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The oasis., 1912-09-07
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The state tax commission of Ari. zOna and the boards of supervisors of some of the counties have clashed over the question of taxation of producing mines. Under the law the commission has authority over county assessors, and it instructed the assessors to make certain as- easements on the producing mines in various counties; but 1t seems that the law failed to give the com- mission authority over the county boards of equalization, and in some of the counties those boards have cut down the assessments of such properties, as fixed by their as- sessors, acting under the instruc- tion noted. Yavapai county made a reduction of fifty per cent, Cochise county one of twenty and Pinal county twenty-five.
 Demand was made for restoration of the assessments to the figures fix ed originally, and the Yavapai board has refused. The attorney general has applied for writ of mandamus compelling the Yavapai board to obey the demand, which has been granted, returnable Tuesday next. Of course the matter will go to the supreme court of the state before final adjudication. But there is 8 probability that the question will turn on the constitutional legality of the tax commission rather than the justice and equity of the assess ment made. The state constitution provided a state board of equaliza- ton, consisting of the chairmen of the c,unty boards, to adjust ques- tions of taxation among the coun- ties. The legislature created the state tax commission and conferred upon that body the powers intend ed to be exercised by the state board of equalization, leaving the equalization board in a condition of "innocuous desuetude." And it seems that the question raised now
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will be thrown out of court by a finding that the state tax commis- sion is an unconstitutional body.
THE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM.

In the matter of the taxation of mining property in Arizona, as is on now in the clash between the state tax commission and some of the county boards of equalization, the Arizona Gazette advocates adop- tion of the Australian system of assessment, where every taxpayer returns his own assessment upon his own property, and it goes at that; but if the province is dissatisfied with an assessment as returned 1t may purchase the property at an advance of twenty per cent upon the owners assessment. The Ga zette pointedly asserts that under such a system a mine like the United Verde that pays dividends upon one hundred million dollars will not be assessed at two or three millions, for the state would buy in at once property so assessed, and run it for the public account and benefit. One such mine in  possession of and operated by the state would pay itself out very shortly, and give all the money necessary to conduct all the opera tions of government, lifting all burdens of taxation off from the shoulders of the taxpayers. But the state would never have a chance to make turn like that. Assess ments of all property would be up to the figures where they belong, and the ordinary taxpayer, on small properties, would find shifted to shoulders more able to bear them the heavy burdens he bears now
 And the shift would be made voluntarily upon the part of those who would accept those burdens
 Rather than sell their property to the state at a low valuation, they would put the assessment of their property right up to eighty pel cent of the actual cash value.
The oasis., 1912-09-07

A COLORADO farmer was fired out of the house, and his leg broken by an exploding pot of beans that WAS cooking on the stove. He wonders what would have happened had the beans deferred the explosion until after he had eaten them.
The oasis., 1912-09-07

AT THE state wide primary election in Michigan, Tuesday of last week, the regular republican ticket received 49,596 votes, while the Roosevelt ticket could muster at the polls but 6,660 voters.
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INTENSE heat and many prostra- tions are reported in the East. Yet the climate of the East is said to be mild and temperate in comparison with that of Arizona.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

WILL the perplexing problem of mine taxation be settled at any time before the millennium?
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He expends considerable money, and perhaps gets into debt If the property turns out as anticipated, out of the proceeds he pays all bills, the purchase price also, and has going mine from which he may realize fortune. In such an event the working miner or laborer needs no lien upon the property to secure his wages. Upon the other hand, if the property does not turn out as anticipated, the operator quits, losing what he has ventured, and those who have credited him, miners, material men, etc, lose the amount of their credits while the property reverts to the original owner. The proposed law makes the original owner responsible to the extent of his property for those debts and claims. Under the old law the owner could post upon the claims notices waiving all reSponsi- bility for the debts of the leasor, and publish such notice in news paper near at hand, which put upon their own risk all who cred tied the leasor for either labor or supplies. The proposed new law omitted that, and when the meas ure was before the legislature, it was sought to amend it in that particular, but the amendment was voted down. But when put upon final passage the proposed act was defeated. Now it is pro- posed that upon the initiative the people shall enact the law rejected by the legislature.
 About the only argument in favor of the Kinney bill, as it is termed, is that it extends to work men in mines the same protection for their wages that is given mechanics employed in the erection of buildings, and that it will be as easy for operators to give bonds for such debts as it is for contrac- tors for erection of buildings. But the cases are hardly analogous; for the building carrying mechanics' lien has tangible value and the owner profits by it's construction. In a mine where a cause for lien would run unpaid there exists no value, and frequently the owner gets nothing except lot of dead work. He takes bis chances that the operator will find values, and he should not be made to carry the burden of the failure of that party to do so. Nor would it be easy fol the operator to give bond for dis charge of labor and other liens No one is going to take chances or sharing in such losses as are risked by mining operators executing bonds for them. And to force upon the enterprising men who arF
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ALLEN T. BIRD. Managing Editor.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-11-28
THE COLUMBIA RIVER
AUTOMOBILE ROAD
tBy Joe D. Thomson, in Sunset.

