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id AY, OCTOBER 19, 1923 TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT » 3 U ■ ( I**?** COMMENT *W X« AW Editorial Page of the Tillamook Headlight FEATURES JÍ 1 tillniiwofe <Mwl nam‘ and prosperity go hand in proper time. nece"",tíe* of l,,e at * hand.—Oregon Farmer. Indépendant Weekly Paper •»bllshed Every Friday by the L'.dlight Publishing Company Tillamook, Oregon L ^ji, Harrison, Managing Editor Peered as second claaa mail ttter io the °-8- poatoffleo at llamook. Oregon. SUBSCRIPTION RATES *2.00 g Tear, By Mali —....... t Months, By Mail ----------- *1.00 |rM. Months, By Mai -------- « .75 Payable in advance Téléphonas Pacific States, Main 68 Mutual Telephone ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ OUR EDITORIAL POLICY ♦ ♦ ♦ 1. To advocate, aid and sup port uny measures that will bring the most good to the most people. 2. To encourage industries to establish in Tillamook county. 3. To urge the improvement of a port for Tillamook City. 4. To insist on an American standard of labor. 5. To be politically indepen dent. but to support the can didates for public office who will bring the most good to the people of Tillamook county and of the State of Oregon. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ FRIDAY. OCTOBER 19. 1923 ------------- —------ ” SAVING IN ROAD BUILDING ■ A well posted man from un ad- Hnning county, who was her«- I hs I Briday, expressed himself as being ■pH...<l to bithulitic pavement on ac Hniint of its heavy cost to the coun- Bes which ure now using it. Accord- Kip his statement, bithulitic pave- Hn-nt coats $30.(MX) per mile, and the Biterest on the ten year bonds at 5 Bei cent adds a cost of *1500 a year Bei mile. At the end of the ten year Beriod, each mile has cost the county Bhere it has been placed a total of ■15.000 per mile for interest, making ■he whole cost of a mile of such road 145,500. ■ Macadam road with a base of heavy Kock and u surface of fine ground Bis:k cun be built for *10,000 per mile. Bdd the interest for u year on the Bonn-, and you have $10,500; add the ■Merest for the ten year bond period Bud $.'¡,000 for maintenance, and you Biiv. a total cost of $18,000 per mile. ■Subtract that amount from $45,000 ■ nil you have the saving por mile over ■ la- bithulitic pavement which Lnioiinta to $27,(MN) for every mile of k-oad built. The man who did the talking stated that the gravelled Loud would outlast the bithulitic Lavement, and while possibly not so ■mouth us to surface, ought to be ■rood enough for everybody except the ■ peed maniac and a few city people, mho - xpect up-state counties to have ■s good roads as the people have in kin- cities. Many of th? bithulitic ■mid« have broken down under the me.ivy traffic and maintenance is be coming u great expense to counties ■nd to the builders. I' was the opinion of the man who [f a’ , the figures that we are spend- ling too much money for roads, when Iju-t a good roads can be had for a [whole lot less. The matter is worth looking into. $27,000 per mile in road building, multiplied by miles, would represent considerable money saved in road building. October is one of the finest months in the year, as a rule, almost every where. in Oregon it is noted for its cool mornings and evenings, and its sunny daylight period. It is the time for the conservation of food |b.v the farmer for man and beast I nut picking and processing for win ter use makes the season one of busi ness for the good housewife, who puts “P |he jellies, pickles and fruits for th‘: long winter period which follows after October. This is the time when the apple attains its perfection, and *'ights the trees with its red or white skinned fruit. The squirrels «nd other wild animals lay in their •upplies for the winter months, and in fact both humans and animals are busy, both with the same thought act uating their work. Behind it all is th* great mind that brought all things into being, and provided the seasons, *'«l gave both man and beast the rea- which enables him and them to T— Columbus is credited with having discovered America, and last Friday was a holiday in his honor for having accomplished that feat, A Dane or Norwegian, it is believed, discovered America before Columbus got started; and now comes a Chinese scholar who makes the claim that the west coast of America was discovered by a Mon golian nearly a hundred years before Columbus was born. Once this lat ter