The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1923, Page 6

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This plan contem- plates the removal of the land from the tax lists, but substi- ay ethaen tutes a tax on timber at its ma- THE UNCLAIMED CALF THAT RAN AWAY FROM STATION AGENT | turity alien the second harvest “DAD KEYES WAS CADGHT AFTER AN EXCITING grea tee ,CHASE THRODGH THE FRONT YARDS IN THE EAST END OF TowN. |tax lists and as an alternative said |that the Weyerhauser interests | would grant the government 10,000 |acres of logged-off lands a year, in |return for one-half the timber at | end of the reforestration period. T. H. Donovan of the Bhoedel- | Donovan Co. stressed tne inability |of the timber barons to reforest the | lands they are logging. Other tum- ber barons of the state appeared be- fore the committee with similar pleas. According to Forest Supervisor Weigle, the present method of the |timber barons is to abandon the jland when it has been logged off |by refusing to pay taxes upon it. STANLEY | tlons to aid the individual states | fo finance their fire protection | service, The state of Washing- BY ALLMAN ton now gets approximately $34,- 000 » year from the federal gov- ernment for this purpose. {f coopeve , DANNY -You BE A GOOD Boy ToDAY “WHILE DADDY 1S AT THE OFFICE - SURE | WILL DADDY - You GOOD MORNING, OLIVIA! HOW ARE You | we THIS MORNING 2 f——~ GOOD MORNING, TOM- DON'T TICKVE MB LIKE NDS S SSS eS Sse SS SSS S SS SS S GOODBYE, HELEN, SEE You LATER! TOM - COME HOME EARLY- an GOODBYE, y GEE, TOM WAS IN y FINE SPIRITS THI s ~~, YES, AND | MORNING WASN'T DON'T .KNOW “J WHERE MY WITS lf WERE-1LET HIM GET AWAY WITHOUT GETTING ANY MONEY FROM HIM - He’S STI TOO YOUNG TO TAK - 1 S’POSE ? | FORESTRY OFFICIAL | ADMITS BUNKO GAME y. EB, Weigle, supervisor of the National forest, said that of the hearings wa: ain the views of the various states and communities and the corpora tions interested, with the purpose of making uniform regulations. He also sald that the government secks | to consolidate its forest holdings and proposes to trade virgin forest] stumpage for logged-off land on the/ | basis of dollar for dollar value. “The government pays from 50 cents to $2 an acre for this land and pays for it with stumpage of virgin timber,” Weigle said. “The purpose! | of the forest service is reforestation. | It ts our mission to guard logged-off land from fires, to permit the land to reforest itself. This is accom- plished west of the Cascades without any planting whatever in from 60 to years. At 75 years the new forest aches its greatest productive value.” Weigle admitted that the tim- ber trusts who are now reaping the harvest of mother nature's bounty in the vast forests of the state could reforest these lands by setting aside a very small portion of their profits for the . purpose of fire protection. Practically all of the timber hold- ings of the big companies who are operating in this state are either land grants or were obtained by dummy —homesteading, —§ Dummy homestending is the practice of the companies putting homesteaders on choice sections of land, paying them small salaries and small gratuities in return for the deeds to the lands when government patents are granted. A map of the Snoqualmie Nation. al forest shows the Weyerhaueser Interests with a huge block of stand- ing timber, totaling approximately 75,000 acres, and with key sections of timber at the junction of creeks thruout the entire forest reserve. These key sections were purchased from the Northern Pacific railroad or from dummy homesteaders, it is claimed. | | This throws the land back upon the county at the end of five years, and it then reverts to the state or | national government, to buy it up | from the counties and to reforest it |by guarding it from fires. | MUST PROTECT LAND | FROM FIRE HAZARD “The forest lands of the state are rapidly being cut over,” Weigle said. | “The companies are now removing approximately six billion feet a year, The logged-off land must be protected from fire or the forests will disappear, The lumber dollar extends to every industry and busi- ness In this state. It is one of the principal assets. The federal gov- ernmeny wants the states to protect these logged-off lands. Unkess the states do it, the federal government will step In.” Weigle denied that the govern. ment contemplates exchanging vast areas of virgin timber for logged- off land. He said that while this is being done on a small scale now, it is merely for the purpose of con- solidating government reserves and holdings to make fire protection caster. Dean Winkenwerder said that Senator McNary had told him very little virgin timber land is being exchanged for logged off land, and that in places where scenic beauty of highways is marred by the ex- change, the government is refus- ing to deed away any of their tim- ber holdings. Just how far the alleged con- spiracy has progressed and its final success depends largely upon the investigations Senator Dill will make when he arrives at Wash- ington, it is belleved. Charge Girl Used Others’ Accounts Accused of using the charge ac: counts of prominent Seattle families to obtain articles of clothing at downtown stores, Dorothy Butler, 18, is being held by the police. She was arrested Monday night, at Sec. ond and Pike, by Detectives Martin Cleary and D. M. Blaine, after she was identified as the girl who had represented herself as a member of E George Long, representing the Weyerhauser interests of the state several families with extensive pur- chasing powers. WEATHER; even more delightful fall, is vi temperatures, Tho last real indication of rain 2, when a slight precipitation was man, .10 Inches to be exact. Melv! other parts of the country have kind of weather, from heat wave: the fruit crop in the ear, rate, and that is as far ahead a SEATTLE ENJOYS BALMY . EAST SHIVERS Qua emerging from a most delightful summer into an lewing with interest the weather reports from the East and South of frost, rain, cold winds and\low here came on Sunday, Septembor chalked up against the weather. in B, Summers, the new weather man, is getting away with his job in fine style, it seems, for all been subjected to every possible son ths Atlantic and California coasts to frosts In the Middlo West, Wyoming and South Dakota experienced their first real taste of Jack Frost's handiwork Monday night, when chilling frost bit Rain fell in the plains states and along tho Mississippi valley in abundance. Seattle will not have rain for another two or three days, at any is the weather departmen ares to predict. For the last 48 hours the mercury has hovered between 60 and 70 and will continue to do so for a like period of time, according to barometric indications.