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Continuing tlio Sprlngfloltl nnd Ljino County Star, Which Woro Conoolldated Fobruary 10, 1914
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SPRINGFIELD, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1915.
VOL. XIV. NO.
COUNTY
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JL JL JUL-
BIDS
ASKED
FO
rEMENT OF
6 ST., 8TH 10 10TH
Council Mak Condition that Bid
dor Mnko Offor for Bancroft
Bonds Mattor of Improving
Flro Dopartmont Dlocuasod.
The town council at Its regu
lar mooting Monday ovunlng
ptiHKCMl an ordlnanco providing
for tho grading and macadamiz
ing of CI vHlroot from Eighth
Hlrool to tho wont lino of tho
Brattaln ostnto, a distance of
two blocks. Bids aro to bo op
ened Monday, Juno 28. Tho
council In asking for bids for tho
work, makes provlHlon that the
HiicccHHfnl bidder shall bo pre
pared to bid at leant par and ac
crued Intercut on any Bancroft
bonds which the city may wish
to sell by reason of tho improve
ment. ThiB Is a provlHlon simi
lar to one uaed on 'tho hard-Biir-facc
paving contractu, and Ib In
tended to protect tho city
against having to carry the
hondH. The Hinall amount like
ly to be lHBued In an Improve
ment of this size would not In
terest large eastern bond hoiiB
es, but would be in small enough
denomination to bo attractive
for local Investors.
Another matter of Importance
was brought before the council
by II. 13. Itlco, chief of the lire
department, who stated that
since the council had reduced
wthe fee to be allowed, firemen for
service at 11 res, interest had been
Inching in the department, and
M, itttoniliiiiGo hns dronned off.
IfROI
Ile asked that tho council rc-!turer CJl entcr the corporation
storo the fee to the former flg-bv agreeing to turn over exclu
uro $2.noor work out somci1 t0 tho corporation his en-
other plan that would Increase
Interest in tho firo company.
Tho matter was discussed for
a time, and then tho firo and
water committee was directed to
study tho matter and report at
tho council meeting of Juno 28.
Councilman Fcnwlck made an
Interesting report of his Inves
tigations of pavements In the
eastern cities while on his trip
a month or more ago. Ho took
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and found that In all tho
c cs the wood blocks are used
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Routine reports or the treas
urer and recorder wore read and
placed on file.
Chairman Fischer of tho firo
and water commltteo reported
thnt ho had refused to Ibsuo a
permit to Swarts & Washbumo
to construct a wooden smoke
houso in the rear of their mar
ket. City Attorney Bower reported
that tho town had won its suit
in tho Klovdahl assessment mat
tor. Hp reported alBO that tho
county surveyor had established
the southeast comer of tho J, E.
Ebbert Jr. D. L. C in East Main
street, nnd tho city engineer was
instructed to procure a certified
copy of tho location notices from
tho county surveyor and mako
a plat of tho same in tho record
books of tho city.
C. E. Lyon was given a pormlt,
so far as tho city has Jurisdic
tion, to orcct a platform scales
on tho cast side of Second
street just south of Main.
f!miiH'llman Coffin brought up
tho mattor of tho. alloy between i'rom II. V. Hammitt. Mr. Per-'-A
and B streets' from Ninth to kins traded, hid fine, nuto in on
It appears that an alloy hah not
boon dedicated In this place. The
city attorney. vn directed , to
Investigate this, and also Die
matter of an alley in the block
next lo the north.
Councilman Ftechor brought
up the matter of a drinking
fountain, which, under its con
tract, tho Oregon Power com
pany is supposed to furnish tho
city. Tho subject was referred
to tho fire and water committee
with power to act.
TO SPEND SUMMER AT
U. OF C. SUMMER SCHOOL (given Saturday evening, June 19
'by Springfield business men for
Mrs. Luclna Richardson will thc mrmcrB ot the territory tri
leavo today for Borkclcy, Call- utary to Springfield, and the
fornlu, where she will take work committeemen believe the at
In the University of California ; tendance will be close to the
summer school. Mrs. Richard- j lurser number,
son, who Is a graduate of San In nddtion to the talk on hog
Jose high school and the stato ralsmg i)y j,, Dhnlck of Ore-
normai ai mat piace, win iuvob-
tlgatc school gardens at that
placo and at other points along
tho coast. She will take In thc
exposition and will be absent six
weeks or two months.
