Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1916-06-09
B. F. JONES WRITES
Newport, Oregon lime 5tb 10

that interests every person in Lincoln
county, as well as the people of the
Willamette Valley and all Western Ore
gon.
When any public improvement is |
proposed where 1t means a tax upon
the people of town, city or commun-
ity, especially where the proposed i'm
pl ovement is to cost a considerable |
sum of money, all kinds of rumors
become circulated and too often the
people form an opinion conserving the
matter before they become fully ad-
vised In the premises. 1t is also true
that our taxes are high, and the very
thought of an increase thereof without
reasonable and just cause and unless
substantial benefits can be secured by
reason thereof, people will become
frightened and before they have fully
investigated the matter, set their
minds against the proposed improve
ments.
IL has been rumored in Newport,
and in other places in the county, that
the two Port Districts, Newport and
Toledo, were to be consolidated for the
purpose of taxing the property therein
in order to raise $500, 100000, our por-
provements of Yauuina Bar, the Gov
ernment to be asked to appropriate
the other $300,000.00; it being esti-
mated that this sum will make thirty
foot channel over the bar, and many
people are of the opinion that this
heavy tax would practically bankrupt
Newport and Toledo.
Now that the people OF Lincoln
County with the aid Of the good peo-
pie of the Willamette Valley and a
solid Oregon Delegation in Congress
have secured the survev OF the bar
with e view Of ultimately securing
thirty foot Channel, and that the sur
yey thereof will be made In the near
future, probably within thirty days,
and in view OF the fact that former
Presidential Board of United States
Engineers IN high authority formerly
made a favorable report after a com.
plete and comprehensive survey OF
the bar and harbor, and that thirty
foot channel could be made over va
uuina Bar It is more than rrobab'e
that the report of the Board Of United
States Engineers for Rivers and Har.
bors. will be favorable. Congress VIII
propriation to meet the half the cost
Of the Improvement Of the harbor and
the people will have to put up the
other half II the work is to be done.
Therefore that the general public
and the taxpayers OF Lincoln County
may be advised and not form an opln-
ion from rumors, and as one OF the
Joint Committee appointed by the
1Arta aV,I n
ledo, to see what could be done In the
way of uniting the people OF the
County, and in trying to form some
plan whereby the financing OF the
improvements OF the bar could be
done without too heavy a burden be-
ing placed upon the people by reason
of the taxing of their property to raise
their half OF the money to pay for the
cost OF said improvements.
wish to say that 1t is not the In
tention Of the Committee or the many
citizens of the County who are WORK.
inc hand in hand with them to form
Port District of only the territory en-
braced within the boundaries OF the
Newport and Toledo Port Districts,
but to try and have the general laws
relating to the forming Of Port Districts
pr,anIod NJ tho coming session OF
the Legislature this winter, so that a
Port District may be formed embrac-
ing all the territory not heretofore
embraced in any Port District that
has already been formed in the county.
The idea Is TO form one Port Dis
trict in Lincoln County that viii en-
brace all the territory in the county,
except the territory that is now en-
braced within the boundaries OF the
Alsea Port District: 1t being under
stood that the people living In this
District desire to maintain their said
Port District for the purpose OF i'm
proving the Alsea Bay and Bar, and
that thev think they can do II better
and at less cost by remaining in a
District OF their own. This matter Is
purely a matter to be considered by
the peoble in that Port District, as no
one has a right to infringe upon their
rights already secured. and ] am sure
no one outside their territory wants
10 do so. but all wish them success In
their enterprise in making a harbor
at Alsea. and the people OF this section
will be ready and willing to help them
fight their battle when the time comes
that they can.
Now II the law Is amended so that
n county may take in all the territory
OF the county not already embraced
in a Port District, the people OF
Lincoln County will be asked to vote
upon the proposition OF forming a Port
District embracing that territory ir
Lincoln County not already embraced
in the Alsea Port District. When suci
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