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SPECIAL EDITION OF THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT.
GOOD SCHOOLS IN TILLAMOOK.
by considering the number of large and well-stocked mercantile establishments and
other enterprises, which are classified as follows :
G eneral M erchandise —Cohn & Co., William Olsen. George Edmunds. D. T.
Conveniently Located Throughout the County with Effi­
Edmunds, J. A. Todd & Co., McIntosh & McNair.
cient Teachers.
D ruggists —S. J. Sturgeon, Chas. I, Clough.
H ardware —W. H. H. Carey, McIntosh & McNair.
F arm I mplements —C. A. Bailey.
There is one question which the home seeker always asks liefore immigrating
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F urniture —Nels. Thompson.
to a new country. What are the educational facilities in this or that community
H arness —R. Ackley.
is a query well worth his consideration. No parent desires to see his children
S tationery and C onfectionery —B. C. Lamb.
grow to manhood in ignorance. Hence if we can point with pride to a good
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R estaurant and C onfectionery —Frank Wheeler.
system of schools, over which preside competent teachers, we are holding forth a
S hoe S tore —P. F. Brown.
) very strong attraction indeed to the immigrant. This we claim. According to the
M eat M arket —Maurice Leach.
clerk’s report on March 1, 1899, there are in the county l,672persons lietween the
? ages of four and twenty years of age. This, a marked increase over former veari.
R acket S tore —A. E. Imbler.
S aloons —C E. Hadley, J. S. Lamar.
The enrollment in the year 1898 was 1,140. At first glance this would seem that a
L ivery B arn and S ale S tables —Tillamook & North Yamhill Stage Line Co.
large number of the children were not in any school, but many attend private
J ewelers —A. Letcher, H. McDermott.
schools, which accounts for the apparent lack of attendance.
M illinery —Mrs. S. J. Sturgeon, Mrs. Newman.
The estimated value of school property in the county will exceed $30,000-
L aundry and D ye W orks —J. W. Atwater.
$7,775 were paid for teachers salaries during the year 1898.
H otels —Larsen House, M. H. Larsen ; Allen House, J. P. Allen ; Tillamook (
The county is divided into 47 school districts. Being a large county, some
Hotel, Emmett Quick & F. R. Smith.
of these districts are necessarily large, but as the country settles these schools are
B arbers —Chas. Peterson, I. Simler, Edgar Latimer.
being sub-divided, thus affording school privileges to a greater number of children.
T in S tore and C entral T elephone O ffice —J. E. Tuttle.
Our country schools are as good as in any county in the state, many are
S econd H and S tore —W. E. Page.
excellently equipped with valuable apparatus, supplies which would do credit to
I nstrument T uner and R epairer —F. C. Shanahan.
many of our town schools.
F ish M arket —C. T. McKinley.
Much improvment is being made in our schools. A new interest is being
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S hoeing S mith —Charles Wolf.
aroused in the patrons. School-boards now look for more competent teachers,
B lacksmith —I. F. Larsen.
evidently realizing from experience that tne low priced teacher is not the cheapest
M achinist and B lacksmith —L. Hiner.
in the end, that experience and professional study and training enable the teacher
P lumbers and T insmiths —W. H. Cary, B. H. Bunn, J. E. Tuttle.
to do a superior grade of work. They no longer take the view that anybody, who
C arriage M aker and G eneral W ork —W, V. Morgan.
fails in everything else can teach school. The greater interest manifested bv parents
C abinet M aker —Nels. Thompson.
and teachers, the general advancement of pupils prove the policy to be a wise one.
P ainters and D ecorators —Fred Sappington, H. Gessncr.
Our pleasant climate is an attraction to teachers from various parts of the
P hotographer —O. Heins.
state who enjoy a vacation spent in teaching in some pleasant country school.
C arpenters —A. S. Broadhead, C. Oolev, G. L. Hunter.
Thus it happens that among our teachers are frequently registered some of the
leading educators of the state.
In 1898 the average salary of teachers was advanced $4.30 over that of 1897.
S aw M ills and L umber Y ards —Tillamook Lumbering Co., Pacific Lumber Co.
1899 has also brought an advance.
W ater W orks C ompany .
E lectric L ight C ompany
All the schools of the county will lie required to conform with the state course
T illamook L ogging C ompany .
C ohn & Co., S almon P ack rs .
of study now in preparation by the state board ofeducation.
W. O lsen , C annery .
P. M. M c I ntosh , C heese F actory .
1 he school at Woods, also the Nehalem school, are models of neatness and efficiency,
T illamook D airy A ssociation .
T illamook C reamery C ompany .
being a credit to the towns.
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The Fairview school employs two teachers and is well equipped, being situated
B ankers —C. & E. Thayer.
in the midst of a rich farming district.
D octors —David Wiley, C. E. Hawke.
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At Bay City, overlooking the quiet waters of Tillamook bay and the broad
D entists —W. A. Wise.
Pacific, is situated the most picturesque school building in the county, a four room
A ttornevs - at -L aw —Claude Thayer, B. L. Eddy, Handley & Handlev, W. J.
building erected in 1895 at a cost of$3500. Here we find a well organized school-
May, W. H. Cooper, A. W. Severance, T. H. Goyne, G. 0. Nolan, I. T.
