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COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1910
27: No 32
Entered an aecund-class matter May
8, 1905, at the poitoffiee at Coquille,
Oregon, under act of Congress of March
8,1879.
FACTS ABOUT
PORT COMMISSION.
Interesting Information Concerning an
Important Question to be Set
tled by the Voters of the
Coquille Valley.
W. C. CHASE,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Oftto in Ho bios on Building, Upstairs
C. R. BARROW
Attorney and Oonnsellor at Law
Office Elione 335 Main
Residence Phone 340 Main
O o q u il l i C i t y , O re
J. J. STANLEY
LAWYER
Some of the leading citizens within
the territory of the proposed Port of
Coquille River met some time ago and
perfected a preliminary organization
for the purpose of encouraging and ad
vancing the work necessary for its
permanent establishment, and to that
end it is here proposed to set out some
of the advantages which the taxpayers
within the limits of the Port District
will derive therefrom, and also to re
fute some of the claims in relation
thereto which have been made by Mr.
Fred N. Perkins of Bandon, and by a
few others who are opposed to the en
terprise.
For the purpose of the better under
standing of the situation the following
statement is made:
There is an unexpended balance
of an appropriation hereto
fore made by Congress for
the improvement of the
mouth of the Coquille River
to the amount o f ________ $ 22,000
There is a recent appropriation
made by Congress for the
purpose of aiding in making
and maintaining an 8 foot
channel from Bandon to
Myrtle Point in the amount
50,000
o f. .....................................
The present assessed value of
the real and personal prop
erty within the proposed Port
District is $7,570,000.
A bond issue on this assessed
valuation of one per cent
would amount to ..............
75,700
A 2 mill general tax on the
said assessed valuation of
$7,570,000 would amount to 15,140
T o ta l...................................... $162,840
Independent of the Govern
; Martin Building
•
F ront Stree
ment
appropriation the
O o q u i i . l i , O regon
amount to be raised by bond
issue and general tax would
be ...........
90,840
Of this amount the bond issue
would be___________
75,700
A. J. Sherwood,
General tax ______________
15,140
A t t o b n b t - i t - L à w ,
Total.____ _______
$90,840
The bond issue of $75,700
N o t a b t PUBLIC,
would require bonds on each
Coquille,
:
:
Oregon
$1,000 of assessed valuation
equivalent to $10.
If one-twentieth of these
bonds is paid at the end of
each year for twenty years,
Walter Sinclair,
the annual tax on each $1,-
ATTOBNKT-AT-L a W.
000 of assessed valuation, to
pay the principal and in
N otabt P u b l ic ,
terest would be as follows:
Coquille,
:
:
Oregon.
Principal of $10 of bonds__
.50
Interest 6 per cent for first
year___________________
.60
Two mill tax on $1,000 ______
2.00
Hall & Hall,
Total annual tax on $1,000 of
assessed valuation___ ____
3.10
A t t o b h k t s - at L a w ,
The amount of interest would of course
D e ale t in R kal E s t a t i o f a ll kind«.
be decreased each year.
Marshfield, Oregon.
It is estimated by those who are
competent to judge, that this fund of
$162,840, will be ample to place and
E. G. D. Holden
maintain the river in condition so that
any vessel that can cross the bar at its
L awtbb ,
mouth can ascend the river as for as
J u st i c h or t h k P each
C. S. Commissioner, General Insnranoe Coquille, and to make and maintain an
eight foot channel from Coquille to
Agent, and Notary Poblio. Offloe
Myrtle Point.
in Robinson Bnilding.
We thus find that an annual tax of
Coquille Oregon.
three dollars and ten cents on each one
thousand dollars of assessed valuation
of property within the proposed Port
D. S. JACKSON
W. H. JACKSON District will pay for an improvement
that all must see will be of great value
to every taxpayer therein, not only as
C ity R e sta u ran t a means of transportation, but also as
a sure means of largely increasing the
value of all real estate so taxed.
JACKSON BROS., Props. Take two 160 acre tracts of land each
equal to the other in productiveness,
improvement and all other particulars,
COQUILLE, OREGON
except that one of them is situate ten
Successors to McCann and Halley miles distant from Myrtle Point and
from navigable wateE and the other is
situate ten miles distant from the city
First Class Meals at all of Portland and from navigable water;
which is the more valuable? That near
Hours at Bottom Prices.
Portland, of course. What makes it so?
The fact that one is near a large city
M. E. WHITMORE. E. F. MOKRIS8Y while the other is not. What has made
Coos Bay Paving and Con Portland a large city? The fact that it
is located on a river that could be and
struction Company.
was, by improvement, made navigable
for ocean-going craft, which fact alone
general contractors
gave to it such large growth that it
Plans anti Estimates Given soon became a large railroad center
Concrete Bricks 8tone a n d Timlier and a large city neither of which con
Contractor.
ditions would ever have existed but for
the Columbia River and its improve
Phone 151-J
Offices 117 Front Street, Marshfield Ore. ment by taxation.
