Medford mail tribune., January 03, 1921, Page 6, Image 6

ffTCDFOKO MATL TRIBUNE, MEnFOftT). OKFiOy, MONDAY. .TAKTTAT7T
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COUNTY COURT
REPORT OF TAX
ROAD IRK FOR THE NEW YEAR
To the editor: The public beliiB
Interested In wliut 1b being clone In
udmlnlBtoring tho affairs of the coun
ty, and as It Is difficult for tho people
In general to have any definite infor
mation, we are giving out tho follow
ing for tho Information of all Inter
ested same being based on the rec
ords and facts as shown thoreby, or
us vouched for )y ourselves.
The tax levy as made and collected
for year 1920 was 20 mills for the
county and state combined, out of the
amount raised by the levy tho toUil as
Bhown by the tav rolls being $550,
600.00 for tho state and county tax,
there was remitted to tho Btato of
Oregon $129,000.00 as Btato taxes.
Within the amount remitted to tho
stato there was one mill for market
road tax which amounted to $2 7,
525. 8, whereupon a market road
fund was based with tho following re
sult: Produced by county 1 mill
levy .'. $27,525.S9
Produced by slate levy as
abovo and thereafter
eiiualizcd on ratios as to
whole stato 29,203.55
Surplus from .Multnomah'
county proportional part
us provided In tho law.. 11,!)10.82
Total market road money
for 1920 $G.G S0.2G
Tho expenditure of tho market
load money was distributed over
three projects to-wit: Jacksonvllle
Huch road, In changing tho grade
over tho Jacksonville hill and making
a maximum gnulo of 5 per cent, $ 10,
000.00; lloud Indian road, reducing
tho grado from about 20 per cent to a
maximum of 8 per cent, $10,000;
ltutte Fulls road from Ilccso Creek
school houso toward butto Kails,
changing tho lines and gravelling,
$20,000. Theso projects will nil bo
continuod In 1921, the new road over
the Jacksonville hill will bo opon for
travol by tho middle of July 1921,
tho Doac' luillnn road project will bo
complotod for travel by next fall,
whilo tho Mutto Kalis road will have
to bo continued for sovoral years In
order to get the road in shapo for
winter travel to Jlutto KallB.
Sovoral of tho road districts made
special road tax levies, which levies
Iho county co-operated with on n
50-50 basis doing general road work
hi tho districts. Tho road districts
raised about $10,000 hy spoelal road
lax lovies. ,
Tho General Fund
Tho amount ralsod from various
sources for tho (leneral road fund
during tho year was as follows, regu
lar road levy $(19,101; received on
account of uutoniohilo licenses $15,
800; received from forest rentals
$8000, making a total of $92,901.
ThlB amount has boon usod on gen
eral road work, luachlnory, bridges,
rights of way, otc. Tho county has
had to partlclpato in Its portion of
tho ovorhcad crossings tit Tolo unci
Ashland on tho Pacific highway, the
former to Iho extent of $580 1 and
the latter $11723.12. Tho county has
been alilo to rent several trucks from
tho stato at $200 per month, the
county furnishing tho driver and oth
er oxpenso In connect ion with operat
ing the trucks. The stato has let tho
county havo thp uso of two 120 Holt
tractors, tho county to pay $800 each
for thorn for tho first year and $1
per year thereafter, these tractors be
ing government equipment nnd can
not bo sold outright, nnd another has
been partly promised us at tho same
rate Willi the two tractors and the
machinery which la used In connec
tion with them wo havo during the
past year, scarified, regrnded and
rolled 110 miles of improvod roads
and in addition thereto havo graded
up now grades covering 15 miles. Uy
the use of the trucks and rock crush
ers thoro havo been 25 miles of sur
facing put on the road during the
season, all of tho matoi-lal being grad
ed so as not to put largo rock or
boulders In tho roads. Tho larger
portion of tho old wooden culverts
nnd bridges havo required repairs on
account of tho heavy traffic, now
caused by uso of trucks, as material
has boon vory high no new structures
havo boon put la unless quite neces
sary. Work to Be Permanent
Wo havo almost entirely put In
now work so that tho work will bo
permanent, that Is, if the work is
only grading It Is on a grade that
will ho used In the future even If the
Landlady Quick
To Riot Trouble
Mrs. K. Hiii'Hbbarger conducts u
bcrgo morning Iuhiko nt HIM Vj Kant
Jlioiiilwny. Long llc'Hi li,- c'alll'ciiiila.
