Ashland tidings., June 04, 1914, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7

Thursday, June 4, 1014
DR. W. EARL BLAKK
DENTIST .
rint National Bank Bids., Suite 9
and 10. Entrance First Ave.
phones: Office, 109; Re., 230-J.
DR. J. E. ENDELMAN
DENTIST
Cltiaenj Banking & Trust Co. Bldg.
Suite 3 & 4
ASHLAND, ORE.
G. W. GREGG, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Payne Building. Phone 69.
Residence: 216 . Weightman Street.
Residence phone 222-R.
Office hours: 9 to 12a. m., 2 to 5 p.
m. Calls answered day or night.
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DRS. JAKVIS & IJOSIjOUGH,
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PHYSICIAN'S AM) SURGEONS.
PAYNE I1UILD1.NG.
Office Hours, 1 to 3 P. SI.
DR. D. M. BROWKR,
GEXKltAL PRACTITIONER.
Residence, 216 Factory St.
Phone 247-J.
DR. GKO. C. KNOTT,
Homeopathic Physician & Surgeon.
Citizens Bank Building.
Phone 301-J.
Office hours, 9-12 a. m., 2-3 p. m.
House, 91 Church St. Phone 42S-K.
DRS. SAWYER AND HAMMERER,
The only Osteopathic
Physicians in town.
Women's and Children's Diseases a
Seciulty.
Pioneer Bldg.
Phones: Office, 208; Res., 242-R.
Massage, Electric Unlit Baths, Elec
tricity. JUMA R. McQUlLKIN,
SUPERINTENDENT.
PAYNE BLDG.
Telephone 306-J.
Every day excepting Sunday.
Dr. R. P. Bradford and Wire,
"KI-RO-PRAK-TORS"
Chronic cases our specialty.
Consultation and examination free.
Hours 9 to 5. Sundays by appoint
ment only. ,
21 E. Main. Freeberg Bldg. Phone 58.
DR. G. R. UTTERBACK, D. C.
Chiropractor.
Spinal Adjustments.
Acute and Chronic Diseases.
Remove the cause. Nature cures.
68 E. Main. Rooms 55 and 5C.
. Hours 9-12, 2-5, 7-9. Phone 48.
E. A. USHER,
Christian Science Practitioner.
112 B Street. Phone 71.
Phone 68. 211 E. Main St.
BEAVER REALTY COMPANY.
A. M. Beaver, E. Yockey.
Meal Estate, Insurance and Loans.
Exchanges u Sniulty.
ASHLAND. OREGON
Resident Agent for all makes
Rebuilt Typewriters
Expert Typewriter' repairer.
E. A. IHLLEARY
P. O. Box 122,
Ashland, Oregon
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Mahogany Camp, No. 6565, M. W.
A., meets the 2d and 4th Friday
of each month in Memorial Hall.
F. G. McWHiiams, V. C; G. H. Hed
berg. Clerk. Visiting neighbors are
cordially invited to meet with us.
CHAUTAUQUA PARK CLUB.
Regular meetings of the Chautau
qua Park Club first and third Fri
days of each mouth at 2:30 p. m.
Mrs. E. J. Van Sant. Pres.
Mrs. Jennie Faucett Greer, Sec.
Civic Improvement Club.
The regular meeting of the Ladles
Civic Improvement Club will be held
on the second and fourth Tuesdays of
each month at 2:30 p. m., at the
Carnegie Library lecture room.
RSHLHND
Storage and Transfer Co.
C. F. BATES, Proprietor.
Two warehouses near Depot
Goods of all kinds stored at reasona
ble rates.
A General Transfer Business.
Wood and Rock Springs Coal
Phone 117.
Of five 99 Oak Street.
ASHLAND. OREGON.
MAKE THE
HOTEL MEDFORD
Your Home and Resting Place.
Visitors to Medford will find this
wodern hotel both convenient and
accessible place from whieh to shop
and meet friends. Rooms 11.00 up.
Hot and cold water in every room.
Courteous attention.
Ladles will find large, comfortable
and airy parlors and reception room,
i. .....j in carte In spacious
dining room. EMIL MOHR. Prop.
YOUR RESTING PLACE.
Charles Bamette Wolf on Benefits
From Springs Development
The Bond Election.
Tuesday of nest week the citizens
of Ashland will vote on the issue of
auxiliary water bonds in the sum of
$175,000 as per the election call pub
lished elsewhere in this puper. The
election call states plainly the object
for which the bonds are designed to
raise money a"so the places of vot-
ing and the judges of election etc '
in tnese matters it is only necessary
to read the call to become advised on
the subject.
Elsewhere in this issue of the Ash
land Record will also be found the
call for another election at which it
is designed to amend the charter of
the city of Ashland, provide for the
handling of the money by a Epeelal
commission, elect commissioners, de
fine their duties and prerogatives
etc.