It is not here contended that Myrtle
Point, Coquille or Bandon will ever be
come a Portland because of the estab
lishment of the proposed Port; but it is
contended that its establishment and
Incorporated.
the consequent improvement of the
Manufacturers of
river will, to a large extent, increase
The Celebrated Bergmann Shoe the population of these towns and the
The Strongest and Nearest Water manufacturing industries within its
Proof shoo made for loggers, miners limits, and as a natural consequence in
crease the demand for and price of all
prospectors and mill tnen.
farm products as well as increase the
621 T hurm an Street
value of all real estate in the Port dis
P o r t l a n d , O r eg o n .
trict to an extent that would make an
annual tax of $3.10 on every $1,000 of
A H e a l in g s s l i r lo r lln r n s . t h a |»
assessed value a good investment, in
p e ll H a n ' t * i i m l S t o r e > I p p t r a
addition to the personal advantage to
As a healing salve for burns, sores, the taxpayer on account of the in
■ore nipples and chapped bands, creased and cheaper facilities for trans
Chamberlain’s Salve is most excel- | portation.
le n t
It allays the pain of a burn
almoil instantly, aud unless the in Mr. Fred N. Perkins, through the
jury is very severe, heals the parts I press and his street talk has had much
without leaving a scar
Price, 35 < to sty about what ha claims is an un
aeiite. For «lie by R. 8- Knowlton due power vested In the Port Commio-
sioners, and the probability that they
will abuse that power. In his article AN EARLY
published in the Coquille Valley Senti
MORNING BLAZE.
nel of April first, he says:
‘‘This law gives greater powers of
bonding and tax levying to five men
than are passed (possessed) by any Fire Boys Respond Promptly to Fire
body of men in the State, except when
Alarm— Attorney Hammond the
they are trying this scheme under this
same law, for the Portland Commis
Heaviest Loser
sioners cannot levy over one-fortieth of
a ten mill tax.”
The statements contained in the
Ou Wednesday morning of last
above quotation are baaed either upon week, a little past seven o’clock,
ignorance or willful misrepresentation.
fire was discovered by Mrs. A. 8.
The common council of any incorpo Hammond in the law office of her
rated city or town in this State can is
sue bonds for the improvement of its husband over the banking rooms of
streets or for building sewers, in an the First National Bank, the first j
amount limited only by the cost of the
improvement or the sewer, or both; and fire that caused a considerable dam- |
the extent and cost of the imprbve- age in our city for several years, the j
ment or sewer is limited only by the
good judgment of the common council last being the dry lumber shed in
as to the extent and cost of improve the mill yard.
ment and sewage.
Laws of 1905, p. 87. B. & C. Comp,
The damage on this occasion was
sec. 2730.
This is but one instance showing tha mostly confined to the law library, \
the Port law does not give "greater and furnishings of the office of At
power of bonding to five men than is torney A. 8. Hammond, on which
possessed by any body of men in the there was no insurance, and lo
State.”
the building, the latter of which
“ For the purpose of raising reve belongs to U. E. Shine, of Empire.
nues for county purposes the county
The fire was first noticed by Mrs.
court or board of county commissioners
for each county in the State, shall at Hammond, who was in the living
its January term in each year, levy a
tax upon all taxable property in its room in the rear of the building,
county, which tax shall be sufficient in aud at the time Mr. Hammond was
amount to defray the expenses of the
in the bathroom.
Upon discover
county. ”
B. & C. Comp. sec. 3085.
ing the flames Mrs. Hammond ran
This is an instance showing where a to the bathroom and notified her
body of three men have greater power
of “ tax levying” than is given to Port husband and they began drawing
Commissioners, for the latter are lim water at the bathtub with the hopes
ited as to amount, while the former of checking their progress, but soon
are not,—except that the tax shall not discovered that this was hopeless
exceed an amount necessary “ to defray ancL.it was with difficulty that they
the expenses of the county.” But the
power of the county court goes much escaped from the room. The hallway
deeper than this in “tax levying,”— being full of flames, both received
for it has, to a very large extent, the badly scorched hair and faces as
power to control the extent of the they descended the stairs.
expenses of the county for the payment
About this time H enry Lorenz
of which it must levy the tax. And in
this connection it is well to state, that was passing the front of the build
in every municipality, from the small ing and noticed the fire which was
est incorporated town to the United just ready to burst through the
States, the entire power to manage windows, and hearing Mrs. H am
and control it must, of necessity, final
ly be placed in some one man or some mond’s cries ot fire at the same
body of men. The whole theory of time, hurried to the fire bell and
gave the alarm.
