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CATION:
I In tho Northwi'Htt'rn part of Oregon, on the Columbia
River, with uhout 70 milea of rivtr front.
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! About 700 squure miles. 422,rii2 acres.
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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.
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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.
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POPULATION:
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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,
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. T.0UUCTS:
: Fiuitsof all kir.ds, especially apples, pears, plums and
I berries; (iruin anil grasses; garden truck of all kinds and
1 dairying.
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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.
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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.-.
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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
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