THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 27. 1919. 11 ROAD WORK IN CURRY S OUTSIDE AID County Bonds to Limit and Now Seems Helpless. HIGHWAY BASIS IS ROUGH trading of Six and On?-Half-MiIe Stretch to Cost $157,000. , Latent Resources Large. Crescent City into Josephine county. Oregon, and thence over the mountains to Grants Pass. The $400,000 is intended for the Grants Pass-Crescent City road, California end, but there is considerable sentiment in Crescent City to have the money put into the development of the road to the Curry county line, where more business can be originated. On the Grants Pass-Crescent City road, a mountain affair, sharp of surve, narrow and necessitating constant vigi lance, the grade is within reason, con sidering that an elevation of about 3000 feel is attained. The entire J400, 000 of California money can be used to advantage on it. In Oregon the road runs in part through a reserve and the government will soon let & contract for regrading Hayes hill for a distance of two miles. J.osephine county, on its own account, is also improving a- sec tion of the road, so that there is hope for the development of the 95 miles be tween Crescent City and the pass within a few years. But that doesn't help Curry county. MILLMAN FINED FOR FIRE GOVERNOR TO NAME. Y Colonel May, Lieutenant Wal lace, Captain Fisher, Chosen. FULL" AUTHORITY VESTED r "BY JOHN TV. KELLY. - GRANTS PASS, Or., July 26. (Spe teial.) Either the state highway com mission must spend a big sum of money to improve the one attenuated road in Curry county, or it Fhould not spend a. cent and leave that county to its fate. Curry county is a poor member of the family of Oregon counties. Save for the one road, which connects with Ban- don, in Coos county. Curry is isolated mo far as Oregon is concerned. Also it fs just as isolated as regards California There is one department store in Portland which has on its payroll more i people than there are in all the 149S j Biuarn miles of Curry county. Merchan- I disc in this fame department store Is valued more highly than the total as sessed valuation of taxable property in Curry county. Two-thirds of Curry County is in forest reserve, and while j this makes the county poverty-stricken! now. the time will come when Curry'a untapped tirnber will make it one of the .Richest counties in Oregon. j Road Job Costs J24.000 a Mile. ! There is in Curry county one road . Sob, under the direction of the high way commission, which covers a Stretch of 61" miles, and the contracts calls for ?157,00. When a road-grading- . Job costs some $24,000 a mile it gives an idea of the difficulties of construc tion. To inspect this work and gain a detailed idea of the road needs of Curry county, R. A. Booth, highway commissioner, and State Highway En pir.cer Nunn have traveled through the district from end to end. This par ticular contract is from Hubbard creek about 1 miles south of Port Orford to Brush creek. It is consid ered about the meanest part of the one jroad through the county. Curry county's one, lone road skirts along the coast. Inland there i noth ing but forests, mountains and wild grame. It is estimated that 25 per cent of the wild game of the Pacific coast, such as bear, cougar and deer, are in Carry county. Cougar are such raiders that several sheepmen have quit busi ness because of the depletion of flocks. This road begins at the Coos county line. In the north, and threads its way eround and over mountains, almost always within sight of the Pacific ocean, until it strikes Del Norte county. In California. Most of tne population f Curry is in the north and south ends, and these are thinly settled, so the paucity of people between the ends can be imagined. Coos BuiHlittfC Good Road. At present Coos county is making a jrood road to the Curry county line, for across the line in Curry are some of the finest dairies in the state, and the product of the dairies at Langlois, Icnrnark and Zurawalt are freighted out to Bandon. Curry county voted a $ys,000 road bond issue. , which is its limit. Half of this sum is to be ex pended north of Rogue river, near Coibin ridge (Arizona Inn), on a loca tion to be made by the state highway . commission, and money from the re maining half of the bonds will go on the road between Pistol river and Brookings, where the road at times attains an altitude of 2500 feet. The settlements at Elk creek. Sires and Euchre creek will be especially bene fitted by this southern development. Mr. Booth, after his inspection, ex pressed himself as favoring improve ment of the road from the Coos county line to Cold Beach, but stated that to develop properly it would require such a large sum that other ccunties would probably complain. Three hun dred thousand dollars is a rough esti mate for the development. Curry County erdfd Aid. It is impossible for Curry county to Jieip itself. The population is small. the property available for taxation Email, and the county has voted its limit for road bonds. It must have outside aid. This aid must come from the state or federal government. No other county in Oregon would be more blessed by the Roosevelt highway than Curry county. Meanwhile, the coast Jiiuhway on the state road map includes the county, so, eventually, the state will have to do more than it has done for the reliof of Curry county. A mil lion dollars will be spent for paving the Pacific highway throigh Marion county. Two-thirds of that eum would probably be required to build a stand ard state road through Curry, and that jrould provide only for grading. 