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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1922)
Friday, December 8. 1 922 INDEPENDENCE, OREGON Pace Two VALUATI0NS;10N " POLKJTILITIES Figures Fixed by State Tax Commission Are Announced Pallas The county assessor, Fred J. Holman, has received at his office from the state tax commission the apportionment for Polk county state tax commission assessments, the total of which amounts to $l,396,05o.OO. The tax roll for the year 1921 amoun ted to $13,413,415.00 which is a slight .decrease under the apportionment just received. The total amount of the county tax roll for the year 1922, to be collected in 1923, is $12,292,- 450.00, which added to the tax com mission apportionment makes a total of $13,688,505.00. In the appor tionment received some persons labor under the impression that the big con cerns noted pay no county or city taxes. The money received from this 60urce is segregated into city, county, special roads, special high school funds the same as any individual tax payers' money. The apportionment from the state tax commission was made as follows: Name Assessed Value Hanna Telephone company$ 95.00 Green Telephone company.... 85.00 Grand Ronde Telephone Co. 1,330.00 Five O Telephone company Falls City, Dallas & Lewis ville Telephone company Eola Telephone company..- East Dallas Telephone Co... Durbin & Cornoyer (Tele phone) Antioch Telephone associa tion E. Clemens Horst company 210.00 50.00 65.00 190.00 160.00 130.00 70.00 210.00 460.00 50.00 55.00 cn An I 75.00 ; j Rickreall Telephone Co, William Riddell Telephone company Rose Hill Telephone Co. Salt Creek & Dallas Mutual Telephone company Salt Creek & Mill City Tele phone company Salt Creek Mutual Tele phone company Seavey-Bell Hop company Sheridan-Willamina Tele phone company 1,375.00 Smithfield & Dallas Tele phone company 280.00 Wicun & Company Tele phone Lin Willamette Telephone com- Pacific Fruit Express com pany Union Oil Company f Cali INVEST IN DEVELOPING OREGON In the drive which the Portland Chamber of Commerce will begin on Tuesday, December 6, it will ask the people of Portland to invest $300,000 in the development of Ore gon. The call is made, to Portland alone, not to the state at large. It is a call for an investment of no ordinary kind, for no subscriber will be able to trace any increase of income to this particular invest ment or to say that his money has succeed. Tho one great cuuso or tho farmer's troubles is the excessively costly and inefficient means of mar keting his products. Each farmer is so occupied In the labor of production that he cannot give proper attention to selling, and his individual produrt is too small to permit him to hire salesmen. In consequence a string of dealers intervenes between him and tho consumer and nibbles away his profit. Combination to standardize und pack products, to sell them In largo bulk to wholesalers in distant cities, to develop new markets and to earned so much ner cent. The neo plo of Portland are asked to sub-'advertise on a national scale is mo scribe in confidence that, as the re-'one way to eliminate waste, to sell suit of this investment, develop-' entire crops and to increase the price 29 ''85 00 1 ment of 0rcKn wiI1 be hastened ' f0r tho consumer. It benefits the land their incomes will be increased frmer without injuring anybody, en- in proportion to the use they make courages him to produce more by en- of the opportunities which this do- lnrging his purchasing power ex- 70.00 2,675.00 Union Tank Car company Valley & Sileti Railroad company Telephone Line No. 22 Observer. 230.00 160.00 95.00 LEAVE IT TO THE HATBAND velopment will open. In order that the people of this city may recognize the wisdom of this in- 139 485 00 vestment lt s necessary that they nave a coreci unuersianmnjj oi mu relation between Portland and the great state of which it is the com mercial metropolis. In the large sense flank Officials Satisfied Initials Thr Are Reasonable Method of Identification. (Telephone) 70.00 Amity Mutual Telephone Co. 330.00 American Bottom Telephone Company 305.00 Western Union Telegraph company - 5.920.00 Sheridan Light & Power Co. 940.00 Portland Railway Light & Power company 2.910.00 Mountain States