ESTACADA PROGRESS
Devoted to the Interests of Eastern Clackamas Coun^**** S*.
V olume 8,
N umber 32
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T hursday , A pril 29, 1915
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Complaint has been registered
by several parties of automobil-
ists, because no sign-boards or
guide-fingers, are placed along
eastern Clackamas highways, at
crossings or intersections.
This complaint is justified by
the conditions, for in few places
along our roads are there any
guiding marks. This condition
does not bother the local people
who are more or less familiar
with the roads and their destina
tions, but to the visitor, the tour
ist and the transient visiting this
country, it is a serious nuisance
and bother.
This year there will undoubted
ly be thousands of tourists who
will return east from the Cali
fornia Fairs, via Portland and
many of these transients will
want to visit the nearby country.
Flaring guide-boards should be
erected between Portland and Es
tacada. to indicate to the travel
ler the right road to Estacada.
Similar signs should point the di
rection of Springwater, Garfield,
Currinsville, Eagle Creek, Dodge,
George, Barton, Boring, Sandy,
Elwood, etc.
Every day that these indica
tors are missing, Eastern Clacka
mas county is losing advertising,
visitors and land seekers.
If from a sense of pride, the
county wi 1 not install these guide
marks, then the following law
should be enforced and Clacka
mas county pay the bills:—
“Section 6317—Lord’s Oregon
Laws.
Every supervisor shall erect
and keep up at the forks of every
highway and every crossing of
public roads within his road dis
trict a guide or finger board, con
taining an inscription, in legible
letters, directing the way and
specifying the distance to the
next town or public place situated
on each road, respectively; pro
vided, that the road supervisors
shall not be paid after submitting
their report to the county court
until they have shown to the sat
isfaction of the court, that the
provisions of this section have
been complied with.”
As a first-class advertisement
for Estacada, let’s have made
and placed, about and hundred
signs reading
g t f This Way To Estacada
Distance__ Miles g é f
W e ste rn C lack a m a s W a n ts
C o u n ty Division
The Sherwood Commercial ( ’lub
is now backing a campaign to ef
fect the formation of a new coun
ty, with Sherwood as the county
seat.
Sherwood would be the name
of the new county, if effected,
and would comprise parts of
Yamhill, Clackamas and Wash
ington counties.
The backers of the plan, pro
pose to start a big campaign at
once, with advertising and cir
cular matter spread state-wide,
and similar information furnished
to all legislative and state offi
cials,
The main reason given for seek
ing a new county seat, is inade
quate transportation facilities,
with a trip of from 10 to 12 hours
necessary to reach Hillsboro or
Oregon City, the county seats.
P ro g re ss T o Install V a lu a b le
S u p p le m e n t
In order to furnish its readers
more and better articles on farm
ing, dairying, horticultural and
kindred subjects, the Progress
has tried to obtain such m atter
in plate form. To date, it has
had to content itself with the or
dinary articles, as used by other
papers, namely information pre
pared in the east and dealing on
ly with eastern farming condi
tions, which in few cases were of
value to the Oregon farmer,
working under different climatic
and soil environment.
For six months past the Prog
ress has been trying to obtain
such data from the Oregon Agri
cultural College and has finally
succeeded.
Beginning with an early issue,
the Progress will include a page
supplement, issued by the Ore
gon Agricultural College each
week, containing a digest of the
experimental work for the week
past, as done at this institution.
This bulletin will be of value to
all readers.
This valued service will cost
the subscriber no extra, although
it is costing the publisher more,
but it will make the Progress one
of the most complete rural papers
in the state. Since the Progress
made this suggestion, the Agri
cultural College officials have of
fered this service to other papers
throughout the state, but this
paper will be allowed to be the
first one to offer it.
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LE M S WINS
C an b y M an S hips T en T o n s
$ 2 ,0 0 0 T a x p a y e rs ’ M oney
G one
F rom T e n A cres
The suit brought by Detective
Lev ¡rigs of Portland against the
county, for payment of a bill for
$2,000. for services rendered in
the Hill murder mystery, was
won by the plaintiff Wednesday
night.
This suit was based upon a con
tract entered into by Judge An
derson and Commissioner Smith
of tfie former county court and
signed by them, but not bearing
the signature of Commissioner
Mattoon. The case was tried in
Hillsboro, Washington county and
the jury was out but a‘short time
before rendering their verdict.
The defense claimed that no
evidence had been furnished by j
the detective and further claimed
that the contract without the sig
nature of the third commissioner
was invalid.
The jury’s verdict seems per
fectly fair, but the question
arises, can a contract signed by
less than all of the members of |
the county court be valid hereaf
ter? Also, does nqt Commission j
er Mattoon, his consent and sig
nature, count for anything with
that honorable body?
And still Oregon City wonders
why Eastern Clackamas is slight
ly dissatisfied with county man
agement.
N ew S to re L ocated
Messrs. Trowbridge, Sparks,
Adix and Lovelace, the owners
of the new Estacada store, last
Monday completed arrangements
to rent half of the rebuilt Cary
Mercantile Co.’s building, with
Wm. Dale occupying the other
half.
The new store expects to be
ready for business by June 1st.
with a more complete stock of
goods than has ever been han
dled in Estacada before.
The two $5 cash prizes for the
best business name ana best slo
gan, will probably be awarded
next week, as the contest ends
Friday night, April 30th. If you
have not already submitted sug
gestions for this contest, do so at
once.
C ro w d G oes T o G re sh am
About sixty members of the
Estacada 1. O. O. F. and Rebek-
ah lodges attended the big gath-
eringof fellow members at Gresh
am, last Monday night. About
700 members of the order and
friends attended this meeting
from this part of the state.
The Portland papers and others
throughout the state nave recent
ly contained articles regarding
the big rhubarb growing and
shipping done by A. R. Cum
mings of Canby.
The Cummings place near Can
by is one of the handsomest spec
imens of intensive cultivation to
be found in the state and is given
over to market gardening, but
specializing on rhubarb.
There always seems to be a de
mand for rhubarb, for it repre
sents the only pie and sauce in
gredient that is on the market
during the spring season, and
has no competion. as it appears
after the apples have passed and
before the berries arrive.
Eastern Clackamas raises con
siderable rhubarb, as nearly ev
ery farmer has a home supply in
the garden, but no one farmer is
raising it on a commercial basis.
The Estacada merchants have
been without this product on
their counters several times lately
and have had to purchase it from
Portland.
Probably Portland would not
offer an unlimited field for the
disposal of a big planting of rhu
barb, but there are hundreds of
other cities that are open mar
kets. The Canby grower has al
ready shipped this year three
carloads to San Francisco and
more wil follow.
A warm, light soil of sandy
texture seems to be especially
adapted for rhubarb growing and
such soils can be found in this
section, especially along the
Clackamas River.
Money can be made by the
grower who will experiment a
little in the raising of certain pro
ducts, for which there is a de
mand and a small supply. Mon
tana, Nevada, Eastern Oregon
and even more distant cities seem
to offer a good market for such
pro« luce.
P ip e L ine P ro g re ssin g
Contractor Otto Copenhagen of
Estacada reports about 125 men
now at work on the construction
of the Oregon City pipe line.
The work now comprises clear
ing right-of-way and ditch dig
ging.
While negotiations are under
* way, nothing definite has as yet
been accomplished regarding the
furnishing of this water for the
city of Estacada.