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OUR EDITORIAL POLICY
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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.
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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 19. 1923
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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.
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Pearl Etta Stewart, of McMinnville,
and Emil Kenneth Stewart, of Tilla-
mook, obtained a marriage license
here on October 10.— McMinnville
News-Reporter
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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.
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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.
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HtGrtWAYSJ
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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
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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.
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“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!
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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.
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