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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. NOVEMBER 1. 1906 called S piomrr in the matter of rmlroa I I as a hu«in»>rtH proposition it will not la* project» here, altlioa. far Tdlaino.k •iiiapp Mutiny We feel Confident it will i County iM concerned, his projects never not We belief e fully that the road icarne to anything, unless the railimd will tie a ptying proposition fro n the which is now lieing built is an oulOMiie start; but while we feel this way to- of it. He did Some g sal work in that wa^ds you. I w mt to my that we feel way. lie advertised Tillamook County. friendly towards other prop «si(ions also. IhencameMr. Simmon and next Wil We are going to welcome every railroad sey; the Northern Pacific and Southwu man that comes to put in a road for us. Pacific, representel by Mr. Hill and Mr. W’e are not doing this to hurt you in any Harriman respectively. We had rail way, but will tiy to do business with all road surveys in every direction, «he of you. It means prosperity for you promise of railroads, and all that kind and for us. of tiling, but tliey vanisaed ami went And again on behalf of the people of into the blue air. Surreys were made, rillauiook City and County, whom 1 but were a basis for nothing but paper feel safe in assuming to act for. I wish railroad; and so It came to pass that Ciie to think you for your good work, ami people would treat as a hit air prop hi - wish you ail prosperity in your under* tiu:i any railroad project that came up, taking. and they have had that fe< ling ground into them a good deal. The railroads Prof. Rutherford’s Address. did not come. Still the people had to Prof. Rutherford, principal of the pub travel and get freight, which the did by lic school, was the next speaker. He boMi; and while a railroad was failing I said : 1 have been thinking as I stood tn come they would cuss the Elmore, here, that this is rather a unique gath and give vent to their fe«dmgs iu that ering today for the starting ol a private way. enterprise. We find here a great urinber Then Mr. Lytle came along and pro of people—perhaps a majority of the posed to lake up this work and carry it town—assembled to welcome the starl through When he began to talk atiout ing of an enterprise that is wholly pri it, the people of Tillamook were in a vate. It seems to me that this is a pret good deal of the Name notion (hat the ty good answer to a question that has backwoodsman was who lived in one often been raised as to whether railroads of the southern counties of Missouri, partake of anv different nature than anv where they hadn’t a railroad up to that ! other enterprise, and it seems to me this time; and when a railroad was con - is a prettv good answer ; the people are plettd into the vicinity, everybody went | more interested in railroads than almost to see it. And when this man went to I anything else, and they are of a different the depot and saw the great locomotive nature than most enterprises of private on the crack, and the cars behind it, lie character. We see almost every dav in look a good look at it; took into con the newspapers railroads pictured out- sideration its size and weight, and what some great octopus reaching and grasp it meant to move ail of it, ai d said: ing everything possible, and crushing e . every thing it can, leaving desolation in •• 111 bet they never start ’er!” But C m » tl U « time came for the train to leave, and the j its wake. It seems to me that the car- J the Northwest is the great railroad ac- I I Geo. L. Davis, of the P. R. AN. Co., spoke as fellows ; I assure vou it affords ine great pleasure to see so many happy and intelligent laces here tndav. And I assure you you have everything to l e happy for on this occasion, being the inaguration of the building of a railroad into your country— a thing vou have all long wante<l, and ought to have had years ago. 1 have been with this railroad since its inception. At first we met with many difficulties and adversities in a financial way. when we first begun constluction at Hillsboro ; but very fortunately, Mr. E E. Lytle and his brother C. E. Lytle and their associates, became interested in the proposition, They were Ruccesstul in financing this proposition, and I an «ure you today, one and all, that the finances of this road are forthcoming with which to build it, and the onl) thing that Mr. Lytle waited so long for belore coming to your city to make a proposition, was lor the work of vour humble servant, nn self, in securing a proper line with proper curves and gradings from Hillsboro to this place. This ol course w as not an easy task to do. We did the best we could. We work ed hard all summer, and finally in Aug ust I came to your city with a pack on mv back of about 50 lbs. (which I as sure you was