Seattle, Juno 14. Lumber
manufacturers of thq Pacific
Northwest, it was announced
today, are organizing a co-operative
corporation to control
the export lumber business of
thc Pacific coast. The corpor
ation, known as thc Douglas
Fir Exploration and Export
company, has ben Incorporated
in this state with a capital, of
$HOO,000. Ownership of stock
will bo confined to lumber mail-
nfneturers and any manufac-
itho export trade,
The corporation, according
to tho by-laws, will engage only
in foreign trade, doing no busi
ness In tho United States or Us
possessions. Organizers of the
movement have already submit
ted their plan to tho Federal
Trade commission nnd are also
understood to have explained
their plan to President Wilson.
Thirty of tho largest lumber
manufacturers In tho northewst
IllUllUtilVVUt VIM Alt 1.4 UVtVMVMV
Ihavo already Joined the corpora-
tlon and 12 more aro expected
t tll0 artlcles 0f agreement
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'at a meeting to bo held in Port-
land Juno 25.
General sales offices will bo
maintained In San Francisco
and Portland. Tho headquarters
of, tho company will bo In Seat
tle.. WILL PUT SPRINGFIELD
POTATOES ON DISPLAY
E. E. Morrison received word
this week from II. W. Whltacre
that ho had been commissioned
by tho Panama-Pacific Interna
tional exposition commissioner
to secure an exhibit of potatoes
from tho crops around Spring
fiold at aB early a date as possi
ble. The display will bo under
tho head of tho Wesco Seed Co.,
of which Mr. Morrison Ib a mom-.
ber, and tho namo of tho
grower and his location will bo
given with each man's oxhlblt.
These potatoes will bo from tho
seed sold tho farmers this Bprlng.
Acquires Timber Tract.
A deal was mado late last
week whereby A. J. Perkins ac-
nuires an SO-acro timber tract
by
LUMBERMEN
JON
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EXPORT TRADE
E TO
200 ill
ER
Talk by Stato Dralnago Engln
.oor Addod to Program at tho
Banquot In Honor of Farmors
of Springfiold Neighborhood.
Between IfiO and 200 tickets
have been sold for the banquet
and farm lecture which Is to bo
uon c,tv. Mloro win i,c talk bv
some assistant from the state
engineer's office on the subject
of drainage of the valley lands.
The committee has been
meeting with much encourage
ment, and the affair promises to
be one of the most successful In
tho history of Springfield.
MAKE FINE CHEESE ON
CAMP CREEK FARM
First samples of cheese from
Dr. Joseph Schafer's farm on
Camp Creek were brought to
Slkes' storo last week. The,
sample showB a particularly
mild cheese of fine texture. The
cheese 13 made by Simon Zwald,
a Swiss cheese maker of long ex
perience. The factory has been
running for several weeks, but
its output has not been season
ed enough yet to be put on lh6
market.
THURSTON PLANS
TO OBSERVE THIRD
Citizens of Thurston held an
enthusiastic meeting last even
ing and determined to hold a big
Fourth of July celebration on
Saturday, July 3. W. T. Culver
was chosen as marshal of the
day and C. W. Hansen as aide.
Thc program committee was in
structed to secure the services
of Victor Morris to deliver the
oration. Tuesday, Juno 29, w;'.3
designated as clean-up day, for
the preparation of Baugh grove,
where tho celebration is to bo
held.
Following aro the com-
mittees:
Program C. R. Hastings, F.
E. Taylor, Mrs. Olive Taylor,
Lizzie Ruth; LIzzIo Harblt, Mrs.
Walter Edmiston.
Finance and concessions--C.
W. Yarnell, Ira Gray, and Ross
Mathews.
Sports C. W. Yarnell, J. M.
Burnett, Ray Baugh and O. F.
Thatcher.
Tho Cottage Grove Sentinel
will appear on Tuesdays hereaf
ter and tho Leader on Friday.
Both will have their typo set on
the Sentinel's machine.
