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THE TILLAMOOxk HEADLIGHT. MAY 9, 1901.
tflillitmooh
Ijfiibligbt.
Fred C. Baker, Publisher.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
( strictly in
One year............
Six months........
Threemontlis....
advance .)
$1.50
75
50
Too Many “Oily” Concerns,
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We are inclined to think that with so
many oil companies being organized in
Oregon, it is doubtful in our mind if some
of them will find enough oil to lubricate
their machinery. Had oil be found in
different localities there would be some
justification is organizing numerouscom-
panies to develop the oil industry, but as
far as we are able to learn we fail to see
where oil lias been found to warrant a
wholesale quest in search of it. Experts
may thoerize as to indications, people
may feel positive when they see what they
believe to be seepage and smell the point
of an auger after probing the earth a few
feet, but there is no positive assurance
that a well of oil will lie found there. As
this is the pretext.no doubt, upon which
many of f lie oil companies have come into
existence, we hardly think it sufficient
foundation to justify theTormation of so
many stock companies, and for that rea­
son people will have to be careful or they
may be mulct bv bogus concerns. This
is what we fear with so many “oily”
speculators bobbing up all over Oregon
forming stock companies, which will tend
to injure the companies intending to do
a legitimate business As we have stated
before, this quest to find oil is simply a
speculation, on the same basis as mining,
when, if it proves a failure, it is a loss,
while, on the othei hand, if it proves suc­
cessful, it turns out to be a money mak­
ing investment. For that reason it would
not be wise for a person to put bis entire
wad in oil stocks. We do not care to
make any rash predictions about finding
oil in Tillamook county because we have
not the practical experience to give an
opinion to prove conclusively whether
oil cqn be found herein paying quantities,
neither can the men who claim to be oil
experts. Apart from the oil proposition,
there is this much to be said, that in do­
ing development work for the purpose of
finding oil, it would not surprise us much
if coal, instead of oil, was found in suffi
cient quality and quantity, so it is not
entirely upon oil that the stockholders
would be depending upon “to strike it
rich.” But this is only a matter of opin­
ion based upon what we have heard
those who claim to know something
about thecoal prospect in 1 illamook say.
Anyway, we want to find out what is
hidden in the bowels of the earth, and if
the numerous oil companies succeed in
finding oil, coal or other mineral it will
be a great thing for Oregon.
ciers and perhaps finally be lost :n some
vague but effective assignment of terri­
tory calculated to tie up the local project
indefinitely.
“There is little room for doubt that the
Portland, Nehalem & Tillamook railroad
enterprise is meeting some such treat­
ment as this in New York. To the men
there it is merely the question of aug­
menting transcontinental tonnage, and
thev sec no reason why the Nehalem
country should not be drained to the
East by wav of Puget Sound or even by
the Corvaliis.Albany-Sacramento.Ogdcn
route. What do thev care for Portland ?
All they want is the long haul to market
at goodly freight rates. By keeping the
Nehalem traffic out of Portland it would
be kept from contact with competition
among transcontinental carriers.
“This makes it necessary for Portland
to provide her own relief. Portland in­
terests will not be served bv a road that
shall take Nehalem and TiUamook com­
merce to some other point, passing
around Portland. It is preposterous that
so rich a region lying so near our very
door should be drained away off to for­
eign parts to theimmeasurabledetriment
ot both this city and the country to be
developed ; but this is what is likely to
be done if present appearances are not
deceptive.
“An independent line bet ween Portland
and Nehalem and Tillamook Bays is
what Portland needs and should have.
This would encourage the development
of the vast native resources of that rich­
est quarter of Oregon, and it is only busi­
ness logic that its trade should flow this
wav. But what bond ot fraternity or
reciprocity is therebetween the New York
investor and the Tillamook dairymen
and the Nehalem timberman ? There are
fraternal ami reciprocal relations between
Portland and the Nehalem Valley and
the Tillamook Coast. These interests
would work together for mutual good.
