Tillamook headlight., December 30, 1909, Image 2

at a greater profit than any previous
i year, consequently there is more
prosperity and capital per capita in
this county.than in any agricultural
■ section of Oregon. Although the pop­
ulation of Tillamook ia only about
7000, the Tillamook County Bank has
about 1000 depositor«, a large por­
tion of whom are dairymen who
have had bank accounts for a num­
ber of years.
Beach property have become quiet
valuable and sought after, incident
, to the building of the railroad into
Tillamook. The improvements which
are going on make them attrac­
tive to those who want beach pro­
perty. The prospects look de­
Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors, Window
cidedly promising lorthis county to
Sashes,
become the most popular summer
resort in Oregon.
Tillamook City had quite a build­
ing boom this year and made many
improvements, especially in the
business portions, with new con­
crete buildings and cement side­
walks, with the prospect that these
improvements will continue for a
Agents for the Great Western Saw,
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number of year». The railroad was
When the Oregonian made the ed up a county that was needing the cause of city property taking a
public announcement in the fall of railroad facilities badly. Mr. Lytle tremendous jump.
1903 that Mr. E. E. Lytle, President was fortunate in securing the ser­ I The deposits in the banka show a
The Most Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County
of tiis Pacific Railway and Naviga­ vices of Mr. George L. Davis as the large increase, The total deposits
tion Company, had become financi­ chief engineer of the Pacific Rail- 1 of the two banks in Tillamook City—
ally and personally interested in the way & Navigation Company, and Tillamook CountyBank and the First
proposition of building a railroad it devolved upon him the responsi­ National Bank—on the 15th day of
into Tillamook County,and that the bility of locating the railroad, and May, 1907 (the first statements avail­
road would be pushed through to the honor, over the Coast range of able) were $334,578.01, while, on the
completion, it had a wonderfully mountainsand through a rough,un­ 16tli day of November, 1909, with
stimulating effect upon the citizens developed and uninhabited stretch the addition of two small banks,
of this couuty. Previous to that time, of country. After going through ■ one at Bay City and the otfier at
i
and for a period of many years, the country afoot and having to con- Nehalem, now amount to $563,419.03.
railroad procrastination had become tend with many personal difficulties, 1 The capital stock of these banks
so frequent that the settlers loaf all and at the risk of his own health, amount to $88,400, and their loans,
confidence and had no faith in the he pronounced the project feasible,! discounts, bonds anil warrants
many “hotair” scheme which they and with his experience in railroad amount to $419,386.28.
were asked to take an interest in building, genial and gentlemanly | With the prospect of the railroad
aud which proposed to give Tilla­ manner, resulted in the road being > being completed next year, and ii -
mook County railroad connections started, and which soon promises cident to which a large number of
with Portland, the natural center of to be completed.
I industries will be started, the out-
commerce and trading point for this
It is only natural that the citizens look for Tillamook County looks ex-
rich, undeveloped an<l long neglect­ of Tillamook County should look ceedingly bright, not only as a large
ed Coast country, which had been left upon Mr. Lytle and Enigneer Davis lumber manufacturingcenter, but in
to rustle for itself, although it was but as their benefactors, for they, and a few years from now the dairy in­
•0 miles directly west of Portland. especially Mr. Lytle, have done a dustry will bring into the county a
Although many new settlers came great deal to give Oregon railroad million dollars annually, to say
into ths county, they soon became facilities, and especially Tillamook nothing of the other undeveloped
tired of the'isolated and bottled up County, when no one else would resources of the county, which will
eondition, and they gradually pulled undertaking or tackle theundertak- become a most valuable feeder for
up and left for parts more favora­ ingof building overthe Coast range Portland.
bly supplied with transportation. and affording relief to the long neg­
This great change caine to Tilla­
For a number of years the population lected Coast counties.
