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November 7, 1919
$50,000 Crooked River Road. . $90,000 Shorty Davis-kouth Fork Road. $40,000 Ocho
co Canyon Road. $30,000 Bear Creek Road. $10,000 Prineville-Lamonta Road
Put Crook on
the Map
With these
Progressive
Counties
OREGON COUNTIES VOTE BONDS
Following is a list of the counties in Ore
gon which have voted bond issues to date, to
gether with the amounts of such issues as fur
nished by the State Highway Commission of
Oregon.
Benton $220,000 Lane None
Baker 500,000 Lincoln 180,000
Coos ........ , 362,000 Linn 600,000
Crook .... 95,000 Lake 200,000
Clackamas None Marion , 850,000
Clatsop 400,000 Malheur 230,000
Columbia 360,000 Morrow ........ 290,000
Curry 98,000 Multnomah ..1,250,000
Douglas . 500,000 Polk 265,000
Deschutes 125,000 Sherman 350,000
Gilliam 250,000 Tillamook .... 400,000
Grant 140,000 Umatilla ......1,050,000
Harney. None Union 1,498,000
Hood River 75,000 Washington .... None
Jockson 500,000 Wasco 260,000
Josephine None Wallowa 300,000
Jefferson 100,000 Wheeler 124,000
Klamath 347,000 Yamhill 360,000
GRAND JURY ENDORSES BOND ISSUE
Endorsement of the proposed bond issue
of $220,000 was unanimously made by the Grand
Jury last Monday in its report at the conclusion
of its duties. The members of the juiy were W.
I. Dishman, Chairman ; C. B. Gwinn, W. M. Clay
baugh, J. A. Moffitt and Wm. Arnold of Towell
Butte ; and James H. Scott and Chester W. Starr
of Howard.
The bond issue as proposed was endorsed in
the following words :
"We very carefully went into the state of
the county's finances and in connection there
with have considered the advisability of voting
the proposed bond issue of $220,000 for per
manent road improvement. We earnestly ask
and urge every taxpayer in the county, if pos
sible, to leam for himself by personal investiga
tion the state of the county's funds and resources
and not to take for the truth any rumor until it
has been backed up with authoritative figures.
"We find that owing to cirsumstances over
which the voters and taxpayers now have no con
trol, the county is approximately $100,000 in
debt. It is limited to about that amount in its tax
levies and owing to the increased cost of main
tenance, no money can be raised to pay off that
indebtedness and leave anything for the upkeep
of the county's roads and bridges.
"Therefore, we believe that one of the meth
ods of relieving the general fund of the county
from road expenditures and maintenance of
bridges, would be by voting the bond issue pro
posed, permanently to improve the roads with
the help of the government and the state and
thereby allow the funds raised by direct taxation
to be applied on the general fund indebtedness
instead of being used continually to patch the
old, unwisely located roads 3,000 miles of them
that we have.
"This is only one reason why we urge the
taxpayers thoroughly to inform themselves upon
the proposed bond election. There are other
and very important reasons why the bond elect
ion should carry, another one being that Crook
county will get no good roads within the next
three to five years unless it does carry, and that
every other county is forging ahead with its road
program and Crook must act or be behind."
Our Money Will Be
Matched
Dollar for Dollar
By the
State or Government
COUNTY COURT PLEDGES EXPENDITURE
"October 18, 1919.
"To the taxpayers of Crook county:
'We your county judge and commissioners,
comprising your county court, do hereby pledge
ourselves, in pursuance of an order to like ef
fect entered of record today, that if the people
by their votes 'on November 7, approve the pro
posed $220,000 bond issue for permanent road
improvement, that no part of that sum will be
spent on any project that has not been approved,
surveyed and designated by the State Highway
Commission of Oregon, or by the United States
Bureau of Public Roads, as the case may be, and
no bond issue will be iauthorized and no bend
will be offered for sale until the funds are requir
ed by the Highway Commission or the'Federal
Bureau of Public Roads.
N. G. WALLACE, County Judge
E. T. LUTHY, Commissioner,
HUGH LISTER, Commissioner.
This bond issue of $220,000 is unqualifiedly endorsed by the undersigned taxpayers and
business men. We believe that the issue as proposed to be to the best
interest of all of Crook County and its citizens
CROOK COUNTY BANK
THE MICHEL GROCERY CO.
OROFINO RESTAURANT
LYRIC THEATER
JOHN J. PRICE
STEWART & CARLSON
J. E. STEWART & CO.
DES CHUTES POWER CO.
OAKS CAFE
BOSTWICK & COX
CORNETT & CO.
TRI STATE TERMINAL CO.
W. F. KING & CO.
CENTRAL OREGON ENTERPRISE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
FREDERICKSON & CLARK
BRENT & STROUD
INLAND AUTO CO.
CROOK COUNTY JURNAL
C. M. MEYER
TRI NEVILLE DRUG CO.
ROBINSON & CLIFTON
D. P. ADAMSON & CO.
OSCAR C. HYDE
PRINEVILLE MEAT CO.
LAKIN HARDWARE CO.
NEWEL MOTOR SALES CO.
OCHOCO WAREHOUSE CO.