The Corvallis gazette., September 21, 1894, Image 2

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WE MUST HAVE IT.
For ten years Eastern Oregon has
waited anxiously for the completion of
the Oregon Pacific; she is still waiting
and may be compelled to wait on and
on for ten years or perhaps twenty years
longer. The road has been repeatedly
offered for sale since it went into the
hands of a receiver three years ago and
the near future gives little promise of a
change whereby present conditions will
be improved. Citizens of the Inland
Empire have looked to the Oregon Pa
cific for relief from long hauls and ex
cessive freight rates until they are about
to despair of suecess. Numerous theories
have been advanced to speed the con
summation of a feasible plan that would
afford the relief so earnestly wished for
by residents of the entire state, but so
far they have proved futile. The Ga-
ZBTTB, however, has a plan which can
be matured by early spring. It is the
best, most practical and cheapest
plan yet proposed. It will afford East
ern Oregon an outlet for her products be
fore another twelve-month has rolled
aronad, If put into execution as soon as
work can be begun in the spring.
' Here is the plan: The Oregon Pacific
track is laid to Boulder creek and the
grade is completed to a point eight
miles further east From here a good
wagon road can be built over the moun
tains for $15,000. Perhaps the most
feasible route would be by the way of the
Minto trail. The distance from the end
of track by this line to a wagon road on
the east side of the mountains would be
only fifteen miles, from which point
Prineville is 60 miles distant Be
sides this, there are two other ways of
reaching the east side of the divide,
From Boulder creek to Big Meadows it
is 30 miles and a wagon road could be
constructed over the distance with com
parative ease, both in point of work and
grade. From this point to Fish Lake,
eight miles, a wagon road has been par
tially completed and could be finished
with small expense. The distance to
Prineville this way would be in the
neighborhood of eighty miles. The
other route would be to follow the Ore
gon Pacific survey from Big Meadow
to the summit and from there across to
Lost Lake on the Santiam road, leading
to the Deschutes. By this line the dis;
tance from Big Meadows to Lost Lake
is 17 miles, over eleven of which a good
wagon road is already completed and
1 1 i-i i
ui uk acvcitu ycnis agu vy uic rail
road company when they were grading
the line this side of the summit
Of the three routes mentioned, there
seems to be little choice in the way of
practicability or cost of construction, al
though it is generally supposed that less
snow will be encountered by way of the
Minto trail, as the distance in crossing
the mountains this way is considerably
shorter than by either of the other two
lines. By constant travel and the use of
sleds during the winter months the road
could be kept open to traffic the entire
year. From Prineville the distance to
the end of track will be between 70 and
80 miles, or a saving over the present cir
cuitous way of getting to market of at
least 50 or 60 miles.
Before beginning work it will be nec
essary to have each of these routes sur
veyed, in order to determine upon the
cheapest and most practical line. This
expense and cost of constructing a road
to the end of track will not exceed $15,
000, providing the eight miles of com
pleted road immediately east of Boulder
creek can be used. In case it will be
impossible to secure the use of the rail
road grade, a wagon read can be built
the entire distance for $20,000.
Lake, Klamath, Harney, Malheur,
tirant ana Crook counties on the east
and Linn, Lane, Marion, Benton and
Lincoln counties on the west, are all
interested in this matter and should
use every honorable means to secure the
completion of the road at an early date.
As it will be a great benefit to the entire
state, the cost of building it should be
borne by the state. The Oregon Pacific
will probably be offered for sale again
about Dec. 1st If it fails to sell and
there is no immediate prospect for an
extension of thte road by the time the
next legislature convenes, members of
that body from the counties most in
terested should demand the appropria
tion of sufficient funds to construct a
wagon road, as indicated above. The
saving to the people of Eastern Oregon,
and the immense advantage it will be to
all sections of the state, will make it an
excellent investment if only used one
year, but it would be traveled always
and be of lasting benefit
A more meritorious measure than this
was never brought up for consideration
and no member of the next legislature
can conscientiously oppose it; and even
if its passage meets with sturdy opposi
tion, there ought to be no trouble in se
curing the appropriation if members
from the counties most interested will
only stand firm and demand recognition
of their rights.
Republicans are perfectly willing
that the case of the new tariff shall go
to the jury on democratic testimony
alone. Mr. Cleveland and Congressman
Bourke Cochran gave the most sensation
al testimony against it, copies of which
the republican campaign committee are
widely distributing.
