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About Oregon City enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1891-194? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1895)
Oregon City Enterprise. PuMlnhed Kvery Kririay. CHAS. MESERVE rt'BLISIIKH AND rROPBIKTOH. systems Clackamas county l mil excelled liy an)' county in the state Hntl la equalled only by Multnomah county. Kvery person who is interested In Hi future prosperity of would rail wvonth street, In Oregon t Ity, it very good road, wouldn't youf If we had ,VX miles such miiiIn In Ihla Clackamas county, we would all exclaim, "what beau our county will sanction tin' aolion of the : tiful nutria!" Hut that la Impossible under SUBSCRIPTION KATtCH, neyear, Sli months, Trial luliscrlpttoB two month. 12 00 I 00 A dtnoontt o(50ent on all tutwrlptloin tor one yewr, x cents lor tlx uuiillm, It paid In aItsoo. advertising me tven on application. Altered at the Post Offe In Orcrou Clly.Or., aa lecond cltH natter. FKIDAY, JANUARY 18, 18115. AGENTS FOR THE ENTERPRISE. Oswego, Canbv. Clarkaniaa, Mllwaukie, rjnioa Mills, Alms. Meadow Brook. Hew Kra. WUaoavllle, Fark Place. Barlow. ttladstone, Stafford, Mullno, Canii, Molalla. Urqum, Sutlevllle Aurora. Orvllle. JCaftle Creek, Punnyside, Paniascus, Bandy, Salmon, Currinsville, Oierryville, Marmot, S.'W, Proer tiro. Kolchl A. Mather Gary A M Unliifer 0 J. Trulllnter E. Krarahall Chaa Holman W.. Newberry llenrjf Miley Hamilton & Washburn . Mm G. A. SheppanI T. M. I'niM J. O. liase. C T Howard R. M. Cooper Aiuiie Stiihhs. E. M. Harimau B. Jennings - F. tilesy - L.J Perdue H. ill-em John Welsh J. C. Klliott F. 0Kisi'li Mrs. W.W.Milntvre Geo. J. Cur'rin Mrs. M. 3. Hammer Ariolph Aschoft The r to build up Oregon City In to pive Oregon City people yonr patronage. GOLD LEFIClEXCi: The steady accumulations of gold by the jrreat nations of Euroe who are gathering it np and hoarding it in their vaults as a war treasure, to be used only in case of emergency, is causing much apprehension in financial circles the world over. France by a late report has $375,0O0,( in gold in her treasury vaulls, the greater part of which will never leave the government's possession until a war calls lor all its re sources. Germany is supposed to have about an eiiial amount, and strive by every ray possible to adJ to her war reserve of gold. Russia. Austria, and the other coun tries, are hoarding all they can spare from their circatation to enable them to have the sinews of war when needed. Such enormous sums of gold taken out of the hands of the commercial world cannot - but have its effects on the financial problem now confronting us. It is estimate! that the amount oi gold laid away each year in the war vaults of Europe and that used in the arts almost equal the annual product of II the gold mines in the world. As the commerce of the world is steadily growing and each year requires a larger volume of a medium of eichange, the fact is apparent that some medium other than gold will have to be brought ii.to use. This is the problem of the day. II silver is lo be thrown ; out then paper currency must be pressed; into service to till nut the deficiency in the I circulating medium, But the volume of! gold being so small it will require such an immense quantity of par that it will be j an impossibility to maintain a par value be-j tween the two, even if all the nations were county court in bringing the county up to this high standard, and will encourage litem with their financial and mural sup port. On a of the matters that the legislature should settle ia thai of mileage ami excuses of slieritls. The present salary law is Indefi nite as to whether the county shall pay the sheriffs mileage anil expenses whileengagvd in county business or that he shall stand them himself. In this countv the county court has decided that the salary paid the sheriff covers all charges against the county, while the sheriff is equally as positive that the salary only covers his office duties and that Hie extra expenses incurred In hunting up and arresting criminals should be borne by the county. The question is one in which there is a claim of justice on each side, the county feeling that the sheriff's salary is ample to coverall expenses per taining to hlsoffice, while the sheriff argues that the expenses are such that his salary will le seriously cut down. Tux action of the caucus at Salem Wednes day evening settles the senatorial tight, and Uolph will receive the full republican vote when the balloting takes place next Tues day, While there are many republicans in the state who do not agree with Senator Polph on his iricas regarriirg silver, yet they are willing to overlook Ibis difference ol opinion on the silver question in