Power Co 78,615.00 Falls City Electric Light & Power company 3,905.00 Dallas Water Works 23,445.00 Amity Light & Power Co 1,150.00 Oregon & California Railway company 670,125.00 Willamina & Grand Ronde Railway 91,415.00 Southern Pacific company 318.7SO.00 American Railway Express company 770.00 j Highland Telephone Co 120.00 Kings Valley Mutual Tele- j phone company Liberty Mutual Telephone company Liberty Telephone Line No. Telephone Line No. 18 Telephone Line No. 36 American Railway Express company "Cash a check for $200?" The paying teller gulped and then asked, "Have you an Identification?" , The nun) outside the wire wtndn-v opened Ms wallet and produced Ms uutomotdle Owner's license. "I'm sony," declared the teller, "but that won't do." The man with tlie check prluce.l leal documents, letters and utluc pa pers which hui'i't iu-d to be in his brief cave. "Surry again. came from behind the window, "but none of Uiese will j do. Let's see ymir l.nt." The customer handed over his weather-worn straw f.r examination. After a glance in the leather hand the clerk methodically counted out I he I money. 1 "That's the surest Identification," 1 confided the teller, "for although im postors tnl'ht l ave alt kin-Is of fnke ' documents to prove who they are, they are not likeiv to think of having tends his prosperity to manufacturers, merchants, bankers, railroads and ship-owners and to all whom they em ploy. The two forma of advertising the one consisting of words and pic tures, the other of the thrifing citi zen on the ground actually enjoying this city is a public utility for not what is described should bring the only Oregon but for tho entire Co lumbia river basin. It lives by ren dering sen-ice to that great com munity. It buys, transports by land and sea, in America and in foreign lands, manufactures and fi nances the products of that com munity, and it imports from abroad or from other states or manufactures, then transports inland the things which that community consumes. Such being its relation to Oregon, it can grow only as Oregon grows, prosper as Oregon prospers. Pover ty in the state at large is reflected in shrinkage of Portland's business; slow development of the state in slow people for whom tho third part of the chamber's programme is designed, namely, land settlement. For these literally millions of acres arc open. In eastern Oregon irrigated districts are only partially settled, and water is ready for those who will occupy tho vacant land. In western Oregon lurgo farms wait to bo divided, wet land to be drained, cut-over land to be cleared. Other arid tracts are being reclaimed, and the state carries them through the initial stage by guaranteeing interest on bonds. It devolves on the chamber to devise ways to finance settlers until their farms begin to produce, and on the agricultural college and ft The Beaten Road IT is much easier far safermore pleasant to travel on the smooth beaten road, than to make a short cut through barbed wire fences. It is far better to build up your wenlth by the regular method of keeping a bank account here, than by speculation in wild cat stocks. 4V on Savings Accounts The Independence National Bank Independence, Oregon. 1 FEDERAL RESERVE LS Y S T E MsiJ growth of the city, slow increase in the county agents to give advice and the volume of its business. Growth of prosperity and population in the state is reflected in growth of the city and of its volume of business in which every man and woman who has staked his fortune here has a share. . j At the head of the announcement letters in their hats t w ith those nn lor v l.k h pet money. Of course, the "J .1" may stand f i r Joseph .7"! risen, but the ch.-ives ,'ire In favor of John Joiks. The hat heats nil le.'nl documents for telling the truth." OLD ENGLISH HEDGES G0IN3 Landscape Beauties Being Sacrificed to Demands for Increased Pro duction From Land. correspond j 0f its development plan the chamber i s ek to Vna rl.