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Vol . XVIII.-No. 17.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, JULY 5. 1905.
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EMERY'S LETTER
WRITTEN BECAUSE OF "MY
GREAT INTEREST IN OUR
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE
CITY,"
Prominent Dallas Citizen Denoun
ces His Statements as False
and W.thout Foundation
Tells About. Water
Emery Said Couldn't
Be Use!.
Dallas, Or., July 1.
o The Editor: ,
. As a citizen interested in the wel
fare and growth of every town in
Oregon, aad eeppcially the towns of
the Willamette Valley, I have long
oted with interest and admiration
the earnest and intelligent campaign j
waged by the newspapers of Cjr-i
vallis in behalf of a mountain water
apply for your growing city. The
need of a larger.and better Bupply
for domestic use and fire purposes
has been so clearly set out, that I
shall not undertake to enlarge upon
what has been said. Corvallis is a
town in which we are all more or
or less interested, from the fact that
it is the seat of one of our largest in
stitutions of higher leirnmg, and
hundreds of Oregon s brightest
vouce men and young women are
entrusted to your care aod prole
tion each year. 1 he health of the
town is a matter of utmost import
ance, and every effort of your peo
ple to improve sanitary conditions,
already good, has the hearty ap-
praval of the people of the entire
state. .
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DALLAS HAD OBJECTIONS.
I notice that some of your citi
zens are opposing the effort to bet
ter the city water supply and are
throwing every obstacle in the way
of the success of the" movement. "At
first thought this seems strange and
almost impossible of belief, but, af
ter all, it is not to be wondered at.
The kicker, like the poor, we" have
with us always, and Corvallis, like
other towns, doubtless has its share.
The town of Dallas installed a moun
tain-water system over a year ago,
a system ot wnicn its people are
justly proud. And yet it
must not be imagined that tbis re
sult was easily accomplished. Far
from it. The desired tnd was reach
ed only after years of earnest, faith
ful work, inaugurated by a few men
tni taken up and pushed forward
by loyal citizens who loved their
town and desired to see it grow aod
prosper. Kickers there were in
plenty; doubters etiook their heads
and predicted failure; a tew croak-
era and moasbacks, (fortunately
there were lew), prophesied ruin
and disaster; obstacles were thrown
in the way and bad to be met and
overcome, and - misrepresentation
had to be dragged out into the sun
light of truth and shown up at its
real worth. The task was not easy
and at times the" most enthusiastic
grew discouraged, but the officers
persisted in their work, knowing that
a large majority of. the ptople were
behind them, and at last bad the
satisfaction of seeing their efforts
crowned with success.
emery's letter.
Alter worKiiig so long and earn
estly to instill a system of water
works that are in every respect fir
( lass, the feelings of the people of
Dallas can well be imagined when
they read the libelous article, con
earning tte Dallas , water system,
written by one w. G. Emery and
published in the Corvallis papers
this week. Uutrue and uncalled
for, is the verdict of every Dallas
citizen who has read it. Bat do
not think for an instant that oar
people hold this publication against
the people, of Corvallis. - Those who
know Emery believe he came here
for a purpose, and that that pur
pose was fulfilled by writiDg the
letter which' appeared in the Cor
vallis papers. ' They believe that
he was opposed to the proposed
mountain-water system for Corval
lis, and that he thought by coming
here end writing up 'Dallas' moun
tain water system as a failure he
could prejudice Corvallis people
against the improvement in their
own town. It is evident to any
thinking mind that Emery did uot
want to tell the truth, but that he
came to misrepresent and distort
conditions to suit his selfish purpo
ses. ' .
l am pleased to note that some of
his glaring mlstatements have al
ready been shown up by the sworn
statements of Dallas citizens to the
contrary, published in- . The'
Times of Saturday. The two affi-j
davits in themselves should be suf-j
ficient to discredit - all that, he has1
said, but lest some of your, citizens
might still be misled by thes. many
untruths he has given publication,
I beg space to call attention to a
few of the notorious rnaocurracies
in his letter. - . . . V .
