Tillamook headlight., September 18, 1902, Image 2

THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 11.
1902.
ly employed in the fishing industry both
Noticelo Taxp;,yere
funds raised by general taxation, will j
TILLAMOOK HARBOR.
the only primary way in which iuom*f is
at Tillamook and Nehalem. Portland
Notice ia hereby given that On t,
take
the
matter
in
hand,
and
will
bring
earned iii the Tillamook country. There •
affords to the producers of Tillamook a
is a salmon-canning and salting estab­ Schooner Port of the Large whatever influences may be effective to | market Jor moat of their product, and day, the 6th dav of October 1902 .
a
The Tillamook Region
bear on the situation. The device is
County Board of Equalisation';*
lishment in Tillamook Bay. and another <
the trade machinerj for the distribution convene nt the officeofthe CoUW,’cC“
Sort.
really an admirable one for communities
in the Nehalem, and this industry in the j
Vast Forest.
of what she does herself consume In ot Tillamook County.Oregon.wii^
two localities and in all its branches CONNECTION with PORTLAND like that of Tillamook, for it relieves the these direct ways, and in many others
energetic and public-spirited few of bur­
to continue in session front day to d
A “POOR MAN’S COUNTRY.” gives employment to some 200[or 800
w l.ieh do not appear on the surface, Port­
persons for about three months out of ! Other Ports and the Towns of the dens which ought by rights to be divided land holds a neighborly part or aonie- or one week, «nd publicly exan,in,,J
Analysis of the Local Population- the year. In truth, owing to the desper­
assessment rolls, and correct all
Country The First and Great Need equally.
•
• • _.
.
errors
Opportunity and Welcome for
The principal town of the county is tliing better toward Tillamook. But she ill valuations, description, er
ate isolation of the country, no other <
or qualitin
of the Country is a Railroad.
ought to do more. She ought to seek by
the Worker—Great Develop
Tillamook
City,
which
is
on
the
south
of
land,
lots
or
other
property
form or industry is practicable. With
ty. and all
every reasonable means to provide a
ment Expected in the Tim­
railroad transportation, many forms of (By an Oregon Staff Writer—Fourth ' side ot the bay and connected with it by railload to Tillamook Bav. She ought to persons interested in said asscsiant
ber Industry.
a picturesque channel some three or four
are hereby requested to
industry might be made profitable here, i
Letter.)
appear at
assist the organization of a condensed
said time and place, for the
but, while the only means of*commun- I T illamook , Or., Sept 6.—The marked miles fin length. There is not much to
Parpose of
inilk plant in the center of the Tillamook
[By an Oregonian Staff Writer—Third
be
said
for
Tillamook
City,
excepting
correcting
any
errors
that
r
| ication with the outer world are the deficiency of the Pacific Coast in natural
">ay app,ar
dairy
region.
She
ought
to
miss
no
Let ter. J
in their assessment, as no errors
mountain road and the schooner, the commercial ports, as compared with the along practical lines. Its location suits
can b,
chance to promote the progress of a re­
T illamook , Sept. 8.—The timber in­
corrected after the adjournment
country can hardly hope to widen the I Atlantic* Coast, is in part compensated the business convenience of the country,
of laid
gion
qualified
by
its
resourcesand
by
the
terest of Tillamook County is more im­
for
it
is
at
the
point
most
easily
reached
board.
scope of its industry.
by the many little inlets which permit
portant in its basis of raw material—in
by the wagon of the producer and the energetic spirit of its people to make the
Dated, Tillamook, Oregon, Auwst
I the entrance of schooners of light draft
the splendid forests which literally clothe i
most < f wl atevea opportunities may lie 19 th, 1902.
In its present condition the whole ap ' and bring to many local districts the ad­ ship of commerce and it contains in the
the land—than in its practical develop-1
put in their way, mid to return a bund­
J. S. S tephens ,
peal of the Tillamook country is to the vantage of water transportation. Till­ form of“improvements’’all that is requis­
ment. In truth, the actual business of
le 1-fold to the hand tnat aids them. A. II.
