Daily capital journal., July 31, 1909, Page 2, Image 2

DAILY OAPTTAIi JOUJTINAL, SALEM, OREGON, 8ATUKI)A mlA 31, 1000.
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STAND FOR THE HONOR OF CAPITE CITY
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
E. IIOFKn. Editor m4 Proprietor
MAP SHOWING BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPOSED FAIRMOUNT PARK TO BE PURCHASED BY THE CITY OF SALEM.
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THE ISSUE OF PARK PRIVILEGES FOR THE PEOPLE.
The elecfibn Monday Involves the great public question of
park privileges for the massds of the people.
For the first time in the history of the Capital City the peo
ple will vote direct op the question of buying a public park.
Salem, inside of ten years', with mountain water, will grow
to be a cHy of fifty thousand population.
Persons- vofng Monday mus consider the needs of the com
ing", generations and must think beyond the present.
Ten years hence when persons now children walk over
Fairmount Park they will bess the wisdom of the present
generation)
To place Fairmount Park under the city police power, to
keep the grounds clean and orderly, means a great deal for
the people.
Whether the people shall have any public park privileges
outside the heart of the city will be decided Monday by your
votes.
-lo will have but.one opinion on. this matter if they
tako a patriotic view of .tie matter not limited to selfish in
terests. The people will not refuse to coming generations privileges
which they have enjoyed for themselves in the past.
Fairmount Heights, If not acquired for a public, park, will
rapidly be occupied with private dwellings and will be closed
forever. .
The grand grovo of firs and oaks will be given over to the
woodsman's axe a,ld thoir beauty destroyed forever.
The natural boauty of the woods will be gone, and at best
wo can wander in the streots and trespass on a few waste
lots.
Is it not a wiser policy to vote to tako over boldly and for all
future time that splondld wooded elevation that nature and
a kind provdence has reserved untl ths day ?
Every man who lovos this city and its future should sot
aside Monday to work for the adoption of Fairmount
Heights as a public park,
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The Park Question from a Financial Standpoint.
There are thoso who say thoy would favor acquiring a
park for tho cuty, but they are oposed to buying a park with
bonds.
This city has quito a bended dobt, but overy dollar of It
was for tho big bridgo acioss tho river, or for tho city hall.
Assuming that tho argument is sound that wo should buy
park proporty for cash, let us follow out that plan.
Tho city would then navo to lovy annually a tax for a park
fund and as that fund increased buy park proporty for cash,
Lot us assumo that the people decided to levy ten thousand
dollars a yoar for five yoars to buy park property with.
As fast as that money accumulated in the treasury there
would be a premium placed on all available park sites,
They would advance ns fast as the people levied taxes to
buy park property with and by tho time they wero ready to
buy thoy would pay two or three prices.
The Fairmount Park property is ono of the greatest bar
gains ovor offorod the city,
Tho proporty tho city will got for $17,000 Monday, if tho
voto carries, will amount to about thirty acres in all.
In Ihe center of that propoity will be a reservoir property
that in itself is worth $10,000 for any park,
One of the blocks is worth $3,000 alone, and several of the
blocks will sell for over.$2,000.
Thon thero is the fourteen acros that Rov, H, B, Elworthy
practically donatos to the city.
It seems a good bargain for tho city to buy the property
purely from a business standpoint,
In tho caso of this property there is not a dollar of margin
or commission or profit for anyone.
Tho amount voted for the proporty goes diroct to tho own
ers, without the Intonventlon of any middleman,
The Honor of the City of Salem Is Involved.
At tho co iilng election the financial honor of this commu
nity is invo vod,
The poop o should not only vote for tho refunding bonds
Monday, but to purchase Fairmount Park.
It will take a two-thirds majority of tho total vote to carry
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Fairmount Park will include the grove of big trees which is used for popular picnic grounds by the churches, Sunday
schools, lodges and societies. The total acreage is between thirty and forty, and with the big concrete reservoir of the
water company that will be acquired by the city when mountain water is brought to, the -Capital City, will make one
of the finest public pleasure grounds in the state.
BUY A PARK WHILE LAND IS CHEAP.