no easy thing to do), with one ol my associates, Mr. C. M. Thomas and two others, and on that trip we thought we solved lhe problem of grade lines and proper curves, but it w>as not exactly what I wanted without making < survey. The survey was completed I think the early part of September. I so reported to Mr. B. E and C. E. Lytle, and Mr. Lvtle so came here with his arotherand nivselt and assist inis, and a proposition to vour people, which you as you ought to have done, lieing enter prising, accepted ; and now it become» our duty to fulfil our part of the con- tract. Your part of the contract. ladies and gentlemen, was to procure for Mr. Lytle a right of way within your coun ty, with terminal grounds. It was not a proposition that you thought was out of order. You accepted it, and now, as I said before, it becomes our duty to fulfil our part ol it, ami I believe that today is the commencement of such op erations; and I want to say to you now that, with the assistance of the people of Tillamook and vicinity, and that ol »our Honorable Mayor and Providence. Iiefore the sun sets in the golden West on the eve of Decemfxr 31«t, 190«, Till- nmook will lie on the railroad map ol the world. I thank you one and all. ladies nnd gentlemen, fur your attention, and ttlftO lor this honor of ad.lrcswitig you. RfUHG OF THE FIRST FOR A RAILROAD. | o be Completed in Toio years- R Liarge Crocud ouas Present. most important and pleasing puh- ments were then made to make the oc Lrent in the history of Tillamook casion of turning th#* first ground a pub tentr took place on Saturday after lie event, and the honor fell on Mayor H im when the first sod was turned by T Botts. iiorH. I’. Botts in the construction of A large crowd having assembled on tlong prayed for railroad w hich is to the grotin I which is to become the ter nthulong neglected, bottled up sec minal grounds, composed of about 800 lofOreg'ti nd Coas County rad persons, Mayor Botts turned the first id connections, and which will give it I s >d in this county that is to give Tilla opportunity to develop its vast, rich mook railroad connections, and the ire valuable undeveloped resources. quent applause which followed showed J It was to be expected that the event that the crowd was highly elated. L»Mcreate quire an interest amongst The Mayor’s Address. Wciti^ns, which it did. Business was Mayor H. T. Hotts then addressed the Impended fur the time being and citizens crowd. He said : turned out in large numbers to witness We are here today to show our inter Returning of the first sod in Tillamook est in the work which has just begun, County for the Pacific Railway & Navi and the attendance shows how the peo ifition Company’s railroad. Even the pie of Tillamook teel about the construc public school assembled and Prof. Ruther- tion of a railroad. We feel and we know ford and the pupils marched to the ter that this is something which means minal grounds to witness the event. Yet more to Tillamook County than any forail that quite a few persons could other event that has ever taken p'ace hardly realize what was taking place, for within its borders It means something thev hnvcgrown so accustomed to seeing to every man, woman and child here in railroad projects succumb one after ano this county. It m«-ans the growth of ther in quick succession and give up the Tillamook county in population ; that J ghost, to encounter a project that was the same will be doubled and quadrupl i really alive, awake and aggressive, was ed. It means that the population of almost too much for the average Tilla- Tillamook City will increase. It means mooker.for they have slipped up so many more people to till our farms and work times with dead ’ens. that they became in the mills, and it means more mills (FROM THE OREGONIAN.) auspicious whether this project would and manufactories, and everything of trip them up as well. Happily this is that kind. It means the end of our iso Breaking ground for the Tillamook railroad the other not the general opinion, for if ever the lated situation. It means that we shall day was an event long _ anticipated by the citizens of that people of Tillamook had confidence that i come in touch with' the outside world, pent-up section—the realization of a hope long deferred. a railroad was going to be built thev and in closer communication with them The people of Tillamook County had reason for rejoic haye implicit confidence today that their in everything going on. It means more ing, when, after all these years of waiting, the first sod was long cherished hopes will be realized money in every way ; a greater popula turned certifying that this long-delayed enterprise had at What would happen should they get lion, and more products. In a word, it length taken definite shape, and that in a year or two, or [ fooled again, is hard