Mrs. llarslilmiger tells us In her
own words Jtuct linw quickly lend kiUih
facturlly nhr obtalcd rt'Iicf from stck
ncHH. "I told n frlt-nd of mine of my
condition and fhe told mo of the
wonderful rcMiltH .hIio h.ul cximv
lenced for similur complaints ( Ink
ing Vlnol. 1 bought li belli' t;mt
within four or five days rtio.l a
marked Improvement in the vay I
felt. After taking only r.no Imtt!.. 1
feel belter In owi-y w-iy. unj I i.m
glad of an opportunity to heartily
recommend It to other vho m v have
the same complaint lut I had."
Vinol Is s"'d l,,'s ;,v , v M''d
ford i'haiiimcy, Main at Central. Adv
GIVES DETAILED
LEVY AND GOOD
road should be paved, so any gravel
or crushed rock placed thereon will
help for a road base and not have to
bo dug up und hauled out at u lutor
date, when the time comes for hard
u,i..r,.i.n In nrlilltinn tn (tin forego
ing road work tho Btato has almost j
finished paving tho Pacific Highway,
our county being tho first outside of
.Multnomah to havo tho work com
pleted. Co-operation on a 50-50 basis
with the stale has been consummated
whereby a road is being constructed
over tho Crura Springs road to the
Klamath county line, tho maximum
grado being 0 per cent, this will open
up a road for the benefit of all the
valley from a commercial standpoint
and will ho equally beneficial as an
outlet for Klamath county. Tho esti
mated cost to complete the grade and
surface (not pave) is about $300,000,
we havo been able to proceed with
our portion on this project by the
state advancing the county's Bharo of
the expenditure, sumo to be refunded
to tho stato out of tho pending bond
issue.
Crater Lake Highway
Another project of much impor
tance to tho county Is the Crutor
l.uko highway, the state highway
commission have let contracts to
grado tho road from Clncalde's, near
Kaglo Point, to Trail, also contracts
havo been let for the bridges which
are to he of concrete and steel and us
soon as the grading and bridges are
furnished it is on the program to lot
tho contract for macadamizing, when
that Is dono there will bo a stretch of
road from Medford to Trail, 23 miles,
about ready for the pavement. The
Crater Lako highway has been desig
nated as a post road which allows the
county co-operation with tho U. S.
government und the state of Oregon,
tho county being required to pay 25
per cent of tho cost of tho road. Tho
contracts mentioned with reference
to this project will cost tho county
about $70,500 as 'based on the esti
mated yardago and muterlal. Under
tho bond Issue there Is $200,000 for
the Crater I.ako road. Also 22 miles
of construction has just been com
pleted between Prospect nnd tho Cra
ter l.ako park lino at a cost of about
$187,000, the county participating In
the sum of near $3,000, tho govern
ment and alnto the remainder. Kor
1921 tho projects heretofore men
tioned will bo continued und in addi
tion other smaller projects will bo
taken up as market roads, such as
I'llk creek road, surdlno creek rond,
Unite creek road and tho general
road work throughout tho county..
Tax Rate Raised
The tax rate in the county has been
raised over previous years, say 1919
tho year before tho present county
court took orflce, us follows: the
county tax was raised 4 mills for
1920, 2 mill being ill compliance
witli tho market road law and 2 mills
for redemption of old warrants sonic
of which wero seven years old, and
thus $8ii,000 has been provided to
pay old warrants and interest to Hint
extent, (leneral fund warrants now
outstanding which Includes tho war
rants Issued In payment of tho
Sweeney Judgment which had been
handed down by the supremo court
and which had been In litigation since
in 1915, are us follows:
Kroni Juno lOtli to Hoc.
31st, 1911 $ 30,317.09
Kroni Jan. 1st to Dec.
31st, 1915 30,929.01
l'roin Jan. 1st to Dec.
31st, 1911!
0,2 Si. OS
Kroni Jan. 1st to Dec.
3lsl, 1917
Kroni Jan. 1st to Dec.
31st, 19IS
Krom Jan. 1st to Dec.
31st, 1919, Sweeney
Judgment $51,171.11,
all other $17.21 or a
total for year 1919
Kor year 1920
41.05
18.40
51,488.3
3,134.93
Total outstanding war
rants $.131,210.48
Wo believe a fair showing has been
! made with reference to the general
j expenditures during tho past two
j years, while there has boon a very
considerable increase in cost of labor
and material, the comparative expen
ditures excluding roads, for tho past
three years aro as follows: 1918.
$ 102,340.00; 1919, $98,066.00: 1920
'$1 17,430.00.