But the railroad that shall weld them
together will probably fall to the lot ot
Portland to provide.”
It this is the case, ti e 1 it must be the
opinion of the Oregonian that the Port*
land, Nehalem & Tillamook railroad will
never be const ructed, for that newspaper
has repeatedly stated that Portland nor
the business men have any intention of
building railroads and that the financiers
think it would take too much money out
of the channels of trade. Alas and alack
for Portland’s want of commercial enter­
prise.
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Protection for the Home.
Following is an editorial which appear­
ed in the Saturday’s edition of the Even­
ing Telegram, being one of a series writ­
ten-by Oregon editors, and as we have
been requested to reproduce it in the
Headlight, as it was written bv the
editor of this paper, we consented to do
so, consequently we have no apology to
make for giving a column of second hand
editorial matter this week.
A ukhm
matter
laws
have been future the best apple growing section of
Liiy distress-!
aisirv&s- | n.
.» cf 10,000 ...........
-
paper men to come across ni.uiy
nd
children
passed
by
the
legislatures
of
the
several the United States.
iug cases where women al...
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without
states
the
last
winter.
We
are
a
great
have been left destitute and
Eighteen
head
of selected carriage
support, thus showing that a large 1 people to make lawsandthemostornarv horses were sold in Chicago lately to an
set
in
the
world
about
enforcing
them
number ot women have either been in­
eastern buyer at an average of $1,500
different to their own interests or do not It the laws made were all literally and
her head. ________________
realize that which may occur at any 1 rigidly enforced without fear or favor
M.
!
the
people
would
not
let
the
legislature
Notice.
time—that of suddenly becoming widows
Makes a Specialty of Mnnufactur
■
meet
oftener
than
once
in
ten
years.
with large families depending upon them
All persons are hereby forbidden to
ing all kinds of
» » »
trespass, by driving stock of any kind
for support.
Harness,
One of the distressing scenes of life is j Many a horse will work in patient mis­ through my stock ranch at Blaine, Til-
L D. J ones .
to stand by the grave of a man who has ery all through the spring's work lor the amook Co. Or.
left his wife and family destitute, and al­ want of a little care on the part ofits
Carriage Trimmings.
Wanted, 50 Cotds of Wood.
though friends may sympathize, what owner in giving it a properly fitting
can we think of the departed ? Modesty collar.
Sealed bids will be received at the Till­
First Class Work Guaranteed.
* M *
amook C reamer v Company on Satur­
forbids an answer.
In
Bailey’s Warehouse at
day.
May
11th.
1901,
at
10
o
’
clock
a.m.,
The latest riddle going the rounds is as
It used to be the funtion of the church,
for 50 Cords of Fir, Hemlock, Alder or
Tillamook City.
follows:
What
is
the
difference
between
and of Christian and philanthropic per­
Balm Wood.
sons and benevolent institutions, to ad­ the Democratic party and a Texas oil
The wood to be four feet long, cut to
iiai *. .a. * .* » * » ■ • w jl
two feet lengths, stacked in the creamery
minister to the needs and necessities of well? None; they're both spouters.
company’s wood shed, and measured
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the sick, destitute and homeless—and
there.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
they are to a large extent, 1 am glad to
The cut-off pine lands of northern
Tillamook, Or , April 24, 1901.
sav, carrying oil that work at the pre­ Michigan are going to be in the near
ByJOrder of the Board of Directors.
sent time—but conditions have wonder­
ß L. EDDY,
fully changed, and for the better, I think.
People’s minds have been entirely revolu­ r
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
tionized the past 50 years, as to the
T illamook ^O rkgon
most practical methods for the protec­
tion of the home and family circle w hen
We desire to submit to your careful consideration some state­
sickness and death enters it, with results
II. .COOPER.
which are entirely flattering. True it is ments of fact.
that some church organizations dis­
Some months ago a few Portland business men, who know
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
favored fraternal orders, and did all they what the oil field of California liaj done for that state, and who
could to stunt their growth, which, how­ were anxious to find out if the Coast Range mountains in Oregon
OREGON.