(By Joe d. Thomson, in Sunset.)
Within the deep shade OF an obscure
but charming nook. enclosed by the
foliage of many hazelnut bushes, the
leaves heavy with spray fog waited
from the cataract, my head leaning
against the bark Of a cedar, the roots
of which found moisture among the
crevices of the baserock, | gazed
through half closed eyes upon the
waters of Multnomah Falls. Eight
the time worn Columbia river gorge
they plunged to the rounded punch
bowl at my feet. A warm summer
time sun played on the world above
me. Apollo's chariot had passed the
meridian height and the afternoon rays
made silvery the white foaming bill
lows hurtling tover the precipice and
leaping wildly downward to the turbu-
lent whirl pool beneath me. The mois-
ture from the spray'tilled the niche in
the Columbia's canyon with a fra
GRANGE, an earthly perfume. the kind
that fills the soul of a weary man with
gladness.
Such picture in such an environ
ment could only stimulate and inspire
day-dreams. The rythmic roar of the
waters, now frightfully near, now
seemingly far away, just as the gusts
of wind that sweep forever around the
base of the cataract chose TO bear the
sound, was the same as might have
been heard by the earliest north coast
pioneer had he sought similar nook
more than half-century ago.
The caverns of the gorge's crags
echoed with the whistle of a locomotive
and a passenger train sped along its
line of steel rails not 200 feet away.
Faces of travellers, pressed to the car
windows, gazed at natures water rib
bon for the brief moment of the pass.
ing man-made mechanism. How little
they saw Since the completion of
the railroad lines along the waters of
the Columbia, the passengers on the
trains have looked upon the wonderful
scenery of the route and breathed rap
turous praises. Yet the peaks and pin
nacles, the colored stones of cliffs and
ragged edged crags, the slvery foam
of cataIacts and cascading streams
which rush down little canyons leading
off from the big cleft made in the
earth's surface by the Columbia, all
have moved by their gaze like some
too swiftly manipulated film of NOV.
ing picture machine. The eye of man,
always hungering for the wonderful,
has craved more, and the schedule of
the swift passenger service has not
permitted it. This might be likened to
the variety show of nature. The va
riety show of the stage may easily
grow tiresome. Not so the green hills
and the weather stained brown rocks
of natures theatre there's not
enough, or rather not time enough to
look at it.
Not another natu'al pass cleaves the
range of the Cascades, at the crest of
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-11-28

highway as soon as the practicability
of motor vehicles was solved. For ten
years or more the reconstructionvof the
obllterated portions of the highway
and the building of the new road,
where the railroad has converted the
right of way has been agitated. The
expense of boring the new grade
through the few short difficult places
will reach into the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. However, no one
ever goes over the route but he be-
comes an enthusiastic booster, and
ways and means are now being defin-
itely devised.
The greatest recent incentive given
toward a hasty completion of the road
was a donation of $10,0 by S. Ben
son. wealthy timber man of Portland,
VINO declares that nothing will make
MN happier than to give of his fortune
to make possible the boulevard that
VIII lead up the Columbia from Port
land to the orchards and grainfelds of
the eastern portion of the state. Mr..
benson gave the sum last spring with
the proylso that it must be spent with
IN year on the highway.
One of the bugaboos of the recon-
strucuon Of the way in Hood River
county has been Shell Rock mountain,
mass OF sliding stone almost a thou
sand feet high that has given unceas-
ing trouble to the maintenance of de-
partment of the railroad company. At
TINS difficult point it was decided to
spend the first donation. Governor Os-
wall West was made trustee of the
/ luhd. HE detached a crew of bis
hohor men, prisoners from the state
pehitentiary who are placed on their
hon0r and given the freedom of the
! open air, to aid in the construction of
the states highways. These men, who
are paying the penalties for crimes,
are using their efforts, the labor of
tnelr punishment, in way that will
be henecHia to every citizen in the
state, The work of encircling Shell
Rock was entrusted to Murray Kay,
hoou River county's engineer, who has
hau experience in making the surveys
OF transcontinental lines of railway.
ms work has been found far less eX-
pensIve than estimated and it will have
completed by the end of!the year. The
ease OF the bugbear mountain will be
conquered.
Inc old road, the surface of which
sun bears the marks of the early pony
express, will remain remnant, or relic,
OF the early days. Its retaining wall,
hundred feet above the newly sur
Veyed route, is now the home of chip
munks, porcupnes and digger squirrels.
~ Is the very grave of road, and in
the sprlngtime white dogwood blossoms
an1 red and pink sprigs of thousands of
W'Id currant bushes droop themselves
aooVe the tomb, while the purple foli-
age OF the Oregon grape and the gold
ana yellow leaves of the vine maple
pay natures tribute to past usefulness
IN autumn.
The trst spadeful of loose earth and
stone was turned on the Shell Rock
portion Of the highway on Thursday,
N N msy zSrd, when the convicts began
Thelr laborS with a number of Hood
"'er county officials and Governor
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-11-28

