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Ashland, Oregon, Uthla Springs
"The Carlsbad of America'
"Ashland Grows While Uthla Flows"
City of Sunshine' and flowers
ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1915
NUMBER 28
VOL. XL
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Ben Sheldon Writes
of Good Apple Market
Ben Sheldon writes from the San
Francisco exposition as follows:
"I have just had a most interest
ing and instructive talk with Edward
C. Gillette, now and for ten years
past secretary of the New York State
Fruitgrowers' Association. He re
cently visited the Grand Junction
section and the Watsonville apple
district. In both the crop is way
below normal in qoth quality and
quantity. Watsonville, he says, will
not ship a 50 per cent crop; Grand
Junction even less.
"The New York crop will not
amount to 25 per cent of a normal
year. Too much rain and heavy
wind storms. The farmers can not
get onto the ground to cut their oats;
the second cutting al alfalfa is rot
ting and the potatoes and beans are
under water. He comes from west
ern New York, in the lake district,
where the heaviest pear and apple
districts are located.
"Mr. Gillette was recently talking
with the state horticultural commits
sloner of Missouri, who told him
that the Missouri apple crop would
amount to about 60 per cent of nor
mal. As the Missouri crop Is large
ly fall apples and not good keepers
he does not think it would notably
affect the market for coast winter
apples. In short, Mr. Gillette sizes
up the situation on apples as 'decid
edly good for the man who has some
good stuff this fall.'
"He also says that, while his sec
tion of New York has been the heav
iest producers of pears in the world,
the new plantings are running much
stronger to apples than to pears.
Other Items of information are:
They can not grow the Bosc success
fully in their section; the Winter
Nellls are uniformly small sized and
unsatisfactory; the only varieties
that are successful are Bartletts,
Keifer and SeckeP, their experiments
on grafting on Keifer stock have not
been successful, especially If a slow
growing variety is the top work.
Ashland Pioneer
Visiting In City
J. O. C. Wimer, one of Ashland's
pioneers, is visiting In the city with
his son, on Beach street. Mr. Wimer
now hails from Salem.
He came to Ashland in 1867, at a
time when there were but fifteen
families in town, and there was only
one store and one hotel, the former
feeing owned by R. B. Hargadine and
the latter being the Ashland Hotel,
which now D. D. Good occupies as a
dray barn.
When he first came to the hamlet,
as It was then, the woolen mills were
Just being started, and he worked on
them for about a year.
Among other things he did as a
pioneer of this city was to help in
stall the first printing press in Asn
land and the second printing press In
the state of Oregon the printing
press which ran out the first issue
of the Tidings in 1876, the paper at
that time being run and owned by
fr. Leeds.
Mr. Wimer left Ashland in '92 for
other points in the state. He crossed
the plains in 1863.
WiU Electrify
Jacksonville R. R.
S. S. Bullis, head of the Bullis in
terests in southern Oregon, returned
Thursday from a month's business
trip in the east and middle west, and
announced that the work of electrify
ing the Jacksonville railroad would
begin at once. A consignment of
copper wire and bonds were recelvod
last week for this work. Poles are
being distributed along the railroad.
Two new trolley cars, modern In
every respect, will be ordered. It is
expected to have the electrification
complete and ready for service by the
middle of October, which allows fu.
any delay in the receipt of building
material.
Private School and Kindergarten.
Private school, morning hours, 9
to 12. Kindergarten, afternoon hours,
2 to 4. Good ventilation. Big yard
end best equipment. Begins Septem
ber 6. Call at 108 First avenue.
Terms reasonable. ' 28-tf
"Mr. Gillette gives me an interest
ing resume of experiences In market
ing. They formerly depended upon
commission and jobbing men to keep
them Informed of market conditions,
but found that they were being
served with misinformation that
served the commission men rather
than the growers. Now they have
partially perfected a plan of ex
change bulletins between the secre
taries of fruitgrowers' associations
throughout the eastern districts
whereby each district knows what the
conditions are in the sesveral other
districts. Mr. Gillette seemed very
anxious to see this plan tried on a
national basis, but urged that it must
be entirely in the hands of the grow
ers of their local organizations, and
neither commission men, jobbers nor
strictly marketing agencies should be
connected with It In any way.