-icel tho fnllrM-incr citntmnnf of the percentage of increase in population for five Pacific coast states during the decade ending in 1920: California 44.1 Idaho 32.6 Utah 20.4 WasJvngton 18.8 Oregon J6.4 Those figures tell that Oregon, by instruction, especially to those who are not versed in irrigation. Kvery man who is thus put on the road to prosperity will be an asset und an aiil to further development, for he will spread fhe good news of his success. By undertaking this work of idate development, Portland practices self help from the broadest viewpoint. We have heard and said much of recla mation by the government, of railroad extensions, of water-power develop ment by outside capital. l!y duim; its best for development of the entire state without awaiting these aids fiom outside, Portland will cause A Summer Clime- for your Winter Outing that's California i them to come mote quickly. Its work ; will bring settlers for the land that ' the government would reclaim, - traffic for the railroads, consumers comparison with its neighbors, stif- for the power companies. Effort to j it induce them to move should not be j of relaxed. hut thev u-ill nuivn thi 40.00; i 70.00 ! ! 25.00 1 55.00 i t 125.00 p ' ' 1 r .i i the hedgerow of hawthorn, or "May."!1 Jr",u rrt'sl" ueveiupmeni. Is rapidly disappearing. 1 'riven out ! is s rich in resources as any hy the tractor, either In the wet of j them, if has the same kind of peo- more readily if we move without pie, but it has vast areas of rich waiting for them. Persistent effort agricultural land that produce noth- on the lines adopted should work a ing, more timber than any other state, ' transformation in Oregon within the rich stores of mineral, enough water ' present decade. Oregoriian. power to serve many times its popu-j lation, climate and scenic beauty ' HUGE ECONOMIC LOSS and oportunities for sport and recre-' ation that equal those of any state, j (trfNESj J I.tko many others at this season f the year you ro thinking of a trip ti it warmer dime. California is jujt the place for jour winter outing, Here the day ar flooded with bright warm mi-i h-r. You nwy enjoy alt outdoor recre. tioim or otmply relax and r!t m com fort under sunlit ki. 'I here are noted golf rour-n, jh Io fo lds, tenni court, mile of t.pU-nJjJ highways and counth-M p.:.c? of M-cit.c and romantu- charm. (Jo now and Uk advar.tMK'' of Kx eellent Train Service und Though Sleeping Cars to Sn Fram-i 'c end I .us Aei'etes. LOW ROUND TRIP TICKETS .S'vtt' On uV For fares, train scheduhs, tleeplnj cur reservation or desenpti- e folilcn, ak Imal railroad tu kit bgenu, or write JOHN M. SCOTT, (Jvneial FaiKci.-.. r Ag'.nt Portland, 'jr-gin Telephone Line No. 37 140.00 j within England, noted for its double hede- ! rows, . sometimes with narrow put hs? between, or the Enstlands. with hedges and dikes alternating to the marshes, some Inndniiirk of this kind has dis appeared. In Hertfordshire find Sussex this snine thing is happening and the old sturdy roots are being dug up and burned, and replaced by miles upon 1,505.00 miles of wire fences, to keep the sheep j rem hed, as the earni ig power wiped 21. in automobile accidents out by year. National campaigns are The conference dates ncreapf onj,uiii by I.ee Drake, president of conference; Elbert Hcde, preside! underUi c-'i the State Editorial association; in the interest of stamping nut tuber-1 E. Iloss, association secretary, culosis, cancer, and other disej.scs Dean Eric W. Allen of the On school of jourtialiHtn. 1 4 75.00 j 95.00 ; 55.00 ; 610.00 1 Telephone Line No. 52 Telephone Line No. 56 Luckiamute Independent Mu tual Telephone company Luckiamute Rural Telephone : company Motor Line Telephone Co Northwestern Long Distance Telephone, company 6,535.00; Oakdale Telephone company 80.00 . Pacific Telephone & Tele- " j graph company 9,385.00: Perrydale Telephone Co 155.00 Pioneer Mutual Telephone company 85.00 Polk County Telephone Co. 960.00 Prather Telephone Line 140.00 bounds. Young college-bred farmers, filled with enthusiasm, facts and labor-saving Ideas, have It fill worked out, and much of the beauty of rural England with It. Cut all the hedges out of four tiehls of 10 acres, and you have one field of 40 acres; one man and one tractor can plow It 80.001 in 10 days; where with hedges it took j a horse plow 40 days to accomplish the same result. which yearly slay their thousands HY MOTOR CCIDFVrx s?""' them, it is pointed out among! The conference will be held in Washington The recent cen-ms i f-1 W-'1"1" in Washington, who see in . new journalism building oft the but it has lagged behind the proces- fjce bulletin, which presents statistic !ut(,m"bile accidents a wholly curable 1 versity campus. The structure sion. Our material interest demands ' for deaths in mitomoliilo n.