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Continuing tli Sprlngflold Nowo and Lano County StarV Which Woro Consolidated. Fobruary 10, 1914.
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LANE
NEWS
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REAL ESTATE IS
MOVING-TRADES
Ai SALES IDE
Evan Mnstorson of Springfield
Inst week purchased tho .1. C.
Trottor ranch of 27 acres on tho
McKonzlo near Waltorvllle, mav
lng tho deal through Goro &
Uowo. Tho snino linn reports
also trading Mrs. Conrad'n prop
erty on Fifth street for an 80
ucro ranch near Yoncalia. Tho
stock Is Included with tho ranch,
and Mrs. Conrad will go at onco
to take charge They have a
third deal practically comploted,
hut tho papers have not passed.
Kugono realty firms report
felling to Mrs. Octavla Wheeler
of Springfield an aero of ground
In tho suhurhs of Kugono for an
Investment.
A. L. Churchill, formerly in
husiucss In Springfield, has trad
ed his 302-acro ranch on Camp
Creek for a '12-acre farm near
Santa Cruz, California. Tho
considerations are given at $10,
000.. Tho Oeorgo 13lrtwlstlo farm of
100 acres near Mabel has been
traded to Hurt Hupp of Robc-t
bzorry, Idaho, at $7000.
Jesse liaston of Waltervlllo
has traded his farm, tho Stor
mcnt place, to Mrs'. Mabel ID.
Taylor of Eugene.
' CAMP CREEK PERSONALS
(Special to (ho Lnno County Nowm)
Camp Creek, Oro. Lawronco
Cossler who has been working
at Thurston Is homo now.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Sears visit
ed with friends on Camp Creek
this week.
Mrs. A. M. Brown and Miss
Mabel DurycoVero Waltervlllo
visitors Thursday.
Will Ruth of Thurston is hero
visiting at Edd Nyes.
Supervisor J. K. Platts has
been working' tho roads this
week.
Miss Lizzie Kennedy Is hero
visiting witll her sister Mrs. L.
Stephens.
Mr. ' and Mrs.sFrcd Brown
spent Sunday With Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Jack. '
Mr. David and Guyv Stephens
were Eugene visitors Thursday.
Dale Chase and Miss Mamlo
Polllo were visitors at Mrs. J. J.
Chase homo this wcqk.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jack and
family spent Sunday with Mrs. J.
Commins.
Charllo Miller visited with
friends at Thurston Sunday.
A crowd of young folks from
here nttended church at Walter
vlllo Sunday evening.
S, v COMPANY SELLS
SAWMILLS ON MOHAWK
W. J. Zimmorman Purchasor of
Three Big Plants
Tho three sawmills owned by
tho Southern Pacific company In
the tlmllor bordering the Mo
hawk valloy near MarcOla, havo
been -purchased by W. J. Zim
merman, of tho Zlmmernuui-Wells-Urown
company, of. Port
land. Mr. Zimmerman has also
purchased all tho logging ma
chnery and docks at tho three
mills.
Thcso mills woro -erected
about eight years ago when 11.
Koehlor was purchasing agont
of tho railroad company. Tho
purpose of tho plants was to
saw all the lumper needed by
the company On' lis lln.cs'.lh Ore
gon. Tho Umber waVjakon
from tho company's lands bor
dering thy MoiuvSvk valley, Tho
mills operated only a little over
iemnl.
1
ono year, tho company evidently'
concluding that It would -bo
cheaper to buy Its lumber from
companies than to manufacture
it. Since then tjio mills have
been Idle. All three of them are
equipped with good machinery
and each had a capacity oNJe
tweou 70,000 and 80,000 feet' a
day.
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luimtnr miKliifnA 1 wnn'
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booming while those, mlllsvoro
in operation, ucsiues uiosoiuircu
plants, tho big mills ofttie
Booth-Kelly Ltynber conn,mriyit
.ill .1 if ,ii .I.t-.'ti'T.
