CITY
Oregon City ships 300 tons of
goods every day and receives 700
tons. That's why its the best
city In the state.
"A MILE OF MILLS"
and more coming Is what makes
Oregon City the best on the coast
outside of Portland.
OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRDAY. AUG. 9, 1912.
No. 12
30th YEAR.
OREGON
COUKffiK
A M STORY FOR
THE DOG DAYS.
AN IDEA OR TWO, BUT WILL
THEY WORK OUT?
SCRATCH YOUR HEAD A BIT.
Can't the Government do in Ore
gon what it Does in Panama?
'Tis hard to save a dollar when
It haiiiis every time
For each new plunk appearelh ton
New ways .to spend a dime.
Now right in the middle of dog
days and the watermelon season
the Courier is going to spring a
High Cost of Living story.
Don't skip it because it has a
dry heading wet it a little and
go down the column. It MAY set
you to thinking some.
Here is the little item that
started this pencil. It was dipped
from a last week's daily paper.
Uncle Sam, naving gone
into the restaurant business
down in Panama, is serving
good, nourishing meals for
!) cents, and regular banquets
for 30 cents, and makes a lit
tle profit' on it. lie runs ID
big hotels, and serves some
thing like 000,000 meals a
month.
Does that make you think any?
Does it make you wonder and
question how the government can
lake nearly every article that goes
into those nine cent meals hun
dreds of miles in rel'rigator cars,
serve it into "good, nourishing
meals" ut nine cents aim ...ake a
profit on it?
Something dead wrong between
tin; producer and the ealer, isn't
there?
Now let me illustrate again:
For several years the writer
was a cutlery salesman. One par
ticular pattern of razor ho sold
was bought from a razor factory
in Geneva, N. Y. for $3. per. doz
en, and in numberless instances
he has seen the dealer sell it to
the shaver for $3 apiece.
From $3 at the factory to $30
at the whiskers is some rake off,
eh?
If the shaver only knew it he
would quit shaving and push his
whiskers in.
Only a few days ago the writer
heard a farmer say he sold his po
latoes in Oregon City for 50 cents
a sack, 20 cents a Dusnei. nat , ween, ami sevei ai-inum-i n aim i
did you pay for them? Iters have been forced over until
On the editorial page of this pa- next week.
A Cool Kitchen
EVEN IN
MIDSUMMER
With A REAL LIVE BREEZE
blowing away the stilt y ait and
cooling the whole t oom
That's Yoor Kitchen and all othets, too--that
HAVE AN
Electee FAN
'TV-
ner is an item telling how an Am
erican bought a pair of American
made shoes in London for $3.50
and came homo and paid $5 for
ihem in the same state, where
Ihev were made.
Last week 26 cases of canta
loupes were burned in Portland
because they had begun to spoil,
and the dealers would rather lose
them and keen the price up.
And there are hundreds of poor
families in that city who don t
know what cautoulopes taste like.
1 could go on and relate hun
dreds of instances of where the
first cost of necessities have
swelled up until you wouldn't
know them. But what's the use?
What you want to know is how
you are going to remedy it.
Did it occur to you when you
read the item above, telling how
the government could make mon
ey serving dinners at nine cents
each , that it would be a pretty
good business idea to let the gov
ernment go into the restaurant
business?
And if the government can clip
i0 cents off a meal and still leave
a profit, don't you reckon the gov
ernment would bo a pretty good
general manager in other lines
in the clothing, meat, shoe, coal,
drug, railroad, telegraph, tele
phone, and ot her necessil ies?
It is a sure 'nough thing that
there has got be a lot of t his mid
dle rake-off eliminated in this
country or we are going to see
some fun. When a man has to go
to London to buy a pair of Amer
ican shoes at a decent price, and
when a man has lo go to Ger
many lo save half price on a
slov made in Syracuse, N. Y.,
I lull man gels info a prelty nasty
frame of mind.
And t hen we deplore the growth
of Socialism.
When trusts get so big that all
they have lo do is to determine
what profit they will sqoeze out of
the people, without their rising iii
rebellion, anil then squeeze, then
if is lime the government deter
mined about what, profits Ihe
I rusts should he allowed lo levy
and squeeze them to if.
Always bear in mind that there
are hundreds of consumers to one
trust; that the people have the
power and that Ihe people will
inighly soon exccrcise that power
unless Ihe government acls for
them.
