OREGON CITY COURIER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1902.
SMiEGON CITY COURIER
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THE. WILLAMETTE VALLEY.
OEEGON CITY, NOV. 21, 1902.
' About the middle of January the Cour
ser will install a new Simplex type set
ting machine and will then be in a po
sition to set twice as much type as it sets
now and will give the people of Clacka
mas county a twice-a-week newspaper,
each issue the same size as the Courier
is at present. One operator on the ma
ushine will be able to set as much type
in a day as five typos at the case. The
-.saving to the office in composition will
.he very considerable but at the same
time it will enable us to give our con
stituents the best paper they have yet
njoyed. The price of the paper when
made a semi weekly will likely be ad
vanced to $2 per year. All persons who
have paid their subscriptions ahead be
fore that date will get the paper for the
next year at the old price. So it will
aaveyoa money now to pay up in ad
vance and it will help us to pay for the
i'.mproyements we expect to make.
' TatE Courier will not get out a New
Year's addition this year. Christinas
ilime is too busy a season in a country
printing office to do justice to a New
Year's illuEtrated number. We promise
-our readers however, that early in the
Spring we will get out a Souvenir edi
tion of the Courier devoted to there
sources and wealth of the cUy of Oregon
City and the county of Clackamas that
will be a credit to this part of the world.
We have had abundant experience in
this line of work and believe that an edi
tion can be gotten out here that will do
9very man, woman and child in the
county much good. A fifty-page book,
eaame oiza as our regular issue, on fine
Jbook paper, bonnd in artistic covers,
i with fivo hundred half tone illustrations,
!U?vod to every material interest of
tUnia amnty is what we propose to Ibbuo
ttiidUw will begin the field work on it
imitliately after the hollidays. We
promise in cdvance to make it the most
jomplete-onl handsome edition yet got
ten out.vCD. tbe Pacific coast. Early
'3pririgand Summer is the best time to
get good views, and for that purpose if
if for no o'.her we would be compelled to
delay the undertaking until the early
'Spring.
How few people there be in these
United States who know aught of the
wealth and glory of the Willamette val
ley. There are millions who do not even
know that it is on the map. Yet it is
God's acre. Lying between the Cas
cade and Coast mountains, with an ex
treme breadth of seventy miles, and
stretching from south of the center of
the state to where the waters of the Wil
lamete river commingle with the blue
waters of the Co.umbia A valley as
rich as the Nile, as beautiful as the
"Hue grass" of Kentncky, it is capable
of supporting a population of 2,500,000
people. The "chinook" winds sweep
ing in from the broad stretches of the
Pacific make its summers glorious and
its winters mild. Its crops never fail
and its fertility is inexhaustable. Here
grows in abundance every thing that
enters into the enjoyment of life. Here
is all of the beauties of life without
many of its rigors. Mountains of eter
nal snow stand as sentinels on its east
ern border, and millions of acres of tim
ber as glorious as ever grew out of the
ground mark its line to the West. Its
people a.e happy and contented. They
live easy and have plenty. Their homes
are substantial; many of them live like
feudal barons of old. They grow richer
each year as the harvest is ever more
than they can consume. The people
are hospitable and generous. They are
coemopolitan in the extreme and prac
tical above all things. It is a wonder
ful valley and its riches have hardly
been touched. We should all exploit
the riches of this valley and herald its
resources to the end of the earth. And
by the way, Clackamas county lies in
the heart of the Willamette valley and far.
ner uoor is ever opeu to the stranger
seeking a new home in a land of "milk
and honey," where the "burden is light
and the yoke is easy."
In lookinif over the assessment of
'Clackamas county for the present year
onade by that splendid official, Mr. Will-
vianiH, we Bue some things that are re-
iunarkable. to sav the least. As one of
-our old Kentucky friends would say,
.some things Unit are a little "incongru
viul." For instance, in all of the county
yf Clackamas there is listed with the as-
; sessor for taxation only $14,755 in money.
' This includes money of all kinds money
in bank, money in safes and iu one's
pocket. We do not doubt in the least
."that on the date of the assessment that
there was in the county of Clackamas in
. good hard coin of the realm $2,000,000 in
.'-money. Of this less than one-tenth of
- one per cent was listed with the asses
. sor. Was this the fault of the law, of
the auBeseor, or of the people? We no
tice, further, that the county of Clacka
mas has over one hundred miles of
steam and electric railways within her
- borders, and that they are put down on
the usHOdami'iit roll at the pittance of
--. fU'O.OOO, about $1000 per mile. The
name lines iu Ohio, Kentucky or New
York would be listed at fiom $20,000 to
$1)0,000 pur milo, and aouM add an ad
ditional $L',0iW O.'O to the tax roll of the
county. Again, where is the fault? It
is somewhere, and it is very apparent.
