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Editorial Snap Shots.
surprising that there a general
complaint.
It is up to the
Water Commission to revise the
rate, if possible, or submit it to
a vote of the people whether the
rate should renia n the same or
tie cut in two. That, we think,
is a fair way of d'spos’ng of the
question, as well as allowing
the people to rule. II an elec
tion cannot la- arranged for im
mediately a friendly re call elec
tion would answer the same
purpose.
One prominent attorney sind
that be was iti the pavement
case for the money there was in
it. Another prominent attor
ney »aid there were too many
attorneys in the case who were
after big fees and that it was
not necessary to employ attor
neys. Another surprise. One'
of the jiidges of the supreme'
court says that court has de
cided several cases similar to
the pavement case in this city,
where the citizens cannot sue
unless there is fraud.
It is a
matter between the c ity and tliej
contractors. If this is correct
then all the time and money'
expended in the law suit is
thrown away.
Another law suit over the
pavement ruction, mid amongst
those who started the first tight.
Sir ’em, sic ’em, sic ’em, for it
'There is one tiling about the
is about time that something
new- assessment law that w ill
was doing.
interest those who own improv
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ed kind, lor unimproved land is
So the "gout” who was taken to be assessed tin- same ¡is the
by the horns must have butted cleared land. There never was
when it came to the converting any justice in assessing :is high
I’erml vent il ri as possible a person who makes
it into a may or,
the gentlemen behind him dili improvements and
allowing
n't twist his tail enough.
those who make none to get oil
¡it the minimum. 'This is going
to raise tin- taxes of those who
Considering that there is
large amount of travel every day own idle hind and hold it for
between the city ami the depot, ■peculation, but ¡it the same
it would be along ttie line of time it will raise the taxes of
improvement and civic pride to those who own large Lirins that
have the old plank side walks are only partly improved. 'This
will probably have the effect of
replaced with cement.
some of the speculators dispos
ing of their holdings, ¡is well as
In milking assessments in
some of the farms being di vided
future, the Assessor has to place
up.
the full value on property. We
do not ei.vy the assessor Ilia job,
We do not want to accuse the
but he needs an advance agent city council of extravagance or
to ascertain the selling price of of expending the taxpayers’
laud and property before he money wastefully, but a little
tackles the owners.
fair criticism will, we hope, be
taken in it kindly spirit bv the
We understand that visitors to city dads if we refer to one in-
Seaside are less numerous this tance where the taxpavers got
years and people there are won it in tin- neck. We refer to the
dering why.
They need not bill allowed on Monday evening
wonder, for Tillamook beaches for $250 for 25 days’ work in
lire becoming so popular they specting the work while four
lire drawing the crowdtf which blocks of pavement were being
laid. We wonder whether the
went to other benches.
city dads would have paid Unit
amount of money had it come
It wile reported to uh Unit the out of their own pockets ? Now
city council whs going to up we want to point out the differ
poll it mayor on Monday, but ence of inspecting similar work
for some reason it did not ma in flu- city and inspecting work
terinlize.
An amuaing little in the county.
The city paid
incident was related to us as to $10 a «liiy and the count) paid $5
who the 'goat" was to be that for inspecting, the county also
• will be worth repenting lit some having nil advantage in having
future date.
its inspector survey mid place
the stakes for the contractor,
We have lieen informed that while the city had to pay extra
Home of the Willamette nur- for that work. In other.w ords,
serie», which have formed a it cost the city more than double
trust, have tieeu "Honking” the what it is costing the county for
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people of Tillamook.
For in exactly tin- same work
stance. they have tieeil Helling and for what reason is there
apple treen at $10 a hundred in such a difference, gentlemen ?
other place» but charge people We will leave it to the judgment
here $25. And it in also report of the taxpayers whether it is
cil to uh that they have been right for the city to pay double
Helling «Gold apple tree at $2.5o| what the county is paving for
th«* same work.
< II II that in a gold biick.
