THE LANE COUNTY NEWS
W. A. DILL
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Editor and Mnnagor
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Published Every Monday nnd Thursday by the Laiio County Pub-
1 lisbing Association.
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; Membor of tho Stnto Editorial Association.
Member of tlfo Willamette Valley Editorial Association.
iAnd Remember to Get a Stop-Over for Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1915
THE HARMONY PLEA AND ACTIONS
A number of Portland business men have been touring the
Willamette valley the past few days, asking support for the
Land Products show in Portland, and urging greater co-operation
between the metropolis and the country back of it. Their
move is a very proper one, because Orgou as a state cannot
prosper unless Portland, and the Willamette valley and south
ern Oregon and eastern Orgon all prosper.
Actions, however, are said to speak much louder than
words. Just at this time some of the lumber mills of Portland-,
with the support of one of the newspapers the Telegram, are
making a great noise about the new. fright rates-on lumber
from Willamette valley points to northern California points,
and they are trying to get the Portland Chamber of Commerce
to champion the fight against the rates.
, Let us examine the situation. Portland is a large lumber
manufacturing center, and has the means of shipping its pro
duct eastward, and southward by rail, and both to California
and foreign ports by water. . The foreign trade offers a very
great outlet for itse product, and is a field the inland mills
cannot hope to reach. On shipments eastward, as far as the
Montana lines, Pocatello, Idaho, to be exact, Portland mills
enjoy a lower rate than do the Willamette valley mills. This
differential, which varies from 2 1-2 cents to ten, gives over
eastern Oregon to the Portland mills and shuts out the Will
amette valley mills.
Now to the southward of Portland there are a number
of lumber mills that must depend entirely upon the railroad
as' a means of getting their product to market. The differ
ential on east bound traffic cuts them off from the eastern
Oregon and the Idaho fields. Nearer, however, and without
other large supply is the California field, which geographically
is the logical, near-by field for the valley mills. These mills,
being nearer, are entitled to a lower rate, just as the Portland,
mills, being nearer the Idaho market are entitled to lower
rates into that country than are the valley mills.
. The Portlanld mills are selfish, and want the whole show.
They want the Idaho differential increased, and now they are
demanding that they be given the same rates into California
that the valley mills have.
They need not be censured for asking for all they can
get, but they are censurable for their misrepresentations.
They attempt to create prejudice by quoting the northern
limits of. the valley rates practically at the limits of Portland.
As a matter of fact, there are no shipping mills within miles
of Portland, nor are there likly to be,, for the timber in that
immediate territory is cut. When the Telegram howls about
a rate of four cents from Portland to Oregon City, and 17 1-2
from Oregon City to California'it states a freight tariff fact,
but not a lumber-shipping fact, for the narest large mill on
the Southern Pacific is at Salem, 53 miles from Portland, and
under the rules of the Interstate Commerce commission the
shorter haul should be for the less rate. The same article in
the Telegram gives differentials of 4, 7 1-2 and 11 cents, and
does not explain the discrepancies. A hypothetical mill is put
up at Ashland and its product is hauled, by newspaper, into
Idaho at the same rate is the product from a real Portland
mill, forgetting that the Portland porduct can be given a rate
into southern California, equal to that from a mill at, Ashland,
if there is one. To read the complaint, one would think the
Portland mills would have to-stop if they could not get a big
. slice of the northern California trade away from the Valley
mills.
And then we turn the page and find that Portland mills
have orders for shipment this month of ten million feet of
lumber to foreign ports.
LABOR'S SHARE OF RAiLWAY EARNINGS.
:, . (From the Spokane Spokesman-Review)
Computations by the United States bureau of railway
economics just published from Washington, do not bear out
' t,he contention that capital is taking an undue share of the
bnrnhifc rf Amorlran Inrlnatrv
As shown by the appended table, 1,095,483 railway em
ployes received in wages in 1914 a little more than 45 pov
cent of the gross earnings of the railroads .of the United
States.
These figures, however, do not tell the whole story. They
cover only the sums paid out directly by tho railroads for the
labor of their own employes.
A large part of the remaining 55 per cen of gross earn
ings went, indirectly, but nonoe the less tangibly, to labor.
For example, railroads must make greaLoutlays for coal.
Labor took Its share of that. Milfons of new ties must be laid
every year. Woodsmen took something from the 55 per cent.
Old locomotives and cars must bo constantly replaced with
new. Work and wages there for the employes of the car man
ufacturers and the locomotive -works. .Steel rails must be laid
in place of old; work and wages for mn ln jrqnfinHls.
t. The railroads require countless' tons' 'dif printed forms.
stationery ticicetsuetc. wprk anu wagesfor the printers; and
mey must. aYerusoi"anuijiat oisinouies anouier-portion of
;the 55 percent. tism
VaBt payments nro mntlo In tnxoB, and theno are dln
tributcd to the employea.bf the Blntoa, cqunties and cities.
