The Corvallis gazette., March 21, 1890, Image 2

THE OOBVAIXIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, MAKCII 21, 1890.
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County primaries on April 5th, and
the convention on the 9th. J.
Look at the drains in Corvallis.
"Where! where are they. Echo an
swers: Where.
Several of the principal streets in
this city have a great deal of rubbish
cn them. Every property, owner
hould be compelled to keep the road
way adjoining him in a clean condition.
Benton county must be ably repre
sented in the Oregon legislature at the
next session. A senator and two rep
resentatives will require some "tall"
choosing by the delegates in the county
convention.
"The republicans of Benton county
should select a strong candidate for
probate j u. Ige. They can elect a ca
pable man," so says the Yaquina pa
per. Yes he must be a capable man,
one who will be neither too penurious
nor too extravagant in county affaits.
He should be from Corvallis precinct
also.
The business man who refuses to
advertise in the local papers of his city
or town, should have lived in' Virginia
over a century ago, when the governor
of that commonwealth thanked God
that there was not a single newspaper,
published in the old dominion. Look
over the list of failures which daily oc
cur and it will be found that, in nearly
every instance, the bankrupt parties
are men who do not pntronize the
press. Welcome.
If the worst comes to the worst, we
preier a knave to a fool. If it rhust
be DeLai.hmutt or Minto for governor
let Van in. Keview.
Hon John Minto was a prominent
man in Oregon long before the editor
of the Review 'was born. In fact, he
lias forgotten more in one week than
this suckling editor has learned during
his lifetime. Mr. Mirito could fill the
gubernatorial chair in a more able man
ner than the past three governors have.
This would be a very good year for
the "cow counties," tha "sturgeon pre
cincts" and the "hayseed districts" to
get together and put up a good man
for governor. It is easy enough to
down Portland, if we outsiders choose
to work in harmony. We have plenty
of good men from whom to select and we
can furnish the votes to elect our
choice. Portland will be compelled to
give us a republican m.-.jority in order
to save her local bacon. We may be
the tail of the kite, as it were, but we
have been growing, and it will be easy
to reverse the simile. Astoiia Columbian.
A LOST CAUSE.
A MUTUAL BUILDING ASSOCIA-TION.
It is well-known by most all citizens
here that vacant houses are getting
more scarce every year in Corvallis.
Every day, Dearly, there is a call for
one. A prominent real estate agent
of this city suggests that it would be
a great benefit to all here to organize
a mutual building association for the
purpose of erecting dwellings for rent
or sale. The monthly dues would be
small for the individual member, but
the aggregate, if the scheme was well
worked, would be large enough to keep
up the monthly payroll of carpenters
and the other calls for money, and
soon the rental would be coming in to
swell the finances of the association.
This organization could be so formed
as to take in all classes and would be
tne means of giving all, who can spare
a dollar or more a month, a chance to
save their money and make it earn a
large interest. Under a proper sys
tem, such an organization would prove
a better plan for investing savings than
the ordinary building ond loan associa
. tion, .which is, as every one knows,
mainly profitable to those who never
borrow any money from it but who get
all the benefit of loans at enormous in
terest and the losses of those who, at
sometime, are compelled to drop out
Houses could be supplied to renters
and those desiring to purchase on the
installment plan could arrange it with
the building association to purchase
from them. There are plenty of lots
that could be purchased cheap on
which to build. Let all think over
this matter, and then let something be
donl 0 f?nrt -n nr-Mn Virion. '
The loj cause is the theme of cx
President Cleveland in all his inter
views which he manages to place before
the public with seeming regularity
since he has been relegated to private
life, says an exchange.
His associations with the New Eng
land manufacturers, who are prepar
ing for free raw materials, create a
feeling of self justification, and the fact
that many of the republican manu
factures now sustain his position taken
in 1884, strengthens his belief that
the road which leads to power lies in
the old avenue of free trade.
As a leader of his party, he hopes
to organize victory out of defeat. This
has seldom been accomplished in the
political history of this country. New
issues and new men as leaders usually
absorb the attention of the people,
rather than the elements of past defeat.