Coiiitiiissioner R. Holman, of
The officiala of the Tillamook
< ounty Fair Association are de- Multn oiuali county . wan hi the
voting conaiderable time in ar 'city of Monday , ami he was »ur-
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prised nt our splendid roadn and
rimgiiig the fair mid it is pleas
nig to observe Hint the Grangers the system by which they are
and dairy men of the county nr«- Is-itig constructed. He »aid that
t iking a lively interest in it Wei Multnomah should not get into
are glad of this, for the reason the notion that that county was
mill part
pu, « of
'.»I v/ivgeii
imii
that w hen nn association was pile
the imh
Oregon that
first suggested it was hoped knew lu>w to construct good
that the Grangers and dairy roads, for this comity could give
men would take hold and man i Multnomah some pointers. Mr.
age it. They are doing so and Hotmail was surprised to lienr
the fair is going to lie the best I that Tillamook county bad only
mid most interesting ever held three road supervisor», and be
in the county.___________________ I was highly delighted with the
i iH-rinunent improvements, for
I this is what counts in road
I'lllnmook City is getting n
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Tillamook county
great many compliments these
jean give other counties some
dins from visitor» who remem
i pointers in road work, the most
ber the citv when the streets
j important of which is to rid
were full of chuck holes amt
,,
, ,
, themselves of the political m-ts
mini, the side 1 walks
___ bad.
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and
.
who keep sucking at the road
nothing but frame buildings to
fund and employ men wlm will
be seen. Since the spirit of pro
see to it that the county is re
gress took hold of the city there
jeriving ii gm«l .lav’s work.
It
is, certainly, a wonderful trans
may lx- an unpleasant job for
formation in its appearance.and
somebody to tin* a lot of poli'i
it is not surprising the citixens
’cal cronies, but when Tillamook
are being complimented for the
county did that and a new sys
clean paved streets and aubatan
tem was inaugurated,every Issh
tial brick mid concrete build
I saw at once that mon* work w as
logs And we don t think there
done and better roods were con
F- >nylssly who would like to
structed.
Although Illi" im
go tku k to muddy streets, etc.
pnivement took years to bring
about, it was shirted by a de
There is a strong impressioni maud of the i>eo pie for gissi
all over he city that the water r.Mtds and that every dollar of
ratea are too high. When it i« th« road fund should l>e pro|»er
taken into consideration that ly expended in road work not
the rates are twice ns high as wasted by tlii>»e who bed a
tn m<«st other cities, it is not litical pull
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BRIGHTON.
A C harter from ' L oafing
in
O regon .
MAE CELESTE POST.
Brighton is builded on the hills, and it s front
edge is a crumpled, notched ruffled flower timbered
line that follows the caprious shore line of Nehalem
Bay, well, say a mile or so in length, and a right
smart step back into the hills, farther than most of
the residents have explored, for it is sure a wild and
scary looking place, though there is a man in Brigh
ton who has a map of it and has sold lots there, and
has returned alive. It looks as though it might be
the habitat of bears and congers and strange things.
Now’this is to say that Brighton is bounded on
one side by clams, crabs and fish, and on the other
by bear steak and roast venison, and that each of the
other two ends run into towns just like it.
There is underbrush and overbrush and mag
nificent forest trees everywhere (and some stumps).
There are people living in Brighton, and they
are very quiet nice people, though they never go to
church because there is none there and they never
hang around the saloon for the same reason
There is no school, but as there is immediate
need, it will soon come. There is no cemetery and
there seems to be no need nor desire for one. But
the inhabitants are’ human, so they get drowned.
You almost have to be drowned in order to die there,
for it is almost impossible to be sick
Ami as they
are human, people are born there, and wavelets
play upon the sands a crooning lullaby ; the blue
jays shout in glee, and flowers wild and gorgeous
strew the pathway for the tiny feet
Great sunbrowned men cut logs and saw lumber
and fish and loaf and whistle—the store keeper
spends their money for them in Portland, ami di-
vides up the groceries among the different families
whose women folk cook and serve it in a most delic-
ions manner and smile and sing (a woman can’t loaf
when she is cooking for loggers), and the young
girls go to the post office.
They told me that you could stand anywhere in
Brighton and without turning your head you could
see river, bay, sand spit and bar; wooded points,
rocky cliffs, mountains and the open sea. and believe
me you can. Just to the North is Mt. Neah-Kah-Nie
solemn and still, biding defiance to the tumultious
sea, the old Indian trail shows plainly a golden
thread against its bronze green side, no wonder the
Indian held the mountain sacred, it is so vast, so
still, so absolute, so different from all the other hills,
the white mist from the sea sometimes curtains it
from view while unseen hands recolor its mighty
wall, now the wind spirits pull the curtains down,
sometimes tearing them in long strips and thread
ing them out over the bay, sometimes taking them
entirely into the hills beyond,leaving Neah-Kah-Nie
strangely purpling in the setting sun, where now
green and gold, in an instant is gray, with an Arab
esque in browns, now black against the star decked
wall of blue beyond.
