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 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 1lnc, 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. Boston and Philadelphia we have the best conditions for reforesting and a construction and in New York and 1 exterminated, but the blight will fall show losses of 29 and 34 per cent respectively, while prospect of the quickest retur-n. .. that will be everywhere and in every city. In Chicago enjoys the smallest decrease, it being only But the planting of trees for a forest crop is a new upon construction Chicago the owner of a building under per cent. As tar as these clearings are an indica- thing with our people. They know all other sorts of construction 6.4 by the to change tion the country is doing less business than in 1902, planting for crops which our lands produce, but this was-notified labor unions concerned but it may be quite as profitable in net results. The is novel. As soon as they are instructed they may be contractors and iake one 'that the unions dictated when the finished. exaction was failures for the week were 172, against 205 last year, depended upon to take it up with enthusiasm and work was half This the owner was compelled to and there were none large enough to attract atten- intelligence. A forestry school in the university submitted to. Then $1 per tion beyond their locality. would be of material benefit in this matter, and Mr. pay to the unions a fine of thousand on the in the building and the work There were several favorable features last week. Pinchot's promotion of that foundation is highly ap- brick that had been used was submitted to. Some sections of the country reported a better fall preciated. was suspended until this exaction There were no given beyond an exhibit of demand for goods than last year, and more favorable The forests of the continent are making their last reasons weather stimulated the retail trade in others. It stand here. Here therefore should be concentrated the power to enforce the demands made. In this of construction has been increased and is now kugwn that the crops of the country will not the efforts of the friends of the forest to preserve way the cost hampered until and contractors be a.- enormous as expected along in the spring, but what we have and begin the creation of more, for its progress investors risk and they willquit. NAVY, of the great farm staples show a serious falling not elsewhere in the world is the forest as important are tired of the so ADMIRALGEORGE DEWEY OF THE UNITED STATES WHO WAS NOT FAVORABLY IMPRESSED BY none' THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC FLEET THAT RECENTLY ENGAGED IN SUMMER crop steadily diminished sire every people. Investors in business buildings in cities arrange off. The wheat has in to material interest of the MANEUVERS OFF THE COAST OF MAINE. with the advancement of the season, and the last their leases in advance. Their prospective tenants in to give up their present quarters and Government report, issued on Friday, indicates a An American who killed his partner in Mexico was turn arrange winter and spring wheat yield of about sentenced a few days ago by a Mexican court to serve the landlord jn his turn arranges f6F~new lessees. • DMIRAL DEWEY, in a letter published in the Navy with the rank and three-fourths of the sea pay of the next combined higher grade." 700.000,000 an imprisonment cases these interruptions of con- League Journal, calls attention to the list of American Nineteen officers who entered the Naval 620.000.000 bushels, against anywhere from of sixteen months for criminal care- In countless erratic /\ Academy during will eligible aa rear g\ naval vessels "which some difficulty 1864 be —for retirement confidently figured on in the early lessness. This ought to suggest itself as a valuable struction so drag out the 'completion of buildings with have been admirals even If the last one of these J. A. H. Nickels, who to 750.000.000 assembled on the coast of Maine for tlie summer ma- — more net addition to the Penal Code of California cover the that the time limit .of the leases expires, but the retires January 12. 1911 does not reach the higher grade prior -pring. Prices are good, however, and to neuvers of this year." The admiral goes on to say: "It-will his retirement. The Navy Department has ruled dangerous prospective agreed to give up their pres- to that a money m2y be realized from the diminished crop cases of that extremely element known as lessees have be heralded to the world- by ignorant journalists as a force^ midshipman on probation, serving on one of the cruising their successors are waiting to take afloat, Naval Academy, was performing service, than if it had been larger. The South reports excel- deer hunters. ent quarters and able to cope with any fleet and a few of the irre- vessels of the war them; sponsible writers will think of comparing it with the evolu- and under this liberal construction of the law some have lent prospects for corn, cotton, rice and sugar. so it occurs that men are thrown out of busi- retired with the highest rank pay, tionary squadrons of Great Britain, France and Germany." already been and placing to sacrifice their stock and suffer great them the footing such bona fide aj Lumber still rules firm and active in the West, but PROHIBITION IN THE SOUTH. ness and have Following the fleet on same as war veterans and in some ruin, allbji reason of the in- Is a list of In the North Atlantic Gherardl, Benham, Ramsay, "Walker and many othera. :.he Eastern markets are stillmore or less inactive, as loss cases referred to by Admiral Dewey: on walking The sailors and marines the Muino are not capital has not yet recovered from the sharp scare it New Hampshire and Vermont have aban- terference of the delegate with construction. desirous of serving on that and resort to all sorts of to get out "Old Heine," as they country seemed be ancient policy of total prohibition Itis a.case of putting upon that form of production methods of have nicknamed got last spring whin the whole to doned their •» S § »1 xj * It. More than 200 sailors are reported to have deserted sines ¦ - greater bear, goes 8 3 cither on strike or about toJ go on one, and the cost and have entered upon a trial of license and a burden than it will and the loss NAME. .? "% o Main Battery. the ship came to Philadelphia five months ago- for repairs, SINCE ; '. i iu not the wages had advanced to a point where local option, the stalwart and stern prohibitionists back and blights all dependent .forms of production, and one "answered to call for. volunteers posted up of material and at League Island. Sailors seem to think that the "hoodoo" hopes the and so times begin. extended building operations had become more or have turned their to South. In those hard Alabama B. S. 1S98 11,525 17.10 15.00 4 13-inch; 14 6-Inch on the Texas has been transferred to the Maine or that hoped Illinois B. S. 1898 11,525 17.45 15.00 4 13-inch; 14 6-inch are two ships navy. of; >ss hazardous. States where once the Puritan was derided there now It was that union labor would be admon- ... 