-, il,.it i ti'"'"'r '" lno '""'y politic, are more! be completed early in March. It that it advance toward the head, and ' for 1921, in the 34 states re'jortinj'.i 'a,l,J' tnun the mP'"perly, carelessly shows that 10,108 men, women, andi,,r '"""""''"ly driven road vehicles, children lost their lives through a.-ei.i'lhe ,u'ti,lt;n 'ucd hy them thus our pride in our state makes the same demand. Plainly the need of Oregon is peoule industrious, intel ligent, order-loving, prosperous peo ple. The chamber summons the people of Portland to a united, con tinuous effort to bring in more peo ple of that kind. Mij'nty Few Do. "Why don't yon Join a golf club?" "Man, I don't know how to play golf" "That's no reason. Ninety percent of the golf club members don't know how to pla.v i be troit Free Press. game, either." De- dents which can not be held to be unpreventable. It is pointed out in the national capital that the economic loss of sjh wholesale killings is enormous, r.o matter how conservative the fi.'uie Appropriation of two-thirds of the are which enter into such cakuia- two-year fund to advertisement in- l,tions. Supposing that the average dicates a well-founded belief that earnlnR 0f eath 0f the killed penpla people do not come in large num-j waa or woud eventually be .t tno i i .i . . , i i i ueis uecuuse uiey no iwi Know wnai rate 0f jjoOO a year, and that the take a place side by side with the other pbigues against which society . tn :v.r. N KWSPAI'KIt CONFF.KF.NCK AT KUGKNK IN MAKCfl University of Oregon, Eugene Dates for the annual Oregon News paper Conference, which is held each year under the auspices of tho Ore- Oregon has to offer, and that they hjfe expectancy of ;,!1 those who thin I "t'hool of journalism at Eugene, died was but ten years each, and the ,mvc ''''" u ioT Thursday, tri- cnormous total of $100,000,000 is day an'l Saturday, March 22, 23 and the history of the conference and Walker will come if we tell them. But the use to which the other third of the fund is to be put is a no lesa effec tive form of advertising. Proclama tion of Oregon's opportunities will be of small permanent advantage if the newcomer should find many farmers ! discouraged because they cannot sell j their products at a living price and J are worried by debts they cannot ' pay. In order that advertising may get results, we must be able to back it with a display of hosts of farmers who are uniformly prosperous, able to sell at profitable prices all that they produce, confident and optimis tic because, though in debt, they see the way clearly to pay all they owe. When we back the promise of our advertising with the performance of those who are already on the ground, we shall get results. Every man of that type will be a walking, talking advertisement, clinching the gains that the paper advertising brings. Co-operation is the sure way to prosperity for the farmer, fruit grower, dairyman, poultryman, cat tleman. California has proved that and we need only to profit by its experience in order to achieve suc cess. A communication from one of those who have pioneered in this field, which is published in another column, tells how one large associa tion has come through the initial struggles over the edge to success. By following its path others can be formally dedicated on the occi of the gathering of the state edi! Publishers, editors and writers .... I .... I miV jiu-t ie! wim irnor uimi -- c-" tions in Oregon will have a mcc-i on the campua coincidentally with 1 Ui!v Ami weeklv nfH paper men. fi It is customary for tho memtfj of the Associated Press, the mcmlffl of the Newspaper Publisher y cate and the executive committee tho Stato Editorial association to h meetincs at the conference. Itfj confidentially expected that the ti- daV meeting will be the largest .... " "The afoury's Store with the Real Christmas Spirit" Thousands of Gifts are here that will be appreciated on Christmas Morn K afoury Bros. Salem Store 466 State St. Portland Silk Shop 383 Alder St.