Eastern Clackamas News
Published every Thursday at
Estaeada. Oregon
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Thursday, February 15 1917
Hear ye — Hear ye:- Let it al­
ways be remembered and never
forgotten by the taxpayers, resi­
dents and voters of Eastern Clack­
amas County, that the Cascade
County cause, with its promise of
happiness and prosperity for thou­
sands of local people, was defeat­
ed by and sacrificed for the polit­
ical ambition of one man — Wal­
ter A. Dimick of Oregon City.
And hear ye further:- And may
the grass always be kept green
on his political grave, until such
time as our people may have an­
other opportunity to exercise our
right of the ballot, when we
trust the grave may be opened to
receive the political remains of
the one man, who defeated the
development and hindered the
happiness of the good people of
the proposed Cascade County.
The figures and statistics rela­
tive to the expenditures of the
Clackamas County road funds in
the past seven years, which were
obtained for the Cascade County
movement, consisted of no guess­
work compilation of estimates,
but were the outcome of the ex­
pert lal>orof the firm of Whitfield,
Whitcomb & Company of Port­
land, which firm is recognized as
second to none in the Northwest
in that line of work.
The reputation of this well
known firm is behind those figures
and they will willingly defend
their findings before any court in
the country and in the face of
any officials who may desire to
question them.
Furthermore, these figures on­
ly covered road expenditures for
the past seven years, but more
may be forthcoming, covering
many years prior to 1909 and
they may make interesting read­
ing to the county’s taxpayers.
Incidentally, there may be
forthcoming some facts and fig­
ures relating to the expenditures
and incomes of other county of­
fices, which may end by enlight­
ening every taxpayer in Clack­
amas County on matters of past
and forgotten history.
The firm of Whitfield, Whitcomb
& Company, it will be remem­
bered in 1912 made a preliminary
audit of the books of this county,
but for some reason or other were
paid off in full after presenting
their preliminary findings
Clackamas County does not
seem to welcome auditors and at
this time in the Legislature is a
bill submitted by certain recog­
nized auditors, asking for pay­
ment from Clackamas County for
services rendered in making an
audit a year or so ago, said audit
having been ordered by the State
Insurance Commissioner’s Office,
as in the case of other counties in
the state but Clackamas County
has refused to pay its bill.
Despite the mass of figures
presented to the Senate Commit­
tee on Counties by the Cascade
opposition, relative to the ex­
penditures for bridges in Eastern
Clackamas in recent years —no
explanation nor contradiction
was offered of the Eagle Creek
Falls bridge, which cost the tax­
payers $2200.00 but for the build­
ing of which the contractors re­
ceived but $340. The same ap­
plies to the big difference be­
tween the cost to the taxpayers
and the amount paid the builder,
for the Estaeada bridge over the
Clackamas.
A New Broom
sweeps very clean — but when you have
some hard scrubbing to do, you fall back
on the old broom, and the same rule ap­
plies to business —
Whv not stick with the old firn s
that have seen you through the
hard knocks and Spend Your
Money With Them.
And speaking of
BROOMS
do you know that while our supply lasts, you
can buy for less than when our new stock comes.
,
Better anticipate your wants.
L. A. Chapman
Estaeada,
Oregon
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The voters of this county can
be truly thankful that Council­
man Jack Albright of Oregon
City, was defeated in the recent
primaries and that his ambitions
to become a county official were
nipped in the bud.
Jack has since and very recent­
ly broken into the nuisance class,
along similar lines made famous
by Fritz Boysen and Julius Wil­
bur, only Jack has carried his
stock of booze in his own system
and with his automobile has got­
ten to be some law-breaking cut­
up.
We will have to hand it to Boy-
sen and Wilbur though, that they
never had the audacity to run for
county office.
And still Oregon City wonders
why the rural voters dont always
approve of some of the candi­
dates from the county seat, who
want to hold office and expend
the taxpayers’ money.
The report of the expert ac­
countants, showing the expendi­
tures of the road moneys in the
past seven years in Clackamas
County, as presented in the argu­
ments for Cascade County, were
taken by County Judge Anderson
as a direct insinuation against
him and his Court.
If Judge Anderson had careful­
ly considered the figures, he
would have seen that same large­
ly covered a period of years prior
to his assuming office and that
the majority of the discrepancies
noted were previous to the O. &
C. Land Grant troubles.
We are especially sorry if the
Judge feels any special implica­
tion towards him or his office, for
it is doubtful if any taxpayer in
this community considers Judge
Anderson as other than an hon­
est and conscientious official. In
fact the amount of conscience in
evidence in the present judge, is
in much larger proportion than
in any former head of the County
Court.
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