The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-02-07
Bills for Their Crea.
tion introduced.
Educational Measures
Proposed.
Lea ling Sections of the Beet Sugar
Bill Now before the Legisla-
ture-Other Capitol News.


list and in case they should become
laws it would be well to have an ac-
eurate understanding Of them in ad-
vance. With map and pencil they
can be easily traced from the sub |
joined information:
Mr.. Davis's bill which passed the |
house a few days ago, describes the !
new county Of Vernon as follows:
beginning on the state line between |
Washington and Oregon on the town. |
ship line between ranges 80 and 33
east, thence running south ten miles
TO the southwest corner Of township
5 north Of range 33 east; thence east
six miles; thence south five miles;
thence east four miles; thence south
seven miles; thence east on township
line about five and one-half miles to
where said township line crosses center
Of the channel of the Umatilla river;
thence up Umatilla river and North
Fork thereof to Union county line;
thence northerly along Union county
line to state line; thence west to the
place Of beginning"
This takes the northeast portion of
Umatilla county and the west and
south boundary lines dodge around SO
C1S 1lo6 W ecu IOO CIOSC ~ L OAolCeOhS
also to leave Adams out. Milton is the
provisional county seat, Weston and
Athena being rivals.
Mr. Lyle's bill for the creation of
Sutton county covers the following
territory: Beginning at the north
west corner of township 13 south,
range 20 east, running south on town
ship line to the southwest corner of
township IA south. range 20 east;
thence east to the southeast corner OF
section 33, township Il south, range
26 east; thence north to the boundary
line of Grant county at the northeast
corner of section SO, township 6 south,
range 26 east; thence west to the
northwest corner Of Grant county;
thence south to the center of the
John Day river thence down that
stream to where it crosses the line
running east and west through the
senter of township 8 south, range 10
east; thence west on said line to the
summit of the mountains dividing the
waters of the John Day and Deschutes
rivers; thence following the summit
| 10 place of beginning"
This is the northeast corner of Crook
county, a piece of Wasco county about
| three miles wide and twelve miles
long and a strip from the northwest
| corner Of Grant county forty-nine
miles long and twenty miles east and
west. The east line runs close to
/ Monument in Grant county and the
southwest corner is exactly twenty
four miles straight east of Prineville.
Mitchell is the provisional county seat
and would probably be the perma-
nent ore.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Temple
ton to create the new county of Gala
pooia describes its bounds as follows:
Commencing at a point in the mid
die Of the main channel Of the Will
lamette river, due west from where
the township line between township
IL and township 13 south south, range
west, intersects said river, running
thence east on said township line to
the summit of the Cascade mountains;
thence southerly along the summit
of said mountains to the northern
boundary line of Lane county; thence
west on said boundary line to the mid
die of the main channel Of Willamette
river; thence down said main chan.
mel to the place Of beginning"
| This practically cuts Linn county
in equal parts on line starting east
from the little town of Peoria, running
north of Shedd station about a mile
and almost through the town Of Soda
Vile, taking the south half for the new
county. Sweet Home is the nearest
town to its geographical center, but
Brownsville would probably be the
county seat
| The people are always interested in
education and in the taxes required
to support it, hence they will be anx-
ious to know what measures are be!
fore the present legislature in that
direction. Aside from such claims as
may be entered by the institutions
now in existence for liberal remem-
brance in the general appropriate
bill there are six bills in for higher
and special institutions of learning :
three for high schols and three nor
NAL schols.
The first is by Mr.. Bridges H. B.
81 for the permanent establishment of
the normal school at Drain, creating
a board Of seven regents for it and
appropriating 5000 for its support the
ensuing two years, to be paid in quar-
terly installments. The act is amend
atOry Of an existing law on this SUBJ
ject. The appropriation is condition
al upon deed of the school and prop
erty to the state.
II. B. 10 by Mr.. Conn is for the ap-
preparation Of $1,000 to be paid as sal
aries Of teachers in the state graded
school at Lakeview, $500 each year
III. B. 119 by Mr.. Dunn is for locat-
| ing state normal school at Ashland,
conditioned upon the people there
deciding to the state five acres of
ground and the buildings known as
the Ashland Collegiate Institute. It
creates board of twelve regents
with the usual powers and duties and
appropriates $4,000 per year for the
support of the school.
Mr.. Buckman of Coos CH. B. 141)
wants the Coquille college, at Coquille
City, declared a state normal school
for the purpose of comforting prach-
cal value upon it's diplomas for per-
sons desiring to teach school There
is no appropriation asked this time.
Mr.. Patterson Of Grant county Oh.
B. 276) wants high school estab-
lished at Burns, Harney county, for
fiou of pS 0on :.