CITY
With $13,000,000 in Factories and
$100,000 monthly Pay Roll with plenty
of Power to sell, Oregon City can dou
ble Its Population in Five Years.
I The Courier is AGAINST injustice
against the privileged classes, and FOR
the; Weak Citizen; and the Common
People.
20th YEAR.
OREGON CITY, OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 8 19 12.
OMGOM
COURIER
GET THE FACTORIES
THE OTHER THINGS WILL FOL
LOW WHERE THEY TURN.
GO AFTER THE EASTERN MEN
And Tell Them of the Cheap Pow
er This City Has.
When you stop to think of it,
don't you know that, the Commer
cial club of this city is a power
a moans through which almost
anything is possible of accom
plishment? .lust think of over two hundred
and II fly men all going up against
the line together. .Something is
bound to come of it.
The speakers at the Commer
cial club's meeting last week all
made the same rosey predictions
for the future of this city, and
they backed up their talk.
Oregon City ia today the great
est manufacturing city in Oregon,
and that it can be made twice
what it is now in this line is
plain to the man who digs into
the possibilities.
We have a great water power at
our doors that will be power as
long as it snows in the mountains
and as long as water runs down
hill. And in this country, where
coal is too high priced for fuel,
such power is almost priceless
The electric company has lots
of power to sell, every mill has it
to spare and to sell, and there is
no limit to the factories this city
may have, if these 250 men will
all go after it.
There is just one weak snot in
so big a bunch of men the weak
spot or great strength indifierT
of thinking that the work of the
organization is the other fellow's
to do and through this indiffer
ence to have neglect.
Senator Dimick told us that we
could have the banks of the Wil
lamette lined with factories if we
would go after them, and he said
this city might have four times its
present population
There is a very true old saying
that a factory may be started in
the heart of the forest, and that
workmen will make a path to it.
The matter of the growth of our
city is of minor importance. Get
the factories and the people and
the homes will come.
This paper isn't posing as the
director of the Commercial club,
nor presuming to tell them where,
they are heading in wrong, but we
do believe if this great body of
men would go after the manufac
urei j a li.'Us harder, and tho pub
licity end a little easier, we would
accomplish lor more tor tho city,
and boom it faster than through
any other means we have.
- All eyes are on the Pacific coast
these days. The big canal is
doing for this country what mon
ey could not do, and thousands of
capitalists are driving their
stakes out hero in the Sunset
The Pleasure of
At Home
IS ENHANCED when the home is brightened
like sunlight by the brilliant rays of the Mazda
Lamp. Its restful rays impart the effect of a flood
of sunlight--the oniy light for which the eye has a
natural affinity. Not only does the Mazda Lamp
give this Superior Quality of light, but it gives
nearly Three Times as much light as the com
mon carbon incandescent-and Costs No More to
operate.
country. Manufacturers all over
the east are noting the future of
tho Pacilic coast, and they want to
get, in.
If the Commercial club will go
after tho manufacturers, there is
a lot of the other work that will
take care of itself, that will fol
low the factories without effort on
anybody's part.
If you knew how pitifully few
people of the east slates ever
hoard of the falls here, and how
lew even know where the old Wil
lamette rises or empties, then we
would better realize wherein lay
promising Held for missionary
work.
Eastern capital is thirsty for
tho power the Willamette makes
here, and if our Commercial club
would go after those manufac
tories, take ill e ii i up systematical
ly and thoroughly, we would sure
ly get other big labor-employing
mills, and when you get them the
rest comes of its own accord.
(Jet after the terminal rates, for
they are worth as much as factor
ies, but in the meantime get a line
on new industries, have them on
the string, and when we get Port
land's shipping rates we will be
all ready to tie them up.
Make an appropriation for this
work. Put a certain amount in
advertising in the manufacturing
periodicals and the trade journals
and stay with it nnd it is bound to
win out.
We want 25 000 people in Ore
gon City. We want tho river's
banks lined with factories. Let's
get them.
QUIT KIDDING.
Estacada Now Wants a Piece of
This County, Too.
