er anything comes from the rumor QTHE“Oregon hen is a good^itizen.
or net, it will do Jp speculate on un In point of the advertising of her
Published Every Thursilay Evening by the
til something else looms up, and merits the Oregon hen a is finally
coming into her own. Modesty,
people Tike to speculate
.
Reoorder-Fubi^riing Ooiyipaxiy. *
thrift and independence are her no
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T he great advantages for dairy table characteristics.
Like her
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industry’ in Coos and Curry counties sisters elsewhere, she evinces par
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is ’ becoming more apparent each donable pride when she lays an egg;
Entered nt the Bandon Pontoftice hh Second Cl hbm Matter.
year and with the advent of another but the performance is so frequent
THURSDAY.......................................................................... April I, 1909 spring, and the new enthusiasm that when she is properly cared for that
has taken hold of the dairymen, her cackle is listened to, up and
E veryone is interested in the will attract more attention, from al I gives assurance that the industry down the cultivated hi ls and val
up-building of Coos county and leged practical statesmen. It must i will be worked to greater advantage leys in this state, as music to which
>ur ears are familiarly attuned. It
Curry as well, for the two counties go forward, for the people are be ' each year as time moves on. The
is pleasant music, and to those who
have nearly every interest in com ginning to understand it, and will creameries of this section are own the hen and confer upon her
mon. They are both fertile and ex irresistibly demand it, before long.
taking cognizance of this fact and the attention which her estate prop
ceedingly productive
Southwest- In a smaller and more local way,
are preparing for a larger volume of erly commands, it is music that runs
into dollars. We now have an or
Oregon is destined to become one but along the sa ne gener.il line of
business. It will not be more than
ganized
interest in the hen, as man
of the leading industrial centers of progress, even though with a large
two or three years, from present in ifested by the tour of the Southern
the Pacific coast We have two selfish interest on the part of the
dications, until the dairy busi Pacific demonstration train, manned
excellent harbors in Coos county, railroads, are these visiting and in
ness in these two southwes ern by agricultural college men, and it i,
and part of the year, the harbor at structing trains working. They, too,
utilities of Oregon, will be almost among the most creditable of all the
Port Orford in Curry county cou'd are but new features of development
as great in winter as in the summer, development work which that rail
road corporation undertikes. It is
not be excelled, and the Rogue river and undoubtedly are accomplishing
and it is the winter business that
a
proper tribute of appreciation
is also an entrance of no mean im much good.—Journal.
really brings in th.? money, as butter for the earnest and tireless hen. It
porta nee. With all these natural
ii always from one-third to one- shows that upon a proper acquaint
inlets, the commerce of this section
L umbermen would be ruined half higher during the winter months. ance the Oregon hen is not capri
is sure to reach great dimensions
by abolishing or even reducing the The, e is every reason for the farmer cious in her moods of productive
and as soon as the railroad mag
duty they, say.
This is prob to feel encouraged over his pros ness. It brings out the fact that in
nates see fit to come this way our
dustry is her great fundamental vir
ably an exaggeration, or a misap pects in the way of development.
tue, and a source of no mean profit
inland trade will be one of immense
prehension. Yet it is likely that un The milking machine, which is com to the people ot this state
The
proportions.
Let us all work to
der existing conditions their in ing to be a great factor in the dairy hen will never be the promoter of
gether for the up-building of Coos
dustry would be injured to some ex business is getting to be so simplified any million-dollar un lert aking, but
and Curry counties.
tent. by tariff reduction, at least tem that anyone can operate it, and in the aggregate outcome of her
porarily. Besides, if other great in when the price gets a little cheaper, picking and scratching and fussing
ab >ut, we have a greater return
N othing would suit the people dustries and interests have high pro
which will no doubt be in the near than is of record for any similar ex
ot southwestern Oregon better than tection, it is pl .visibly argued that it
future, there will not be that close penditure of energy, or for any
to. learn that J. J. Hill was really would be unfair to take the duty off confinement and apparent drudg other investment that represents
intereited in a railroad project w:th lumber, even though this would re ery about the dairy business that her value.
Poultry-ra>sing is a
this country as its objective point, as duce the price of lumber to c >n- has hereto fore characterized it to pleasant tuition in thrift. It not
It affords
Hill is generally recognized as a sumers. It is this result that the a certain extent. Dairying will be only pays, but pleases.
healthful
and
profitable
occupation
real railroad builder, while Harri lumbermen desire to avoid, of course, one of the great industries of this
for the women and children of the
man is a gambler and bluffer. He just as the steel trust and sugar section and the movements that are
family when undertaken as an ad-
vill build a road whenever he is trust, and many others, do not wint un ler way for its improvement will ju ict to the larger agricultural or
forced to do it in order to hold the the prices of the commodities they be welcomed by all.
h irticultural enterprise.