ASTORIA'S INFANT FIREMEN.
For vivid imagination and jaunty per
version of facts, the Astoria Herald is en
titled to take the place of Baron Mun
chausen, who was known to be such a
liar, that an accidental utterance of the
truth was sure to result in a spell of sick
ness. It devotes a half column of small
type to a heedless, vacant sort of vapor
ing, denouncing the decisions of the
judges, and the character and actions of
our hose team at Oregon City. The article :
compels the citing of statements petty in
themselves, but convincingly apt in their
significance. There is an irritating and
disgusting element in the riot of abuse
that breaks out against our boys, when
there is not a semblance of an excuse for it.
Still, there is something grotesquely hu
morous about the manner in which this
sheet juggles with truth.
Astoria's team, says the Herald, "was
selected from among the younger mem
bers of the department." Oh, yes, they
were young! So young, in fact, that each
one was accompanied by a nurse. That
they had their milk with them, too, is
evidenced by the fact that the Herald
says,. "the judges were a set of damn fools
who did not know the difference between
the baby's nursing bottle and a length of
hose." The Herald gets so wrathy, that
it comes right out flat-footed and says
damn; just like that.
These young members became sulky,
because the judges would not allow them
to practice their infant tricks, and left
with their nurses for home, accompanied
by three blind men and a boy that had
fits. In accordance with its other mis
statements the Herald says, "this practi
cally ended the tourciiaent, and .10 in-
trst was taken in the New York race,
It also states that the Astoria team made
the hub and hub race in 24 seconds, when
our boys won the race from them in 24. 1-5
seconds; and that Astoria made the wet
test in 47, when the judges decided it
to be 48.2-5.
This journalistic acrobat makes the non
tensical statement, that "the judges re
fused to give the Astoria team any time,
because they put a kink in their hose
while the water was going through,
Is'nt that . excrutiating ? A just protest
was entered and allowed, because the
Astorians only had the nozzle screwed
on a half turn when the water passed
through, and the rules require that there
shall be at least three.
Another specialty is introduced by the
assertion that "the Corvallis team was
made up of professionals." Our team
was composed of members of the Cor
vallis fire department, which is fortunate
enough to possess the speediest team in
the West It is noticeable that every city
excels in some particular thine. In this
case, Corvallis is noted for its fast men,
while Astoria is no less notorious for its
fast women.
Because tney failed'to defeat the'"Hay
seeds," as the Astorians called our boys
before the race, these Astoria kindergar
tens have taken their dolls and dishes,
and withdrawn from the Firemen's Asso
ciation, and declare that they will neven
no never, attend another firemen's tour
nament So there, now !
No one accompanied our team from
this city to Oregon City, as the Herald
insinuates, but the fellows organized a
team quietly, paid their own expenses.
and wenfto the tournament without half
of our citizens knowing anything about
it. They were not in practice, and tried
the New York race for the first time at
Oregon City. That they were all gentle
men, and conducted themselves as such,
we will leave to the verdict of the Oregon
City people. They need no vindication
for their actions.
As for the windy bluff of the Herald to
run our team for $2,000, the 0AZETTB
will say that our boys will present them
each with a copy of "Mother Goose's
Nursery Rhymes," and a year's tuition to
a kindergarten, if they will consent to
venture away from home without their
parents. If there are any solid, substan
tial men in Astoria, who think the team
they had at Oregon City is faster than
our team, and wish to back their judg
ment with cash, Corvallis is willing and
ready to accept all such bets.
Indications are favorable for an in
creased immigration to the Pacific coast
in the near future, caused by the general
condition of unrest and dissatisfaction
that prevails among the residents of the
middle west There are two sections
particularly inviting to these people one
is the south and the other is the Pacific
coast Already tne southerners are
holding out extraordinary inducements
for them to locate in that section of the
country. The Atlanta industrial exposi
tion, which is about to open with the
aid of a federal appropriation, is to be
zealously boomed in the interest of im
migration. Knowing that the south is to
be our competitor in this matter, the Pa
cific states should unite in presenting
the advantages of this section. The oc
casion justifies an extraordinary ettort
on the part of Oregonians to attract this
immigration. We have inducements
here not found elsewhere. The people
of the middle west have been suffering
from drouth and they want to get to a
country where they have rain and
plenty of it Oregon is just such a
place and it is our business to acquaint
them with this intelligence. By going
at the matter skillfully and systematic
ally we can attract at least four hun
dred thousand people to our state within
the next few years. This work will not
be done by outsiders. We must be alive
to our own interests. We must adver
tise judiciously and push our claim with
redoubled energy. Our climate, soil
and natural advantages are unsurpassed,
but the world don't know it It is our
plain duty to enlighten them.
