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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1921)
rr m \ Page Six What the P. R. L. & P. Co. is Doing \ The Portland Railway, Light and Power Company in 1920 purchased $1,345,885.00 worth of materials and supplies in Oregon. It paid out in wages and salaries during last year a total of $4,494,9 19.47, and it paid in taxes and bridge tolls during the saint* period a total of $798,453.35. These are some of the important facts relating to the importance oi the activities of this public service corporation in connection with its present issue of $1,000,000, eight per cent five-year Cold Notes which it is now offering to its employes, custom ers and the public. The Company is frankly desirous of having as many oi its employes and those who are using its service financially interest ed in it as possible for the reason that il will thereby enable the Com pany to extend and improve its serv ice io meet the urgent and growing needs ol the many communities served by it. The following art* some of tin* additional impressive facts about what this Company is dojng to lndp the prosperity of the district* it serves: It serves a territory of over 800 square miles. It renders a useful public service to a population of over ¡{30,000, em bracing nearly 40 different commii- n il ies. It lias 9 ' large hydro-electric and steam power plants. It lias 18 sub-stations. It has 403 miles of high tension Iran mission lines. It lias 0363 miles of distribution wires. Il has 32 city street car lines. It has 4 interurban lines and con trol! another. li has 2743 employes on its payroll It paid out in wages and salaries during the year 1920 a total of $4,- 4 9 4,919.47. It paid in taxes and bridge tolls last year a total of $798,453.35. Its purchases of materials and sup plies in Oregon last year totaled $1,- 3 15 , 885 . 00 . It gross earnings for 1920 were $9,564,0 15.25. It gises continuous car ride of 19 miles for a single fare. Il owns and operates 18(5.63 miles of city car lines. It owns and operated 109.45 yules of ii terurban ear lines. Il operates, but does not own, 11 miles of city lines. It controls an additional 35 miles of interurban lines. It has 54 3 city passenger cars and 1,5 interurban passenger cars. Il owns 9 electric locomotives. It owns 321 freight cars. h 19 20 it carried 96.852,120 pass ngers on its city lines and 3,- 85 1,7 2:’. on its Interurban lines, a to tal of 1 on,703.S4 3 passenger. The capacity of its 9 power plants i- 114T83 horsepow er. In 1920 it sold 167,374,1 43 kilo watt hours of electric energy. Il had 53,2 8 5 light and powi r cust. tilers 1 (eeember 31. 1920. The purpose of this issue of (¡old Notes is explained in the following: To keep pace with the rapidly ex panding requirements of this district served b> the Company. Ibis Com pany has steadily increased its in- \est d capital to provide the facili ties with which it is rendering public service. In the past these additional Investments ol capital have come from outside the Portland district. Il ii- the purpose of the Company to eontMine to give good service and to expand its facilities to meet the in- crea-ing demands upon it To ac complish lids large additional sums of capital must he proivured. Invest ment In these notes by the people of the districts served would he mutual ly advantageous, In that the funds > o Invested would be expended at home and aid In the further develop ment of ihis territorv. and would also provide an attractive, sound in vestment The Company frankly \vish<< to have tlnancialh interested in it as many as possible of those served by It. The expenditures for betterments and additions to the pro pert \ of the Company during 1921 will exceed the total amount of the note Issue now offered Money to finance this Company has Thursday, February 17, 1921 EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS heretofore been sought principally outside the state of Oregon. It is be lieved that it would be mutially ad vantageous if we, who aie employes by the corporation, and also the peo ple directly served by the corpora tion, should be financially interested in it. With that purpose, the corpor ation is now offering to its employes, its patrons and the public generally $1,000,000 of five-year Gold Notes bearing eight per cent interest. The new investment for additional facili ties to be made during the year 1921 will materially exceed the amount of the note issue now offered.” H. S. Debate. (Omitted last week) The debate between the High Schools of Oregon City and Esta cada, was held here Friday even ing, February 4th, in the High School