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About St. Helens mist. (St. Helens, Or.) 1913-1933 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1914)
g O 3U II J3K BtJ I j3L county, okmoom SIIIITING: CATION: I In tho Northwi'Htt'rn part of Oregon, on the Columbia River, with uhout 70 milea of rivtr front. I A 3i: A: ! About 700 squure miles. 422,rii2 acres. :-4. 1 Il.AIiLK LAND: I 15.72(5 ucri'H. Thin in land that in actually in cultivation j ami cleuri'i), excluaivu of town loU. rON-TILLAHLK LAND: I -lot! 7('( acrt'B. which include all timlwr whore there in I moro than 100.000 feet on a (uarter section, alno all lojf- i;e oir land which in not Huituhle for and in no condition fr cultivation. i Ji:i:iJ: I About Meven and one half to eiRlit billion feet. ' SIVK!) VAI.HK 01-' TIMUKlt: Jl 1,407. 1K0. Ar.SKSSKI) VAI.UK (W tili.ai:i.k LAND: $:u l.II.Vl. TOTAL ASSKSSKI) VALUATION OK AM. I'KOI'MUTY: I $is,()o),ooO. t::i:s ok county roads: fidO ru i li-M, Home of which is in (ir.it cIiimh condition, Home in j fair condition and Home in very poor condition. LICKS OK ItAILKOADS: N I About 125 miles which includes the main line of the S. 1'. I & S. and the various loyginx roads. ? POPULATION: 1 J Census of 11)10 jfives lO.flNO but a careful estimate this I year ives it at least 1.1.000. JMATU: I TemiK-rnte. I luring the summer the thermometer rarely I reaches 100 in the shade and in the coldest weather of j winter zero weather is almost unknown. During the f winter months there is considerable rain, but not too much, 'j Just enough to insure crops. Crop failures are unknown, i . T.0UUCTS: : Fiuitsof all kir.ds, especially apples, pears, plums and I berries; (iruin anil grasses; garden truck of all kinds and 1 dairying. I IS) mm) 1'' j mm McKay Building . atronize the Mist AdvertiserslCounty Court Are you ettinjj more pay than you did last year? Are you reasonably urc of getting still more next year? If not, this is your time NOW to mail the coupon belor and let the International Correspondence Schools explain how they can qualify you to enter a more important line of work in your present occupation or in a different one when you can command a higher salary at the start, with no limit to your earning power. In making this offer, all your cir cumstances have been taken into con sideration, and it only remains for you to fill out and mail the coupon. How you cm succeed with the aid of I.C.S. training by mail, as thousands like you have succeeded, vill be fully ex plained at no cojt whatever to you. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS Please explain, without further Obligation on my part, how I can qualify foryS larger salaryyia the position before which I have marked X bw C'r4 WHtor H!4w TrtBMf ('rtal Law T.alll Mttl ftaM. Mirlii, m.MlSMW ttlnary FflaM 4111 r aclHrrr Hwlltllna alralar ArhtU' I UrafUatM DtraetMral Fa Mini r'fflnrrf traal and Jl Cllf TLL IXVOUMATIOX 11 Y ADD 11 CSS T XG H. V. REED, Manager PORTLAND, OREGON Ships from all parts of the world carry Columbia County products down the Columbia River and to the markets of tho world. A through line of Railroads traverse the county from the North to the South. River boats carry local products to local markets at low rates. LAND: Thousands of acres of first cluss land can be purchased at reasonable prices upon which are stumps left from the timber operations. This land is especially suited for farming, fruit raising and dairying. .'.V-.-'-- ' ' ':' ' '; ' ..'.;. ST. HELENS A city on the Columbia River, 28 miles from Portland, with a population of 2500 people. The County Seat of Columbia County. A Four year Standard Hifch School. Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal and Catholic Churches. All the leading fraternal orders. Gravity water system owned by the city sufficient to supply a city of 10,000 people. Electric lights, graded and macadamized streets, sewers. Principal industries are lumbering, shipbuilding, creosoting, stone quarrying, fishing and shipping. Two large kaw mills with a capacity of 250,000 feet per day; more than 5 million feet of lumber shipped each month; several large ocean going vessels built each year; timber treated with creosote and shipped all along the coast. Two big stone quarries and rock crushing plants in continuous operation. An average of 300 tons of Columbia River Salmon caught and marketed. A farming country back of it that cannot be excelled in the world. Several new business blocks now under construction. Five miles of sewer being built. A PAY ROLL OF NEARLY $100,000 PER MONTH. Many beautiful and attractive homes. Proceedings lie It Rcmeniltered, That a regular term of the County Court of the State of Oregon, for Columbia county, was begun and held at the Court house in the City of St. Helens, in said county and itate on Wednesday, the 4th day of March. KM, the same being the time fixed by law for holding a regular term of said court, when were present: Hon W. A. Harris, County Judge Hon. John Farr, Commissioner. Hon. Louis Fluhrer, Commissioner. Due prochr.laion being made, the fol lowing proceedings were had: Journal read, approved and signed: In the mutter of issuing bonds of Columbia county In the sum of $3f0, 000.00 for road building and advertis ing the tame for sale: Whereas, the issuance of bonds of Columbia county, Oregon, in the sum of $300. 