And what do you think of gov
ernment ownership of necessity
supplies and government super
vision of I hose things we want
hut have not got to have?
Just a Little Light.
TIh) county tax sale has crowded
the regular reading matter this
Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company
MAIN OFFICE SEVENTHMALDER.
PORTLAND
Phones Main 6C88 and A. CI31
ft LITTLE
RAILROAD
AN OUTLINE REVIEW OF WHAT THE CLACKAMAS SOUTHERN HAS DONE, AND A GUESS OR
, TWO AS TO WHAT IT WILL DO IN THE FUTURE.
MOLALLA IS BUT A START ON
Opening the Richest Sections In the State of Oregon, the Road has
Men who Know Opportunity and Have Sand to Back
Active construction work was
started on the Clackamas South
ern Railway Company at Oregon
City in the month of March, 1911,
and at that time about five thous
and dollars had been subscribed,
and as the work progressed the
directors of the company held
meetings along the route and en
couraged the people to such an
extent that the subscriptions to
the capital slock was made faster
than the money was expended.
The board of directors charged
nothing for their services, as all
of them were interested in Oregon
A SCENE ON THE
City and the country tributary lo
tho line.
The survey and a large part of
the rights of way had been prev
iously acquired by F. M. Swift
and the main work which the di
rectors had to preform was the
raising of the money and execut
ing the work so that the company
would get good value for the mon
ey expanded.
Thet'fforts of the directors was
at first directed in acquiring a
good, reliable and competent en
gineer, ann inrougn uie recom-
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TALK, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
THE ROAD'S FUTURE COURSE
-mendalion of Mr. Budd, chief en
gineer of the Hill system, the ser
vices of J . L. Stacer, who had
worked for the Hill system in
building their line through the
Deschutes canyon, was employed.
Owing to the fact that a large
number of Clackamas county peo
ple have heretofore been induced
by different corporations selling
slock, mto invest their money in
stocks where promoters took for
themselves a majority of the capi
tal stock and sold the balance,
thereby acquiring something for
nothing, and in order to avoid any
GRADE BETWEEN BEAVER CREEK AND MULINO.
unfair sale of stock, the Clacka-
mas southern Railway Company
laid down the following rule, that
no stock would be given away to
the promoters of the enterprise,
thereby insuring equal protection
for every stock holder, regardless
of the number of shares held by
each. -
""None of.tho capital slock has
been sold for less than fifty dol
lars per share, and at this lime
very nearly two hundred thous
and dollars cash value of the stock
has been subscribed, which repre
sents over three hundred and fifty
individuals, mercantile companies !
and banks.
During the year 1911 approxi
mately eighty thousand dollars of
the Clackamas, Southern slock
was subscribed principally by
Clackamas county citizens and
during the year 1912 forty-five
thousand dollars' worth of stock
was subscribed by Mr. Carver and
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WHERE THE RED MAN
a like amount by other parties,
making a total of ninety thousand
dollars, in addition to the amount
subscribed in 1911. Since that
time Mount Angel within a week's
time subscribed thirty thousand
dollars worth of the capital stock;
Scotts Mills has offered to sub
scribe twenty thousand dollars,
Monitor twenty thousand and
Marquam is now raising twenty
thousand.
Enough stock has now been sub
scribed to more than build and
equip the lino from Oregon City to
Molalla, and ballast the roadbed in
first class shape.
The Company has been handi
capped through antagonistic ag
ents of the Southern Pacific and
thefalse articles which have been
published in the newspapers, all
of which were inspired by the an
tagonistic companies and which
will be submitted to the Grand
Jury at the next term of the Cir
cuit Court.
While the Southern Pacific is
attempting to scare the stockhold
ers at Molalla by running a line
from Canby into the Molalla coun-
it
TO MARION, LINN AND LANE,
a Future that Looks Bright to
their Judgment
try, the people are not taking it
very seriously, for the reason that
it is the general opinion of every
body in that section that the South
ern Pacific is only stalling, hoping
thereby to discourage the Molalla
people from assisting in the con
struction of the Clackamas Sou
thern. Largo delegations of the people
who live in the interior of Clack
amas county, have gone to Silver
ton and followed the Southern Pa
cillc line to Woodburn and noted
the manner in which the road has
been kept, and have even pulled
spikes from the ties with their fin
gers, and have come to the con
clusion that if that is the wayjn
which they maintain their roadbed
on such an important branch, that
a little line into the Molalla coun
try would not be of much service,
and in a few years they would be
as anxious as Mt. Angel is at pres.
ent time for relief.