The fact is that the principles of
protection are becoming more extend
ed each year with the developments of
the south and west. In times past,
when the manufacturers of New Eng
land controlled the markets of this
country, protection from abroad and
free trade at home was considered the
only safe theory to sustain the me
chanical industries of this country.
Now that those industries are becom
ing established throughout the south
and west, and are comparatively in
their infancy, the New England manu
facturer sees an opportunity to obtain
"raw material from abroad for less
money than the interior competitors
can purchase material from the farm
ers, and thus re-establish a monopoly
in his favor as against the American
producer and interior manufacturer
and free trade is advocated. These
manufacturers are not satisfied to do
their share, but wish to control the in
dustry of the entire nation. They
wish to become the England of Amer
ica. The sentiment which impelled the
capitalist, laborer and farmer to estab
lish and maintain manufactories in the
east is extending to all parts of this
couutry, and protection is regarded as
essential t'o-day in the new states and
ths new south ps it ever was in times
past for New England. It is a con
flict of interest which creates the con
troversy i.ow existing between the peo
ple of the various sections on the ques
tion of protective tarifF and free trade.
Mr. Cleveland moves in a circle of
admirers who are advocates of his
lost cause, and is led to believe that
the nation is , ready to surrender her
manufacturing industries to the monop
olies of New England and of foreign
countries.
With a hope of obtaining political
aid from his New England converts
he sees in the solid south a chance to
regain supremacy. He forgets that
the party lines are drawn as close
on election day in these manufacturing
states as in any other parts of the
country, and that the New England
farmers who roll up the republican
majorities will not vote away their op
portunity to furnish these manufactur
ers with free raw material from their
farms.
VERY TRUE. '
There is no reason why Republi
cans and Democrats should hate each
other. Doubtless the rank and file of
both parties, taken as a whole, are pa
triotic and honest, only they differ on
certain questions of public policy.
With a few exceptions, we believe the
great mass of all parties desire to ad
vance the glory and well-being of this
nation, and the prosperity of its peo
ple, but they cannot agree as to the
proper couise to pursue to obtain the
common end- Mistaken views are
cherished just as strongly and honestly
as correct ones, and as a general rule,
the right is more good-tempered and
catholic in ijts spirit than the wrong,
even though the latter be the error of
the head instead of the heart When
we differ we should discuss our differ
ences frankly and fully, with a view to
advancing the truth and the course of
good government. It is a pity that
men will too often feed the;r prejudices
instead of opening their minds to en
lightenment, and it is a source of re
gret that a certain class of political
partisans will persist in aggravating the
minds of one class of people against
another. S. F. Alta.
Moore & Hitchens for shaving. Lair cut
ting and shampooing. Shaving 15 cents.
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in Benton Oonnty
gWWilh the opening of the Spring of 1890, tbey expect to do a big business, and parties
having property to place on the market will And it to their interest to call on them before giving
it to any other firm to dispose of
They are perfectly reliable, and furnish the best of reference. They oiler for sale
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The Largest List of Property
Of any other firm in this section of the valley and at lerms to suit purchasers. They also de
sire to announce that they have have NOT or are JSOT GOING to be
Swallowed XT
By any other Real Estate Agency, Company, or Corporation, but will strive, as in the past, to
hold their well-earned reputation as. the leading real estate firm in Corvallis. In
CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERf Y
- We have a fine large list of lots. Every lot level, high and dry, some in. the center and oth
ers in the edge of the city. Prices low and terms easy.
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We, being old residents and well acquainted with the people throughout Benton county, are
enabled to obtain a larga list of choice bargains. Remember: We have the largest list of any.
!M!ain Street. Corvallis. Oregon.
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BENTON COUNTY.
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Greatest Inducements
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Investors.
Benton county has an area of about twelver
hundred square miles, and extends through
from the Willamette river to the Pacific ocean.
The coast mountains traverse the county north
and south through the middle, thus giving it
widely diversified characteristics. On the
western slope there are a number of small
valleys that are considerably improved. Chief
among these is the Alsea valley, in the south
western part of the county, which is lont
fifteen miles long and four miles wide, and is
well adapted to general farming, fruit growing,
dairying and stock raising. There are located
in this valley two grist mills, two salmon can
neries, and several small lumber and shingle
mills. Coasting vessels ascend the river a
number of miles and ply a lucrative trade.
