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County Official
Paper
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Tk Timber Industry
What tae tinbr Industry means
to Columbia County can best be es
timated from a few figures which
we have learned from a reliable
source and which show something
that few people realize. The amount
of money paid In wages through the
timber and mill business in this
county amounts in round numbers
to oyer $2,000,000 per year. The
St Helens Mill Company paid dur-
offense is one of every wide and
varied opinions; Governor West be
lieves that life imprisonment is the
better method; other people, no
doubt many of whom have made
just as thorough a study of the
question as the Governor, are of the
opinion that capital punishment for
capital offenses is the proper thing,
being taught by the moral and scrip
tural law. But the Governor is in
a position, in this instance as in
few others, of being bigger than the
law and with one stroke of the pen
can set aside the will of all the law
making bodies, people and legisla
ture, and say to them 'I am bigger
than thou." This paper doubts the
wisdom of the method pursued by
the Governor in this instance, with
out discussing the question of the
abolition of capital punishment.
The Bonding Method
The people of Jackson County
voted $1,500,000 bonds for the pur
pose of making roads in their county
and the Circuit Court upheld the
issue. If the Supreme sustains the
i
Circuit Court the question of good
roads is pretty well settled. All the
in the year endia October 21st ulk of B highway commissioner and
lill for wages alone to the men m I road experts with "advisory con
sL 1 1 ? - M 11 - I . .
me umoer. exclusive oi mm opera- trol" and drawing salaries ranging
Uonj. 115,000;The Penisnsula Co, in .m(lun,, from 2i0O to $5000
is if bbit tf same capacity per year and with nothing to do
dou&t paid as much, also the I Dut rive advice seems to be useless.
f1 1 VTfWt a B 1 4 aI - I
war rfiison vo.. oi aooui me hhic if pountv ran vnt honrlx in anv
. - - w
capacity paid practically the same gum necessary to build roads and
meunt; The Chapman Timber um- buiW them all at once wjthout hav-
pany is considerably larger and an mgr to t,uid a miie one vear and
. i . : j I I .... . .
rwuroaie ki uie amoum paiu u i another mi e the next vear. and in
thenVfor wagea is $200,000 for the iuch manner as will make the roads
same time;' The Benson Company permanent, what is the use of all
at a low estimate paid $150,000 thls gowned good road legislation?
while the O. K. Company paid at
There are two sides to every
question and the Single Tax is
no exception. This question is
coming up in some form for the
voters of the State to pass upon
and before it is done we urge
upon every voter the necessity
for a complete understanding of
the merits and demerits of the
system. No greater calamity
could overtake the farmer and
land owner than the adoption ot
this system, -fet there are argu
ments for it which, unexplained,
may lead a great many men to
vote for in the belief that it will
better their condition as to taxes
and make the speculator pay as
much as the homebuilder.
The object of this article is to
induce the voters to take the
pains and trouble to inform them
selves. As to the system we
will have more to sav later.
Hon. W. C. Hawley, Congressmen
for this District, came to town
Saturday afternoon, but only stop
ped a few hours. Mr. Hawley is
now serving his third term as con
gressman and is up for renominatton
and election next year. He has
many friend and admirers in the
district, and we find quite a number
of such in this neighborhood. Of
course he has the advantage over
his competitirs by reason of his ex
perience and committee assign
memts and aside from this advan
tage, he is a good man anyway,
and will therefore be a rather
! hard man to defeat.
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DIGNIFYING
THE
INDUSTRIES"
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poatal la Ua mall TOUAf aail r wtU aa Mat rasa.
Tb aim l lb Collasa U to alieiry aaa aopularua
lha inauatrtaa. an to Mrn ALL tb paapla. I aSara
counat la Ajrlcullura. CIU taf laaarlaa. Ila Wlcai
Euf lDMMnf . Machanlcal Intnaarin. Bttalaa Eacla.
rlD. reraauy. Doaiaailu. lolaaoa tad Art. Com
luarca. rnarmacy aaa Mutlo. Tb OalWf aptat
SaiiUmbar (. Oatajagfiaa,
AdJr.: asoisraAa. oaioo aokicoltsbai
OOLLiaa, OarvaUla, Oratoa,
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Holy Names Academy
Aatortaw Orafaas
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l?. Uprtaait ai fuaio tmd Vtaala. Mi "a
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AVAlaa
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Far Aauoaacaaat at4 Tarata. AdJr
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Holy Names Academy
Aaterta. Ortaraai
least $100,000. Then the Jennings-
McRae Company and about a dozen
other Companies operating in this
eaunty pIt another $150,000 and
the Portlaad Lumber Co. must have
paid in the neighborhood of $113,
M0. Takiar theae amounts, which
are coasldered very conservative too,
the amount paid for wages in the
St. Helens is very much alive.