On Monday, August 2nd, this city will hold a special election to issue $65,000 of refunding bonds to take the
place of some city bonds that mature at that time. At the same time will be submitted the question whether this city
shall acquire a tract of land known as Fairmount Hill, of about thirty acres, for the purpose of making that beautiful
wooded height a public park.
The option of the citv at present prices expires on August 3d, and that magnificent grove of noble firs will be
doomed to destructoin as sure as we let this opportunity pass to acquire that land for-a park.
There is not another similar natural park site left as close into the city as Fairmount Park will be. The land con
sists of four blocks offered the city by Rev. H. B. Elworthy (48 lots) and three blocks bv J. M. Brown of Silverton (?6
lots) at the nominal price of about $200 per lot, or $17,000 for the whole tract, including fourteen acres owned by Ll
worthy on the hillside, which carries the park site down to the county road on the west.
Not counting the 14 acres not plotted, the lots offered the city are all of them worth from $250 to $300 eac'.i,
and are actually selling for those prices. This property for park purposes cannot again be secured for this price at any
time in the' future. The reservoir site of a block and a half is completely surrounded by a tier of blocks that are new
offered the city, and when the water plant becomes city property that reservoir, costing as much as the city will pay
for the whole park, will be the center of the park.
Will you not help us to give Salem the first public park, a playground for the children, a picnic ground for everv
body, and a spot of Wonderful natural beauty that will always be an advertisement of the public spirit and enterprke
of the Capital City of Oregon?
the Fairmount Park proposition.
With mountain water, paved streets and public parks this"
city will grow with greater rapidity than ever before.
With nine dollars of state appropriations spent here out of
every ton dollars spent by the state, Salem must be on the
alert.' '.
To vote down a little public park proposition means not.
only a black eye to South Salem, but a b'ow to progress
and piospority in every part of the city. ,
The City of Eugene already has several hundreds of
acres of public parks,
The City of Portland and Puget Sound cities have many
public paiks, according to the signs on their street cars,
The wards of this city that cast ballots against the public
policies involved in Fairmount Park will make a mistake.
They will be advertising to the world that they are opposed
to pogress ad no ono will want to buy property in such
vaids,
This city should cast a sodidly unanimous vote for the
Fairmount Park proposition and there should not be a single
vote cast against jt.
No laboring man who loves his family and wants a city
where there shall bo public grounds for women and children
should vote against Fairmount Park,
No real estate man o"r property owner who has any faith
in the future of the city should think of casting a ballot
against acquiring Fairmount Park.
The honor and fair name of our city and its reputation for
orogress are involved in this question far more than appears
at first sight,
We have no public park, aside from a few squares in the,
heart of tho citv that were donated,
Let us say Monday that we stand for progress and pro
poso to make Salem a city that the whole state can be proud
t.
Let Us Stand for the Salem of the Future.
In voting on the question of acquiring Fairmount Park Mon
day let us stand for the Salem of the future.
Let us stand up and be counted for the city of fifty thous
and that we will be by 1 91 5.
With mountain water for Salem and the state institutions
this city should be to Portland what Tacoma is to Seattle,
With oaed streets, with widened bridges and public park?
and mountain wate rnothlng can stoy Salem doubling in popu
lation in five years,
Have you faith in this city and its future? Show it by your
vote Monday,
Don't trust your neighbor to carry the entire load of prog
ress up the long hill of success ,
The Salem of tho future will be the model city of the Paci
fic coast,
The last committee has gone to the mountains to investi
gate our water supply of the future from the forest reserve.
Narrow policies and iealousv of one part of the citv acainst
tha other will only hold back th prand result,
We like to point with pride to the splendid spirit of dIuo'
and enterprise of South Salem and East Salem and North
Salem. r
Those sections are fighting for improved1 streets, for sev
ers, and are building hundreds of new homes and improving
their property,
They are opening streets, building sidewalks, tearing dow i
fences and becoming citified as fact as money can do it.
Let us. stand for the Greater Salem, with a record of over
a thousand new buildings this year and two thousand next
year.
The Salem of the future must be a city the whole state can
be proud of, where the visitor from other centers of chiliza
tton can come and hire a room at a hotel with a porcelain
Bathtub in it if he wants to pay for the luxury,
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