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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1903)
PVTKKi'iMSK,iMi:i'i:Ni)t:N-H,oi;K(;N INPKl'KNPKNn: nii still remain n n. i tleare.l br old HHHO. iatloi.rt lo Uuvm I.r 'yitU''s a'ir'lenio ot u f M..r..Mr net ion tofturd ii by tl.e . . . . It I kit 1IV .... With, no-sibil.ty tf ..,,noHMna,.om.W . i. .1 Ul recall I lie t I in the early day '"' m" I 1 tli most noted notion ol luo statu nd U Favette it political ami trade center. It ' left oiu by lien Holladay from the first Went Side railroad nclr.me ard St. Joe, a mile and a half to tl westward, wan located a the U minus. Mc.Minimlle beinjt ut tUi iitue a (.trailing little village wi'boiU political aspiration or coii.m-reial pretension. JHie efh.fi to make a town at St. Joe failed, however and McMinnville came into notice and after a succe ful contest for the county seat and the extension of the Oregon Cen tral ru.w a branch of the Southern Pacific, through the town ami on up th Valley it quickly became the business as well as the social, educational and political center f Yamhill county. La Fayette, on the other Imnd went quictlv to eie4 and though a wry, homelike dreamy place, occupying a beautiful site on the bank of the Yamhill river at the jsoTernrnent locks the daystfit activity are in the pat. The decadence of tlm town ux.i the aobstantiul growth hut six miles to tlie we of U of McVinn- yille cmvsys a le-on in i-uumi un ity enterprise and the lack of it The esrly citizens of Ln. Fayette were in a sense loyal to the place, but it was good enough for them a n was and growth was n matter about which they did not trouble themselyea. They had the county eat and i;i due time u big brick courthouse, a number of comfort able homes, a good '(-elioolhoiife.. a town hall and several church buildings. They enjoyed them selves, and each other. Their commercial needs were supplied by a tri-weekly steamboat that piled the tortuous little riwr in hijjh- if itt-r fuoii :ind bv freight teams that kept them in touch with l'rt I., .,.!. 1 i.n tlir. r.iMfU weie tuwsablf J .V 1 !' , - . ... . 4 Th:. 5-:fi:-re-I .-r the t::r.ir, but it wuj i.oi .j.vjwlh, ou ttic contrary, it wat etugtiatiuii in th.i and lis less rnod begotten in. such an atmos phere the firt railroad that pushed out of Portland on the west sid was allowed to slip by, after first halting and creating its temporary terminus a lew miles away. The rest followed, in due course of events and now the old pioneer town that had a fair e'.art in the early settlement of the Wil lamette Valley is little more than a post town, while its rival is aggres sive, growing and prosperous. The fact that nothing remains stationary in the world is illustrated .by this little bit of local history. Everything moyef if not forward then backward. In obedience to this law the old pioneer town of Vanihi'l ceunty is prcti- Your Tongue If it's coated, your stomach is bad, your liver is out of order. Ayer's Pills will clean your tongue, cure your dys pepsia, make your liver right. Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c. All drugglrt. Waut your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rleb black 7 Then ue BUCKINGHAM'S DYEtter. place to live Invause rent are low fuel is Miil plentiful every house ha it dooryard well and modern improvements of ny kmd do. not lay tribune upon the householder s piirse. It Win brief, n .inlet com fortable, restful village tint hat not In the half of a huay century been touched by the w.iud of pro grt.h,a villrt foredoomed with all of it eaaly opportunities to stagnate and fall into decay, in dustrially and commercially speak iug. through lack of enterprise in its self-satisfied citizen.