The Coquille
our Government is based upon this.
volunteer fire boys responded in an
Mr. Perkins further says;—
“Those in favor of this scheme tell exceedingly short time, cart No. i
us the Commissioners will not go as far being a few seconds ahead, having
as the law will permit in bonding and
a shorter distance to travel.
In a
tax levying.”
“ How do we know they will not go very short time after the first streams
as far as the law will permit?”
“Their mere protestation to that ef of water broke through the windows
fect does not amount to much.”
there was little fire seen
Mr. Perkins asserts his right to
As is usual upon such occasions,
question all motives except his own,
there
was a laughable occurence or
and further, seems to assert that he
holds within himself a monoply of hon two. As soon as the flames were
checked, ladders were placed to the
esty.
It is known to all reasoning, honest windows on either side of the build
men that the Port Commission will not ing and as a fireman from each
go as far as the law will .permit as to
the amount of bonds and taxes; for the gang entered with a nozzle, the
reason that there will be no necessity smoke being so dense they could
for so doing, nor for going beyond the not see across the room, Attorney
amounts hereinbefore stated, and for Chase who, handled one, received
the further reason that all reasoning, the full force of the other which was
honest men know that the Governor of
in the hands of W. H Lyons, and
this State will not appoint five, or even
came
near taking him back out
one thief or knave to such Commission;
and for the still further reason that through the window.
every reasoning, honest man knows
The cause of the fire is somewhat
that the vast majority of electors with
Mr. Hammond a
in the proposed district are honest, of a question.
short
time
before
had stepped into
capable men, and that in their good
judgment and to protect their own in the front part and started a fire in
terests, they would see to it that none the stove, and this building having
put capable, honest men are ever been recently moved, the paper ou
elected to such Commission.
the wall and ceiliug was in a bad
Mr. Perkins says;—“The coming
assessment will show about $8,000,000. condition, and it is possible that the
valuation in Coquille watershed; ten per stovepipe ignited it, or a spark
cent means a bonded debt of $800,000;
This amount ought to give five per might have popped through the
cent, which means a five mill tax on draft in the stove
It i-* evident
the $8,000,000 valuation or $40,000 for
the
fire
started
within
the room.
interest” etc. and adds “The power
is also given to this Commission to
Comparative!) liule damage was j
draw this money out of county treas
uries and deposit it in such bank or done ill the Bank, as the firemen !
banks as they choose. It is no wonder and others who gathered about
some of our hanker-sawmill men are so
mightly in favor of this scheme. A de carried all papers and fixtures out
posit as large as might come from this before much water came down from
bond issue would be quite an item in
the upper part.
the business of any bank or banks.”
Mrs. H amm ond’s set of abstracts
According to the above quoted as
sertions there would be a bond issue was but slightly damaged by water
and taxes to the amount of $840,000, a before it was removed.
Mr. and
statement which has no foundation in
Mrs
Hammond
both
lost
consider
fact, but is erroneous to the extent of
the difference between $90,840 and able clothing and their household
$840,000,— a slight excess of $749,160. goods were somewhat soiled by
But conceding that amount, whatever water.
it may be, would be deposited in the
The loss to Mr. and Mrs. H am
banks, how are the banks to profit
thereby? Take the bond issue of mond is estimated at from $2500 to
$75,700, or whatever amount may be is $3000, and the damage to the build
sued,—what is to become of them? ing $500 or #600.
They are to be sold to whomsoever will
Too much credit cannot De given
make the best offer for them. Where our voluuteer fire company. Their
will the money to buy them come from?
Out of the banks necessarily. True, response was prompt and their
the money may not be withdrawn from work, under Chief Morrison and
the same bank or banks in which the Capt. McDuffee was certainly eL
Commission may deposit it, but it will fective. With our splendid water
come out of the banks, and to just that system a fire will have to get a big
extent reduce the amount on deposit
in the banks, so how are the banks as start if the boys do not handle it
a class, to be benefitted by having with the minimum amount of toss
money deposited in them that has just The lour streams which they
been drawn out of them? But under quickly tu r n 'd into this build
the system of argument employed by ing would have subdued a confla
Mr. Perkins he will contend, no doubt,
that the money will be drawn out of the gration of much greater proportions.
I n appreciation of the very effi-
banks of the money centers which are
remote from us and deposited in the ! cient work of the company they
local banks. If this should happen to ‘ were presented with $30 by the
‘ First National Bank.
(Gentlnned on Fourth Pag«.)
$1.50 P b r Y i a r
W as Given Away Monday. Willis Neeley was
the Lucky Man
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But there is Something Besides Pure Luck in
Buying Property at Cut Rate Prices
in a Growing City
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