.u.mb, u..u u . fry -M"
mills up and uown t wpiiawK
wemiimg, ami m or jyajnu
part
the benefit of tho immense pay
roll. Register.
COMPLETE COBURG LOG
. ,T T?. W '? appeared. E. E. Morrison will display, and a shipment will bc.,a,neu-
XVV:T "IT", nin against Chas. L. Scott, tlie!,atle tonight. Messrs. Gore ft! Judge
...i.. . I. i..., ,i...Ji.i.l.ii ... -i"zons- canuiuaio lor mayor, itowc already had some line spe- iat
'and uie ea d thoffir aL hU PcM ow a councilman, ;cin ens, especially of com, and Navr York
, lUld iMlfcOlie aild tllO Otnei. tOWnS ... k rft-nlnr-Mnn. ntmnRlnir 1.lr will a..nn1 tuBn mttu R AdaniH.
iof this
I
HAULING JOB THIS WEEKof tho, Citizens ticket, Is unop-l
; posed. Mrs. Hannah umf tno 11-;
By Wednesday of tlilB wcekibrarian, and Miss Lillian Gorrle,
the last of tho logs In tho Booth-
Kelly pond at Coburg will havo
been hauled to Springfield audi
tlyj work of sevreal months will text of ordinance No. 410, llcen
havo been completed. Tho sup- slug and taxing motor-bus lines,
ply from Landaxc will coulinucnnd referred to the people, were
to come, und by the 'end of n, 'printed last .Friday and distri-
J month logs will havo to be
;ped m rrom wendung again,, nsluy law. The ordinance and the
tho Landax shlplnonts, ,ar.o. not
sufilcicnl to keep the. mill. busy.
Rev. Win. Ferris
is Baptist Pastor
" At Iho nYorhlng'servlcq aTtho
Baptist church yesterday, Rev.
W. N. Ferris accepted tho call
whicli the church extended two
wcoks ago. Ills wife, Dr. Fer -
rls, also expressed her con vie-h
Hon that it was tho Lord's will
and tho Lord's work which
quired them hero. Rev. Frank 1
Day, a former pastor, was pros- j
out and spoke very earnestly, to
""Ln jiua.ji mm nu lum
ol his. father being ono of tho; This year there Is assessed on
organizers of - the church 40! tho .rolls 41.22 miles of these
years ago and of being deacon. J railroads, with ax valuation of
Ho spoko also of his own conver- $69,8(iG, while last year the-e
slon and of his first pastorate :was a mileage of 82,84 with a
.being in litis church. He spoke,!
'also of several preachers having I
already gone from it and of qth-assessment roll Is as follows:
ers making preparation to enter j Acres of all laiuls (O. &. C. R.
tho ministry. The prospects foriR. lands 298,715 acres, value$3,r
good permanent evangelistic S20.915) 1,515,718; value $19,
work ln tho church were ijovor, 277,015; value per unit, $12.71.
brighter than at present.
At the evening service Mips
Harriot P. Cooper, general mis
sionary of the Woman! Ameri
can Baptist Homo Missionary
society, occupied the pulpit and
told of the work in great cities,
ln the mountains, the forests,
tho prniries and the deserts. She
gavo personal Incidents of tho
settlement workers among tho
Jews, Russians, Japanese,.. ucr
grocs and Indians and mountain
whites. She told of ono young
lady In Michigan, baptized by
Rev. W. N. Forris, who is now in
chnrgo of a great settlement
work. Mention was also mado
of a young Jew who was driven
from homo because ho had om
brced Christianity, who cano
under tho'lnlluonco o Rev, Fer
ris in Tennessee, afterward go
ing to Crozler Theological sem
inary, and is now In .charge of
Homo mission work iq. .Califor
nia and one of tho most brilliant
speakers of that great 'state.