On the
territory or oppose some line that is make and sell reduced to consum
other hand, when considered as a
business from which one expects to
not connected with his system. Hill ers, for that would mean a pa> tial
O ne of the canons of taxation derive his entire revenue, it pays
goes into a country, builds his road loss of profits.
Protection never
more handsomely on the capital in
and does what he can to develop thinks of the consumer, except as a recognized by schoolmen is that the
vested than almost any other indus
the country, and invaribly it proves helpless victim. We in this region burden should be so adjusted as to try in which men commonly en
a paying proposition, because any desire our lumbermen to prosper, fall most lightly on the shoulders if gage.—Telegram.
country with even ordinary re don't want them driven out of busi those Last able to bear it. The pro
sources will develop if it has the ness, but the millions who buy lum posed inheritance tax falls clearly
proper means of transportation and ber ought to be considered too, to within this provision. Insofar as an
capital, such as the Hill interests say nothing of the conservation of inheritance is a matter of gift m ure
can furnish back of it. Harriman our forests. If there must be high over as the tax is to apply to an in
says ‘‘develop your country and protection, there is some force in heritance of considerable value, the
when I see a big dividend paying the contention that the lumbermen tax would simply amount to the
j rospect I will build the road.” His have a right to be among its bene- lessening of the gift. It would
sole ambition being to get the peo ficaries, even though such protec certainly oe collected from the per
ple’s money to put into his own tion destroys our forests and bur son best able to pay—the person
coffers while the pec pie can wait dens all consumers of lumber un who really receives something for
nothing. Yet, with reference to
and starve so far as he is concerned. justly.—Journal.
the Federal imposition of this tax,
When countries of the most ordi
certain complexities arise which may
nary natural resources have de
M ore railroad talk is in the air,
These com
veloped into such enormous money this time it is rumored that the ultimately defeat it.
producing communities when the Hill interests are figuring on a road plexities originate chiefly from
various state tax provisions to the
proper means of transportation was down the coast.
Report comes
furnished them, what would be the ftom Tacoma that articles of incor sime effect. F »r exampfe, Mary
result of a country with the resources poration have been filed at Olympia land, New York and California each
of southwestern Oregon where every by the Pacific Oregon Railway & h is an inheritance tax law, from
thing that makes a country great Navigation Co. for $10,725,000, the winch each derives state revenue.
is found in abundance?
incorporators being: A. E. Law, It is not at all improbable that
for met ly assistant general managei other states may adopt laws of sim
T he railroads* instruction trains of the Northern Pacific; L. S. ilar effect. Clearly, under such con
and development or excursion trains Boutell, R. S. Boutell, F. N. Me ditions. there would be a great in
ate distinctly in line with both the Candles and H. R. Dougherty, all equality that is likely to lead to
general conservation
movement of Tacoma and either employes or judicial resis’an^e. and to other
and with ex President Roosevelt’s former employes of the Hill system, means of evasion not so clear and
splendid movement for better country The object is to build a road down above board In an academic sense,
life i 1 general. The latter is far the the coast from Tacoma to the the ethics of an inheritance tax are
It is a levy in a
broader object, though not so defi • southern country, also to build and above reproach.
nite in the pubic mind, nor so operate roads in Washington, Ore great majority of instances upon
easily or soon to- be brought ab out gon, Idaho and California. Whether property that has been accumulated
It is in fact a work of ages, past there is anything to the report or under some measure of special ad
and future, but one which, by ef not remains to be seen, but one thing vantage which the law has afforded,
forts put forth along the lines sug is sure, and that is if J. J. Hill takes and even wh> n not so, it is an assess
gested by Roosevelt, may be de a notion in his head to build a rail ment upon those who receive the
veloped more in a generation than road through this country to Coos most for the least return. It squares,
it has been in a century. And once Bay or any other port along the in the abstract, with every seme of
Nevertheless, there is the
the people are thus educate 1 to coast, h will go ahead and build it justice.
better living, along all lines, the and will not ask a four per cent element of that sacred property
work will go on by its own momen guarantee either.
If Mr. Hill gets right, and this complication, as to
tum. The conservation of resources busy than Mr. Harriman will no the conflicting rights of the state I
policy, strangely new as a national doubt follow suit in a hurry and beat and Nation that are likely to put
thought and effort,
in entire har him to it if possible.
Everyone many a stumbling block in the path
mony with that of betterment of hopes that both men will see their of the Federal enactment.—Tel
egram.
country life, and more clearly and way clear to build roads, as it will
immediately practical.
It requires help all the more to develop the
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