the
forests as in the past, and particularly
if the public policy generally and the
Legislative enactments are all directed
toward the one idea of reducing to the
lowest possible point the price of lum-
Der. This has been SO pursued in the
past that it has been a most excep-
tional item of policy differing from
that which has existed with reference
to any other industry.
"And the question now for solution
is that of a clearer understanding on
the part of the public, the cooperation
of the timber counties and states and
of the United States and of the public
generally in coming to clearer under
standing and a more reasonable pol
icy pertaining to the timber and lum-
ber industry.
"A more especially definite review of
the question of conservation and re-
'foresting appears in the Sunset Mag
azine for January, provided at the spe-
cial request of that influential journal,
which. if the suggestion there should
be followed, it would probably result
in establishing conservation as a gen.
eral policy, and in which we would be
pleased to join in carrying out to the
very best OF our ability, and partlcuiaro ar
public consistent with our handling OF
the forests.
COOPERATION OF
PUBLIC NEEDED
1--WE recognize that the forests are
an inheritance provided for the welfare
and comfort of the people, that our
holdings are more in the nature OF a
utilize to the best advantage of the
public as far as it is reasonably con-
sistent with the conditions under
which we handle them, and to the eX-
tent that the public in its many depart
ments which relate to the timber will
cooperate in accomplishing its pur-
pose.
.Without that it is impossible; with
it it may be made practicable, but still
1t is a question whether or not most
of the timber land owners will not feel
that it is unprofitable, even at the
! best cooperation of the public and
will continue to denude the forests as
a necessary method of securing the
benefit from the ownership of the TIM
ber.'
Mr. Walker has, at the special re-
quest of the forestry department and
others interested in the question of
the timber supply, written many ar
ticles and delivered various addresses
in explanation of his views of the for
estry question, from which it is evi-
dent that his most sincere desire is to
see the forests conserved for the benz
| fit of future generations, and to make
J this the foremost and essential anQ
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20
TAXES FORCE
DEFORESTING


Whatever results this policy may
bring Mr.. Walker, there is no question
about the beneficial results to the COM
munity at large. However, to be
wholly successful, this policy must
have not only the passive but the ac-
tive approval of the community. The
rapid denuding of forests in the past has
been largelv due to the desire of the
owners to escape as soon as possible
from the effects of heavy taxation.
Timber land is taxed at the present
time on the basis of the value of the
land and all the timber standing there
on. This condition of affairs makes 1t
almost Imperative to cut the timber
Without loss of time in order TO aVold
having the property consumed by tax
es. 1t is a question of consuming the
timber with the AK or having II eaten
up by taxes, and timber owners have
invariably chosen the former method.
A growing crop is not taxable;
harvested crop is taxable. Mr.; walker
believes this method should be prac-
ticed, and many who have devoted
much thought to the subject agree. with
him. He believes that timber should
crop, and not on the basis of the stand
ing timber or the growing crop; In
this way the owners of timber lands
would have strong incentive to con
the land.
Mr.. Walker is a man of large means,
and spends much of his time IN this
state. Several of his sons are now
here supervising his vast interests and
make California their home, Whlie
Mr.. Walker is a man of great wealth,
he measures his career in achievements
and not in dollars.
LUMBERMEN
NOT TO BLAME
Mr.. Walker has long been convert
to the conservation of our natural re-
sources. He knows from long expert
ence what was to be depended upon as
the result of the operation or destruc-
tive forces in forest, farm and mine.
Years ago he worked out to mathe-
matlcal certainty the period OF eco
nomic conditions of the lumber INDUS
try in. Minnesota. The lumbermen who
have been denounced for the denuda-
ton of the forests of Minnesota nave
really had no choice in the matter The
policy of the taxing power has peen
TO assess pine land for purposes or TAX
alton at figure that would produce
The most immediate revenue. This prac-
tice has been sustained by the county,
the state and the courts. and the own
ers. of the standing pine have found
their profit in reducing the taxes by
removing from the land with the ut
most expediency that element Oh vaiue
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20
MILLIONAIRE
BATTLES FOR PEOPLE

Mr. Walker has especially in mind
the object of saving to the country for
future generations its timber supply
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

There are two Pasteur Institutes i
India
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20
Thomas 3. Walker: A Friend of American Forests

necessity of timber conservation, and
that if it had been determined to COM
pei the wasting of our timber supplies
there could hardly have been devised
methods more certain to produce that
result.
MUTUAL
CONSIDERATION URGED
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
Practical Christianity.

