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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1929)
THE MAUP1K TIMES TKurdny July 25, lM6. Saw r t 1 1 li 1 1 1 ixn mxiix minium i iTiiixxxiimiTiiiiiiixii liixartTtriTtirmmrimrxTtTiTTitmmn in O d TfeidayQ Friday; -Satardkyp .Bigger aed Belt Than. L Arrange to Attend Every Day and Be There Write Secretary A, H. Gillis for premium list, then begin to prepare your exhibits- Fatten your livestock, cultivate your vegetables, complete your sewing, do your canning and have exhibits ready for the Fair's opening day. "Boost For and Come to the Big Fair ! pYYTiiyrTTTTvittiireYTtiiixxiiiiiiixiiixirxxiii Criterion News Pick Ups i About own The spectacle, of a grown man groveling on the sidewalks in imitation of a dog was a fight to meet the vision of some Msupinites on Tuesday. A man may be pos sd of tne attributes of the -lai.ine but the public street L not the placc t; co.pioit such traits. Some ranchers are both optimistic and at the same time pessimistic. In a conversation with' a rancher living on juniper Flat The Times man was told that the rancher's wheat crop was almost a failure and in the same breath the grower declaimed that the quailty of his crop was never better. Somewhat of a paradox, eh. The passing of Nick Sinnott has cast a gloom over Wasco county. Mr. Sinnott, as a product of this county, was the idol of all and his frequent election to the lower house of congress testifies that Wascoites considered him the man fur the job. His elevation to a United States judgeship by Presi dent Coolidge was another testi mony of the real worth of our de parted citizen. Bobby David on has encumbered himself with the job of hauling a large quantity of wheat from the Flat to the warehouse. His Pontiac truck has been equipped with a new box and now Bobby has begun a 24-hour service keeping the truck busy day and night. Phil Starr's attack of rheumatism has handicapped our genial mail carrier somewhat but he insists on making his schedule to Shaniko and return on regular mail days. Phil also manges to keep the weeds out of his garden patch up Bakeoven and as a result has one of the be t vegetable plots in this neck o' the woods. Portland Jantzen Knitting mills will construct new $60,000 addition to plant for storing machinery, yarn storage and warehousing of finished merchandise, Clatskanie $30,500 bond issue approved for erection of school building on Holmes zite. Amity Bids will be opened soon by Amity School Board for con struction of new gymnasium. ' Klamath Falls Bids opened for paving improvement unit. No. 83. w-j Crane Considerable work under way at warmsprings project near here. Klamath Falls Contract awarded for three city street improvement projects. Gresham Gresham Berry growers installed 20-ton platform scales. , Burns Municipal airport recently dedicated. Roaeburg -Prune drier with capa city of 1,000 buahels daily will be establit hed at Garden Valley soon. Darns 150 homes will be erected in nt'w Greater Burns division being promoted by Stafford, Derbcs & Roy firm. - " Grants Pass Mineral survey open ed near( here by United States Geo logical Survey. Legislature ap propriated $30,000 for this purpose. Baker Plans underway for for mal opening of newly constructed Hotel Baker. Your mbscription it duepay up. FIGHT FOR FREIGHT IS KEENEST ON COAST OREGON NEWS NOTES Burnt Plans undreway for con itruction of Iwp-story office and store building adjacent to Welcome Jiotcl f ' ' " " .fsn-.' " grf1-"" ..-...inn-. y marufa ,rvtv vWr&mM'M ' ' - ' ' -1 "I "'M'm. " ', I 1 'I w -M VI 8EA RULES RAIL RATE8 J. T. 8aunders, freight traffic manager for 6outhern Pacific, who says three steamship lines handling two-thirds of north and south freight, tramp steamers and truck lines, as indicated on map, make coastwise competition the most difficult faced by railway MORE than a million tons of freight annually borne In the holds of coastwise steamships between ports of Callforniaand the Pacific Northwest ports exceeds north and south rail way traffic by a margin In excess of 100 per cent, according to J. T. Saun ders, Freight Traffic Manager for Southern Pacific company. Not only do three steamship lines handle twice as much freight as is rail-borne between California and the northwest, but the railway also faces competition of numerous motor truck carriers operating upon the public 'highway. These truck lines now radi ate to almost every community upon the Pacific slope, carrying annually thousands of tons of freight formerly handled by the railroads. Climate, much advertised as a tour ist attraction, adds to the competitive difficulties of Pacific Coast railways. Every day in the year is a good travel day for Pacific Coast motorists and fine paved highways have made auto mobillng so easy tlrat railway passen ger revenues annually decline to the tune of millions of dollars. "No railway anywhere," Saunders said, "faces competition so strong as that met by Southern Pacific. Five major transcontinental railways, air routes, four coastwise steamship lines, many tramp steamers and traffic motor-borne upon the highways all com pete with our lines. "In four representative months January, April, July and October of 1927 three steamship lines alone moved 319,885 tons of freight between California and Portland and the Puttet Sound ports. In the same period rail traffic north and south between Cali fornia and Oregon was only 151,453 tons. "An average of 76,000 pounds a week Is moving by steamer from Cali fornia ports to Crescent City, Califor nia, whence It is delivered to destin ations In Orants Pass, Medford and other Oregon cities. "Separately and Jointly trucks and Steamships are moving thousands of tons of freight which once moved by raiL ' "In order to meet this competition Southern Pacific since the World War, has spent over four hundred million dollars for construction of new and rehabilitation of old lines,' new equip ment and betterments. "More than ten per cent of this amount has been spent since 1923 for the construction and rehabilitation of 521 . miles of mainline in northern California and southern Oregon. With in a few weeks our new 97 mile line between Klamath Falls, and Alturas will be bpened, providing a new main line route to the east, 2?6 miles short er than from Klamath Falls to Chi cago than any line now existing or proposed. "The competition of steamships carrying more than one half of the total coastwise freight traffic affords competition which will continue to be the basis for freight rates regardless of future railway" construction." ZELL'S FUNERAL SERVlCt Undertaking and Embalming: AMBULANCE SERVICE Call Maupin Drug Store Phone-345 Trucking Long Diatant Hauling A Specially INSURED CARRIER ELZA O. DERTH1CK Phono ..... 5118 Wm, F. Schilling Ignition, Generators and Starting' Motors on All Makes of Cars ACTEYLENE WELDING From a Pin to a Locomotive Axle All Work Guaranteed At &f)G Maupin Garage SHIP BY TRUCK REGULAR FREIGHT LINE SERVICE V .' Between i PORTLAND i- THE DALLES - MAUPIN THE DALLES TRUCK LINE Inc. 1 SPICKERMAN'S TRUCK LINE PORTLAND- THE DALLES THE DALLES-MAUPIN and Way Points ' " and Way Points BONDED & INSURED CARRIERS I