I Higher School Taxes
i (Julie an iiirrouso in tho levy for
stato and county lax Is necessary for
1921 expenditures over 1920, for the
reason that a change In tho law re
quires a larger school and high
! school levy, and tho stato tax has
! been increased from $129,000 for
1920 to $270,000 for 1921. Tho gen
eral road tax has been decreased .S
of a mill below last year, whilo the
market road tax has boon increased
.5 of a mill.
The anticipated general expendi
tures outside of road expense Is In
creased only slightly over former
years. Wo see no reason why the
old warrants cannot be paid off in
the next two years, alter which the
i receipts from various sources, such
jas fees, etc., can bo applied on ex
penditures and thus reduce the
'amount required by tax levy.
During tho past year the Hank of
Jacksonville failed, at the time there
1 was on deposit In tho bunk over
I $107,000 of county's money. On uc
count of the tangled affairs of the
bank we have no Information as to
the amount of assets, if any, there
will Ije for tho creditors, so are not
able to state as to the likely amount
that will be received by the county,
on account of securities and bonds to
date $31,000 which has helped to re
duce the original amount 29 per cent
Kearlng we may get this statement
too long to receive tho proper inter
est, we have only touched on the
mout Important matters, depending
on published reports, etc., by the dif
ferent officers to cover the more de
tailed expenditures each month.
With assurances for the year 1921
of $1,000,000 road building, mostly
outside money; prospects of $2,000
000 Irrigation ditch construction and
the building of permanent sawmills
with large output, wo feel that there
are many good things in store for
Jackson county during the coming
New Year.
Respectfully submitted,
(3. A. GARU'ER,
County Judge;
thos. ii. srapso.v,
County Commissioner.
JA.MKS OW'KNS,
County Commissioner.
Dated Dec. 30th, 1920.
WILSON BEATEN IN FIRST ROUND
(Continued fiom Page One)
corporation's activities at this time
would exci-t no beneficial Influence
on tho situation In which improvement
is sought; would raise false hopes
among the very people who would ex
pect most, and would be hurtful to
the natural and orderly processes of
business and finance.
Credits Should Stop.
"Ijirge government credits were ex
tended during the war to certain Ku
ropoan governments associated with
tho United States. Theso ceused seve
ral months after tho armistice, ex
cept for commitments already mud.
They should not now bo resumed,
cithro directly or Indirectly. Tho re
cent Brussels conference composed
of delegates from many European
count Hits und from other nations,
itself expressed the opinion that the
ther credits should not be accorded
directly by governments 1 do .lot
believe that they should be accorded
Indirectly.
KxporlH Have Increased.
"Kxporls of domestic products
have not declined since tho armis
tice. On the contrary they have
greatly Increased. Krom an aggre
gate value before tho war of less than
IVi billions of dollars and of about
six billions tho lust year of hostili
ties they rose in tho calendar year
1919 to more than $7,900,000,000 and
tills figure will probably bo exceeded
for the last calendar year. For the
first eleven mouths of the last calen
dar year we exported more than 7
billion dollars worth of. domestic
merchandise. Theso have been largely
privately financed. The difficulty in
the way ff still larger exports does
not seem to lie so much in the lack of
financial ability here as In Europe's
lack of Incans to make payment. Her
productive energies and tho services
which she renders have not yet
recached a point whero they balance
tlie valuo of commodities taken from
this nation, and her ability to furnish
for additional exports securities,
which business men would feel justi
fied In taking is restricted. The ex
perts of the Jlrussels conference re
ported that "one of the chief ob
stacles to tho granting of credits is
the absence in borrowing countries of
sufficient securities for ultimate re
payment.
l-hirope Must ltccover.
' "Until this obstacle Is removed, it
Is difficult to see how materially
larger exports to Europe are to be
made even If exporters, aided or un
aided by government finance, stand
ready to do their part. It Is remark-
able that Europe Is able to mako an
effective demand for as largo a vol
ume of our goods as she Is making.
It is gratifying ovldenco of her re
covery and progress toward full pro
duction and sounder financial condi
tions. "Under the law. If the activities of
the corporation were resumed, no di
rect advances could be made to pro
larger volume of exports which Eu
rope is taking from us. sho is exer
cising her option, such as meats, pre
sumably because she, herself, has be
come more largely self-sufficient, oi
ls again providing herself with sup
plies, which, with the opening up nt
shipping since the armistice, havo
mice more found their place in ,the
markets of the world.