"On behalf of the sewing circle of this church" said the pastor at the conclusion of the morning service, q desire to thank the congregation for 57 buttons placed in the contribution box during the past month. If now the philanthropically inclined donors of these objects will put a half-dozen undershirts and three pairs of other strictly secular garments on the plate next Sunday morning, so that we. may have something to sew those buttons on, we shall be additionally grateful" " -Harper's Weekly
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
uo1 WHAT HE HAD PICTURED
,..,. Girl Hardly the Domestic A Jewel That Fond Fancy
 Had Pictured.

Not long ago man married all atn- ,...o oirl thinking how fine it would to have a wife who would be able po uoit m herself and build the fires, ,s w nocessary. and keep the dust de- n,on m the jump without bringing on
 oorte attack of nervous prostra- an .,on Said he to himself: "A girl who s,,ms sv and rows and plays a rattling sood game of tennis, not to speak of For fondness for walking and driving, ;s sure to be domestic jewel. If we honnen to be without servant, she oon keep the household machinery bumming." Somebody must have told that girl she was marrying man with money. Anyhow, she hasn't been able to dress herself without the assistance of a maid, and the only time she has over had the broom in her hands was one day when she picked it up to hit tho eat with. If she'd clean house for oc mnch as half an hour she'd have to on away to some fashionable springs to recuperate. And yet, to look at her won wouldn't think she was so deli e-EXchange.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
Asking Too Much.

The mother of little six-yeSr-old Mary had told her number of times not to hitch her sled to passing sleighs, feeling that it was a danger ous practice. It was such a fascinat- ing sport, however, that Mary could not resist it and one day her mother saw her go skimming past the house behind farmers "bobs."
 When she came in from play she was taken to task, her mother saying severely Mary, haven't I told you that you must not hitch onto bobs Besides, you know, it is against the law"
 Mary tossed her head. "Oh," she said, don't talk to me about the law. It's all can do to keep the ten com- mandments! !"-Woman's Home Com panion.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
True to Her Memory,

In time, of course, Lot took unto himself new wife.
 Shortly after they were welded the new Mrs. Lot went home to her mother.
 Why, my child exclaims the mother, seeing her tears, what in the world Is the matter?"
 Mammal unjust think Lot is the mea-meanest man that ever was." she sobbed.
 Has he been quarreling with you, my pet?"
 "N-no. But yesterday We went to buy some things, and when we were picking out the sal-salt cellars he boo-hoo-he- boo-hoo-O, I can't finish it.!
 Calm yourself, daughter. What about the salt cellars?"
 He asked the clerk if he couldn't show him some mourning ones!"
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
RAW ECZEMA ON HANDS

"I had eczema on my hands for ten years. I had three good doctors but none of them did any good. I then used one box of Cuticura Ointment and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent and was completely cured. My hands were raw all over, inside and out, and the eczema was spreading all over my body and limbs. Before had used one bottle, together with the Cuticura Ointment, my sores were nearly healed over, and by the time I had used the third bottle, 1 was entirely well. To any one who has any skin or blood disease I would honestly ad- wise them to fool with nothing else, but to get Cuticura and get we'll. My hands have never given me the least bit of trouble up to now.
 My daughters hands this summer became perfectly raw with eczema She could get nothing that would do them any good until she tried Cuti- cura. She used Cuticura Resolvent and Cuticura Ointment and in two weeks they were entirely cured. 1 have used Cuticura for other members of my family and it always proved sue. cessful Mrs. M. E. Falin, Speers Ferry, Va, Oct. 19, 1909."
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
USE IT IN
 ADVERTISING
Lena Schmidt of Dudley, Tex, Writes a Letter About Cardui
 Having Helped Her.

