grange I favors bonding for roads . COMMISSION SECRETARY POMONA Intelligent Letter on the State and County Good Roads Movement. ■ WILL BUY PAVING PLANTS Summons. ----- o----- in the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Tillamook L Minty. Coats Driving & Boom Com­ pany, a corporation, vs. Unless Reasonable Blds Are Submitted, State Will De Work Itself. Plaintiff. Carl Haberlach and Amanda Haberlach, his wife and Frank S. Sugimoto, Defendants To Frank S. Sugimoto, one of the above named defendants in the name of the State of Oregon; You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint filed against you and the other defendants in the above entitled Court and action on or betore the last day of the tune prescribed in the order for publica­ tion of Summons herein to-wit: the 25th day ot May, 1917, and if you fail to answer for want thereof the plain­ tiff wiU take judgment against you that your damages be assessed and awarded for the land sought to be appropriated and described as follows to-wit: A strip of land 40 feet in width over, through and upon the lands of the defendants, for the use of the plaintiff and being twenty (20) feet in width on either side of the follow­ ing described center line thereof, to- wit: Beginning at the government quar­ ter (J4) stake on the North boundary of Section 24, Township Two South of Range Ten West, thence along the North boundary of Section 24, on a true course North 85 degrees 43% minutes. West 1202.76 feet to the 1-16 corner on the North line of the Northwest quarter of Section 24; thence along the East boundary of the Northwest quarter (%) of the Northwest quarter of Section 24 on a ¡ true course South 1 degree 07 min- , ufes West 939.7 feet to the center | line of the right of way of the pro­ posed extension of the Coats Driving i and Boom Company's Logging rail- I way; thence along said center line on | a straight course South 76 degrees 58 minutes West 1298.6 feet; thence along a line curving regularly to the' left, radius being 1146.3 feet for a distance of 29.3 feet through a cen­ tral angle of 1 degree 28 minutes to a point on the West boundary of Sec­ tion twenty-four Township 2 South of Range 10 West, said point being on a true course South 2 degrees 47 min­ utes West and 1334.7 feet from the government Section corner coin .ion to Sections 14, 13, 24 and 23, ail in Township 2 South of Range 10 West of the Willamette Meridian; thence alotip said center lirie on a regularly curving line to the left radius being 1146.3 ft. and central angle 17 degrees 23 minutes for a distance of 347.7 feet; thence on a straight course South 58 degrees 07 minutes West 1270.8 feet to a point on the West boundary of the Southeast quarter of the North­ east quarter of Section 23, said point being on a true course North 2 de­ grees 22 minutes East 601.4 feet from the 1-16 corner on the South bound­ ary of the Northeast quarter of Sec­ tion 23 Township 2 South of Range 10 West ot the Willamette Meridian in Tillamook County, Oregon, con­ taining in the aggregate 2.71 acres and all being situated in Sections 23 and 24 said Township and Range. An addition any damages if any, there be, and that the Court includes in its final judgment the terms agree­ ments and conditions contained in plaintiff's offer to put in not more than three crossings on the grade and track lev_el at the most convenient place the number to be designated by you and your co-defendants at the trial of this action, at the expense of the plaintiff, and that the plaintiff will take judgment appropriating and condemning the lands hereinbefore described for the right of way to-wit; use, and that it will take judgment against you and the other defendants < for the costs and disbursements of 1 this action. This Summons is served upon you by publication thereof by order of the Honorable A. M. Hare, County Judge of Tillamook County, Oregon, in the absence of the Honorable George R. Bagley, Circuit Judge, of the above ■ entitled Circuit Court, which order is | dated the 10th day of April, 1917, and the date of the first publication there­ of, being the 12th day of April, 1917, and the date of the last * publication will expire on the 25th day of May, 1917. Webster Holmes, Attorney for Plaintiff. 1 believe m the ,notto “Ee sure you improve their farms, and make more ■ ire right and then go ahead.” When money, hve easier ami pay olf thc ■ the road bonding question first came mortgage. 1 thought of it, which 1 be­ plants will be purchased I u 1 was not sure *l was thc nghl lieve is a g„0d thing. Why is not it a th« Paving state highway commission. ■ thin* I heard conflicting statements good thing for the counts to bond If satisfactory blds for laying pave­ B .bout it. 1 fad ,he,n 111 ,hc Paper» and borrow money at a low rate of ment ar« not reeelved from eontractore ■ Well how was 1 to know what was interest and build good roads and ■ right’or who was right? 1 thought make more money saving time, wear th« uommlesion will thus be prepared ■ over the matter and Leing accustom- and tear on getting our products to to undertake paving work iiaelt by ■ ed to say in a matter of seconds the markets and life easier and hap- force account. I when j did not know whether it was Blds for a>U types ot standnrd pave­ 11 ,s not a good thing, wl>y ment are to be invited under open and I right or not. "To the law and the not ? 1 1 k began to see that the "legs of I testimony.” 1 said in this matter there not; I began to see that the legs of fair competition. I is a way to find out. I will go to the rue Grangers could not consistently The type ef pavement to be selected I |lw and the testimony and read and oppose the bonds. If it ¡, g00d f/r in each individual case is to be deter­ I think for myself. 