The foregoing is a little of the
history of what a bunch of men
can do when they have confidence
in-each other and faith in the un
dertaking. The Clackamas Sodhern wfil
soon be completed add the road
in operation to Molalla.
This placo, mind you, was all
that the officials ever promised to
build to 'when the project was
commenceed, but now it is but a
start on the road. It will go on
through Marion, into Linn and
but wait.
Any man who knows Oregon
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USED TO ROAM THE PALE FACE
and knows what is in store for
the rich valleys in this part of the
stale when the big canal is finish,
ed and the thousands of settlers
and hundreds of manufacturers
coino here, knows that a railroad
thai opens up those rich acres is
going to be a gold mine.
Hill the Big Chief in railroad
ing recently said a railroad
couldn't go wrong in Oregon any
where men could build it, and
Hill said this way out in the des
ert part of the state.
The Clackamas Southern is
going to be a winner, a big winner
and the day is coming when it will
be met from tho south and be one
of the big pushes.
But if it never ran a rod farther
than Ml. Angel, if it stopped at
Molalla and that place was always
its terminal, it would be a great
big success, for the one reason
that it opens a country that will
support it and make it profitable
for the next hundred years.
The men who have taken hold
of this road and assured its suc
cess are the quality of men who
t $ 1"'
make two blades of grass grow
where only one has grown, and
they are men who have sand
enough to back up what their
brains tell them is going to.be a
mighty prolitable luture invest
ment. Railroads will never fail
in this part of Oregon, and we can
but look over the rich country and
wonder how the Southern Pacif
ic could have so long kept money
and brains from pushing in rail
roads. But Wall Street is a long way
from Oregon and Oregonians
thought that was the only factory
that made railroads.
The Clackamas Southern has
had to scrap since the first scrap
er went on the right of way, and
only the men directly connected
with the construction work know
how mighty hard they have had to
go and what they have had to
overcome.
The Big Fellows didn't want
the Little Fellows to break into
this railroad game. It wouldn't do
to let any old town got the idea
they could build railroads without
consent of the Octopus. It would
bo poaching on the preserves of
the interests and would hurt the
game.
But the men who started the
Clackamas Southern knew what
kind of a line Ihey would have to
buck. Perhaps Ihey didn't realize
they would have lo go against it
quite so hard, but they knew op-
oposilion , would come and come
harder and shorter.
They have met it, downed It and
are on the top. The road is a cer
tainly, a winner and the day is
coming when the man who has a
few shares of tho stock laid by
will have something.
We ought to have one of the
biggest celebrations when the
first train runs out to Molalla
that Clackamas County ever
dreamed of.
Will the Soldiers Come Here?
Harry Wallers and Carl Wall
ing have had their trial. Walters
was found guilty of contributing
to the delinquency of a girl under
age. ll was shown thai no took
her to a room at the saloon on the
corner of Main and Eighth streets
and gave her beer, lie was lined
$50, sentenced to a year's impris
onment and paroled.
Carl Walling, arrested on the
same charge, was acquitted. It is
said a wedding took place at the
court house, at which the pastor
of the Methodist church officiated
It would seem that it was time
some action was taken lo stop
this practice of men taking girls
to rooms in hotels and saloons in
this city. Last summer the coun
cil revoked a saloon licenso be
cause women were said to have
occupied the upstair rooms.
In tho recent cases here the
girls were all under age and this
is the third caso within four weeks
Isn't it someone's duty to break
this up, and do it right?
. Does the ciliy charter protect
our girls and tho city against just
such matters as three men have
been tried for within tho past
three weeks or is it just a book
to make you think wo have a city
government?
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NOW BUILDS RAILROADS
Governor West has told Hunt
ington thai ho would bring the
slate troops if necessary to clean
up just such conditions as these.
Wo can't afford to have this
city of churches have this kind of
advertising, and tho city officials
can hardly afford the risk.
Let us see if anything will be
done.
Court Denies Motion.