Portions of tho remaining 55 per cent should bo traced to
probably 100 different ramifications; and what-is loft after all
that sifting goes to capital to payment of IntorOsl on tho
bonded debt and dividend on tho stock, If payment is loft uftor
tho bonds have been satisfied.
But good times or bad times, labor must and should be
paid, and tho government records show that It Is bottr paid
than was the case 10 years ago.
In 1905 the average per man was $(507. In 1014 It was
$810, nnd lucreas of $203, or 33.4 per cent.
Every genroua minded prson would bo pleased If the rail
way workers could bo still bettor paid. But It must be ap
parent to tho retlectlng mind that any considerable increase
under exlxsting conditions would load inevitably to one of two
ends most of tho railroads would go into bankruptcy, or
freight rates and fares would have to bo advanced.
Jitney Ordinance Arguments
ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF SAID ORDINANCE
SUHM1TTEI) IK J. II UOWEH
Tho Ordinance provides for tho HoRUlatlou, McensluK anil Taxing
ot Public Carriers of Passengers, making regular trips nt stated times,
which nro not under tho control of the Railroad CoiiiiuIhsIoii ot Oregon.
Section 1 provides that all such carriers shall furnish to tho City
Recorder a cchedule showing
1. Tlmo of arrival and departure of tholr conveyances.
2. Location ot tho terminals of tholr lino.
3. Rato of faro to tho various stations.
4. Name of owner ot tho business.
5. Tho location ot tho principal olllco. .
C The namo of somo person in I.niio County, authorized to
receive noticos for tho said currier..
As all transportation companies under tho control ot tho State Rail
road Commission nro required to furnish such statement, nnd as tho
fucts called for are ot vital Interest to tho public, wo fail to sco how
anyone intending to conduct a lcgitimnto business could object to fur
nishing any ot them.
As tho business Is now conducted, tho owners of tho conveyances
arc unknown to tho public. Their names do not appear upon tho ve
hicles or elsewhere, nnd tho buslneis may bo sold and transferred from
owner to owner nt will without any public record so that In case of
injury It would bo Impossible for tho one injured to know who was tho
party llablo to respond in daniagos.
The tlmo of arrival p.n& departuro of tho conveyance Is wholly nt
tho will ot tho owner, and ho may and does change the same nt pleasure,
and any prson relying upon tho conveyance may bo put to great Incou
vcnlenco by a chango of schedulo ot which no notice has been given.
The rato of faro now is wholly determined by tho ownor, nnd Is sub
ject to change according to his will. ,
At the time this ordinance was passed the rato was ten cents from
Springfield to Eugene, but It has slnco been reduced to llvo cents, nnd ho
has the right to chnifko it in any way ho deems proper, without notice.
While this ordinance applies alike to all carriers, Including tho Hluo
River nnd McKenzIo River stages, as well as to the Jltnoy, tho latter
will be the most atfected by It, and is tho only one raising any objections
to it, so far as I have heard.
Whether the owner of tho Jitney Is a person, a partnership, or a
corporation, and where such owner lesldes, or Is incorporated or claims
his' residence and citizenship aro all unknown to tho general public who
entrust their lives to his keeping when they ride in his busses, and In
in tho event ot an nccldent involving damages in excess of tho vnluo
of the buss, it is extremely probably that no responsible owner could
be found, or if found, he would be a non-resident ot tho state.
A Just regard for tho rights and welfare of tho public demand that
all tho matters mentioned In Section Ono of tho Ordinance bo mado a
mattor of Public Record.
Section 2 provides for the payment monthly In advance of five conls
for each round trip scheduled to bo run during tho month.
This is an occupation tax. which undor tho terms of sections X
and 49 of Section 50 of the Springflold Charter, the Common (Jouncil Is
authorized to impose
Those sections nre ns follows:
"Section 50. The Common Council shall havo power and
authority within the' corporate limits of the Town of Springfield
"33. To control and regulate tho manner In whlgh Public
Carriers operate and manage their conveyances, hacking., coaches,
wagons, carts, drays and omnlbussos, or other vehlclos, and
the shape and width of tiro to bo used upon tho.whcols of tho
same and to tax and license such carriers.
"49. To license, tax and regulate nil such callings, trades,
nnd employments as the public good may require to bo licensed,
taxed, or regulated and as not prohibited by law."
The street railway Is under tho control of tho Stnto Railroad Com
mission, which has power to regulate amount and manner of service nnd
equipment, and tho rates of fare,' but tho Jitney busses are not undor tho
control of tho State Board. Tho street railway is taxed, and n sharo of
that tax is paid to the Town of Springfield, propo'rtior.nto to tho mlleago
of the railway within the town. m
The street railway was compelled to build its own bridge nnd con
struct its own railroad, and Is under obligation to keep its tracks and
the portion of tho street UBed by It in good repair at its own expense..