"Another interesting item was his
statement that the editor of Rural
New York, which he considers one of
the best publications for fruitgrow
ers in the world, recently conducted
an- extensive investigation of the
fruit-marketing problems and found,
as the average of hundreds of sales
Investigated, that the apple grower
the country over' averaged 35 cents
out of every dollar paid for apples
in the United States by the consum
ers. His statement is in line with
one incident I ran across two win
ters ago while in Cincinnati, where I
dropped Into one of the best grocery
stores and found some of our Rogue
river Newtowns on sale at 60 cents
per dozen. I asked the proprietor,
after telling him who I was and why
I wanted to know, what he paid
wholesale for those apples, and he
told me $3.15 per box. I afterwards
asked the grower who raised and
shipped them, and be said f 1.21 per
box. As Mr. Gillette said, 'It is in
the marketing of our fruit that we
must work out the future success of
the industry.' "
City Receives
Good Publicity
The average mortal deems it a
great achievement if he succeeds in
getting something for nothing. There
is nothing that pleases a publicity
man as much as to get valuable news
paper space without having to pay for
it, and it Is especially gratifying to
him if that space be on the editorial
page of a great daily. Ashland was
especially favored last week by re
ceiving editorial comment on Its
present development in two big Ore
gon dailies the Oregonian and the
Telegram. These will be found re
printed in this issue of the Tidings.
These splendid editorials will give
the city a tremendous amount of
most desirable publicity, for they will
make a stronger impression on the
minds of those who read them than
ten times the same space in paid ad
vertising could possibly do. Speak
ing of one of these editorials, a lead
ing business man of Ashland said:
"That is worth more than five hun
dred dollars to us." If this valua
tion is correct it represents a very
big return on a very small invest
ment, for it cost the publicity depart
ment three and one-half cents to get
it two and one-half cents for a copy
of the Tidings that contained a story
of Ashland present development,
written by the manager, and one cent
for a newspaper wrapper. A marked
copy of the Tidings, containing this
story, was sent to the editor of each
of the daily papers of the city of
Portland. As a result the city re
ceived these two fine editorials that
are bound to do us a great amount
of good. The manager of the de
partment feels extremely gratified
over this result, and the Tidings be
lieves he has a right to do so.
Miss Mary Young entertained a
number of her friends,' both large
and small, last Friday evening, when
she gave an evening for several of the
Sunday school classes of the Method
ist church, at which church she teach
es a class herself. Many games on
the lawn were indulged In, and music
was given on ' the piano. Sherbet
and cake were served for refresh
ment.
Fifty cents invested in a Tidings
"For Sale" ad often sells a $5,000
property. Did you ever try itT
Many Autos In
The Camp Grounds
Thursday afternoon the registry
book in the auto camp grounds was
noted, and it was found that on the
days of August 20 to the 26th more
than 162 people camped In the tour
ist camp grounds. People had regis
tered from places as follows: Port
land 27, Seattle 9, Klamath Falls 2,
Grants Pass 6, Phoenix 1, Gold Hill
5, Tacoma 2, Corvallis 2, Belllngham
1, New York city 1, Oregon City 3,
Los Angeles 3, Tampa (Fla.) 1, En
terprise (Ore.) 3, Philadelphia 1, St.
Louis 1, Eugene 3, Salem 2, Rose
burg 4, Oakland 5, Medrord 11, Hilt
12, Sterner (Ore.) 5, La Grande 2,
Freewater 2, Monmouth 2, Canyon
vllle 3, Spokane 2, Randle 4, Bandon
1, Myrtle Point 8, Gravel Ford 4,
Lake City (Iowa) 4, Hindsboro (111.)
3, Elkton (Fla.) 8, Sutherlin 6.
One lady from San Francisco was
interviewed and she said that they
knew of the Ashland camp grounds
before they left San Francisco, for
every tourist was talking of and
praising them. She said that the
grounds were comparatively well
known by through tourists from Van
couver to San Diego.