1 wrote to the Sec- the individual farmer, that it was mined by cost and local conditions. . I retary of State, Ben W. Olcott, for good tor the county, and if good for For work duue by contract good and I the laws on the subject of good roads the county it was alright for the sufficient guarantees ot workmanship, I and bonding. material and durability will be exacted I [ received them, and sat down to state. lien, one said this is a vast amount from contractors. I reading and studying. 1 found a bill ot 1 money in the hands of a Iiurlug the existence of war condi­ I called "State and Federal co-opera- tew men. 1 to hey put have such opportunity tions no construrtlon will be under­ I tive Road Bonding Act.” Chapter 175 to graft or squander the uiunyy. Then I Laws of 1917. 1 read it. I found that 1 commenced to study the handling taken which will withdraw labor from I the Federal Government would give of agriculture and other needed Industry. money. 1 found there was a I to each state a certain amount of law the outlining The above Is an outline ef the gen­ the duties of the High­ eral policy which Is to be followed by I money for good roads if the state put way Commission, and that they were the state highway commission in mat­ I up a like amount, and that this state under law and responsible for the ters pertsining to the construction of I was entitled to $1,819,280.65, if we put handling of the funds and liable I up a like sum. 1 found in this act the I removal and punishment for to otnte roads. any I Slate Legislature had wisely provided crime they commit. They really do I for that amount. handle the money in person no 1 I then turned to general laws of [ [ not Oregon for 1917. chapter 423. I way. But if we cannot trust them, I found a bonding act referred to the . why trust any officer of the : state. I people of Oregon to say whether we • Abolish them and we will become a "Better Roads Will Build Your Busi­ | should bond the state for $6,000,000 > state of anarchy. But that is only a or not to apply on building perman- . pretense and a supposition by the ness Bigger” Is the catchy good roads skeptical.. slogan coined by C. W. Walls, mer­ I ent state highways. I found in this bill a clause which 1 Another objection the opponents of chant and enthusiastic good roads the bill have is that the license fees booster of Fossil, Wheeler County. ! says: I "If the County of Tillamook shall I of autos are double tax and uncon­ * * * ' so prepare and make ready for pav­ stitutional. Alternate stretches of improved ing twenty or more miles in length We turn to the Motor Vehicle and mwd holes do not get the of the post road between Tillamook Law, house bill No. 509, chapter 174, roads City and McMinnville, and if such General Laws of Oregon. We find,] farmer or automobile owner anywhere. portion of said roarfrin either or both this is a public safety registration law They need a continuous highway just of said counties, .are so prepared that and a fee charged motor vehicles for as a locomotive needs a continuous the same shall be tezdy for paving operating on the streets and public track. Systems of hard-surfaced high­ according to requirements of the highways of Oregon, under the police I ways are the efficient and economical State Highway Commission, the power of the state, so that this fast plan. Vote 314 X YES and get some per­ Commission shall immediately pave moving vehicle by motor power can the road so prepared.” not run over your child or mine and manent improved roads in Oregon. ★ * * 1 thought, well, that is pretty good, kill them and go on, not be caught, or especially for Tillamook. But then I steal something and escape or do any In connection with the road bond asked where is the $6,000,000 coming other meanness and get away. Any discussion it is noted that the state from? Who is going to pav it? Well, citizen, who, through a pretense of a highway commission at its last meet­ I turned to the bonding bill we are to double tax, and it being unconstitu­ ing instructed its engineer to collect vote on, and I found in that that the tional, would refuse to pay it, is not a data to the cost of paving state road commission is to take auto good citizen and should not be allow­ I plants relative with a view of being Independ­ registration fees and use it for that ed to operate a car on our public ent of paving coir actors. It is also purpose. roads. noted that the commlssfoa has prac­ Well, then, the question arose. Will Another objection. Some sav this that pay off the bonds and the inter­ bill is boosted by a certain pa’ented tically decided to lay a section of ce­ est on them? I turned to the auto pavement company that hopes to get ment concrete on the road near Sheri­ dan. registration bill and I found the rate off of their royalties. of license on the autos and the net re­ rich * * * We turn to Senate bill Ni. 5, ceipts for this year on the registra­ chapter Are you aware that In the pad tea 22t, General Laws of Oregon, tion of automobiles, motorcycles, etc. 1917, We find the law on paving pro­ years approximately 000,000 baa will amount to $165,638.80, and if we I been spent in the state ot Oregon on vides for open bids of paving com ­ bond and borrow one million dollars roads, principally patch work, a load this year, that would pay the interest panies patented or un-patented of of gravel here and one there? In view standard hard surface pavements. on this year's bonds and leave a bal­ this expenditure what about a bond ance as a sinking fund for the princi­ The patented will have no advantage I ' of over the lion-patented companies. Issue of 16,000,000 for permanent ple of $125,638.80. Then, next year, we would receive When we find objections to the bond roads? Some people will not believe from auto registration fees $478,341.12 bill and we look them up we find these figures, but secure them for and we borrow on the bonds $2,000,- they are most all based on supposi­ j yourselves. The figures can be an> 000. We will have interest on $3,000,- tion gotten out of the book of im­ cured from different state and county 000 to pay. The registration fees of agining every man is dishonest and officials.