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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1917)
est esteem and far be it for uie to do matter, I am, answer the following questions : them an injustice, but they have made Distance from Portland to (»resham Yours very truly, 14 miles ; auto passenger fare 2<>c. F. R Beals. fabulous profits out of thy resources of this county and should, and I hope will, Distance from Portlant to Vancouver Yours, etc., F'. L. Touteile, cheerfully put shoulder to the ^wheel 8.5 miles; auto passenger fare 15c. Countv Judge, Jackson Countv. (Continued from first page) and help us by assisting and co-operat There is considerahls freight trans We will now pass from the utility and ing in the only feasible plan to get hard In addition to getting away from a portation by motor truck between these economy of the hard surface road to its surface roads, viz., by bonding the heavy and constantly increasing main points, especially on the Vancouver run, effect upon farm values; in this connec- tenance charge let us see what other 1 »«it oii account of the variable condition county. j tion I will submit the records of Public benefits would he derived. Passenger between merchandise and heavy freights Any reader who shares mv views as fa;e from Tillamook to Cloverdale, now j I cannot give you a per ton rate. How Roads and Rural Engineering of the to the advisability of bonding the county $1.50, would be reduced to not over ”>0 ever, this rate is approximately the same Department of Agriculture made in and desires that the petition referred to cents and probablv to 1!0 cents, with a as that charged by railroad and boat each of the years from 1910 to 1915 in be tiled with the County Court and the clusive; these records show an increase voters have a chance to decide the mat corresponding reduction to intermediate transportation. in value of from (18 to 194 per cent in ter at an election called for that purpose points, Freight rates would likewise Very respectfully, Dinwiddie County, Virginia; 9 to 114 will confer a favor bv kindly dropping drop from the existing rate of $5 per I J. B. Yeon, Road master. percent in Franklin County, Now York : me a card or letter to that effect. Cards ton to $1. The wear and tear on equip By Herbert Nunn, County Highway 50 to 100 per cent in Dallas County, ment would decrease 75 per cent; ae- Kngineer. or letters from those entertaining con Alabama ; 25 to 50 per cent in Lauder o rding to reliable authorities the same j trary views will be as kindly received. dale County, Mississippi, and from 50 horse power now employed by team or | Tacoma, Wash., Oct. !*, 191ft. Respectfully, to F00 per cent in Manatee County, auto would transport six times the load F. K. Beals, Tillamook, Oregon : F. R. Beals. in one-half the time and do it with j Hear Sir— In replv to yours of the 7th Florida. It will be noted that the aver age increase in farm values in these four The Last Chance. more ease. inst. : We have paved roads connecting states as a result of hard surfacing was Recently we published in these col the county seat with towns from ten to 95 per cent. The estimates of increase umns an offer of The Youth s Compan could be worked whereby teams and , twenty miles away The bus fare for equipment now employed in the trails- twenty miles is sixty cents round trip. were baaed for the most part on the ion and McCall’s Magazine, both for a port at ion of milk at an estimated ex- I There is some freight transportation but territory within a distance of one mile full year, for only $2.10. ihcluding a McCall Dress Pattern. The high price pense of $100,000 to the distiict in ques I am not advised of the prices per ton. on each side of the roads improved. The above figure? were secured by of paper and ink has obliged McCall’s tion could he superseded by community Yours truly, federal experts of the office of Public Magazine to raise their subscription or co-operativelv owned and operated David II. White. auto trucks at a saving of $M0,000 par County Kngineer, Pierre Co., Wash. Hoads and Rural Engineering of the De price February 1 to 10 cents a copy and partment of Agriculture and can be had 75 cents a year—so that the offer at the annum to the district. These trucks, direct from the government by any per above price must he withdraw^. Chelinlis, Wash., Oct. 10. 1910. when not engaged in the transportation son desiring the data. Until March .‘11 our readers have the of dairy products, could be employed in j F. R. Heals, Tillamook, Oregon: Now some one will say that is all very privilege of ordering both publications transporting merchandise from the var- | Hear Sir— In answer to your letter of i >ns I railing point direct to tlie farmer’ s ; Oct. 7, 101ft. it is hard to express the tine for the fellow owning a farm abut for a full year, including the choice of residence, granarv or barn, a better scr ; effect of hard surface roads on passenger ting or lying close to tin* hard surface any 15-cent McCall Dress Pattern, for vice than any' steam or electric railway and freight traffic. The electric line be road but how about the Blaine, Sandlake only $2.10. The amount i»f reading, information service, equal to any citv delivery ser tween Cliehalis and Ceniralia reduced and Pacific City communities? As to vice, and at a less cost than any railroad the fare from 15 to 10cents and installed this will say that every mile added to and entertainment contained in the would or could bundle it. Hearing oil I the pay-as-yon-enter system to elimi the hard surface road south of this city, fifty-two issues of The Youth’s Com this subject and to show the alarm that nate one conductor, and still have a with Tillamook the county seat, term panion and the value of twelve monthly is felt by the railroads as to hard sur hard time to make their line pay since inal of the railroad and head of ocean fashion numbers of McCall’s at $2.10 face road competition will quote