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PAGE SIX ASHLAND TIDINGS Monday, August 2.1, 191ft Cunningham Favors Electric Contract Editor Tidings: It is with an earnest desire to promote the best In terest of the city, present and future, that I ask your indulgence in a lim ited space in the eo'.umns of your pa per. I will refer specifically and par ticularly te the coming election called to ratify or reject an agreement made by the city council with the California-Oregon Electric Light and Power Company. Council a I'nit. The text of that agreement is pub lished in your paper for the Informa tion of tho people. It Is framed In plain language and not with Intent to deceive. I sincerely hope that . every voter will read and Btudy It from all points of view. If there is anything that seems to require fur ther explanation, just make inquiry of those who know, so that all doubt may be removed. The mayor ami all members of the city council have approved and strongly recommend the ratification of the agreement. They are all tax payers, have electric light, and the game interest in city matters that other citizens bae no more, no less. Tho city's water and the city's light belong to us citizens and it Is our Interest to improve and perfect them all we can. This is the one golden opportunity. Do not let it pass by. I say this in full knowledge of the past gained in almost eight years of service on the council. This is, I will repeat, the city's golden op portunity. Do not let the scare of "more bonds" frighten you. Even If our city's population remains the same as now, the net revenue from light and power will be amply suffi cient to take up the bonds as well as the Interest as It matures; as the city has been doing and is doing now on a much larger amount of bonds. No Tax Levy. If there was any probability of electrical engineer made remark in my hearing, "You have the model electric light plant on this coast." $7!2,000 Margin. A word as to R. D. Sanford's crit icism of the contract. In my opinion if it was his personal and private trade, he could not safeguard his In terests better than are the city's by this contract. As to the $700 minimum per month. Owing to the more than $1,000 Income per month, the com mittee could not hammer the com pany to less than the $700. It takes two to make a bargain. While It is true, as Mr. Sanford states, that $700 a month is $8,400 per year (for current), It Is also true, as he failed to state, that an average margin of $300 monthly to the city Is $3,600 per year $72,000 during the contract life. These figures are upon present conditions and not on prospective growth, and are conservative. Originally I opposed a term longer than ten years, but finally accepted the twenty-year basis, as I did not feel justified In opposing what other wise seemed an agreement favorable to the city, which it certainly Is. Personal Opxsition. Some years ago when this light question was last before the people, in an attempt to secure an Increased supply of current by means of an other city plant. It was bitterly op posed by a well-known citizen, a voter and taxpayer, said gentleman urging the city buy Its current, even advising the city's plant be closed up. Today he opposes the buying of current, although better price than then were possible have been se cured In the contract. The less-than-cost rate now fur nished to the Ice plant by the city, and the fear that the city might dis continue to supply the few at less than cost, If this contract Is ratitfied, may account for the gentleman's present opposition. Lastly, the responsibility for the result of the electric light election rests with the people; the city coun- Outline of Life of Foremost Citizens tVADa ttnnrlo InpranalnfT mir tflypn. T . . , ,. . ell has done Its duty after months of most certainly would not recommend . . ' ... v u i k-.ii ,. i i careful investigation by the issue, but I believes and can ai- Its electric rnnnt dov T Irnnn that tllft tnvnnVAr . v ii j . i. ..,a I hope every voter will attend the will never be called on or be assessed ... ,. ,. . , , Th. onr fund I " l" ieim ub uuuibivo. for their payment and electric light fund will "go. hand in hand," within time a reduction In rates, and revenue producers. Had I the time and health I could talk long on the different and sep arate points of agreement, but what I neglect others may take up. I rely j 000 paper mill plant. largely on the voters' careful reading i of the agreement, and especially on East Portland getting new C. CUNNINGHAM. Manufacture of peppermint oil In Linn county under way. Albany Site selected for $1,500,- bank the unbiased opinion of the women, 'and business men's club buildings. whose favorable opinion and votes will give us more light, and save us ' Factory blocks are economical, from darkness in case of a break- Try them. Carson-Fowler Lumber down In our plant. As a promlment Co. 23-4t , . 111 IIM lf wife mWm 1 m mxrssss -u PyPw? 