County Asses»or
stockman, the dairyman «nd the timber­ amook County, due to the many streams ite for the business ofthecoinmunity. Its
lumber is slight, and, in contrast with its
man. It is no country for the general I which drain the western slopes of the two business streets are, with the excep­
possibilities, almost trifling. There are
farmer, or for the professional man. Al­ 1 Coast Range Mountains, has no less tion of a single one-storv building of
two mills in îillamook Bay of moderate
ready there are lawyers and doctors in than five of these schooner ports—the stone, built wholly of wood, and its resi­
capacity, which saw for the commercial
plenty, and the country has abundant Nehalem, Tillamook Bav, Netarts Bay, dence district, built ot t he same material,
trade, and one in the Nehalem ; and
capital for its immediate purposes. Nestucea Bay and the mouth of the Sal­ is neat and creditable. There is nothing
The first Semester, Session 1902.3, opens Wednesday, Septemlier 17th n
these, with three or four small establish­
Individually, the people are prosperous, mon River. By far the most important estYtciallv striking about Tillamook City following Schools and Colleges are comprised in tile University: Graduate Sch I
ments which supply only the limited
—
College
of Literature. Science and Arts—College of Science and Engineering
and there are as many lenders as bor­ of these little “holes in the coast line” save a general look of thrift not common
home trade, make the whole story. In
University Academy—School of Music—School of Medicine—School of Law
8
rowers—or more. But there is almost is the Bay of Tillamook which is clearly to all towns of its size. And it stands
their operation, which has covered a
Tuition
free,
excepting
in
Schools
of
Law,
Medicine
and
Music
(Incidental
I
close
inspection
very
well.
Its
several
unlimited opportunity within the lines destined to be the seat ofa considerable
110.00. Studeiit-bodv tax, $2.50 per year). Cost of living from J100 HO, $200 (¡i
series of years, these establishments
established industry, in the extension of coastwise commerce, and which at this stores are well stocked ; it has a machine per year. For catalogue, address Registrar of the University, Eugene, Oregon
have as vet scarcely made a mark upon
the pasture area and in the development time affords to the Tillamook country shop capable of such work as the coun­
University School ot Music—Irving M. Glen, A. M., Dean.
the timber resources of the country. The
try with its many steamboats and
Piano—Mrs. Rose Midglev Hollenbeck. (Joseffy, Gortztowski, Sowarenskal
company operating the mill on the of the limber field. The work of the its only traffic connection with the outer
creamery
plants
requires;
it
has
two
Piano—Mr. Arthur Louis Frazer. (Five years with W. C. Nash).
Nehalem, for example, owns upwards of country presses upon the people, and to world.
Voice—Miss Eva Stinson. (King Conservatory, Trebelli, Music School)
banks and the usual equipment of minor
find
workers
for
an
emergency
is
prov
­
75,(100 acres tributary to the main
Four considerable rivers, the Miami,
Violin—Mrs. John L. l’qies. (Spitznon, Spioring).
kinds of business which go to make up a
erbially
a
difficult
thing.
If
a
hundred
Theory—Miss Eva Stinson ; Mise Rose Midgley Hollenbeck.
branches of that stream in their windings
Wilson, the Trask and the Tillamook,
community
center.
It
has
a
total
pop
Terms furnished on application to the Dean.
through
Tillamook,
Clatsop and workingmen were to land at Tillamook besides many large creeks, empty into
ulation of about 1000 persons ; and very
Columbia Counties, but up to this time tonight every man of them could easily Tillamook Bav, providing an outward
notably, no suggestion of a criminal
its practical logging operations have rind work before 24 hours. It is literally flowing body of water sufficient with a
class. On the other hand the general
not extended back from tide-water It a situation where the harvest is great little artificial aid to keep the entrance
agencies of civilized beneficence are well
is simply taking what may be called the and the laborers are few.
reasonably clear of sand. At the present
The Methodist, Presby.
