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ON THE
Tualatin Tunnel Project
Why This Dangerous Experiment Should Be Killed
At The Special Election Called For Tuesday, October 20,1925
A Few Facts For the Consideration O f Property Owners In The Tualatin Tunnel District
T’ ntil a few tiny* ago Ih m w n v u l<if
" f iih in
lb«* Tualutifi Vglley ami in
P«>rthin«l whp wepe «11 for the Tunnel
pruj«*«'t Under the bill.
We hadn't In;
{.’ «in to use our heads.
Million» in T a x i« fur a dumb tv
grunt fraiiclilM-H to lut«'rurt>uiiN, s t r e e t
«'tirM ami auto I iiikwh but that the law
HI’ Et 'I I'll 'A LL Y nays that the director*
«•an piaater your projierly with a DEBT
OP M lLLIONH and then CHARGE YOU
TOLLS to puss through the tunnel ei-
tlu'r afiMit «ir in your own vehicle?
Tin'll with «lection sch«ilul«-d for Tu««-
«lay, October 20, we iM'gan to dig «round
for FACTS and KIOITUTH.- Wh«t w «•
found shows iih that a few I hid I SPECU
LATORS Miami « chance on milking some
nioni'y on «-I oh »' to l In* tunnel property
NOW UNDER TI1KIR OPTION. T h e
nut -of iin Htand fo pay AN A P P A LL-
INO MILL ami take up a staggering load
of •milliiMiN of dtdlarn in A D D IT IO N A L
TA X E S with Niirh alini hop«« «if coming
out ah«<ti«l a« to ptit the whole thin^ in
to tb«' el«NH of LONG SHOT GAM-
II LINO.
I !«• you want to pay heavy additional
tax«« ami P R IV A T E TOLLS AS W ELL?
The law makes your own pro|M*rty a
FIRST LIEN, t«i «•cure the I miiii I h , and
that bondholders could take it no matter
whether you bad paid your tax«« or not
— in case tli«*re waa a default in eit!i«*r
lamd interest or principal?
From beginning to end we find that
the carefully prejmred propaganda wliieb
I iiin lieeu cijjulated in fav«ir of tliiM dan-
genius experiment is iMimtl ii | miu PURE
GUESSWORK.
Furthermore the fa«'»*
already unearthed show that all tliiM
loud talk about. “ iniinotuie lienefits to
farm owner«, home owner* and huaim«*
pro|MTty owners" I n H ILLY in the 1 i^rtit
of aolier iinnlyNiM nml roiiHitlerntion irf
Practical Facta. I tut the treim'iidoua bill
we will have to pay rear nft«*r year, both
in taxea and individually if tlie SPECU
LATORS can ppt tliia R A ID OVER ia
NO DREAM.
Have you considered the fact that a
tunnel instead of increasing th<* value of
farms will tend to decrease them beeauae
it will ADD TA X E S but not ImTenae
production nor anve any thing on trails
portatlon?
Why waa Fnreat drove, IlillHlxtr«», and.
the entire w«*at<'rn eml and ntoat heavily
populated part of Washington County
l«'ft out of the Tualatin Tunnel diatriet?
l>o you know that the pio|M»sed la w
not indy glvwi the directors the right to
l»o you know that land HPECULA-
T oR S tilrcmly have under O PTION the
land near the Tunnel Entrance uml that
this land is the only property that MAS
A t ’llA N t'E for IsKini price«?
Don't pin your faith to guesswork and
propaganda of Speculators! I f all build
ing was absolutely stopped in Portland
nml ‘ surrounding towns and A L L OF IT
were centereil exclusively «>n the 59,100
mil's in the Tualatin Valley— it would
REQUIRE H A L F A C ENTURY TO
SELL TH E LOTS.
Think it over. Iton't get the idea that
you eniild s«dl your proparty nml the
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other f«dlow eould not. It M IGHT U
your property that wouhln't s«'l|. And
if you diil sell— what would you g«*t ? Th«>
•fuets an' in this statenient. Read Them.
Tinnii t Would Coat 912.tMM),tM»0
Instead of Í3.00U.H00, a tunnel wonhl
eost us not less than ff>,iMNI,<NNi to Guild
and 90,000,000 of interest. On top of
that 912 , 000 ,(NM>—more aiul more taxes
to o|M*rate and nuiiiitain tin* Ism* and the
expensive ventilating and lighting system
which It must have.
For farm ami home owners in the
Tualatin Valley this stii|M*BdouM expendi-
turi' wonhl Is* only the Iwginnlng. What
a lami owner eouhl get out of it; what
he wonhl have to PUT IN ; W H EN he
eouhl get anything out if lie did, is not
hard to figure. A five minutes study of
the map nml twenty seconds of honest
thought is alunit all an ordinary mail
m*«‘ds to see that what is PUT IN will
T A K E A LONG, LONG TIM E to TA K E
OUT ngaip— if ever in our life time. •
Hen1 are just a few of the figures.
Each is based on actual costs averaged
down to make them sure.
I'rn p iriji ('m ill .Yol l ‘iiy Out
Land on the Tualatin Sid«' of the tun
nel is in com|N'titioii for settlem«*nt with
all other lauds, including East Side Port
land, tli«‘ Peninsula district, the Upper
Sandy, Like Oswego, and as soon as the
H<‘I| w '« mm I bridge is finished—all the big
level distrh't this side of Milwankie. A ll
thi**e districts an* improved, clone in,
easily reached over any nnnilier of stn*ets,
with stns*t car s«*i-vlce, and an* serveil by
five bridges. And yet there an* approx-
inintely 50.000 vacant lots in Portion«!
still. Much of it can I h ' bought for tho
same prices it sold for twenty years ago.
Tunnel or no tunnel the Tualatin Val-
l«*y must «•oiu|x,te for home buihh'rs with
these ami other pn»i>erti«« in Hillslioro,
Multnomah. Tiganl, Garden Home, «*tc.,
T A X P A Y E R S C O M M ITTE E O PPO SIN G T H E T U A L A T IN
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and so long as there is so much property
available land will continue to command
only the usual residential or farm use
priees and NO MORE.
The Tualatin Valley ia already
w«dl#
si'ttled. It nsjuires only a few minutes
to travel to «>r from Portland. The main
travel arteries are being steadily ad«le«l
to an«l improved. For less than one-sixth
of the 93,009)000 (which actually means
912 , 000 , 000 ) the valley can be made as
convenient to west si«le Portlaml as Ir
vington or Luirelhurst are now.
Why, therefore, should we go out and
put ourselves under an obligation to pay
M ILLIO NS MOKE IN T A X E S for some
thing that can not benefit us? Why not
h't th«* SPECULATORS who have secured
their O PTIO NS on the ouly property
that could benefit— P A Y T H E IR OWN
MILL?
Residents of both
Multnomah
ami
Washington counties are Itorne down now
by a heavy load of taxes. To increase
this loud will result in a general break-
«iown of property values. The nationwide
tendency is to DECREASE TAXES. The
oult way to reduce them is to STOP
SPENDING. lx*t us get «lowu to FACTS.
Let us hack legitimate and worthwhile
improvements and Put Them Through.
By tb«' same tok«‘n let ns K IL L this ev
erlasting agitation for non-essentials to
the end that we can lighten our tax loud,
and continue to make legitimate and ne
cessary improvements.
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VOTE NO!
We recommend VOTE NO on the Tu
alatin Tunnel project Tuesday. October
20. Let the land speculators who have
options of the g«>od stuff pay the bill.
T U N N E L PROJECT,
W . C. N O R TH , Chairman,
R. M. T U T T E L , Secretary.
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