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About Port Orford post. (Port Orford, Oregon) 1880-1882 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1881)
PORT ORFORD POST. protect and foster the interests of and an occasional specimen of a favored few at the expense of the live oak. The freshets have been at work THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1881. toiling millions of the country. No amount of sophistry and here washing away tlif' bottom special pleading will convince in-1 lands in some places, and enrich T H E S A I .A K Y 1(11,1.. telligent minds that this veto, fts ing others by the deposits of mud. Our exchanges are pretty gen- well as that of the silver Bill, was There are many nice fertile valleys * erally “going” for the salary Bill not inspired by a corrupt purpose along the creek, inviting hardy Keep it up and the next Legisla to shield the money-getters at all pioneers to come and get home ture will repeal it.—Coos Bay hazards. steads. The most disheartening News. feature to a settler would bo the “Repeal,” is not the erv, how C O lilî ES PO N D EN C E . fact that he could never l>e certain ever. It is an intelligent, equi at what time the creek, in its ex- H untkb ’ s C h eek , March 8th. table, practical adjustment of the centric fury, might pick up his We are making a preliminary matter the people ask for. survey for a ditch intended to tap carefully tilled acres and give There has been for years a popu Hunter s creek and bring the water them to a neighbor below, or car lar demand for a reduction of the to an altitude of 300 feet above the ry them to tho ocean to help ex scale of the emoluments of the beach for mining purposes. It is tend the boundaries of tho conti A n I m le p e n d e a t J o u r n a l, d e v o t e d to t h e I n te r e e ta o f t h e S o u t h e r n C oant Clerks and Sheriffs in this State, intended to run the newly invented nent. C o n n tle a G e n e r a lly , a n d o f C u r r y C o u n ty P a r t i , u l u . l y We are nearly done; have run I he people have asked for bread, hydraulic machines which Mr. li. nearly 40,000 feet or over seven and the last Legislature tossed D. Hume will bring up on his new miles and a half up the creek. them a stone. And this was not steamer, which is to come back Will soon be able to make an ap all. 'The said legislation in pur freighted with machinery, water proximate estimate of tho cost of suance of. such popular demand pipes, coppers, astrakhan cloth, construction. And when R. D. quicksilver and other mining ap was of so bungling a character paratus. Hume returns, if I am not too and so manifestly partial and in The ditch is projected on a lazy, you shall have a description C. E. equitable in its bearing as to be grade of 2 feet to 1000, and will of the new machine. practically infamous. The people bo about 30 inches bottom, 30 in Tho Oregon City Enterprise demand and are entitled to cheap ches deep, ami side slope 45 de vouches for tho genuineness of the facilities for legal redress in our grees. The grade given is more following instructions accompany Courts of Justice as well as a lower than wanted for a canal of that ing a prescription lately given by scale of fees for the transaction of size, but the working survey will a local medical practitioner of show many curves and deflections such business as they as individ that town: wnieh will accommodate the line “ give medison in hotel ever uals have to pay for, such as the to a lesser grade. our til the bouls ’move off’ then recording of deeds, mortgages, etc. The work is slbw, tedious and stoop dose teaspoonful if thar is 'The next Legislature will be call difficult at this season of the year. enny to mutch fever say puls 75 ed upon not for “repeal,” simply, The great altitude of the line beats per ininit then give tho pou- der ever 2 ours.” but for the material reduction of brings it, in many places, more official emoluments, the lessening than a mile from tho creek; the Tho report of the Engineers of cost to individuals in connec country is densely covered with submitted to the Senate recently brush and briers, and absolutely states that tho Columbia river tion with the paraphernalia of without trails of any kind. Such seems to bo working back to its our Courts, and for a scale or sys work should be done when one tern of official compensation which could camp on the line with a pair old channel at tho mouth, and that tho work recomended by Col. Gil siiall conform to a uniform stan- of blankets. As it is we must lespie would prove |^ a b s o lu te datn of justice and equality rela nocturnate in our shelters on tho detriment to the navignJKi of tho tively between the officials of the creek. We have constructed two river. Let well enough alone. different counties. Like pay for dwellings of very quaint and unique architecture. No carpen “ Color blindness” in tho navy like service will wrong no one, ter, not even Bill Winsor, could was debatod in tho House of Rep and will prove satisfactory all make one exactly like either. By resentatives all day, Feb. 18th. round. shifting our positions frequently wo manage to keep about half dry. PARAM OUNT PET S. Gamo is plentiful but hard to get. If there was one distinguishing One of our party secured an'elk, feature of Mr. Hayes’ administra which adds materially to the lux tion, it was the scrupulous cer uries of our imaginary table; our tainty with which the money cor festal board is very broad, extend morants might rely upon liis veto ing all over the country. To see of any measure which promised us on our knees around a part of the conntry relief or provided the our table, one could easily desig individual a remedy against the nate tho god we worship most. I II. UPTON H AS JUST OPENED A encroachments of aggregated The mountains here abound in FI . Stock of wealth. The Bill to restore silver various kinds of valuable miner coin even partially to its place as als, as shown by detached speci money, was, at the demand of the mens found along the bars of the Shylocks, vetoed by Mr. Hayes. creek; showing indications of cop Near the close of the late session per, silver, chrome, iridium and of Congress, Wood’s funding Bill, iron—iron most plentiful. Pieces substituting 3 per cent, bonds for of shale picked up along shore in 5 and <5 per cent obligations now- dicate that coal may be found on due—that is, the Bill providing Hunter’s creek or some of its trib for borrowing money at 3 per utaries. Few streams contain a cent to pay off the 5 and 6 per greater variety of geological for cents. The National banks and mations than may be picked up -IN THE- other favored corporations made along tho rocky bars. Granite, war upon the measure, whereupon, conglomérat«,gray sand sandstone, among the last acts of his official basalt, red Hint, red and yellow The PO ST Establishm ent being Supplied career, Mr. Hayes vetoed this law, porphyry, quartz and many other CENTENNIAL BUILDING, W ith tho L a te s t an d B est Styles o f Job Type, leaving no provisions for the ma silicious rocks, but none of a calca tured debt, and leaving the cormo reous nature. The botanical re P O R T O IlP O ItD . W e Solicit Orders fo r W o rk in th a t Lino. r a n ts drawing 6 per cent, semi sources of the country are little annual interest from the people. different from the rest of this There could le no valid excuso county. The timber belongs offered for this veto. It stands chiefly to the family of conifera— Excellent Cane-aeat and Cune out in plain and bold characters fir, spruce, hemlock and cedar; back Rocking Chairs for the Lww as the act of a man determined to with maple, ash, alder, madron, I’rice of <6.50. J. H. UPTON & SON, PROPRIETORS. THE PORT ORÜRI) POST, SUBSCRIBE FOR THE POST. OXLY TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. ADVERTISE IN THE POST. N E W Furniture ! Rocking Chairs, Bedsteads, Chairs» Etc New Type—Attractive Display.
