EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS
Devoted to the Interests of Eastern Clackamas County
Formerly Estacada Progress
V olume 9,
N umber 48
POWER COMPANY ENOS YEAR
WITH A DEFICIT
P. R. L. & P. Co. Lose $114,239.23
In Past Year
The Portland Railway, Light &
Power company had a deficit of
$114,239,23 as a result of its op
erations during the year ending
June 30, according to the annual
report filed last week, with the
Public Service commission.
At the beginning of the fiscal
year the corporation had a sur
plus of $575,442.39 and at its
close the surplus was $461,203.16.
The following figures are taken
from the report:
Operating revenues $5.265,169.11
Operating expenses 2.807,865.54
Net operating rev
enue
-
-
2,457,303.57
Taxes assignable to
operations
-
534,867.61
Uncollectible opera
ting revenge
-
13,110.62
Operating income
1,909,325.34
Non-operating rev
enues
-
-
195,535.(53
Non-operating rev
enue deductions - 50,323.59
N e t non-operating
revenue
-
- 145,212.04
Total gross income 2,054,537.38
Deductio s f r o in
gross income - 2,141,128.57
Net I iss for year - 89,591.19
Mi s.-ellaneous deduc
tions fro ri surplus - 21,648.04
The "ded lotions from gross in-
co ne” tocaung $2.141,128.57, are
divided as follows:
Deductions for fund
ed debt - ' - $1,947,898.66
Other interest de
ductions
-
-
59,741.39
Amortization of debt
discount and ex
pense
-
118,578.60
Miscellaneous deduc
tions
-
-
17,909.92
Y o u n g W o m an M issing
The authorities have been call
ed upon to help locate a Mrs. E.
J. Cozad of Hood River, who left
that place August 3rd to visit her
mother and brothers who reside
near Currinsville, and who has
not been seen since.
Mrs. Cozad is about 19 years
old, having been married but a
few months: and fears of foul
play are current, owing to her
continued absence.
E stacada , O regon ,
C u rrin sv ille B oy M a rrie d
A quiet and attractive wedding
was solemnized at the Shankland
home in Currinsville, last Thurs
day afternoon, August 10th, when
Miss Vera Tinke»- of Mason City,
Iowa become the bride of Melvin
L. Shankland.
Rev. (I. A. Lewis of Oak Grove
performed the ceremony in the
presence of the immediate family
and a few friends.
Miss Tinker has been assistant
librarian at the Portland Central
Library for the past four years
and is receiving ihe congratula
tions of her many friends and ac
quaintances.
The groom, who is a son of the
late Elmer Shankland, ¡swell and
favorably known here and the
best wishes of his many friends
are extended to him and his bride.
Fighters To Train At Hot Springs
Any man looking fora scrap in
Estacada last Sunday, would have
had to look but a short ways to
have appeased all of his pugilistic
propensities, for Estacada had
the real goods on hand for a day
or two early this week.
Under the guidance of official
introducer, Walter Whitbeck, late
of Estacada but at present con
nected with the training camp of
the champion Billy Mascot of
Portland, three well known west
ern “pugs” spent Sunday in Es
tacada. The quartette left Mon
day morning for the Cary Hot
Springs, where a training camp
will be established in which to
work out Mascot for his coming
Labor Day battle against Gorman,
in Portland.
The members of the party are
Billy Mascot, Abe Gordon and
Jas. Nison with Walter Whitbeck
as guide and general manager.
The fighters will train at the Hot
Springs for the next two weeks
and expect to return to Portland
the last of the month, 'ready to
cop the big end of the purse in
the Mascot-Gorman scrap.
N ew L o ad in g F acilities
The Portland Railway Light &
Power Company are now building
a substantial lumber loading dock
in Estacada, at the junction of
CurrinSt. and the railway tracks.
The lumber is being furnished
by Klaetsch’s mill and the plat
form when completed will be a
more convenient loading place for
the lumber and the heavy ship
ping from the Springwater side
of the river.
