ol.V. No. 12
ECONOMY OF GOOD ROADS.
rM|lng F1«nr** on th* Having Road
improvement Would Make.
T1LLAMOOK, OREGON, THURSDAY.
OUR COUNTRY
ROADS.
They Are the Worst In Any Civilized
Country—Their Improvement.
AUGUST 18.
1892,
$1.50 Per Year
FRENCH ROADS.
How They Are Made and Maintained In
Perfect Condition.
t » public meeting at Abington re-
The commou roads and country high
Tlie excellence of French roads is well
tly Professor "Lewis M. Haupt, of the ways in tbe United States are worso
ivsrsity of Pennsylvania, told some than those to be found in any other known. The United States consul at
ths truths of road construction, country in the world pretending to be Bordeaux describes how they are made.
re is no tax so great as that of bod i civilized aud enjoying a stablo form of The materials are brought from tho
,isa generally accepted maxim,” government. As it has long been an ax noarest quarries and placed at either
,31,1, ‘ and it is true. The horses iom that the common highways of a side of the route surveyed. In order
e to be fed, although they cannot be country are at once the means and the that the full amount contracted for may
1, »ad the average cost of keeping a measure of ita civilization, it is some be delivered the stone must bo heaped
is $12* per year. If tho road sur- what strange that in this country, where in angular piles of prismatic shape and
be made harder merely by metaling , we boast of enjoying a higher type of fixed dimensions. Theso heaps, placed
at a given distance from one another,
jen one horse can du the work of ' civilization than is to lie found else
are afterward visited by an official in
«nd the feed and interest on one is where, our roads should always have
spector, and must in all instances fit ex
I been so wretchedly bad.
el.
actly beneath a skeleton framo carried
jt ia estimated in England that the
Even in the colonial times the neces by him. The material is nsnally marble, i
«aring in cost by reducing their sity to make better the condition of the flint stone or gravel, and whatever is
to such a condition that throe common roads was seriously felt, and in used must lie of tho best quality and
can do tho work of four, there those parts of tbe country settled by par cleansed from all foreign substances.
been effected an economy of $100,- ticularly longheaded people, as, for in Tho stone must be broken so that each
Q00 annually. In the state of Illi- stance, in the neighborhood of Boston, piece may pass through a ring 21» inches
, it is stated that the cost of hauling there havo always been pretty good pub in diameter.
products is at least $15,000.000 lic highways. But as a rule all over
It is then spread evenly over the road, 1
than it would be if the roads were the country from then till now we tho interstices being carefully filled in
>ved, and that such improvement have been content with dirt roads, which with small pieces, so that tlie whole is (
Id add $160,000,000 to tlie valne of . in the winter are muddy quagmires and smixith and free from abrupt eminences
farms. I am well aware that prop in summer streaks of dust. Both Wash and depression. A steam roller then
el on mud roads cannot be sold, ington and Hamilton, after the estab crushes And further evens the whole, i
ile those on macadamized roads have lishment of the republic, appreciated after which a superficial layer of clay :
»sod in value from $50 to $500 per fully tho importance of a general sys and earth completes tho work. Roads
tem of common highways.
are classed as national roads, which are
Will it pay? I have only to refer you
Washington recommended to Patrick the main arteries of the system connect-!
he precedent» of other countries for Henry, then governor of Virginia, that iug most distant parts of the country,
i«wer. If it will not, why do we 1 the location, the building and tbe re- and are constructed and maintained
England, France, Germany, Swltz- ' pairs of roads be taken out of the hands by the government; department roads,
<1, Norway, Sweden and many of the local authorities; for he saw, which connect different points of tho
r civilized countries building the what we see yet more clearly today, same department or of two adjoin
roads they can in the face of diffi- that where our highways are left to the ing departments, and are constructed
ies which to us would be appalling, 1 tender mercies of the local authorities I and maintained by the department;
poor Swiss have built roads through they are mismanaged, Imdly built, and highways aud public roads, which are
ee aud around precipices which even in their worst condition harmed the property of tho commune through
Id seem impassable, and which must by any attempts to make them better. whiJ.i they run, but are in practice I
Thia is not because these local authori made and repaired by the department
e cost over $1,000,000 per mile.