If it be argued that these matters
iiave peen nurnen it snouia oe ;
uorne in mina mat naste is necessary
not only because Ashland must be
on the map as a full-fledged mineral
springs resort before Panama-Pacific
Exposition traffic begins next year,
but because her aims and intentions
along that line must be decided at
once if the city is to avail itself of
the splendid offer made by the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
to exploit Ashland in all its vast and
far-reaching literature on which the
presses must start early in July of
this year.
As the citizen of Ashland enters
the voting booth next Tuesday this
paper feels that he stands at a fork
ing of the road in the history of Ash
land progress. It will be his to
choose, on that day, whether Ashland
shall follow the fork that leads to
fame and prosperity or the fork that
leads to obscurity and bare existence.
The hours between nine o'clock in
the morning and six in the evening
on Tuesday, June ninth. 1914, will
therefore be a crucial period for Ash
land. The Record believes the carry
ing of the bond issue means the dawn
of a new epoch from which will date
many good things.
Our (ireatest Asset.
Wherein lies Ashland's greatest
hope of future growth and future
prosperity? What is Ashland's great
est asset? On what can she realize
the quickest? Wherein is she least
in competition with the rest of the
world? What has she tried in the
past and what has been the outcome?
What has she let lie idle that other
cities have made fortunes from?
These are questions that the public-
snlrited citizen should bonder well.
Sixty-odd years ago the pioneer I stating that the greatest outlook for
thought that gold mining was des-! Southern Oregon development was
tined to solve the problems of South-j the mineral springs at Ashland and
ern Oregon. A few years later other I it stands ready today to back the
pioneers believed the licking of th? project with advertising and the ser
Indians and the development of vices of its experts. Why ? The
ranches and farms was the one thing Southern Pacific is not a chaser after
to be desired. Then came the era of I rainbows. It '.a not visionary. It
railroads and mills and the citizens doesn't back things that it is not sat
of 'that day thought the problems of isfied are worth backing. It agrees
Ashland were solved for all time to 1 1 spend thousands of dollars adver
come. Itising our project. Why?. Because
After that thre was a long lap.e it expects to get the money back
in which the chief hope of the city hauling tourists into Ashland,
for a future was apparently the No--I y0 have the springs. We have
mal School. Then came the era of the endorsement of the Southern Pa
fruit raising and close on its heels Cific. We have the record of other
the era of good roads and pavements towns to go bv. What further assur
etc. All these things combined madejanre can voii"c?k logically? Do you
or Asnianu a city 01 ouvu in sixty
years. The growth has been at an
average rate of 100 per year. Men
have come and gone battling for
their Ideas of what was best. None
of the things for which they fought
have proven the panacea for the ills
or the community.
If you had started out a few
months ago to ask the citizens of
Ashland on what thing Ashland
should base her hope of future
growth and prosperity you would
have found citizens who still clung
to every hope of the past with the
possible exception of the licking of
the Indians. Nearly everybody now
admits that licking Indians is an in
dustry which has few possibilities at
the present time. You. would have
found, however, that some still clung
to mining and others to ranching and
others to railroad activity and manu
facturing as their hope for the future
of this region.
Going farther you would have had
others telling you the salvation of
the Ashland district is dry farming
or irrigation or dairying or pottery
making or quarrying. Some would
have said schools and others church
es and some deluded mortals would
even have told you saloons. You
could even find people to tell you it
Is a daily paper. You would have
found a large number clinging to the
tbeory that fruit-growing is It re
gardless of limited area and hopeless
marketing facilities. Today the large
majority have come to see Ashland's j
real destiny tne thing ror wnicn sne
is best fitted development as a re
sort city.
Why has every mortal who has set
foot In this country from the
pioneer down to the newest "tender
foot" tried to solve the problem of
living here? Why haven't the Innum
erable host passed on to other fields?
Because this is the finest place on
earth to live. Its climate is right.
Its altitude is right. Its scenery is
right. Its water is right. That Is
why everyone who comes wants to
stay.
These are the things which really
Impelled the pioneer to stay and en
dure the hardships and fight the bat
tles of the earlier day. These are the
things that have kept later comers
here in spite of hope long deferred.
These are the things that are keeping
people here now when more dollars
await their talents and efforts else
where. These constitute the asset
which has made Ashland what she Is
today and which should be exploited
and shared with the others to their
salvation and our own prosperity.
The Tidings is on sale at Poley's
drug store, 17 East Main street.
ASItLAVD
AYIiat Assurance Have We?
What asurance have we as citizens
and taxpayers that the Mineral
Springs Project will be a success?
