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DAIBT
GRANDI F.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 80, IMO.
Facts and Figures That the Taxpayers of Josephine County
Should be Acquainted With
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Electric
Cooking?
The County ot Joraphlnx la a corporation in which all the taxpayers ot the county are stockholders How many of the
taxpayers and voters are familiar with the ronduct ot the business of the county. Its financial standing and the future pros
pects of Its bualnoea? In your private business you know where you stand. It you are a member of a private corporation
or company you are familiar with all Its affairs
Hut with the county’s affairs you are more or lees at sea and in many In
stances Indifferent, rely upon what someone else says, and do not take the trouble to personally investigate or take an In
ventory of Its business or prospects,
In 1*10 the financial condition of the county was in bad shape and all warrants issued were being discounted 5 to 10
per cent with the prospect of the discount being more Anyone working for the county had to suffer that discount. If ths
county wanted to purchase anything in the open market It had to pay that additional 10 per cent discount, and the war
rants Issued drew 6 per cent .Interest. It was apparent that something had to be done with the result that a new system
was adopted and Instead of the "General Fund" a ’’Current Kxpense Fund" system was adopted and a sinking fund estab
lished with the following result
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The county has since been on a cash basis and able to pay face for all warrants, purchase In the open market the same
as any Individual and thousands of dollars In Interest saved:
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In 1*10 the outstanding warrant Indebtedness of the county amounted to *300,365.68. Up to date under the "cash’’
system 1147,364.04 of these warrants have been retired, the Interest on the same amounting to *49,905.67, amounting
in all to *197,2*1* 71, leaving at present an outstanding warrant Indebtedness of *163,001.64 which under the present sys
tem Is being retired annually and the Interest reduced.
Under the old system, which was an unbusinesslike system, the county was going farther and farther in debt,
thousands of dollars In Interest piling up to which there would have been no end.
and
Not only has the Indebtedness of the county been materially reduced, the-affairs of the county been put on a solid basis,
but much Improvement in fact more Improvements than ever before—been made. Ths county has one of the finest court
houses In the slate, paid for and furnished, up-to-date and modern road equipment and paid for, better roads throughout
than the county ever had before, but the aid that has been secured from the staté and government, which has only been
secured by persistent and hard work and watchfulness and constantly on the Job Is an Important factor to take Into con-
slderatlonv The following Is a tabulation of the State and Government aid:
Estimated
Josephine Co Dec. 1,1 »1 8-Swpt. 20,1*20
total cost
Paving -Grants Paas to Jackson County Line *128,686.60
Paving—Wolf Creek-Grave Creek ........................ 141,908.67
Macadam Stage Hoad Pass. Wolf Creek........
69.315.49
O re ding--Stage Road Paas, Wolf Creek............... 61,064.15
Grading- Sexton Mountain Section ..................... 140,000.00
Gradlng-Gravellng Grants Pnas-PleaaantValley 98,000.00
Surfacing Sexton Mountain Section .................... 82,000.00
Grave Creek Bridge
............................................. 21,600.00
Hayes Hill (State! ..................................................... 36.000.00
Hayes Hill (Government) ._.......
26.250 00
Graveling Hayes Hill (State) ....................
6,000.00
Totals .....
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Expended
to date
*128,686.60
141,908 67
69,315 49
51,054.15
119,332.68
356.16
3,379.45
12. 163 90
35,000.00
26,250.00
Cost to
complete
»587. 455.90
»212,267.91
20,667.42
97.643.84
78,620.55
9,336 10
California-Oregon Power Co.
6,000.00
The money for the uncompleted work has all been appropriated by the State and will be spent just as fast as the con
tractors can do the work.
It will be seen by the above that this county has received practically *800,000.00 from the State and Government for
permanent roads and bridges In the past 21 months, which according to population and taxable property Is more than any
other conuty In the State has received
In other words to sum up some of the main points ot county business during my administration: The county has
built and furnished one of the finest court houses In the State; has reduced the warrant indebtedness *147,364.04; re
duced the interest *4 9,905.67; purchased and paid for modern county equipment; put the county on a caah baeis; and
secured for this county practically *800,000 from the State and Government for permanent Improvements on our roads, the
latter making It possible for more money to be spent on the lateral roads of the county.
I am a candidate for reelection and I wish the voters to study the present conditions of the county now and when I took
office, and I assure you that If I am reelected I will continue to exert my best efforts In conducting the business ot the
county In s businesslike, economical and progressive manner. I am familiar with the conduct of the county’s business, am
closely In touch with the State Highway Commission and their program, am familiar with all the roads and bridges of the
county, and believe I can give the people of Josephine County the very best of service and therefore have no hesitancy in
soliciting your votes at the coming election.
Tours very truly,
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C. G. GILLETTE, Cwunty Judge
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& machine shops
PHONE IAS
BRING US TOUR MBOHANICAL TROIBI88 OF ANT
KIND, WE HAVE THE BEST OF TOOLS AND E91 IP-
MENT AND OVE MECHANICS ARB THE BEST TO
BE OBTAINED.