What will roads cost? The answer ties would not like to have good roads, from taxes levied on the commune, sup
t be guarded by the dimensions, but it is because they have no means plemented by a department subsidy;
actor of metal, soils, grades, drain- with which to do much better than is cross roads, which are maintained by
etc., but the prices for turnpikes done, and if they did have the means sums derived from the ordinary reve
e from $2,000 to $10,000 per mile, they lack the requisite knowledge, with nues of tho commune, occasionally sup
y fair roads under favorable condi- out which no decent roads can be built plemented by additional taxation, and
have been laid for $3,000, and or managed.
country roads which are kept in order
Strange though it may seem, the fann by the commune, except they are in
n a deep bottoming and drainage
required it may run up to $10,000, ers, as a rule, take less interest in this jured by unusual traffic, when an in
1 should say, with rolling topog- matter of road improvement than any demnity may lie claimed by the com
y, varied soil and fair material other people. Very few of them are munal administration. For the pnrposo
should not exceed $7,000. It is travelers, and very few realize how bad of maintaining the common roads tho
r, in my opinion, to build the roads the country roads are. When they are inhabitants living in the district aro
general subscription than to farm told of the roads which were built in obliged to work three days in each year
the franchises to joint stock com- I prehistoric times by the Incas of Peru, or pay an amount equivalent to the com
, as in that case tho condition of when the Carthaginian roads are de pensation of the laborer for three days.
s is dependent upon the liberal- | scribed to them, nnd those noble high
The consul at Havre says that French
f tho company, while the commit ways which radiated from acient Rome pavements increase in excellence with
must pay enough in tolls to provide are mentioned, they listen as though a age. In France, he says, all roads have
lie maintenance of the road, and the fairy tale were being told, and when perpetual attention. If from weight,
est and dividends to the stockhold- I they hear of the great highways in rain or other causes a hollow, rut or
France, in England and Switzerland sink is formed, it is repaired at once.
e system of ‘working out the taxes’ and Germany, they listen with the same Where the space to be repaired is *f
owing ujFtlie gutters and throwing incredulity with which they receive the limited area, the rolling of the new coat
muck over on the road should yarn» which sailors and other travelers ing is left to the wide tires of the heavy
r bo called ‘working in the tax,’ are privileged to bring from beyond the i carts, bnt in tho case of extended areas
makes the road soft, and In a short seas.
a steam roller ir brought into use.
They have never had better road» Every carrying and market cart in
the rains and travel have washed
il back and clogged up the ditches, than those which exist today, nor did Franco is a roaduiaker instead of a rut
at no pennanont good result is ob- their fatheas or grandfathers. Con-. maker, for it has tires usually from four
servativo men that they are, they feel inches to six inches in width.—Scientific
at you may perhaps bettor compre- that what was good enough iu the olden American.
Che importance of Ute peobl-m, let time 1» good enough today; therefore,
Road* and Ecoromlc*.
«ins what a road is. Briefly, it is with a kind of contempt which is mis
The condition of the common rood«
of communication, and tho ideal erably pitiful, they "wallow In tho mire
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line of least resistance, level, of their way», paying excessive tolls, en has a very interesting economic bearing
of
a
direct
nature,
nnd
an
indirect
one
not
during,
in
a
word,
a
grinding
taxation,
lit, hard and smooth as poasiblo—
is, with doe regard to the traffic, generation after generation, without ap less important. In the matter of tho
fact will be more fully appreciated preciating the burden which rests npon earning capacity nnd valno of horses
and other draft animals tho common
it is remembered that to pull a them.”
It has been suggested that the Amer roads havo direct effect. If a horse can
of one ton on different surfaces re-
s different power*, aa stated in the ican roads be placed under a system of do one-third more work on a good road
government supervision and be divided nnd be in a working condition one-third
ung figures:
longer than he can on a bad road, then
Cost
somewhat as the French roads are:
I.bs. per mile.
First—National roads. These to be his earning capacity, and hence his
400
40c.
nd requires......... ..........
built and maintained by the general gov value, is increased just one-third. This
au
20c.
earth requires.........
ernment and be located with reference assumption is liased upon a very low es
100
1JC.
adain requires.........
timate. In all probability, if it were
50
5c.
xlen blocks requires,
to military and postal requirements.
2.5c.
a
leks requires..................
Second—State roads. These to be built possiblo to make an exact calculation, it
lJfe.
15
»halt um requires....... .
and maintained by the several states would be found that tho earning ca
in
lc.
n trains requires.........
and connect the various localities of the pacity and the total length of service
#c.
0
1 rails requires..........
•c.
2
ter (canAl) requires...
states and be planned with reference to able life of draft animals would be more
nearly doubled than increased only one-
e farmer hauls everything he nses the national roads.
tho roads, to and from the market, ■ Third—County or neighborhood road s. third.
