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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1901)
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. NOVEMBER 14, 1901. ELEGANT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Wall Paper and Linings. furniture, etc., Sold on the Installment Plan. Easy terms. Call and Investigate. T . t 1 I ¡i I iji t tUe are Headquarters for « Sewing Machines. Undertakers Supplies. r HOUSEHOLD FURNISHING GOODS, CARPETS, MIRRORS BEDROOM SUITES, RPETS, MIRRORS, matting , OIL CLOTII. LINOLEUM, LACE CURTAINS. TABLE LINEN, TOWELING STOVES, RANGES, CROCKERY. GLASS, kJ, Noui’s the time to furnish your homes. •9 Call and Inspeet our Goods. Tlxe Tillazrxioolc Priees are louu for first Class furniture. House Furnish A ROAD TO TILLAMOOK land’s saw mills in operation at their cent, except our route. Should we con (Note.—Managers Michigan present rate of consumption for over 50 clude to add three miles to the present railways make this item 50 COUNTRY IT WOULD OPEN years, without estimating the 18,000, estimated mileage for a 1% per cent per cent.) AND TRAFFIC IT WOULD 000,000 feet to come from the Nehalem, grade on the divide, we then may have a Coal traffic, 127,000 tons, at $1 127,000 j above mentioned. In addition, respon 1 per cent grade all the way from the Passenger traffic, all points...... CARRY. 50,200 sible Tillamook men stand ready, when plains of Washington County to Tilla Passengers from seaside, ex Report of Personal Examination ever our railway reaches Tillamook Bay, mook Bay. For 35V6 miles from Tilla cursions, etc, 85 miles, lor of the Premises for the Portland, to make contracts to deliver 500,000 mook easterly is a gradual, continuous year.......................................... 16.130 Nehalem & Tillamook Railway. feet per day of either lumber or logs on and unbroken rise, with moderate rock United States mails, express our railway cars for the Portland mills, work, average grade 34 feet to the mile and way receipts................... 5,475 Secretary William Reid, of the Port the foreign ships and overland railways to near the divide; thence across and land, Nehalem & Tillamook Railway at or near Portland. down the divide to Upper Gales Creek on Total receipts........... -............ $673,782 Company, in company jvith a compe Such, in brief, are the resources, con a 1 per cent grade, from which our coal Operating expenses and man tent engineer, recentlv made a personal dition and ability of Tillamook and its branch road of 10 miles will connect a gement, 63 per cent.............<424,422 examination of the route for the pro people, who only await transportation with the main line, and thence to Port Interest on bonded indebted I ness, at 5 per cent................... 85,000 posed railway lietween Portland and by rail to guarantee the Portland, Ne land. Tillamook. In a report which he has halem & Tillamook Railway Company Before leaving for the East the inspec drawn for the 52 stock-holders of the 33 to 35 cars of logs or lumber every tor referred to, who walked with the Total expenses..................... $509,422 company in Portland he says it will lie working dav in the year. This is sepa secretary across the Coast Range, con Total yearly surplus ............... $164,360 necessary to construct 82 to 85 miles of rate from the local lumber and logs gratuluted Portland on having the least In above estimate, no calculation of new track, on a maximum grade of 1 to tributary to our line of railway between expensive mountain rock work and lx* st increase in traffic, freight or passengers 1% per cent, and that the cost will be Portland and Tillamook itself, which continuous mountain grade he had ever is estimated from the increased popula $16,300 per mile. The rolling stock will other loggers will naturally ship by rail. seen, and stated that the shortness of tion yearly and development of the be extra, for which he recommends the Contrast this prospect with Astoria, our route 85 miles from tide water at country which follow the opening of issue of bonds to the amount of $1,700,- 100 miles distant, which, although it Tillamook to tidewater at Portland, railway. Respectfully, 000 or $20,000 per mile. This is a much has one railway and three daily river would be the means eventually of pre W illiam R eid , Secretary Portland, Nehalem & Tilla smaller bonded debt than other Oregon steamer lines, yet does not supply Port venting any ruinous competition from mook Railway Company. roads carry. He estimates the annual land with 5000 feet of lumlier daily, or other lines, as he