recognition of the services that his long e perience ami ability will enable him to perform for our state. The next congress being composed largely of new members, Senator lMph will have greater advantages than ever in bis work of securing legislation favorable to the interests of his constituents. In changing Iroin supervisors lo an en gineer to supervise the roads of Clackamas county the county court lias effected quite a saving in expense to the county. Last year the countv paid Ihe supervisors l:itH for their services, while the county surveyor received JtfC.ial for work done for the countv, making a total of $t,7t!7.0n paid out for the two offices, By combining them Into one and paying a salary of $rJ, a savingof 'viT.OO is marie lo the county, for it must lie understood that the county surveyor is lo receive no extra compensation for laying out roads and other work performed fur the county heretofore paid by fees. Thk collapses of the New Foiindlaml banks come just in time to illustrate what would be accomplished by Mr. Carlisle's financial scheme when once in thorough working order. The people of that province are alt bankrupt, and great suffering will be Ihe result. The Newfoundland financial plan is almost a duplicate of Ihe one championed by Messrs. Cleveland, Car lisle and Springer. All barriers to the un limited issue of currency were removed, and at the first severe test the bank svstetn collapsed like a house built of cards. The citiiens of Oregon City and this county should aid in a liberul manner the G. A. K. and Women's Kelief Corps in their efforts to send supplies lo the destitute in Nebraska. As the winter passes the lim ited resources of the unfortunate settlers become smaller and smaller, and iutereports I stute that hundreds of families are now on the verge of starvation. With the plenty our people are blessed with the commit! es should experience no difficulty in raising a the old system It would cost one million dollars every live year. Hut under the new rvsteni of which we will soon apeak, such a road can be had all over the county in live years. Seventh street will have lo be re-graveleri, re-sanded and re-rolled before it is live years old, with Ihe present way of useliig it. Two limes t o are aix. The Molalla roari, for two miles out, was as goori a road as rock would build for f'.MOO per mile, and it did not last as a road eigh teen months, so hut what It would give a person the inu nips to ride over It. Two times two are six. The Singer hill in Oregon City, has been filled In and dug away, and graveled time after lime, and five years ago it was filled in fifteen Inches deep with crushed rock and made as good and aa nice as money and work would make it, and In three year's lime it was all gone, wore down to the old original boulders, since which time It lakes a powertul grip on the seal, and a steady nerve, to keep Irom swearing while riding down and up that hill In a two-horse waiton. Fifth street and the new park road to Ml, Pleasant will all be worn out in less than four years. Two times two are six. Now then, in all soberness, does that kind of foolishness payT Have the people of Clackamas county got so much money that they can keep on spending it for roads, over and over again every three lo live years, and never think or learn where Ihe trouble is when such a roari as Fifth or Seventh streets would lasl almost forever ami one riav more, used as a roari oiik'lit to be used after it Is once made at such a cost. It Is not so much in the material used in meking a road lo have it last, as in Ihe vehicles used in wearing it out. The very first step in the direction of good roads is for Clackamas county lo get Ihe state's consent lo forbid the ue on the roads and streets of all larm or roari w agons, and all rirava and heavy wagons In town, with tires less than six inches wide, and all two-horse hacks, grocer, butcher and other delivery wagons, the tires not less than three or four Inches wide. Our progressive rep resentatives might take hold and et such surface of even the best roads and leave tracks which quickly wear Into ruts almost to the mill of the road. Abroad they have leart.ed how to preserve the highways which have been built at audi great ex pense, aa is thua set forlh by an exchange: In France It is customary to use lirea for heavy lenmaalx Inches wide, and Ihe forward axles of .four-wheeled wagons are made shorter than Ihe hind axles, so that the four wheels mil a portion of the road two feet wide al each passage. Such wagons improve rather than injure the condition ol the roads and are easier for the horses; I h usual load lor each horse In France being two lo three tons net load on hard roads, This is more than double the usual load here, even