11,625 there now hoodoo in the The case Kearsarge .... B. S. 1S08 10.S2 15.00 4Kl-in; 4«-ln: 14 5-in. the. Texas is one to upset the nerves of such susceptible peo- feeling in the iron and steel trades in still seems to be more of the spirit of Puritanism than ished by the exposure of Murphy, Parks and other Indiana B. S. 1893 10.2S8 15.55 10.00 413-in; 88-ln; 4 6-in. Faulty The Massachusetts B. S. iv.t:: 10,288 10.2112.00 413-in; 8 8-ln; 4 6-in. ple as sailors. construction necessitated a new bot- rate, walking delegates. But instead of that the unions gun somewhat pessimistic and buyers are holding off, in New England itself. At any the progress of Texas B. S. 1S02 C.315 17.0S 14.00 2 12-inch; 6 6-inch tom and new deck and a continued series of accidents prohibition South has become one of the have voted to them the same confidence and leader- Olymnla P. C. 1892 5,870 21.C9 16.00 4 8-inch; 10 5-lnch due to mismanagement made "the sailors shy of the ship. while some descriptions have declined still further. in the Baltimore .... P. C. 18S8 4.41.1 20.10 15.00 12 tt-inch; 6 3-Jnch But the defects in the Maine are due to causes that have Provisions have shown more animation at Western salient features of the times and is sufficiently remark- ship in convict stripes that they enjoyed in plain Mayflower C. 1830 2.600 16.80 15.CO 10 6-pounders ••• been remedied and it Is somewhat premature to stigmatize PraJrie C. 1H00 6.872 14.50 12.00 8 6-lnch ship "hoodoo." packing centers and supplies of cattle and hogs are able tc attract general attention. clothes, and this has been the determining cause of Panther C. 1889 4,200 13.00 10.50 6 6-Inch; 2 4-inch the as a canceling $310,000,000 Yankee. C. 1892 6,8S« 12. CIO 10.00 8 5-inch reported more plentiful and gradually increasing, a According to a prohibition organ, "The «New the of in contracts for con- Topeka G. B. 1881 2.372 16.00 12.00 G 4-inch The cigarette habit among the youngsters on board tha production. Newport. G.B. 1893 1,000 12.20 11.00 6 4-inch training ships at Portland, England, has spread to natural consequence of the boom in livestock of the Voice," published in Chicago, there are now more structive Scorpion ...;. B. 850 17.85 15.CO 6 6-pounders such an G. 1896 extent as to cause the officer In charge to resort to drastio years, during which many stock the State of New York alone than in the Vixen G.B. 1896 806 16.0014.00 4 6-pounders past four or five saloons in Dolphin D. B. 1884 1.4S6 15.50 13.00 2 4-inch measures. He has closed up a number of tobacco shops and 1 dealers have discovered raisers have accumulated fortunes. entire eleven States of the South. Itis said that in Local inlive Chinese stock Hartford T. S. 1858 2,790 12.00 10.00 13 5-inch threatened other stores with similar method of stopping the in the substitution of old, decrepit men for young Kssex .... T. S. 1874 1.375 10.04 8.00 « 4-lnch supply of cigarettes to the boys of the six training ships The New York stock market continues tame and Texas 136 counties have total prohibition, 62 partial, Monongahela Sail. 1862 2,100 :.... a 4-inch harbor, men a new and profitable scheme withwhich to cheat . located in the besides three others making Portland without any particular tendency in either direction. and in 46 the sale of liquors is unrestricted. Ten- Abbreviations: B. S.. battleship; P. C. protected ; C. their headquarters at the end of their cruises. A3 In the public towns and cities; only eight the exclusion law. It has been very apparent for cruiser; G. B., ; D, B., dispatch boat; T. 8.. training thlp. case of Bremerton, on this coast, the business men of Port- Fluctuations of late have been narrow and the nessee has 5500 in of will have comply that there should a few more lawyers land to with the request of the naval au- urc holding aloof. No more is heard of the forma- them is there unrestricted sale; in only 12 of the 06 some time be In addition to the above vessels there were also five de- thorities or lose the profitable trade of 3000 officers, men and. gigantic syndicates with vast capitalizations. counties can liquor be sold legally. In Kentucky in San Quentin. . The profession is not adequately stroyers, three tugs, eight colliers and supply vessels, mak- boys. ffSTaS tion of 47 ing total of thirty-six The British Admiralty recently circular letter to partial represented in the penitentiary... ¦•¦¦ a craft of. all kinds. sent a th© Their day has passed for the present. New York counties have total prohibition, 54 and in 18 The above fleet is remarkable only because of its non- several dockyards and shore stations, requesting' the view3 authority practicability emnloylng 1 bankers say that the supply of undigested securities free sale is permitted. Arkansas has 44 teetotal coun- Ifnothing else laudatory may be said of the schem- homogeneity. Only three of the could be depended of those in as to the of they like, legal upon to set the pace at fifteen knots. The five battleships women as copyists, flagmakers. upholsterers, etc. The ma- has not even yet become eliminated, but it has been ties, while 29 can sell as with no re- ers who have precipitated the postal scandal upon and two protected constituted the sole fighting force, jority of the replies were not favorable to the employment reduced to a point where it is no longer a serious strictions. Georgia has 100 prohibition counties, with they may thor- as the four cruisers are converted merchant steamers, any one of women on work done by men. the nation be commended for the