And it is in its opportunities essential­ time the channels through the bar carry represented.
water-front fringe from its immense
terian, Catholic,
Adventist, United
holdings. And the same general state­ ly a poor man's conutry. Good wages about 16 feet of water at low tide, the
Brethren and Lutheran Churches main­
are
to
be
had
practically
at
all
times,
and
ment applies to the logging operations
depth varying from time to time, being
tain regular worship ; the public school
which supply the two small commercial a few months of diligent work, with sometimee 20 feet, and at others as low
system is established upon sound and
mills on Tillamook Bay. In truth, the economy, puts a mar. in shape to make a as 12. There has never been a time
liberal lines ; an excellent general and
great inland timber belt of the Tillamook beginning on his own account, Owner­ when the bay has not been available as
Freight in 5-ton lots and over #3-5° Per ton.
ship of a cow means a direct income of a port to schooners drawing 12 to 14 boarding school is maintained by the
country has not been touched.
Freight in less than 5-ton lots, $4.00 per ton.
approximately $50 per year; lands can feet of water, and with the aid which the Sisters of Charity ; organizations of the
There are those who pretend Jo declare ’ be bought either improved or in the Government promises to give it will in VV C T. U. and the Epworth League
Passenger rate, $3.50.
in figures the extent of this untouched ' rough, and, with prudence ami industry, time be available to boats of much heav­ hold an active part in the general social
i life of the town, and there arc the usual
timber resource, but, after riding through a small beginning soon grows into some­ ier draft.
lodges of Masons, Odd Fellows and
the forest belt, and studying the maps, I thing handsome in the way of a property
The bay is about six miles long and | minor fraternal societies. An athletic
am not able to put much faith in esti­ It is, too a country where industry in its
mates. One might, with about the same rougher, as well as in its so-called high­ half as wide, and consists of a series of club, recently formed, proposes to assist
claims to credence, undertake to figure er. forms is entirely respected. While submerged flats, through which there moral development by promoting the
out and declare in gallons the quantity the people are commonly well to do, run channels of sufficient depth to float physique of the community youth. Of
of water in any given section of the there is no wealthy clsss. There are few any vessel that can cross the bar. The the social distinctions and rivalries
Pacific Ocean. The thing is too vast, the who do not work with their hands; there Government has recognized the commer­ which oftentimes distract and corrupt
conditions arc too uncertain. The eye are few or none who hold themselves in cial importance of Tillamook Bay by in­ larger and more pretentious communities, I
oi experience may be better qualified to aristocratic pride as a superior caste. A augurating works for its development, theie is scarcely a hint, though I ought
judge than another, but in an v case there man whose fortune is to make, who the effort thus far being directed to deep­ to confess that I see in the importation
can be nothing more authoritative than must begin al the loginning, will find in ening the channels within the bay and of a ping pong set within the few days
a guess.
Tillamook an atmosphere suitable to his clearing out the tidal slough which con­ ol my stay here the menace of social
But no man can ride as I have done condition, with the sympathies which nects it with the town of Tillamook, the troubles to come.
this week incoming here by way ofthe give comfort and encouragement in the principal point of shipment and center of
Other towns in Tillamook County are
I have the largest and best assorted stock of old ®
population. In this work up to the pre­
Wilson River road, through 40 miles of struggle for fortune.
Woods, a point of local trade in the
sent
time
is
approximately
$60.000
has
\\ ines and Liquors that has ever been imported into fe
forest, in which there is scarcely an open­
southern district; Nehalem, a small
The foundation stock of the Tillamook been expended, and there now lies avail­
® this City.
ing, and in which giant trees crown each
I village on the Nehalem River ; Hobson-
other, without being impressed with the country, as I wrote in a former letter, able under the last appropriation bill I ville, the seat of a milling industry on
y'
.
hi? /
fact that here is one of the world’s great­ traces back to the Oregon immigration the sum of $27,000 for further opera­ | the bay ; Garibaldi, a fishing village, and kA
est stores of timber. From the summit the ’40s and *50s, as witness many tions.