on our best roads. It is earnestly advocated in some parts of this country that those persons who persist in the use of narrow Urea he subject to an extra tax, and there anpears to lie much Justice In the angirestlou. That Ihe wide lire ia far preferable lo the narrow one, especially so far a gravel or macadam roads are concerned, Is thus staled by an agricultural engineer in the Country tientleman: "The wide tire Is a service lo the road, acting as a roller, I'ulortunately this mai ler Is not understood, and there Ia much error ill regard toil. The draff of a wide tire Is not increased but diminished. When a narrow tire sinks into the soft ground ll Is equivalent lo going up a slope equal lo Ihe depth the w heel sinks, and Ihe small distance from Ihe lowest point of the wheel to the level of Ihe mail. This is more than would be perceived at first sight, and In- crva-e the dralt fully a fourth or more. An other tiling should be well known, vis: that to travel in a rut is destructive lo a road, and every driver should avoid following di rectly In the track of another wagon. Mv doing this Ihe road may he made like a Moor, all the more so if Ihe wide tires are gene rally use. I. All this applies to Ihe Use of wagons In fields, hut more so to those on roads. " In view of these statements it certainly seems proper thai those In charge of Ibis campaign in behalf of mud improvement should demand of our wagon makers to show cause whv the wide-lire wagon cannot be bought in most sections of the country. I niiecessary wear and tear on costly built country roads Is as unjustifiable as neglect or rough usage of railway roiidU-d an Instrument through the legislature this The question of wide lire vs. narrow lire demands dl-i usion. If good reaoin exists agniusl the adoption of w hie tires on all our In heavy vehicles ll should be staled ; II not, , steps should he taken lo Induce or compel their use Jan. il, I.. II. AsnunKs. IshV A t'SKI.Kss I'OMMKstttN. winter for I lackamas county. Such an act would be as good for good roads in our county as a million dollars paid down spot cash. First, for this reason: Willi wlrie-tired wagons, every foot of graded dirt road would be kept and compacted and rolled down in to a smooth road bed, and every dollar put ititn road work w-nuld hi lriniiiiirit im. ..mv.,,,.,,,. ..kkoonuty, Jan. 1...-IO TM t.MV'k Second- Every rod of road built, w hether ! All" lo txv" m V1"" '"" It be stone gravel, sand or dirt, would never 1 ""'k, " -""l"iMon In last rut up nor cut up into mud holes. j k '" f:"Kea,ss, also Third-Kvery r.Kl of road built of what-' of ,1,ov"'f "' Oretwnlan on .he !..!, In-i. ever material would be rolle ,wn smooth, V,I: "A,,"l,,h commission, they ..,.1 h. tr..-.! ii 1..-.1 ..,.iirB costly and useless.' Ninety-nine out lave M'y And Encourage Home Industry 1 THE Qregon Picture Frame Company Makes a Specialty of Manufacturing Mouldings and Picture Framos New and Novel Designs 108 Second Street Near Washington M. J. MORSE, Manager. Estelt Piclurei and Art Material. tTF ? B V sji OREGON CITY HOSPITAL GLADSTONE PARK. NOW OPEN FOR PATIENTS. Convenient of Accosa and Ploasantly Located. Free from the noise and dust of the city. Skilful nurses and every convt'iiicnct' of a lirstclass hospital. Ample room that patients may have uictiicss ami rest. Special rooms for hulies. ! ,. ll.. r. 1 1 r . to assist in the work. Silver will have to be i '"""I'l" " "'""'"B ' . ,1 1, . k. : 1.-. t "rusim 3 iiiiioriioiaie. idUiiiCi, mulled nut imi uic uais a'l.w cated by the Nevada and owners. Colorado mint USDER FALSE COLORS. The Oregonian's financial policy as at last evolved is to burn up all the paper currency now in circulation, abandon the use of silver entirely, have the government give up the money business and coin only such gold as may be brought to the mint and let the Thk Inter Ocean, the stalwart republican par of Chicago, which as a new spuper and parly leader, is as much ahead of the Ore gonlan as Ihe latter paper is ahead of the Dayton Herald, has come out in favor of silver and advocates its retention as a part I $,.r smoother il would become. Fourth Kvery rod of mad properly graded up into an oval shape from ditch to ditch, having the ditches on either side, at least two feet lower than top center of pike, and then covered with line gravel or coarse ami would roll dow n into a solid smooth highway scarcely ever needing any repair ing. Fifth Such a roari would not wash down hill, for there would be no ruts from narrow j tired wheels to start the water into trough j like channels, but would naturally run oil 1 each side into the side ditches, j Sixth It would stop all tendency for one I team to follow directly in the paths or ruts ! of previous teams, which ure so