000.00 to ran the number of yean each, as follows: $60,000.00 thereof to run for five years each. $100,000.00 thereof to run for ten yeaia each, $100 000.00 thereof to run for fif teen years caoh, and f RO.lKHUil1 thereof to run for twenty years ea. h and kll to hour ititin st nt tho rsls of five per cent per anrutn, by & S, e;iiil El.'rtlon h. IJ on Ihi 2r. J day of Febru ary, 1911. in Bfconlance with tie pro vision of chapter 101 of the Laws of the Slate of Oregon, enacted by the LcfjidUtive Assembly thereof in its 1913 sesuon, and Whereas, The County Court on the 6th day of Feb. 1914, duly ma.ij and entered an order in its jorn:l declaring that fact, as providid by Sec. 11 of said Chapter 103, hiws of 1913. Now Therefore, It Is Ordered by the Court, and thi r i hereby authorized to tin issued, tho lion I j cf Columbia Courly, Ori-Ron, in the turn of Three lliimlred and Sixty tlruifand dollars. draw ing ititi rest it tlo r tj of five per cent per annum from their dates repeelivt ly, ind which bonds shall le ib aUle as foil ivcs, tu-wit: $i;o,000.0i in five years from the date thereof $100,01)0 ill) in ten yn.rs from the date thereof. $1110,0(1(1.00 in fifteen yeiirs from the date thereof. $100,000.00 in twenty years from the date thereof. That said bonds be issued in de nominations of $50.00, or multiples theteof, up to the sum of $1000.00. That said bonds shall be issued in substantially the following form, omit ting for convenience from the form the number of the bond, the amount thereof and the date of payments, to wit: Bond of Columbia County, State of Oregon. Issued for the Building of l'ermanent Roads Therein. No. $ For value received, Columbia Coun ty, Oregcn, being one of the duly or ganized counties of the State of Ore gon, acknowledges itself as indebted to, and promises to pay to, the bearer hereof, the sum of $ lawful riioney of the United States of Ame-ica(insert the length of time for which the same shall run) at the office of the Treasurer of said county therein, and to pay, semi annually, interest from the date there of, at the rate of five per rent per an num, at the place specified in the an nexed coupon, said interest to be paid in lawful money of the United States, and to make saH interest payments up on the presentation and surrender of -aid interest coupons as they severally :.mture. This bond is ore of a series author ized by a majority vote of the voters of Columbia County. Oregon, voting upon such question at an election held for sa d purpose in said county on the 2nd day of Febraary,19l 1, held in pur suance of law, and unJer and by vir tue of an order of the County Court, aft.T due notice given. At said elec tion an indebtedness in the sum of $3ol),()fiO.(M and interest thereon was authorized by said voters t.) be cteated j for the building of permanent reads in ,' said couety, which indebtedness is over 1 and above any other indebtedness cf sii M county at said time, and indepen dent cf any indebtedness created ether a ise. In Witness Whereof, the undersign ed, as County Judge for raid county has by order of tha said County Court, and in accordance with Raid vote, cxe cf ted this instrument on behalf of n.id county, and the county clerk of said county hi nttested the execution of; said instrument and a!lised the seal cf said comity this day of 1914. Columbia County, Oregon. INDUSTRIES: Lumbering and tin ber is tr,e principal industry; there 1 e ing about tweny-f'.ve saw mills. Salmon fishing in the Gjlumbia River is also an important industry. Farming and fruit raising; Stone quarrying; Ship building and all kinds of lumber manufacturing plants. OPPORTUNITIES: There are fire opportunities fo- the small farmer, dairy man, fruit gruwt-r and truck gardener. Also a number of choice deep v.ater sites for n ar.ufac! vring plants. THE DELTA GAI:I'.:.V;: : 12,000 acre: .." have recent y ' 1 . cultivation e ; . small fruit.-. &- SCHOOLS: Four star.'.:- '. . '. ' '.. ; locality. CHURCHES: Nearly all de;:-i ..-liii .lit.;. THE COUNTY Oi l 1 -K!::: Circuit J,'d;e.;. J. U. Campi-el! and J. A. MaH.