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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1916)
FCF 6 CROOK .COUNTY JOURNAL CREGOfl NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUHTEREST Important Occurrences of Past Week Briefly Compiled for Cur Readers. The state land board has advertised for sale S2.000 acrKs of school land tn Malheur county and 640 aeret in Lake county. Bids will be received by -the board Deoember 19. ' Mrs. John A. Colter has been ap pointed postmaster at Glenada, Lane county, in place of J. A. Wilkinson, resigned, and George V. Perry has been named at Perry, Culon county,' to succeed Leon B. Stoddard, also re signed. Nearly 100 Portland business men made a five-day excursion to the Coos bay country last week in the hope of persuading the people there that Tort land can and will make It better for them to trade in Oregon than in San Francisco. An additional unit will be started immediately by the Carnation Milk Products company to the plant at Hillsboro. The building, estimated to cost $50,000, will be of concrete and hollow tile, with dimensions of 100 by 170 feet, and two stories In height. . The next "farmers week" at the Oregon agricultural college will be held the first week in January, and it is expected that fully 2000 farmers from every section of the state will gather at the big school to discuss their problems and to get expert ad rice. - The greatest worry of Hood River orchardists at the present time comes from a shortage of cars needed to transport boxes from northwestern lumber centers. Without boxes suf ficient to handle their crops scores of growers are forced to halt their pack ing operations. So successful has been the passen ger business of the Mount Hood Rail road company in the Hood River val ley with its new rail auto the past summer that the schedule of the rail motor car will be continued through out the winter Unless heavy snows block the line. ' "i . That the erection of a large saw mill to handle the 124,000.000 feet V government timber on the middle fork of the John Day river will be started at once, is the announcement of Frank Mitchell, president -of the Pacific States Investment company, which purchased the tinibo.r. Mrs. C. M. Mtxloek, of Salem, was instantly killed, and Mrs. A. M. Mat lock and two-year-old daughter, , Kl Icon; of Dallas, sustained cuts' about the face when a small automobile they occupied collided head on with , car driven by Christian ,-Miu, of Silverton, one mile below Salem. ' kH. J. Fiugtrsld, manager at the Portland, West Coast Railroad & Na vigation company, Is at N'e-wpurt with the company's chief engineer and 15 men running lines for the proposed railroad from there to Portland by way of McMinuville, ' following the coast to the Salmon river. The , Oregon state fish and .game commission will liberate 2000 China pheasants which have been raised on the Corvallis state game farm In dif ferent parts of the Willamette valley, beginning this week. Iu order not to be too easy prey for hunters, they have been raised in as nearly wild surrounding as possible. Public pulse concerning bulk ship ment of wheat from interior points to tidewater is being sounded out In east ern Oregon by G. B. Hegardt, engin eer for the public docks commission at Portland, and Q. h'. Hurd' for Ore gon agricultural college. They have also been in the Colfax, Palouse and other wheat belts of Washington. The mile and a half of road' on the Columbia river highway between the east end of Multnomah county and Cascade locks, which, because of the high bluffs and inaccessibility of the sun at that place, has been the only important barrier against all-year travel to Hood River, is now paved. The pavement, which represents a cost of about $10,000, Is' a gift from S. Benson. The Wlttenburg-KIng company of The Dalles, formerly known as the Dri-Fresh company, has contracted with the Hood Rrtver Apple Growers' association tov take up 6000 tons of family grade fruit Including the smaller sizes and fruit perfect except for some surface blemish that? would render it undesirable for commercial pack. The deal will bring a handsome profit to- growers. The opening of the large section of richly productive country '; between Grants Pass and Waldo is now assur ed, according to a report that John Twohy and his son, Robert Twohy, of Twohy Bros, company of San Francis co, have succeeded in arranging the sale' of 12,000,000 of bonds of. the old proposed California & Coast' railroad. It is the present Intention to extend the road from Wilderville to Waldo, a distance of 45 miles from Grants Puss. The Wasco counts court has made an apportionment of the proposed bond.fsaue of $200,000 for highway improvement to be voted on at tlu November election. The apportion ment t as follows: -MoBler via Dry Creek to The ' Dalles, $!1.000; The Dalles to Petersburg. $34.00(1; The Dnllea to Pufiir, $27,500; Ptifur to top of Tygh grade,' $27,500; top of Tygh gra.le to Mnupln, $20,000; Mnupln to Pakeoven, Shantko, Antelope ajul south to the Jelferaon comity Hue, ti0,o0. A gravity water system to supply Richland and the unincorporated town of Newbridge two ami one-half miles to the north, has been decided upon. The Southern Pacific car shortage established a new hlgn record iu re ports received by the state public commission 'Saturday, the total being 184.V llarley Yetter, a rancher, was fined $250 by Justice of the Peace Parkes at Pendleton and forfeited his gun and hunting license for unlawfully killing a C'hloa pheasant. ' - The assessed value of all property on the Clackamas county assessment rolls has shrunk $1, 200.000 in the last year. Including