When it conies to real assurance we
haven't any. We are not even as
sured that Ashland will not be swal
lowed up in an earthquake day after
tomorrow. It is a good gamble, how
ever, that it won't be and it is an
excellent bet from a gambler's stand
point that the Mineral Springs Proj
ect win oe a success.
The race-track gambler bets on a
horse because of what it has done
on other tracks. He has no assur
ance that it will duplicate the per
formance on this particular track.
He feels reasonably safe, however, if
conditions are more favorable for
success than on other tracks where
the horse has won out. In other
words, the Mineral Springs Project
Viau urnn nnf pkowhpro nnrlor r-mitli-
tions far iegs faV0rable than those
Burrol,nding It at Ashland
To recite in detail the history and
success of Mineral Springs exploita
tion at Hot Springs Arkansas, Colo
rado Springs and Manitou in Colo
rado, White Rock Springs at Wauke
sha Wisconsin, French Lick and West
Baden Springs in Indiana, Excelsior
Springs in Missouri or Colfax Springs
in Iowa or any other of the innum
erable mineral spring resorts of the
country would le to impute to our
readers an ignorance of geography
and history and current literature.
The writer is familiar with the last
two of these and knows that they
dxaw patronage from all through the
middle west to an extent that would,
if repeated in Ashland's case, bring
hundreds of thousands of dollars
into the city annually. And be it
borne in mind that these springs have
nowhere near the variety in quality
nor the climatie and scenic setting
that Ashland's springs are blessed
with.
Consider Hot Springs South Dako
ta with her five months' season and
inadequate railroad facilities, chuck
ed away in a narrow canyon with
no surroundings and with but twr
paltry springs. Special trains run
every summer, through the town in
Iowa where the writer lived, carry
ing people to this resort. It has one
of the finest hotels in the middle
west and is the site of one of our
National Soldiers' Homes a magnif
icent establishment and its streets
are thronged d.ily during the brief
season that living; there is possible.
What the Mineral Springs Project
will do Tor Ashland is not merely a
matter of individual opinion. The
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
has for years bad on file reports
doubt the nossibi'ltv of pinine the
waters to the park unchanged in
quality? The Smith-Emery Company
guarantee to do that or forfeit a
bond. They will tell you about it at
the biz mass meetine next Saturday
j nij-ht. Can you expect greater assur
ance?
Wfwt on Industry.
If you are in doubt as to what is
Ashland's mission in the world we
would ask if it should not be to de
velop that in which she is least in
competition with the rest of the
world her climate and scenery and
waters. In these no city in the world
can successfully compete with her.
They require no shipping facilities,
as do cattle or farm products or
fruits. They do not "peter" out like
a mine they are inexhaustible
you market them year after year and
still have thein. They are far more
tangible than the evanescent hope of
a railroad boom.
Hopes of mining, fruit raising, ag
riculture, manufacturing, railroad
business in fact every prospective
industry will reach fruition much
quicker if Ashland is made a resort
city than they ever will if she does
nothing to make herself a city. The
people who come for health and find
it will develop our gold mines, our
quarries, our pottery, clay deposits,
our coal mines, our timber resources.
Their sons will do it if they do not.
Agriculture will flourish on our
Idle acres if yon build a city for the
consumption of the products of the
soil. Every fruit orchard in the Ash
land district will pay out when we
provide it with a market for its crop
and get people here who will put up
the canneries and drierles and pre
serverfes and pickling works that
they need to work up their cults, and
the irrigation systems that are need
ed on the hills. The small rancher
will find stock and poultry raising
profitable when he has a local mar
ket for his dairy products and his
butcher stuff.
In that day too you will have all
the factories that the city and com
munity are capable of sustaining and
these will help to give you the pay
roll you so much desire. And In that
day when Ashland is twice or thrice
or ten times her present size even
the railroad may succumb and we
will have railroad shops and street
railways and activity along automo
bile lines that we can never hope for
If we continue trying to build a city
along lines that have been followed
for the past sixty years. In that day
your sons can find employment at
home instead of going out Into the
world or becoming loafers.
Do you say this should be a city
TIDINGS
of homes and schools and churches?
Then let's make it one. At present
we have homes handicapped for ex
istence. We have public schools like
any other city of the size perhaps
a trifle better. We have churches
sixteen or so of them struggling for
existence with poor congregations
and poor buildings. Give them dou
ble the population and you double
their income and their opportunity
for doing good. Make Ashland a city
of homes and schools and churches
in reality as well as in name, and you
can demand and get higher institu
tions of learning to locate in your
city,
Individual Cost.
In considering the proposed Min
eral Springs bond issue the annual
cost to the individual taxpayer is a
matter of much interest and one
which is greatly magnified in the
minds of many people who have not
stopped to figure the matter out. The
fact of the matter is that the bond
issue even under present conditions
would be no overwhelming burden
and under the better conditions which
are sure to follow, it will not be felt
by the individual.