HOP
Dll
Beaver-Hemdon Hardware Company
ELECTRIFY 40 MILES
IRE OF P., E. a E.
Red Cars to Run into Cor,yallis
Only Short Section Romains
j to Bo Wired Extend Llne3
'..Across Eastern Orogon.
Portland, Juno 15. Two sep-
irato railroads today announced
now development projects to be
fetartori at once, that will moan
expenditure of several mil
lions of dollars.
The Oregon-Washington Rail
way and Navigation company
will build a 30-mile extension to
its line recently completed from
Vale to Riverside, Ore. The
extension from Riverside will be
westward to Crane Creek gap.
The Southern Pacific has an
nounced that it would electrify
Its line btween Whlteson and
Corvallis, a distance of 43
tulles, as an extension of the
existing electric unit between
Portland and Whlteson, which
until July first is known as the
Portland, Eugene and Eastern
railway.
The work of the Oregon-
Washington Railway and Navi
gation company will cost $1,-
500,0.00 or more. Both projects
although under separate direc
tion, the roads having been di
vorced, will begin at once.
NEW TRAIN GOES ON RUN
fThe "Exposition Special," the
'new Southern Pacific train, went
on the run Tuesday, and the
first of the trains, No. 53, south
bound, went through Springfield
Junction at 5:11, meeting No. 14
northbound at that place. No.
94, from Wendling, is scheduled
to reach Eugene just before No.
53 pulls out, thus giving con
nections from the Mohawk val
ley with both north and south
bound trains on the main line.
Private car A 24 of some of
ficials of the Great Northern
railroad was attached to No. 53
on its first trip.
RAILROAD MAN SEES
INDICATIONS OF QUICK
RETURN TO PROSPERITY
Portland, June 16. "There is
reason to hope that business
conditions will improve soon,"
said W. R. Scott, vice-president
and general manger of the Sou
thern Pacific system, who is hi
Portland on one of his periodi-
cal trips looking over the com
pany's lines in Oregon. "Crop
prospects are fine and with the
gathering of thc great harvest,
times ought to become prosper
ous again. When the railroads
tho prospering, all lines of busi
ness and Industry thrive., The
products of the farm, mine, for
est and mills are in greater de
mand when the railroads are ac
tive. When there is an assur
ance of returns on the Invest
ment it wil be easy to obtain
funds for further extensions and
improvements of tho railroads.
Our Hardware
Is tho finishing touch to in
terior decorations. Our fix
tures aro an essential to
every well-built houso or
building. That doesn't mean
our hardware costs moro,
though you will admit in
tho long run that it is worth
more than wo charge for it.
tJjider jexlsllng circumstances
It Is impossible to raise money
to carry out developments plan
ned by transportation lines."
Eugene, Juno 1G. W. R.
Scott, general manager of the
Southern Pacific system, pass
ed through hero this aftdrnoon
but had nothing to give out in
regard to further electrification
of the P. E. & E., between Cor
vallis and Eugeno, nor In regard
to the extension of the line from
Vale westward across central
Oregon to a junction with the
Natron-Klamath Falls cut-off.
GIVE LARGEST FLAG
TO CITY OF ST. LOUIS
St. Louis, June 14. What is
described as the largest United
States flag was presented to the
City of St. Louis today during
the Flag Day celebration here.
The emblem is 150 feet vy 78
feet and weight 400 pounds. It
was given to the city by the Mil
lion Population club. In a re
cent parde 150 men and GO boy
scouts were required to carry it.
SCHOOL TERRITORY
IS RE-APPORTIONED
A. I. O'Reilly, supervisor of
the schools of the eastern part
of Lane county for the past
several years will take on the
greater part of southern Lane
beginning with the new school
year. This was determined at
a conference of County Super
intendent E. J. Moore, Mr. O'
Reilly, and Miss Jennie Bossen,
who will this year constitute the
superintendent's force. Re-apportionment
of the territory was
made yesterday following the
change which drops two of the
supervisors and leaves two to do
the work of four. Miss Bossen
will have all the western ena of
the county, as before, together;
with Mr. Aylesworth's district
in the northern part of the
county, and the portion of Mr.