Tillamook City is becoming quite an educational town. Here is a well equipped
Maulsby.
pnblic school giving a thorough course of instruction to the 10th grade work. No
R eal E state —F. R. Beals, T. H. Goyne, Thos. Coates.
better will be found in in the state
N ewspapers —The Tillamook Headlight, Fred C. Baker, editor ; Tillamook
The St. Alphonsus Academy is another school of which we speak of with pride.
Herald, R. M. Watson, editor.
Here a thorough course, in all the Academic branches, is offered, as well as in the
P ostmaster —A. W. Severance.
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Business and Music courses.
S eminary —St. Alphonsus Academy.
As the country improves so the schools improve. It is said that a government
The capital represented and employed in the various businesses in Tillamook
is what the people make it. Can we not say the same of our schools. If patrons
City aggregate, perhaps, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
and teachers co-operate, striving to make the school the best in the country it will'
be so.
Our schools are good, but let us make them better throughout the length and
breadth of our land. In the city, town, and village, on the rolling prairie and in the
The Tillamook Mines.
quiet mouutain valley, we find the public school. Teachers and parents, co-oper­
ate, guard with a jealous eye the “Poor Boy's College.”
To those who have imbibed the notion that the whole coast range, with adja­
GEO. B. LAMB, School Superintendent.
cent strata, belonging to the middle tertiary, the formations being an unaltered
sandstone, as taught in the books, it will be a surprise to learn that quartz veins
are found on the western slope^of the mountains, metal-bearing quartz veins at
A Spry Old Settler.
that. Such is the case, and the discovery of these veins, some years since
was the occasion of quite a "rush,” the most of the prospectors and would-!»
Every Tillamooker has a smiling regard for Mr. William N. Vaughn, a pioneer
miners coming from Portland. The claims were mainly on the South Trask river
ot 1852, who is still as spry as a kitten. It was in September of that year that Mr.
but the best were on the main Trask and south side of the stream. The country
Vaughn was one of a party bent upon reaching Tillamook either by hook or by
rock is described as sandstone, running into a smooth "whetstone rock” (perhaps
crook. Their attempt by way of the Grand Ronde proved a failure, and in De"
novaculite.) Limestone of a doubtful age, and a rock called soapstone are found
cember of I he same year the party came round by boat. Mr. Vaughn settling near
the latter giving suggestions that the formations may be cretaceous-suggestions
the Kilchis river where he now resides. He wasmarriedin 1858. They raised titteen
not disputed by the presence of the limestone. The veins all have iron caps and
children and have now direct twenty descendants, children and grand children,
the principal leads are from four to five tret in thickness, with many "stringers”
and out ot the entire floc. only one has lieen lost. Mr. Vaughn’s farm now con­
and spurs. The vein-stuff is quarts mainly, with some calcite and magneste and
sists of 300 acres and he milks 29 cows, Heruns his own creamerv and separator
contains a great deal of sulphurcts. Most of the veins contain no gold or silver
by water power, and his receipts amounted to $1150 last year. The farm machin­
which a small number possess a little of. One assayer laboring for a long time
ery which he requires cost him about $75 per year. He feeds his cows from Decem­
upon Tillamook rock, gave returns of 25 to 50 dollars per ton, while others got
ber to the middle of April with roots, about 50 tons, but no mill feed. Pays out
nothmg at all from the same rock. For a time the miners (50 or so had gathered)
nothing for wages. He has 60 acres in meadow,and 150 in pasture. The meadow
ctK'ouraged by the high assays, persisted in prospecting, and took up a great many
two tons of hay per acre.
claims, only to abandon them later and move to more promising fields, and no one
is left in the Tillamook mines, at present although several profess to believe that
Tillamook County Officials.
“there >s somethmgin them.” The principal claim was known«. the Bear Wallow
on the mam Trask river. It was worked by an East Portland company, who ran
Representative—J. W. Maxwell.
Assessor—J. S. Stephens.
a tunnel for 80 or »0 fret and S1>ent a thousand or two of dollars, incited thereto bv
County Judge—G. W. Sappington.
Deputy—Thomas Coates.
niling a little good rock on top. but this gave out quicklv. No other claims were
Commissioner—C. H. Wheeler,
I School Superintendent—Geo. B. Lamb.
worked to this extent. but barely prospected a little and assays made, whose
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Charles Ray.
Treasurer—W. H. Cary.
results us has Iwen too often the case in Oregon, depended wholly on the assaver
Clerk of County Court—Homer Mason. Surveyor—A. M. Austin.
A quarter Ol a ton of r.K k from the Maud claim was shipped to East Portland
Deputy—E. D. Severance.
Coroner—J. E. Tnttle.
and worked by crushing ami malgamating and returns of $66 per ton were
Sheriff—Henry H. Aiderman.
said to have been achieved.
Deputy Prosecuting Att’y.—B. L. Eddy.
I Official Newspaper—The Headlight.
Deputy—E W. Stanley.
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