DALLAS INSURANCE RATE3V
I note in Mr. Emery's statement
that he says that the insurance rates
on dwelling houses in Dallas were
7 per cent to .10 per cent before
the water works were installed, and
that "the rates are still 7 to 10 per
cent. A moment's thought will
certainly convince every property
owner in Corvallis ol the absurdity
of this statement. Seven to 10 per
cett means $70 to $100 a year on
each $1000 insurance carried. Has
any citizen of Corvallis or any
other town, ever heard of
any such rate being charged on
dwelling houses? Here, in Dallas,
before the installation of the water
supply, property owners considered
$7 or $8 a thousand a high , rate on
residences. These amounts some
of them were obliged to Day but
never $70 to $100, a.s claimed ' by I
Mr. r Emery. The house in which
the writer, lives ia now insured for
$1000, and for this insurance the
owner pays $5 a year, or $15 for a
3-year policy, such as is commonly
wriiteu on dweilmghouses. instead
ot 7 to 10 percent, as Mr. Emery
would bave your people believe, tne
rate in this instance is just one-
HALF OF 1 PER CENT.
The reduction on business prop
erty ranges froaotlG to 30j?er cent.,
with a good, honest average of Id
per cent. .1 wish to eay, frankly,
that this reduction is not as great
as the people of Dallas had hop d
for not as great las the iusurance
people had led the council to believe
it would be., The expected reduc
tion was aor-per cnt,-tn--real re
duction was 15 per cent. As your
readers are aware, the laws govern
ing insurance charges in Oregon are
very lax; in fact, there are practi
cally no laws on the subject in this
state, and, as a consequenee, the in
surance people do as they - please
But in spite of this drawback, Dal
las got a reduction in rates averag
ins 15 per cent, and all the stories
of Mr. Emery to the contiary will
not alter the fact. . As to the. truth
of this statement, the insurance
ratebooks, with which all local
agents are supplied, are the best
proof. Messrs. biblev and Jiakin
are not in the real esJate and insur
ance business, as claimed by Mr.
Emery, aod I do not believe , that
they tver told him what he . says
they did about insurance rates in
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... MORE EMERY WHOPPER?.
The right-of-way for the Dallas
pipe-line, something over ,7 miles
long, cost the city less than $3000.
This amount includes all necessary
expenses of right-of-way commit
tee,' attorney's fees, money paid to
property owners along the route, and
the purchase of one acre of land in
the edge of town for a reservoir site.
In many instances, the' farmers did
not charge the city a cent for ci osdng
their premises. The pipe is laid
deep in the ground, and it is a note
worthy fact that the owners of agri
cultural lands were the ones who
made the least "charges. ; Mr. Em
ery tens your reaaers teat . "one
claimant received. $38o' for damages
caused a 20-acre tract, besides hav
ing the costs of a lawsuit assessed
to the city." There was no lawsuit
with the owner of this tract,, and
the council upon its own motion
paid him $380 because the 12-inch
pipe from' the reservoir ran diagori
ally across his land. Mr. Emery
says further that had it not te?n
for the liberality of Judge Boiee and
a Mrs. Hallock in askiDg nomiaal
damages, the coet of the right-bf-
way would have been much greater
than $6000. This . statement wil
1 1. i-k 11 1
cauFe me uauas people 10 smue in
derision. Nothing could be farther
from the truth. Had it not been
for the greed of these parties, the
right of way for the entire pipe line
could nave been paid for less than
$1000. iney were tne only ones
who caused the'eity any trouble whatever, aud
It must be sadly confessed that In their efforts
to extort Dig damages irom tne city they were
aided and encouraged in every , possible way by
citizens of tne town who were omrased to th im.
provement. Mrs. Hallock sked $10,000 damag
es; thecouncil offered her SS00. Judere Boise
asKeu koto; me council onerea nim o0. The
cases were carried into court and a jury award
ed Mrs. Hallock $600, $200 less than the council
onereu ; i uage noise was awarded ai damages,
one dollar more than the council had tendered
him. The defendants appealed to. the supreme
. Continued on fourth page.
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