to tell. But there is 1 means progress and development all three at the utmost, Tillamook County would have railway no fooling now,they have been fooled for along the line. connection with the outside world. Tillamook County has been settled to the last time by the Oregon Coast & The shut-in condition of the people of this coast county Eastern Railway Company. some extent for more than 50 years, and of Oregon has long been a just cause of grievance to them. Handicapped for want of adequate I suppose that, beginning with the first Yet, in the face of the handicap that it has imposed, they transportation facilities, the settlers in white settlers in the county, people have have gone forward in developing such resources and indus Tillamook Connty have struggled thro been lookii g forward to the time when tries as they could, growing in prosperity, if not in content ugh many difficulties and bucked up they would not be in the condition we against hard problems, which would are in today ; they have looked forward ment, year by year. While lack of transportation facilities now look insurmountable in other sec to the time when railroads would be con has prevented development of the vast timber resources of tions of Oregon where they have all the structed ; when we would not teel that the county, left its magnificent coal deposits undisturbed modern utilities for getting their pro we were cut off, and kept to ourselves , and made manufactures practically impossible, much pro ducts to market, vet for all that the when we would get rid oftheiaea that gress has been made in home-building, in dairying and in sturdy qualities of the settlers, with true we are the only people concerned with lumbering. The hi tory of Tillamook County in the last Western grit, ha ye paved the way for a things here, and that everybody else is twenty-five years is the record of a people who, in spite of an ' ‘ outsider. ’ ’ That is an idea that has railroad and made Tillamook the most isolation, in spite of discouragement, have kept their cour prosperous county in the state, as far as prevailed a great deal. age, been loyal to their country and made the most of their For a great many years railroads have population is concerned. As a farming circumstances. That rapid development will follow com community, the settlers are industrious, been talked of here. For more than 20 pletion of the railroad cannot be doubted. The natural thrifty and well fixed. They have made ■ years railroad projects at least have been resources of the section are those that make for contentment Tillamook the leading dairy county in in the air, and with the first talk of them Oregon, and have gained such a reputa people began to hope and look for them. and prosperity. The development of these will give wo'k tion for butter and cheese that it is In their imagination they could hear the and wages and homes to a multitude. While ether stations known ihioughout the stateand all over whistle of the locomotive, and the clang are wrestling with problems of irrigation, Tillamook rejoices the Western Coast. It took grit, perse and clatter of the cars, and they looked in an annual rainfall that insures an abundance of growing forward to seeing their dreams realized. verance and determination to make things; other sections have been “logged off,” while thou Tillamook, isolated as it is, the leading Then men came upon the scene who pro sands of acres of her forest primeval are untouched ; other posed to build such a railroad. They dairy county of Oregon. Yet the settlers fields have paid tribute to agriculture until they are partially having implicit confidence in Tillamook issued prospectuses ; thev said they had exhausted ; hers are waiting to welcome the husbandman bring an ideal dairying section, kept on the capital to build, and were going to An old-new region is Tillamook County—old in that clearing land and adding cows to their push it. But thev failed, and failure after patient settlers have waited for a generation for soil to be herds, which brought then good returns failure came to pass, until finally the broken for her first railroad ; new because completion of the tyery month. The dairymen, therefore, people thought there was no prospect fora road for them at all, and a good railroad will be the beginning of wide industrial, manufac are exceedingly interested in the prospect many of them.when they saw they could turing and agricultural activities within her borders. of getting a railroad, for it will only be not get it, came to the conclusion that a b‘w years when the dairy output of Tillamook county will be three times ! we did not need any radroad, anyhow. I know it has not been many years since more than it is to day. you could go around Tillamook and engineer got up and opened the throttle toonist. were he here today, would get a It is not surprising that the people ol . .....