Dudley, Tex-"You may use this letter in your advertising, if you like," writes Mrs. Lena Schmidt of this place.
 "A few years ago, suffered every month, I was relieved right away.
 "Cardui has surely done me a sight of good. It brought me back my health. I am now strong and we'll, and feel better than in years, and am doing all my housework."
 Every woman needs tonic, to take when she feels blue, miserable, sick, weak, under the weather.
 The tonic to take at such time Is Cardui, the woman's tonic.
 Cardui is also a medicine.
 For pain and discomfort, due to fe- male ailments, no medicine is so good as Cardui.
 The main ingredients of Cardui are imported direct from Europe, especial ly for this one woman's medicine and tonic, and are not for sale at ordinary drug stores.
 Cardui acts specifically on the wom- anly organs, preventing unnecessary pain and building up womanly strength.
 Try it for your troubles.
 It will certainly help you.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
ANGRY PROTEST OF BoYHOOD
Valentine Night-Gown" Offended Sen abilities of Small Masculine
 Humanity.

William, a little country boy of six, was snowbound with his mother at the house of an aunt, 20 miles from his own home. The two, who had driv- en over in sleigh just to spend the day, were forced to remain three nights, and were supplied by the host ess with garments to sleep in. There being no small boys in his aunt's fam fly, William was put to bed in one of his little cousin Deborah's nightgowns, very indignant at having to wear any thing with so many frills and lace trimmings around the neck and on the sleeves.
 '. won't stand it, hummer" he loud ly protested on the second night, "I won't wear anything so girly! I'll run away, you see if I don't, and perrush in snow drift before I'll put that thing on again. Why, rather than wear that-that valentine night-gown-I'll sleep raw!"
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
GET POWER. The Supply Comes From Food.

If we get power from food, why not strive to get all the power we can That is only possible by use of skill fully selected food that exactly fits the requirements of the body.
 Poor fuel makes poor fire, and a poor fire is not good steam producer.
 From not knowing how to select the right food to fit my needs, l suffered grievously for a long time from stom- ach troubles" writes lady from a little town in Missouri.
 Tt seemed as if 1 would never be able to find out the sort of food that was best for me. Hardly anything that could eat would stay on my stom- ach. Every attempt gave me heart burn and filled my stomach with gas I got thinner and thinner until I lit orally became living skeleton and in time was compelled to keep to my bed
 "A few months ago 1 was persuaded to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such good effect from the very beginning that have kept up its use ever since I was surprised at the ease with which digested it. It proved to be just what l needed.
 "All my unpleasant symptoms, the heartburn, the inflicted feeling which gave me such pain disappeared. My weight gradually increased from 9S to 116 lbs, my figure rounded out, my strength came back, and l am nov able to do my housework and enjoy it Grape-Nuts did it"
 A ten days trial will show anyont some facts about food
 Look in pkgs. for the little book, 9Th Road to Melville" There's Reason.
 Ever read the above letters ne, me appears from time to time. They ire genuine, true, and full of human interest.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
Preliminary.

Yes" said the missionary, far from my home as l am, l grow very tender when anything recalls the fla miliar scenes of my childhood to me. "
 Then" said the eannibal king, Il shall send for your home papers for you to read. You look terribly tough at this time. and we want you to be a little tenderer before-before-. Have you seen the new cook tent?
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

py local applications. as they cannot reach the dis eased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure deafness and that by constitutional remedies. Deahess is caused by an innamed cond.to of tho mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When thls tube is inhamed you have a rumbling sound or ir1- perfect hearing and when 1t Is entirely closed, Deaf Jess the result and unless the inflammation can aken out and this tube restored to its normal cond uoh hearing will be destroyed forever: nine cases Sut or ten are caused by Catarrh which Is nothing put an lnhamed condition of the mucous surfaces. n we Will give one Hundred Dollars for any case of pealness caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured " Hahs Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free.
 , F. J. CHENEY d CO. Toledo. O.
 Sold by Druggists 75c.
 aake Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
Para athelthuth vii