destructive ! to the present roads, etc. If we would try it for one year then all j would fall in line without opposition. All; our wagons can be rhanged with hut very j little expense compared roads. Four wheels for wagons with six. inch tin-scan he bought now for from f.'hto of the monetary system of the country. Fiiance has the largest circulation per capita of any country, the amount being currency of the country be issued and con- j 'Ki.70. It embraces gold, silver and paper, trolled by private banking corporations. The Oregonian is now getting about as far from the principles of the republican party as it was a few years ago when it was advocating free trade. It quotes from the Louisville Courier-Journal and other lead ing democratic journals arguments in favor of its bank currency as against a govern ment currency. The Oregonian should tiear in mind that the republican party is a party of sound monty and has always ad vocated and will so continue to, the govern ment issuing and controlling the money of the country and is irreconcilably opposed to all forms and kinds of state bank-wild cat . urrency. It the Oregonian desires to join the demo cratic party it is undoubtedly free to do so, but to advocate the doctrines of that party and still claim to be a republican paper is going a little too far. ROADS AJVD SCHOOLS. all issued by the government direct. WHAT BKaVTlFl'L HOADS. To the F.iitor: There will be almost as many diflerent ways thought of, and sug gested, how to make goori roads as there are men. The same with our finances, al most every man you meet can tell you how to fix the money of our country, and how the government ought to be run to make us all rich and happy. That is human nature, and as it is wise to gain information from whatsoever source, I may be excused for writing this. One of our county's good men has said that he has been studying the road question for nineteen years and is as deep in the mud this winter as ever, so we all would testify, and as he is a truthful man he nor any other mortal man can suggest a plan to make good lasting roads, the way we use them after they are made. We have got to first I get out of the old nurrow ruts that have Good roads and good schools are the main I been handed down from father to son tor factors in building up a new country, for -they attract a class of people who, having the means to make a selection as to their future home, will not settle in a com munity devoid of these necessary adjuncts to the modern home. Money put into . roads and schools is well invested, and will Jill return to the county treasury iti the in creased valuation it will bring to the prop erty subject to taxation. Clackamas county has been fortunate in the present as well as In the previous admin istration in having a county court friendly to both of these public necessities. Clacka mas county's road fund will amount this year to $22,500. As the road work will all be done on a cash basis, and the money ju diciously expended, the farmers may expect that a substantial start will be made toward giving them goori roads. The court's levy for school purposes will yield $31, SOU, which, together with the apportionment made by the state, which Superintendent Gibson es timates at $12,0iXI, will give the handsome jmm of $12,500 to go to our schools lor the rear 1805. In the perfection ot her road and school generations. And let us do it now, as we have just come to a starting place. What is the use, in this age of progress, of going to mill on horseback with a bushel of grain in one end of the sack and a stone in the other to balance it, just because our father's did. Can't we granger!) and farmers think and change from the old to some thing new, as well as the steamboat men, and the railroad men, and the motor men? Every man in Clackamas county, if he will stop and think a minute, will know that we cannot build good roads and have them last and keep good, I don't rare what you The Farm, Field and Flfesiile has this lo say: "The good roads spirit of progress has impressed the value and necessity of wide tires upon all classes of road vehicles. Teamsters, merchants, and manufacturers in towns and cities, are adopting wide tires because I hey find Ihe loads haul easier and the streets wear smoother and heller. Wide tires are imperative on the good roads of France; then how much more important upon our soft dirt roads." A writer in Good Roads says: " In those parts of the country where stone does not abound, and the most available road material in prairie mud, the first, best, and cheapest relief is to use wide tires. Next Is to put in under drains am) keep the road well shaped up. Such a road, properly looked after, comas verv near being right for sparsely settled