J. II. Nowmap Is developing
sales territory for SliislaW sal
mon out of Eugene,-1 i
Florence oxpcotq,, to , ha.yo a I
fruit cannery, next yeJUV;
Only 19 miles of rriUs.remahi
to bgflald before Cool Bay 'Is1
'connected with the main 'line' of
the S. P.
SPRINGFIELD, LANE COUNTYi OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25,
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El
I FINAL LIST
OF
Nominating petitions ror
cumll(ntCB for ofllc0 ln tho
Nominating petitions for eight
com
ing city election were filed with
tho recorder late Friday after
noon, to bo in before tho rc-
qu,red tcn day8 boforo the clcc -
,rhr0 jn(le,)cnUcnt candidates
tho candidates of the
1 ticket, J. V. Coffin
Donaldson. II. E.Walker, the
i present recorder and candidate!
treasurer, arc seeking election
to this office.
Official pahphlets giving thei
NAMES
CANDIDATE
shlp-ibuted to tho voters as required
arguments on It made an elght-
page pamphlet.
ASSESSED VALUATION
$35,353,640 THIS YEAR
The total assesed valuation of
proporty in Lane county in 1915
.lc If!?? RJf nnnnnllnir in 41ml
summary of the tax rolls
'looted by Assessor B. F. Keeney
i This is $134,480 less than the
total fast year, the total on the
l014 rolls being $35,7SS,1 20.
Assessor Keeney explains that
'a part of tho decrease is repre
re-isontcd In tho assessment of that
portion of the Willamette Pacific !iiOWover, having previously gone
railway and a few logging rall-jg,. it in' all alltombbil6.
roads which passed to the state! Thc inipreasjon img prevailed
iiii.v v;iuiiiiooiuu uuim& .nvi '''''timt ftobert E. Strahorn was
valuation of $305,375.
The summary of this year's
$38.18.
Acres of tillable lands, 129,
510; value $4,94G,510;unlt valuo
$38,185. f
Acres of timber lands (O. &
C. It. R. lands, 217,558 acres,
value, $2,877,425.) GS0.703
acres; valuo, $9,610,000; .unit
value, $14,117.
Acres of non-itlllable lands (O.
& C. R. R. lands, S1.045 acres,
value, $443,490) 705,475 acres;
value, 4,721,045, unit value, $0,
G92. Improvements ou deeded or
patented lands. $1,036,435. Town
and city lots, $6,368,700.
(Continued on Pago 3)
Bever-Hrndon Hardware Company
He
TO
E DISPLAY AT
BIG LAND SHOW
'.Through tho efforts of Gore &
IIowq a dlflnlfiv of nrnrtuntB from
BPRI
NGFIELD
thcYlcinllty of Springfield will lf IIne8 In Eastern Oregon be
bomado at tho Manufacturers, ,causc of tho Strahorn project,
and Land Products show at JudS Ivett said the Union" Pa-
: Portland. A Bcctlon of shelf
'Spacc has been set aside for this
Pprtland. A Bcctlon of shelf
Citizens'! sugar beets, carrots, and other From Portland heroes to Se
and J. T. ifami products. They have one'attfc, thence to San Francisco
pumpkin which weighs 09 1-2
pounds, and It was picked green
They would be glad to receive
other specimens of farm pro -
duels, and will have then sent to
Portland and tagged with the
(name of the grower.
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LOVETT SAYS STRAHORN
LINE IN EASTERN OREGON
IS NOT BACKED BY U.P.
Chairman of Directors of Union
Pacific Says Railroads in U .S.
.Have Been Taught Economy
by tho War.
Emphatically asserting that
lthcV proposed' Strahorn railway
across Eastern Oregon was not
backed by the Union Pacific,
jJU(1e gvea, ch'alr-
fl, nr fli,fni
-lJRT . . .r . - -
com-.jlimBef not unfrlendlv toward
Mr gtrahorn's project.
j jU(gc Lovett has not been in
j central Oregon, on his present
!annuai inspection trip, over the
5 lines or the Union Pacific and its
subsidiary roads.