The "bonds draw five per cent inter-
est. This means that $8750 interest
will be to pay every year. The tax -
able valuation of Ashland is a trifle
nvr J3.0rtft.000. A thi-..-n,iii low
on this would raise 19000 n trifln
mnro thnn nnni"h tn i.nv thn intavo.t
.. . ' .
in nrnpr wnrns. 11 vonr nrnnpvrv is
assessed at $1000 you will pay three
dollars per year toward the interest
on these bonds.
Nothing is to be paid on the prin
cipal for ten years which will cer
tainly give ample time for the project
to bring in extra dollars and extra
citizens to help meet the indebted
ness. The payment of the bonds is
strung out over a period of forty-five
years. The first year's interest is to
be set aside out of the bond issue
khhr giving time for the project to
Ut?KUl UII11KU1K III ItftUllH MClUre 111(5
taxpayer is called upon even for in
terest. Setting the first year's inter-
est aside is made possible by the fact
that several generous gifts have al
ready been promised the project
whereby money is saved on the esti
mated cost.
The fact that big taxpayers like the
Southern Pacific Company are not
only willing to pay their share of the
taxes but to donate thousands of dol
lars' worth of advertising, should In
duce the small taxpayer to believe
that the project is not only a feasible
one but also one that does not mean
excessive burden in the way of taxes.
The California-Oregon Power Com
pany is another great corporation that
looks carefully into bonding proposi
tions and schemes that increase taxes.
It not only endorses this project but
agrees to donate a tract of land to
the city park system and also free
electric current to operate the pump
ing plant. Both of these corporations
probably see visions of increased pop
ulation and business to Justify their
generosity. They aren't "pipe dream
ers."
G. S. Butler and D. Perozzi are
both shrewd and successful business!
men yet they donate a tract of land
worth several thousand dollars to the
project. Are they carried away by
a mirage that will increase their taxes
and yield no returns? Why is nearly
every big taxpayer in the city in favor
of the bonds wliereas most of them
have fought bonds in the past? Is It!
not because they believe it means
something more to them than in
creased taxes.
The individual ha.
s every reason to
ease of taxes will
believe
that the iner
i''" nothing to him as compared to the
i advantages that the Ashland Mineral
Springs Project will bring to him.
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i , A- ' Uunt f , , 0,',lam,
! knwn atUiiinn and to. nier resident
! 01 Ashland whs iii the city last week
ian waH verv ''lbatic in his approval i
l Ashland Mineral Springs Project
rliM-ln ri nf Hint if Auhlimrl lwinKtnrri '
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had any doubt of its success the
should canvass the town from house
to house and educate the people on
it. He says he has heard commenda
tion on the project from Seattle to
the Mexican border and that in his
opinion it is one of the greatest
things that has been started on the
coast. He declares ho will come to
Ashland to live if the project succeeds
i as he believes it will. Mr. Hunt
i passed through the city for the north
ine (.ars of fine b(.,,f caM,e whl(.h
bought at Willows California and un
loaded here for rest and feed.
One of the oddest suggestions we
have heard in regard to the mineral
springs project was made by a tax
payer the other (lay. He wanted to
know why we couldn't "pipe in one
spring and try it out." On the same
basis Ringling's circus ought to stop
out in the country and bring the kan
garoo In and if it drew a crowd go
back after the elephant.
Phone job orders to the Tidings.
COMPLY
With the Law
AND USE
Printed Bier Wrappers
ACCORDING to the mling of the Oregon
Dairy and Food Commission all dairy
butter sold or exposed for sale in this stale
must be wrapped in butter paper upon which
is printed the words "Oregon Dairy Butter,
10 (or 32) ounces full weight," with the name
and address of the maker.
To enable patrons of the Tidings to easily
comply with this ruling this ollice has put in
a supply of the standard sizes of butter paper
and will print it in lots of 100 sheets and up
ward and deliver it by parcels post at the fol
lowing prices.
100 Sheets, 16 or 32 ounces $1.35
250 Sheets, 16 or 32 ounces $1.85
500 Sheets, 16 or 32 ounces $2.65
Send your orders to us by mail accompan
ied by the price of the paper and it will be
promptly forwarded to you by parcel post,
prepaid.
We use the best butter paper obtainable,
and our workmanship is of the best. Let us
have your order and you will not regret it.
Ashland Tidings
PHONE 39
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Dennis' Store
Successor to Ashland Feed Store
Hay, Grain and all kinds of Feed
SEEDS SEEDS
Staple and Fancy Groceries of all
kinds
Dry Wood, Piaster and Cement
At Right Prices
Dennis' Store, E. Main
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If a man has the habit of getting
hot under the collar ke should quit
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