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THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1890.
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The spring of 1&90 is here.
, ' Hurbah . ior the council. They
have a las taken up the sewerage
question.'
A number of the sidewalks in Cor
Tallis have some- bad holes in them.
They should be repaired. '
Dost talk sarcastically, about the
street car line- It is going to be built
and you will have wasted your "gab."
. County republican ; primaries on
April 5th. i Let all republicans attend.
It is necessary to select honest, capable
men as delegates to the county con
vention on the 9th.
' Fre$ traders often laugh at the idea
of the- farmer of the Pacific coast re
quiring protection for his products.
But the fact remains that apples have
been brought to San Francisco from
New Zealand, and now the arrival of
a cargo of onions from Australia has
depressed the markets of the Pacific
coasi, ana uregon producers wnu nave
been holding off for fancy prices find
. themselves disappointed. The farmer
must have adequate protection for his
, a i
tection against the people who eat
onions, the tariff will be a decided
success.- Spokane Review.
' Five years ago the Spokane Review
was a weekly newspaper. To-day the
Review newspaper is easily worth
$100,000, and the proprietors would
perhaps refuse that amount for it.
In addition to this the proprietor ef
the Review purchased a building site
less than a year ago for $30,000,
and this ground would no doubt
be regarded as cheap at $90,000,
This Review has commenced the erec
tion of a building for itself eleven
stories in height. The main structure
will have six stories and a basement,
surmounted by a tower with five ad
ditional stories making it 152 feet high.
On one street the frontage will be
sixty-eight feet and on another 148.
IX will' Be of pressed brick with terra
eotta trimmings. How's that? The
Gazette is in its twenty seventh vol
ume andno building. Corvallis is
thirty years old and over; Spokane is
about ten. That city has 20,000 pop
ulation; Corvallis -has 2,700.
If it is true, as it is reported, that
an unreconstructed rebel professor in
the State university at Eugene City,
who draws about $1,800 of the state's
money esch year, recently told his
class that the South would have whin
ed the North but for the help of the
Dutch and Irish soldiers, and if it is
. it!. '' iv. a
(rue niiit mu same pruiessor urgeu
members of his class to pay no atten
tion to the Grand Army veterans at
the recent encampment there, and
slightingly avoided them himself if !
these things are true, this professor
should be summarily dismissed from
his position. This school is partly sup-,
ported, by a direct tax, imposed by a
legislature that had much respect for
the Grand Army. The state should
support such a school, but a big ma
jority of the people, of this state has
no sympathy with any man who would j
insult or even slight the Grand Army.
Politics has no place in any State uni
versity, and especially politics of that
kind in the Oregon State university.
Statesman.
THE COMING CENSUS TAKING.
-'- The actual work of taking the
eleventh decennial census will begin in
June. The preliminaries are, however,
t quite thoroughly ; organized already,
and point to the raosi thorough cen
sus system that the United States has
yet had. The value of the collection
- of statistics on a large scale has ' be-
- come so apparent that the mere enu
meration of inhabitants has come to
. be almost a secondary consideration
- compared with the immense outhy of
work in other departments.
; One of the benefits i of the census
will be the education of the people of
the entire country' concerning, the re
martnhlfl crmwth- and develonment of
the great northwest. People whose
thought vans in maclvine-like grooves,
ndi who accept information- only from
. the highest official sources, which with
aJl ibeir circumlocution and. ted. tape
are generally several years behind the
times,, will almost have their breaths
taken away by the cold facts that wift
then be exhibited, which they, in a
sort of willfully blind and stupid con
servatism, have been accustomed to
consider as northwestern yarns, saya
an exchange. It is hoped that even
the postoffice department at Washing
ton, will be willing then to consider its
own statistics as ratified, and give us
proper postal facilities.
The census of 1890 will create a
vast bureau of most valuable statistics,
especially so as many branches of social
and vital statistics which were first
covered by the census of 1880 will re
ceive their first great comparison.
This bureau of statistics must also fit
itselt to many new branches of indus
try. For instance, the census of 1890
will be the first to devote a special de
partment to electricity and its depend
ent art and industries. The indus
trial applications of electrical and
magnetic inventions on a large scale,
as in the telephones, electric lights and
railways, is almost a thing of' the past
ten yea s. . "
The political results that depend on
this census will also be interesting.
Not only the congressional representa
tives of the states 1 for the next ten
years, but their relative strength in the
presidential elections of 1892, 1896,
and 1900, will probably be governed
by it It will doubtless also mark
another advance of the center of po
litical power westward. ; Besides-the
interesting developments to be awaited
in the four new states, the peo
ple of Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and
New Mexico are confident . that their
population will be proved sufficient lor
statehood.
The subject of congressional appor
tionment is also especially interesting.
