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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1924)
FftttA OCTOBER 31, 1924 THE BOAKDMAX MIRROR pAg 3 V wP W & 1 I Jumping I tappers. atje J 3 '7 !Wt hottest twat;? SUCH IS LIFE Van Zelm i a - jOOT REASON WHY . Florence what Jo You Think ' "The hottest VEGETABLE ? 7 BECAUSE I SAT V ON QUE 4-J S 7 JLfi V7 At K WN T bubs s mates - Cause Western Ncinpipcr Unicn 4 WOULD we stand for a law that kept 3000 families out of Oregon? Of course we wouldn't! So it's up to us to vote the antagonistic Income Tax Law out of existence! For it has already lost for Oregon payrolls amount ing to more than six million dollars ($6,000,000) a year! And six million dollars means at least 3000 families who are lost to Oregon's popula tion in just one year under this dangerous law. Oregon needs Jobs and Markets The Income Tax kills both! Vote 312X YES and hill the Income Taxi If there are two things Oregon needs above all others it is ( 1 ) jobs for her workers, and (2) markets for her products. Every new enterprise or in dustry brought into Oregon means more jobs. Jobs support population. Ev ery increase in population means a better market for farm and factory products. Yet the income tax law antagonizes industries and enterprises. Many au thentic cases are on file where industries MOVED OUT OF OREGON OR DECIDED NOT TO COME TO OREGON because of the income tax law. Counting loss of capital invested, purchases and payroll, this loss is already conservatively estimated at more than $40,000,000. The payroll loss alone is already over $6,000,000 a year! 59 Industries lost to Oregon in a single year others threatened These figures show the appalling effect of this unwise tax law which antagonizes industries on which a large part of our growth and prosperity depend. , Recorded Damage Due to State Income Tare Timber purchases cancelled or sus pended $18,000,000 Construction of lumber mills, towns, logging camps and logging railways abandoned or suspended 7,875,000 Other industrial investments can celled or suspended 4,578,000 One year's operating payroll cn foregoing items . . 5,6f.0,000 Disinccrporations, $4,606,000 capi- ItaL Damage listed 110 only 4C0.600 Actual removal1' from the stte, in cluding loss of only one year's pay roll 2,440,250 Threatened removals, including loss of only one year's payroll 2,218,500 31 Cases as to which definite amounts are not available, but which would amount to m.my millions; da. nap listed at 0 34 Cases still under investigation would arrount to many millions; damage listed as 0 21 Cases in which reported removal or investment elsewhere was stat-d to have been caused by the In com tax but which cannot be verified :n writing; damage listed as 0 lr:a. $41,252,350 These figures certified conservative and correct byt FRANK B. ANDRBW8, CHARLES H. STEWART, BTN SELLING, CURISS A. BELL, J. K. GILL. The customer who quits and say nothing Thf insidious thing about this law is that industries do not complain they simply pack up and move to another slate! They are like the customer who quits and says nothing you never know he is dissatisfied nor why hence have no chance to make matters right with him. Many large concerns who left or stayed out of Ore gon on account of the income tax refused to allow us to use their names because they did not want to be made to appear as tax dodgers and yet they could not af ford to carry a tax burden in Oregon which they did not need to pay in California or Washington! There is an old adage which says, "Business is sensitive It goes only where it is invited and stays only where it is well treated." We cannot uftord to AN TAGONIZE enterprises which other state 3 arc INVITING! This insidious law must It is hurting Oregon! is we had planned to establish our Northwest headquarters in Portland. We changed our plans, and are locating in Seattle because of the adverse Oregon Tax Law. THE BOYLE-DAYTON CO., Los Angeles. Had we known the Oregon Income Tax Law would have passed, we certainly would have bought timber in Washington or British Columbia, rather than in Ore gon. CENTRAL COAL & COKE CO., Kansas City, Owners of Vernonia, Ure., development. We had planned on erecting a sawmill at a cost of approximately $100,000 and four miles erf logging rail road. This would increase our logging facilities which would amount to an expenditure of about $150,000 addi tional. THE GLENDALE LUMBER CO., Glendale, Oregon. Read these extracts from letters The originals and hundreds more like them are on file. Then go to the polls November 4th and rid Oregon of this objectionable law which is keeping millions of dollars and thousands of people away from our state. On receipt of a draft of the state income tax law at our New York headquarters, instructions were sent to dose the Pacific Coast branch at Portland, February 1. 