I some other hamlets made up ofa country
J
Much good to the local navigation
ofthe Coast Range Mountains to the names which today figure in the proper­
store, a blacksmith shop and usually a
ty
rollsand
in
the
general
affairs
of
the
has
been
accomplished,
and
more
is
pro
­
tide-water line, a distance, east and
saloon. Practically Tillamook City is
west, of approximately 35 miles. It is community ; for example, Handley, mised, but it is clear that the work of the only town of importance.
simply one vast and dense forest. The Todd, Cooper, Thayer, Cohq, Jenkins, improvement ought to be projected upon
It will interest Portland to know that,
Don't drink cheap doctored stuff when you can
road winds a mere thread through this Hobson, Nolan, Bailey, Quick, Latimer, a larger scale. It is the opinion of engi­
in spile of l he fact that Tillamook is only
region of shade and gloom, with onlv Hughey, Hembree, Norton, Austin, neers that the entrance to the harbor
. a buy it pure and unadulterated from me.
80
or
90
miles
away,
and
that
by
way
rarely a space wide enough to permit Chapman, Stillwell, Vaughn and many might be made much deeper by confining
of the sea it is only about 160 miles dis­
the rays of the sun to find the ground. others. This pioneer stock is still strong, the outward flow of water to a narrow­
tant, a very considerable part of the
mingling
freely
in
all
ways
of
life
and
er
channel,
ami
this
being
so,
it
is
not
to
And this splendid forest, the like of
mercantile supply comes direct from
which is to be found nowhere in the holding itself well in the later progress be doubted that in time this work will
San Francisco. What may be called the
of
the
country.
But
it
is
not
a
domi
­
be
undertaken.
Every
foot
added
to
the
world besides the Puget Sound country
regular trade goes to Portland, but the
and in the Cascade Mountain timber nant caste, for there is no dominant depth of the channelson the bar is a great
product of the commercial mills goes
fields, extends from near the Columbia caste. Relatively, newcomers share with advantage, since it makes the port avail­
| direct to Sail Francisco and s!ii| s return-
River, on the north, to the great the old-timers both in influence and in able to vessels of deeper draft—an im­
I ing for new cargoes bring in freight at
“burns,’’ whose northern line is in the property, for it is only within the past portant matter in connection with the
15
years
that
the
country
has
advanced
development of the timber business, | very low rates. It is a common matter
Nestucca country, in the southern part
STEAMERS—SUE H. ELMORE, W. H. IIARRISOX.
I beyond the pioneer condition of univer­ whose freighting operations can be car­ I of complaint that it takes nearly as long
of Tillamook County.
ONLY'
LINE—ASTOTIA TO TILLAMOOK, GARIBALDI,
sal poverty. The new comers has come ried on much more economically in lar- i to go to Portland and costs nearly as
Through this vast region there are
much as to go to San Francisco. Ti e
BAY CITY, HOBSONVILLE.
. from everywhere, hut chiefly from the gar than in smaller vessels.
some places of scanty growth, with
t onnec.ing at Astoria with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. «nd
■lifference is that the connection with
timbered countries ofthe Middle West and
some areas which in times past have
also the Astoria & Columbia River R. R. foi San Francisco. Portlsnd
of Europe. Particularly to be noted is a
Naturally the interests of the people ot Protland is that regularly maintained
and all points east. For freight and passenger rates apply to
been burned over and destroyed, but,
North-of-Europe element, the Swede, the Tillamook are very much alive to the l while that with San Francisco is only
SAMUEL ELMORE & CO. General Agents. ASTORIA. OR
broadly speaking, it is a virgin and all
I Dane and the Norwegian.
They are policy of the Government in the matter occasional. The freight rate on general
but unequaled forest district, in which
B. C. LAMB, Agent. Tillamook Oregon.
1 among the very best sections of the local of river and harbor improvement in | merchandite between Portland and Til-
the fir predominates, with a sprinkling
Airent« jO.