T hursday , A ugust 17,
1916
JULIUS MEILIKE
DIES SUDDENLY
Death Overtakes Elwood Rancher
Following Operation
Julius Meilike of Elwood, one
of the leading ranchers of that
section and well known through
out this part of the county, pass
ed away suddenly last Friday
night, August 11th, at the family
home.
Mr. Meilike had recently re
turned from a Portland hospital,
where he had unde-gone an op
eration for absesses of the lungs
and was supposed to be rapidly
regaining his health, having vis
ited Es acada on the day prior to
his death.
Impressive f u n e r a l services
were held at the family home on
Sunday in the presence of a large
number of friends, relatives and
neighbors. Rev. C. F. Aue of
t h e Springwater Presbyterian
Church officiating.
The interment, in charge of
undertaker Chapman of Estaca
da, followed at the Elwood Cem
etery.
The deceased was in his 53rd
year, having been born in Bran
denburg Province, Germany, A-
pril 11, 1863 and is survived by
his widow and six children, being
Carl, Albert, An n a , Charles,
Clara and Fred; three of whom
reside in Oregon City.
Mr. Meilike was especially well
known locally, having always tak
en an active working interest in
the welfare of this part of the
county and having been closely
identified with the Cascade Coun
ty movement of a few years ago.
D e er S easo n O p e n s
Tuesday, August 15th, being
the opening of the 1916 deer hunt
ing season, s e v e r a l parties of
hunters from this section are now-
in the woods, in search of the
big game.
R. G. Palmateer, Jr. and Har
vey Marshall of Garfield, accom
panied by Ira Wills of Fairview,
left Monday night for the Squaw
Lake and Plaza country, where
last year, earl> in the season,
they were successful in killing a
few deer.
Judging from reports, deer are
more plentiful this year in the
nearby mountains, than for sev
eral years past, although the best
hunting is experienced towards
the end of the season, after the
early snows drive the animals
down from the higher levels.
$1. P er Y ear
R eal E s ta te M a rk e t A ctive
For the past thirty days a de
cided movement has been notice
able in local real estate, with a
couple of sales having been con-
sumated and a number of land
seekers investigating farm lands
in this vicinity.
Among the deals closed, was
the sale of the old Shutter place,
recently owned by Frank Yunker.
This land comprised about fifteen
fertile acres on the bottom near
Currinsville. The name of the
buyer has not been learned yet
Through the agency of S. E.
Wooster of Estacada, a deal has
been recently closed whereby
the Conrad Krigbaum piece of 12
acres in C.irfield, will bee >me the
property of a Mr. Dart of Port
land.
The Krigbaum place is one of
the finest fruit and farming
ranches in Garfield, containing a
fine large bearing prune orchard,
many acres of cultivated land, a
prune dryer and other improve
ments.
Also through the agency of S.
E. Wooster, the 50 acre property
of Dr. J. L. Hewitt in Garfield
has been leased to a Mr. C. M.
Churchill and family of Portland,
who will move onto the place
within a few days.
C a n a d ia n T h istle S p re a d in g
Reports are received of the
rapid spread of the dreaded Ca
nadian thistle in several counties
in the Willamette Valley.
The Oregon laws are very strin
gent and impose heavy penalties
on the owners of land, who do not
exterminate these d a n g e r o u s
weeds.
These pests are getting a foot
hold in this part of the county,
especially in the Garfield country,
where the seeds were imported
in manure shipped in from Port
land by a local farmer.
The road supervisors are sup
posed to enforce the laws regu
lating the extermination of all
noxious weeds, but in self protec
tion, it should not be necessary
for the supervisors to force prop
erty owners to exterminate the
dangerous Canadian thistle.
Samples of this thistle were
brought to this office last week
and may be seen by parties wish
ing to classify same. The thistle
grows from two to four feet high,
having a cluster of small purple
blossoms; the leaves being spikey
and shaped like a dandelion leaf.