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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1904)
TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. NOVEMBER 24. 1904. of 15 inches, and plenty of water must her Company mill at Rainier, Columbia Tillamook City. Tillamook is a live, progressive town be secured for irrigation and flooding Countv. that has grown from 40 or 50 popula purposes. However, some marshes have Timber Manufactures. One year............................................... Six months.......................................... There are several sawmills in Tilla tion in 1881, to 1500 at the present proved profitable without a water sup Three months...................................... time. It is the shipping point for the ply, but this plan is not advisable on ac mook County, but the largest is the greater part of the county, and when count of the heavy first cost of preparing 1 plant of the Truckee Lumber Company the Government makes the needeed i»n‘- a bog The chief requisites for a profit- at Hobsonville, having a sawing capa provements on Tillamook bflr, it will able cranl»erry bog, according to the | city of 75,000 feet daily, while its box become a ci tv of mighty commercial best competent authorities, are a good I factory and planer uses up 35.000 feet importance. It is situated at the head peat bed entirely free from any clay or daily. It takes several ocean going ves TILLAMOOK COUNTY. of navigation on Hoquarton slough, an loam, good drainage to a depth of at sels to carry away| the product to San Instep Skirts, Cloth and Silk Coats, Ragla.i’a Rain Coat». arm of the bay. and a desirable least 15 inches, a coat of from three to Francisco and Los Angeles, and 75 men Exfuaively to Measure. six inches over the surface, and a plenti A Land Flowing with Milk location, When the present content- are usually employed in the mills and □ yards, and fully as many more in the and Honey--Profitable and plated improvements are completed, ful supply of water. There are many acres of land that are woods. On account of rebuilding the the largest coasting vessels will be able (j Come earlv and secure first choice. Successful Dairying. Satisfaction guaranteed in ail cases. to touch at the warves oi the city. Al worthless in a wild state situated in plant that was recently burned down at The following write up of Tillamook read) coasting vessels from Astoria, San ' various sections of Tillamook County, Truckee. Cal., the mill at Hobsonville is County appeared in the Evening Tele Francisco,and other points make regular that will become of great productive closed down for a time. The Tillamook trips to and from the city, passengers of value when properly treated and plant Lumber Company, however, is running gram of last Saturday : ten making the trip all the way bv wat ed to cranberries. There is money in the its plant continually, and there are other Tillamook c.>untv possesses the great er from Portland. The commerce of Till business, and many bogs are awaiting plants in various sections of the county. Oregon State Normal School, Monmouth, est opportunities ami undeveloped re amook Bay is estimated at 30,900 tons development bv men of means and apti I The Wheeler Lumber Company, of Port Begins its 23rd year September 2^ sources of any section in Oregon. Its tude for raising cranberries. It pavs land, owns one of the large plants near 1904, four terms .in each school rich soil, immense timber resources and annually, the imports consisting princi affording equal opportunities for " pally of general merchandise, flour and much better than hops, and there is less Nehalem. Like other enterprises, the unimproved coast harbors will make it ginning a course in September, Non, risk of overproduction, and the market lumbering business is still in its infancy, feed, while the exports are lumber, but the greatest of all counties. In past her, February and April. . is more stable. The berries are a rich but other large lumber plants are being years it has been so situated that it has ter, eggs, cheese and salmon. The city red color, and grow so luxuriant!)