If the people of Clackamas
county are to vote at the coin
ing election on a nestion of a
division of the county it is
lime that action preliminary
to a decision, should be un
der way. Petitions for divis
ion must be tiled at Salem
four months before election
which would bring the date
about July 1 .Estacada Pro
gress. i'oes to the east of us, foes to
the south ol usl
Marion county wanls a chunk
and now Estacada wants to seceed
with the wish bone and a piece of
the wnite meat. - ,
The right thing to do is to com
mence the spanking of the babies.
There comes a time when such
constant crying gets on one's
nerves, and then the proper act is
the woodshed and the strap.
Now here s notice to you fel
lows that we will resent any more
talk about carving up this old
county and we will resent it just
as loud and long as Texas did the
proposition to divide that state.
Once Clackamas county extend
ed from Alaska to California, and
it has been pared down and cut in
to chunks until we are simply go
ing to get a cannon and stand off
any further depredations.
And if you fellows don't want
to get hurt, better quit your fool
ing, for we are no longer going to
stand for any more kicking this
dog around.
if
Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company
MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH: ALDER.
PORTLAND
Phones Main 6G88 and A. 6131
ONLY IN MONTHS
AND TRAINS WILL BE RUNNING
TO MOLALLA
EVERYBODY SHOULD BOOST.
People Should Have a Say As to
Its Location
Lay two streaks of steel across
the country, any old country, gar
den spot or desert, and people will
go to n, ana stay with it.
First the little grocery store.
men a doctor, another store, i
lawyer, a postoffice, a newspa
per and you're off.
And these streaks of steel start
ed something. Business follows,
just as naturally as a duck finds
a slough.
And now conies the pleasing
news that four months of steady
work and ttie Clackamas Southern
will be in full operation from
Oregon City to Molalla, and Sup
erintendent Swift says if the
weather is settled, work will com
inence in two weeks.
And when trains aro running
regularly between here and Mol
alia, what will be the result?
Hero's our guess:
You will see great quantities of
cord wood, lumber and farm pro
ducts coming to this city: you will
see settlers buying and locating
along ther oad; you will see prop
erty changing hands and land
cleaned up; you will see mills
start up, stores opened, and you
will see Oregon City and this
part of Clackamas county boom as
it hasn't boomed since Dr. Mc
Loughlin's days.
Saturday night the directors
met and planned to resume work
this month and every blue-blood
in Oregon City, every member of
the Commercial club, every farm
er and every business man should
get right in behind this work and
render every possible- assistance,
that you may be able to ride in
the varnished cars, out to Molalla
lor a fourth ol July celebration.
Ten and a half miles of grad
ing is completed today; tools and
equipment are bought and paid
for; bridges are built, everything
is in splendid shape and the com
pany doesn't owe a doli-i'.
A large part of the bond issue
is subscribed for, but none has
been delivered, for the reason
that interest will have to be met,
and the directors wisely decide
not to issue any until tho greater
part, or all, are placed.
Bo a booster for the no i ail
road, get the habit and stay by it
like a dude to a cigarette.
The road is a booster for you,
and will do you more good than a
dozen public buildings. Coii'o
back at it, and do all you can to
hurry its completion.
Dr. J. V. Norris has been ser
iously ill with bronchitis for sev
eral days, but is now a little im
proved. Dining
ONLY DIE SflREET
OREGON CITY IS BUNCHING UP
TOO MUCH
THAT POSTOFFICE MATTER,
Clackamas Southern Should Have,
A World of Friends
Don't know what you may think
of it, but here's a matter we seem
to be sleeping on, and one which
it seems we should come alive to
and take a stick in.
The probabilities aro that we
will have $75,000 of the govern
ment's money to put into a post
office building here in fact the
matter seems to bo pretty well
cinched and is as certain as any
thing in politics.
And now what aro we going to
do with it?
That's the question.
Because tho government,,
through Senator Bourne, sees fit
to give us this ball of fodder, we
shouldn't accept it as if it didn't
cost us anything, as if we were so
much ahead anyway, and then let
a few fellows plant the federal
building any old place they intent
pick out.
Let vi a suppose the natrons of
this office had to go down into
their jeans and dig up this $75,
000. '
Do you suppose wo would pay
for it and then go home and for
get it until a committee picked
out a lot that suited them, and
uunt something?
iNoi on your breaklast food.
