East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-05-20
FROM THE PEOPLE
FAvoRs COAST HIGHWAY

Tiilamook, Oregon. May l5, 1919.
! Editor East Oregonian:-
Dear sir. win you allow me space
in your valuable paper to say a few
words in regard to the reconstruction
measure TO be voted upon in June from
Coast County view point?
You are well aware that Western
Oregon is one of the most productive
vet undeveloped sections of the State.
The people in the Coast Counties have
never complained, but with true Wes-
tern grit and determination. they have
had to contend with adverse circum-
| stances on account of lack of roads
and bad transportation; consequently.
II is not surprising that all the Coast
Counties are united and greatly inter.
ested in the proposed Roosevelt mill
tary Highway, which will be the
means of opening up to settlement a
large amount of valuable land suitable
for dairying, and land that is similar
to that of Tillamook County, where
the dairymen have made such a great
success OF cheese making. 1t may in-
terest YOU to know that the dairy
herds of Tillamook County produced
45.l00,156 pounds of milk last year,
and this made 5,036.9 500 pounds OF
cheese, valued at S1.352,694. This
will be duplicated many times IL the
Roosevelt highway is built, and the
Coast Counties will produce more
cheese than that produced In Wiscop.
sin and some of the other cheese pro-
ducing states of the East, for the rea-
son that climate conditions are ideal
for cheese making in the Coast Coun-
ties. The dairymen and grangers are
all lined up in these counties for the
Roosevelt Highway.
What the Coast Counties want is an
opportunity to develop Western Ore !
gon. They now appeal to the gener- /
Gus and magnanimous spirit of the |
people of Oregon to help them do so, :
as Western Oregon has received but
slight recognition by way of improves
menis. but have always cheerfully !
paid their taxes, some of which have
gone to help develop other parts or
the state. All that Western Oregon
wants is a SQUARE deal and I am sure
II the people of the State knew of the
undeveloped resources that are in the
Coast Counties they would readily
east their votes in favor of the Roose-
velt Highway measure. 1t will be a
market road. but at the same time it !
viii be used for pleasure by more !
people living in Portland, southern ,
Oregon, Eastern Oregon and the Will =
lmette valley than by the people liv- !
ng in the Coast Counties, and it will a
'utclass the Columbia Highway for :
Genie beauty and picturesqueness, as a
t passes through a most interesting o
art of Oregon. r
The people in the Coast Counties
re almost as much interested in the
ther reconstruction measures as the =
Highway. as will be seen by \
straw vote taken in Tillamook City !
n four measures viz.
Roosevelt Highway measure, 2S1
es; l no.
Five million reconstruction measure,
81 yes; Is no. :,
Irrigation and drainage measure. II
Al yes; II no.. =
Market roads tax measure. zoe yes; -
no.
Should the s5,00O.000 reconstruct
on measure pass and the Roosevelt
Highway be defeated, all that Western !
regon will receive will be two in
gnificant sums of money for arm
ries at Marshfield and Astoria. In
lat event it will be doing the Coast
ounties an injustice.
Respectfully yours. -,
FRED I. BAKER.
Editor Tillamook Headlight