from the road has been hard surfaced be navigation, the point with which these offer a real bargain to every reader of a recent editorial appearing in the I tween the two towns. There are a communities must have communication, this paper. This two-at-one price offer includes; Journal: large number of stages both passenger has a very marked and beneficial effect 1. The Youth's Companion, 52 issues. President Samuel M Felton, of t h e 1 ami freight running out of Chelialis and upon their interests and when the pro-I 2. The Companion Home Calendar Chicago ( ircat Western, before a recent keep increasing. The distance between ject as outlined is completed thev will meeting of the Nebraska Hankers’ Asso Cliehalis ami Centralia is about four be on the same footing in many respects for 1917. ft. McCall’ s Magazine, 12 fashion ciation revealed some of the railroad miles and the fare by auto, train and as the owner of property abutting the improvement. In addition to these ad-! numbers. fears lie opened the address with this electric line is 10c. n o ! 4. One 15-cent McCall Dress Pattern, sweeping statement “ Anyone with Hoping that this is the information vantages money from taxation, longer required for maintaining main vour choice from your first copy of Mc the price of a Henry Ford and a few desired. roads, can he used for improvement of Call’s, if you send a two-oent stamp Yours very trulv, gallons ot gasoline can enter the lists j with your selection. with the moat costly 12 Puilniati train .1 IF Neville, County Kngineer. their roads. What will apply to the communities in the land.” The Youth’ s Companion, St. Paul Knowing the road between Ashland south of Tillamook will largely apply to j street, Boston, Mass. I le pointed out the patent fact that the motor car pro\ ided a better «it lair ban ami Medford to be hard surfaced I the communities north and east of Til- i service than the steam muds can main wrote the foPovving letter to the Countv lamook, will therefore pass these inter- 1 Kstrayed from my premises at Meda about Dec. 15. two Jersey heifers tain. Court of Jackson County. The answers ests w ithout further comment. Fnfortunately the interests that will ! marked with split in right ear and There seems to be no limit, Mr Felton were inserted by the County Judge ami derive the least benefits are the timber upper hit in left. Finder please notify thinks, to tlo> touring range of the the letter returned ; Tillamook, Oregon, Oct. 7, 1910. , interests. The timber is said to consti- ! 1). J. Dunn. motor car. Fast summer more th an 1 SHALL WE BOND FOR HARD SURFACE ROADS? J lift\ tliousand visiting cars were regis tered in the state of Massachusetts No one can tell to what extent they cut down the revenues of New Fnglatid rail roads. Hut loss of passenger tra flic is not all. Itegular freight service by trucks lias been established wherever good roads are available. Hie average radius e x ceeds thirty miles atei everv mile of new road increases the radius. It is not pleasant for the railroads to reflect on t hesc facts. 'Ir . I ditor, I couhl fili Tour papn vvith argiiiiiciits hot sudice it t>> s.iv t lt.it contiti'- liti- vvith hard aurface roads would l>e revolutionii’.ed at a trillili.; cosi to t In* farm er. I will now quote from lettera in tu swer to tlu>“c I bave vvnttcn whicli I tlunk Itear out mv > 'Utenti >ns m to thè etici t of bar I surfacd road- oii traili«*. Poitland. Ore , Ovt IHth. l'.Mt». V r. F. I»’ I tea Is. Tillamook. t >re IVar Sir In r»>piv t.' your le tte ot «M ohcr 7t II. 1910, t the I rd J County t ommisfi.'iicrs which b.\s !>»• . n referred to the r«>»d d< oartmcnt. will To the Honorable County Court of Jack- son County, Oregon; Cciitlemen— 1 am seeking information in regard to the effect of hard surface roads on passenger and freight traffic in your county, ami will ask that you kindlv answer the following questions What i* the distant-* from Ashland to Medford? Answer— 12 miles What is the pa-s, ng. r fare from A-h land to Medford Answer— 40 cents bv rail; 25 cents bv auto. Is there much frc;.- I transportation between these points bv motor truck Answer— Yes What is the pi ic> p> i t >n? Answer fl.fsl bv tr uck Kailro ids ' barges #F"»0 be-i l s drayage at both ends 1 Would also like t" r advised as t, what ty|*c of p iv. no i t vo«i have laid in v >ur count* . (I <■ is in cr of years it ha- been laid and the satisfaction it has giv en. Answer—Concrete .»i I asphalt with concrete base, two years; first class fli.inking * n f«>r your trouble in this lute <•> per cent of the nssessed valuation of the county. It came into existence as a taxableasset of the countv less than twenty years ago. If we are to relv upon present indications its removal will begin on a big scale in the near futur«'. With the removal of everv l ,000 feet of timber the burden of taxa tion shifts from the timber to the farm, theonly other big resource of our county. This shifting process will continue until the farmer bears nearly the full Ilk) per cent ot the tax burden as he did prior to twentv veai? ago. Is it not time, itien, that we were waking up when w«> couie to consider that w e are but a little shoe string country surrounded bv a vast forest, tlu- removal of which will leave us with our harbor? and Imndre •? of miles of expensive roads to maintain. Now.the-e statements are not made to incite the farmer against the timber- uian. but to ¡House him to a realization of the fact that our timber is a transi tory asset and should wt, le It exi-ts I k * made i.» Ixar it- just proportion of the development of the country. It? owners and their representative«, for the im -t part, are men whom 1 hold in the high those who wish to get a b etter K O - DAK this season, we have m ade arrange m ents w h e re b y we can take in a few good old style machines in trade on new ones. I CfeamtLj anb it (K e p a t n n < j. ! 8 f ♦ ! j C • ♦ ♦ I. C L O U G H , R E L IA B L E DRUGGISTS i'iliamook - Oregon.