He is well ac-
qu; luted with
tho territory,
acting in some such capacity in
Eastern Oregon as he did in
Washington at the time of the
construction of the North Coast
road. Judge Lovett, however,
draws a distinction.
"When Mr. Strahorn was
working in our interest at that
time we were not ready to make
an announcement and did notJ
eay anything one way or the
other as to his connection with
us. In Eastern Oregon he is
ronresentlncr other interests en
tirely. Whose these are I do not resignation of President Farrell,
know." said Judge Lovett at the of the O. W. R. & N. as "moon
Hotel Portland. !shi,ie. 1 think"
Mr, Strahorn's plan involves He said ho had heard nothing
the construction of a
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IU wuiui IJUUil uiu w. u.1,ulunlwbvu0 vPu.Wv.
N. Co. is building from River
side an extension of its branch
lino from Vale. Another line Item's branch to South Bend on Zmmny was the
forming a part of the group will Willapa harbor. Tho Milwaukee 3 ho comS
t ,it.,it 1,00 ii viri,f tn co tho n imst speaicei, ami no compu
existing Hill and Harriman ter
minals at Bond, while still an
other will closo tho gap between
tho Southern Pacific at Klamath
IF YOU SAW
our carpenter's tools you
would not accept any oth
ers. . Finest quality tooled
Eteel, edged to a porfct iln
l1 h and the finest hand
turned handles procurable.
Everything Imaginable in
hardware. Make no mis
take, our guarantee pro-,
tects you always. Prices a
challenge to. tho other fel
1915
Falls and Bend. Under this plan
of development trade from Kla-1
math Falls and Lakevlew now
teolng to California because of
tho railroad connections will be
led toward Portland. The east
ana west line win open a new
(territory, and will give tho Port-
jland business houses, in dis
tance to haul, an advantage over
(the jobcrs In Salt Lake City.
As to any possible paralelllng
,cllic reserved the right to build
,C1UC reserved the right to iniiK
wl,ere business was to be ob
Lovett reached Port-
evening, coming from
in company with E.
consulting engineer.
ad will go east by way of
I.Ogdcn.
"Railroad conditions in the!
- East are Improving, duo partly -
to the large crops and the war
orders. The depression has
taught the railroads ecomomy.
Some roads are a little under
the. standard for maintenance
now, but the Union Pacific has
kept its equipment toi a high
figure throughout. For this rea-
son we are not afraid of any
car shortage. In fact, I notice
the bulk of the wheat here in
Oregon and Washington has not
yet begun to move to any great
extent."
In answer to a mipstinn as to
ocetMn mnmin., f tv,a n
W.'R. & N. Co. into the Union
Pacific for opemting purposes
Judge-L'oveft'tIeclafed iris the
company's purpose to leave lo
cal administrative matters to its
men oji the ground. He em
phazed however, the direct re
lation of the coast company to
the Union Pacific system as a
whole. He told why a part of
the ticket auditing formerly
done in Portland is now done in
Omaha.
"A ticket from Chicago to
Portland formerly had three
coupons, one for the Union Pas
clfic, one for the Oregon Short
Line and one for the Q. W. It.
& N. So while only one interest
was involved returns had to be
made to the foreign roads from
Omaha, from Salt Lake and
from Portland. It was an arch
aic system of auditing, and
should have been discontinued
years ago.".
The head of the Union Pacific
characterized the rumors of the
vLe n i-t ii. j i 1.
ul lixi. ruii;iia numifa tjiti t i
tcnn TTr nlcn 1 Icnlo lltl oil nMV !
!lrimiOrrlrrn nc tn flln nlnnc nt flin
company in securing a joint user
privilege on tho Milwaukee sys-
0
bor, and a reciprocal right oni , , t , r,oTi,o Jt
. ,T,n, ii i. i .which Is rated as one of the most
W1U IIUW VJ11U1W lino una ucuu
discussed locally.