-lregonian Many Improvement-". In the city of Portland probably by many times the largest iiuiuUt of improvements are taking place that have been in progress for sev eral yeart.. New bricks, six and seven stories high, are a very com mon thing, Wide dwellings are going up every where. The trawl into Portland al the present time im.f considerable volume, but not so great" of a few months ago, j and nothing to what is expected i ll tlnyopeiiiiis of the settler's rates on the frst of the coming nionm. I Not for many months has tl a travel on the Wet Side into 'ori-j land Ikiuii so small. In .going into Portland on day lately it was of: no little surprise to tiud when the; train arrire l t Portland that none of the cars were more than halt tilled, when heretofore it had been ditlicult for one to g t a seat at all. And. too, when the Kastern trains make their departure they arc very lightly peopled and one has plenty of time lo find just the sent they wih to occupy. Taking tlie O.K. cv N. Chicago Special No. 2. at H:ia) A. M. oi e shouM not fail to keep an eye (.ut for the many improvements that are now in progress on this line. The first thing we noticed was a ,li rt niwl rock kcoon nropelled by steam power rigid up against a mountain over two hundred feet high. Of Coiu.mj this is not a wry high mountain, but when you know that it is composed of dirt and rock it will be not a small task to remove seyeral miles of this. And when it is known that this dirt and rock is load-l into cars and transferred to places where it is needed to make fills with. All of these trains are equipped with steam scoopers so that when the tim of unloading arrives the scoop, er is t-tarted from the opposite end of the train from the engine, and although the train not uncommon ly has from fifty to one hundred flat cara full of dirt and rock the big cable soon tightetis and the job of unloading is soon completed. This great amount of expense and work is simply being carried on to straighten the curves in the track and avoid the many elevations that are easily remedied, but not without immense cost. You can travel for many miles right along the side of a roadbed and at no time be out of sight-of it, which was the lormer roadbed of this same road and which has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make the little change, but which at the sauifi time lessens the curves that are so very dangerous and also very expensive on rolling stock. The next thing you hear as you ., . 1 1 mm . . ..hi.,.. 1,1.,. kit Pi er hrri. are a . ...... i.... .......ilv uf ll.MH In lh valley. IlltVM llWII IHIIIk " - , m Xstoue hhh is MoKUksn 25r,U; of Wr ' . .. .r tlmcitv. knoika I t cent, out out ol mourn"".- ' ,, Notab.y smong th m- build.ng. j Mo,l .vary ll.l..g n,t " ' .. . . . ii t.i.,1. . I .in. Kami lalmr is the Odd Fellows mm. - , i - wo stories high andnn,ly nnisl,edl VT , . . ... ,,..i....l- U.ks after U "arce article Itiroog ouv. ou - Jn.ncial needs of th. city, a.t.cle 1. orlh IJJ c,( Two butcher simp, .uptdy n !.M-en,- mr . i.i. .t oon ' wiitf. 'This thing of d llieai lor urn - Mrs. LaurL S. Webb. i.. rn.lil. ! Www"1" (It. MixrkivtS too K,rt moMh. I kP on Ukms K lor IhrM month and no I " '" M KW until I ftui lh tlln. Fuial8 w.-knni. liorJ'wJ nii. fallu.tf ol the won.b mt ovarian trouble tio m w-r on. Tly follow awoma to therltr of Iffe. I'o not vrnit but Uk S me . Cardui now anil .voul Uir treii bU. Wine of V'I "'v,-r ,tt'1; U benefit sufb-nntf woman of any atff. W ine of t 'ar.lul n-UrW Mm. Wbb when ' "' ,lrt"" t!r. When yon -omrtU.iu!muk,; .if life Mri. Webb's letter U im-an in.u to )oa tlmn it now. Hut rou limy now av.uci nirerini? she ea.liiml. I niKKi'-l I wll 1 lHttU of Wine of I urlui I I pass along is "Hood Kiver appb-s, three f.r 1U cents'" f ' imrse we thought we would try the H-d Uiver upplvs. They are not very birue but -f a very nice appearance on the outside. b'X on opening tin apple you find a gn at many d.irk brown specks all through the meat of the apple and V..U i sll see lh.it this adds nothing to the looks of the meat, and also the llavor of j the apple is nothing