Horse Stolen
In City Limits
John C. Gearing, who resides on
Grant street, Ashland, Ore., had a
horse and buggy stolen from the C
street hitch rack about 9 o'clock Fri
day evening. The description given
of the horse is as follows:
Weight about 1,100 pounds, 16
hands high, 20 years old, dark brown
In color, pacer, Bingle foots under
saddle, shoe on one of hind feet has
double cork, small lump on outside
of right hind knee, and wind puffs
on front legs.
On account of the peculiar shape
of the hind shoe having tv.c double
corks, it was thought that the ani
mal would be easy to trace up, but a
careful search has not revealed any
information as to the route she was
taken out, of bere. Several have con
jectured that the horse is being de
tained in some barn in the city until
the affair blows over, and then will
be taken out of town.
The mare was hitched to a black
painted buggy with the back curtain
torn out. Chief of Police Porter and
his assistants are at work on the case.
Notices giving description and re
ward are being sent over the county
and along the line.
Note: Since the writing of the
above item, the horse was found near
the Ashland Meat Company's slaugh
ter house, standing In the bushes,
abandoned.
Charlie Chaplin
The National Hero
One of the five most talked of men
in the United States is Charlie Chap
lin, the nation's most famous laugh
provoker. So popular is this famous
comedian that he recently refused an
offer of $25,000 for two weeks' en
gagement to appear personally at
Keith's Theatre, New York city. Lots
of people say they don't like Chap
lin, but still don't miss the opportun
ity of seeing him every time one of
his excruciatingly funny efforts are
shown. "A Jitney Elopement," that
will be the vehicle of one of his best
efforts', will be shown tomorrow at
the Lyric.
A Mutual Masterpiece, "The Lure
of the Mask," a fascinating story of
Harold McGrath, with special music
arranged by Manager Lawrence, with
an excellent Keystone comedy, is on
the boards at this popular theatre
for tonight only.
Who are "The Gows"?
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Wallace Rogers was in the city Sat
urday to get supplies.
H. M. Coss of Medford was doing
business In Ashland today.
Delbert Jones, a former Ashland
boy, but who Is now a resident of
Boise. Idaho, is in the city visiting
old friends. He is staying with John
Enders.
The mother and rather of Mrs.
W. P. Belluf, Mr. and Mrs. A. T.
Warmoth, from Red Bluff, Cal., are
In the city visiting their daughter.
All have Just returned from a ten
days' camping outing near Long's
cabin.
Ashland Man is
Loser By Fire
Forest fires have destroyed some
300 acres of good timber in Jackson
county so far this year, and among
the losses is that of George O. Van
Natta, who owns timber by the
Muhan and Grainger holdings.
A big fire started some time Sat
urday morning and had a big hold
by the afternoon, as the forest carpet
is very dry and Inflammable. Many
of the big trees were injured. By
2 o'clock Sunday morning, however,
the fire was in control, a fire trail
having been run completely around
it. Some twenty-five Ashland men
were at work. Forest Ranger Grlb
ble was in charge. Meals were fur
nished by Van Natta at the Mahun
house.
Though several hundred cords of
wood were cut there, none was dam
aged, as fire fighters succeeded In
keeping the fire from it. Some rail
road timber land was damaged also.
Other big fires In the county are
located at Butte Falls, Sterling mine,
Applegate district and around Jenny
creek. All the male population of
Butte Falls are at work checking the
flames near there, as some six hun
dred acres are afire, some of which
Is valuable timber.
Ladies Praise
Camp Grounds
Mrs. P. Bottler, agent of the Old
Faithful Camping Company of Yel
lowstone National Park, and Mrs. E.
A. Carr, her traveling companion,
spent some days in Ashland last
week, looking over the development
work being donn here.
The two ladles hired an auto and
made two trips to the Hthia springs
and through the camp grounds, high
drive, etc. Upon being shown the
camp grounds she remarked enthusi
astically that it was the best thing
she had ever seen, and said that she
could always sing Ashland's praises
for the city's generosity to campers,
if, .or no other reason. She devel
oped quite a liking for the lithia wa
ter, and announced her Intentions to
the Tidings to return some time in
the near future and make this her
home. Indeed, while she was here
this time she looked over some of
Ashland's property.
