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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1921)
aa m OHE ONTAJIIO AEGUS, ONTAEIO, OREGON, THUKSDAY, MAY 26, l92i " " BTANKIHM) HAS IIIMj PKOVIMNa 1UIA1) HUIMHNO tf 1 i n nffll mi I U 1Aj1i aIi 1 1 If il mf lilll li 1 1 X 1 1 H !! iii b imia mi aimi x ? . w m. s S3 v 5 2 DAYS SATURDAY & TUESDAY 2 DAYS iraxnj! Our Store will be Closed All Day Monday Memorial Day mmuanamwstan SPECIALS FROM DRUG SECTION SPECIALS From NOTION SECTION Azurea Face Powder 98c Swifts white soap, 7 bars 26c J)jer Kiss Face Powder 00c "Wool Soap, 4 bars 26c Pebeco Tooth Paste 35c Sun Brito Cleaner, large can. . 6c Palm Olive Soap, 4 bars 26c Sea Foam Washing Powder.-. . 6c Butterfly Toilet Tissue, A B Naptha Soap, 4 bars 25c 12 rolls '. . .$1.00 Bon Ami (cake or powder) Crystal White Soap Chips. . . .29c 3 for '. 25c Sea Foam Naptha Powder. . . .29c Lux lie Van Camps Pork & Beans, 3 cans 26c TOILET SOAPS Woodbury's Soap, Cake 21c Cuticura Soap, cake 21c Besinol Soap, cake 21c Packers Tar Soap 21c Cashmere Bouquet,. ..10c and 26c FACE POWDERS La Trcfle, the box . '. $1.15 La Blanche, the box 59c Lov Me, the box , 76c Rice Powder, the box 23c Woodbury's, the box 23c FACE CREAMS Mavis Vanishing Cream 48c Palm Olive cold cream 48c Djer Kiss vanishing 69c Melba vanishing 48c Pond's vanishing 29c and 59c Ingram's Milkweed Cream 48c and 89c Elcaya vanishing .... 29c and 69c Pompeian Day Cream- 48c Pompeian Night Cream 43c Pompeian Massage Cream . . . ,69c Hind '8 Honey and Almond Cream 48c and 80c TALC. POWDERS Colgates Talc 18c Menncn's Talc 26c Johnson's Tale 25c Squibbs Talc 26c Djer Kiss Talc 25c Melba Talc 25c. TOILET WATERS I Mavis, the bottle 98c Palmer's, the bottle ; $1.00 Djer Kiss, the bottle . . $1.39 La Trcfle, the bottle $1.39 SUMMER VOILES 35c per yd. All New Patterns 1 1010 en "MAKE IT RIOHTi rule STORES" WARNER'S RUSTPROOE CORSETS - $1.00 i I'lvcry l'nlii Ounrnntcod Not Hunt, llrt-nk or Tcnr to IllIIllllllllI congkkoationaij ciiuuch Cornor of Idaho nml 2nd St. 8. W. J. D. aillaiidors, Pastor Sunday School, 10:00 A. M. Proachtng, 11:00 A. M. Subject: "Tho Open Door." Junior Endeavor, 2:30 I. M. Senior Endeavor, 7:00 I. M. Pronchlng, 8:00 P. M. Subject: "Ho Dollvorod tho aoods" Dlblo Study, Wednesday 7:30 P. M. The dinner given by tho tadles last Wodnosday evening was a grand success. Oood bluo gruRs pasturo for rent. Davo Stownrt on Ed Hurley placo. 25-20 P. I.adlos Auxiliary will hold a cook od food snlo at Iloyor Ilros Storo Saturday, May 28th. P. FOIl SALE OH TRADE Tent houso, 10x10, and small bungalow, both with linoleum covered door. Good condition at a bargain. Can bo easily meved: or will trado for good milk cow. Phono 206W3. 23p mgVcMiSBaKMgSMgM 51 - if -i 1 v Memorial Day MONDAY MAY 30 Our Store will be Closed All Day MEMORIAL DAY (a national holiday.) is one among all our national holi days which should be observed and held sacred not only in remembrance of the noble men who wore the Blue and Gray, but for those who helped turn defeat into victory by giving their lives in the Great World War. H dsldi 0 Make it eiiRule Right & m, stores Please do Your Shopping Saturday STOCK TO IMHTUlUi Aftor Juno 1st Prlco I1.C0 por bond, yoarllngs 1.00. Oood pasturo. plonty of wator. I!. Trousdalo tf POU SALE Oil KENT Now throo room houso. 20 lots halt orchard, half garden threo blocks south enst school. Mrs. C. II. Trousdalo. . i'aiimkks vi:i:k and IIOMKMAKHltH CONFKUHNCK 4 A Wook of Collogo Ufo nt O. A. C. COOPEUATIVE CONVENTIONS i:cuitsio.ri Mrrn no CorvnlllN, Or. 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(Contlnuod From Page One) Area Assessed Stato Squaro Miles Population Vatuo Oregon 0G,C99 783,380 f 032,413,080 Now York 49,204 10,385,227 12,070,420,887 Now Hampshire 0,341 443,083 308,845,480 Vermont 9,504 352,428 231,571,877 Massachusetts 8,200 3,852,350 0,005,412,801 Hhodo Island 1,248 (104,397 082,501,778 Now Jorsoy 8,224 3,155,000 2,481,005,038 Connecticut ... 