claim is authenticated by reason able proof, Columbus day should be repealed, and credit given where due. It seems a rather funny coincidence that when people are doing well as a mass, and times are good, that stocks in Wall Street, usually are de pressed. The stock exchange fattens on depression that affects the people, and therefore is not an aid to the masses in any way. Tillamook needs a couple of big apurtment houses, where workmen cun live without too much expense.. The town has already outgrown its housing facilities. Such apartments would pay well, and it seems strange that men having the means do not go into that business. We cannot well invite more people to our growing town without first providing the re quisite housing. ♦ ♦ ♦ I Pearl Etta Stewart, of McMinnville, and Emil Kenneth Stewart, of Tilla- mook, obtained a marriage license here on October 10.— McMinnville News-Reporter ♦ ♦ ♦ Criminal charges brought against Dr. J. E. Shearer, prominent doctor of Tillamook, fell flat in court last week when a jury cleared the doctor. Dr. Shearer is well known here and keen interest was taken in his case.— Sheridan Sun. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. H. H. Welch and children left for Bay City, Tillamook county, on Friday last by way of Dolph. The rains of the week had made torrents of the streams to be forded and they had to return arriving here Monday evening. The wagon loaded with household goods suffered a mishap and the stove was broken and the other goods received a wetting. Mr. Welch has opened a barber shop at Bay City; but Mrs. Welch will not at tempt the trip again until next spring.—“Thirty years ago" in Mc Minnville Telephone Register. t___ HtGrtWAYSJ ' »a.ttSaAi u-h NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION MEM BER, NO. 5200 “Tax the automobile and build the road from the revenues,” is a princi ple which has been expressed by the non-informed voter too many times. But education and sound economics as enunciated by bankers and statesmen has changed the cry. Few who now concern themselves with road financ ing, but understand that the right way to pay for a road is either by road bonds based on general, not spe cific taxation, or from current general funds. The experience of years proves that the fees from taxed road vehicles must be spent for maintenance. Main tenance is always being used up; ve hicle taxes are always coming in to provide that maintenance. To use the maintenance fund for building more roads is as uneconomic as the ♦ ♦ ♦ procedure of the man who builds a Mrs. E. E. Stafford and son, Kenny, house for rent, and instead of using drove to Tillamook Sunday to spend some of the rent to keep his property the day with Mrs. Almore Flynn and in condition, and insure it and paint it .spends it for another house, letting family.—Sheridan Sun. OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT TIDE TABLE From Exchanges Occasionally one finds a breeder of live stock who is willing to wish off upon some less capable judge than himself as a breeding animal of in ferior quality. This is poor business, not only for the person who buys, but for the breeder who sells and for the live stock industry as a whole. The reputation a breeder has for square dealing is almost, if not quite, as val uable as the reputation for quality his animals have. It has been written that a good name is rather to be chosen than riches. Frequently, a These tide tables were compiled by minutes: High the U. S. Government for Astoria. Ore Placa gon, as a standard port of reference. Nestucca Bay .... ....... 27 .dii* To find the exact time tides occur for the various parts of Tillamook coun Nehalem River .... ..... 31 ty make the following subtractions in Low .30 ei’« .44 LOW WATER P. M. A. M. Friday ................ 19! 9 30 7.7| 9 3017.4 Friday ... ............ 19 3 08 0.8 3 48 2.3 Saturday ........... 20 10 16|8.1 10 27|7.6 Saturday ............ 20 4 03'0.8|4 42)1.7 ........... 21 4 50 0.9)5 2711.2 Sunday .............. 21110 57 8.4 11 16'7.7 Sunday Monday ............. 22)11 33!8.6| | Monday . ............ 22 5 35 1.1)6 09)0.8 47 0.4 Tuesday ............ 23; 0 01 ¡7.8 12 06 8.7Tuesday ... 22 0.2 Wednesday ........ 24! 0 39|7.8U2 36!£.S Wednesday 56 0.2 Thursday 25 1 17 7.7! 