Oregon trail. And those who have
travelled through and explored the
country of central Oregon declare il
will form link in the favorite route
of the motorist who desires to leave the
north coast for a tour of California;
for but few, and no really difficult,
barriers will obstruct the machine
bound from the tableland region around
Bend, whittier the route will lead up
the Deschutes river from The Dalles
into the Klamath basin.
The most beautiful creations of ma
ture along the route are between The
Dalles and Portland. Further east the
region bears the wild awesome bleak
ness of the desert land, while in the
Cascade range the eXpanse of neither
bank of the Columbia is covered with
evergreen pines and frs having Sc
cured foothold in every crevice.
The country through which the high
way will pass abounds in legend and
story, ever reminding the .traveler of
the disappearing tribes of red men.
Near The Dalles are the Memaloose
islands, where the waters of the river
eddy around the burying grounds of
ancient warriors. Below Hood River
are scores of crags and peaks. every
one having a significance in Indian my
thology But none is more awe-inspir-
ing than the abutments of the Bridge
of the Gods. They stand near the
Cascades, where the government has
constructed system of locks to make
possible a waterway around the treach-
erous rapids of the river, which run
ION edge" to use the phrase of those
who have attempted TO sound the
stream at this point. So narrow is the
river here that strong man might
hurl a stone from one bank to the
other, and the walls of the abutments
rise almost perpendicularly from the
waters edge. The bridge is supposed
to have fallen at some early time
before the white man had dreamed of
the land of Oregon, when the volcanic
mountains of the region were in vio-
lent eruption.
Who could not dream day dreams in
region so. full of the inspiring won
ders of nature? The residents of the
region are just beginning to realize
the value of the mountains, hills and
cascading streams as an asset. The
intervening valleys are returning prof
its from the fertile soil and the hills
are yielding up their fruit of lumber,
but there are other tales to be told of
what harvest may be reaped from the
scenery, when roads, the best that road
builders art can contrive, have pene-
trated the mountain districts.
The people who live among them, as
they find the haunts of the mountain
becoming more accessible, have learned
their charm and are thankful to the
god, or goddess, of fortune for having
turned thierspassage through life to an.
envoironment where prosperity abounds
amid region so marvellous. All the
country.s becoming more and more at
tracted to the northwest. Completed
highways are making the hitherto iso-
lated alluring sports accessible, but
none of them will reveal these hidden
charms to the sight of the traveller as
delightfully."- as the finished Columbia
river road.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-11-28

which loom some of the worlds most
picturesque peaks Hood, Adams,
Rainier. st. Helen's, The Three Sis
ters. And this is why the Columbia
has been such factor in commerce
il is one of natures great highways.
The earliest white man, the trapper
lured to the region to secure the pelt
of beavers, found the Indians travelling
its waters. Its steep banks resounded
with the songs of DIR. McLoughlin's
French voyageurs in the days when
Vancouver was the northwestern seat
of the Hudson's Bay Co., and when the
surrounding regions poured untold
profit into the treasury of the gigantic
British corporation. But for the ser
vice of the stream that little handful
of men who established the provisional
government of Oregon at Champoeg,
those fathers Of one of the Unions
greatest commonwealth, would have
found almost impossible the passage to
the valley of the willamette.
That the soil of Oregon was fertile
and that climatic conditions were ideal
were bits Of news that spread with
rapidity throughout the country, and
the population of the communities
grew wonderfully fast. Homeseekers
| piled their possessions on barges and
bateaux at The .Dalles on their Jour
neys down the Columbia to the land of
plenty, portaging at the Cascades,
where Indian legend says that in anci-
ent times the river ran beneath the
arches of great natural bridge, "The
Bridge of The Gods. As the popula-
tion of the territory grew and it was
taken into the UHion's family of sis
ters as a state, money was appropri-
ated to construct highway, in order
that closer communication might be
established with the east.
Naturally, the route chosen was
along the Columbia, and until the ore.
gon Railway and Navigation Com
pany's line OF railway was completed
in 1882 along the edge of the water al
the foot of the gorge, the mails and
passengers from east and west were
transported over this wagon road. Di.
rect from Boise to Portland the way
of the pony express lead across the
prairie. the land of sage brush anC
wandering herds of buffaloes, to The
Dalles and down into the gorge of the
Columbia.
When the railroad was completed
the track covered a portion Of the
highway. which Immediately los. its
usefulness. In the counties of HOOD
River and Multnomah, mountains rise
abruptly from the edge of the Coum.
bias waters and there has been no res
ident to reclaim and maintain portions
of the old wagon road 1t has become
over grown with bushes a quarter of 8
century old, its bridges have rotteC
away and slides have obliterated por.
tions of the retaining walls on cliff
sides.
To thoughts of this old road the
faces of the passengers on the speed
ing train brought me. And my dreams
were filled with prophetic visions; fol
there is to be a resurrection Of the
pioneer highway.
In the days when the pony express
tortuously bore the mails from Boise tc
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-11-28
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rash or tetter, we want you to try full
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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-11-28

