The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-31
CLACKAMAS AND
OREGON CITY HIT
BY EMPTY TILLS
DRY" Regime Followed by Query
as to Receiver
CITY WARRANTS UNSALEABLE
City Council Calls Election November 8
to Raise Levy s Mills to Pay Debts

to Raise Levy s Mills to Pay Debts
Oregon City and Clack.
amas County, Of which Ore
gon City is the county seat,
present as lamentable a
condition in a bu s | n e s s
sense as a defunct corpora.
tion about to go into the
hands of a receiver. In
fact, a receivership for Ore.
gon> City already has been
seriously discussed by cer-
tain Of its creditors, and
Judge Campbell of that city
has declared hfs willingness
to declare such "a receiver
ship, IL formal application
were made TO him, as he
would for "any bankrupt
corporation"
A special election has
been called by the city for
November o "to relieve the
financial condition of the
city," the purpose being to
vote $250,000 5 per cent
bonds and to increase the
tax levy eight mills in or
der to take care of the new
Indebtedness.
On the part of Clackamas
County the County Treasurer is
confronted with an empty treas.
ury for the first time in six years.
The Morning Enterprise, n radi-
cal prohibitionist daily Of Ore
gon City, in explaining this sit
uation, says "the condition is con-
sidcred the result of the amount
of deli nquent taxes on the
county's tax rolls. County Treas
urer Tufts refused the first war
rants on the general fund Mon
day October ~, 1910"
Business must be " fiae" In city
and q county when the treasures Of
both are empty because Of lack OF
money coming into their strong boxes,
with special election called by the
city 10 increase it's thx levy, with 4 70.
ceivership threatened and with "dan-
ger" signs strung along the length Of
tho business portion of Main street by
"order OF the CITY Council" which
read:
"Danger Main Street Declared
Dangerous-All persons travelling on
Main street bctwncn North side Of
Moss street and south side Of Third
street do so at their own risk"
Banks are refusing 20 cash Oregon
City municipal warrants. Since Janu.
AIRY first the city has issued t3o,e9l.o5
In these warrants, according TO the re-
port Of City Recorder John w. Loder,
and these warrants are still unpaid.
The city tan levy in 1918 in Oregon
City was eight mills. Two weeks af-
ter tho city went dry tho council In
creased this levy to 10 mills for 1914,
and on November 3 there Is TO be q
special elction held at which the voters
will be asked TO sanction an additional
levy Of eight mills TO meet the muniei'
pal Indebtedness. Yet "busiaess Is
fino In dry towns and Oregon City
Is doing we'll
Vacant buildings now stand on Main
street, the chief business theroughfare
OF Oregon City, as monuments 20 tho
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 stores formerly
stood, but which have burned down.
SO little has been the demand for bust.
ness property that the burned struc.
lures were never rebuilt. But "busi.
ness Is fine in Oregon City"
Tho Enterprise printing office,
which fornerly employed q large force
| Of printers and bookbinders, and often
worked night aad day TO fill orders, IL
aow operating its job department crew
but five days week, yet The Aorning
Entsrpriss is one Of the papers that
has e1fiHtsd the conmittss Of One
Hundred natter about "busiAsss u
kiAa IN dry tegne''