If the taxpayers paid for the
new postoflice "bui diner thev
would be on the job every hour,
and its location wouldn't be decid
ed upon until a majority decided
u.
And do you know that Oregon
City is going in for a one-street
city' with altogether too much
vim with more enthusiasm
than sanity.
At the big booster liieelinir tlie
other night, speaker after speak
speaker made the prediction that
mis city was nut in ns miancy,
that it was bound to reach five
times its present size, and that
will terminal rales we would have
the greatest manufacturing citv
on the Pacific coast.
Senator Dimick told us that, trl-
ven terminal rates the banks of
the Willamette would bo lined
with factories as the electric
people had plenty of power to sell.
And the present mills have plen
ty to sell. too. They would e:eii-
erato it into electricity
And if dreams como true, what
would a postoffice building look
UKe on ttie river tront. '
If they come true, what would I
it look like anywhere down town
where the government would con
sent to have it. j
Main street isn t all there is to
Oregon City it is less than a
ouarter ot it and why don t we
recognize that the real city is on
the heights and that is where the
people live and own homes aud
the logical placet or a nostotlice.
a library or any public building.'
Talkinar with a nrominent. nffi-
icial of Salem a few weeks ago, he
asked u anyone lived on the
bluffs, and when told that three
or four thousand people lived
there, he simply stared in aston
ishment. We don't want a postoffice thai
will have to bo torn down i ecause
it will be in tho way in a few
years, and we want to recognize
that Main street isn't so big a tail
that it can wag the whole city.'
This handsome and expensive
building will bef or tho people,
and not for Main street exclusive
ly, and the people have just as
much right to decide its locution
as they l'Te to uccido any nn Iter
that itiLei Is I hen.
And if ho people want a .-ay,
let them demand it, let them ask
for a public meeting and the ref
erendum vole as to the location of
this public building.
You have a say in this matter
politics should not be the whole
thing. ..,..
Do you want it? If so, let us
hear from you.
THE COURIER'S SOLO.
A Spring Song to Our Own
companiment.
Without any boosting but
Ao-
its
columns, without any premiums
voting contests or other means of
persuasion, the Courier is stead
ily enlarging its field and finding
homes in every nook in Clacka
mas counly.
And notwithstanding this gain
we have taken from the list a
large number of delinquents, and
slow-pays and no-pays, and we
have now a list of readers who are
payers, who take the Courier be
cause they want it for what it is,
and not for what they get with it.
And by the way, this is the class
of people to talk to through ad
vertising.
If you want to reach the out
side people, the farmers who have
goods to buy and goods to sell,
the people who go somewhere to
buy and somewhere to sell well,
the Courier reacnes them, covers
the territory and can deliver your
goods to the people who read.
There is a neap or difference
in the circulation of a periodical
whether it is taken because a
family wants it, or whether the
premium was purchased and the
paper thrown in. Did you ever
think of it in this way?
And we want to ask our friends
those who favor a paper that
dares if they will kindly send
this office names of men in
their locality who favor a paper
that dares to lake a chance, that
we may send them a few sample
copies of the Courier.
It, will help us and we will
greatly appreciate it.
Will you? Thanks.
Class ads do the business at
small expense. One cent a word.
LORE IS DOWNED.
COUNCIL REFUSED TO CON
FIRM POPULAR MAN
WAS A VERY FOOLISH ACTION
Now Commences the Expensive
Legal Actions
Mayor Dimick offered an olive
"ranch to the city council Tues-
I l'uv n'8ht, when alter they had re
fused to confirm Charles E. Burns
as chief of police, he then named
W. A. Long, one of the city's most
popular men, but the council
would not confirm.
A short time ago certain per
sons, including a council mem
ber and the Courier editor was
present, went to Mayor Dimick,
and asked him if he would not go
entirely outside the men in dis
pute and name a candidate both
sides could agree on.
Mayor Dimick said he would do
so if thee ouncil would confirm,
but men did not like the Hu
miliation of being turned down,
lie said at this time he would ap
point W. A. Long, if the council
wanted to cut out tho fight and
do business.
And you see what the council
did to Mr. Long and you can draw
your own conclusions.
