Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-10-30
CLACKAMAS and
OREGON CITY HIT
BY EMPTY TILLS
"Dry" Regime Followed by Query
a. to Receiver
CITY WARRANTS UNSALEA0LE
City Council Calls Election November
8 to Raise Levy 8 Mills to
Pay Debts.

roy OOotos
Oregon City and Clackamas Coun-
ty, of which Oregon City is the
county seat, present as lamentable a
condition in business sense as a
the hands of receiver. In fact, a
receivership for Oregon City already
has been seriously discussed by GER
tain of it's creditors, and Judge
Campbell, of that city, has declared
his willingness to declare such re-
ownership, if formal application
were made to him, as he would for
"any bankrupt corporation"
A special election has been called
lieve the financial conditions of the
city," the purpose being to vote,
$250,000 per cent bonds and to-
increase the tax levy mills in order
to take care of the new indebted
ness.
On the part of Clackamas County
the County Treasurer is confronted
with an empty treasury for the first
time in six years. The Morning En-
terprise, radical prohibitionist.
daily of Oregon City, in explaining
this situation, says: "The condition
is considered the result of the amount
of delinquent taxes on the county's
tax rolls. County Treasurer Tufts re-
fused the first warrants drawn on the
general fund Monday, October IL,
1914"
Business must be fine" in a city
and q county when the treasures Of
both are empty because of lack Of
money coming into their strong
boxes, with a special election called
by the city to increase its tax levy.
with a receivership threatened and
with danger" signs strung along
the length Of the business portion
of Main street by "order of the
City Council" which read:
Danger - Main Street Declared
Dangerous-All persons travelling ON
Main street, between north side Of
Moss street and south side Of Third
street, do so at their own risk"
Banks are refusing to cash Oregon
City municipal warrants. Since Janu-
airy /, the city has issued $39,991.O5 in
these warrants, according to the re-
port of City Recorder John w. Loder,
and these warrants are still unpaid.
The city tax levy in 1918 in Ore
gon City was mills. Two weeks
after the city went dry the Council
increased this levy to 10 mills for
1914, and on November there is to
be a special election held at which
the voters will be asked to sanction
an additional levy of 8 mills to meet
the municipal indebtedness. Yet
business is fine in dry towns" and
&C.
Vacant buildings now stand ON
Main street, the chief business thor
oughfare Of Oregon City, as monu-
ments to the memory of one garage.
one clothing store, one restaurant and
one livery barn now closed up but
formerly did good business. Fourteen
vacant stores line both sides of Main
street, and three vacant lots mark
the places where three other storeg
formerly stood, but which have burn
ed down. So little has been the de-
mand for business property that the
burned structures were never rebuilt.
But business is fine in Oregon CITY,"
The Enterprise printing Office,
which formerly employed a large
force of printers and bookbinders and
often worked night and day to fill
orders, is now operating it's job de-
partment crew but five days a week,
yet the Morning Enterprise is one of
the Committee of One Hundred
papers that has printed mat
ter about business is fine in
dry towns