* that projected. The Best Training for Teach«! not made the progress of other sections has some good public buildings, includ Is the Normal course with it, I they often lav three or four deep, com- Pulp and Paper Materials. of Oregon, but its location will bring it ing a fine school house, an excellent pub mice of good positions at good waga | pletely hiding the vines and ground. The Tillamookt,County has millions of feet to the front. Il is situated almost at lic school of 10 grades, operahouse, city Write for new catalogue containing J hall anti some creditable business blocks. ' picking season occurs in September and of cottonwood and spruce that will in information concerning courses of Rm, ! the v<ry door of Portland, and with the ¡October, when hundreds of men, women the future make it the center of a great training in actual teachingafforded and completion of a railroad to the Wil- The usual lodge organizations are rep real conditions in town and count,,: resented and there are several churches and childred go to the cranberry marsh- pulp and paper manufacturing industry. Lunette Valley, it will grow as no other schools, and full details about the J having neat and substantial edifices i es for an outing, and to secure profitable These woods are peculiarly adapted to county has ever progressed. The mild vauce course of study with the additim ! employment in picking berries, the usual the making of white newspaper, and it There are banks, and every line of busi climate, tempered bv the Pacific Ocean Secretary J. B. V. BUTLER ; or, ness is represented in the mercantile | pay being 50 cents a box. The. climate is a wonder that some corporation has advantages attached. Address. currents, and the soil that will produce President E. I). RESSLER. Monmouth, O r here is suitable in every way for the not before this gained a foothold in the anything that will grow in the North, houses. cranberries, and the fruit is remarkably The citv has electric lights, local and geld. Already the Willamette and the west in great quantities, almost without free from insect pests. Columbia Rivers and their tributaries cultivation, will attract a great popula long distance telephone systems, and the Dairying Predominant. are being logged in every convenient tion within its borders. The only draw water is brought from a mountain stream As a dairying country Tillamook coun locality for cottonwood and spruce to back to Tillamook county is its lack of I by a gravity svstem, with pressure suffi railroad transportation and the fact cient to throw it to the top of a three- ty, especially that section situated con- supply the increasing demand from the that its advantages are not generally storv building. The water works is venient to Tillamook, the county seat, pulp and paper mills The manufacture known. The undeveloped wealth in the owned by a private corporation, but cannot he excelled by any district on the of paper is certain to be one of the great soil, timber ami possibilities in the way the Tillamook Water Commission has Pacific Coast. The dairying business of industries of the future in the Tillamook of the fishing industry, are not realized. been authorized by the city to negotiate Tillamook County produces more wealth country, as it now is in certain sections In fact, it is difficult to convince one that for the bonding of the city for $40,000 than a hundred gold mines.and more cer of the Willamette and the Columbia has never visited the country that it is, to construct a new waterworks system tain returns are assured. There are more River Valleys. It has the timber, water Cheese Boxes in reality, a land flowing with milk and and purchase the old plant. Bids have than a dozen large creameries and cheese power and ocean transportation facili honey, and has possibilities that the been received to take up the bond issue factories in Tillamook County, and all ties, three important requisites. As a seaside resort, the Tillamook absent unbeliever would not consider it for 40 years at 6 per cent, and the bid are doing a large and profitable business. has been conditionally accepted. Surveys I The farmer is one of the beneficiaries of coast has no equal between Portland possible to exist. Orders for Lumber promptly attended to. I i It is a great stock country, and no are being made for the new water system ' the industry, as the native succulent j and Los Angeles. At present the only I grasses grow luxuriantly, affording | drawback is the lack of transportation where can beef be produced at less ex and it is probable that the plant of the pense on account of the luxuriant growth Tillamook Water Company will be pur I nutritious pasturags, and immense crops ‘ facilities, but hundreds of people from of white clover and other varieties of hay Portland and points throughout the of wild and tame grasses. Goats pros chased. The Tillamook LiterarvCIub is an indi. I are grown, thus reducing the cost of pro- Willamette Valley drive over the moun per and prove an unusually profitable stock in that section, and are valuable in cation of the high culture and .desire for | during milk rich in butter fat to a min- tain roads and spend weeks in camping in the sheltered coves convenient to the killing the growth of underbrush on es mutual and social improvements among I imnm. The Peter McIntosh cheese factory, at beaches There are miles of the best pecially valuable lowlands. In fact, the its people The officers are : President, sediment sod is of such fertility on these Mrs. F, S. Whitehouse ; secretary, Mrs. South Prairie, made a creditable record bathing grounds to be found anywhere, lands that the hay crop has to be pas B. C. Lamb ; treasurer, Mrs. Crenshaw, i during 1903, the total receipts of milk and clam digging and fishing affords ex tured to prevent too rank a growth A and the committee on programs for the being 2,091,030 pounds, of which 79,843 cellent sport and satisfactory returns. In J. P. ALtUEjM, Proprietor large area of the county is covered by year is Mis. Talmage, Mrs. Groat and pounds was butter fat. The average fact, the Tillamook coast is the home of these low bottom lands, ami so pro Mrs. Aiderman. Mrs. Clough, Mrs. Ma price paid for the butter fat was 29.4 a greater variety of fish, that are easily ductive are they that 800 bushels of son and Mrs. Bartel are the members of cents per pound, and the total amount caught, than any^other section of Oregon potatoes have been raised on a single the library committee, and other com. paid to the producers of milk was $23,- as there is sxcellent trout fishing along Special Attention paid to Tourists. acre. There also are tide and prairie mittees have been delegated with the au 467,97. The South Prairie factory has the many streams that empty into the lands, especially valuable for pasturing thority to make the club profitable both been enlarged, and the record for the ocean. Wild berries, too, grow conve A First Class Table. Comfortable Beds and Accommodation. purposes. An especial inducement to in a social and educational sense. The I present year will far exceed the above nient to the ocean, and their gathering the intending settler is the fact of the study of Shakespear has been taken up * figures. Mr. McIntosh receutlv installed and cousmmption add to the pleasures low-prevailing, low-selling prices on with the discussion otcurrent events, and ! parafine vats, aud the finished cheeses of camp life near the beach. lands of all kinds, that are’certain to one of the objects of the club is to de are dipped in the hot wax, thus protect Land of Honey and Milk. velop the Tillamook Improvement So ing the flavor and freshness for an indef- Tillamook County is literally a land advance in value within a few years. flowing with milk and honey. In ad- The public schools of Tillamook ciety and a public library and reading | inite period. Arthur Hunt, a dairyman, living near dition to being a great producer of the County have reached a high standard, rooms. There is now a prospect that Tillamook I Tillamook, during the month of June,sold richest inilk in the world, the Nestucca STEAMERS—SUE H. ELMORE, W. H. HARRISON. and several new schoolhouses have been constructed during the past year. There will have better water transportatian ! 44.390 pounds of milk, making 15981bs. Valley is a world-beater in the matter ONLY LINE—ASTOTLA TO TILLAMOOK, GARIBALP. are 48 schools in the county, having an facilities, and a local paper thus dis- of butter fat, the product of 40 cows. At of producing a superior quality of BAY CITY, HOBSONVILLE. • j the prevailing a verage prices for butter honey. The white clover and many enrolled attendance of 500, but the cen courses on the situation : Connecting at ABtoria with the Oregon Kailroad & Navigation Co. «nd “If another steamer will foster indus fat, the receipts from the 40 cows was other varities of flowering plants that sus shows that there are 5000 children also the Astoria & Columbia River R. R. fol San Francisco, Portland tries and help get manufacturing prod about $465, or a little over $11 per head and all points east. For freight and passenger rates apply to of school age in the county. The Asses grow so luxriantlv in Tillamook County SAMUEL ELMORE & CO. General Agents, ASTORIA. OR sor’s summary shows that there are ucts to market and will stay with it for that month. One creamery company in addition to climatic conditions, pro 3219 milch cows, 1797 sheep, 592goats, and not be bought oft, then there will be reported that during one year it handled vide a dew that makes the busy bees B. C. LAMB, Agent. Tillamook Oregon. (O. R & N. R. R. Co.. Portland. 953 sheep and 1138 horses. Tillable some sense in patronizing it. What the more tliau $2,000,000 pounds of milk, gieat producers of a superior quality Agents & c K R Cq Por,|811d lands number 8550.82 acres, and non. business men should do is to bury their | making over 170,000 pounds of butter of honey that brings the highest price petty jealousies and come together on a and 190,000 pounds of cheese, and the tillable lands 461.759.78 acres. in the market. The boasted honev-pro- Sue H. Elmore carries Wells Fargo Co.’s Express Tillamook County has done consider common understanding and support producers were paid over $18,000 in ducing sections of California and the able in the way of road improvement, the transportation company