Stahhnan's in the Lorane neigh
borhood. Superintendent Moore
takes his old territory in the
center of the county, a portion
of Mr. Aylesworth's in the Long
Tom country and that along the
Benton and Linn county lines.
Cutting down of the number
of supervisors saves the county
about $3000 a year.
CAMP CREEK PERSONALS
Super. J. K. Platts is doing
some work on the roads.
Mrs. Mabel Chase and Char
lie Belshaw spent the week end
with friends and relatives here
Lee Fountain and Chas. Dead
mond of Walterville are working
for Mr. Fisher.
J. K. Piatt received word tills
week that his mother, who lives
in California, is very ill and not
expected to live.
Mises Inza and Ruby Crab
tree and Fred Crabtree and
Bert Libbey attended the ball
game at Goshen Sunday.
Myron Craig made a business
trip to Eugene Saturday.
S. E, Libbey has returned from
Elmira whero ho has been mov
ing a house. C
Mr. and Mrs. L. Stephens
went to Donna Monday to visit
relatives.
WILLAMETTE VALLEY WINS
MANY AWARDS AT FAIR
Salom, Ore., Juno 14. In ad
dition to winning a grand prize
for forage crops, and a medal of
honor for products of tho soil,
tho Willamette valley exhibit at
tho San Francisco fair has been
awarded 18 gold medals, 52 sil
ver medals and received ight
honorable mentions according
to Fred S. Bynon, secretary of
tho Villani0tte Valy, Exxposi
,tion association. . f, . .r,
GRAVEL HAULING
COAST R
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Willamette-Pacific Rails Laid as
Far as Acme Bridge Opora-
. .lions of Several Months Cease
Only for Placing of Bridge.
A huge steam shovel was tak
en to the Springfield gravel pits
Monday afternoon and yester
day the first string of 24 gravel
cars was brought from the W.
P. yards and placed on the grav
el siding east of town In readi
ness for the resumption of grav
el hauling next Monday.
Gravel from the Springfield
pits "is to be used In ballasting
the new Willamette-Pacific line
from Mapleton to Acme and tnen
after the bridge has been, erected
across the Siuslaw river, more
gravel will be hauled from here
for the line down the coast as
far as Gardiner.
In addition to the cars which
were brought to Springfield yes
terday, others are being put in.
repair, as it is desired to have
two or three trains of 25 cars
each in operation constantly.
Still other cars how in use here
are to be sent to Marion for use
in hauling the crushed rock bal
last being placed on the main
line.
When hauling from the pits
here begin nearly a hundred men
will be employed. There will be
three train crews and four en
gine crews to handle the gravel,
one at the pit, one traln.crew-and .
two engine crews to do the haul
ing and one train crew on the
dumping train.
The pit crew will take the
loaded cars from the pits to
the Springfield yards where a
double-header swing train will
be made up. This train will run
to Nekoma, a point a few miles
above Mapleton, and the unload
ing crew will have charge of the
material from that point. It is
expected with' this arrangement
two trips a day can be made by
the ballast train.
W. R. Fountain, assistant en
gineer, states that it is expected
it will require a month's time to
complete the work of ballasting
the track between Mapleton and
the bridge. Trains will be oper
ated to the latter point after the
ballasting is completed.
The laying of the rails be
tween Mapleton and Acme was
completed yesterday, after ten
days of rapid work. Excavations
for the pivot pier of the bridge
have been completed, the sheet
piling has been put in and the."
masonry work will start very
soon, uravei irom uie pus nere
will be used in the concrete for
the foundations.
Crews are being organized for
the laying of steel from Coos bay
northward, and this work will be
started within the next ten days.
School Board Adjourns.
There was no meeting of the
school board last evening as had
been scheduled, and adjourn
ment was made until Friday Eve
ning of this week. At that time
the report of the auditor or tue
clerk's books will be received by
tho lionrd. and ono or two va
cancies on the teaching staff will
bo filled. . -
Marconi Becomes Lieutenant
Florence, Italy, June 17.;
William aMrconi has asked
thnt hfi ho enrolled as a liouteiir.
ant of engineers and assigned.
to UUty Wltn ue ; lenjBniim un
gaao here. ,
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