believed from the Tilla receipts from traffic at $673,782, and any raw or manufactured product what mook and Nehalem countries developed operating expenses and fixed charges at ever, except salmon, half of which goes there would be trade for two more lines Yellow Fir Lumber Co.’s Prices. of railway; and in such event, with the $509,422, leaving an annual surplus of by way of Puget Sound. Below will be found the Yellow Fir $164,360. The report in full follows: With such unusual advantages for shortest line and the heaviest resources Although this company received an capital and labor at Tillamook Bay, along our road, our enterprise would al umber Company’s price list for lumber. P ricks for L umber at the M uxs : obligation in writing some time ago with valuable dairy lands surrounding ways be able to defy comfietition. Per 1000 ft Cost of Railway. from one of the transcontinental railway same, and only 85 miles from Portland, Rough lumlier................. $6 50 Your company’s estimates of construc Sized lumber.................................... 7 50 companies, which gave us trackage coupled with the grit, determination and lap .......................................... 8 00 facilities over its line into Portland, the go-aheadism of her people in the past tion and cost of equipping vour railway Ship Dressed lumlier, flooring & rustic 14 50 actual agreement itself has been post under the most disadvantageous cir have been carefully investigated and ver P rices at T illamook C ity , poned, and in consequence intending cumstances, Tillamook County cannot ified, and while the construction of the i And delivered anywhere nlong the main 85 miles to lie built, including the Coal fail to become a prosperous community, bondholders could not advance neces road from the mills: sary moneys or guarantee us anything provided she get 85 miles of railway : Branch railway oi 10 miles, can he done 1 Rough lumlier........................ ....... ■ 00 until the trackage agreement itself was into Portland, o( which only 70 to 75 for a sum of $16,300 per mile, without Sized lumber.................................... 9 00 actually signed. When an inspection be miles will require to be constructed to ; rolling stock ; vet as the rolling stock re- j Ship lap .......................................... 9 50 I Dressed lumlier up to 16in. wide.. 1« 00 came necessary, it was deemed advisable reach the Union Depot. Until this mile- quired will l>e twice more than on an Flooring and rustic...................... Hi oo that your secretary, in conjunction with age is built Tillamook will lie practically average railway, and made suitable for Dressed pickets from 1 to 3 inches wide Vfcc. per lineal foot. a certain engineer and railroad con valueless, cither to her own people or to carrying coal, logs, lumber and cord wood, in addition to general freight and I Above prices are for lumber less than structor who has built a few thousand the City of Portland. dairy products, it is desired to double thirty feet long. Leave orders at the Ocean Competition ini les of railway, proceed by stage to saw mills or with the ordinary purchases of rolling stock, Nothing so clearly demonstrates this E. G. E. W ist , President ; Tillamook and afterwards that both the and now provide for an increase of the P eter B rant , Secretary. secretary and the inspector walk from last assertion as the act of the Port of the sea back overland on foot, the only Tillamook Commissioners. In its report carrying business every year. An issue IRIDOSMIUM practicable mode, the latter said of as for 1901 it says: ‘‘For the 14 feet draft will therefore be made of first mortgage one of the Platinum Metals and invaria certaining accurately the resources, of vessels there must be 18 feet of water bonds for $1,700,0(IC, bearing 5 per cent bly associated with it and usually with (MM) ■ per mile, the u<u bar; , ’’ mt.ix.iviv, therefore, “lumber interest, « limited to $20, ■ grades, curves, location and practical at least, on uiic gold in placer and beech mines, has now cannot profitably be shipped to San these bonds to lie a first security over the considerable n arket. value. It ia till operation of the railway to he built. and the roll- white, heavier than gold and occurs in i — in running „ operation, . Accordingly, on the suggestion of the Fiancisco in less than 14 feet draft. ’ road small scales. For information a I out president, I have made the following re Now 17 feet of water is a rare occurrence iug stock, wharves and warehouses at saving Irodniniutii and Platinum write This mortgage will to the Waratah Minerals ('oiiiDanv. port to the stockholders, after walking on Tillamook Bar at its best stages, both terminals. over the projected line of railway from while nine leet is about the average high thus lie $16,000 per mde less than any Limited. 