TILLAMOOK.
ever, proved ineffectual.
were not as promising in oil indications as the Coast Range moun­
I believe that the introduction of bene­
tains of California, engaged the services of two professional oil land rp H. G0YNE,
ficiary and fraternal orders has been one
of the greatest blessings to humanity, experts and sent them intoWestern Oregon to examine the territory.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
and especially to women. They have These experts, Mr. P. W. Francis and Mr. G. P. Brown, first ex­
I
enabled people to help themselves and plored the county around Clatskanie and the upper Nehalem region,
Oflice: Opposite Court House,
entwined a band of protection around and were both highly pleased with the indications and with the
T illamook , O rkgon .
their homes and their loved ones which formation.
They were both, however, strongly impressed by the
was not obtainable in any other way. fact that both surface indications and the oil-rock formation be­
Church organizations or charitable in­ came more and more promising as they neared the Lower Nehalem QLAUDE THAYER,
stitutions did not offer the protection
and the Tillamook County. Returning to Portland, they so reported.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
which these fraternal orders did, conse­
At this stage Mr. Brown was called away on business in another
quently it is not surprising that people
T illamook , O regon .
flocked into them when they saw some­ field, and Mr. Francis, taking with him Mr. E. S. McCoy, a Pen­
nsylvania
oil
man
of
long
experience,
made
a
field
exploration
thing they desired—thus making them
thrifty, independent of the cold hand of about the mouth of the Nehalem and around Tillamook Bay, the ROBERT A. MILLER,
charity, and placing them in a position result was the leasing ofabout ioo acres, and the formation of a
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
company in Portland, iucoporated under the name of the Tillamook
where they could help themselves.
O regon C ity , O k E gon .
“ Protection,”yes, that is the battle-cry Paraffine Oil Company, with the following well-known gentlemen
Land Titles and Land Office Business a
of the Republican party, to piotect our as officers and directors:
Specialty.
“ infant” industries—which I am sorry to
President,
H.
S.
Rowe,
Mayor
of
Portland
;
Vice
President
J.
confess, is more often to protect a trust
(JAM EH MCCAIN,
¡A. W. 8KVKKANCK
company or those who have a monopoly A.Taylor, of the firm of Honeynian & McBride, Portland ¡Treasurer,
Samuel
Connell,
President
of
the
Northwestern
Door
Co.
and
Presi
­
011 articles of produce or manufacture.
^JcCAIN & SEVERANCE,
But w hat about the infant industry of dent of the Board of Trade of the city of Portland; Directors M. J.
our own homes ? If one needs protection ! Roche of the Rio Grand & Western Ry. Co., and President of the
ATTORNEY8-AT-LA W,
it is the latter.
What inconsistency ¡Pacific Coast Passenger Traffic Association; E. E. Miller, of the
T illamook . O regon .
there is in a person who yells himself firm of Miller & Miller,Commercial Block, Portland; F. E. Beach, I
hoarse and votes to protect someone head ot the firm of F. E. Beach & Co., the Pioneer paint and Oil QAVID WILEY, M.D.,
else’s industry, but neglects to protect firm of Portland, so widely and favorable known over the entire
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND
his own wife and children from want and northwest; and P. W. Francis, professional oil land expert.
ACCOUCHEUR.
destitution when they have plenty of
It goes without saying that men of the standing and credit of
All call promptly attended to.
opportunities for doing so ?