& N. R. R. Co . Portland.
population, for they have instinctive general, and in the development of Tilla- i lamook City is $3 per ton. Passage by
s
I A. & C. R. R. Co., Portland.
of cedar, ami toward the coast a great , integrity, trained frugality, skilled in-1
I boat (one way) is $3 50; passage by stage
mook Bay in particular. They do not
wide area of spruce. And everywhere it
dustry, great physical hardihood and a expect that their bay will lie made a over Hie mountains is $5, the passenger
is a forest of the giant breed, with trees
reasonable ambition to get on in the commercial port in the sense that the paying besides for his meals and lodging
ranging from eight to 30 feet in circum­
Rates, $1 Per Day
world. They like the country, easily Columbia River and Puget Sound are The charge for outward freight is very Centrally Lioeated.
ference and reaching upwards from 150
tit into its work ai.d general life, and commercial ports, but they do expect low. ns low on the special products of
to 300 feet. There are, I repeat, men
make citizens of the very best sort.
such improvements as will change the the country as can ever be expected un­
who will undertake to sav how mnnv
While there is. aS heretofore noted, a conditions which oftentimes delay Win­ der any conditions, living 10 cents per
multiplied million feet of merchantable
box for butter and 15 cents per box for
, W‘
bARSEN, Proprietor.
limber there arc in this great forest, but i considerable element of home-born ter navigation—which, in fact, often
cheeee. There is no conplaint nt these
“
bottle
up
’
’
the
country
in
a
commercial
youth,
the
hulk
of
the
jicople
have
come
I
I will not give their figures, because I
rates, ami there ought not to be. The
have no faith even in their approxima­ from somewhere, and the general char­ sense for several weeks at a time. And I
The Best Hotel in the city. No Chinese Employed.
acter ofthecommunity life is surprisingly ’ in so far as local politics connects it is ■ criticism lies against nothing that can
tion to accuracy.
In one wav or another, either as mill, cosmopolitan. There is no prejudice,I directly related to the project of harbor j in the nature of things lie avoided, for
The sincerity of the the transporter» are not to blame for the
workers, loggers’ suppliers of logging but, on the other hand, hearty welcome improvement.
conditions which make the bar impass­
camps, boatmen or other occupations, for the new-comer, and. in spite of the people of Tillamook City in this matter
able sometimes for several weeks iu sue
is
attested
bv
the
fact
that
they
have
;
isolation
which
so
blights
the
country,
|
about one fourth of the Tillamook
cession.
County population, sav 1560 persons, there is a constant, though light, stream sought nt the hands of the State Legis-1
proprietors
i
all told, gain their living through the ot immigration. The dairy business, so lature and have obtained the privilege of I The natural connection of Tillamook > rr-* • ’I ’w
timber business. To a very great extent, pros|)rrou9 in its present condition and specially taxing themselves in further­ is of course. With Portland, and I have
the timber fields are owned by outside so promising in its future, has been the ance of it. Following in a general way been on the lookout for indication, of
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capitalists, though to some extent the means of bringing in some hundreds the pattern of the Port of Portland, they Portland's raciproe il iuterest in the af­ u
local holders have not yet parted with during the past two years, and there are ■ have under special law organised the fairs of the country. And tliev are
their holdings. But the timber resource reasons for believing that the country 'Port of Tillamook, whose particular' easily to lie seen. Much of the capital
Boiler Work , Logger’s Wo«k and Heavy Forging,
of the county is essentially the rich man's is on the eve of developments in its tim- ! function is to look after the interests of I which has gone into the purchase ,,f
ns distinct from the poor man’s, oppor­ her indnstry which will make a demand Tillamook Bay at the hands of the' timber lands ami so put niany settlers
fine Machine Work a Specialty.
tunity. It is immensely valuable. I»ut it lor many hundreds more. Every ten- • Government and tn other ways. And it on their financial feet has come directly
dvi'cv
is
tow
a
rd
progress
ami
expansion.