140 Ellis street, San Francisco, tide at Tillamook City. The commis-1 other lailway mortgage in Western 0re Calif. For sale send them to Welsbach Portland to Tillamook: Company, Broad & Arch sts., PI iladel i gon. gion adds : Country Tributary to the Railway phia, Pa. Analysis free. Futnre Extensions "The all-important shipments will al Proposed. _ _ A glance at the map accompanying Imagine a district 60 miles by 40 miles, ways be lumber and dairy products. The 7a^ue of the latter is greatly affected by this report will show that the lines now I all rich soil, partly tide, bottom and to be built will acommodate timber lands, with unlimited rains and the promptness and reliability ■ of ship, r proposed . I. country _ . for 4 . some year«, o —n m «i namely, <■ ms-1 v t the lie* the grasses, where the white clover grows ment, which is entirely—in the case of I main line trom Portland to Tillamook, wild and 24 cheese and butter factories dairy products -controlled by the condi 85 miles, and the 10-mile coal branch, exist, utilizing the milk from 7000 cows ; tion of the bar in Winter months. The the latter also |«netrating into eqnnlly AND « climate cooler than Portland in Sum direct loss to the dairy industry during valuable timber as on the main line. An mer, with a warmer temperature and the last four years, occasioned by shift extention of this coal branch for eight to freedom from frosts in Winter, vet only ing and rough bars and consequent dis nine miles more, at a co«t not to exceed appointment in shipping, cannot lie Ho miles distant from this city ; possess $13,000 per mile, or $110,000 at the ing salmon and ocean fisheries in abun placed at less than $25,000. This loss most, would carry this branch railway dance, fruit and root crops hay and will be proportionutelv greater for every to the very heart of the Nehalem or Cen year the bar is left unimproved. ” Bt6ck grazing in greater quantities to This commission also says that Tilla tral Nehalem ; anil, coupled with a 13- the acre than in the Willamette Valley ; mile branch from Tillamook Bay to the ^valuable coal mines of a semi-bituminous mook lumber shippers sustained a loss Lower Nehalem country, wonld drain of $7000 in six months, and adds : nature, now being opened up in antici Of Cheeaerv, Dairy and Creamery “To this absolute direct loss must be the entire Nehalem and Tillamook con* pation of onr railway carrying that coal Machinery and Supplies we carry _______ tries, and carry their timber anil produce added the indeterminate injury resultant the largest stock in the northwest. next year (1902) into Portland; for rners to make ' and everything to the City of Portland. A full line of D. II Burrell & Co.'s Shipbuilding admirably adapted for from the refusal of shipow,-.----------- . In short, an issue of bonds for $2,000.- celebrate«! Cheese making prepara Coast shifts, on account of its native any charters during sometimes five 000, secured by 100 to 1<I8 miles of rail tions, Apparatus, etc. facilities and extraordinarly cheap lum months in each year, and the cmiscp^nt way in Nehalem ; Tillamook and Wash Send for Catalogue. paralysing of our lumber indusdry. One per ; |assessing 714.260 acres of lands ington Counties, would perpetually re unimproved and improved, waiting for firm alone, the Truckee Lumlier Com tain unto Portland the whole of that Settlement; with a 60-mile seacoast and pany. has lost since the inception of its country lying north of Oregon City «nd pay inside, navigable for 11 miles ; a sea business $129,000 hv reason of difference south of thcColumbia River, except that 143 FRONT STREET, bathing district close to the proposed in freights and $275,000 through inabil. now occupied by railways hitherto con PORTLAND, ORE. icy to obtain charters at ai»v price. railway terminus, which is claimed by These extracts conclusively prove that structed outside of Portland. Agents for Cnited States officers to far surpass DeLaval Cream Separators. either Clats< p or Ilwaco (North Beach) Tillamook Bay and ocean will never lie Estimated Receipt» from Trufic. These have been carefully revised and fc>r shelter, beauty, bathing and boating, utilized when our railway is running but side of Tillamook Bay itself, which from there into Portland, seeing that details made at length. An abstract of h*>w receives annually hundreds of