___ ___ ,_______ . He would see peo. inspiration. Tillamook are elated on account of work meet mnnv citizens who would say. we and turned on the .team, and the train different are better off without a railroad. Thev started II got to moving faster an-i 1 pie ' with outstretched arms, waiting to havingcommenced at this end of the line, took the position that a railroad, while faster, and finally vanished from sight. ! embrace the octopus. What the people for it is going to make Tillamook county it would mean a good deal in certain The back woodsman stood watching the | here seem to want is a railroad. I>e it a large lumbering and manufacturing wavs, would bring a train of attendant operation. and saw the train disappear; government ownership, private owner center as well as a favorite summer re evils, and thev said, we better leave well his mouth open wide in wonder and ship, or any other kind. A railroad i. •ort. With about 40.000,000.000 feet enough alone, and they were ready to astonishment, and as soon as he could what they seem to be looking for jus' of standing limlier, waiting to be manti throw cold water upon any project ef get his breath, he said : " I bet »hey now, and I do not think any talk upon factored, saw mills, box, shingle and the kind. But, from this large gathering never stop ’er !” government ownership would be of any other factories will start up in all parts here today, I believe that that .|.int ha. That is the way here. When Mr. interest to them. of the county, giving employment to almost entirely vanished from the heart Lytle said: "lam going to build that Although we mav find fault sometimes thousands of men. of the Tillamooker. I believe the people road." we were inclined to say "I bet with railroad methods, etc., yet we can There is a bright, prosperous future see the lienefits to be derived from it and he doesn't start it but since he is here not deny the fact that the railroad is ahead for Tillamook county,now that it are heartily in sympathy with any move bet lie doesn't the greatest of all factors in the develop is about to emerge from its Jong isola that means the building of a railroad and at work, we say: "We ment of a new country. It seerrs to me stop it.' ’ tion to one of industrial activity and into thia City and County. that the beginning of railroads in this And we srs confident, enterprise, and is to be brought into The people here have been getting along country was one of the most important closer touch with Portland, the metropo- eery well. Prosperity is not a new thing can sav that Che railroad events of nil our history : that when the Tillamook County ia not hs of the Northwest. to the residents of Tillamook County. with Mr Lytle's roa<l. It is a go d thing Central and the Union Pacific were con The company that is to give Tillamook We do not know, and hare not known and we want io iwe it building, imt we nected by driving that spike at Ogden, railroad connections is the Pacific Rail what hard rimes mean. It « true we don’t want to see it stop there, and before one of the greatest events in the history road & Navigation Company, of which ' h-relKenofftoour^lve. and hareno be gets into active operations, there are of the United States was consumated Mr E E. Lytle is the president of the ■ been in touch with everyth'"!! "«»• other made that propose to build—two then and there. company and promoter of the road. A been going on. At first. I-m told, there or three more—of course some of them Sometimes we do not think of the short time ngo Mr. Lytle came here and was a schooner that made tnps into may be " hot air’’ prop-mitions. but we benefits we get from railroads, but if we made a proposition to the leading citi Tillamook Bay once or twK-e a year are very sure that at least one more road don't think it is a great thing to have zens. to this effect : That if they would II ben it got to coming e»"T .,hr" will he built. And some people liere railroads crossing the Continent, we will guarantee him free rights of way KHHt. month., the people were enthosiastw even predict I hat tlie second roml Io link some uf the pioneers among us why wide and terminal grounds between this Whenitgot to coming once a month. atari will be the first Io enter, but bow it w a great thing. Ask some of the old city and Buxton, in Washington coun I they thought they had reached perfec ever ilia* may he. we are sure we are fellows who came acrosa the plains ty» he would agree to build 15 miles of tion ; and when lhe Elmore got to rmv going io have this railroad, and if we hundreds of mile, alongside an old ot hen road, starting from Tillamook City, and , nI,.g occ.M.