Everything indicates it. Our
streets are being improved; New
imh;.rt manv miiea ! buildings are being erected; Mills
of good roads, perhaps as good as running over time; business men
any in the State, yet there could be are doing lots of business, and
inaugurated a system, if the money i ine ftIlsl 13 IUU OI Aas-
M.iiu.k.nH uk.r.hv thA en. I mere are some ousiness nouses
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Floor Manager : : JACK SKINNER
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WHEN GOING SHOPPING
tire county could be connected with
road that would be in good con
dition at all times of the year for
heavy teaming. In round numbers
this county spent in 1910 for roads
timber for tnt past year in eolum- bridges the sum of S100.000
bia County will easily reach $1,125, and considerably more in 1111. Of
000. I Tiiiraj U'A havA anmp firwt flan, rond.4
Then the mills have paid some ueu starters for some more,
. .1. c tTi :i ! l I .
vw. a- cicii3 iiimi iim i ajH) a few first clas steel and con-
paid $100,000 for wages and the crete bridges, but the roads are
toiumoia ixmnty mm nas paid disconnected, by reason of one dis-
about $35,000; the Prescott mill has trict voting a special tax and the
paid not less than $100,000; the adjoining one failing to do so, while
Rainier Lumber and Shingle Co. if the monry coul(1 aII be on hand
have paid about $75,000 and theLnd under one head to be used for
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vwnwii buiuuci ui. auuui. jv, I maVinc normanpnt roartn in pvprv
not represented in our ad columns
but we are going to show them
that good advertising pays and
before many more issues expect
to have to increase the size of
our paper with new ads.
000; the Columbia River Door Co
about $75,000 and other smaller
mills scattered over the county $125,
000, making a total of wages paid
in the mills of not less than $550,
000.
Add to this the amount paid out
for piling, poles, posts, and wood
will bring the total amount of wages
paid for the lumber and mill busi
ness for the past year of over $2.
000.000. This amount of money
paid to laboring men for one indu1
try in a county where the popula
tion is only about $11,000 makes a
county that can not help but be
prosperous.
Congressman LafTerty of I'ortlan d
is already conducting one of his
famous publicity campaigns for re
nomination and election from the
new third district, which is com
posed of Multnomah County. We
are not in his district any more and
do not have to pass judgment on his
love affairs and statesmanship, but
will watch with interest the outcome
of his campaign.
district, and every district paying
iui iiruiwrimimie nare ui me iwnu; Boys may ne had and some
and interest, what grand roads we times girls. The older ones at
could have and at a cost that would ordinary wages and others to be
Then
not exceed the present cost
we who are living now
get some benefit of these conditions
and not leave it for future
tions.
schooled and cared for in return
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could also! , , . ,
l r or particulars aaaress w. i.
, Gardner. Supt. Boys' and Girls'
genera-j Aid Society of Oregon, Portland,
Oregon.
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Dinners All the Time
The Goreraor'a Policy
The policy adopted by Governor
West, of abolishing capital punish
ment, by commutation of sentences,
during his term aa Governor, seems
to be a usurpation of power by the
executive of the legislative branch
of government. In his message to
the Legislature last winter the gov
ernor recommended that capital
punishment be abolished and there
were not less than five or six bills
introduced into both bouses for this
purpose. The legislature by large
ma jo rites defeated every bill thus
introduced, the principal reason for
which was that under the present
method and law for granting par
dons, the abolishment of the capital
punishment would be a great in
centive to the commission of capital
offenses.
There were many members of the
Legislature who, peisonally werj
(not in favor of capital punishment,
' but voted against the bills until
such time as the law governing the
pardon system could be changed
and that could only be done by a
virwitnt innal ampndmnt. Thp I
miAaiinn of Ova heat method ctW
dUrringth. comal-Ion cf capital PitlhHJhSiflfi
4
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Now Open
Meals and Rooms
Near the Depot
Houlton, Ore.
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