'iWl Writ for frra raUilos I John soi Mall -' - t- 1 NtW ADfMIMIftTftATlOM BuilfMMfc U O if. arfaa T na i Jf THE "GREATER OREGON" fi With now bulliHim, lettr equipment, n Int rrmimU, nntl many Rdilllioim to Irn faciillctliti Culvrrititrol' Oregon will uncln it furtiMll jfrar, Tueiulnjr, .September 14, 191(1. Kiiul training Commerce. JouhiiiIIkiii, A n'lrlterture. Law, MmIIi inr, TeachtiiK. Libra ry Work, Muiiiv, TmlniiiK hikI Hue Art. IjirKoaiiilHtroiiKileimrtuienUof Liber al r'itt-Alloii. Library of moretlinn ftS.000 volumem thir teen biillillnK fully equipped, two Mpleniliil KyniiinHlmtiA Tuition Free. Pnrmltoilra for men ami for women. Kapeiiw Lowett. Write for free r:itnlo(n,aMreiiiiini; ReitlMrnr OF OREGON OHKOON Excursion Fares Via the Expositions To the East Every day until September joii good for return until Oct. jisl. Why not get the most for your money? Why not take in two wonderful world Expositions at San . Fraucisco and San Diego en route to the East? The world has never before produced the equal of the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The like prob- ably will never be attempted again. Scenery en route is magnificent. Automatic Safety Signals guard the way. Four fine trains a day Portland to San Francisco, connect ing at San Francisco for the south and east. Let us send you our illustrated folders, "Wayside Notes" and "California and Its Two World Exposi tions." SOUTHERN PACIFIC Our local agent will take pleasure in outlining an Itinerary and furnish full information, or you may address Job M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon A brief outline of the life of S. Benson, lumber millionaire, philan thropist and good roads booster who was chosen as Oregon's representa tive citizen In whose honor a day was set aside at the Panama-Pacific ex position, may be of especial interest. Last Tuesday was the day set aside in honor of Mr. Benson at the exposi tion. Benson was born in Norway about sixty years ago. His parents were none too prosperous and at an early age he was compellel to shift for him self. At the age of 16, through his own efforts, he had acquired suffi cient money to bring him to the United States. From Ellis Island ha went to Wisconsin, reaching there practically penniless, but filled with boundless energy and ambition. Unable to speak very good English, Benson was under a severe handicap, but soon found employment wtih farmers from the land of his birth. His first job paid him $15 and board. He married at an early age. In 1S79, accompanied by his wife and small son, he started for Oregon. First he went to Columbia county, where he found employment in a log ging camp. For ten years he labored with vary ing results and then, about 1891, he began to prosper. Buying out the men who in the meantime had been interested with him in logging opera tions, Benson increased the output of the plant from 30,000 to 300,000 feet of lumber a day. Working almost day and nlgbt, Benson continued making money at a rapid rate, rein vesting It In timber lands. ' In 1905 he owned 45,000 acres of timber land in Columbia county alone. Six years ago, believing he was sufficiently possessed of the world's goods, he sold his entire holdings for approximately $4,000,000. Mr. Benson has five children. Since retiring from private busi ness Benson has devoted practically all of his time and energy to matters beneficial to the public. First he donated forty bronze drinking fountains to the city of Portland. These fountains are to be found on almost every downtown cor ner In the City of Roses, four streams of water pouring out to assuage the thirst of the passerby. Intensely Interested In good roads from boyhood, having driven ox teams In the wilderness, Benson has spent thousands of dollars In Investi gating the best methods of highway construction and has given his knowl edge without charge for the benefit of the public. He gave $10,000 to the state to build a road around Shell Hock on the Columbia river highway, and conducted and financed the campaign for the construction of the famous boulevard itself. He is chairman of the advisory committee of the state highway com mission and Is at present fathering a campaign to bond the state for $10, 000,000 to complete and maintain a chain of permanent state highways. Benson has always, been a great lover of children, and realizing that he never during his youth had the opportunities of education, recently gave the city of Portland $100,000 for' the establishment of a trades school for boys and girls. Shasta Division Wins Safety Banner been an increase of 30 per cent In the total number as compared with the preceding year, and an Increase of 96 per cent over 1913. The Stockton division, the Shasta division and the Sacramento shops are winners of the 1915 safety ban ners awarded annually by the South ern Pacific Company for the greatest progress shown during the fiscal year in the furtherance of safety work on the Pacific system. Thus, the Stock ton division wins the honors of the southern district, the Shasta ranks highest on the northern, and the Sac ramento shops top the list In the gen eral shops competition. This makes the second banner won by both the Stockton and Shasta di-j visions and the third by the Sacra mento general shops. In 1913 the Coast division won the central dis trict banner, and the San Joaquin the southern district banner. In 1914 the Salt Lake division won the north ern district emblem. During the year ended June 30, 1915, there was a total of 5,228 saf ety suggestions submitted by em ployes, 3,768 of which, or 71 per cent, were considered practical and were favorably acted upon by the su perintendents. As employes have no doubt noted from, the perusal of meetings of the safety committees, these suggestions have covered a wide range of subjects In every depart ment of the railroad, and have re sulted In the adoption of safeguards of every description the correction of defects, and the Issuance of In structions looking to the betterment of conditions under which employes work many at the expense of thou sands of dollars. During the preceding year a total of 4,013 safety suggestions were made, 3,261 of which were held to be practical, or 81 per cent; while dur ing the year ended June 30, 1913, the first year of the company's or ganized safety committee, 2,670 safe