Even our Legislators spend considera­ the gentlemen managing this Company do not lend their names I
T illamook , O regon .
ble time discussing measures for the pro­ and influences to any mere stock-jobbing, fly-by-night scheme. |
tection of game, fish, etc., and they even They are men you know, men whose reputation is worth more than
I. M. SMITH, M.D.,
appropriate money for that purpose, but many thousands as a mere business collateral; men who will see
it is not thought necessary or important J that every dollar of money subscribed to this enterprise is honestly
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
that laws should be enacted to protect ! expended in boring for oil, and who will see, too, that the small
Offices in T.idd’s Buildings.
the home and family. But why not?
stockholder’s rights are just as carefully protected as the large
Most of 11s realize the pathetic words
TILLAMOOK
—
OREGON.
stockholders.
of “ Home, Sw eet Home,” and in doing
The Board of Directors have ordered that 100,000 shares of
so it brings to one’s mind those who
QR. O. H. DAVENPORT,
make home happy—the wife, the mother, , capital stock, each of the fSte value of $i.oo, be offered to the
This stock is full-paid, is non- j
w ith her cares, her anxieties, her joys, 1 public at io cents per share.
DENTIST.
watching over and tenderly raising her assessable, and when you have bought it and paid io cents for it,
Makes
a
Specialty
of Crown and Bridge
children. Yet how cruel it is, when the your payments are done and there is no further liability of any
Work.
grim reaper lays the husband and father kind.
With the |io,ooo realized from the sale of this stock, in
in the silent city of the dead with'poverty addition to the money paid in by the incorporators, we will bore
T illamook C ity ,
O regon .
staring in the face of those whom he has
standard size oil wells to a depth of 2,000 feet, if necessary, on the
left behind.
leased property near Bay City. It is proper to say that the work
FIRE INSURANCE.
It is not necessary for me to draw the
Harness
Making
S.
HAYES
Saddles,
Collars,
To the People of Tillamook Co.
yy
The man who takes unto himself a
wife, raises a family, and then suddenly
shuffles off this mortal coil without
making some kind of temporary or per­
manent provision for their protection
and support, is what I call an absconder
of the deepest dye, and is on a par with
the person who, having lost all sense of
parental affection and responsibility, de­
liberately abandons his wife and children
Portland Lack« Enterprise.
to the charity of not too often a charita­
The whole secret connected with the ble world.
On the other hand, the most unselfish
Portland, Nclmlcm & Tillamook Rail­
road Company is that Portland will act of a man’s life is when he denies him­
build a railroad to Tillamook if it can self and makes an effort to insure ade­
get other people to take the responsibility quate protection and provision for the
and furnish the money. This of itself is immediate needs of his family in case ol
a poor recommendation and shows a his decease.
want of enterprise bordering on moss-
These are two pictures which are dra­
backism. Portland can see the benefit matically untok'ed in everyday events.
that will accrue to that city by having I11 nibbing up against the world news­
railroad connections with Tillamook, for paper men see the bright side of life as curtain further aside and elongate upon we contemplate will cost from $25,000 to $30,000, and in offering
J. S. STEPHENS,
that has been pointed out over ami over well as the dark side. This leads them the sufferings women have to endure part of the capital stock to the public we do it for two reasons :
AGENT FOR THE
again, but to put the situation in a nut­ to this conclusion, that much of the dis­ through men’s indifference to their duties First, we think it an excellent investment, with a promise of very
shell, Portland wants something for tress and suffering they run across could and responsibilities. This I do say, if a great profits; second, we think that a public enterprise like this, HOME MUTUAL AND LONDON &
LIVERPOOL GLOBE INSURANCE
nothing, or, in other words, it is unwill­ have been alleviated in the home had the man is held accountable at the judgment which, if successful, will add millions to Tillamook’s wealth and
COMPANIES.
ing to make anv sacrifice or take any re ! husband or wife taken the precaution to bar of God for his sins of omission and
bring
oil
operators
and
wealthy
men
from
all
over
the
Union
to
in
­
sponsibility in obtaining the trade ol a insure their lives. This is a duty and a commission, then heaven pity the man
Agent for North West School Supply
We are willing to do
Company, Notary Public.
valuable stretch of country, The trou- responsibility every man owes to his wife who absconds from this terrestrial globe, vest here, is worthy of public assistance.