-i District A-.l- rKey, P Dil!:-rd County Jd;e, V A. Harris County Clerk. II. E. Lalare Sheriff. A. 11. Thompson Assessor, C. W. Blakesley School Superintendent, J. H. Wilkerson Treasurer, R. S. Ilattan Coroner. F. H. Sherwood Surveyor. Gci. Conytrs Commissioreis. John Farr, Iouis Fluhrer. CITIES, TOWN. AND POST OFFICES: St. Helena Rainier Clatskanie Houlton Scappoosc- Warren Deer Island GoLle Yankton V'emonia Mist Quincy Mayger Maishland Columbia City Reuben Apiary Hudson Prescott Trenholm Inglis Attest: By- County Judpe -County Clerk. (SEAL) State of Oregon ) Ccunty of Columbia) ' The underisgend. as County Trt usur er for Columbia Countv, Or't"1"1. ler. -by certifies that the fortgoi-g b-;n !, with its attached coupon, ij 1:110 of a series of bonds authorized by a vote cf the voters of Columbia Count - Oregon, at an election held througl.oot said county for said purpose on the 2nd di;y of February, 1914, which vote author ized the creation of an indebtedness in the sum of $360,000.00 and interest thereon, and authorized the Usuante of such bonds. Dated at St. Helens.Oregon tLis day of 1914. County Treasurer, Columbia Cour.ty, Oregon. FORM OF CULTON. On the day of 19- . rvi-.fr bia County, Oregon, will pay to ibe bearer at the office of tLe County Treasurer for Columbia Cour.ty. On- eon. $ lawful mcrty of lYc Unit ed States of America, 1 ing six month interest then due upon the bnod cf said County, No. Datued 19- . Coupon No. County Clerk for Columbia County, Oreofcn. It is further ordered by the court that the foregoing form for such bonds, and their attached interest coupon, shall be the form for which such bonds shall be issued, unlelss otherwise di rected by order of the County Court for Columbia county, Oregop, but said form of bond and coupon is not manda tory and the same may be changed from time to time by o:der of this court duly entered of record, but no sceh change shall affect any bond pre viously issued, sold and disposed by the county hereunder. The court finds and it is further or dered, that it requires for its imme diate use for the rurpose for which said bonds were voted, the funds to be obtained by the sale of said bonds, and it is therefore ordered that ll of said bonds be sold and disposed of as by law provided. It is further ordered by the court that the proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall bo used in building and im- - n ir t:i. K, il.i.i.iji.l Kiver whu l. j'f .;nd :u' liovv in high stiile of '; a ir.j !mI ;o cr.iv i.i;' : f vo( Isil !es ar,d Iradt- schools i n each r. p 1 r.te.'. I Droving the following roads in caij caurty as follows, to-wit: $25,000.00 to be used in building and imp.ov irg the rond frrm I'ittsbrug to j ll.,i;!t..n. $1., 000. CO to Le used in ! Ii iililirg and improving the road from Jciitskan;e to Mist. JCO.OOO.OO lobe iiseo in building ar.d improving (he ; N. h'jlem read fiom the Washington 'cour.ty iine tluo'igh Mi.-t Ij tl.e Clatsop I county lme; 2C0, COO. 00 to be used in j building and improving the Columbia j I!iver Highway from the Multnomch j county line to the Ciatrop Cour.ty :ine. j It is further ordered by the couit i 'hut bids be received for the sale of i s ueh bonds by this court, at the county I court room, at the court house in the City of St. ilelen,in Columbia county, Oregon, on Wednesday the firit day of April, 1914 at the hour of two o'clock p. in. of said day and that the clerk of thi court be and be is hereby directed to cauae notice to be published in the rft Helens Mist, the Rainier Review-, and lie Clatskanie Chief, weekly nons paKr printed in said county, ence each v,eek for three successive weeks prior to said first cay of April, 1914, also tJ publish said notice for three sueci3sive issuts in the Morning Ore gon i a 11 and the Oregon Journal, printed at Portland, Oregon, three weeki prior to said first day of Arpil, 1914, that this court will receive and open bids at the time and place above mentioned for the sale of the above mentioned bonds of this county. All bids must be accompained b'y check by a reputable solvent bank, in an amount equal to five per cent of the amount of bonds covered, such check to be returned, if bid rejected and upon delivrey a. id payment of bonds, if ac cepted. But if bid accepted and amount of bid not paid within 30 days after acceptance, check to be retained and cashed and the proceeds to become the property of the coun ty. Bids for any bond or number of bonds will be received. But the court shall reserve the right, and notice for bids shall so state, to reject any and all bids. The notice so published shall be sub stantially In the following form: Notice of Sale of $360,000.00 Columbia County Bonds Notice it Hereby Civen that sealed bids will be received by the county court of Columbia county, State of Ore Continued oa Page 6 i