ty suggestions were made. Of these, 1,798, or 67 per cent, were consid ered practical, making a grand total of 11,911 safety suggestions made by employes during the last three years, of which 8,737, or 73 per cent, were practical. From this it will be observed that during the last twelve monthsa de cided increase in interest has been shown by the safety committees and thoughtful employes, there having Two Fast Amateurs Will Box Tuesday Brud Shamrock of Seattle, at one time amateur hoxing champion of the northwest and who has a well established reputation on the coast, and Beryl Eaton, acknowledged to be the fastest boxer at his weight In Ashland, will meet in a ten-round boxing exhibition at the armory next Tuesday evening. Young Shamrock has been residing In Ashland for some months past. These two young men are the fastest at their weight in the city if not the valley, and fans may look forward to a clever exhibi tion next Tuesday evening when the bell sends them together at 8:30 o'clock. They will box at 133 pounds. A four-round preliminary between two local amateur middle weights is being arranged. The box ing contests held at the armory some time ago were well received and were clean and interesting exhibi tions of the manly art. The coming I event is assured of good patronage. ; Automobiles In Yellowstone Park After several years of agitation automobiles are now allowed In Yel lowstone park. " Here are some of the Yellowstone national park regulations, applying to the admission of automobiles after August 1: Cars must enter the park only by one of the authorized entrances; stops are permitted only on regular schedule at hotels and permanent camps; cars are not permitted to take local trips off the main route, except at certain hours of the day; tickets of passage are necessary; payable In cash only, as follows: For runabout, $5; seven-passenger car, $10. Copies of these regulations, show ing the running schedules from place to place, may be had from the tour ing bureau of the American Automo bile Association at either Its Wash ington or New York headquarters, or by sending to the department of the Interior at Washington, D. C. St. Helens Columbia River Can nery running stady on vegetables. Mlllersburg will vote on erecting $2,000 school house August 16. If your watch does not give you satisfaction take it to Johnson the Jeweler. 97-tf When Money Counts You may not appreciate the real value of money until the immediate need for it is upon you. Start an account in this strong bank NOW and be prepared for the emergency when it comes. First National Bank ASHLAND, OREGO.V. Oldest National Bank In Jackson County Acknowledges City's Invitation Visalia Board of Trade, Vlsalia, Cal., Aug. 17, 1915. Mr. M. J. Duryea, Ashlanl Commer cial Club, Ashland, Ore. Dear Sir: I have pleasure In ac knowledging the receipt of your let ter bearing date August 12. I hope before the present year draws to an end to accept your cordial Invitation to visit your city a city that is play ing an important part in the develop ment of the great state of Oregon. I know that Ashland's scat Is the front row right near the orchestra. An optimistic army of citizens, the right sort of residents, and an effi cient publicity man pointing; with pride to his city's importance upon the may, one can easily see prosperity rising upon Ashland. May the bril liancy of its rising never fade. Very truly yours, JAMES T. BOYER, Sec. Visalia Board of Trade. Fifty cents Invested In a Tidings "For Sale" ad often sells a $5,000 property. Did you eter try ltT I M-frW-HtH lilt lit T taV. To Show Scenic Views In East Henry Berger, Jr., a photographer, and E. T. Ames, both of Portland, arrived In Med ford Thursday on their way to Crater Lake to take pictures of the larke and surroundings for the Portland Chamber of Commerce. They were taken to Prospect by R. W. Waters and from there will make the trip on foot In order to secure pictures of the forests and other scenery. Mr. Berger and his partner, F. I. Jones of Portland, are taking pictures of the Columbia highway, Crater Lake, the Pacific highway over the Siskiyou mountains, Mt. Rainier and Mt. Hood by the new English meth od, Paget process of natural colored photography. These pictures will be developed In their natural colors on slides and Messrs. Berger and Jones will leave the last of this month for New York and the other leading cities of the east to show the pictures and lecture about the territory In which they are located. The proposition Is under the direction of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the lec- turs will be given under the direction of the Chamber of Commerce in the cities they visit. On their return from the lake Messrs. Berger and Ames will take pictures of the Pacific highway as Any Time Is A Good Time For New Post Toasties Crisp, delicious and better than . ever before they have a body and form that keeps them criep and firm they don't mush down in cream as the ordinary corn flakes do. These Superior Corn Flakes are not only a delightful breakfast food they make an appetizing lunch at any hour of the day. And how the kiddies do enjoy theml After playtime for lunch or supper the crinkly brown flakes just hit the spot. Post Toasties are made of the choicest Indian corn; steam cooked, daintily seasoned, rolled and toasted to a delicate golden-brown. They reach you ready to serve mighty good with cream or any kind of t Iruit. Ash your Grocer for New Post Toasties the Superior Corn Flakes X far as the summit of the Siskiyous. HI 1 1 M 1 II H M II M II 1 1 H M I II 1 1 1 C M 1 1 1 Who are "The Cows"? 22-tf nn in in Milium mi nn mti ii hi m