ati..ve toe average oppb in fact the valley uppb-s which are nnv sellim,' at H and .' ceiiH per bu-lo-l and nre of iii , considerable ale ai tliat, ar of n much be;t-r tl.ivor and if our lni-v fan. .ers would simply take the time to sort th apph s over, making say two or three grade it, si.esthcy would have an article thai would take a stun'd nguinst the Hood Kiver tipples any place on earth. The farmer surely fails to realize what a good damn cloth will do for their appb-s. liy wash ing the apples and giving them a nice blight polish they would surely add to the selling price of thest' goods not lex than 'J" per cent. Out from Portland only "Smiles we arrive at Bridal Veil Kails. Here is the first snow that is en countered and then only about three inches deep, and this same state of affairs still continued until W8 reached Higgs, which is 108 miles out. Here the snow abrupt ly disappears and nothing but sage brush and sand makes its appear ance. No more snow w as Keen un til Ceeile and Douglas on the He,,pner branch were reached, it only being about three inches deep. At Heppner Junction the train was four hours late and all there is at the Junction is simply the sta tion. When the west-hound train arrived it took the Heppner train only a little over tiiree hours to run 45 miles. Arriving at Heppner you find a very nice little town. Heppner is populated by about 1500 people. It has a number of tine business blocks. The Palace Hotel is a tnree-story building aud is built entirely of brick. During the last and one brewery supl'ly ' . . i it.mi.t.. thesw all rein smnrin". - othn business interests are very aril represented h-re. The public .el.ool buildiniH fin H''r nicely located, The new court I horn that in now Is ing built is com posed of natural stone aiol pre sents a llu appesrame. Th c , ..1.. I.erp are much aoikrd up oViT the coal mines which. U' r'" great hopes, will so.ui be M-nding out coal to all parts of the Wit The coal mine is lot ale.l some twenty-two miles fiom here and already a preliminary survey has been made for a rail Im the mine which they hope M see put llir.i.n.h noon. And finely they ne.nl coal for wood Is now quoted. at IT pur cord The town d- j.-ndsj enfirely upon th surrounding j country for Us support. ; i j Correspondents' ' j Contest.! than H rents don't to 10 n nt or nothing -most t'e. JPiGLHi IP I 1 rZ. .X.IMOIInri hW 9 i sioni-' I r- " 1 p f.,.1, ,i j tir.o l I - UtVOUH S C ' mm 1 1 F1P.ST I'lUZK. Handsome l..idle U'ntmg Desk SF.OOND l'KIZK. Iteautifill M-ipiette Iblg. TIIIKD WAVE. A C.;:od Smyrna Pug . Forum riitziv The Deiilientor. FIFTH WAV.. Weekly -egoi in. IT1 I'UIK. I'iO lib' I I'me.ti';i i. Coiiitiilcn (iopcniin ConkJl. l ine eeiiif (or every lie ah II. hi n ..pie ). A ulnrv hi i ( i y ( II w ir-t'e ; li.-ii.iini;. '.' poiiitn. A colonoi Hili.-I -; .iOlnnU. I or ev. i v .-Hi l iiin-riler, ; hew or II renewal. T.'i o!iO I . . tlllill 11 year ill lln':iliie pmir! loo. i We wunt eon"ron.ii-iiiN ill every 1 part of I'olk c.iuily. .Now U llie tluii.j to muke known ni.r tn-uni,; , f.-o. a It) y'H'l I'MIHintii ill. iiriiii'l .1 " .- ii eorreNMiii(ieiii o- w, Contest closes Fcbrnai ut r. P. M. Standing o! Correspond llnenii Vit:l, 11 .... . A in inch . -I-' j'wlville . II HiKiiltuuK It :)7 Sminv HloH' :U Airlie, S , I'm ('mwley, U -.'i Parker, (1 .Vi Kickrei.l, (" 1.VI Calvary, I 7UI MoiiiiioiiI Ii, A o!." Mniimoiith, II .r)":i UftllHtOU, U J.j1 ! What's the ( jlif t.uy in i.ne' In -ji i InkinK II l iiiierliei. .i f I liiumltv i riiiin-1 I -y ! t n lili-rtcloii com) j i.bi nuit IsniKlry wic f I wt.t k..l"h I'irioi.lioli. vll i iiih Hii'l ieft.- y..u eontet i liMiit nui and mve wmrn tH-l yoitr inttonk;" ''''I1 I w can' tutor. I y.iti .ini - i, . . . . . L .. . .1 1 I..... ... . Mittfe i'l rw-lie ).r..in VI,.i,.t J. (Ibio-I.'l, f. oiiiiKiwl. Mar. I'l-f iiri)' Mr.el b ! 0 visit OR. 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