mook County because Mr. Lytle had
showed a steady decline at a time
There is a general feeling of pro­ the enterprise and Western grit to
when other parte of Oregon, better found sympathy and regret for Mr. open up thia country with railroad
favored than Tillamook County, but Lytle in this county on account of transportation. Many men have al-
with less opportunities to make hia being indicted as a result of the ready become quite wealthy on ac-
money, were on the increase, and financial difficulties of the Oregon countof Mr. Lytle’s pluck, and many
having to depend upon a miserably Security and Savings and Trust more will reap the same benefits. It
poor monopoly transportation com­ Company, of which he was a direc­ is no wonder that the settlers in this
pany with irregular service forehip­ tor, but, placing implicit faith in county look upon Mr. Lytle as their
ping dairy produce and getting in the officers of the bank who did a benefactor, and too much praise
supplies, the outlook was anything number of illegal acta unbeknown cannot be bestowed upon him for
but pleasiug to those who had toiled to him at a time when Mr. Lytle’s opening up tocommerce this long
year after year with the object of time was engrossed with building a neglected, bottled up Coast county.
making Tillamook the dairying railroad into Tillamook, and in con­
It is not generally known that be­
county of Oregon, nor was it invit­ sequence he did not know that the fore the late Mr. Harriman went to
ing to those who were seeking new bank was insolvent. While Mr. Pelican Lake on hie last visit there,
homes in Western Oregon.
Lytle was vice president and direc­ that he had decided to abandon the
Nevertheless, there were a large tor of that institution, his attention I Tillamook road. Mr. Lytle went to
number of settlers ,who had im­ was taken up with the numerous New York and remained with the rail­
plicit faith in Tillamook, and not­ difficulties and perplexities of build­ road magnate for several days with a
withstanding the many difficulties ing the Tillamook railroad and other view to getting him to change his
they had in getting their produce weighty problems that came up to mind, which he did, with the result
to market, with the Coast range of him to be solved in connection with that Mr. Kruttschnitt, chief of the
mountains on the East and the its construction, that he was able maintenance department, was sent
Pacific Ocean on the West and bad to give the bank but little attention. to Tillamook to look over the situa-
stomac troubles-indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, gas in the stomach,
roads in winter, it took men with This appears to have been taken tion with the result that he reported
" brea h.sick headache,torpid liver, biliousness and habitual constipation. Pleasanttot
nerve, industry and perseverance advantage of by the bank officials, favorably and the money was forth­
Sold by Chas. I. Clough.
to contend with the many diffi­ who used the bank’s funds reck­ with available to carry on the work.
cult problems they had to meet lessly and fortheir own selfish ends,
Foley’s Honey and Tar is the tx*st
witti, but having the staying quali­ resulting in its eventual bankruptcy
and safest cough remedy for chil­
ties and the industry they kept on and indictment against themselves dren. At the first symptoms of a
plodding ahead -and improving and Mr. Lytle, who relied implicitly cold, give as directed,'and ward off
their farms. What praise can be upon the honesty of his associates, danger of croup, bronchitis, sore
suid of the early settlers into Ore­ who were
entrusted with the throat, cold in the head and stuffy
breathing. It brings comfort and
gon can be said of thoai who set­ sole management of the bank. These ease
to the little ones. Contains no
tled in Tillamook in recent years, men had heretofore lived exemplary opiates, or other harmful drugs.
only that the county was left to lives and were men of highest stand­ Keep always on hand and refuse
rustle for itself and to depend upon ing in the community. Mr. Lytle sus­ substitutes.—C. I. Clough.
its own resources when other parts tained a personal loss of over $40,060
of Oregon were doubly blessed with by the bank's failure and never
regular railroad and
shipping profited a cent. This occurred at a
time when Mr. Lytle was wrestling
facilities.