4,900 1,380,031 1,172,051,740 Totnls 90,812 20,174,022 23,042,409,001 Population! census 1920; assessed valuo, 1017. Miles of Hon d 40,000 79,398 14,020 14,249 18,681 2,170 14,817 14,001 167,390 In tho bovoii stales named tho road mileage Is In tho proportion of olio mllo to 128 peoplu nnd ono mllo to $140,308 of tnxnblo pro porty, whllo In Oregon wo havo ono mllo of road to ovory 19 pcopto and ono mllo to ovcry $23,310 of taxable proporty. Tho conditions prevailing In Oro gou nro duplicated In each of tho other states having Inrgo nrcas of federal rcsorvos nnd unappropriated public lauds. Thcso rosorvo lands do not Ho In solid bodies, but nro scattered throughout tho.Btatcs, often botwcon tho Improved nnd dovelopcd portions of tho stato requiring Important stnto and county roads through tho rosorves to connect tho settled por tions on either sldo and permit social nnd commorclnt Intercourse between thcso people Itoadt Needed Within tho boundaries of thcso forest rosorves thoro nro 24,505 mllos of Important stato nnd county rondu already located Hint should bo built as rapidly as tho samo cIubs of roads outsldo tho reserves nnd con necting thorowlth. Tho estimated cost of bulldlnB thcso roads In keep ing only with tho demand of tho traffic Is $112,525,800. NATIONAL FOIIEST 110ADS f Kcqulrod for Comprehensive Forest Iload System January 1, 1921 Btnto Stato Highway Development County and Forest Dovolopmont Totals Mllos Cost Mllos Cost Mites Cost Alabama Alaska ' Arizona 108 Arkansas ..-.., 85 California .... 58 Colorado 200 Uoorgla 18 Idaho 338 Mnlno i . . . . Michigan Mlnnosota '. . . . 40 Moutana .....332 Nobrasku Novnda 15 Now Ilampshlro NowMoxIco ...180 North Carolina 08 Oklahoma . . . . ' Orogon 279 Porto Itlco .... 15 South Carolina 0 South Dakota.. 120 Tenncsseo .... 30 Utah 162 Virginia 31 Washington ...300 West Virginia ... I Wyoming ..... 05 J1.807.8CC 309,000 1,709,905 1,308,471 t 330,000 1,040,191 160,000 1,083,500 02,382 401,584 574.726 3,612,404 160,000 45,000 430,100 271,101 659,000 335,000 4,740,200 48,000 431,300 30 75 1,134 217 3,821 4,072 22 2,071 11 30 370 1,510 175 407 43 002 03 20 1,022 6 542 60 1,148 131 532 01 1,810 $ 100,000 1,250,000 6,080,134 088,000 22,570,005 13,703,129 49,000 12,213,809 08,000 90,000 083,000 8,031,000 370,700 1,577,018 207,000 4,075,910 450,275 40,000 5,337,600 10,000 1,032,400 272,800 3,040,340 317,000 1,730,800 273,000 4,338,200 30 75 1,332 302 3,879 4,878 70 3,309 11 30 416 1,842 175 422 43 1,142 101 20 1,301 16 M 002 80 1,300 102 838 07 1,876 $ 100,000 1,250,000 7,584,000 087,000 24,309,000 15,101,000 385,000 14,100,000 08,000 , 90,000 1,130,000 10,016,000 370,700 1,140,000 207,000 5,407,500 1,020,000 40,000 8,850,000 150,000 05,000 1,408,600 644,000 4,500,000 062,000 0,480.000 321,000 4,000,600 t Totals ....2,684 21,580,470 21,981 00,940,32124,505 112,520,800 In addition to these roads thoro nro also 22,611 miles of trails with in tho forest rosorves necessary for tho protection of tho forosts that will cost $0,207,000 (as estimated), for which wo ask no appropriation In this bill, but Icavo thorn entirely to tho forest sorvlco to bo built out of tho "ten per cont fund," which amounts to about $400,000 n year Aiku For Funds Ono hundred million dollars a your Is roqucstod by this bill nnd should bo grantod by congroHs for tho purpose of oxtondlng fodornl aid to tho sevornl stntos In tho construc tion of thoso most Important stato roads Which aro also necessary roads to carry Intor-stnto traffic. Tho mlloago of this class of roads In cstluintod nt ono per cont of tho total road mlloago of tho country, or tipprxlmntoly 26,000 mllos. Tho ostlmntod cost of construction of tho Interstate highways Is approxi mately $1,000,000,000 to $1,250, 000,000, of which amount tho stntos nro oxpoctod to furnish half. If this program Is carried out tho Interstate roads will bo constructed In six years. It Is also desired nnd oxpoctod Hint