The Jitney i3 not under the control of anyone except its ownor who-
Notice
Our contract with the Fidelity
Stamp Co. expires Oct. 29. We
do not know whether we will
continue the Fidelity stamps.
See about your premiums.
COX & COX
Trespass Notice.
AH persons are hereby warn
ed not to hunt or otherwise trea
poss on the Thomas Brattaln
estate.
PAUL BRATTAIN.
NOTICE OF ROAD DISTRIST
MEETING
Classified Ads
For Sale, Rent, Waated, Etc.
T. WHOM IT MAY 'CONCERN':
Kof'ce is horoby given by tho un
,'r,f.i (,vr.,iVorg 0f Road District
No. 5, constituting over ten per cent
lie tsje-ayora of the said Roqd
District, that a meeting of tho rosl
flent taxpayers of said Road District
will be held on the 20th day of Novom
ber. A. D 1915, at ono o'clock P, M
at Lower Camp Creek school house, Jn
said district, for tho purpoBO of voting
an ftddltlonal tax for road purposes.
Stroud W. Long, V. R. Elliott, P, A.
Wenger, J. C. Trotter, D Stephens. O.
F. allrtley J. A. Crabtree, J. K, Platts.
77-0-1.
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i;!;tQ'i,8' Box 463, Eugene, Orp,i ,
TAKEN UP Twelve head of
cattle on hill ranch south of
town. Owner should claim
the same and pay pasturage
within one week, or the ani
mals will bo put In tho city
pond. J. W. MACIIBN.
WANTED A second hand bi
cycle with clincher tires. Must
I3e in good condition.. P. S.
Jordan, Phone 130W3.
FOR TRADE Eugene resi
; dence property for Springfield
Residnc AjcUssevsTG
FOR SALE First class Jersoy
cow, giving a good flow milk.
See E. M. Crawford, Spring
field Junction.
FOR SALE At a bargain close
in residence lot. Browning
Realty Co. . '
FOR SALE Wagon and har
ness cheap, Call at News
office. .
LOST-M3etwcen Fifth and A
'''fetfe'ets and Booth-Kelly of
fice a merchaum' 'pipegold-
v, -Tp 06-323 MfttL
We Have a Will.
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iri our Vault at The First National
Bank of Springfield, and you are
Welcome to deposit your will in this
,$rong box for safe keeping without
cost.
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Best Groceries
For Less Money
The Fifth Street Grocery
Thos. Sikes, Prop. Phone 22
OUR GROCERIES
are famous for quality and
wo savo you money on
what you buy here. We
sell Dependable Coffees and
Teas and everything else is
dependable which wo sell.
Nice & Miller
Op Commercial State Rank
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK, EUGENE, OREGON.
Established 1883
Capital and Surplus - - - $303,000.00
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NoUjco Is hereby given that the hit
(loralHiied has been appointed by tho
CounSy Cpurt of Lano .County, Oregon,
administratrix with tho will annexed
of the es.tato of James A. Ehbort, de
ceased. All persons lmvlnn claims
against," said,, estate aro hereby noti
fied, to prciont tho same duly verified
aud wltliLtlfo nrooor vouchors to tho
admlnlsttfttrlx at tho First National
T.I. . J . St. 1 .. . II ,. 1 1 f ...1..!..
sDTiripnths from tho dato of tho first
publication of this notlco.
jjJa'to of Alio first publication ot this
notlco' September 27, 1D15.
"-'MAHOAUBT MOItWS.
Administratrix with tho will annox.
od of tho estate ot James A, Ebbert,
deceaeed. M 025
O. R. Guliion, M.D.
Practice Limited tl
Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat.
Graduate Nurse Attending
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Olllco Ninth nnd I'nulBix. Tcli'i'liimoHM
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' VETERINARY SURGEON
AND DENTI8T
Suite 2.. Ilhono 888, EUGENE. OIXE
fteB.Ide.ycA pver Dodge's Store
The
Springfield Garage
H, SANDGATHE
Proprietor ,
Repairing a Specialty
Main, uetwJPourth and Fifth. Phono 11
SPRINGFIELD - OREGON'
J. H. BOWER
Lawyer.
Phono 1221
831 Willamette St. Eugene, Oregon
Office In City Hall, Springfield, Ore.
HERBERT E. WALKER
NOTARY
PUBLIC
W. F. WALKER.
UNDERTAKER
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Office Phone 62; Residence 67-J
West Main St.
Harness, Shoes, Gloves
Harness and Shoes
Repaired at
The Harness Shop
See
Edwards & Br attain
For Farm and City Property
Exchonnes a Specialty
Springfiold - Oregon
Phone 30
CAREFUL, CONSCIENTIOUS
Dentistry
DR. J. E. RICHMOND
PHONESr-Ofhce, 3; Residence, -l10.J
Over Commercial Bank.