The bay—now a flat strerch of gray mud— bor
dered with marsh grass and rushes (looks like an
Iowa swamp.) The mecca of the loon and crane,
and the clam digger Io, in an hour a calm sea, upon
its bosom sail boats, row boats, saucy noisy launches,
and great sea going barges. 1 have tried in vain to
describ the waters restless, yet full of peace, calm,
animate, endlessly dabbling the shore, now like a
mirror reflecting all the colors of the spectrum, now
lashed to foaming fury by a wild free breeze, lohg
glassy curves whose over lapping edges are lined
with a fillagree of silver -then smooth undulating
swells, coaxing, calling, reaching, grasping all that
comes with in their way. carrying them out over
thetrcachous bar into the broad ocean, with its end
less surf rolling against the sand
Across the bay is Nehalem spit, a long lean arm
reaching out, grasping like a miser all the flatsam
and jetsam of the sea, pointing its long gray finger
at the bar, warning all the ships to stay away until
the great, red white and blue gets the jetty finished.
"Haste the day."
And then into the open sea. always, always with
its procession of great ships, who leave no trail on
its high way. I like the traffic of the sea. They
cun t fence in the right of way, they can’t shut out
the little boats, they can’t mar the landscapes with
grades and poles and sights, they don’t roar and
rumble and ring black signals and keep von awake
all night, the ships that pass in the night and in the
daytime, do it on schedule time, without any rum
pus whatever Boat ahoy! Theo there is always
the moan and sigh, the croonitigs and the laughter,
the wailings and wild shrieking of the surf, and un
derneath its deafening uproar, are the little songs
and wavelet cry a. that von must go alone and bend
your eye closely that yon may hear what Hie wild
waves are saying.
They told me that you could have clams for
breakfast, crab for lunch and salmon lor supper
roast <lm k and goose for Thanksgiving, bear steak
tor (. hristmas mid venison when the law allows. Cer
tainly, certainly.
And now I can visualize* a great hotel upon the
mountam side, with trails leading back into the
lulls, so von can stroll out mid climb up and slide
down and get lost just enough tn feel deliriously
creepy mid always get hark just ahead of the life tier
servers W here hundreds of city folks may come
and hand out good cold tnazuma for fresh air flav
ored with salt, for the nwr of the sea. and the still
nessof the lulls for the sun on the beach and the I
shade in the canyons, and plenty of grub.
I see a floating wharf and lots of gay row boats,
and parties going over to the beach to bathe and sun
themselves in the sand, and search for hurried treas
ures, and to fish
I see gardens, and bee hives and chicken coops,
1 see a school house and a board walk.
I see the pleasure of living increased a hundred
fold.
1 see the cost of living reduced a quarter of a
cent. In Brighton.
Notice.
Nt »TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,-That on Monday, September 8th
1013 the County Board oi Equalization will meet at the Court House in
Tillamook County, Oregon, and publicly examine the assessment roll
for said year and correct all errors in valuations, description of lands
lots or other proper^
Saul board will continue in session from day to day, until the ex.
amination, correction and equalization of the assessment roll shall be
completed.
All persons interested in the assessment of their property
are requested to appear at said time and place, as no change can be
made after the adjournment of the board.
Paled at Tillamook. Oregon. August 11th 1913.
C. A. JOHNSON, County Assessor.
Import ! Where you invest your
money. The Western Loan and Invest-
meut Co., of Salt Lake, Utah is nowjopen
¡4^ to make you a loan or build you a home on
**7 the small monthly payment plan.
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A. McNAIR, President.
P 1. SHRODE, Vice President.
CANZADA EVERSON, Sec. and Treasurer
Board of Appraisers
—
E. M. BALES
F. H. MIICNK.
R. F. ZACHMAN
E. J. CLAUSSEN.
Board of Trustees—
JOHN LELAND HENDERSON.
B. L. BEALS.
• I. C. SMITH.
W. G, MCGEE,
A. C. EVERSON,
Loan Ageut.
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For Sale or Trade—Tillamook Co Land, City
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Vacant lots in all additions and Merchandise
ndise Stock.
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Fifty-Second Annual
OREGON
STATE
FAIR,
SALEM,
SEPT. 29th—OCT. 4th, 1913.
A Whole week of pleasure and profit.
$20,000 offered on premiums on
Agricultural, Livestock,
Poultry, Textile
And other Exhibits.
Horse Races. Shooting Tournament, Fireworks, Band
Concerts. Eugenics Exposition, Children’s Play
grounds and other Free Attractions.
Free Camp Grounds. You are invited.
Send for Premium List and Entry’ Blanks. Reduced
rates on all railroads. For particulars address
FRANK MEREDITH, Secretary’, Salem, Ore.
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