Aid-to Kxportcrs.
ducers ami, if they could be, they
wnuldnnt accomplish the objects tn
view. They would not create demand
for our products. They could be made
only to exporters or to banks engaged
in financing exports and if they did in
some measure stimulate exports they
would probably not have tin- effect
apparently most desired of substan
tially Increasing those of agricultural
commodities. Already, with the
"It Is highly probable that the most
immediate nnd conspicuous effort of
the resumption of tho corporation's
activities would bo an effort on the
pari of exporters to shift the financ
ing of their operations from ordinary
commercial channels to the govern
ment. This would be unfortunate. It
would continue the government as an
active factor in ordinary business ope
rations." FIRE LOSS $25,000
(Continued From Pago One).
in ami soon discovered that the main
flro was in the basement directly be
neath Mr. tiarnett s offico in tho rear
on tho first floor of his store. The
firemen had plenty of volunteer assis
tance including a number of ex-service
men who wore their service masks. Uy
choppiiiR holes hero and there the
flumes were developed so that the fire
fighters could throw water nnd chem
icals on them.
The heat was intense In the base
ment, as beneath the office there was
stored a large amount of paints which
led and Increased the Intensity of the
flames. The latter spread out over the
basement and" burned np through the
floor in the rear part of the store.
They then crawled up tho wall into
the flooring beneath one of the offices,!
untenanted, on the second floor,
near tho stairway. This was dlscov-i
ered In time. The firemen chopped a
hole In the office floor and soon extin
guished the fire at this point.
Very soon the entire floor was burn
ed away beneath the Garnett store of
fice, which with Its safe collapsed Into
the basement.
Ity 9 o'clock the fire was practically
extinguished and there was no more
danger, altho the firemen worked
much longer as a precaution.
The many tenants of the building
began arriving one by one soon after
tho fire was discovered, and the
thought of each was to get Into his
office and save papers and valuables
therefrom.
Hut the tenants quickly gave up this
idea after trying to climb the stairs.
Tho stifling smoke drove them back.
Chief Lawton reports that the fire
department laid 2100 feet of hose and
had 5 lines of water playing at the
fire, and 150 feet of chemical hose.
The fire, he said, could have been
quickly extinguished If tho department
had special appliances for basement
fire fighting.
N. Y. Stocks
NEW YORK, Jan. 3. Buying of
tobaccos, oils nnd steels at gains of
one to five points effected a derided
readjustment of prices in the active
final hour, although rails wem nut
especially responsive. Tho close was
firm.
The initial session of the new year
on the Stock Exchange was cliaiac
terlzed by confusing movements, a
firm opening giving way to hen. -incus
at midday, followed by irregular
strnegth in the later dealings, t'ales
approximated 800,000 shares.
Allis-Chalmers 30.8
American Beet Sugar . . 45.
American Can 27.5
American Car & Foundry .... 121.7
American Hide & Leather pfd. 45.8
American International Corp. 41.
American Locomotive . 83.
American Smelting & Rcf'g. . . 3(1.
American Sugar fl4.
American Sumatra Tobacco . . 77.
American T. & T !)(.
American Woolen (il.7
Anaconda Coppor 35.5
Atchison . . . .' 83.3
Atl.. Gulf & W. Indise Gll.fi
Ha Id win Locomotive 8Ii.2
Maltimoro & Ohio 3(i.
Hethlehem Steel "li" v.. 5ti.G
Canadian Pacific ... . .. 116.
Central Leather 37. f.
Chandler Motors Cti.fi
Chesapeake & Ohio oo.tr
Chicago, Mil.. and St. Paul .... 30.
Chicago, R. I. & Pac. 27.8
Ohino Copper iy.x
Colorado Fuel & Iron ...,.. 27.
Corn Products 07
Crucible Steel 77.
Cuba Cane Sugar 23.
Erie ; . 1 4.7
General Electric 12.!. 2
General Motors 11.3
Goodrich Co, . . 38.
Great Northern pfd 7ti.2
Great Northern pro Ctfs 2S.3
Illinois Central J 87.2
Inspiration Copper 32.
Int. Mer. Marine pfd :(.
International Paper 40.
Kennecott Copper . . . If).
Louisville & Nashville 100.
Maxwell Motors . . . , .- . 2.2
Mexican Petroleum 140.5
Miami Copper 16A
Mlddlo States Oil . . 11.
Midvale Steel T. 'J2.a
Minsouri Pacific'
New York Central 73.
N. Y.. N. H. and Hartford l'J.2
Norfolk & Western flfl.
Northern Pacific 82.0
Oklahoma Prod. & Ref 3.3
Pan American Petroleum ' 7(i.
Pennsylvania ., 40.8
People's Gas ; 34.7
Pittsburg and West Vt 30.2
Kay Consolidated Copper 12.2
Heading 82. 8
Itep. Iron & Steel 02.8
Koyal Dutch, N. Y Bli.2
Shell Trans. Trad 43.5
Sinclair Con. Oil 24.