The mayor told tho council they
acteu iiKe cniidren, and when such
appointments as W. A. Long's aro
turned down, the people will very
soon see tho mayor is right and
that tho position of the council is
more kid play and spite work than
eusiness.
It is a cinch that clean, capable
men will positively refuse an ap
pointment which will humiliate.
The city has loudly demanded
a compromise, a get-together.
Now, whose fault is it?
What havo you council niem-
Dors to say
Now hero are results wo have
told you would follow.
A taxpayer has applied for an
injunction against the payment of
double chief of police salary, on
the grounds that the city's funds
aro being dissipated.
Chief of Police Burns has
brought suit against the city for
his salary as police, which tho
council refuses to pay him.
The.se are but the begining of
expensive litigations and the peo
ple will begin to think that wo
have a bunch of foolish kids try
ing to start something they are
not familiar with.
Notice of Committee Meeting.
Notice is hereby given that
meeting of the democratic county
central committee' will be held at
the Willamette hall, Oregon City,
Saturday, March 16, for the pur
pose of electing officers and
transacting such other business
as may come before it.
G. F. Johnson, Secy.
Library Will be In City Park.
Wednesday night the city coun
cil ordered framed an ordinance
which will place the $12,500 li
brary in the city park on Seventh
street. Several sites were consid
ered, but Chairman Mcllain of the
committee, said the park site was
the one most easily agreed upon.
The new building will be rushed.
The class ads on page 8 have
produced surprising results. Ono
cent a word and a few words do
the biz.
LIVE WIRE'S WEEKLY SPARKS,
THE HITCHING PROBLEM
ONCE MORE.
UP
Governor West is Expected to be
Present at Next Meeting.
The Live Wires got together at
their weekly meeting Tuesday and
talked over several matters that
are of public and private interest,
and among them was that old, obi
subject.tho mailer of public hitch
ing posts.
M. J. Leo of Canby said that his
town had taken hold of the hitch
ing matter, and they had to to
keep the trade from going out of
town, but ho said the merchants
there each provided his own free
shod for the lariners teams.
Mr. -Sullivan thought that it
would bo a better plan to provide
largo barns or sheds, rather than
outside hitching posts, but M. J.
Lazelle did not at all agree with
him, stating that he knew much
trade went to other places for no
other reason than that we did not
have places for the farmers rigs,
lie thought that posts could be
arranged onTenlh street,, between
Water and Main.
Mr. Hedges said that this mat
ter was one that had been repeat
edly before the Commercial club,
but that it was a very diflicult one
to settle for the reason that this
city was so differently situated
than other towns, we having no
waste land near the business part
of the city. He said that where
hitching room would be conven
ient for the farmers, the residents
would not permit them, and were
it would be unobjectable to the
citizens, would be where the farm
ers would not want them.
A. A. Price thought that some
thing should be figured out in the
way of public hitching posts, and
although quite a hard proposition
it could be accomplished.
L. Adams thought that Fifth
street might be secured for this
purpose, from Main to the river.
He said the farmers were loud in
their demand for this convenience
and that considerable trade went
to Portland because we do not
provide hitching room.
A. L. Beaty of the Oregon City
Commission Co. said his firm was
going after this matter on their
own account, and that at the next
meeting of the council they would
ask permission to establish posts
onEleventh street at thoir own expense.
Commencing with the flrstTues
dav of next month the Live Wires
will have one night meeting each
Mium a, wnero more time can be
had to talk over tho different mat
ters. hr
Mr. TOOZO savp a short Jnllr nn
what the committee on health was
doing, but ho said that the public
iiu imh mho enougn interest in
me mailer, and that in place of
thepublic availing themselves of
uie mommy meetings of tho com
mittee to report unhealthful and
unsanitary conditions in the city,
that tho committee had to get its
informal ion anil cnnmlainU fi-nm
me i.ive ires.
iext Tuesday noon if. is hvii.
ted that, Governor West will be in
attendance at the lunch eon HiiH
give the club a talk, and no uoubt
extra lames wilt bo spread and ev
ery memiier will bo present.
CHUNKS OF WISDOM.
The Great Oregonlan Hands this
Paper a Few Nice Ones.