-It will pay any fanner in Clackamas
and other citizen for that matter to
.study the assessment roll and see where
i. the trouble lies, and then ask the powers
that be to find a remedy.
her of cattle and heep that lo.iru over
it. Bv the introduction , of irrigation
methods on a broad and liberal scale a
great deal of it can be reclaimed and
made to blossom and bloom as the very
Garden of the Uods. Irrigation is as old
as hittory. It was one of the first meth
ods employed bv civilized man to make
the earth give up its harvest of riches.
Along the valley of the Nile th irriga
tion ditch has conveyed water to the
burnt fields of Egypt since before the
dawn of authentic history. Much of the
future of Oregon will depend on the
irrigation canal. In this age of modern
methods and utilitarian spirit the irri
gation canal should be dug deep and
broaii and a foundation laid for the
wealth of the future that will come from
this system of agriculture. The state
should not barter away her rights in the
premises, and the government should
see to it that the money spent for irriga
tion purposes should be for the good of
the common people and not for the ben
efit of combinations,' corporations and
speculators. Every irrigation ditch along
which the waters flow from the rivers to
the lands of the honest huabandman will
add to the wealth of the state and bring
us one day nearer the time when Oregon
will be the home ol five millions of peo
ple. It is always best to do things
well. It is especially important to the
state and its citizens that the matter be
handled in a business like manner, and
that every dollar expended by the Fed
eral government shall be honestly ex
pended. We are in this matter build
ing for the future and every misstep is a
bad stone in the foundation of the future
greatness of this state.
Qt D. & D. C. LATOURETTE
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Commercial, Beat Estate and Probate lav
Specialties
Office in Commercial Bank Building
OREGON CITY OREGON
COMMERCIAL BANK
or OREGON CITY
CAPITAL $100,000
Transacts a general banking business
Makes loans and collections, discounts bills
buys and sells domestic and foreign exchange,
and receives depoalts subject to oheck.
Open from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
. C. A.ATOUHETTE,
rrbident
T.J.
MSYBB
Cashie
c.
N. GREENMAN
THE PIONEER EXPRESSMAN
(Established 1865)
Prompt delivery to all parte of the olty
OREGON CITY OREGON
J)R. GEO. HOEYE
, , DENTIST
all work warranted and satisfaction guaranteed
Crown and Bridge work a specialty
Caufleld Building
OREGON CITY OREGON
J)R.
FRANCIS FREEMAN
DENTIST
Graduate of Northwestern University Dental
School, also of American College of
Dental Surgery, Chicago
Willamette; Block '
OREGON CITY OREGON
What a glorious week this has been
for the holding of an irrigation conven
tion. While the d elegates to the city of
Portland have been devising ways and
means to get more water, Jupiter Pluvius
has opened the flood-gates of heaven
and poured forth in a stream of water
upon this part of the earth. The dele
gates are getting what they want, but
not in the way they want it.
Molalla.
Farmers in this section are busy plow
ing, but little seeding has been done so
DON'T RAIL AT PORTLAND.
To our subscribers who are in arrears
with their subset iptions to the Courier
and whine lime is about up "we would
Like to have them renew at as early a
date as they can ami nuke a guess on
the number of seed in the Courier
pumpkin. We want to have on our 1 ist
by the first of Apiil 2,500 paid up in
advance subscribe! s. You ean help us
and at the same time put yourselves to
very little inconvenience. I'o not wait
for us to call on you with a bill. You
Can tell from the printed slip on the pa
per von receive each week just when
yo'ir time expired. Send us a cheek or
money order, for what yon owe with one
year ahead if you can. A money order
for less than $5 will cost you but two
cents. Many of yon live miles from the
county seat, the roads are bad, the
weather is more or less disagreeable, you
will nave us a great denial trouble and
inconvenience by sending us a money
order or check for the "old" and sn
vjlitt year alieid. Won't you do it'
It is never a good thing for the coun
try to be jealous of e town or for the
town to deny tliB country upon which it
depends anything that is rightly its due.
There is in the country press of Oiegon
just rrow more or less of a desire to rail
at the city of Portland, because, for
sooth, the city of Portland is pushing
the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905,
and her representatives in the state leg
islature are in favor of an appropriation
of $500,000 by the Btate to assist in that
laudable enterprise. Portland is a part
of Oregon. It is a very large part. It
pays a considerable percentage of the
state's taxes. It is located on one of our
noble rivers, at the mouth of one of the
l ichest valleys in the world. Portland
wants the fair. Of course, the enter
prising citizenship of the state wants
the fair. It will do us all much good.