auditorium. The subject was “ Resolved that the Primary Election Law in Oregon should be Repealed." Estacada had the affirmative side of the question and was re presented in the debate by Helen WoosterandGilbert Shearer. Con sidering the fact that neither of the speakers had ever had any previous experience in debating, we feel that they made a very good showing. The arguments put forth by our team were not met and refuted by the visiting team, but the decision went to them on the strength of their “ come back" in the rebuttal. In delivery we feel that our Es tacada team easily excelled the visiting team. We hope this is only a beginning ot what our school may do along these lines. On this same evening, the members of our negative team. • Frederick Burns and Pearl Faultz, mot the affirmative team at West Linn. The statement of this important question made it impossible for any school to know before hand what plan might be advocated by the affir mative. It seemed logical, how ever, that a team advocating the repeal of the direct primary, would first attempt to show it — —------ -— _ ■ r:.----- r r The Family Theatre THURSDAY NIGHT February 17th, B ILLIE RHODES IN - “ The Blue Bonnet.” r faults, and later offer a con structive plan, and the argument and rebuttal of our negative was F IR S T - C L A S S planned accordingly. As it' turned out, the West Linn re-j S H O E M A K IN G presentatives adopted reverse order. Under these circum-1 Best Neaîsfoct Oi! For Sale. stances our speakers had to give their rebuttal in entirely differ - 1 :: Estacada ent order, and to rearrange their Broadway argument considerably. Their manner of meeting this emer gency, reflects credit on both of R. R. CARLSON them. They were not discon certed, and made a showing of which the school has reason to Undertaker and Embalmer feel proud. The two-to-one de Gresham - Oregon cision of the judges went to West Linn, hut the decision Warren Me Willis means little in comparison, while the training and poise gained by Local Agent for Estacada the students of a school which participates in such contests. G. REIN E, I). Allen, who has been Esîacada-Portland Stage here from Marmot, has returned A. HAIDLEN, Prop. home. The T. & T. Co. has installed Leaves Estacada 8:30 a. m. a new switch board, which will Leaves Portland 4:30 p. m. improve the service. Phone, Estacada. J. W. Morrow of Portland was in town Wednesday to inspect the ruins of the old barn burned Notice of Final Account last Monday night. In the County Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Clrfckamas. Miss Frances Murphv and two small sisters from Seatt e, In the matter of the estate of George Henderson, deceased. were guests this week of Mr. Notice is hereby given that the under and Mrs. C. S. Allen. Died In Portland, February 10th, Amanda J. Jones, aged 52 years, 1 month and 1 dav. The funer al services were ht-id from the conservatory chapel of the East Side Funeral Directors. 414 East Alder, Monday, February 14th. at 10:30 a. m. Interment in Estacada Cemetery. The de ceased was the mother of Hugh Jones, of Currinsville. + + + + + + + + * + ♦ + + + 4 * signed, Agnes Henderson, admmistratix of the estate of George Henderson, de ceased, has filed her final account in the County Court of the State of O re gon, for the County of Clackamas, and that Moncay, the 14th day o f March, 1921, at the hour o f 9:30 a. m., of said I day at the Court House at Oregon City in said county and state, has been ap pointed as the time and place f**r the heal ing of objections to said final ac count and the settlement thereof. Dated and first published, February 3.1, 1921. Date of last publication, March 3d, 1921. A gnes H enderson , Administratr'x. + + + + 4* + + *f> + + + + + + + + + *S* + + + + + + + We Wish to Announce % T o the Motor Public, that we are now established in the REED & SHIBLEY GARAGE at Estacada. where we will expect to merit the continued patronage of old patrons, and we extend an invitation to all having Motor Troubles to give us a trial. + + + H aving had many years» experience in this line 4 * of work, we will undertake to handb anything that + + would be expected to be handled in a modern shop + SATURDAY NIGHT February 19, TOM MOORE • — IN — “ Toby’s Bow .” First show opon* at 7 p.m. sharp Price*: Adults 26c, war tax 3c. Children 10c, w ar tax lc. W . K. 1.1NN, Manager. v.,----- ------------------------------------- - 4 * + + + ♦ + + + * + ♦ + + + + Satisfaction to be Our Motto. + + + + + * + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ♦ Respectfully Yours, BACON & LEN N O N . ♦ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + * * 4* + * +