Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-03-01
CEMENT SEWERS AND
PAY ROLL DISCUSSED

not use cement pipe now being man-
pfaetured in Grants Pass for sewers
II line with this remark 1t might
be we'll to make few more.
There is discussed sub
iect IN the su eets of the city-home
industry. Grants Pass has probably
more natural advantages toward
making a city beautiful than any
municipality in southern oregon
No city is so surrounded with noun
tains, and yet resting in such beau
tiful valley Many eastern towns
are drawing materials for factories
clear across the continent, which we
NAV easily haul In on a wagon. And
yet our great cry for the redemp-
tlon of business conditions in Grants
Pass is a pay roll. Have you ever
seen a more beautiful grain in fur
Diture than that given by the use OF
Oregon fir? Don't we boast OF the
finest fruit in the word? Haven't
we got mineral and marble, and a
hundred different things-every-
thing but the factories and the pay
roll? Even the people are here.
We have a good start on the pay
roll proposition, and not among the
least is the Cement Products COM
pany plant. While We have not the
pay rolls we need and eventuany
must have, we Aave good start,
and encouraging vnat we have is a
prime duty at this time.
There are but two things out OF
which to build our sewers; they are
clay pipe or cement. 1t Is only be-
cause the statements made by
trust or at a trust instigation
should always be taken with a big
grain of salt that these lines are
written While there are masses Of
literature sent out by the vitrified
clay pipe trust on cement pipe, 1t
stands to reason that there must be
some good things to be said on the
other side. The cement pipe plant
In Grants Pass las accumulated a
mass of testimony from the other
side that Is well worth considering
before the whole thing is turned
down. 1t is not hearsay argument,
but direct testimony from the cities
where this pipe has been used. For
example: One city writes of cement
pipe being lain four years before the
writer was born, 81 years ago, re-
Gently taken up and found perfect,
intact and harder than when 1t was
placed. We hear of other cities
where it has been adopted after II
has been taken up in the best con-
dition; and on top of this mass OF
testimony We come back to the Wit
rif'ed clay pipe people telling us
that sewer acid will eat up cement
pipe; and then in the next breath
they tell us to join their vitrifled
clay pipe together with cement.
Surely there is another side.
The moral Is, study the argument
OF both sides before we condemn
There is one conclusion to be reach
ed: There must be a cement pipe
made that is good for sewers. We
heartily believe that the first prod
act OF the Grants Pass plant was no
the right kind A radical chang,
has been effected, and the pipe nov
being put out by this concern is a!
far different from the first pipe a
some Of the statements made by tn,
vitrified trust are from the truth.
Let us also not forget the fac
that the proprietors of the plan
here are some of the same eastern
men We are laboring to get In Il
give US our factories and pay rolls
that an acquaintance with them dem
onstrates most positively that the,
ore men with honesty and sincerit
OF purpose who definitely state tha
II they are making an article that
they had doubts as to its worth, the
would stop at once. It is, however
because their product is good, tina
1t is the kind that has been demon
strated as fit, and because they az
honest In purpose and method tina
this article is written by one VIII
was first a skeptic, but who has bee
convinced of the value Of what Grant
Pass has in its Cement Products CON
pany plant. Very respectfully.
ANGUS NC LEAN.
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