PAG1 FIFE
W.H.Gore Father of Move Which Provided Fund for Structure
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1932,
COURTHOUSE FUND
AVAILABLE FROM
UNO GRANT BUI
Measure in 1866 Gives Rail
roads Large Tracts
Land Eliminated From Tax-
Roll Gore. Gets Fund
They Guard County's Peace
And Handle Tax Collection
As funds for the new Jackson coun
ty eourthou were msde av&ilitoie
through ths Oregon-Oaliiornla land
grant refund, Qua Newbury, local at
torney, has compiled & brief tabula
tion of event leading up to the man
ner In which the money was ob
tained. About 1886 the Congress of toe
United States passed what was known
as the Railroad Land Grant BUI, pro
Tided that the government would
grant to any railroad company con
structing & railroad through Oregon
and California every odd section not
occupied, for a distance of 20 miles
on each side of the proposed line of
road, and after that time this was
increased another ten miles, making
a 30-miie grant on each side of the
center of the road, as constructed.
This measure was known as the Oregon-California
Land Grant Bill. The
road was completed to Ashland In
1864, and the connecting link was
made from Ashland along to Redding
about 1888, &nd when these connec
tions were made, the full title to
these lands accrued to the Oregon
California Baiiroad company.
Required to Sell Lands,
One of the provisions of the land
grant bill was that the railroad com
pany would be required to sell these
' lands to settlers &t not to exceed
$2.50 per acre, and many acres of
this land were sold at that figure to
actual settlers. These lands, whether
they were sold to actual settlers, or
whether they were still retained by
the company, found their way on the
tax rolls, and were assessed st not
less than 83.50 per sere, and large
sums of money came Into the various
county treasuries of the state of
Oregon.
These lands were afterwards mort
gaged by the Oregon-California Bail-
road company to the Union Trust
company of New York, and the rail
road company tn the latter 80's, per
haps In council with the trust com
pany, concluded that these lands,
notwithstanding the land grant pro
vision that they should be sold at
$2,S0 per acre, might be sold for &
gveater sum of money, and tne com
pany advanced the price of these
lands in proportion to what they
considered they were worth, some of
the land selling as high as 910 or $15
, per acre.
This action upon th part of toe
company was & violation of the land
grant act, and though it was brought
to the attention of the company,
the company refused to recede from
It position that it had the right to
increase the price of these lands be
yond 2 50 per acre.
Butt Requested.
A resolution was introduced in the
legislature of Oregon memorializing
congress to authorise the attorney
general of toe United States to In
stitute a suit In the United States
district court of Oregon, for the for
feiture of this land grant, because
the railroad company was violating
Its terms in its refusal to sell toe
lands at $2.50 per acre.
This suit was instituted and tried
before Judge WoTverton of the United
States district court, and along about
1908 & decree was rendered by Judge
Wolverton cancelling the grant and
forfeiting these lands to the govern
ment of the United States, and this
decree was later sustained by the
United States supreme court.
All of these lands were thereupon
taken off the tax rolls In the state
of Oregon, and this greatly reduced
the volume of property on th tax
rolls In the various counties, as most
of, these lands were thereafter in
cluded In forest reserves and national
parks, so that they never would find
their way again on the tax rolls of
the various counties. This was a
great Injustice to the taxpayers of
the state, and resulted in a verf ma
terial interference with the develop
ment of the state of Oregon, as these
lands could not be acquired from
the government for settlement.
Gore Fathered Idea.
W. H. Gore, recognizing the great
injustice that was done to the peo
ple of the state of Oregon by the
forfeiture of this land grant, con
ceived the idea that the counties
affected by the taking of these lands
from the tax rolls, ought to be re
imbursed by the government of the
United States for these tax losses,
and that the amount of the taxes
that the state of Oregon had lost by
reason of the lands being taken from
the tax rolls should be paid to the
various counties which this land
grant covered, and that this payment
should be made in one lump sum,
and that there should be a continu
ing payment made each year to these
various counties, hased upon the an
nual tax losses which these various
counties sustained.
This scheme of Mr. Gore's was con
sidered by most people to whom he
submitted it, as being nothing but a
"pipe dream," but Mr. Gore persist
ed in it, and worked at the plan for
several years, and finally had the
matter formulated and arranged for
presentation at a psychological time.
Mr. Gore went to the expense of many
thousands of dollars in cultivating
sentiment in nearly all of the states
In the union in fsvor of this scheme
of his, and establishing the Justness
of the claim.
This required many months of un
tiring effort. He then went to Wash
ington. D. C, and remained there for
many months, and at the proper
time, and when the bill earns on
for psjwstre, messages came in from
nearly every state in the union from
prominent iUzen to the represa-
v &Jtf& ,t
IS 1J? u i ever
Top row, left to
rlghti Baiph Jen
nings, sheriff j Olga
Anderson, deputy;
u 1 Jennings,
deputy; Louis Jen
nings deputy. Bot
tom rowi Gertrude
Martin, chief dep
uty clerk j LSrma
Looker, ta x de
partment, an3 G.
W. Sunford Jailer.
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tatlves and senators In congress, urg
ing the passing of this bill, and It
was then passed by & unanimous
vote in both the senate and the
house.
Mr. Coolidge, who was then presi
dent, bad manifested & purpose to
veto the bill, and Mr, Gore, in com
pany with Senator McNary and Sena
tor Stsnfieid, from Oregon, "bearded
the lion in his den," and through the
Influence of Mr. Gore, established the
justness of this claim', and the bill
was signed.
There came to the state of Oregon,
in the counties west of the Cascades,
as & result of this measure, (13,003,
000, of which Jackson county received
$lr0ai,000, and since that time has
received several hundred thousand
dollars in addition.
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wek, had them sent by air mail. Or
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by plane from Los Angeles, Cal,f early
this morning.
"The Aviator will go to all the
centers of population throughout the
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GLESBAtB. New road proposed
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