—Brownsville Times. o w ★ autos will pay that and leave a bal­ we cannot trust them, which is a de­ ance of $358,341.12 for the principle. structive delusion, injurious to our To bring about an expediency of the The next year 1919, we borrow $3,- best government and the progress of good road condition for use In the 000,000 more. Then we will have the our county and state is clogged and ' time of the nation's need it seems best $6,000,000 to pay interest on, but we hindred. ' to nccept the proposed bond Issue, be We are behind Washington and : eauae of the conflicting political In­ find the auto vehicle registration amounts to $637,788.16. At J.ie pres­ California as a state, and why? Not terests that aeern to have been able to ent increase of autos. So that will pay i because of our resources and oppor­ be totaled upon the unwitting, yet the interest and leave a balance for tunities, for they are as great as I hoaeat voters of Oregon through the the principle of $397,788.16. theirs. It is because we have neglected our Initiative. The six per cent tax liml Mot counting any increase in autos, that amount for the next three years opportunities. In 1892 I was in the tatlon forbids Oregon over getting ade­ each year would leave a balance in state of Washington, working for Dr. quate and passable roads in the next the treasury of $2,075,132.56 to begin N. G. Blalock, a cousin of mine, He two centuries, unless the issue is taken to pay on the bonds. Then we are to was made president of the World's up from another angle.—Burna News. * * * pay off one twentieth of them, so Fair Commission of the state of that amount would pay the one 20th Washington. They put up a state The time baa come tor Oregon to and leave a balance of $i,955,I32-5^ building at Chicago, filled it with ex­ make a start in the direction of per­ to put on the roads. The auto fees hibits. They hauled the logs from manent state highway construction every year after will pay the interest Puget Sound to build that magnifi- i Washington, north of us, will spend and the 20 per cent ot the bonds and cant building, and they raised a flag (6,(0«,000 in the next two years, it la ¡eave a handsome sum to go on the poll from the tall trees of Puget proposed that Oregon spend («,000,000 roads. If the registration did not in­ Sound beside that building, and Old in five years; California, south of us, crease ior the 20 years they will re­ Glory waved high in the air and de­ tire the bonds and give over $7>5°°.- clared to the world that the State of has authorised (15,000,000 to be spent 000 back to the roads in that time. Washington was a part of the United in the next two years and about as Well, then, I thought why not just States and invited the people to come much more will be spent by the coun­ apply the vehicle registration fees on to that state. We have wonderful op­ ties ot Calíferas Indications aro that Notice. the roads as they come and not bond ' portunities for you, and they came. conservativo peepte are awakening to But, then, I thought that will give a But Oregon, this fair state, did not the need of getting away from ths Notice is hereby given that the un- j small amount of work, pave but lit­ give this invitation. They did not mud sad dust and expensa ef poorly built and maintained means ef oom- dersigned, administrator of the estate tle road each year, and we would be know she was on the map. of Lars Jensen, deceased, has filed deprived of the benefits of the good Until the Lewis and Clark Exposi­ munlcation.—Mure Observer. • * • roads. tion in Portland did the people of the his final account in the County Court Under the tax limitation law there It would be only patch at a time, in world hardly know of Oregon with for Tillamook County, Oregon, and the mud and out of the mud. But if her resources and opportunities. Now san be only 6 per cent increase in *e bond and get a large amount of as the people are looking towards taxes annually As that Increase will that Saturday, the second day of paving and good roads it will save on Oregon, we should say come on. \\ e probably be made by the tax levying June, 1917, at the hour of ten a m., of time, an wear and tear of autos, are going to have good roads for you bodies whether any extensive road said date is fixed as the tune, and the wagons, etc., a vast amount of money. to travel over. Now we have an op­ building la done or not, the voters office of the County Judge, of Tilla­ 1 commenced figuring on the sav- portunity to go forward, but if we should certainly decide In favor of ln8- 1 asked auto owners what it vote this down we will take a bark- good roads. There need bo no fear of mook County, Oregon, in Tillamook City, Tillamook County, Oregon, is j ™ would save to them to have paved ward step. additional state bond Issues, either, Jjwds and good roads to travel on. We can offer to the people who unless the people of the state want fixed as the place for the hearing of ! ” lhe first one said it would save $60 J come here a muddy road to travel them as such bonds can only be Issued the said account. !■ a year on tires alone, another $40. over. But let us consider the matter after the matter has been approved by Notice is further given that all per- j snother $30, another $80. Well, then and on June 4th cast our vote for the popular vote. The present tax rate, sons having any objections to the ac­ estimated that it saved to thc autos progress of our state and sav to the ind truck«, etc., an average of $40 per good people of the world, Come and with 'he annual ( per cent Increase, ceptance an» 2 00 o’clock p m •aly cwdMn portlona ot the yew bat Tablets have done wonders for me and I valus them very highly." For farm ’* wa* ’ ?°°