The census enumerators of 1890 found
t is easily sc< n that ho pays mors These to be built and maintained by
is transportation than any one else counties nnd townships nnd be located that there were in this country 14.219,-
la of the great resistance offered with reference to the classes just men 837 horses, valued at $68 each; 2,881,-
027 mules, valued at $78 each, and 89,-
rthy, sandy or muddy roads.”— tioned.
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Those who advocate this idea sat that 849,024 oxen and other draft animals,
elphia Record,
i if our common roads were improved by i valued at $15 each—making a total of
Tlie Extravagance of
1 some such plan as this, wo should soon 53,803,888 animals used on the roads, at
havo in the United States fu>me- have them in charge of com^tent and a total value of $1,721,585,798. All these
like 19.000,000 of horses and mules educate«! engineers. The national roads horses and mules work at some time on
the age of 2 years upon our farms, would probably be in charge of army the roads, and indeed much ftie greater
t the moderate estimate of twenty- engineers; the state roads in chargo of part of the total work done by them is
nts as the cost of feed and care of engineers grndnnted from the agricul upon country roads and city streets.
If all the work done by them was
of these animals, we see at a glance tural and mechanical schools: nnd the
the aggregate expense of maintain- neighborhood roads in charge of local upon the roads, the increased valuation,
em is about $4,000,000 per day. If ! men, who, once having had the example based upon the above hypothesis of earn
shnilarly moderato oetimate we say set them of how goo«l roads sro built, ing capacity, would be $573,845,266, but
they are kept in tho stablo in a con- would be entirely competent to do what as all tho v. ork is not done on the roads
of enforced idleness by the deep is usually necessary to l»o done in mak it is only fair to reduce this by one-half,
of spring and fall for a period av- ing a road of lesser importance. Dnt and then we would have, by a general
g twenty days in sach year, we even under »nch a plan as this, each improvement of tbe roads of the coun
easily compute that the loss tn this county should have nn engineer to de try, our property in horses and mules
t alone will amount to $80,000,000 sign the difficult work, determine npon and other draft animals increased in
«ar, a sum sufficient to build 16,000 location of route» aud inspect construe- valne $3.860.922,633. I feel safe in as
suming that with good roads road ve
of excellent highway.
tion« and repaim.
Strange as ft may seem, the proper hicles would last one-half longer and
course, considering the great va-
of conditions and the consequent location of a country highway present« their valne lie increased at least $250,-
of factors to be regarded, it is I to the engineer more complex problems 060,000. Taking these t wo sources of in
hie by mathematical formula to than the location of a railroad. Country creased valuation together we should
harp an enhanced property ruination of
to the loss entaileel on any com- people do not understand this and are
by the continued toleration of notwilling to believe it. therefore the 15,36,022,633. all bmnght nbont by tbe
improvement of the common road«.—
dirt roads in their present con- crossroads storekeeper and the village
John Gilmer Speed in Harper's Weekly.
I but the error in the result of any blacksmith are nsnally thought to be
tation is more likely to show a entirely competent to decide upon the
The Width of Wagon Tire*.
Her »han actually exists, and in best route for a country road -John Gil
A matter that would greatly help the
ver way the matter be regarded mer Speed in Harper s Weekly.
road« ia the width of the tire n«ed rm
n that with the imposed bur-
the vehicles. The narrow tires in use,
O
h
,»
Road«
Would
Hvip
th*
Caaatry.
extra help and extra draft ani-
Bad road» force people to live in cit' some of them not more than one meh in
I om of time, wear and tear of
width, ent like knives into the roadways
and harness, the drawing of tee- good roads tend to take them out and render it much more difficult to keep
loads and the depreciated value of int;the country. This
the road« in repair. If a tire not les«
'ands, we are pursuing a sbort- veais its force perhaps more strikingly than two inches in width was used on
Xrea<Hnviewof the facta of mil-
policy in permitting the present
all apringless vehicles it would
to continue. Besides the actual roa«l development, to which the especial the roads against a large portion of the
attention
of
the
American
people
has
•meh a moment's reflection will
damage they now suffer. ■*" ,he
to »how. we are gaining nothing been given during the pa*t forty years. the wagon incregses in weight the tire
The
railroads
have
centralized
the
pop-
“g nothing in that great depart-
should be widened and a tire four inches
in the citie« and larger town«
agricultural industry to which nlation
JKXed them along «heir lin~o Wide should be used on all wagons de
itioo of the dirt road is of such
signed to narry heavy load«. It would
importance.—Isaac B. Potter in communication. Now what u, needed help the horse« as well as the roads.
is an eqaal development of carnage
to broken the »reus of jop.ila- St. Paul Pioneer Pr'«
U"»l<l In.l.t M Goret Beret«.
tion and
wlirve this congestion.