Ihe costs will be a bagatelle as com
pared with the good results that will
surely follow. There is no other city
at which the fair can be held. Portland
is our metropolis. It ia the metropolis
of the great Northwest. More than any
other place on the coast it has an histo
rical connection with the Lewis and
Clark Exploration. The state of Oregon
could not well get along without the city
of Portland and its progressive and push
ing spirit. The city of Portland could
not live weie it not for the fertile vallevs
and rich uplands and wonderful moun
tains, with their wealth of timber land
and mineral resources of the remain
der of this great commonwealth. We are
all constituent parts of one great Btate.
Then would it not be well for all of us
"country fellows" to quit making faces
at Portland, and saying bad things
about Portland and join hands with her
and help to make the Lewis and Clark
Exposition of 1905 the success it ought
to be, and reap from it the harvest of
good citizenship we have reason to be
lieve will come from that sowing. Thpre
are many things that the country wants
that Portland will not soe the need ot,
but we opine that when the time comes
Portland will help the country get what
the country needs and then help to pay
the tiddler.
H. COOPER,
Notrv Public!.
Real Estate and insurance, Titles Exam
ined, Abstracts made, ueeas, wort
gages, Etc., Drawn.
With J. W. Loder, Stevens Building,
Oregon City, Ore.
Qt E. HAYES
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Stevens Building, opp.
OREGON CITY
Bank of Oregon City
OREGON
Oregon Irrigation.
The Artizans at this place had a
supper and entertainment last Saturday
evening, none but members attended.
The Molalla Grange is preparing to
give a ball and supper on Thanksgiving
evening. nits
There will also be a shooting match
here ortthanksniving day, consisting of
trap shooting principally.
Jesse Bagby has gone to Sheridan and
if all accounts be true, he will bring
back a housekeeper with him, Jesse,
says that if the boya conclude to seran
ade him in the usual style of cow-bells,
tin pans etc; he will royally welcome
them and treat them decent.
Billy Vaughan and Johnnie Dungan
started from here on the 5th, for the
desert some fifty or sixth miles south of
Prineville. They expect to bring over
a band of horses, and will return ia a
short time. In a letter received from
them, written at Prineville they state
that the roads are dry and dusty over
there.
Quite a number of Molalla people
went out in the vicinity ol Rosebu rg re
cently and took up timber claims, which
shows that there fs some timber left yet.
The Russell Bros., passed through
hore recently with quite a lot of new
machinery for their saw mill. Among
other things they ha la new cut off saw.
The boys have a tie contract that will
keep them bujy for some time. They
are going to try to run ties down the
Molalla river, and if they can suc
ceed in doing this, it will be a cheap
way of transportation.
Fay M ody pti )tie 1 ovar to JMt Angel
to have Kroueburg to coma and see
what CJtild be done for Vaugluu'a sick
hor-je. The doctor pronounced it heart
trouble, Judging from ayiuptons de
scribed to him that the several .horses
that he has recently lost, have died with
a kind of staggers.
The Milalla grangers are building a
large shed back of their hall, to shelter
their horses while attending theGrante
in stormy weather. They have not
finished it yet, but will have it com
pleted in time for next meeting.
The Btiow is appearing very low down
on the foothills now, which bids fair for
a hard winter. Only a few of the Jstock
men aroun.'. hore have succeeded in
bringing all their cattle out of the
mountains. Cattle iu the mountains
seem to be scattered mote this (all than
usual: probably caused by forest fires
or the feeding ground so poor.
Our postmistress is on the sick list
this week and Johnnie Stubbs is hand
ling the mail.
Some morn of the Molalla people
started to Southern Oregon today to
take timber claims.
X. V. z.
Mr. M. Clemens, of New Kra, has ad-
vertlseil to sen an oi nis personal prop-
QEO. T. HOWARD
NOTARY PUBLip
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
At Red Front. Court House Block
OREGON CITY
OREGON
QRANT B. D1MICK
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Will practice In all Courts In Ihe Btate, Circuit
and District Courts of the United States.
Insolvent debtors taken through bankruptcy.
Offloe in Stevens Building, Oregon City, Or.
Brunswick Hcuseand Restaurant
NEWLY" FURNISHED ROOMS
Meals at All Hours . Open Bay and Night
Prices Reasonable
Only First Class Restaurant in the City
CHAS CATTA, Prop.
Opposite Suspension, Bridge OREGON CITY, ORE.
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POPE & CO.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Hardware, Stoves, Syracuse Chilled and Steel Plows,
Harrows and Cultivators, Planet Jr., Drills and
Hoes, Spray Pumps, Imperial Bicycles.
