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.