1924. LEWI3-MEAP.S CO., New York. Wa would not consider any further expansion as lone as there is a state income tax in Oregon. BARNES-LI NDSLEY MFG. CO., Portland, Ore. We had completed plans and specifications for a building to be used as a warehouse and offices for a large corporation with headquarters in California, but these plans fell through when they Uarned of the tate Income tax meaaure. Will do nothing further in this matter until tha Income tax measure is settled. HOLMAr? TRANSFER CO., Portland, Oregon. Will reduce our operations in Oregon and possibly go to Vancouver, Washington. COAST CULVERT & FLUME CO., Portland, Ore. When the State of Oregon passed the state income tax law, then wa believed it best to re-incorporate the company in California, which was done. BENSON LUMBER CO., San Diego, Cal. we cannot permit ourselves to be burdened with any taxea that our competitors, the majority of whom are in Washington, do not have to pay. For that reason we figure that if the income tax is to be permanent, we, in self preservation, must with draw our headquarters to another state. M & M WOODWORKING CO., Portland. Oregon. Coming from Wlaconsln, where we have had a state income tax for several years, we are familiar with that deterrent to buainess development, and we, ourselv-s as well is many others whom we know, left Wisconsin for the same reason for which we hesitate to go into bueir.esa in Oregon. WM. M. BRAY, Secy.-Treas., Ofhkosh Land 4 Timber Co., Oshkosh, Wis.; Pres. Klam ath Logging Co., Klamath Falls, Ore. ; Pres. Sprague River Co., Chiloquin, Ore.; Third largeat owners in Klamath County. We had acquired property for the erection of a warehouse when we learned of this law. I have heretofore advised on similar reriuests that we cannot maintain our business in Oregon if the statute is upheld. TRUSCON STEEL COMPANY, Youngstown, Ohio, W. F. Guthrie, V. P. Will limit expansion to most absolute necessities to complete present functions, a reduction of 65 in program. On account of the severity and injustice of the Oregon income tax law we have decided to cut down our proposed building and equipment project from $3$, 000 to $12,000, and had we realized that this tax would become effective, we would not have budgeted any additional improvement at , Oregon. WESTERN LUMBER MFG. CO., San Francisco. Our company will not expand In Portland so lona as there is a State Income Tax Law. The principal reason our head office was not located in Portland was on this account. BUNGE WESTERN GRAIN CC '.'('ORATION, PjUland, Oregon. had we not already opened our offire there, and established ourselves, we certainly would nol do it now, and furthermore, we have bttn confidering the advisability of discontinuing our branch there. THE B. P. STUKTEVANT CO., San Francisco. Mr. Herbert Armstrong, Western Manager for the Menasha Woodoaajvare company, Ma'id that they were figuring on moving the Western Woodenware Com pany from Tacoma to Coos Bay, and had already pur chased site on our waterfront. Later stated they would not do anything at all towa:d a change until they had seen the effect of the Oregon State Income Tax Law. H. G. KERN, Piesident, Fust National Bank, t North Bond, Oregon. repealed we are serious con- aia'fly ani Unless the law siderinz incorporating our Seattle hcise separ diverting also to them all Oregon business that it is possible for them to handle. CLYDE EQUIPMENT CO., Portland, Oregon. Our original plans of operations in Oregon called for an annua) production of 200 million feet of lum ber, whereas our present plana call tot only 20 of that amount. Furthermore, we had planner on con structing and operating a laige Dum and Sash Factory in connection with our lumbering plant, but with this threatening legislation there e no rut ouragement for us to invest the necessary capital for carrying out our original plans. We hope that the majority of the people in Oregon will ultimately change their present attitude towards capital and industry, to the end that it will be a wel come visitor in every section of the state. MOUNT EMILY TIMBER CO., La Grande, Ore. we contemplated putting in an electric steel furnace, but will nut do this until the law has been changed. BEND IRON WORKS. ry-, i i I 1 ror Oregon more than 40 million dollars just for the purpose of I fllS taX laW liaS aireaUy lOSl soaking our enterprises 2 or 3 millions a year. Is that good business or good sense? The situation is critical. It must be met by intelligent voting. If we want Oregon to grow we must vote to KILL THE STATE INCOME TAX Initiated tag. tha Ioeoro 312 jf Tea by C C. Chapman, Editor, Oregon Voter, 223 Woreaater N Portl.n-a, Or.goa-INCOME )?. Z chapter 279 of tbe General Laws of Oregon of 1923, knowa aa peal ebapter the Income lax Act Vote 312 X Yes 313 No Make aure your ballot is marked thU way l aid advertisement. Portland Chamber of Commerce Committee for rj--al of Income Tax, W. S. Ilabson, Chairman, residence 542 East 15th Street, North, Portland, Oregon. A