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Friday. April 17, 9'2a.
THE KLAMTyJl
GROESBECK TF1LS
STRAHORN'S SIDE
I Advertisement I
About five years nco. private riti
sens contributed about S.I'M'OO In
assist in the purchase of a strip of
ground 150 feet wide end a'-'"1"'
1,(1(10 feet Ions. lyint; on the easter
ly side of Seventh street and extend
ing from Klamath avenue to Com
mercial street. Mr Strahorn add.d
the difference, and tiie purchase of
the property was made tor terminal
use of the O. C. k K. Ky. a: total
cost of about Td.Oiirt. The purpose
of the investment h.. '- w.ll
known at all times. It: " 'pi-nibc-1924.
appli.ation was filed by the
railway for permit to eros C;n and
7th streets, and to use a p .-t in o!
Commercial street in order to reach
the terminal property. Objection
wan raised oy pniperty owners as
to the use of Commercial street.
The eouneil then in office raised no
objections, and acting on the as
sumption that all objections had
been made, the railway purchased
additional ground to enable it to
reach the terminal without encroach
ing upon Commercial street. I'pon
evidence of such purchase, and no
further objections arising. Mr. Car
nahan was aked to draw an appropi
ate resolution. Various conditions
were inserted in the proposed per
irit without objection by the railway.
When the resolution was presented
for action, one of the Counciimen
raised the proposition of "common
user". Concurrently the Oregon
Trunk urged that such clause be
included.
The O. C. k E. now has the fol
lowing trackage within the City:
from a point east of the S. P. to a
point on Klamath Avenue at Ack
ley's Mill, a track from a point on
the south side of 6th St. to the track
first mentioned, a total of about 1
miles. The extension asked aeros.
Cth and into the terminal is equal
to about 1-S of the trackage already
in the City. It tiie railway is not
permitted to melt- thi lime ex
tension, no other road whi -h might
want to come in over tie v.'1 n.
tracks will be helped in ti, !irrt
for the st-ffieient reason tb " ti
ls no common user clause r -served
as to tracks now built. If the minor
extension is permitted, tlij sk.ulion
of any other road is made none the
worse. The common-user proposal
In brief was that in exchange for
the right to cross 6th St. to its pro
perty, the O. C. k il. would aurve
to allow any other road to us.?, in
common with it. ail its tracks and
facilities w-ithin the f'ity on the l:i : -of
t aliment of cost of same.
The railwpy rr.oi nec-rt i k
proposal for two good reason-:
First, it cannot sell bon-ls with its
property placed in such hazard. Tiie
terminal and inside trackr.se of a
railway constitute its ino.it valuable
property.
You would not lend money to a
party whose property offered as
security could be u.-ed at any time
by other persons for practically no
compensation, such t.ih- r perron.;
not sharing liability for your loan.
In the second place, the railway now
has bonds o'ltstamlitiz. inciudi-.i
those of the city, whose seiurity it
has no right to thus diminish. The
Interstate Commerce f'ommii-sion has
authority under the Transportation
Act. 1920, to order common user
of terminal facilities and to main
line track for reasonable distance
outside. The comp. ns.nion to be
paid by the invadinn read is to be
fixed .in the basis of c. ndemn.it on.
A bondholder, if this should be In
voked, is assured of hi.io i
seiurity held intact. l"nder the
federal law. the City would haie
better opportunity to assist another
road than by the present proposal,
whi.h does not include main I :w
leading to the city limit There
would be no delay in appoint ''
federal law. for the leeuon that tuc
inva.l.ng road can begin using the
property it seeks as ocd. as order
entered by the roiti: io'on ' ti.
tion could be prol.ite-. d as to h w
mu.h the invading ro.id would f v
for the Invasion, but it meanwhile
has the use desi.cl. i Act. It'-"-See.
4151. If the permit applied
ir is .! -iil-l. the '. t . is d. --d
of th- d. 1 lopr.ii nt -lv h the r.
way wilt nvc. ;.nd no o.ln:'
j) ctive ro.'.j is help-! in f'e : i-t
If ih.c permit is graft-d. the rai'.v ay
re a.- -
t.-riL. a ns. :
tra ka; . i'
n.ap am. '-r. '
t"-on It ye
1 h s ret .
in po wi.- a.
lion and "es
I ofl; :'
d sire.- to establish n-ail. e-.;ir.s.
pa-a-nger and local freight traffic
to facilitate business relations bet
ween this City and the rapidly grow
ing town of Sprague River. The
railway has no other suitable place
to accommodate such traffic. It
does cot ask to rse any .streets,
other thau merely to cross same. It
merely asks the right to develop its
property as others have such n::ht.