PLUMBING A SPECIALTY
Cor. Fourth and Main Sta. OREGON CITY
GET YOUR
MONEY'S WORTH
Money we're bo often told is the.
root of all evil, yec who of us have not
wisnea at times we mignt nave a tew
cords of the root. But instead of the
idle wishing prudent people look
closer after their expenditures.
Right here we can help you. We
covet confidence and challenge com
petition.
A. Robertson,
7th St. Grocer.
w r n,
The Flour
of the Family
J. W. Norms, M. D. J. W. Powell. M. D.
JJORRIS & POWELL,
Physicians and Surgeons.
Calls in city orcountry promptly attended
Office: 1,2,17,
Charman Bros. Block, Oregon City.
JJOBERT A. MILLER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
O. D.EBY, NOTARY PUBLIC.
Real Estate bought and sold, money loaned
titles examined nnd abstracts made cash paid for
oouuty warrants. Probate and commissioners'
court business and insurauce.
BOOM 3, WBINHARD BUILDING
OREGON CITY, - - - - OREGON,
0. BCHUEBW. W. S. U'REN
JJREN & SCUUEBEL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
eutfiier Slbootat,
Will praotloe In all courts, make collections
nd settlements of estates, famish abstracts of
title, lend you mnnoy and lend your money on
Brst mortgage. Office in Enterprise building.
OREGON CITY OBKOON
g I. SIAS
DKALEB IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY
Silverware and Spectacles
OAKJIY OREGON
W. H. YOUNG'S
Livery & Feed StabSs
Fini'stJTurnouts inj City
OREGON CITY. ORF.no
The flour of all the Oregon City families
is "Patent" flour. The intelligent house
wife always gets "Patent" flour because,
it is better and more ecomonical to use
Made in Oregon City by the Portland
Flouring Mills Co
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We carry the only complete line
of Caskets, Coffins, Robes and
LiningB in Clackamas County.
We have the only First-Class
Hearse in the County, which we
will furnish for less than can be
had elsewhere.
Embalming a Specialty.
Our prices always reasonable.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
4W
J&f fed
SHANK & BISSELL. Undertakers
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q Phones 411 and 304
wiifiNiilfiiwiyimmiiiiTi
Main St., Opp. Huntley's.
Hli W if'""mp if Hump irtirn""irnr"""ipi TTP
Brown & Welch
-Proprietors op the-
Seventh Street
Meat Market
A. O.
OREGON
U. W.
CITY,
Building
OREGON
CHARMAN
S. J. VAUGHAN'S
liverv, F33J ail ale t ables
Nearly opposite Suspension bridge
First-Class Ris of .All Kinds
OREGON CITY, OREGON
The tpieslion of irrigation of the nub-
arid lands of the state of Oregon is one
of the most important Questions with
which the good people of this state have
had to deal iu a generation. The ques
tion just now is especially prominent
from the fact that both the t title govern
ment and the national government have
taken steps to reclaim a great deal of
this arid land by encouraging irrigation
There are literally millions of acres of erty, including some good horses, cattle,
land in the state of Oiegon, lying mostly anj hogs, at his residence on the Oregon
east of the Cascade mountains, as rich j Rrl,i Sulem road, on Saturday, Nov. 29,
as any land under the sun, if water could j j!i02. He has some very desirable
be gotteu to it by way of the irrigation gtock lor sale, and many articles of farm
ditch. This land is practically worthless, ing implements that should attract per
or at least furnishes only a scanty and (0ns looking for bargains. The sale
unreliable Mtstenance to a limited mini- begin promptly at eleven'o'cioek.
ACKER'S
DYSPEPSIA TABLETS
cures dyspepsia and all disorder! arising from init
gestlon. Endorsed by phvaicUos everywhere ,
Sold by U druiglsu. No cure no pay: '2fl cni !
Trial package tree by writing to W. II. Hooker & '
0., uu Halo, is. i .
Saves You Money
j
There is not an item in the drug liue but that you can save
money oy gelling n. nere.
If we sold you a poor grade at a less price you would be sav
ing nothing. In fact, poor drugs at any price is the roost
expensive foptn of economy. Here you take no chances
everything is of the quality you want. That is the greatest
satisfaction in buying anything of us it is right as to
quality. The next satisfaction is, you pay less for the pure
article here than you do for the poor article elsewhere.
Better get what you want by getting it here.
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Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma,
LaGrippe, Hoarseness,
.Sore Throat, Croup and
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il T2haiiia r"vft cures coughs, colds
promo Lax and la grippe;
Price, 25c.
a box
To the users of BROMO LAX we are going to give a y
GUARANTEED GOLD WATCH FREE. 7.
Call and get particulars.
CHAm.LAJSJ
City Drug Store, Cut Price Druggists.
Mail orders solicited
CO.
Phone 1 3.