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FRANCISCO ¦ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1903. 4 THE SAN CA-Lii- WOOD AS A CROP. to keep whisky out of reach of her negroes and her reckless whites during this period of her develop- ADMIRALDEWEY THINKS THE NORTH spread of a right conception of the pur- ment, and to that extent, therefore, the crusade for pose of scientific forestry is very gratifying to symptom of MONDAY SEPTEMBER 14, '1903 total abstinence is an encouraging ATLANTIC FLEET IS NOT FORMIDABLE . THEthose who pioneered the cause in this country. Southern life. The Eastern press has recently made quite a specialty SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ,M JOHN D. of forestry, with the result that former timber lands It is seldom, that we hear from old Tuolumne, but . rerets iI' Ccmmunlcctlons to W. S. LEAKE. Manager. not fit for agriculture are now considered of value when we do the news is well worth the reading. She raising timber are being planted for as bubbling duel, a trag- TELEPHONE. for and wood now is with excitement over a a crop. edy ami a mystery all blinched in one. Any one of Ati iji-THE CALL The Operator Will Connect The hill country and mountains of New England these incidental affairs of community life, much less You With the Department You Wish. and the Middle States, once timbered but now bare, the three, would, be enough to set San Francisco agog are being put into white and yellow pine, black wal- for a day. IIni.lCATION OFFICE....Market and Third. S. F. '•JUIToniAL BOOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson St. nut and even oak, the slowest growing of all. In probable willflour- THE GOOSK GOLD EGG. Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Ct«. the South it is that the eucalyptus AND THE ish and it.is evident th;t. we are not yet aware of the Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. only cloud above the financial horizon is Ternst by M«J1. Including Postage (Cash With Order): economic value of many of the varieties of that tree. year prospective withdrawal of capital from 2AILT CALL (Including Sunday), one $S.O© It flourishes in California and makes a rapid growth the DAILT CALL ttBelufilns Sunday;. « montbi 4.00 constructive enterprises. DALLT CALL—By Eloxle Month T** and has been found of value for fuel. There are THE 2.5O of railroads and buildings is a form ECXDAX CALL. Oa« Ye«r ° about forty varieties of this tree and in Australia Construction >\ EEkLT CALL. On* Tew 1<O of production. It goes back to the raw material, the f Dtl'.y...f8.8O Per Te«r Extra many of them are used for piling and for dimension Ennfl*y~ T«*r Extrm ore, flux and to produce and the^stone 0REIGN FOeTAOB { 4.15 Per timber. 'The and bark arc rich in essential oil fuel metal t Weekly.. I.OO Per Tear Extra leaves the lead flax plant that com- that has been found of therapeutic value and enters and the clay; to and the All Postmaster* are authorised to r«eelT« bine in paint, and to the various pigments used; to subscriptions. into many medicinal preparations useful diseases of requested. in^ soda for glass, and. to the timber in its Ettnpla ecplet will be forwarded when the respiratory system. the silica and forms and to JUtl tubeerlbera in ordering ehang« of •AAnum should b« The Philadelphia Record is urging replanting of the various that enters into construction ctrtlcttUx to *1v« both KEW AXD OLD ADDKEBS In order the, skilled processes by which each is reduced to use- insure compliance with their request. slopes of the Alleghany Mountains in that State. :o a prompt and correct planned it promotes Lumbering and fire have stripped them and the ef- ful form. When construction is. OAKLAND OFFICE. activities clear back to the primitive forms of all 1118 Broadway Telephone Main 1O83 fect on and the climate is disastrous. The all moisture those BERKELEY OFFICE. land that has been laid bare is useless for agriculture the materials used. When construction ceases ri4S Street Telephone Iforth 77 cease, and then is the paralysis, of non use. Center and useful only for arboriculture. Actual experiment activities Maaagtr Foreign paralysis we call "hard times." Its effects fall C. GEORGE KHOCMiSJ. AdTer- has shown that much of this denuded land willin That J>lnc, Marqnette Balldlnjr,Chicago. first and hardest upon labor, for construction,: being (Lcnc DUtance Telephone "Central 2819.") twenty years produce a merchantable crop of black a production that stimulates all other forms walnut yielding $1000 per acre or a value of $25 per form of WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: by consumption of them, goose that lays HUHTON E. CRAMS 1406 G Street. l». W. year for the time employed in producing the crop. its ' is the the golden egg for labor. Therefore labor