It made an additional investment of
$9. Ted to k-ep off of Commercial
Street on the understanding that it
t'nv.s met all objection.
We lave heard the statement oft
repeated that granting of the permit
across itiyth Street would "bottle
up" the City as against the incoming
of some other road. In view of the
existt nee and mileage of the O. C.
k E. already built and operate.!
within the City, it may be said that.
:r th 1. C. & E. occupies the only
;,al I- entrance for a railroad in
t " r. then the City is now
bottled up", for the
hove stated, that no
: ex;gt3 on the present
vt will take your City
the railway tracks
'" ite that crossing
'o the terminal
t ' ' present situa
'.i anywise further
ty. When the
- ". lives of the Northern road
our city some time ago their
'tesnitn was shown the 15o foot
terminal strip of the O. C. & K.
He was aNo slio'.en the existing
traiks ami was shown the rail-end
of tl'.e 0. i'. A: E. at Sixth street,
and was ak-d if his system could
have r.ny u..e lor sm h a limited ter
nii:i;!l sTa.e or in the slight exten
sion necessary to get into came. He
stts-d he could not s -e how the
Northern line could have any inter
est ::j these details. Ho ua then
told th.r-.t the injection o; r-rot-st
l(.f,..-o :'io c.n-p; -o ovici1 r.'-ly fh--
l..:.lrj:: '.?e granting c f the pernii". t .
the O. c. E. and that if his road
had no interest- in the two last men
tioned details, as matter of courtesy
and ordinary business fairness, he
should r.-.ahe a statement to that ef
fect. He stated: "This matter has
l:fcn so recently brought to my at-t-ntion
that I really have not be
letne familiar with the situation,
but I as.-iii.. you that the Nortliern
line has no desire to hinder or ob-
s'r he f). c. & k., and upon ray
return to Portland I will take the
.im-siiun . :l The 0. c. k E. has
li-ar.l r.- thing further. It would
Linear to ij.e "man in the street"
that the railway system of the mag
nitude repre-ented by the Northern
line, if it really means business and
has the financial ability and can se
cure the ncccs-ury permit to build
into Klamath Palls, could f.guie a
half dorm ways 10 reach and serve
this city without pouncing upon the.
O. C. & P. and it would seem that..
In the absence of any move on lis'
part. Its protest with reference to I
the protest with reference to the
trifling matter asked by Hie v '
.v E should be deemed unworthy ,
It admits that it can not use the
little t. 1111I1..1I strip, and has no In
terest in it. yet it protests against
,1,.. i,se of same L the littif road
that owns it.
The . C k E has 110 ftght to
ti, ale with any other road, nor an
Intuition of "hulling into" any plaus
of mi h road may hmo. an I it does
not and will not play the rule of
doit in tli m; iisa r." It has its
l.;n :- lie! "' i.s e. tl leis il -ss and
,11 l.'.Ug I 1 do : I orlgiliaili
M-, t,d .1 it .'. -.A the Central
c.r. . n b'i :t:--s 'i:o Klam nil Palls,
and wiil call' oat p:'a:ram i:
p. riaitled l-v the powers that lie.
The permit naked bears no semblance
of a "franchise." and there is noth
ing "exclusive" about it.
The large question before us
seems to be this: Shall we permit
the O C. A E. to develop business
lor tie city, spend money in the
ii'y. aud belter serve the cilv and
territory, when by so doing it hin
ders and hurls no one. or shall we
d- ny it the opportunity because an
other road stales that "it has under
serai. is consideration" extending Its
I'm- to Klamath Falls. Presumably
il has thus been "mnsidering" for
the past 10 years. Shall we hold
ap th.e development of the city for
..clditional years because some ot!t"r
than the applicant "might s.imetime
desire to extend?" The O. C. at E.
has applied for permit to constrti-.t
HI miles of railroad most of it
in Klamath county, to cost about
Ji.ai'U.onii a longer mileage than
the S. P. is building on the much
heralded Natron cut-off. This is a
definite commitment; the fintneing
has been arranged: the surveying
crew is on the work. What has
"the Northern road" done? It has
not even made a promise to come;
it said it would not give sue'h as
surance. It states that It will take
offense if any other road is allowed
to proceed even though it cannot
thereby suffer disadvantage, nor
avows its own intention ef going to
work.
