The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-02-10
mo. 81.
4 FOOLISH MISSTATEMENT.

ing tie advantage of a railroad and
having only $4,000 appropriated so
far, exported 26,325 tons of freight.
over 6,oO) tons more than Yaquina
with her $600,0o0 appropriations y
During the year ending June 3Oth,
1892, one steamer plying between va,
squina and San Francisco carried out
over the Yaquina bar 26,739 tons of
freight These are the only definite
figures at hand, and they are absolute.
iy reliable. Then bes ides; this run.
nlng regularly are the steamers
Chance and the Harrison and an.
other, while many other vessels
Of the sort that rarely ever find in
ducenent to run into Tillamook, are
frequent visitors in the Yaquina har-.
Dor at intervals when business calls
them there. TilIamook has one regu-
lar coasting vessel running. The Sec
ond ono is talked of, but at last ac-
counts the master Of the old vessel
the Augustf-was appealing to the
people to stay by him as there was not
business for two steamers.
This comparison is drawn for want.
of explicit figures to produce OH va
qulna's exports. 1t indicates that
there is at least three times the vol
une Of commerce passing out of the
Yaqulna harbor over that of Tilla-
nook bay every year. Yaquina has
ali The resources that TilIamook has
and they are more extensively de-
yeiopcd. In lumber, in agriculture, in
dairy products, III fishing and all the
| other interests which attach to a coast
location, Yaquina has its industries as
well as Tillamook; while with the
general commercial fabric, which
railroad and a seaboard, when they
clasp hands in development erect, va.
qulna has advantages with which Til
lamook cannot compare, nor hope to
attain for several years to come.
These remarks are not made in spir-
ii calculated to decry TilIamook. The
GAZETTE rejoices with every section
| of our proud state which itself can re-
joico III prosperity and adyancement.
The Headlight based its statement
quoted upon u report recently made
by an engineer prejudicial to Yaquina,
and which was tissue Of misrepresen-
tation. This report was published by
the Oregoni2n and its inaccuracies
were enlarged Upon by that paper.
Then the I'illamook contemporary
picks up the Oregonian's jealousy and
starts in on the very common but very
unfair line Of dealing, by attempting
to tear a neighl,or's chara cter down
with the hope of gaining some advan
tageous showing for its own section in
| the operation. To this the GAZETTE
files it's protest.
The anifHus of the Oregonian's dis
paragemcnt Of Yaquina is we'll UNDER
stood hcreabouts 1t has been in op-
Grafton for years. The fact that grain
dealers can pay from Ito 6 cents BUSH
el mere for wheat to ship over the va E
quina railroad than can be paid to-
send via Portland that freight rates
between this section and San Francisco,
$50 miles distant, are actually lower
than between here and Portland, 80
miles distant, is just where the
| shoe pnches the city at the month Of
| the Willamette and her mouth pieces
speak her disfavor towards Yaquina
on that account. The Yaqhina route
taps good share of the Willamette
valley; the farming communities along
| its line reap thousands of dollars Of
relief from the exactions of monopoly,
saving SO much to the local wealth
the arrogant metropolis has lost it's
hold upon the grab-bag which erst-
while emptied colossal tribute from
its contents into her lap; and CONNER
surate with PortIand's curtailment has
been the gain OF the upper willamette
valley.
All this was brought. about by the
Improvement at Yaquina bay in con-
junction with it's Samaritanlc copart.
ner III the good work, the Oregon Pa
cihc railroad. Hence the big elephang
down the river is displeased and rat
tletil his chains. Hence again the
gentleman from Tiliamook is hardly