The Yaquina valley, further north, is a similar
country, and it has the advantage of being on
the railroad, which runs down the valley to
the bay. Yaquina is a town of about four
hundred inhabitants, situated on the bay of
the same name at the month of the 'river, and
its shipping facilities as the terminus of the
Oregon Pacilic railway on tide water make it
an important place. It has the best harbor
on the coast, between San Francisco and the
Columbia river, and the nearest harbor to the
Willamette river. The government is im
proving this harbor to meet the growing je
mands of commerce. The railv-ay company
ha3 sx line of steaineis plyins; between "Yaquina.
and San Francisco, and coasting vessels do
mure or less business tlicr The only bank in
the county outside of Corvallis is located there.
A few miles down t!ie beach is the Seal Hock
summer resort, which is wel patronized every
season and is rapidly gaining in popularity.
Newport is an incorporated 'town about the
same size as Yaquina. It is a few miles nearer
the ocean and is quite widely known as a sum
mer resort. The Siletz Indian reservation
takes in a small portion of the northeastern
part of the county. The western slope of
Benton county is nut so well settled as that
porti n in the Willamette valley, but it con
tains many choice tracts of farming land and
vast forests of valuable timber.
In the Willamette valley portion of the
county there are several sub-valleys, separated
by low hills that are not ton rough fur culti
vation. In the northern pirt of the county
are lilodget's and Kind's valleys, draiiind by
the Luckiamnte river. The King's valley
settlement is the larger of the two, and in
cludes a considerable area of well-developed
country. The Mary's river valley is the
largest in the county and comprises the
country about Corvallis and extending west
ward into the mountains fifteen or twenty
miles distant. Then the Long Tom country
occupies an important portion of the south
eastern corner ot the county. All theso small
valleys are merely portions of the rich Willam
ette valley, the divisions between them being
somewhat imperfectly deliued watersheds
trending from the mountains to the river. '
On the Willamette slope the forests decrease
as the river is approached. The mountains
are, for the most part, heavily timbered with
white fir, cedar and yew, and down the slopes
are maple, ash, oak, alder and balm. Nearly
all localities of medium altitude bear a light
growth of oak and maple. All the creek
bottoms have ash, alder and balm. This entire
list of wood is suitable for manufactnrin
purposes, such as lumber, furniture, wooden
ware, etc.
Benton county has by no. means reached a
state of full development. Its agricultural
resources, which are chief, are susceptible of
great growth, and it needs many more people
than it cow has to till "the soil. The land is
very productive. No section of the west ex
cels this county in the abundance and variety
of its farm products. The climate is mild and
healthful, with the same pleasant features that
characterize the climate of the Willamette
valley in general. The mi miners are dry a&d
moist and extremes of temperatnre are un
known. The climate of the portion west of
the mountains is a little more moist than in the
valley, and vecitation is careen there the entire
year. Sometimes there is snow in the valley
for a very brief time in winter. During nearly
half a century that Benton county has been
cultivated there has not been a single failnre of
crops and the ordinary yields are proverbially
large. All the common grains, vegetables and
fruits are raised, and even the more sensitive
grapes and peaches are successfully grown.
The fruit interests could easily be quadrupled
by the establishment of curing facilities.
There are large quantities of cultivable land
still unoccupied on both sides of the mountains,
but the western slope has fewer settlers than
the eastern, because it is a newer section and
has not the modern conveniences of the valley
For grazing purposes, the foothills of the
mountains contain the choicest lands; but for
cultivation the more level surface down in the
valley is preferred, arid such farms may be ob
tained in good locations near market for from
Sin. (Ml tn al5n.no ner acre. Imnroved farms, of
course, cost more than the wild lands. Many
of the land holders now own hundreds of
acres more than they can use, and they are
now manifesting a desire to cut op these large
tracts and dispose of the surplus land to immi
grants seeking homes in the west. This sec
tion has superior attractions for home seekers,
and it is that class of people more than any
other that is becoming interested in Benton
county.