The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-01-19

Mr. Emil Schanno says: s'The state
1 should help the peopSe east of us, as It
did In the cascade portage on the west
I do not think the state can put 500, 900
/ in q jute mill. We do not,want any
Emore counties, but 1 think that county
officials should be paid salary, and If
any accrue, they should go to the
county fund. :,
Mr.. A. A. Brown says: 'sI am in In
vor of the state building the Cello port
age railroad; and am also in favor of .
jute mill in the penitentiary operated
| with prison labor. am against any di-
vision of the county and endorse the
salary proposition for county officials
Mr.. Smith French. What have you to
say on the Cello portage road2 s'The
portage at Cello will be of incalculabIe
benefit to the people. If the govern
ment will not build it, then the state
should do it by all means The state In
| in duty bound to look out for the interest
of its inhabitants. Eastern Oregon's
agriculturists demand that the river
should be open for cheaper Transports
ton of their products. 1 think the
counties are divided enough already.
There is no use in putting other burdens
on the people to benefit few politicians.
believe in paying the county officials
salary. There is no use in making ex-
ceptions in their. cases. Put the fees
into the general co unity fund.-
Mr.. Geo. Farley. of the firm of Farley
& Frank, in reply said: .sThat the only
thing that would increase the population
and wealth of Eastern Oregon, is to give
| it an open river. Freight rates would be
reduced fully forty per cent, just what
the farmers need. The state should have
built the Cello portage road two years
ago. 1t would pay for itself in two
years. L think the jute bag scheme .
good thing, if the state can afford to use
the money at this particular time. The
farmers should have cheaper sacks. We
don't want any more division of coun-
ties, don't believe it is for the best in
terest OF the majority of the people to
divide the county again. And further.
the county officers ought to be paid a
salary, and stop the fee business as COM
pensation. 1t should. have been done
ong ago.
| Mr.. H. Glenn, contractor. 81 endorse
everything said on the jute bag question.
The farmers want cheap grain bags. 7
am in favor of the state putting machin-
cry into the penitentiary, and putting
the convicts at work making sacks The
people will, get some good out of the
prison then. 1 am opposed to dividing
the county any more. 1 do not think
county officials should ever had anything
but salaries. The fee system is wrong"
Mr.. Henry Maier. of Maier & Benton
says; "a portage railroad at Cello is
necessary in order that the people of the
eastern sections caa have cheap freights.
They will get them no other way
County division should be withheld for
the present. The country is too sparsels
populated, and assessable property is too
limited to warrant division. Ny opin-
ion is that all offices should be salaried.'' ~
Col. N. B. Sinnott: Don't believe in
the new county coming within seven
miles of this city. They are now only
twenty miles from The Dalles. They can
leave Hood River for here after taking
dinner at Hood River and return for
supper.
o. Kinersly, of snipes & Kinersly,
says: .'If the portage at the cascades
has helped fifty to seventy-five miles of
country so to 80 per cent. in reduction
of freights, certainly portage at Cello
would help all Eastern Oregon. The
state ought to use the convict labor in
the manufacture of jute bags for the
farmers. Those who want division Of
Ethe county will be the sufferers. We
doa't want any. of it. County officers
should be safaried.' -
Mn Max Vogt, capitalist: II have
but one opinion. aud that is the state. to
do it's duty, should build the portage
srnilway around the dalles and Cello OBJ
Estruction in time to move this seasons
| harvest. It would be an important fac
/ tor in the increase of population and
wealth in the eastern part of Oregon
Think the state will lose sight of one
very important help to the producers if
| it does not convert the convict labor to
the manufacture of jnte bags, that they
can hare cheaper sacks for their grain
I do not think it advisable to create one
or two new counties out of Wasco coun-
ty. 1t will increase taxation and give
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