This paper has all kinds nf in
spect for the honest opinions of
uiose wnose opinions differ from
its ways of soeiiur thinirs. nnd it
never yet lias in any manner rid
iculed anyone who saw things
ih'mi h muereni viewpoint.
nuL wueu we necomo cron . n
circulation, and when we have an
otllco home as big as the court
house, we presume that then we
too will swell un and disnute any
one's right to see other than as ve
see.
Because the editor of this paper
lout the tanners last weeii that
their taxes couldn't be moio a
Durocn under single (ax than
they are now, tho groat Oref,or.ian
said Ibis was tho only papti' in
Oregon that had the audacity lo
to think different than the own
er of that paper, and then it wi,nt
on with a lot of nasty, lying insin
uations that this papor was con
trolled by the Fels' fund hne l
lo advocate single tax. Of coico
it did not make a direct ciiare
just a cowardly insinuation.
If tho Oregonian's editor would
accept a little real good advice
from a country sheet it would bo
to go sit on a tack.
This paper is not its echo, and
if it has tho distinction of being
the only paper in Oregon that is
for tho single tax amendment, it
rivals the distinction of the Ore
gonian, that it is tho only sheet in
Oregon that has nerve enough to
champion the political machines,
big bad business, and the stand
pat, administration.
-And here is one of the argu
ments (?) the Orettonian handed
out fur wisdoinwhon it referred
I.. II, li i.. :i :..
iu tut. vjuunri uuiiucuy ill
position on the single tax.
Hs
If single tax shall confis
cate all lands and turn them
over to the state, and if tho
stale shall go bankrupt, the
way out is to have a grand
free distribution all over
again.
And reading this bunch of "ifs"
makes us think of tho rabbit story
and that the loss of King Solomon
and Daniel Webster is not being
noted to any great extent in Ore
gon.
AND IT WON'T WORK
Voters
Will Back Up on
Political Game.
This
It is said in political circles
that there is a nuiet little srum-
shoe game on with the republi
cans, to defeat J. li. Jack for as
sessor, and the announcements of
I. r. Nelson of Mulino and li. P.
Carter of Gladstone, aro part of
the game.
But, the Courier believes Asses
sor Jack will bo a hard man to
down, not because ho is a demo
crat, but because be is a capable
man, and party doesn't cut so big
a gash as it once did.
Mr. Jack is ono of tho most
capable men in theo ourt house.
lie is always on tho job. doesn t
turn the work over to deputies,
but earns his money. He is fair
minded, qualified, knows his work
and does his duty as be sees it.
An assessor will always make
enemies and he should bo en
dorsed for tho enemies ho makes
With property owners asking for
tower assessments and tho coun
ty court asking they bo kept up, a
man must simply play the cards
aa ia lliinlQ ii-hl anrl Hiia Mr
Jack has done, and1 will do.
Changing assessors is bad
business, if you get a man who is
square, and we don't believe there
will be any change.
8ooiallsts will Moot April 7
A Socialist meeting Is called lo
meet in Knapp's hall, Oregon City
Sundny, April 7 at 10 a. m. This
will be a meeting of Clackamas
county locals, all card members,
also all registered Socialists are
requested to be present, for at
this lime we will decide whether it.
is advisable to put out. a county
ticket for the coming elections.
W. W. MVHKS, County Secy,
FRESH DAILY
Salmon. Halibut
Etc.
CRABS, cooked on the premises; OYS
TERS, direct from the shell; CHICKEN,
to order; No Cold Storage Stock in fish
or fowl. Headquarter for OLYMPIA
OYSTERS, the BEST on the Coast.
MACDONALD'S MARKET
Next Welln Fargo
FISH! FISH
E
MEN WHO NEVER SAW THE
WHITE MAN'S FACE.
THE UNKNOWN CLIFFDWELLERS
A Visit to the Ruins of This Onoe
Great Desert City.
Last summer this paper started
a series of southwest travel let
ters and the ilrst three of the ser
ies were discriptions of the Cliff
Dwellers' ruins nf th Pnv
cliffs in Now Mexico. Those let-
teres were written iust before tho
editor came to OreKon. he havinur
just returned from his fourth
trip to the odd spots of the south-
ewst.