The O. C. k E. is an interstate
eai-rier under the supe-rvision of the
Interstate Comme'ree Coiumission: it
-hips lumber to eastern points, from
Spraglle Kiier. at the same rale
charg-d from Klamath Palls. It has
.seeirts of mills, factorie-s and logging
tip'-rations. all new development,
along its line. It reaches hundreds
of mUlions of feet of timber not
o:herv.ise accessible. It extends into
a tcrrii ov uitho;.; a highway. In
v..;o:s and p,on!e along the lln
have rc-n.-eiiahle right to expect that
their patronage and association with
tiiis city will be appreciated. The
railway cannot meet their expecta
tions in the way of traffic unless
permitted to use its property. By
the way. the railway terminal is
ex.e't,,i to pay about $7.5u of the
new paving in that district. Wouldn't
it be fair to permit it to me its
property to liehten this burden, just
as other owners have use of what
is theirs? This city has a heavy
investment in the O. c. k E. The
waiter has been told, sometimes
politely and sometimes not. that the
AM I-SALOON I.KAUHK OF 0RKK0N
SKliKS LEGISLATION AKAINST VICE
I MomUy rvrnlng M
.1 ..ti'ti t No
, ,i:,ig . iHed for Hi"! l'iiri.
11,.. .-. 1 ted of one from Wllwin
I.I f,.r Urn "d snowier
w.is inane
from
o lor r.0. The ard
I.) I.orem mid ''
A pir ner kji
oppollUUIt, i .tyV
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PtlltTI.ANP. April 16 The head
quarters conimlilee of the ann
ua loon league of Oregon t s
mciiilhly meeting ckt. relay noon de
e id.'d to circulate imiio dintely a !
ilium to have placed on 'be ballot
at the next general ele ction a strong
ilati.e ball and road house law This
.,...!. followed the dei i-ion of Judge
Skipworth that roa.l boils. -.
th.ineeli llleV Il.Clliit ileillci'S. lb
eoino under the r.gulaiioa of I"
1 u( dance hall law s.
V. J lle rwig. sup. I'.nti lid. 'lit
the 11 ill : saloon leiitue unlhorl
statetnint to the elfecl that:
P.ence balls mil read houses,
springing up all et. r the country,
are becoming a very grave menace
10 our youth. In this d.n ot autos
miiiicr of
dilie lino
A (Irrulsilon r,,
KlmnMth '-.11. .
..Umaih ihiit t oi
mid good roads It I'
..t.u- m few iiioinellls
n or fifteen nines
.ad lion-' W i"i
the colinlrv f iv
.....I leni 1111 at
a whaleier au.t H i
III II eell llieiei
I all
111
not
. .1
no re'giilalc
in b nir. the
ilillel.i .
The law has been fulli mil''
:l II IH f'lblW llosclv the ,l.,ll e
ball I. ) lllallolis III for..' Ill l'o:t
laud and Viilllioinah coulitv. and
lull .eullllll al bast s..ine of 'be
I.illowilig featiir. s
Coinp.'l closing ..I I I' HI -p.
11. ill no dancing on Sun. lay
Pri.blblt I it. under I visiting
these places witboi.l parent'' "r
guardians
Placing every dan.
(louse under bond.
hall and ro.id
-lis. ussed. nor bus the prospective
.1. vclopini nt of l.akeilew been d'.s
Hissed, nor has the lignificance of
the . ext. nsion of the O C. k K. in
that direction been touched, nor has
the probable broad guage of the V
C. th into laikeview anil Its extcii
si,m 10 Udell as affecting this com
munity been discussed. The I) I'
A: E. has 110 interest one way or the
other in the possibility thai the Nor
thern line may build from lieiid to
Klamath Pails, but m. rely asks that
si:, h line t. tul to it own I n 11 s 1
ami secure its own righis. and nut
expect every railroad in this di-tiict
to grant common-user an. I surrender
some of its property to f.c. iiit.tt.
the building of such Norih. rn line
The writer has not discussed in this
article the desirnbility of a line from
the north. We shall have such line
when the Natron cut-off is com
pleted. What we most need Is an
wish th
of the 1
"No.
only b.