the loss of the Oregon & California grant hinds". Ptiildiug records for Baker of ssv eral years were broken by the total ol the year ending September 30. The permits for 1!I6 totalled $210,989. Which is double the amount for 1915. Oregon's total registration for the general election next month will be approximately 273.000, or nearly SO,-' 000 below the 1914 registration, ac cording to estimates by Secretary of Stat Olcott. Frank Smith, of Portland, and James O'Brien, of Coos county, two of the worst characters In the Oregon prison. made their escape from the building provided for Incorrigible! and degenerates. The people of North Bend have started agitation to have the name of the town changed to Coos Bay, which is proposed to Include the contem plated consolidated towns of North Bend and Marshfleld. ' Figures of liquor importation Into Multnomah county during September show a gain of nearly 2000 shipments over August. In September the total shipments were 15,245 as compared with 13.284 In August. Building of a shipbuilding plant at Warrenfos) Is to start within a few days, according to announcement of Spokane men who have formed the American Shipbuilding company. The plant is to cost $100,000. "T?jl'!!i'sf Such tobacco enjoyment as you never thought could be is yours to command quick as you buy some Prince Albert and fire-up a pipe or a home-made cigarette! Prince Albert gives you every tobacco sat-. isfaction your smoke- ' appetite ever hankered for. That's because it's made by a patented process that cuts out bite and parch! Prince Albert been sold without coupons or We prefer to give quality I mii ii, iihipiiii'i mi. iiiiiiwiusiimiiMiiMii.mniii i iiiiiniu m- Awm 4 has always premiums. 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C Bay Print Albert tvmry svAwre tobacco it told in loppy fid oaf, Set tidy rod tint, lOet handsomj pound and half-pound tin hami dorm ana-that corking fino pound cryttal-giatt numi' dor with tpongo-moutmnor top that htmpt thu tobacco in much clmm trim alwayml The Journal has the largest sworn circulation of any paper in Central Oregon. Thought for today. The Want Advertiser gets satisfactory results I Will Reduce Your Taxes !! Improved methods in the assessor's office, strict and efficient duty and the interests of the taxpayers of Crook county will reduce your taxes vry materially Present Methods of Conducting the Assessor's Office of Crook .County are Many Years behind the Times On your farm the sulky and gang plow has replaced the walking plow for the reason that one man can do as much work as three or more did with the old method. The binder, header and combine replaced the cradle and scythe long ago for the same reason. In the factory machines are being invented to take the place of men, for labor is the expensive element. . In the offices and stores all kinds of devices are in use to do the work many people and the successful people use these judiciously. One of the most valuable and inexpensive inventions for any office is a system of manifold forms, or a set of blanks where, by the use of carbon paper and a typewriter, one person can do as much work and better work in a day as a half dozen can do with the old method, pen and ink. Such a system has been worked out for use in the assessor's office and has been in use for years in many counties in this state. Do you know the different steps that are taken in getting your taxes collected) It is something like this: After the blanks are brought into the office and the field work is done the name and address of the party assessed and the description of the property is written into a large book with pen and ink. After they are all put on this book, which requires many weeks, a second party takes the books and extends the rolls. This work consists in part of figuring the amount of taxes collectable in ' the different road and school districts and filling in these figures again with a pen. Fol lowing this worker comes another, who makes out on another form, the tax notice which is mailed to you This notice is made up by the grouping together of your timber and farm land holdings, city property and whatever else you have and getting it all onto the tax notice. Later, should you happen to not have the notice when you come to the office to pay your taxes, another search must be made to get the amounts all together, another form made out by the tax collector, which is your receipt, and then after the roll is credited up for the amounts you have paid, the process is complete. Some Work Isn't it? And Work of This Kind Costs You Money By the system which has proven such a success in other counties all of these things are done by the first operation in the office of the assessor, a loose leaf book with pages about the size of a sheet of letter paper being used, and all of every tax payer's property is listed on one sheet much in the same way as your atcount is kept at the grocery store. ' The typewriter and carbon process enables the assessor to make up all of the forms while the matter is there fresh in his mind, and mistakes and much expense is avoided In other words, I pledge myself to handle this office just like you handle your private busines in such a way as to get the most for the money expended. If you believe in a reduction of taxes that is what I stand for. If you are satisfied or want higher taxes do not vote for me for my platform is "Economy and Equal Assessments to All" if i am Elected Assessor of Crook County on November 7 I will do the work in this manner and will save you a large amount of money in the handling of that office R. D. KETCHUM, for ASSESSOR of CROOK COUNTY 1 PM AHv.