TILLAMOOK,
—
OREGON
ble is Portland says to the capitalist : and family—if he has not provided for leaving a wife and family destitute upon our share in the hope of profits, and we think you ought to be
willing to join hands.
“You pungle up the whole of the money, them in some other way. The loss of it.
for you see what a lienefit it will be—to the bread-winner of the family is bad en­
If we strike oil in good quality, the stock now offered at 10
F rhi » C. B aker .
the city.” To which the capitalist makes ough in itself, but is not the affliction of
cents will jump to $10 a share in a day’s time, and an invest­
reply: “Not much. Do you see anv green a woman doubly intensified—especially
Secretary Wilson, in awarding the con ment of $100 now for 1,000 shares will net you $10,000.
Does!
in my eye ? The city or the people that when she has fine feelings and a sensitive tract for furnishing seeds for next sea­
this seem exaggerated ? Just read a few examples of what has!
won’t help to help themselves can never nature—if she is left with a large family son’s supply, has made a radical change
General Banking and Exchange busi-
actually occurred in California within three years :
amount to much, so you need not expect and practically penniless, and at a time in the administration of the seed distri
I ness interest paid on time deiiosits.
Three
years
ago
the
Union
Oil
Company
’
s
stock
was
$1
per
capitalists to shoulder the entire load to when she is physically unfit to maintain bution service by placing the entire work
It is now $1,500. An investment of $100 made $150,000. | Exchange on England, Belgium, Ger­
assist people who lack enterprise and hers-lf ami children? Can we not call to in the charge of Prof. B. T. Galloway as share.
push—even to corral a large amount of remembrance some instance where a director of the Bureau of Plant Industry.
The stock of the Home Oil Company, of Coalings, Cal., sold many, Sweden, and all foreign countries
business at its very door.” The H ead ­ woman has acted a noble part, even to Under the new plan, trained scientists, of at 10 cents.
It is now $5. An investment of $100 earned $5,000
TILLAMOOK. ORE.
light has no longer any sympathy with the sacrifice of her own health, and whom there is a large number in the new I in two years.
Portland, and if the trade of the Coast brought on nn early death, in working plant bureau, will make a thorough ob­
INSURE
The New York Company’s stock in 1897 was 50 cents per
counties is eventually diverted to other and providing for the children depending servation and inspection of the seeds. !
share.
It
is
now
$200.
An
investment
of
$100
earned
$40,000.
cities. Portland will only have itself to upon her for support? I contend that They will go, it is stated, to the con­
Claude Thayer
The Reed Company
It
blune, for the manner in which it allows thousands of women would l>e saved tractor’s plant in Toledo. O., with a
I J ’s stock sold at * 25
* J cents
11 one
vuv, year
j mi ago.
Vi Il
Agent
or
Fireman's Fund and London
the situation to slip through its fingers from this unenviable condition if they special view to seeing that the seeds arc ' recently sold its holdings for $1,800,000, netting each investor of
of
new
varieties
and
are
clean
of
weeds.
$4O»OOO
profit.
is surprising tor n city with so much embraced the opportunity held out to
and Lancashire Fire Insurance
boasted wealth. But then we have lieen them to protect themselves and children The bureau will also direct the distribu­
The chances of these companies were not one bit better than
Companies.
told that for Portland to build the rail­ and their homes. It may cause a little tion of all the seeds.
Of course the OUTS to begin with.
road alone it would take too much money self-denial in some cases. Imt it is a sacri­ scientists are not expected to ascertain
We think this the best chance to make big money by a small
For Fence
out of the channel of trnde. But what fice which every man should make—that the number of votes this distribution will '
investment
that has ever been offered in Oregon. The stock will
jf it did. it would soon find its way back. I of procuring some kind of life insurance gain for the indivi Inal congressman.