tho stntos nnd countlos will carry on their road construction with oqunl spood, and nt tho end of six years tho systom of Inter state, stnto and county ronds will bo fairly completed, ni now outlined. Unloss uniplo provision Is mado for tho construction of stato and county roads through tho forost re sorvos and this should bo done wholly nt tho oxponso of tho fodor nl govornmont (tho ownor of thoso lauds) Wo will find tho system dUconnoctod by broken links within tho fodornl rosorves unloss tho own ers of proporty (tho taxpayers) out sldo tho rosorvos, In addition to pay ing tho cost of tho roads alonK and through their proporty, also boar tho bunion In wliolo or In part of build ing tho roads through tho proporty of tho govornmont, which I submit Is nn unjust and unfair thing to ask. Itontls Miles Annual Appropriation Tlmo Iloqulred Yonrs Intorstato . . , Forost ronds .25,000 $100,000,000 govornmont 100,000,000 stato .24,506 10,000,000 Evon with $10,000,000 por annum appropriated for tho construction of forost roads, it will tako twelvo yearn to build tho present road pro gram within the forest rosorvos. llccnll Promise This situation was prosontod to tho Itonubllcnn untlonnl convention at Chicago last Juno for an expres sion of purposo nnd Intont by the llopubllcan party, nml this Is tho solomn promlso thon and thoro mado to tho pooplo of this country; Wo favor llboral appropriations In co-operation with tho stntos for tho construction of highways, which will bring about a reduction In transpor tation costs, bettor marketing of farm products, Improvement In rur al postal dollvery, ns woll as moot tho needs of military dofenso. In dotormlnlng tho proportion of fodcral aid for road construction among tho statos tho sums lost In taxation to tho respective states by tho setting apart of largo portions of tholr area as forest reservations should bo considered as n controll ing factor. If tho annual appropriation by congress Is to bo measurod by tho nniount those rosorvod lands (hold In tholr prosont raw stato, undevel oped, unlmprovod, unsottlod, not subject to homestoad entry), would pay If privately owned and, taxablo what should tho annual appropria tion bo? Thoro Is no nppralsomont of thoso lands nvallablo beyond estimates by thoso public officials In tho host position to pass Judgmont tho tnx commissioners of tho sovoral states. To got this Information from thoso officials for tho uso of this com mittee Sonntor Stanfleld sent tho following tologram to tho tax com missioners In those statos having tho largest area of national forost ro sorvos; "Please wlro mo tho gross amount as near as you can of state ami county taxes forost rosorvo lands in your state would pay annually It thoy wore privatoly owned and tax ablo." Tubulates ltepllou I am pleased to submit n tabula tion of tho roplloa and an estimated supplomont showing tho area, tax ablo valuo, rate of taxatlou and stato and county taxes thoso lauds would pay It taxable: State Forest Ito sorvo Lands Taxablo Valuo Unto Taxes, Stato Mills and County Arizona California . .'. Colorado Idaho ; Mlnnosota ,...... Montana . , , . . , Nevada Now Mexico ($3 an 'aero) Oregon , . . .. South Dakota Utah Washington ($6 an aero) Wyoming 11,307,033 18,891,101 13,274,187 18,082,031 1,040,744 16,942,821 4,985,060 8,308,434 13,111,928 1,086,671 7,414,090 9,939,889 8,468,197 26,548,374 74,728,124 03,771,284 24,023,302 100,000,000 6,211,220 23 21.3 15,6 27.5 20 0.09 40,099,445 30 1,000,000 3,500,000 610,000 1,591,709 81.122 800,000 509,000 086,446 2,000,000 36,426 750,000 1,490,983 621,000 Totals 160,032,053 $14,616,843 Other states and Alaska at $2 an aero 23,513,590 47,027,192 20 940,544 Totals 1.10,032,053 $14,016,842 A slight dlfforonco In forest ro sorvo acreago botween tho different tables will bo noted. This Is caused by using tho total acreago within tho rcservo'lu ono table and the net acroago owned by the government within tho rosorvo lu tho other table.