should be NEW TORK REPRESENTATIVE: For about ten years of that tpe a nut crop is pro- Tribune Bvildlng goose, for it is now chasing *TErUKX B. SMITH SO duced that will pay interest on the investment. If advised not to killthat national ax in hand, cut NEW TORK CORRESPONDENT: \ planted thirty feet apart each acre willbear fifty her arou.nd.the barnyard, to f. C. CARLTOX Herald Square rip her open: trees. As the crop approaches maturity another may offher head and NEW TOP.K NEWS STANDS: yield Already the railroads' of the. United States have Hotel; Square; be planted on the same land, so that the is made Waldorf-Astoria A. Brenta.no. 31 Unicn announced abandonment of construction planned Murray HillHotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel ani Hoffman House. constant. Large walnut timber in the natural forest their — next year that called for the payment of $180,000,- nn A\rHOFFICES 527 Montgomery, corner cf Clay, open now sells at $3000 per acre, and there is no,prospect for • Hayes, s:S0 o'clock. 63S 000, as a the burdens laid upon such aettl :S0 o'clock. SOO open antll that this timber willdecrease in value. ; giving reason McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. CIS Larkin, open until production by the labor situation. In New York 8 30 1041 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2201 Pinchot has been urging the replanting o'clock. Mr.Gifford at a cost Utrkf., iorr.fr Sixteenth, open until 8 o'clock. 1096 Va- one buildings' planned for erection next* year 106 Eleventh, open 9 of our denuded forest lands in California. He is >r.c!a. open until 9 o'clock. until world, of $60,000,000 and buildings in Chicago to cost $70,- c'clcck. NE. ccrr.tr Church and Duncan streets, open of the foremost authorities on forestry in the SW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, 000,000 abandoned for the same reason. Owners uctil a o'clock. and California will get much of value, from his in- are open until P o'clock. 1200 Fillmore. open until 8 o'clock. prospective buildings contractors for their struction. There are two policies of vast importance of such and erection find it Unsafe to proceed, for they don't to the present and future of this State in which he . when they may touch a live wire in the labor can assist us. One is the prevention of forest fires, know * which destroy the standing crop and the forest-pro- situation. / proceedings of Murphy, Parks and the other; CONDITION OF TRADE. ducing character of the land and the other is the re- The planting of lands that have been stripped. In our walking delegates who have; been sentenced to the penitentiary bribery and extortion trade shows few new features. foothills and mountains are millions of acres, once in New York for in which no investor The volume of business appears smaller than timbered and now covered with chemisal, manzanita have revealed a labor situation calling money for at this time last year, but it was then abnor- and bush, useless for agriculture and horticul- Is safe. The of strikes to extort GENERAL coffee enor- pocket of walking delegate has inflicted nia.iv large and nobody conversant with the drift of ture, which can be made to bear timber. If Mr. the the and property owners. expected it to continue at high pressure Pinchot succeed in getting the work of replanting at mous losses upon contractors commerce allproduc- indefinitely. The shrinkage is partially illustrated by some point where it serves as an object lesson the There is a universal law which dominates tion. utterly whenever it has put a loss in the bank clearings of 41 9 P" cent from the of these lands willbe induced to replant them. It is exterminated owners When rail- corresponding week in 1002, while the aggregate True, it may be said that the crop is of slow growth upon it greater burdens than it can bear. freight upon any high clearings have still further decreased to $1,420420,000, and the man who plants may not harvest. But as roads charge a article so that in passing from producer to the smallest showing for several years. Another un- soon as the growth of the crop is established the its value is exhausted production satisfactory sign in this direction is that every impor- lands have value, and this willincrease until the crop consumer that ceases. Union labor hav- ing put upon construction a greater burden than it tant city in the country except Kansas City exhibits a is ready to cut. The soil is especially fitted for the can bear, that production ceases. loss, that at New York being 54.2 per cent, largely growth of coniferous trees and the yellow and sugar form of only planned $310,000,000 of railroad due, no doubt, to the marked decrease in stock spec- pine grow here more rapidly than elsewhere, so that It is not the building Chicago ulation in Wail street.