that will cash. One man that has a dairy of 12 Southern states cannot compare with &A&A A&A A AA A AAA and much money has been spent in make it a point to help get the lumber cows sold 31 24 pounds of butter in one the Nestucca Valley iif Tillamook. This building plank roads over low ground, and dairy products to market at reason year that brought him $620.70 : eight honey has taken prizes at several state that add much to the conveniences and able rates. It is the industrial develop calves from the cows sold for $60, and fairs, and it still takes the lead in the PROPRIETOR comfort of traveling by team. There is ment and growth that should be aimed pork amounting to $62.50 was fed on Northwest. Bee« and honey are proflt- Í a toll road on the Nestucca-Yamhill at, and not a question as to^which com-1 | the skimmed milk. This made the total ! able productions, but require close and route from Tillamook County to North pany can carry a few tons of freight the j | receipts from a herd of 12 dairy cows j careful attention. It is one of the fea Yamhill, connecting with the Southern cheapest, tor that it only a small mat-' $743.20. tures that will make diversified farm- 1 Tillamook butter and cheese are arti Pacific Railroad, and other road goes ter if facilities were at hand to get the ing profitable in Tillamook County, and j products of tha sawmills to market. ’ ’ cles that have a high standing in the over the Wilson River route, terminat in the future will become one of the The city of Tillamook also has a sal market, and the business is virtually in ing at Forest Grove. There also is a principal exports from that section. Boiler Work, Logger’s Work and Heavy Forging, road to Sheridan through the (Grand mon cannery, and the fishing business is its infancy in that section. It is grow Coal Deposits. of considerable importance, and will ing, and will assume immense propor j Fine Machine Work a Specialty. Ronde Indian reservation. A system of There are great beds of coal in Til roadways also connects with Seaside on grow in the future. Tillamook also has tions when transportation facilities are lamook County, that only need open three excellent county seat newspapers, better. The Tillamook dairyman has a the north. ing up and transportation facilities to The North Yamhill and Tillamook that would be a credit to towns of great advantage over manv of the farm, make them a source of profitable reve- ¿r T W W W V VW V V WV V V V W 8000 or 10,000 inhabitants. ers along the Columbia, as the cost of stage route is conducted by D. B. Gaunt, nue. Portland parties have done ex feeding the cows is much less. Cranberry Culture. of North Yamhill, ami is well equipped. tensive work in ascertaining the ex The drivers are well informed, and the Rates, $1 Per Day Cranberry culture is destined to be one Timber Resources. tent of the coal deposits in Necarnev Centrally Lioeated. passenger on the front seat surely knows of the greatest money-producing indus. The north part of Tillamook County Mountain, and it has been determined the county when he reaches his journey*s tries of Tillamook County, and already is noted for its wealth of timber, extend that an inexhaustible supply exists. end. a number of bogs have proved profitable ing from the ocean to the summit of the Practical tests show that it is excel Tillamook County has many fascinat investiments. Elevtn years ago the ex Cascade Range. The standing timber is ‘ lent for fuel, repeated analytical tests M. H. LiARSEN, Proprietor. ing attractions and points of scenic periments were begun, and the success estimated at 20,000,000.000 feet, com showing that it is higher in fixed car TILLAMOOK, OREGON grandeur. There is Cnpe Lookout. Tilla. far exceeded the expectations of the pio. prising fir, cedar, larch and hemlock, and bon and combustible gases than the The Best Hotel in the city. No Chinese Employed mook Head, the lighthouses, famous1 tieers in the business. To W. C. King some quarter-section tracts are estimat Nanaimo, Seattle, Coos Bay, Rock Carney Mountain with mysterious ; belongs the credit and honor of making ed to contain 16,000,0000 feet. So val- Springs, Wyo., or Roslvn coal. This thing engraved on its rocky front, where j [ the business a profitable one. He dem-1 liable is this timber that large tracts : coal field can be reached by the ex-1 a hermit isjligging for the gold alleged onstrated that a thousand bushels of have been acquired by Eastern syndi- j tension of a few miles of the Columbia to have been buried bv Spanish pirates ' cranberries could be grown on an acre of cates, and much monev has been spent ' River & Astoria railroad from Seaside years ago. There are shellfish along the 1 ground, and that the product would eas- in litigation for possession of some c f the down the coast, or a tramway 2t2 beaches, clams, crabs, oysters