"Parathelthuth will be nith." she added,
 in a whisper 'Paralleliop pedons are really more
 amusins." Said the brothers Now don't be our
 grandma's time abusing Grandma looked bew,lde, l like, and
 talked about the fairies Brother interrupted her to say: This
 never varies. Polyhedral angles. in their ultimate ex-
 tension Demonstrate exclusively there Is a
 fourth dimension T cannot agree with you" declared the
 other brother Sister took her Browning book and whim-
 rered for her mother Then the brothers started in. and chalked
 the walls and ceiling. Granny sat a-waitchng them with all
 her senses reeling. ''Hecatoncosahedronsl first caught her
 attention, Then they named some other things 1
 really shouldn't mention. 'Molecule" and "polygon" and "arc'' and
 sine and angle" Flashed as flying hecks of sound above
 the wordy wrangle. Granny's come to our house. and O.. my
 laws daisy When the children play their games it
 fairly drives her crazy First she sat and heard their speech and
 tried her best to doubt it, Then she set her lips and went to see
 their pa about it. Mercy mei' she said to him. Seems
 like you folks ain't caring How or when or where the children
 learned all of that swearing!"
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
CHICAGO MERCHANT
 MAKES STATEMENT.

sfter Spending Thousands of Dollar, and Consulting the Most Eminent Physicians, He Was Desperate.
 CHICAGO, iLLS.-Mr. J. c. Becker, of I34 Van Buren St., well-known wholesale dry goods cealer, states as follows:
 II! have had catarrh for more than thirty years. Have tried everything on earth and spent thousands of dollars for other medicines and with physicians, without getting any lasting re. lief, and can say to you that l have found Peruna the only rem. edY that has cured me per. manentIy.
 "Peruna has also cured my wife of catarrh. She always keeps 1t in the house for an attack of cold, which it invariably cures in avery short time."
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16

She (to her fiance, with whom she has just broken off her engagement) You deceived me; everything that you told me about your family, your position and your means was false.
 He-It was true about my debts, though.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
7E5D1Nfin9oMERs j 1fi B O M!LeuR D NEsBIr. :.

tWillie Sdis aged ten. in lect,,ro , the fourth dimension at Harvard soid.
 II IS possible to construct by this means ngures or the fourth dimension with one hundred sides. or faces. called hecatont- "osahedrons or figures with six hundred sioes called hexacosahedrons attacn great value in the working out of my theories to the help given by the polv. heorai angles of the dodecahedrons.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
Cheating the Law.

Man on Shore-I'm going ter have you arrested when you come outer thar
 "Te-he! l ain't coming out-Im committing suicide!" (Sinks with a bubbling grin )-Life.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16

Nothing endures but the eternal commonplace; and if one departs from that it is to run the most perilous risks.-Charles Wagner
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16

Sometimes a man is as badly fright. ehed by an imaginary snake as a woman is by a real mouse.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16

Many girl never suspects a young man intentions until he asks her if she can cook.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
Science.

My son, observe the oyster we'll; See how it gets in action And swiftly closes up Its shell Bivalvular contraction.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16

After man has been married three years his bump of hope becomes 8 dent
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16

Let none of you treat his brother in way he himself would dislike to be treated.-Mohamme
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16

Dr. Perce's Pellets small, sugar. coated, easy tc take a candy, regulate and invigorate stomach liver and bowels. Do not gripe.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-02-16
Her Calender.

When does spring begin. anyhow?" asks the husband.
 'T don't know when 1t begins in the almanac" replies his wife. but it al ready has begun in the advertise ments."