FIR COATEr WITH
*
be on sale in Portland, Seattle, Spokane, and San Francisco
The Oregonian, with commendable for the protection of his
< * *
newspaper enterprise, has repeatedly dren.
The first or io cent issue is
There are more divorces in the United and will not long wait buyers.
l»ointcd out the importance of direct rail-
1 see and realize what life insurance States each year than in all the rest of offered in Tillamook county, as we want the people here to be in
Will outwear CEDAR. It is also a
road connections with Tillamook, and companies ami beneficiary and other fra­ the world put together. Whilcour popu­ on the ground-floor.
The Secretary of the Company, MR. P.
RADICAL REMEDY AGAINST
we feel sorry for that newspa|>er when it ternal orders have done and are doing to lation grows at the average rate of28 W. FRANCIS, will be in Tillamook for a few days, at the
CHICKEN LICE.
l»emoans the situation in an editorial alleviate the sufferings of widows and , per cent |ier annum, divorce is on the
Its application to the inside walls of
Allen
House,
and
will
be
glad
to
see
anybody
interested
and
give
asking the question “.Must Portland orphans. The innovation of these in­ | increase at 69.2 per cent a year. Going
poultry houses will permanently exter­
all the information in his power.
Wait tor New’ York capital ?” Then stitutions have kept thousands of per­ ■ back to 1870 it is found that 3H per
minate all LICE.
treats the query thus:
Results.
HEALTHY CHICKENS-
sons from lavoming public charges, kept I cent of marriages were terminated by
“It is not inopportune tocall the atten­ family circles intact, cheered the broken
PLENTY EGGS.
divorce
in
that
year.
In
1880
the
per
­
tion of Port la nd tieople to one fact l>car- hearts of widows, saved homes from
Write for circular and price» and men-
centage of marriages ended by divorce
ing upon the local t ai road situation that
tion this paper.
has not liecn given much consideration. being s< Id, educated orphans ami given was 4.8, in 1890 it was 6.2—nearlv
WADE & BRIGGS,
We have been striving to get Eastern them a fair start in life. Ami one feature double in twenty years.
capitalists—rail road capita lists, of course about this is, those who have this pro­
Tillamook. Or.
* * *
—to put up money lor our railroad eii- tection tor their homes are not beholden
Men will always succeed the l>est with
terprises, mcanw bile forget ting that they
have no particular interests in Oregon to charity, for it is something they are that kind of live stock which they like
C. A. BAILEY,
DKAl.KR IN
Ml
and would rather favor the railroad or entitled to by their forethought and de­ the best. A man who does not like sheep
system with which thev already have sire to provide for their loved ones.
STUDEBAKER U’AGOX
should never attempt to keep them ; just
some sort of relation. In this wav such
OSBORNE MOWERS,
Net, with the rapid strides of life in­ the same with horses and cows. Men
an enterprise ns the projected railroad
Bnglties. hay rake«, plow», «nd othe
surance
between Portland and the Nehalem and |°
rancc companies
e<u”P«nies and the desire with violent tempers should not have
farm machinery.
You can save
Tillamook Coast, when taken into the ’’»nongst the working classes to join. much to do with stock anvwav. nú
money by dealing with me.
Ka.trrn nuirlel, mint tun the gauntlet I Icnefiviurv order» f..r the protection of better for them to pitch hay, chop wood
Special Prices on Buggies and Sprint
.dgren. trnnMontment.il radroad fii.a.t-1 their famihe., ala», it i. the lot of new,. 1
and dig potatoes.
Wagons.
C A. BAILEY. Tillamook, Ore.
OF
C. & E. Thayer
Posts
Carbolineum Avenarius
Tillamook Paraffine
Oil Company,
H. S. ROWE,
President
W. FRANCIS,
Secretary