Business has been helped considera
bly by the adjournment of the demo
cratic congress.
Sugar is going up, but there are
no
reports of a rise in the price of labors-
Ceatjjers' Column
Edited by
- R. T. HOI.M.
All communications intended for this depart
ment should be handed to the editor on Monday
morning.
Introductory.
It is presumed that for tlie appearance of
a column aevoieu to tne interests 01 tne
schools of this county, do apology is neces
sary. It is not intended that this column
shall assume the dignity of a school jour
nal; but, in order that those who have a
common interest in the better education of
our boys and girls, may enjoy a common
means of communication, it was thought
advisable to solicit the use of this column,
which has been cheerfully placed at the
service of Benton county's schools. The
patron who is unselfishly interested in bet
ter schools, and in the improvement of our
school system, is requested to make use of
this column in the expression of his views;
the school officer who desires to suggest
better means of securing the one great end
of our common schools, will find this col
umn a valuable medium of converse with
his fellow officers; and the teacher who
finds the presentation of a subject to his
pupils to be a difficult task, or if any one
thinks himself to be in possession of a bet
ter method of teaching some particular
subject than is usually employed by the or
dinary teacher, it is earnestly hoped that
he will express his wants or make known
his successes in this column. :i ,, -v
2 1 .-;';.- The Outlook.
The outlook for substantial work in the
schools of Benton connty should be a source
of satisfaction to those who have children
to be enrolled. Many of our teachers have
been in attendance at our own or some of
our neighboring institutes and will enter
their schoolrooms full of enthusiasm. An
interest in the science of teaching was
manifested in the recent normal institute
that bodes well for the general tone of the
work to be done this year. It is contem
plated that a complete course of study will
be placed in the hands of the teachers of un
graded schools about Jan. 1st, 1895, with
which it is hoped that each teacher will
make himself familiar. By this means we
can have united and simultaneous action on
the part of teachers and pupils throughout
the county, which will greatly increase the
efficiency of teachers' meetings, educational
meetings and pupils' examinations. Pupils
will then have some definite object before
them to be attained, which will doubtless
dispense with many school-room difficulties
that are the result of the aimless and in
definite ideals now before both teaeher and
pupil-
Plagiarism.
It is hoped that when a teacher may util
ize this column for. the. announcement of
reminiscences, that too much fiction may
not be indulged in, no matter how much
the effect might thereby be embellished.
When your experience is related, whether
it be the acknowledgment of a fault or the
proclamation of asuccess, let not the "pic
ture be overdrawn." It is a lamentable
fact that in the average institute or school
journal, too many: teachers make the mis
take of relating their inexperience, rather
than their less craudy experience, and as a
result, the discussions are valueless, be
cause based upon theoretical experience in
stead of finding its foundation on actual,
unvarnished truth. The plain truth is the
only thing in which a teacher of the young
can afford to deal; and that teacher who
says, "If I were called upon to take charge
of a school in a community in which I were
a comparative stranger, I should be iu the
district at least a week before the beginning
of my school, making the acquaintance of
the parents and cultivating the good will of
the pupils, etc."- should make sure that he
is relating an actual fact and not stating an
ideal which he has never experienced.
once heard a man, in a teachers' institute,
make use of the above quotation, when to
my positive knowledge- of him and his
teaching, it was utterly false; and no mat
ter how many golden truths he might have
uttered afterward, they wonld have made
no impression with me because I had lost
all confidence iu his word. Other teachers
were present who were as well aware of
his false statement as I was, and no doubt
they were as such disgusted as myself.