Mrs. P. Bottler is especially quali
fled to talk about camp grounds and
camp ground equipment, as she is the
representative of the Yellowstone
Camp Ground Company. She was
more than enthusiastic about the
park improvements and the whole
general plan of making Ashland fam
ous through her mineral waters, and
she made splendid predictions for
Ashland's future.
Peach Week
In Two States
By proclamation of the governors
of two states, the week beginning
August 30 will be "Peach Week" In
Oregon and Washington. Every one
is urged to buy the delicious fruit by
the box, and eat, can, pickle and pre
serve them.
Owing to the peach crop of the
United States being the heaviest in
years, there has been little eastern
demand for the Oregon and Wash
ington product. Unless the fruit can
be disposed of in some manner the
growers face a tremendous loss.
Even though most of the remain
ing crop is sold during peach week,
it is said the growers will scarcely
realize the cost of production on ac
count of the low prices.
Oriole Mine
WiU Operate
The Oriole mine, one of the rich
est properties in southern Oregon,
will begin operations within a short
time, says the Medford Sun. It Is
said that thousands of tons of ore
are In sight. The mine was recently
Involved in litigation, causing It to
close down, and it has not been oper
ated of late. At a recent receivers
(.ale the Ohio stockholders made an
offer to redeem the property, paying
off all claims against it, and put the
mine in operation. The new arrange
ment will place the mine upon a Bolid
financial basis, it is said, and remove
it from the, litigation that has tied it
up for the past few years.
Varied Matters Come
Before City Council
City council convened at about
7:30 Thursday evening, with all
councilmen present with the excep
tion of Mr. Cunningham.
The matter of establishing hitch
rai.'ks on Third street near Main came ;
up, and waH referred to the street
committeo with power to act.
The matter of free water to Chau
tauqua park was brought up, and the
report of the committee on such read,
the results of which are found at
length elsewhere in this paper.
The matter of the gasoline pump
of Thomas H. Simpson, which is lo
cated on the sidewalk, was the next
bone of contention. Unfortunately
he had installed the pump without ap
plying to the council, through a mis
understanding, and the present loca
tion was not very satisfactory, as it
incurred a good deal of danger
through the narrowing of the already
narrow street. It was also a strict
violation of the ordinance to have
same erected without applying to the
council. This, however, was due to
a misunderstanding. It was' brought
out that with a wagon standing in
front of the corner grocery, and with
. or hoinir fillpri im t Slmnson's.
the street was narrowed very much.
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Mayor Johnson thought that If It,
were moved north about twenty feet;
It would eliminate the danger of peo
pie crossing in front of a car, with
the liability of stepping out on the
other Bide just in front of an oncom
ing car. He cited numerous cases
where people had walked back or In
front of a car and, not seeing an un
coming auto, had been run down. If
it were moved back it would give
people an opportunity to see both
ways as It would be far enough away
from the crossing. The matter of
the pump and its location was left to
the proper committee,
Strickland applied for a vacation,
and the matter was referred to the
electric light committee with power
to act.
Councilman Ashcraft announced
that the water meters that had been
sent to them some six months ago
by an eastern concern for testing on
the city system had been given a
thorough trial, and were found to be
exceedingly satisfactory. These are
the first water meters that have ever
been able to work on the Ashland
Fruit Premiums
For County Fair
The directors of the Jackson Coun
ty Fair to be held in Medford Sep
tember 8 to 11 desire to call special
attention of the horticulturists to the
premiums offered on all kinds of
fruits, and desire to state that the
premiums are higher than those of
fered by the state fair and in most
Instances are double.
Some of the fruit premiums at our
county fair are:
General display fruits, $15, $10,
$3.
Apples, general display, three vari
eties of one box each, $15 and $10.
Display on plates, $5 and $3. Single
box exhibits, $5 and $3, and $3 and
$1. Single plate exhibits, $3 and $2,
$2 and $1, and $1.50 and $1. Larg
est apple, $1.50 and $1.
For pears, general display, $15 and
$10. Single box exhibits, $4 and
$2.50. Display on paltes, $5 and $3,
single plates $2 and $1.
Largest pear, $2 and $1.