1 05)8.8 Thursday . HIGH WATER A. M. P. M. SECTION OF LAND the first go to ruin. He will end in the poorhouse, and the county or State which does not provide a steady maintenance fund for road upkeep will be bankrupt in good roads long before the roads are paid for. It is gradually coming to be recog nized that snow removal is a legiti mate maintenance charge. All high ways which can be used but six months of the twelve cost twice their price. To get the use of an expensive highway for three or four or six months of snow time, by the expend iture of a small amount of a mainte- nance fund, is only sound, common sense. ♦ ♦ ♦ “Whats the use of building great highway systems, at an expense of millions and millions of dollars, when in a few short years all the freight and passenger traffic will be carried in the air?” The question is always being asked by some one, usually some one who is unendowed by nature with faculty of thinking straight, but sometimes by those who think, but without data on which to go. The next ten, or the next hundred years, will see enormous strides made in aviation. Mail, some express, some passenger traffic will go via plane, and much sport and travel will use it. But no future development of aero nautics can overcome the fundamental fact of nature, that to raise a weight in the air and maintain it there, re quires power, and that power is an equivalent for value; in our terms, money. Therefore, no matter how desirable otherwise, no system of transporta- tion which requires an expenditure to support a weight, can compete in cheapness with those in which the weight is borne by the earth. There will always be railroads, al ways be vessels on the water, always be roads and road vehicles. They will change, improve, become more eco nomical, more speedy, more safe, but the earth will continue to carry the bulk of the traffic, simply and soley because it doesn’t change anything for holding up the weight, whereas nature makes us pay, and heavily, to hold the weight up in the air, while we transport it. Those who build roads to-day will CALL FOR COUNTY WARRANTS The following outstanding county warrants will be paid upon present ation. All road warrants endorsed prior to and including the 30th day of November, 1922. All general fund warrants endorsed prior to and in cluding the 31st. day of October 1922. Interest ceases this 10th. day of ober, 1923. KATHLEEN MILLS County Treasurer. TILLAMOOK PASTURES A drive over the country shows that Tillamook’s pastures are in good con dition. The grass has taken on a deeper hue of green since the late rains, and still affords good grazing. Many farmers are busy burning stumps at this time and are clearing up patches and corners of land, which will produce more grass. Farm build ings are being overhauled and shingled in places to make ready for winter. This has been a prosperous summer for Tillamook dairymen and the weather has also been excellent for all kinds of farm work, including the saving of the hay crop. portlanò S’eleßtam Offers Its Annual Bargain Rate 640 ACRES AT $20 PER ACRE not live to see the time when their roads are not used, Those who bond themselves for roads to-day will nev- er see the day when those bonds are outstanding against disused high- ways. The airways will be increasing ly used, but not for freight! Full Year By Mail Only This Is Your Opportunity to Save $2.00 Lies within 7 miles of Aberdeen. AH the ground is level tide and bottom lands, except one corner which is high land and sufficient for all farm buildings. Just where the Chehalis river and Tide Lands of Grays Harbor meet. Covered mostly with brush and small trees. Some tidal marsh with grass only. Oregon-Washington and Milwaukee railroads cross one corner of the land. Good graveled county road also. School building adjoins the tract. Must be sold to close Trusteeship Full particulars as to price, terms and other information as to the healthy, growing cities of Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Cosmopo lis, to which this land is tributary, sent on request. Most suitable for dairying. We are now shipping in milk from a distance of nearly 100 miles. References: Any bank in Aberdeen. Write today. For complete, reliable news of the Pa dfic Northwest, this paper is unsurpassed. The Integrity of its news and the fear lessness of its editorial policy are unques tioned. It carries the full Associated Press re ports as well as the Philadelphia Public Ledger news service. It features Northwest news in general and individual localities in particular in a tpanner that stamps It as a leader in its field. 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