Plagiarism, however, is not merely the
purloining of another's words. He who
steals only my words is not so great a thief
as he who steals my j thought If you
give expression to the thought of another,
without having adopted and assimilated it
for yourself, its potency with those whom
you expect it to benefit, is weakened in the
proportion of your deceit. Not only will
this principle apply to teachers in insritntes
and ir. school journals, but in the school
room, before the children whose minds are
to develop and unfold under hi? guidance;
the teacher should make his teaching con
sistent with his life. If he has not a high
sense of morality woven into his character,
'twere better for his school if he never spoke
of morals. If your ethical standard is low
you caunot hope to instill into your pupils
a high sense of duty one toward another.
Teacher's Association.
The next -meeting of the Benton County
Teachers' Association will be held in the
office of the county superintendent, begin
ning at 10 o'clock, Saturday, Oct. 20th.
The Association will, in the meantime,
make a study of White's School Manage
ment, pastes 9 to 49, and Cathcart's Literary
Reader'to the Beginning of English Litera
ture. '
The session will open with a discussion of
the topics in the above study embraced in
questions that are already in the bands of
teachers in order that they may be prepared
upon them, followed by:
General discussion of the month's
work.
Study of Literary Header.
Methods in Percentage, by R. F. Holm.
Discussion of the above subject
Query Box.
Business session. -
Adjournment. .
Dr. Price's Cream Baking: Powder
Awarded Gold Msdal Slid winter fair, San rmwm
THE WORK COMPLETED.
The Lincoln-Benton tax matter which
has been agitating the minds of residents f
both counties for the past fifteen months hs
at last been settled. The joint segrega
tion committee, which has been' wrestling
with the tax rolls for the past month, com
pleted their labors Wednesday afternoon
and find that the new county is indebted to
us iu the small sum of $60.22. And this
small amount, yes, gentle readers, this in
significant little sum of 60 22, has caused
more talk, has prompted more newspaper
comment, has inspired more hot and augry
words, and caused more ill feeling, than auy
thing that ever happened within the boun
daries of the two counties. The result of
the segregation committee's work is given in
the below tabular statement:
Total net value of' property on
the roll furnished to .Lincoln
county by Benton county,
$671,597
9,904
Less Benton county property con
tained in said roll,
$661,693
Lincoln county property found by
the committee on the Benton
Co. roll and not on the above
roll, on which the taxes are not
paid,
$58,612
70,305
7
State tax 7 mills,
$5,0-12 13
Amount collected by Benton coun
ty and belonging to Lincoln
county, $2,982.35
Deduct amount collected by Lin
coln county and belonging to
Ikatim wmty, . 75 55
2,906.80
924 89
Deinoit 7 22 lor state in paid by
$1,981.91
Cash paid to Benton county
by Lincoln county on state
tax, $3,000
Balance due Benton Co., $60 22
Total, $5,042 13
To this must be added all sunn of the
Lincoln county tax returned Above '.hat are
found to have been paid iu both counties,
or paid twice, or in other words, Lincoln
county makes the error good with the par
ties who have so paid twice.
NOTICK.
I have thi9 day disposed of all my intereHls in the
Corvallis Gazktte to the Gazette Publish;!)?
Company, which will hereafter conduct the business,
and till unexpired subscriptions. All accounts tiuo
for subscriptions, advertising and printing, up to
the date of this notice, must be paid to me.
Dated thisstn day 01 September, lb;t4.
FRANK CONOVEK.
NOTICK,
The undersismed. havinir purchased the entire
interest of Frank Conover in the Corvallis Gazette,
will hereafter continue its publication, assuming all
liabilities of same from and after the 8th day of Sep
tember, 1894, and to whom all subscriptions should
hereafter be paid. We shall furnish the Gazette to
all subscribers for the time their subscriptions have
been paid in advance
GAZETTE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
B. W. Johnson, Manager.
Corvallis, Or., Sept. 8, 1894.
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Decision by Competent Judges. (Clothing: Judges.)
Costs of cloth, cutting, trimming, and making play a small part in the prices of clothing this season, there never will be as good
clothing sold for so.Httle money as we are now offering the public ; your own opinion will verify this statement when you see the
goods. Wise folks will buy now. The conditions of trade favored us this time. Competition and uncertainty combined against the
manufacturer. Prices are not what we make them, but were made by the unsettled state of the market.
Hence -fcldLO Verdict in 'Y'our Favor
And by a large majority. It's the most extraordinary Clothing occasion in the history of America. With an ever-watchful eye to
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