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land for the last time and reached 

 the mouth of the Columbia on June 

 3rd. 1830, remaining; in Ore^c^i until 

 the autumn, Avhen he sailed for 

 Monterey. Here he remained until 

 the next summer, discovering' no 

 less than a hundred and fifty species 

 of undescribed plants, and then 

 sailed for the Sandwich Islands. In 

 the autumn of this year he returned 

 to the Columbia Ri\er, and in the 

 following summer extended his ex- 

 planation as far north as the Fraser 

 River, in which he was wrecked, 

 losing- his collections and instru- 

 ments, and barely escaping- with his 

 life. But the beauties; of tropical 

 vegetation lured him from the awful 

 solitude of the sombre fir forests of 

 the northwest, and in October, 1833, 

 he sailed again for the Sandwich Is- 

 lands. Here he passed the winter, 

 and on the 12th of July, 1834, while 

 engaged in exploring the high peaks 

 of the island, he fell into a pit in 

 which a wild Indl had been cap- 

 tured and several hours later was 

 found dead and terriljly mangled. 



"Douglas is said t') have intro- 

 duced two hundred and seventeen 

 species of plants into English gar- 

 dens, the list including many valu- 

 able and beautiful trees, like the 

 Redwood, the Sugar Pine, and the 

 Douglas Fir. No other collector has 

 ever reaped such a harvest in Amer- 

 ica, or associated his name with so 

 many useful plants. By an unfor- 

 tunate hazard of rate the noble 

 Douglas Fir, the most important 

 timber-tree introduced Ijy Douglas 

 and one of the most \'aluable trees 

 in the world, does not, as might well 

 have been the case, perpetuate his 

 name in the language of science, 

 and it is a humble i)rimrose-like al- 

 pine herb wdiich commemorates this 

 explorer of forests and discoverer of 

 mighty trees." 



Canadian 'Paper in U.S. 



In reply to a criticism at the re- 

 cent newsjn-int "combine'' investiga- 

 tion at Washington, Philip T. 

 Dodge, i)resident of the Internation- 

 al Paper Co., made the following 

 statement : 



"It has 1)een the boast and is the 

 ])(dic}' of the International Paper 

 Company that no ])ublisher having 

 a contract with it shall exer sufifer 

 1)_\' reason of fire, flood, interru]jtion 

 of railroads, strikes, or anv <)ther in- 

 terruption under wdiich the company 

 might claim exemption from its con- 

 tracts to furnish paper. Although 

 it is the policy of the company to 

 keep from 37,000 to 40,000 tons in 

 storage, at present the reserve is 

 down to about 17,000 tons. There 

 has been an aljnormal demand for 

 news])rint paper. Our mills are 

 and have been operating at maxi- 

 mum capacity, twenty-four hours a 

 day and six days in the week. We 

 make one-third of the newsprint pa- 

 per in the United States ; one-third 

 is made in Canada, and the rest by 

 companies with which I have no 

 connection. The unjust laws of 

 the United States are sending the 

 newsiM'int business of the United 

 .States into Canada. A few years 

 ago there was an investigation of 

 the paper business by a tariflf com- 

 mission, wdiich found that the Ca- 

 nadians had an advantage of about 



$5 a ton OA'er us. Yet Congress, 

 wdien it cam,e to consider that re- 

 port, placed newsprint pa])er on the 

 free list ,therebv increasing our dis- 

 adxantage. At the time newsprint 

 ])a])er was nlaced on the free list 

 fifty tons of paper were being im- 

 ported from Canada every day. At 

 present the importation amounts to 

 1,000 tons." 



