The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-27
STREET FEARS
TOBACCO TRUST
Movements of J. P. Morgan Are
Watched Carefully
CEDAR rs PLAYING OUT
New Wood Is Desired for the Manu-
CEDAR IS PLAYING OUT
New Wood Is Desired for the Manu-
facture of PenciIs-Tests to he
Made-A Unique Automobile
Company Is Forming

New York, March 2s.--(Special. lit Ia
getting so If J. Pierpont Morgan buys an
extra box of cigars Wall street shivers
and dreams of another tobacco trust.
Hence when the announcement was made
recently that the great fnancer had pur-
chased an automobile factory in the west
the whirlwind dervishes of the financial
districts began to go around like high
powered gyroscope and stories of an au-
tomobie trust with hundreds of millions
the deadline.
| Morgan & Co. made the apparently
Straightforward statement that they
simply acted as agents for another con-
Germ in the transaction and hadn't the
remotest idea of financing a motor car
| trust, but Wall street still insists that
the trust is to come and those in the
best position to know nothing of the mat
ter can and do give all the plans for
the merger.
| There may be a motor trust in process
of formation. but those who presumably
would be in 1t profess not only ignorance
but skepticism.
The supply for cedar for pencils is
playing out and the pencil manufacture
ers have sought the aid OF Uncle Sam to
help find a substitute. The requisites are
a wood which will whittle easily, which
shall contain large amount of material
| free of knots. which shall not be porous,
HI I'D prh
shall occur in sufficient quantities to
meet the manufacturers demand.
| At the suggestion of the pencil makers
| the forest service Is to cooperate in a
test OF a number of national forest
woods. Among those to be tried are
Rocky mountain red cedar. alligator.
Juniper western juniper, redwood, In
cense cedar, western cedar, Port Oxford
cedar and Alaska cypress.
| Wood specimens collected from the ma
tional forests will be sent to four lead
| ing manufacturers, who have agreed to
make pencils OF them. The manufactur-
| ers will keep record of the tests and
report to the forest service the results,
as well as their judgment as to the fit
ness of the individual woods.
The forest service is assisting in this
experiment because on the national for
ests are large quantities of jumpers and
cedars which may be suitable for pencil
manufacture. For several of these woods
no very valuable use has yet been discov-
cred Foresters believe that In the flu
ture the woods from the national forests
may to a considerable extent come into
use to supplement the diminishing stock
of eastern woods, the supply of which
has received no protection.
The Pennsylvania railroad has planted
| 34s2,186 trees since 1t undertook forestry
work on comprehensive scale, says the
report of the forester of the railroad. In
1909 alone more than 1.oo0,o00 trees were
planted along the companys right-of-
way.
A special effort was directed to grow
| ing ornamental shrubbery and 5000
plants, imported from France, were
placed in beds at the nursery. There are
$1,000 trees and shrubs which are now
being held in nursery.
Testimony to the rapid industrial and
commercial development of the south
and to it's almost phenomenal prosperity
at present accumulates daily and hourly
1t is in evidence more particularly In
outgvings by southern men who are met
In hotels, on railroad trains and steam
boats and at social and commercial clubs
here and there all over the country. BY
everybody 1t is conceded-cannot help
being so-that the south has one of the
greatest natural monopolies in the world,
it's exceptional adaptation to cotton Gull
ture. And within the past quarter of a
century, following on the heels of the set
back of nearly half century that the
civil war gave to the industry, the de-
velopment of cotton growing and cotton
manufacture in the south has been most
marvellous.
Time was when only the cotton boil
was of value to the growers: now there
is nothing of the plant that is not used
By-products have become almost as valu-
able as the cotton itself. Cottonseed is
used to make oil and food products; the
huls are shipped all over the world for
animal food; and the stalk is being
utilized for the making of paper. All
| this has helped to make the cotton
section prosperous. The cotton acreage
has grown enormously within the past
| IL years.
| The general advantages of the south
| are mighty, we'll worth all the exploita-
ton that intelligent and discriminating
publicity promoters can bestow upon
them. But cotton is still king
For the purpose OF thoroughly adver-
Using central Oregon and showing It's pos
| sibiities as place for homeseekers and
settlers, the Great Northern has sent two
| representatives into the interior TO Sc
cure materials For bulletins and gather
information from actual farmers on irri-
CATION, dry farming and kindred subjects
of interest to intending settlers.
| Louis w. Hill, president of the COM
pany, has given instructions that a sys.
tematio campaign be undertaken to ad-
vertise thoroughly the resources of the
Deschutes valley tributary to the Grea'
Northern line now under construction
The material is to be obtained by Fred
erick W. Graham of Seattle, travelling
freight agent, and George Palmer Put
nam, who has already written consid
! cradle on the subject.
Mr.. Putnam will secure photographs ant
information which will be embodied IN
Great Northern bulletin on Oregon which
will be published Immediately after NJ
has completed his labors. Mr.. Graham