WE MAU A SPEdAIZTT OF BUBO-
T1WCAL TROUBLE SHOOTING, OVERHAULING
LATHE, AND MACHINE WORK OF ALL KINDS.
ALI. KINDS ACBTTIANE WELDING
WB CARAT A FUIX UNB OF ACCESSORIES, TIRES.
OtLS AND GRBASBS, AM. GOOD FRESH STOCK. .
AT TÒVB SERVICE DAT OR NIGHT
(Paid Advertisement)
AS A CITIZEN OF OREGON YOU
NEED THE PORT OF PORTLAND
If you owned a store you could not make a big success unless
your business methods were as modern as your competitors! Un
less Oregon develops her shipping facilities she cannot expect to
get her snare of the world’s business. It rests with the citixens of
this state whether Oregon shall develop her wonderful resource*
and reach out for bigger markets, or remain practically an inland
state.
To become a real port, a 30 foot channel must be dredged in
the Columbia and tVillamette Rivers from Portland to the Pacific.
Ocean. This will enable farmers, stockmen and lumbermen in the
interior of the state to reach the markets of the world at a lower
freight rate and greater profit to themselves.
The taxing and bonding power to make these improvements
can be granted the Port of Portland only by the people of the state.
You and every other citizen will benefit if you, on November 2nd
VOTE 310 YES ON THE BALLOT—THE PORT OF PORT
LAND DOCK COMMISSION CONSOLIDATION BILL.
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OREGON PORT DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE
(raid Advertisement) l w. Trimble, Secretary
R. TIMMONS
1»UYS AND NF.L1A
HMALL AND LARGE TRAI DI IN JOSEPHINE AND LANE COUN-
TIK8—STOCK FARMS IN CALIFORNIA.
Grants Pass Residence Property
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E. C. Underwood and wife
dinner Sunday with Mr
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John Klnkle on Savage Creek.
but will soon be down to make his
home on the ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. Rastall, Mrs. 'Ayers
and daughter, Gene, and William
Penn were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Florenz Brletmayer on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Slatterv and Mr. and
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Mrs. Wm. Brletmayer spent three
days of last week in Medford with
the Dr. Elliott family.
C. G. Ament and family are living
on the Coutant ranch.
John L. Stanbrough and wife made
a trip over to Williams Monday.
Sam Redding and his bride are
down from Marshfield visiting his
parents. Their daughter, Mrs. Push,
from Montana, is also with them.
Although it is November the Ham
iltons art> having green peas, beans,
sweet corn, tomatoes, and ripe straw
berries from thefr garden. It surely
must be “the climate”—and irriga
tion.
Mr. and Mrs. Nazor, of Eugene,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with the Ropers and in the after
noon Mr. and Mrs. Linch, Mr. and
Mrs. Ross and baby called.
last Wednesday evening Mr. and
Mrs. Nielson. Ernest and Robert, and
the Porter family with Mrs. Porter’s
niece. Miss Campbell, of Medford
who Is a good violinist, spent a pleas
ant musical evening at the Hamilton
home.
Miss Prudence Pardee, of Grants
Pass, was dinner guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Harris last Sunday.
Mrs. Ayes, who has been here for
some time for h^r health, expects her
husband down from Portland Satur
day when they will go on south for
the winter.
Wednesday when Lawrence Under
wood was cranking a car the crank
flew off and hit him over the eye.
cutting it so that three stitches had
to be taken tn It. He and his wife
spent the night with his parents.
Mrs. F. F. Byington, of Portland,
spent Monday night with Mrs. A. W
Bates.
Mr. and Mrs. Redding and son.
Bryan. Carlotta Wiseman, Mr. Ka-
hath and Henry Droulette attended
a mysterious disappearance of candy
seance at the Nielsons' Tuesday
evening.
C. F. BURKE and E. KNOX, Props.
It’s the exclusive Columbia Non
Set Automatic Stop that we mean, the
greatest improvement ever made in
the phonograph. Come in today and
let us demonstrate the stop that need«
no setting.
This long-wanted improvement la
built right into the motor of every
Columbia Grafonola, from the Vaca
tion Model Type D-2 on through the
entire line.
Invisible. Automatic. Operates on
any record, long or short. Nothing
to move or set or measure. Just start
your Grafonola. It plays and stops itself.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK
Mr. Terry, of Detroit, who was on-
hla way to Portland, «topped off for
I a little visit with William Brletmayer
and wife.
Mr. Redding has sold his Interest ;
In the Helnxle ranch to Mr. Sulton.
who la now In Wolf Point, Mont., ¡
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Sold on SIC 00 down and $5.00 Monthly
THE MUSIC AND PHOTO HOUSE
Stanton Rowell, Prop.
Phone 126 J
Grants Pass, Ore.
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