>n.Hy ; then oftner . don't get any more, we will try to feel Inis. They will tell you it ■ a great have it completed by the end of next , oikc a week, the peojde thought that thing. If peo|<le who are accustomed to satisfied with that. ~ year, and the whole line between Till«-1 Las al! that was needed. I want to say to the men who are railroads do not think it is a great thing •nook City and Hillsboro, equipped and I ,(np Th., grew partly out of the fact doing thia work that the people of T.lla- ask wnne of the Tillamook people who trains running not later than December , i railroad project, had cook up mook County appreciate what ymi have have u«ed the North Yamliillstage route, «1st, 190«. This agreement was some a„d that feelfag. ««••« •• We appreciate what you have or the people who have hung on the what m<«d»fied. but agreed to by Mr. ,oat«tri. extent for a «.«*. •— N" d,mo Lvtle. the result of which he accepted I done.-ay w.«h; we hare grew, out of undertaken. We are IwaMtilv with you, rail <•« lhe Elmore during one ol its trips, every one of IM. and want to le-lp you feeling like Jonah, and looking like—dis tbe guarantee for terminal grounds •" ’ carded diahrags. tins city and rights of way to the W ash ■‘Th, 11^ — ¿i**- »rrz: along in every way powbte. We know you hare entered upon this work as a I It seems to me that one of the most ■ngtou county hue. .Mr. Lytle decide I r..U.ad u. T.llanrmk inspiring features of the development of to commence work forthwith, and last jReid. and he d-werves I -Pf»* to t. ’ bu.inees proposition, aud we hope that I week hts cquipm ut arrived. Arrange- Ho, for Tillamook I ■ I ■ I ■ ■ • I I I i « I : I ■ J I •r tivitv. We een the great railroad mag- natfs raring lor the Pacific coast with greater zeal than ever belore. We see them contendmg everywhere lor the light of way. It seems to me. ladies and gentlemen, that this is a good sign there is a future ahead for the country. Such men as lii!l and Harriman do not was e railroad materials in building in to a section rd country not worth build, ing into and lhe fact of a railroad coming here, though on a smaller scale, is a sure sign that there is something here worth building for. Perhaps we have been convinced of the fact for a good many vears ; but then, perhaps other people think so too ; and it is a satisfaction to know that, as well as to have lhe rail road. It seems to me as Mr. Botts has said, that this railroad is going to be one of the greatest benefits we could possibly have. And although other people than those of this community may not under stand just exactly why the people here are rejoicing so today, if thex would change places with us for just a little while, perhaps they would appreciate why we rejoice in seeing it come II they had every thing one day late, and ex perienced the trouble in getting here that residents ol Tillamook county do. they would understand then why it is th.xt we assemble here today to greet some- thing that will be a private enterptise. even after it is completed. I think out side people do not understand just how we feel about this ; but you come here and live awhile, and *‘bu np the bumps” and shoot the shutes” to North Yamhill, or, as I mentioned a while ago, hangover the rail of lhe Elmore, with all that that implies, and I tlnnk vou would shout, too, when you saw a railroad really started in our midst. Engineer Davi9 Replies. I wherever pwnible to avmd it. not put to Il.e iiecvMiily of litigation. 1 want tn make another point, and that is, that this ia distinctly an Oregon enterprise. Ill is woith u I.lie to com ment upon the fact that the great rail roads of Oiego ii have nearly all been started by Oregon people. Our sister Slate of Washington has much better railway facilities ihan we, but she has provided very few of them A»r herself. Iler railroads have substantially all been built by the great railroad magnates of the East; whereas, the railroads of Oregon have, in nearly every case, had the'r inception in the enterprise of Ore gon people. It was so with the O R. & N.. now an important railway line, and a branch of the great llaninian system. It was so with the line out of Jefferson street, a line built by William Reid. It was so with the line going out of Fourth street, and w ith the East Side line of the Southern Pacific, line« originally built by Ben Holliday and others. And so it lius tieen with the previous enteipiises with which Mr. Lytle has been connected. Ten years ago he was station agent at The Dalles. He had lived in the state a long period of years, and has as little money as some of us now. Bui by reason of Ins nerve and enterprise and ability to see w hat other people were blind to. he has a massed a fortune, and is entitled to it. lie lias given railway facilitiei to an important part of eastern Oregon, and I am able to assure you that all of bis financial ar. rangemenls are made,and the road which h is its inaguration at I lie