Cwt M«r* TH«« SB* T*«»«-
to make a good road depends o®
Experiments have recently l»een mads
ty and the materials most eaa- A. A. Pope in Forum.
st several points which show that a bad
theaply procured, but the farm-
road in winter wiM cost the farmer a
wJX; county
each community are in duty
much grester than hl* tax— on the
to toke the matter into their own
Tillaïqoolç Lumbering Company
I.. H iner , Pres, and Manager
»««•r 1
Win. Fberinati, Vice Presic...
id ent
Wn|. D. Stillwell, Treasurer,
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L. Crenshaw, Secretary,
Win. Barker, Superintendent
JI V. V.BOHNSON, M. D
Office oo west «loor to Tnitper«nce Fi»Flor»,
Tillamook, • Oregon*
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ATTORNEY-AT-L.IW.
----- MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF-------- >---- s-i
TIIXAMOOK,
rna*l manager nnlew he
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ORF.CON.
J T. MAULSBY,
Rough
and
Dressed
Merchantable
Attorney-at-Law.
Lumber
Notary PulHic aud Heal EMate Conveyancer
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W. SEVERANCE,
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IhH’UTY-DiBnucT-A'rroB.TJtT,
3rdJndicial District Jor Tillamook Gonnty
Moulding of Every Description, Bracket?, Etc. Flooring and Rustic a ¡Specialty.
TILLAMOOK,
OREGON.
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^LAUDE THAYER,
Attorney-at-Law.
ALL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY
TILLAMOOK, OREGOX.
MISCELLANEOUS,
Q & E. THAYER,
TILLAl^OOZ:,
BANKERS.
General Hanking and Exchange traaineatf*
lularaat paid on tim« depeffta.
Kxchnnge on
Belgium, Germany*
«weilen ami a» foreign conuiriea*
TILLAMOOK*
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J F. LARSON.
BLACKSMITH.
w*»»n making, end »II kind« of Worn! work
Mid G«lw**l Blncksmllhl»» «tous. Mill
Mactiiiirry Uepalrwl.
¡They keep on hands at their store in
Hobsonville the largest stock of goods
in Tillamook County
Rutee TH*da where territorial hmrt* h»
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gj^^ll.wae-.heelnx s Speeiolty
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Our stock consists of I>ry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps
and Notions. Groceries, Crockery, and Queensware. Doors, Windows, Lime,
Hair, and Cement. Hardware and Nails. ®^^SpeciaT attention given to
filling ordeis for goods in jobbing lots.
MI«»L. J. FTUOOLI»
RUGGLES & JOHNSON,
A gents r ° r
MILLINERY AND DRESS
MAKING.
JErit C'¿VIGIXCM:'" 'rT'l?RTJT’CZ3
TILLAMOOK, SIN FRANCISCO IND WAY PCRTS.
Makes regular trips about every two witks, th» weather Permitting.
IUI«, Dre Trimmings «nd « Ornerai Arent-
meni o< Millinery Ginnl«. W«
keep
the Intest style*.
Tlie fast sailing S tr . T kvck K k has been specially fitted lip for carrying pas
sengers. Following are the rates:
.. »15.
C ' N PA -- GE
.........
.. »20.
BOUND TItIP,....................
.. »II.
STEERAGE (one way)........
» I per ton
Freig.it, (General Merchandise)
J. E.
S ibley ,
Manager,
Mrs. J. JOHNSON
Near Con rt House,
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rplLLAMOOK LAUNDRY.
LESTER HART, PROPRIETOR.
Hobson ville, Ore
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Waahlng «»Ihervrt
<t*Hv«r«d cv«ry
ee*k. W«rli dune on «horl no, kv when .twlred.
tlarahvd ablrla l«U *«ch. i mninou Shirt« and
drawer«, » to lOrt» eaeb. Family washing and
Ironing, sorts p«r down.
Soil» cleaned to order.
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TIi-t-AMooK, <ra«.
QENTRAL MARKET,
L. H. BROWN, PROPRIETOR.
Th« hr.I Seri, Veal, Pork an<l MnMon *lw«y«
on h*ud. Egg«. Hutter, Vegetable» »"<•
Chick«,,» bought and sold.
»•Usiacttuu »aarani««<l In »very on*.
Shop oppoalla the Grand ( antral.
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Ko dooM* or Fata* Kaploaioaa. no trquont tri th tho unrrllablo rpark.
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