and fish ilv net the grower $1 per pushel, and in finest bodies of timber in the world. miles in length would afford transpor- ( incorporated ), of every imaginable kind. In the moun many instances more. It requires care- There ;s timber enough in Tillamook ( tation of the coal product to the Ne- TILLAMOOK CITY, ORE. tain streams of the finest trout to lie ' ful preparation, presistent labor and County — to last for the next 50 years, if halern Bay. * - 2_r. Coal of equally good qua 1. found anywhere, and Nature has been s<>me capital to make the business a sue. it were continually being used for manu You can make your har itv has been uncovered in other sec- ness as soft as a glove PAID VP CAPITAL, $10,000. unusually lavish in furnishing the i cess, but a bog once set in the proper facturing purposes, and in years to come and as tough a« wire by j tions of the county, and like the nsinj EC It EKA Hur- streams of Tillamook County with many shape, becomes a profitable producer in- it will be a source of great wealth. The A GENERAL BANKING (Necarney district, is awaiting trans. ness Oil. You can varieties of the choicest fishes. Ray Citv definitely. The cranberries here are said sawmills that are now in operation are ) ngthen Rs life—make it BUSINESS. . portation facilities. lust twice as loug aa it and Woods along with Nehalem are im 1 to l»e of a darker color than the Eastern scarcely making inroads on the immense ordinarily would. portant points in the county outside of product, and of a lietter flavor and heav timlvt resources of the country . There Directors M. W. H arrison , Disastrous Wrecks. Tillamook, the county seat. C crtiss , B. L E ddy . ier weight. As a result they bring bet are thousands of acres of virgin torset Carelessness ig responsible for many 1 Tillamook County is well watered. 1 ter prices in the market, and there is that have never been touched bv the ax, Cashier ;—M. W. H arrison . having 60 miles of seacoast ami nutner- ' : practically no limit to the demand It and much of it is situated convenient to a railway wreck and the same causes | are making human wrecks of sufferers! Liberal Prices Paid for gilt edge securi ous rivers of large size. There is the costs from $200 to $400 ¡ier acre to pre the Nehalem River, where it could be front Threat and Lung troubles. But ! ties of all kinds. Nestucca running through the south | I pare the ground ami plant the vines, logged and floated down the stream ata since the advent of Dr. King's New Dis | mskea a poor look'ng bar- »«$ like new. Marta of part of the county, the two forks of the i this including the cost of the plants. minimum expense. Spruce has been the eovery for Consumption, Coughs and i pure, heavy bodied oil, o i periellv prepared to with Colds, even the worst cases can be C. a. LEEP, Nehalem draining the territory in the Land covered with standing timber is 1 principal timber cut as vet, as it is in stand the weather. cured, and hopeless resignation is no north, and there are the Wilson, Tilla- ' the most expensive to prepare, but is great demand for boxes, etc., on account ! longer necessary. Soil evervwhere Mrs Lota C'ragg of B oo I b and Shoes Neatly in cans—ail sizes. mook, Miami, Trask and Kilchis rivers none the less adapted to the growth of of its adorless properties. The Wheeler Dorchester. Mass,, is one of many whoa- all flowing into Tillamook and Nehalem cranberries, if the soil is made up of vege Lumber Company has rafted a great life wUs saved by Dr King's New Dis-i Repaired. Mia kj STANDARO OIL CO. ’ bays, is Netarts Bay and others that table muck or pest. It is important many logs to the sawmills at Astoria,! , covers. This great remedy is guaranteed | for all Tqroat and Lung diseases bv First Class Work Guaranteed, will become of more or less importance that the bog be so situated that it can and during the past season were sucess-1 , Chas. Clough. Druggist. Price. SOc. and Ladies ! Attention ’ For the Give me a trial. in the commercial future. be drained bv ditches at least to a depth ful in towing a raft to the Rainier Lum- $1.00. Trial bottles free. stylish tailor made suits,go to RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION K new (STKlCTLV IN ADVANCE.) winter fabrics .)! [I | I Skirts, I For Gentlemen's Garments to Order. Headquarters for Ladies’ Tailoring, Dress and Walking Suits, Dress SARCHET, the Tailor, Tillamook, Fir and Spruce Lumber Spruce and Cedar Shingles. a specialty. and Butter TILLAMOOK LUMBER. COfl)Pfl]'R The Best Hotel THE ALLEN HOUSE, Headquarters for Travelling Men. Pacific N avigation Co. 4 A. K. CASE, < Tillamook Iron Woks General Machinists & Blacksmiths. I 4 TILLAMOOK, OREGON, LARSEN HOUSE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK Harness EUREKA Harness Oil I Next to the Headlight Office. The Fashionable Tailor.
