The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-11-01
PRATTLE.

valley and used his wetting abilities in
great shape, giving us plenty Of mud
on the principal thoroughfares and
very little of raise in the beautiful
willamette. If this crooked and bar
ry stream had the same proportion of
water in it that Corvallis main street
has mud, the boats could run clear to
Harrisburg the year round. Some one
suggested that the river should have
more "wingdammlng" put in by the
government for the benefit of naviga-
ton, but, it seems the more "damning''
you do to-our mud the worse it gets.
Mud! Well, it's pretty good thing
to have in its place. I, for one, would
rather see it in the streets than to be
compelled to notice stacks of drygoods'
boxes, crockery crates, musty straw,
and splttoon accunulations, ETC., as
seem to be the case just at the present
date. am sorry to pencil it here,
but it is fact that two-thirds of the
newcomers who arrive within this
city's limits become greatly disgusted
at the condition of her highways
Look at Second street. Gravel has
been hauled and dumped down just
where the old holes were and the con-
sequence is that new holes show up
and great humps (caused by the new
graveD predominant. Why is not
something like "street grade estab-
lished and have good work done as
we'll as to be subjected to such as the
past has always produced2 What's the
matter with our street committee in
the "koman kow-an-sell" Can't they
get 2:l0 move on them and bring
things in this matter to an understand
ingl Let them try.
But, what's the use of ohjecting and
all this sort of business. Even PAN
bany-the metropolis and sit-down of
Linn county, the great (D railroad cen
ter of itself, the village of homely girls
and bow-legged dogs, the town that
imagines darnsite more than it really
has, and ever will get-has muddy and
slumy streets.
This mud question makes me think
that our mud has been greatly in
creased since Saturday last as we have
a foot racer whose name is Mud now
Dennis Mud, for long. He ran (up)
against the wrong fellow on that day
and was badly left, he even left his
81 900 sack. Beware of professionals,
Ephie; especially just when the rainy
season is beginning.
In conversation with gentleman
the other day he suggested that a
board of trade should be organized in
Corvallis composed of about eight of
its most influential business men and
their greatest work and aim should be
to agitate the connection of the west
side S. P. line with its present main
route, there being only about 90
mile span between the two. Now,
youbetchyerlife, that's a GREAT sugges-
ton. The way things are now the
"west side" track is only long switch
from Portland and about all the travel
is of a local nature. It would pay
every west side city, village, town, and
even Portland, to raise subsidies to
give the Southern Pacific company in
order to have the extension completed.
We're such thing done, property Cor
wallis, Independence, McMinnville and
the other places would increase in value
rapidly. Eventually it would become
the 'main" line and instead of trains
of four cars we would see from ten to
twelve constituting every one that
passed through our limits. And that's
just what is needed to bring this city
out of mossbackism. Let outsiders
know more concerning the west side OF
the Willamette and the same growth
that Salem is just now enjoying would
be turned loose within our borders and
greater improvements would naturally
occur Isn't that fact2
l have noticed the long controver-
sizes in the GAZETTE of late concerning
the Philomath college and it leads me
to believe that the writer's are having
a hot time of it.
Old Jupiter and Miss Luna became
very familiar on last Monday night at
their home in the skies-they were