I'illauiook end of the divisiou today will be built to lhe line now in operation from Hillsboro. It is nut a pa|»er road, but 20 miles are now ready for operation. And I trust, ladies and gentlemen, that when lhe story <>f this road is written, you will •»« able to say that it has done tilings for Tillamook town and county. And I trust that the prosperity of this enter prise may be such, and that its benefits to this community and to l he State of Oregon may be such, that we shall all delight to come out here and hold up our bands to heaven when the road is com pleted. and rejoice with y<>u st what Mr. Lytle shall have accomplished. I think, Mr. Mayor, ladies and gentle men, that we ought not to separate to. day from this gathering in this great pioneer county of Oregon without a thought of the work thnt has been done by the early settlers ol this state. It is true that the enterprise inaugurated here today marks a stage in the develop ment of Tillamook County. It is also true thtt there would be no Tillamook County for the American countrw here on the Pacific Slope had it not been tor the work of the early pioneer, and it seems to me but fitting that I should repeat this afternoon, in recognition of ilie work <»i the pionecis themselves, the beautiful lines written bv Oliver C. Ap plegate, at a meeting ol lhe Sons of the American Revolution : I^et there be light in lhe Western wilds The spirit of progress said, And thousands followed lhe devious paths Where the sturdy woodsmen led, They crossed the mountains beetling crags. And lhe deserts brown and bare. And on the shores of this Western Main, They planted the old flag there, As lhe blue of the sky and the blue of the waves Mingle and blend in the rea. It mingled itscolois with those of the wave T<> herald the march of the free. And the echoing thud ol the woodman’s ax. And the roar of his trusty gun. Told, in a voice that woke up the woods. How this Western land was won.” Mayor Botts called for three cheers (or lhe Pacific Railway 8t Navigation Co., which was heartily responded to, which brought the proceedings to a close. [The Editor is somewhat disappointed in not receiving a nutnlxr ol pictures of this event which he had arranged to print this week so that the citizens could have an interesting issue to keep or send to their friends. Instead ol sending the half tone cuts by mail, they were sent by express, hence the stereotyped expression “ They’ll be here on the next loal,’’ and we will publish them in our next isrue J A Year of Blord. Th* y^ur ItftW will long ta retnemliered in tlw hoiutf uf F. N. Ticket, ol Alli- Knc«. Ky , mm u year of bkMwl; which mo copkMialy frooi Mr. TavkH'a Wallace McCamant Speaks. rtowr'il lungi» ihMl death M»-en»c<l vety near. II m Mr. Wallace McCamant, attorney h r m rilea : “ Bev*re bleeding from the lungR Hii«l a frightful cough had brought iuv tl>e company, made a tine talk. He Mid I consider myself very much favored in Mt death’« <i««<>r. when I itegMii taking Dr. King* New Diacovery for Conaurnp. your little city on this auspicious occ»- lion, with the aMi<»ni«*hing reault that sion. I did not know until my arrival after taking four lx41 lea I was com that this event had liven post|*>m-d from pletely restored and mm lime ha* proven Thursday. On behalf of the manage pei iiiMnenlly cured ’’ Guaranteed for ."tor** LungM, Couglia ami Cold, at Chaw. ment, I want Io thank you for the cor I. t’louirh*« Drug Htore. Price 5<)c. and dial spirit of co-operation with wldch •1.00. Trial bottle free. you meet the Tillsmook eml of this new I v T atb or O hio , C ity of T olk no, i Local conuv, i enterpriae. And I hoj*e this good will F rahk J. C hmmkv Dntke» oath that he ia the lietween the people of Tillamook and eenior partnei of lhe firm of E J ' HKMKV Ac , rtoii»« bualnami In the C‘ty of Toledo. the management nf this railroad may CC County ano Mate afoteaaifl. and that aai<1 firm long cominue, and I want Io assure y<m will pay the earn of ONK Hl NhU'di Doi, LAKS for earh and every caaw of t utarrh toat that so far as the legal department of cannot be cured by the u«e of H all * C atakmh lhe naid is ■ oncerned. every effort will Cvaa FRANK J. CHENKY Henn tn before me ai»d «ulnaribed in my be made to so condu ct the enterpriae prceem-e. thia 6th day of December. A D. iM6. the* tilere may lie a continuance of this \ . A W GLtA«W>N Motary Fublk spirit of goisl will. I • aa< to say that ♦aaa. ( flall a Catarrh Core la take interwallr, and any otie who hva any imamate dealings act« directly on Dir blond and miicear «orface« with thia corporation, oat of which any of the »yetem send ie«timow|al« free F J CIIMNF.Y A CO. Toledo. O. controversy may arise, will be treated Hol I hv •«rvHfa Take llall • Fa nfiy Hila lor (.ooattpatios. fairly by the legal department, and * •• 0BBMCa, «A-glh.-f j