Peaches, general display $5 and
$3. Display on plates, $3 and $2.
Single plate exhibits, $2 and $1.
Largest peach, $1.50 and $1.
The plate exhibits for prunes, figs,
quinces, nectarines, apricots, plums
are $2 and $1; for nuts and grapes,
$1 and 50c, with $5 and $3 for bas
ket display of grapes and $3 and $C
for best display of grapes on plates.
In addition to the premiums of
fered for the largest apple, pear and
peach by the county fair, the Panama
Pacific exposition offers $5 for the
largest specimen each of the above,
the fruit shown at the county fair to
be Bent to the San Francisco exposi
tion.
Jim Graham of Fort Klamath and
Arthur Maher of Klamath Falls, the
two men who were brought over here
by Charley McWilllams last week, in
rnnmany with G. E. Jackson, deputy
United States marshal, are now being
held in Portland to appear before the
next federal grand Jury, to answer
the charge of selling liquor to Indi
ans.
system, on account of the mica sedi
ment In the water. The eastern con
cern have been working on the prob
lem for some years, with a satisfac
tory result. The meters were or
dered to be sent back, with a letter
of recommendation for them to the
company. In the future, if water me
ters nre ever to be installed, these
meters would be found to be very
practical.
Three transformers, that had been
bought several years ago so that the
city might connect up with the Siski
you current when It was necessary,
on account of accident to the city
plant, were sold to the Westlnghouse
people of San Francisco for the sum
of $1,100. Seventeen hundred dol
lars was the original sum paid. This
was an exceedingly good price as they
had become so out of date that they
would have to be rewound.
The cemetery committee was au
thorized to purchase fifty feet of hose
for use In Mountain View cemetery.
A clause was inserted in the ordi
nance relating to second-hand and
Junk dealers, providing that no deal-
j er should buy or a minor, unless the
latter could show that he was proper-
!ly authorized by his parents to sell
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such junk ana seconu-nanu guoua.
This was copied directly after the
Medford ordinance.
A proposal was brought up by Mr.
Ware to change the name of Harga
dine avenue, which runs up by the
First National Bank and through to
the camp grounds, to Pioneer Drive,
and the name of First avenue to
Pioneer avenue. Heretofore there
has always been a confusion In the
streets there, as there is already a
Hargadine street. People have also
been confused about where First av
enue left off. This change In names,
when adopted, will make the street
"Pioneer" all the way through, with
only the difference in "avenue" and
"drive." Mr. Ware stated that while
there might be names more appropri
ate, the Pioneer part of It had oc
curred to him to be appropriate as
something to commemorate the hardy
pioneers who first settled In Ash
land. ,
As the final thing before adjourn
ment, the votes of the bond election
were canvassed.
Help Wanted
At Vining Jheatre
"Help Wanted," the Morosco-Bos-worth
five-reel picture based upon
the New York and Chicago success of
last season, will be shown at the Vin
ing theatre Tuesday evening.
When an elderly millionaire who
dyes his mustache, affects rich cra
vats and Is addicted to perfume
sprays, engages a little stenographer
who Is pretty rather than expert, and
then advances her salary on sight,
the little girl had best beware.
But Jack Lalt's Innocent little he
roine didn't know. She thought a
girl in an office was protected by the
same chivalry as a girl In her own
home. She found out.
But youth, In the delightful person
of Owen Moore, rallied to youth and
middle age skulked out the door.
Everyone should see this splendid
picture, as It represents the things
that might happen to anybody's sis
ter. Water Rent Must
Soon Be Paid
Some time ago a report of the city
park commission asked why the city
park Bhould have to pay water rent
and the Chautauqua park should get
free water for irrigation, and the
council immediately took the matter
up, finding that the report was true
and that the Chautauqua park had
never paid water rent since their or
ganization, over twenty years ago.
Last Thursday evening, after some
discussion, it was decided that the
Chautauqua park would have to pay
in the future, and the recorder was
Instructed to give proper notice to
them.
l V Onn. owner of the Opp mine; -
near Jacksonville, was in the city to
day looking for a house to rent. He
is intending to bring his family here, .
bo that his children can attend the
Ashland schools.