That win the condition of affaire with the financial flurry and labor
when the glud news, through tlte problems building the railroad into
Oregonian, reached Tillamook that Tillamook, and it is a moat regret­
Mr. Lytle, unlike his predecessors, able thing that so useful a citizen
who had boasted so much h I miu I as Mr. Lytle, who has done so much
giving railroad transportation to for the developement of the state,
this couuty, meant business. The should be persecuted for the mis­
Oregonian ut the same time assured deeds of others. The people of Tilla­
the citizens that the railroad would mook afforded Mr. Lytle every assis­
be built, for it said at thut time: tance in prouring rights of way and
“Witti bls experience, capital and the business relations between them
prestige, Mr. Lyll* can do inure to­ have been of a moat pleasing charac­
ward* opening up thia long neg­ ter, for Mr. Lytle is ranking good
lected fiejd to industrial exploitation what he promised in 19Ufi
than any man who has ever attem­
As a result of thia conditionshave
pted th« work. It is needless to state wonderfully improved in Tillamook,
that Portland will do everything land values immediately commen­
possible to assist him in the under­ ced to crawl up, so much so that
taking.” $The Oregonian’s predic­ dairy farms have more than doubled
tion cams true, but still there are in values, adding several mill,
a great many business men in Port­ ion dollars to their valuation. It is
land who are totally ignorant of the no uncommon thing in Tillamook
many undrvelojied resources, not fordairy farina valued at from $10.600
Hiw Oae Doctor
Successfully
only of Tillamook, but in all of the to $30,10* to change hands the past
Stung For 15 **
Looking One’* Best.
„
Trea’s Pneumonia.
Coast counties, and it is a aha me yeijr. A large number of the dairy- J
iJiV ’rom“a" '«eliffht to look her by Indigestion’s L'jSi>
-.
J."
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’
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pneumonia,''
save
that they have suffered for so many men, who first started the dairy in I
W- J Smith, of Sanders, “ the L*!* b,,t JP’nF,*‘"' "kin ^niptions, many doctors ,n ,, y ff
years for lack of railroad facilities ihiatry, have sold out at handsome 1
only remedy I use for the lungs is sore» and boils rob life of iov. medicine in vain- ” .ti
Chamberlain a Cough
Remedy.
Ingleside, N.C- a* . 1
and harbor improvements, with their figures and have enough to live on ’
!hLm; inake* ‘he akin soft King's New l ife I
While, of course. I would treat
wonderfully rich and undeveloped for the rest of their lives. It is Mr. <
n ' . 11 R'ori«*’* the face, they wholly cured
other symptoms with different med-
resources, yet so near, but so far Lytle's efforts in building the rail t
•«■'nea, I have used this remedy turea I implea Sore Eyes. Cold Constipation.
road
into
Tillamook
which
made
*
away from Portland,» it h which they
. •£racked, L1J*
Chapped Headache. Stomach- W
many times in my medical practice
. J*y it- Infallible for Piles. and Bowel troubles-
this |x>»aible.
and have yet .ailed to find a case
are wanting to trade.
I
«•
*t
Charlea
I.
Clough's.
dhss no* controlle<1 the trou
I. Clough’s.
The dairy industry also took a (
The Pacific Railway A Naviga­
hie. I have used it myself, an has
Thi* i. Worth Remembering
tion Company was organized and boom an<l the output is growing (
f?r .''‘’"«rh" and colds
• ;',hrnrv’'r you have a cough or
Mr. Lytle became its preaident. the every year. Thia will be the ban *
and
cheerfully
recommend it as ‘ “Id. just remember that Foie v" a
man who had pushed the Columbia ner year (or dairying in Tillamook l(
Honey and Tar wi„ ,.u«
a,JT other cough remedy
Southern through to completion county, for it will have turned out r
Jo my knowledge ’ For sale by rndmT7r ’«dn“m<r Folr<8 Honey
more
cheese
of
•
better
grade
and
1
against many difficulties and open-
¡CLrr,W ”^‘Butes._
Lamar s Drug Store.
RAILROAD
TILLAMOOK A BOOST
E. E. Lytle is a Benefactor
to the County
LAND
HEADQUART^RS FOR
DAIRYMEN'S
SUPPLIES
STEEL STOVES & RANCES
We carry a Lar#e Stock of
Hardware,
Tinware, Glass
VALUES TOOK A JUMP
Many Improvements Going On—The
Most Successful and Profitable Year
for Dairying—The County has a
Bright Future Before It.
ALEX
McNAIR CO
Tillamook
Lumber Manufacturing Compy
H emlock LUMBER
KILN DRY FLOORING, CEILING, RUSTIC AND
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