1 M.s
i-111 good luck '
Lampion was
' was the .M
in the ion
hostile' attlt'O
' 11 close
e-.Ued
ll lepll.
e leal .
fib lid
et
, He-
t llellip-
r. gar.liin: his l-'au
le -s" llieelll.g be
h. Id lotiigbl and
I, .ih said that
dev. loped.
K.alll, ..s
lllg the pes l.'li.
,,f l.os All.l.l'S
an, I Pee,;. ... v b
"V. e ar. l'"t
si, p." he aid
lev 1 ,, .111 noli;
r, la I ion "
Kegardb
I it-111 ps. y 's
able
is f
11 1 '
ell
true
but
th
r 111.11
e ling
"hllM
1 wa 1
l.lsloil
, had
Seclkmal-Bookeastg
I
For Every Room
in Tlx ilout
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VlBSlIM
CLAUD II. DAVIS,
FURNITURE
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t1allluu
" I'b, 10
dial. el.
of Itl er K ' IMIS I,!
cnptlotl of (t.."f ailllc
feelings toward ea. h oilier. It
It to be 11 certainty that i:.ip
de
sev will never fight again
long
eastern connection. The matters as Kearns has him under rontr.nl
last referred to and many others That contract calling for a a" 5't
are, however, not suffu-ienily per- split on the cliaiuplnirH earnings,
tinent to the trifling request made has until some lime next year to
by the O. ('. k K. lo warrant In- run.
vnlving them. The writer, however, "Why should Iienipsey fight and
is not adverse to discussing nny of hand half the money over to KeartiH
these or any other mailers of Inter- uh.in he can work in the movies and
est to the community, provided, how- keep it all?" Is the question raised
ever, thai personalities and mud- And no satisfactory answer seems
slinging be eliminated. We have at hand.
heard enough of that s.irt of thing
it would seem that the important Two Bids Received
decisions 01 tills community can be.
made on the merits ib--otiily pre
sented. If the matt, rs herein dis
cussed tire not clear or .seem to war
rant further explanation, vv.iubl it
not be better for the reader to re
quest further discussion rather than
indulge explosively in abuse and
.suspeaioli?
H. C. (IKOESiiEt'K.
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DEMPSEY-KEARNS
LOOMS STRONGER
I.OS ANCEI.ES, April 10. On
the eve of Jack Dempsey's departure
for New York to complete his movie
contract, a new flock of rumors re
garding his break with Jack Kearns
has been loosed.
Iienipsey and bis wife. Estelle
Taylor, start east Priday morning
and are planning on a European
trip at the conclusion of their film
work.
"Will Kearns be at the station to
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The Winchester Store.
Phone 261. 418 MainS
3fr-.-7 -
WE'RE ON OUR WAIl
To
DON HALL'S
White Pelican
SANDWICH SHOP
Our Hamburger Sandwiches can't
be. beat 1 Oc.
Pie The kind mother tried to
make 1 Or.
Beef Stew, Bread, Butter and
Coffee 25c.
Quick lunch "Clean as a pin."
115 No. 6th St.
7
bonds of the road held bv the eitv
are "not worth the paper tliey are
written on." If stirh be the '(jeii-'
eral opinion, the city is hero and
now invited to put a price on same
consistent with such an opinion. If
the community will not adopt such
suKKestion, then it must be that
such is not the opinion. If such is
not the opinion, then it must follow
that the bonds are considered val-'
uable. and. if so. why should the j
city give away to "another road" I
any part of such value under the!
(fuise of "common user." I have'
been told in variegated language;
that this city will never repeat its!
adventure of railroad "Rift." Yet
by insistini; on common-user, this
city will he "repeating." It would
participate In a further nift to "an
other road" by destroying the sc-1
eurity underlylnE the original "clft."
The writer has tried to explain
patiently, in season and out. all'
proper and pertinent phases of the.
entire railway situation so far as he'
has information, and ns to the af
fairs of the O. f. k V.. is ready and '
willing to discuss the same fullv 10
the extent that any business Inr.itu
tion could be expected t disclose its
affairs. The only impatience that!
may have been shown at timeH, may
have arisen by reason of the fart'
that, with this community facing a
very eriti.al situation relative to
railroad development, the general'
run of citizens seem indifferent and 1
seem willing that these important.
matters be decided from the stand
point of prejudice and suspicion.
I realize that nothing has been said
In this article relative in ehr...
that the O. C. & R. Is tinder control I
of another road, nor has the matter
of the possibility of the coming of
the Northern road been adequately'
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