Since the first congress, when a mem
ber in the house in the time of Wash
ington represented 30,000 people, that
body has grown from 65 to 330 mem
bers, each member now representing
153,000 population or over. It is
evident that some steps will have to be
taken to prevent tne house of repre
sentatives from being such a bulky and
unwieldy body, that, to secure the
proper transaction of business, the
speaker and chairman of important
committes will have to be. invested with
almost autocratic powers.
If the census of the present year
shows a population of 65,000,000, and
if the membership of the house should
be kept at near its presenr figure, there
will be one member for about every
200,000 people, or over six times the
ratio of the congress of the last cen
tury. But it is likely that the mainten:
ance of the house at its present num
ber will be resisted by some of the
older states on account of a-reduction
of their congressional delegates to per
mit the increase of those from the
newer states where the population has
grown faster and in greater proportion.
This would really be no hardship on
the . older states' as their representa
tion then wonuld be in the same pro
portion as in the membership of the
house were increased, and the newer
states got the benefit of the increase,
as they would in either case. But it
is not human nature to quietly submit
to a diminuation of power which is
even only apparent and not real.
Possibly by that time, however, the
Western states will be powerful enough
to bring about this right result.
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One of the commonest mistakes
made, is by people in answering as
to their age. You meet a young
man who announces, with an in
vitation to come an '-smile" with
him, that he is "21 years old to
day." In nineteen cases out of
twenty he is, as a matter of fact,
but 20 ears of age. He dates his
age from his birthday,' not from
it anniversary. I have no doubt
that thousands upon thousands of
young men have marched to ; the
polls Tinder the impression that
they had reached the requisite 21
years and were entitled to vote,
who were lacking of .citizenship
by a year. Globe Democrat.
The , national debt ot "France,
whic is larger than -7 that of any
other country in the world, is in
creasing rapidly. An addition of
$150,000,000 to it in 1890 is con
templated. .
ii-Zt WTml waodferfnc cored. Books learned
;3ty?.ZKltn raeTBsfin. Testimonials from all
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The Southern Pacific Co.
Have ordered their road extended south from this city
to a junction with the main line. This means that the
OVERLAND trains will be running into Corvallis the
present summer, bringing THOUSANDS of home-seekers,
capitalists, and investors here: Corvallis in 1880 had a
population of 1,200; she has to-day 2,700; and, by 1891,
WILL have 4,000. The
Improvements for 1890
Are: Extension of the Southern Pacific Railroad; con
struction of Street Railway; building of a large new
Flouring Mill; grading and drainage of the city; establish
ment of Woolen Mill; erection of another large Dormito
ry at the Agricultural College; and, in addition to the
above, a large, number of fine business blocks and private
residences are contracted for. . '
- With the Southern Pacific and Oregon Pacific railroads
now forming a junction here, and the completion of the
Corvallis, Brownsville, and Eastern making its terminus
here, Corvallis is certain to become a railroad centre of no
small importance. - The
State Agricultural College
Is the most important educational institution in the State,
and is located here, bringing hundreds of students from all
parts of the state. Corvallis offers to-day greater induce
ments to investors than any other point in the Willam
ette Valley. .
& . $ & , 15 b. $ i i i i t
ADDITIOM
i i $ $
The most elegant Suburban residence property, joining the city on the
Northwest, and within ten minutes' wlk of the new Public School, Court
House, and Agricultural College, and filteen minutes from the business centre,
offers to-day greater inducements to the investor than any other property now
on the market, and
E J GIVE 1 REASONS
I liere 1 e-i-g-im f solid
1. It is within easy distance of the colleges, schools
and business centre.
2. Every lot is high, dry and level.
3. It has perfect natural drainage. ' .
4. The City Park is directly in the centre of the addi
tion, 'and will be handsomely improved the present
summer. .
5. The Corvallis Street Railway Company have rails . "
now on the way for the construction of their road from the post-office to this property, and cars with 5 cent fare will
. be running before the eni of May. '
. 6. Because more lots have been sold in the past sixty
days than in all other additions combined.
- 7. A large number of cottages will be bui't the piesent
. season, work having already begun.
. " . 8. With every lot purchased the owner receives a tick
et entitling him to one chance in the drawing for an ele
gant residence and five acres planted in choice fruits im
- mediately adjoining the addition.
For Above and Many Other Reasons
can make MOMET
Bv invesUngiiow. Lots 50x100 feet. Prices. $125 for inside, and $150 for corners.
Terms: One-fourth cash, balance on installmepts of $10 per month. No interest. Maps
and full descriptive matter to be had of
TOM" GOX. Manager, feallis,
BRANCHES Portland, J. P. Davenport; 4 Washington street; Spokane Falls
Elliot Co., Main and Stevens street; Astoria Wingate & Stone; Seattle S. L. Hen
derson 216 Ash Street; Centralia, Woodham & Spragtie.