prairie country, and during a large part of the year is good enough for anybody; but it is absolutely necessary to use wide tires. And what is more, it is profitable to Ihe user in that he can haul double Ihe load lo town even when he is the only user ol wide tires over that road. And as soon as the Hat-footed wagons become general it is not necessary to spend one half the amount keeping up even a common dirt road." With proper drainage and wide tires a long step is taken in the direction of going to town in the spring and full. Few locali ties are so low that drainage Is not practical, and even in the lowest bottoms a road prop erly raised, with suitable side ditches and cross tiles, will he in good shane most of the time; hut no such road can stand nar row tires. Get proper highways as soon as possible, but get wide tires now. The mean est road is made better, a lair road is much improved, asoft road Is kept smooth, a good road is left so, a hard road is made harrier, a smooth road is made smoother, a rouuh roari is leveled , all roads lust longer, larger j of every hundred of your readers will agree I w ith you that the dental commission should he alsilished. j Our legislators a few years hack look pity I on the dear people and provided special ! means of taking care of them. I suppose 1 they Judged by Ihe poor work done In their own sellection ( know ing themseh es ' best) that the public iutelect was weaken ing so as to lie unable to guirie them right in other things, amongst these in ; not knowing w ho ought lo pull their teeth, etc. So. these anxious guardians of Ihe public welllare arranged lor Ihe governor ol the stute 10 appoint lour men lor this 1 business, not lour disinterested men t whose pockets were interested in limiting ! the number ol dentists in the field, and as : you sa in keeping up prices. These auto. I crBts can wink at the law w hen their ow n pockets are Concerned anil bring down its with having unori "" w.eo unors. 1 ne reeeni prosecuuui, 01 nentisi aliens has cost this county a large sum, without any corresponding benefit, aim, but lor the wisdom and goori sense of Judge Mdlride, he would now be receiving punishment lor no fault of his own, nor lor having hurt any one. as the opposite facts have lieen proved bid lor not U-ing anle to comply with a law j which with lis present defects, is unwise, inhuman, anil even bnrtul lo enforce, ami any one trying to enforce this law on others should lie carelul that they a e not subject to its full penalties themselves, but a worri to the wine is enough. Allocs. Services of the liest pin ysiaans 01 tlie Terms reasonahle. county in attendance. ADDRESS, MISS M. OREGON CITY, E. LIBKER, Supt., ORECON, JO YOU NEED f RNY- DOORS, WINDOWS, MOULDING, Or Building Materiol? Go. to C- H. BESTOW IRST - Lowest cusll prices! ever iilI'iTi'il for- class - coons. A 1 ho cntiiliiimtiiin w in; ami ii'ki t fi iu-, HARTMAN - STEEL - PICKET - FENCE. And bent farm tViiuing niiido. I'riccn to nuit hard titnea. Shop Opp. Congregational Church, MAIN STREET, OREGON CITY. Wedding stationery, the) latest styles and fliiHHt assortment ever brought to Oregon City at the Kntkhimiikk ollice. 11 IS Sr22 a- build tbem out of stone, gravel, sand, ' loads can be hauled, larger hank accounts wood, or mud ifwekeepon using the ruads as we do, and have been doing. What is the use of believing ttiut two times two are six, when it carries a lie on the face of it. What is the use of believing that a surface or tiling will become solid, when you forever keep stirring it up. Two times two are six. What is the use of doing a thing over and over and over, because it Is a habit, when to do the same thing another way once, will last forever. Now, come lei us reason together. You can be maintained, better proms Tor the farmer, better nature will prevail, and bet ter citizens are made by the use of wide tires; therefore get wide tires first, and good roads will be easier of attainment. If expressions the country over are an evi dence an important factor in the problem of the maintenance of good roads is the adop tion ol the wide tire on heavy vehicles. Great complaint is heard in the gravel road sections over the destruction wrought by the narrow tires which cut deep into the DR. J. . McLEAN'S LIVER-KIDNEY BALM IS A SOVEREIGN REMEDY FOR DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS. Diabetes, Dropsy, Inflam- jmatlon of tho Kidneys, Pains In the Back. Llvor Troubles, Fomalo Irregularities, Kidney Weakness In Children, will yield at once to Its great soothing and healing power. Irlce 11.00 per bottln. ''he Dr. J. H. McLean Med. Co..St. Louis, Mo For sele bv CO. Huntley, druggist. JHREE MONTHS ABSOLUTELY FREE. 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