Attorneys Brownell and Hed
ges made a motion to strike out
certain parts of tho supplemental
complaints filed by Attorney Chris
Schubel, in his libel action against
tho Morning Enetrprisc, but Judge
Campbell denied the motion. A
demur has been fllod
THave A Look I
In our window is one of The
Greatest Photographs ever made
of Oregon City. Sec it and bo con
vinced you can buy copies of it at
this office. One of the latest and
most wonderful pieces of photo
graphy of the age is made with
these machines', Better try one
right away as the opportunity will
while.
UN STREET TO
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MONTAGUE-O'REILLY CO. GET
THE CONTRACT.
CONTRACT PRICE $19,693.25
There were Many Bidders and the
Bids Varied In Price.
Main stret is to be paved with
asphalt from Moss street to the
Aburnethy, and the work will be
started very soon.
The contract was let to the
Montague-O'Reilly Company by
city council in a special session on
Tuesday afternoon..
Tho contract price for tho work
will be $19,093.25. Those present
at the meeting were Horton, Tooze
Pope, Albright, Mayor Dimick and
the other city officials.
To the ordinary taxpayer this
seems like a lot of money to pay
for a part of ono street, but if that
man will look at in another way
he will have to admit that it will
be the best investment the city ev
er made.
Tho residence section of this
city has expended over two hun
dred thousand dollars for im
proved streets, and instead of be
ing a drain on the taxpayers it has
put money in their pockets, for
there is not a residence on any of
tho streets improved, or near to
them but what tho improvements
have added to their values much
more than tho tax for the im
jprovenients have been. Eveiy
dollar has been an investment a
mighty god investmentt.
There were several bidders for
the contract. The specifications
provide that tho paving shall bo
concrete asphalt, with a four inch
crushed rock foundation, a two
inch wearing surface with a bi
tuminous coating. The price is
not to exceed $1.55 a square yard.
Mr. Tooze made provision that
Ihe crushed rock used be the pro
duct of Oregon City quarries and
this was agreod to. Work on the
paving will start in about two
weeks, and tho machinery will be
shipped here from Chicago.
At the Wednosday night session
of tho board to consider the mat
ter of paving Seventh street, a
protest petition was presented
against hard surfacing, and re
requesting that it be macadam
ized. The matter will come up for
a decision at the next meeting.
City Attorney Story stated that if
an assessment of ono half the val
ue of a lot would not pay for the
part of the street in front of it,
tho city would have to pay the dif
ference. The petition asked that the .
street be repaired by first having
it thoroughly broken up and grad
ed uniformly, thoroughly rolled,
that sutllcient crushed rock be
put on to bring it to a finished
grade, then thorougly oil samo
and have it kept in repair.
The petition cited that the
street had onco been improved at
tho expense of tho property own
ers, but that it had not been kept
in repair and had boen allowed to
become ruined, and that they be
lieved it only justice that as the
business tralllc had worn out the
street that the city should this
time improve it and pay for same
out of the permanent street im
provement! fund.
To add to the press of ihe tax ale,
the power went off at ten o'clock Thurs
day, leaving the linotype machine dead
and a stack of copy one could not iee
over. It'a one of those weeka where
thlngi bunch up and come all at once.
Administrator's Sate
Notice la hereby given that pursuant
to the order of the County Court of
Clackamas County, Oregon, the under
signed will receive bids and on Septem
ber 10th will sell at private side, all the
right, title and interest of Mary E.
Worthlngton deed .onand to the follow
ing described property, towit:
Beginning at a point South 45 degrees
Rast 95 feet from a stone monument
which is North 48 degrees 30 minutes,
West 17.654 chains and North 45 de
grees East 49.37 chains from the West
corner of the James McNary D'L.C. in
Township 2, Section Range 2, East of
the West M. in Clackamas County,
State of Oregon, thence running North
4(1 degrees, 35 minutes, West 19.82
chains to the South line of M. Oatfield's
land; thence South 45 degrees, West
along Oatfield's South line 5.05 chains;
thence South 48 degrees, 85 minutes,
East 19.82 chains; thence North 45 de
grees, East 5.05 chains, t the place of
beginning, containing 10 acres.
Terms of Sale, cash. Bids may be
mailed to me at Milwaukle, Oregon, or
I maybe seen: personally at my dwel
ling on the estate adjacent to saidjland.
Dated August 8th, 1913
T. R. WORTHINGTON
Administrator of Said Estate
C. D. & D. C. Latouretle
Attorneys for Said Estate
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and appetite and easy passage of
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for them. 25o. pe box.
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