visi- butter and cheese shipments are of ten de. the whole is as follows: lors. There are altout 483,849 acres of tamed five or six weeks inside the bar in Tonnage of merchandise, ma chinery. canned salmon, but the choicest Oregon timlier land, esti bad weather, even the Astoria steamer ter, cheese, etc., trom Tilla BIBBEB iBB BilBBBEBIEB. mated by Frank Baker, inspector for the being often altsent for many weeks. mook in 1900 aggregated in SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING, ■nited States Engineers, in his report to Whereas, with rail connection, all of the wards and outwards 26.855. of which two thirilswill goto pie War Department, dated January 1. butter and cheese produced which is not SHAMPOOING, ETC oor railway at least, 18.800 |9<)l, to yield 15,120,000,000 feet. I km rd consumed in Portland will lie carried tons, at $4 ........... 4 Electric Baths nicely flitted up (hmd for measure of timber, excluding that timber thence to San Francisco hv rail, along Thirty cars per day logs or person* suffering with rheumatism. ■poll and from the Nehalem Rnrer and with a majority of the lumlier destined lumlier from Tillamook as ■»untry thereto tributary, estimated at tor the Golden Gate. 234,750 offered at $25—-......... —....... p.000,000,000 feet additional, and Railroad Route» and Competition Cedar, local logs, pulp wood, C. A. BAILEY, There are three railroad route« from ossi.es in Blnch latter, by a short branch line of telegraph p«iles. piling, cellar Portland to Tillamook — the first 169 STUDEBAKER WAGON 57.500 Bto 12 miles, may also lie turned into shingles and tie»—.———• nnles. via Astoria and Seasule ; the sec OSBORNE HOWERS, Cordwood, 70 cord» a day. at Bay and earned to Portland onr line of railway. You will thus ond via 8cappo<»e, Pittsburg and Neha-. 80 cents...... —............. —— 20,460 Buggies. hay rakes, plows, and oti.e farm n.ael.inery You ran save p that the timber supply of five Tilla- lem, 131 miles; and onr line, 85 miles, Grain and produce, east of money l>y dealing nitl. me, 31,960 Coast Range...... o rivers aloae. all falling into the, on a 1 per cent grmie. or 82 miles if three Rperial Price» on Buggies and Hpriug 3,756 Ky. estimated by Inspector Baker as I miles whereof »re built o» a 1% per cent Fresh fish, oysters, shellfish,etc. Wagons, portion scppliei to l«W"r c-mp«. 10 l ^120,000.000 feet. if earned by onr I grade. Each route has a »mail C. A. BAILEY. Tillamook, Ore. w « a »> . ,i 2 nrr per cent of the whole ............ 41.-361 B®wav ears, would keep all of Port-' I to be constructed on ■ grade of 2 per CHEESE BUTTER MAKERS B^DDIC^-kEATINIJ CO, J. S. LAMAR, & WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT. ® ® I have the largest and best assorted stock of old Wines and Liquors that has ever been imported into this City. -'-iftit' ill ’ i> if '-jj- " Jj ■ j) sfi ? Whisky, $2.25 to $8.00 per gal. V* » Wines, $1.00 to $3.00 per gal. ’ ’ Don’t drink cheap doctored stuff when you can buy it pure and unadulterated from me. WINE AND LIQUOR HOUSE Billiard Parlors and General Social Resort. C. E. HADLEY, Proprietor Agent« for Kopp’s Brewery, the Brewer of the Fit.eat Beer in the Northwest. Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, privatelj confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home. Tillamook City, Oregon. Truckee Lumber Co., OF 8AN FRANCISCO, DEALERS IN FIR & SPRUCE Lumber BOX SHOOKS GENERAL MERCHANDISE And LOGGERS’ SUPPLIES AGENTS STEAMERS ‘ W. H KRUGER” AND "ACME.’’ For San Francisco and Lt-s Angeles. J. E, SIBLEY, Mgr. Hobsonville, Or. Pacific Navigation Co. STEAMERS—SUE H. ELMORE, W. II. HARRISON. ONLY LINE—ASTOTIA TO TILLAMOOK, GARIBALDI, BAY CITY, HOBSON VILLE. Connecting at Astoria with the Oregon Railr<»d A Navigation Co. anti also tin Astoria & Columbia River It R fol Han Franciaoo, Portland and all point, uuat. Fur freight and pawwngir rates apply to SAMUEL ELMORE & CO. General Agenta, A8TOKIA. OR B C. LAMB, Agent. Tillanosik Oregon. . , ill. R A N. R R. Co , Portland. Agenui & G K R Go Portland. Centrally Lioeeted. Rates, $1 Per Day LARSEN HOUSE, M. H. LiARSEN. Proprietor. TILLAMOOK, OREGON. Th* Best Hotel in the city. No Chin*»* Employed. M. F. LEACH, PROPRIETOR OP — Tillamook Meat Market DEALER IN Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc, Shop next door to Ijirwn's Hotel, Tillamook EDGAR LATIMER, L. N BARNES, ^.t tHe 1TEV7 MEAT MARKET, 1» still here and expects to remain. Thanking yon for past favors and a continuance of your trade Ca»h paid for HIDES and PELTS and FURS, Etc. FAT HOGS WANTED right away to pack down.
