Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1916-12-08

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thereof, 1884, 100000 which the
people would have to put up, the
Port Commissions would be re-
quired to assess all the taxable
property within the boundaries
or said two Port Districts aggre.
eating $S,060,000.0O. To pay
the interest on bonds represent
ing $234,000.00 at the rate of S
per cent per annum would re-
quire S11, 10000 or an annual tax
levy Of less than one and one
half mills.
The matter of the improve
ment of Yaquina Bay Bar inter
ests every citizen of Lincoln
County and it is now up to them
to say whether the Yaquina Bay
Bar is ever to be improved and
our county is to take it's place
commercially and as a shipping
Port along with other harbors
Of the Oregon coast. Practically
every harbor on the Oregon
coast, the Columbia, Coos Bay,
Siuslaw Bay, Tillamook Bay,
and Nehalem Bay are being i'm
proved. Under the system now
adopted by our Government of
the people putting up one half
of the cost of the Improvement
thereof, and even by doing this
they have had a long hard fight
to get the Government to come
through and order the improve
ments made. The people of Lin
coin County with the assistance
of the Commercial Clubs of the
willamette Valley and the Ore
gon Delegation in Congress have
secured the survey Of the Va.
quina Bay Bar and the report
of the United States Engineers
at Portland, Oregon will soon be
forwarded to the River and Har-
bors Board of Engineers at
Washington, D. C. If the re-
ports Of the local Engineers are
favorable TO the project it is
thought that our delegation in
Congress may be able to obtain
I a favorable report from the T..
S. Board of Engineers of Rivers
and HaTbOrs. in which event if
there is a general appropriation
bill passed at rifs short session
of Congress and providing we
agree TO put up our half of said
four hundred and sixty eight
thousand dollars, Yaquina Bay
project may be taken care of.
The timber men who own the
fifteen billion feet of timber in
Lincoln County are ready and
willing to build logging roads
and saw mills to manufacture
this timber into lumber and place
it upon the worlds markets il
we can get an export harbor
San Francisco and San Pedro
are the dumping ground for al
the lumber manufactured in the
little coast hal bors and we must
have more water if our lumber
men can hope TO compete with
such harbors as Coos Bay and
Grays Harbor who have at the
present time twenty feet oi
water at mean low tide. Every
citizen in Lincoln County knows
what it means to have Yaquina
Bay Bar improved. They know
the resorces of this county
They know the great
timber wealth Of this county
timber wealth of this county
They know that this vast body
of timber is over ripe and deter.
iorating every year, and they
know that the timber lands are
being assessed highly for the
purpose of roads, schools and
county government, and that
neither the owners thereof or the
people of Lincoln County are
getting any benefit from this
vast body of timber only as a tax
revenue. 1t would seem that II
we lose this opportunity to gel
consideration for Yaquina Bay
Bar that We will be lost in the
scramble and that it will bt
: years before we can again be ir
'as favorable position to demand
just and fair recognition from
the Government for the improve
: ment of Yaqulna Bay Bar. II /,
: sincerely to be hoped that ever,
: tax payer in Lincoln Count!
will give this matter due ant
: careful consideration, take hi,
pencil and figure out just wha
1t Is going to cost him for thi
, special tax and just what bene
fits he will derive from the i'm
provements of Yaquina Bay Bar
! And we think that he will fin,
that there can be no sane argu
,ment against the proposed i'm
: provement or the little tax bur
! fcn that will he placed uDon IN,