And anionff the letters and ndils
and ends in an old grip I tlnd the
iollowing letter, written just two
years ago, from Barranca, N. M.,
uui which was never printed, it
was my llrst trip, to the ruined
homes of a forgotten people one
under circumstances not at all
conducive to poetic discriptions.
nere it is:
It was with the keenest and hit.-
terest disappointment of my life
that 1 turned back from the r.liir
Dwellers' ruins and bought a tick
et for the east.
To me there is nothini? in the
wonderland of the southwest that
has so great a fascination as the
abandoned homos nf this nnnnin
we know not of this people of
the lar dim days of the past our
ancestors who lived in caves, lived
much like beasts, wore only f.ho
skins of animals, lived thousands
of years for all we know, came
from whore we do not know, and
departed whence we do not know.
But 1 am ahead of my story and
have given out a disaonointment
without a reason for it.
I saved the Cliff Dwellers and
the community houses for the lin
ish of my trip, well knowing that
1 would llnd little to interest. m
after I had seen these ruins
rnins older than lire.
And I saved them to lone. I
saw them, some of them, but un
der circumstances that cannot do
half justice.
I suppose I should have infor
med myself that what little winter
New Mexico has comes the lat
ter part of February and the
llrst ofMarch. and had I have done 1
done so, 1 would have wont llrst to
these ruins and then to old Mex
ico. But I didn't take tho Dains.
and I lost out.
But I saw the JilF ruins, des-
pile tho deep a now and tire howl
ing mountain blizzards. I saw
them and climbed up into them,
inspected parlor, bed-room and
conservatory, sat there on the
floor in the dust of ages, sat
cross-legged, as some cliff-dweller
had sat in the same place hun
dreds, perhaps thousands of years
ago sat there and looked across
the gorge from the doorway of
this pre-historio home, and into
my eyes came a picture-
And into my toes came the frost
and into my ears came the call of
tho driver below and that pic
ture of a Forgotten Past faded,
faded before I could catch tho col
ors. Did you ever try to get senti
mental in a blizzard? Try it. Did
you ever try for poetry when the
tnerrnomeier was about ten below
and a freezing driver calling.
Don t try it nothing to it.
What of the Cliff Wellers? You
tell. We Americans know little of
them and the more I learn the less
I know.
Through Arizona and New Mex
ico there are hundreds of ruins.
Wo know people, human beings.
once lived in thom, and that is
about an we do know. Anybody
can tell you who they were, where
tney came irom and wnere tney
went to, but no one will toll you
anything that has even a speaking
distance connect on with what the
other fellow explained, so I read
what little I can llnd about thom,
hear a whole lot of what every
body can tell and then guess.
1 realized what the suffering
and danger might" mean to visit
theso ruins in the lace of a bliz
zard and deep snow, but I could
not como home without sooing at
least something of these homes or
an extinct people So we drove it,
wrapped to the ears in Navajo
blankets and our foet on foot-
warmers.
And I saw some of the homes of
this vanished people some of
the cave monuments of the Doonle
who populated this Ilio Grande
valley and whose history has gone
rrom on the race of the earth.
Under favorable conditions a
man could write his head off with
these surroundings. Sitting in
tho homes of these mysterious
people, in the cruinblinar ruins of
what were once the only human
habitations of this great coun
try of ours, sitting in the dust of
ages and thinkim? of the First
Americans who lived, loved and
lanored here whore wouldn t
this pencil run to if it were only
spring time, if tho frost would
let up on my great toe. and if the
driver would stop wrecking my
trains of thought by his yelling
mat we must start back?
three hours only in this great
est of all great museums.
J hree hours on v from tho cen
turies before a white man's foot
ever touched American soil to
the days of Joe Cannon, 1 9 i 0.
I can t attempt a story. It is all
so great, so awesome, so myster
ious, my pencil is so small.
But it was fortunate we did not
stay longer. As it was we were
unable to return to our starting
Elace, and I was never able to get
ack to tho station where I nad
left my grip, and it was weeks af
ter that I received it, sent to me at
Salamanca, N. Y.
I had planned miles and nines
EOT
COLUMBUS
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