!
has
proved
in
practice
a
very
excellent
is a value not immediately available or
from Portland. The Ladd f.milv are
handily turned into cash, and the man in I tins in the fact of an isolation the | device, for though it has not found much very conaiderable holders of Tillamook
5? .. v W’Ww 51« V V-W5FWW5C
ot moderate resources usually secs his the like of which is hardly to he found I to do directly, it maintains always in timber lands. The leading banker of
elsewhere
on
the
American
Continent
available
condition
the
machinery
fur
interest in selling out to the mill cm.i-
Tillamook. Mr.Claude Thayer, whose op-
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A. IL I' doing those things which the interest of erations have made no small part ofthe
panv or the “svndicate*’ able bv its large
the community calls for. but which it is country, wa, originally a Portland man
capital to o|»erateoii the w I io I wm I c plan,
Catarrh Cannot be Cured
and to bide its time. But. at the same •llh mc.11 hl'l l K lTUlss ,, they cannot not especially the business of anybody The Messrs U*n, winn mercantile
to do. |ust at this
time, for example,
time, numbers of poor men who have reach the »eat of the di»ense. t’ntHrrh In a
,
■ -| ' b I ""n»»i»«n inqsatai.t branch of the
>r I'l’tmimtitinal di»e»*e and in order to cure it
tixe
gained a footing in the timber through v mi itniM take internal remedies. II h II’ s there is much local anxiety over the fact current activity ofthe country are P
itar h ('lire
taken internallv. ami actadt- that no steps are being being made to i land .men. or were until tin y I .
J
original settlement, or other means, have * rrxtiv
hi the bl.»oil and mucous surface». Halls
found individual prosjirrity through it. ’ d ot a t me i* not a quack medicine. It was carry out the harbor work for which an j their energiee and tl.eir capital to Till
prt 'crilM-d l>\ oneof Ute bed physician« in thia appropriation was made by Congress at !am,„k
Messrs. Allen Jt Lewis, t'|,e
Not n few ot the prosperous herdowners country
h»r vrars .«n 1 is a regular prescription
it 1' comp-•'<•>!
the best tonic» known, coni- its last session ; it is a case where every­ I Portland merchants, are part owner, of
of the lower country gamed the nucleus , l-ined
with the best blood puritter*. acting <ti-
Is Still here and expects to remain.
<»f present fortune through timely sales tectlv on th» mucous surfaces The perfect body in the community is interested, but | one of the vessels which regularly make
combination of the two ingredients is what pro
where
it
is
particular
duty
of
no
one
ot timl»er claims.
the
Tillamook
run.
their
i.urt.we
is
.c
.iu. .» .nch wonderful res.ilt» in curing Catarrh I
iinking j ou for past favors and a continuance of yo°r 1
Send for tedimouials free
person to net. The “
Port of Tillamook | investment bemg to mamtam » c|<^
Besidis the industriea founded upon
.
Ib; J / 1,1 :sKv * < ’> props.. Toledo. O. '
Commission,
by
virture
of
its
general
re.
ny <1rurgt«ts. price -sc.
livestock and timber, fishing is about I
> r.
• "'•••
connection Is tween Portland and the Ca-h paid lor HIDES and PELTS and FURS, Etc.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
sponsibihty and authority, and with I ay. Portland capital, too. is very lar<*.
WEALTH IN TIMBER.
The University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.
Steamer Geo. R. Vosburg
Will Run Between
Tillamook and Astoria.
Ship Freight by A. & C. Railroad in Care of
Geo. R. Vosburg.
NEHALEM TRANS. CO
J
J. S. LAMAR.
J
» WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT. $
j
Whisky, $2.25 to $8.00 per gal.
| Wines, $1.00 to $3.00 per gal. 1
V*
Pacific Navigation Co.
LARSEN HOUSE,
TILLAMOOK,
OREGON.
* Tillamook Iron AAforks»
4 General
’
4
4
ir
Machinists & Blacksmiths. >
i
»
I
TILLAMOOK,
OREGON. f
L. N BARNES,
meat market ,
T IK>GS \\ ANTED right away to pack down.