Finds 'Sorgum to
Be Profitable
Homer Taylor, wbo has a
farm between Coburg and Har
rlsburg, planted two acres of
sorghum this year, and 1b now
crushing the cano and boiling
down tho syrup. Ho planted it
in tracts for different treatment
and finds that lio Is getting from
GO to 90 gallons of syrup from an
aero of the cano, and is selling
tho syrup at ?1 a gallon.
Nate
VOL. XIV. no. m
BUSINESS ill
PROPOSE LAND
DISPOSAL PLAN
That the Southern Pacific Is
paying taxes In Oregon at tho
rate of $2000 a day, and'thnt Its
total operating cost In Oregon ia (
$8100 a day, was one of , 'tho
Startling statements made at the,
banquet of the Business Men's
club Friday evening by Judgd
Wm. Colvig, tax and right o
way agent of the Southern Pa
cific company, who was the prin
clpal speaker.
That the Souhtern Pacific
company pays almost 15 percent ,
of the taxes of Lane county was
anotJier interesting statement,of
Mr. .Colvig's. His topic, however,
was uie p. ac u. iana grant, ana
he covered the subject thorough-
ly, giving statistics as to the
amounts of land involved, the
taxes paid and the services ren-
dercd by the railroad in the
carrying of war supplies,
His addressed brought up a
general discussion of the whole
subject, and more particularly of
the question of getting the lands
developed. After the question
had been discussed from many
angles, the. following resolutions
:were offered and unanimously
passed:
! Resolved that it Is the sense ot this
raeetinf- that, our legBtioa .in con-
to,r 8lich actfo cowi&k.Ut
Kress uu uim uiu. uoicui iuaii.uvi.cu
will require the Oregon and Califor
nia Railroad Coinyany, to immediately,
and within six months after the date
of such enactment by Congress, .to
open a General Land Office in 4the
City of Portland, Oregon, for the dls.
position of its Grant Lands within
this State and which office shall be re
quired to receive and file all applica
tions from actual settlers for any por
tion the said Grant Lands and to
Bell the same to such applicants, ac
cording to the terms of tho original
Land Grant, viz: at a price not to ex
ceed $2.50 per acre and in quantities
not grcatei than 1C0 acres at land to
any such actual settler and shall main
tain said Land Office and receive such
applications for full period of six years
from the date of such enactment, and
that after the expiration of said term
of six years, all Uie rest, remainder
and residue of said Grant Lands shall
: be vested -in and become the absblute-
,r the - u 1U 1U co- 'm
Provided, however, that the O. & C.
IU It Co. shall continue to maintain
the said Land Office herelntofore pro
vided, Tecelvo applications for the
purchase of the unsold lands of -said
Grant and sell In quantities, not ex
ceeding one section of land to each
applicant and at a price per acre riot
greater than the average assossed val
uation placed thereon by the respec
tive Counties in said State, ln which
such lands so sold are situated.
(Congress should define what con
stitutes an actual settler.)
Fifty members of the Business
Men's club, and their guests, dt-
IVIIUCU I.11VJ utwiviuvb, hum
,
in the old Reapers hall. M.
M. Peery was the tosatmaster,
fill to- Mm nfUno rnnpfill1v.
Norman vice-president
ttIUa Norman vl.p.r.e"-
4 rvAnninl nv rt rrnx Af r lift f IT A
efficient In the state.
Charles Roblson, deputy pro
secuting attorney of Multnomah
county, spoke in tho interest of
the Lane Products show, and in
cidentally read a strong sermon
on tho necessity for community
harmony ir best results are to bo
obtained.
E, J. Frasler of Eugene also
spoko briefly,
Rowe brought hi a-sample of the
syrup, which is being sampled
and found excellent by thoso
easternorswiio.arQfamlllar.wlth
the sorghum of the east.' W,-C.
Myers also planted sorghupi this
year and finds it does,well
It