1 ort Orford cdar, which appears Tike cheese and cuts as easily, grows no, where else on earth except in the rort Orford otiadrangle. This cedar, eone of w hich was iiped for a I rplane ' St'k'iri "li'Mi of spruce, is cut into lm- jnensc railroad ties. Some of these ties eventually are used on roadbeds, but many of the ties chopped out by: the settlers are worked up into fur- 1 Tiiture with a good road, these ties could be trucked out to Bendon, Co quit le or Myrtle point, but now they axe. slung in a, cradle and shot down over a cable which runs from a high cliff to a rock in the open harbor. Vessels anchor under the steel thread and picU. off the cradles of ties. A port has been organized at Port Or ford and a $20,000 wharf will be built, but this only emphasizes the need of a eui tabic land highway. t-'lfthlnic Chief Occupation. At Gold Beach, the only county seat In the state which is not incorporated there isn't an incorporated town in Curry Judge YV. A. Wood conferred with Commissioner Booth and Engineer Nunn. Time was when there were 2000 persons at Gold Beach, whose chief oc cupation was trying to extract gold from the black sands, but now there are but a handful of residents, most of whom make a living fishing for or against the edderburn company, which owns all the land on both sides of the lower reaches of the Rogue river. This stream is like some women beautiful, but whose beauty is spoiled by a bad mouth. Between Gold Beach and Brookings the lone road ventures along the edge of the ocean, with not a foot to spare. The wonder is that there are not more accidents. Under the most favorable conditions it is a 10-miles-an-hour road, but top speed for safety is five miles. South of Brookings, a saw to ill town there is a good road to the California line. In this section are the only red woods in Oregon. It is a good road on to Crescent City. Cal., which is the southern market for Curry county. Just r as Bandon, in Coos county, is in the north. California May Seek. Business. The object of Commissioner Booth In crossing the line was to confer with California highway representatives. In the recent road bond election In Cal Ifornia $400,000 was set aside for road work north of Crescent City to the Oregon line. The tourist route la from DONKEY EXGINE WITHOUT SPARK ARRESTER CAUSE. Forestry and State Officials Are Cooperating- in Efforts' to Pre vent Blazes. MEDFORD, Or., July 26. (Special.) As a result of an investigation by an official of the United States forest service, W. W. Salsig of the Salsig Lumber company, operating up Ander son creek, pleaded guilty to a charge of operating a donkey engine on forest land without an adequate spark arrest er. The fire started by the engine spread over about 300 acres. Mr. Salsig was fined $25 and costs today by Justice Taylor. A determined effort is being maae oy the forest service, in co-operation with state officials, to reduce the number of fires by . prosecuting all cases of negligence. During the past five years in Oregon there have been an average of 2000 fires each year. Between 65 and 75 pe cent have been avoidable. Incendii ism has averaged about 50U for each of the five years, or slightly more than four daily for the four months of the fire .season. The care less camper Is second. The men burn ing brush and slashing without a per mit ranks third. About 200,000 acres within the national forests of the state were burned over during 1918, while the loss to private timber interests out side of the forests was 1,107,743,000. BIG FORECLOSURE FILED i WESTOVER COMPAXY DEFEND ANT IX COURT ACTION. Clearing of Title to Terrace Property and Settlement of All Claims Held Object of Suit. Foreclosure of a $300,000 mortgage on the Westover Terrace holdings, val ued at $800,000, is sought in a suit filed in the circuit court yesterday by the Title & Trust company and John F. Daly against the Westover com pscny, Lewis-Wiley Hydraulic company and International Realty Association of Oregon. The Westover company, it appears, issued bonds totaling 300.000 in Oc tober of 1913. -which were secured by the Title & Trust company, which re ceived a trust deed and mortgage to the property on the heights west of Portland, dated October 18, 1913. Of those bonds, it is asserted that $232,000 are still outstanding. The plaintiffs contend that payments have not been made on the bonds and demand interest at 6 per cent from April, 191S; 2500 as attorneys' fees and 2500 as trustees' fees. The action is to clear up the title to the property and settle all claims, say the attorneys. Elimination of Factional Differences Expected to Resnlt Through Adoption of Nevr Plan. SALEM. Or., July 2fi. (Special.) Colonel John L. May of Portland. Lieu tenant Paul B. Wallace of Salem and Captain Ben S. Fisher of Marshfield will be appointed members of an ar- ory board to have full charge under the general staff of the national guard of the maintenance of all armories throughout the state, according to an announcement made by Governor Ol- cott this afternoon. Colonel May, when retiring from the office'of adjutant-general, recommend ed the creation of such a board and his suggestion met with the Immediate ap proval of Conrad Stafrin, present adjutant-general. The general staff of the nattnal guard, at its recent monthly meeting, joined in the recommenda tions of the two adjutant-generals, as serting that the nurpose of the board is to outline and maintain a definite pol icy regarding the maintenance and use of armories throughout the state. It is also proposed that the board shall superintend the finances of each ar mory, to the end that each may be made self-supporting, or as nearly so as pos sible. The selection of Colonel May. Lieu tenant Wallace and Captain Fisher by the governor has the approval of the adjutant-general's office. Persons close to the armory situation In Oregon be lieve the creation of the new board will not only do away with many fac tional differences regarding their oper ation, but will provide means whereby they can be maintained and Improved by private revenue rather than at state expense. Contracting Company Files Articles. SALEM, Or.. July 25. (Special.) Articles of Incorporation have been filed here by the Western Contracting Company. The incorporators are C. H. Knowles. Bradley A. Ewers and A. H. Smith. The capital stock is 5000 and the purpose of the company is to trans act a general contracting business. Headquarters will be established in Portland. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main 7070. A 6095. HAWAIIAN GUARD HAS HOPE Regular Army Officer W aui d Ji Under Command. HONOLULU, T. H., July 26. (Spe cial.) Major-General Charles G. Mor ton, U. S. A., commanding" the Ha waiian department, desires and ie plan ning a bigger and better natjonal guard for Hawaii. He is now negotiating with Washington, r. C, for arrange ments, which, if perfected, will bring the militia under his command. This will solve the problem which has been one of considerable anxiety since the Hawaiian territorial legisla ture practically cut the national guard off its appropriation bills. Layton Cooperage Company fCOOPERACEYl) ) )J H COMPANY I f JT rt wsrea t.: i ' J POITUND j 'izp The Dinner Bountiful SUNDAY dinner at Ye Oregon Grill delights and satisfies. The finest of foods are prepared and served i n a manner which leaves nothing to be desired. Welcome today to this cool, cleanly grill where you may dine at your leisure. 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