Portland, Oregon was thought to be a
far away land of wilderness. But
progress found the region of an exceed
ingly great fertility and the energies
of men have been made to work won
ders sin the fostering cline. In all
America Dame Fortune has not favored
men and their children and the efforts
of both more lthan in Oregon. Broad
wheat fields have fourished, huge herds
have grazed on her plains, orchards
have blossomed and borne apples Sc
eond to none in the worlds markets,
and the pine and fir forests have added
inestimable wealth. Citizens of Ore
gon, both urban and rural, have pros
pered. The grandsons Of the pioneer,
who felled the trees, grubbed stumps
and cleared the soil, occupy homes of
modern comfort. But the country is
new, everything bears evidence of this,
and beside the modern mansion erected
to take its place may be seen the hut
| of the homesteader. one roomed and of
! logs, left to commemorate the early
toll of the pioneer.
Yet the generation that lives and
rules today in the northW est enjoys the
latest modes Of business convenience
and pleasure that progress can suggest.
And in the state of Oregon the motor
car has superseded to great extent
the buggy and horse, the hack and
team. The larger cities, of course.
have their many automobiles, but 1t is
not alone the city man who owns a
motor vehicle: his country cousin has
found 1t a means Of convenience to him.
self in his business and source of
pleasure to his entire family. The
latest model car may be found thread
ing the orchards of Hood River or
lourneying across the stock farm dis
trict Of Wasco county. The ranchers
OF the central Oregon country sneed
across the open country from CITY to
city faster than ever the cowboy
dreamed of spurring.
Thus the wonders of the prophetic
vision that crept through nv thoughts
as | dreamed day dreams beside Mint
nomah Falls In years time that
inspiring spectacle of nature will no
longer be isolated. Already the Gill
zens { Multnomah county are BUILDING
a highway that they may travel on
holidays and Sunday in region which
] the God of Nature created with lavish
hand. The new highway, or the resur-
rected road Of pioneer days, will mass
again at the foot of the wonderful
tails, the spray eddying at the whirl.
pool base will be dashed in tbe verv
faces of the travellers. The spirit If
the war chief, Multnomah, leader If
the Willamettes, which it is SAID sits
beside the head of the falls which hears
his name, has watched for a rentnrg
the progress of the white man First
the pony trail; then the railroad yot
even before the locomotive came ibs
ked Mans ghost had been pnzzls1 't'S bS
the smoke of the steamboats, that rreCt
up the Columbia. Now but few moons
VIII pass before those spectral ewes
shall marvel at the moving naraSc9 ~ -
automobiles that will thread tbe mar,
row base Of the Columbia river gorge
Citizens Of Portland were made 70
realize the 0eed Of the Columbia - ~
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-11-28

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New Cane Syrup soc q gallon.-R.
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MOSS PHARMACY. LAFAYETTE, LA.

c. T. Bienvenu, of Opelousas, took
in the Fair Sunday and his old friends
here were glad to see him looking sc
well.
Claude Bertrand and family OF
Belle Alliance, La, are visiting refa.
tives here.
DR.. N. p Moss, C. o. Mouton, j. P.
Colomb, c. S. Babin and DR.. A. r.
Trahan, the committee on material
and transportation for the Good
Roads Committee expect to leave to
day for Beaumont to inspect gravel
and shell roads there.
A. p. Dyke, of Hope, Ark, spent
Saturday and Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. WI Hesterly. He is Mrs. Hes.
terly's uncle.
w. w. Line, for % years a resident
of this parish, will leave today for AL
exis. ILL.,, to live with his sisters. Mr.
Lin came to this parish without a
thing, but by good farming and care.
full management he accumulated a
competence.
Fresh c~ranberries at so cents a gal
lon. r. H. McFaddin, phone Ga.
Miss Cecilia Beslin, of ST. Martin
vile, was the guest of Mrs. r. V. Du-
gas during the Parish Fair. She re
turned home on the excursion Sun,
day evening.
Corn, oats, hay, chicken feed. rice
polish and all kinds of feed stuffs.
Ramsey Elevator Roller Mills, phone
No. 40.