Southern Pacific. !!.7
Southern Hallway 23.2
Standard Oil of N. J. pfd 105.
Sludebaker Corporation 45.7
Tennessee Copper 7.3
Texas . Co 43.5
Texas & Pacific 17.5
Tobacco Products 53.3
Transcontinental Oil 7.7
Union Ifific no. 5
IT. S. FuVul Products 23.
IT. S. lieteil Stores 55.
P. S. Ind. Alcohol 05.8
United States Rubber 05,
Uit-d Stato Steel 81.5
Ptah Copper 50.2
We.stiiighouNC Electric 43.5
Willy's Overland 0.
American Zinc, Lead nnd 8m... H.
ltutte and Superiro 11.5
Ciila. Petroleum 2i.3
.Montana Power . 53.
Sbattuck Arizona 5.
Pure Oil , 3:,. 3
Invincible Oil 23. 8
Lots of old papers 10c the bundle
at this office. tf
ASPIRIN
Name "Bayer" on Genuine
Take no chances with substitutes'
I'nless you see the name "Byiv'
on package or on tablet. vnu nre :,ot
getting genuine Aspirin pre.-iu-d hy
physicians for twenty -one ye.r 11 ml
proved safe by millions. Ta c.Vi.ilrU
only as told in the Haver piu k i-tt for
Colds. Headache, Neuralgia. Rheu
matism. Earat he. Toot bar be. Lum
bago and for Pain. Handy tin box.-
of twelve Payer Tablets of Aspirin
cost few cents. Druggists also sell
larger packages. Aspirin is the trade
mark of Haver Manufacture of Mono,
acetiiacidester of Stilic licacid. Adv.
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MAffl.KSKIEI.D. Eng. Tho liisli
nationalist leaders, John Dillon and
John Hedmond, saved Sir Edward
Carson; unionist advocate, from pros
ecution for preaching rebellion in
Ulster in 1914, says Charles F. G. '
Mastcrman, who was then financial
secretary to tho treasury.
Air. .Masterman in addressing an
audience here blamed Sir Edward for
beginning the resistance to the crown
which led up to the present situation
in Ireland. One of his hearers asked
why the Ulster leader was not then
prosecuted and ilr. 'Masterman re
plied: "Tho cabinet was ready to do so,
but John Dedmond and John Dillon,
acting through Mr. Lloyd George,
persuuded the cabinet not to take the
step. They argued that in three
months' time the home rule bill
would become law, and they would
then he responsible for the govern
ment of Ireland. They asked that
they should be allowed to undertake
the government of Ireland without
being hampered by any feeling creat
ed beforehand by the prosecution of
Sir 'Edward Carson. They thought
they could overcome what they re
garded as the blague (humbug) of
the Ulster movement.
Medford People
Prevent Appendicitis
Many Medford people are usiiiK
simple glycerine, buckthorn bark,
etc., as mixed In Adler-i-ku. This
flushes liOTft upper and lower
bowel so completely it removes all
foul, accumulated poisons from ali
mentary canal nnd prevents appendi
citis. Adler-ika relieves ANY CASK
pas on stomach or sour stomach.
Often CUKES constipation. In one
case of chronic stomach trouble ONIi
bottle produced wonderful results.
Leon 11. Haskinii, drugKfst. " Adv.
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WURLITZER ORGAN
PAGE
START WITH A M
"NATIONALIZED ACCOUNT
WHO isn't looking forward to the coming
twelve months with optimism'? Conditions
will ritfht themselves if we move carefully
and with confidence.
But there must be thrift, and a "National
ized" Savings Account at the First National
Bank will foster it.
Uhe First National Rank
Medford
COAL! COAL! COAL!
ROSSEAU
$8.00, $10.00, $12.00 per
at 25 W. Main.
GRANTS PASS - MEDFORD
INTERURBAN AUTOCAR CO.
Kffcctlvo October 25
LEA VK MEDFORD.
10:00 a. tn.
1:00 p. m. -
4:30 p. m.
Cars stop at all Intermediate
Office and Waiting Rooms: Medford, 5 South Front, Nash Hotel
Bldg. Fiione 309. Grants Pass: Toe Bonbonnler, Phone 160.
We also operate stage lines from Medford to Ashland, Phoenix,
Talent, Central Point, Jacksonville.
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From (ieoi'BO Harr Me
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Oreoon
COAL CO.
1'
ton delivered. Orders taken
; Phone 934
points.
Dally and Sunday.
LEAVE GRANTS PASS.
10:00 a. m.
, 1:00 p. m.
' 4:30 P. m.