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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1917)
ASHLAND TIDINGS Established 1876 ) . Published every Monday and Thursday by THE ASHLAND riUXTlXQ COMPANY (Incorporated) Harvey R. Ling Business Manager Bert R. Greer Editor Lynn Mowat . City EUtor OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER. TELEPHONE 39 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 81x Months Three Months . .. ou Payable in Advance No subscription for le3s than three months. All nub3Criptions dropped at expiration ualeGS renewal ic recolved. In ordering changes of the paper always give the old street address or postofflce as well as the new. ADVERTISING RATES Display Advertisings Single Insertion, each inch 25c Six months, each Inch 20c One year, oach inch 17 He Reading Notices 5 cents the line straight. Classified Column 1 cent the word first insertion, V cent the word each other lnseitlon. Thirty words or less one month, $1.00. Cards of Tnanks 11.00. Obituaries 2 cents the line. 1 Fraternal Orders and Societies Advertising for fraternal orders or societies charging a regular Initia tion fee and dues, no discount. Religious and benovolent orders will be charged for all advertising when an admission or other charge is made, at the regular rates. When no admission is charged, epaco to the amount of fifty lines reading will be allowed without charge. All additional at regular rates. The Tidings has a greater circulation in Ashland and its trade territory than all other local papers combined. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postofflce as second-class mail matter. 1 ASHLAND IS PATRIOTIC Any doubt as to Ashland's patrio tism has been removed. This city will be practically depleted of young unmarried men when the 1st com pany is called Into service. Already probably fifty who make Ashland their home have enlisted in other branches. And the men and women who are unable to fight are show ing an equally ready response to the demands which are being made upon them. The Liberty bond allot ment cf this city was over-subscribed $11,550 and indications point toward a Red Cross donation from Ashland which will surpass even the fondest hopes of those at the head of the work. To us the most gratifying feature of the response has been the "we are ready" spirit which has met the com inittees. In practically every instance the response has, been greater than the amount asked and the workers have been met with open checkbook Instead of an unresponsive attitude, Ashland Is patriotic and will be just 33 ready for the demands of the future. SERVICES ABSOLUTELY FREE. Many lines of business have been complimented for the loyal work they have done in aiding the government in Its groat plan of preparedness. Behind this nil stands one Indus try, without which little could have been accomplished. The newspaper made It possible to spread broadcast over our land in a single day the appeals of the govern ment to Its citizens In all walks of life. The newspapers alone made it pos sible to explain to the nation the plans which permitted the registra tion of 10,000,000 names In a single day. On the newspapers fell the burden of advising the public of the details of the Liberty bonds and educating the citizens to purchase these securi ties. On the newspapers falls the work of informing the people of the Red Cross plans to raise $100,000,000 In the United States. AH of this work Is done freely, cheerfully and without pay. Publishers are probably the only class of men who as a whole are fur nishing their services free to the gov ernment. Is there any other line of business exhibiting the same class of patriot ism? Now is the time to give the publisher credit and not after he Is dead. V- ir.vXAf' babim hmallkjr; hfp goatm7lk S A Pwfmct Foni aU Jar Uwvlui. iff AT LEADING DIUHIITI jfj THE DRAFT SLACKERS Latest figures of registration In dicate that at least a million men liable to military service have failed to give In their names. f During the Civil war many men slipped over the line into Canada. Some will do It now, and claim ex emption there from the prospective conscription act, on the ground that they are American citizens. The tramp and criminal class will be rounded up with gieat difficulty. If questioned, they will always be over 31 years of age. Fellows of this type would never register unless dragged up by the collar and then they would give fictitious names. They are not fearful of Jail sentences and find them handy In cold weather at-least. There are some men who as a re sult of low mentality never do the normal and manly things. They have dodged law and citizenship for years and think they can do It in this In stance. They will find fooling with United States officers is something of a different proposition than deal ing w ith local politicians. It Is up to good citizens to keep watch of chirncters supposed to be slippery, and Inquire If they have registered. Most of these would say they had, thinking that people would not bother to confirm their state ments. . Tint It may be useful to let them know they are watched. Em ployers should Inquire of unknown applicants for work if they have reg istered, and their statements should he verified. A man who will dodge his duty to governmentwlll be of little use to his employer. Also em ployers should ' see that alien help understand the requirement. There are no doubt some who do not yet know about it. A good many hun dred thousands more names can be rounded up. There Is an element too worthless to bother with, who would only be a drag on an army. North Portland chosen by U. 3. department of agriculture as one of the livestock stations for bureau of markets. Is most important llve- ctock market on the Pacific Coast. S. P. company expects to be run ning electric cars to Corvallis by July 4. Why Not Give the That they will be cared for beyond all doubt in case you were taken, by naving your life insured today? Isn't your ability to earn money worth insuring? That is by far your most valuable asset. A policy in the Mutual Life of New York will enable you to protect that asset as you protect all other property. Nothing better in life insurance. Billings Agency Phone 211 41 East Main Street All Kinds of Good Insurance Heard and Overheard tnttnttiHKinffitTttttttnittnn (By Lynn D. Mowat.) Mostly About Policemen and Tilings. t0 more of this corner cutting for the festive Joyrider. "Keep to the right" will become necessary. Ash land is to have husky iron policemen at the corners. It is a great Idea and has many features which recom mend it. If an auto runs Into an Iron post it doesn't make half the bloody mess in the 3treet that it would if tl ran Into a live policeman especially as big a one as Chief Atterbury or some of the huskies he has lined up to act as specials on the Fourth. The Iron post would put up husky resist ance if attacked. Iron policemen could be used In many other ways now that we come to consider the matter. You could not bribe an Iron police man. Bullets would have no affect on him. Every store In town could have an Iron policeman at the front and back door to keep the burglars away. Same principle as a scarecrow. Ashland could boast o "the healthi est police force In the world, every bne having an iron constitution." Talking about policemen, and not Jokingly either, Ashland has the llv est chief of police on the coast. We have a husky stranger's word for it. The other night he observed a tall stranger, attired in overalls and cow boy hat, pestering around down at the station. Just hanging around, and observing everything that went on in a most suspicious manner. Chief A. watched him for some time and kept growing more suspicious of his strange actions. Finally he de cided that he was here for no good purpose and grabbed him. "I'm going to search you," stated Chief A. "You ain't got no right to search me," said the stranger. "I'm going to do it Just the same," replied Chief A. "Go to It, If you are man enough," came back the stranger. Chief A. proved that he was man enough and snaked the stranger around behind the depot so that he could do the matter up right. Nothing in the side pockets of the coat. But look, here are some sus picious looking papers In the inside pocket The plot deepens. With a Jerk the papers were wrest ed from the stranger and opened. They proved to be THE CREDEN TIALS OF A UNITED STATES SE CRET SERVICE AGENT After the stranger could control his laughter and the chief had admit ted that the drinks (soft) were on him, the stranger remarked: "By George, at that you are the only po lice officer on the coast that has been on the job long enough to grab me, and I have sure done some tall snoop ing around In a number cf cities." Chief Atterbury will probably nev er let us attond .another booze-por-Ing-out bee for telling this, but it is too good to keep, folks. Coley Coleman and Harvey Ling and several other young men of the city Including ourself have exerted a wonderful Influenza over the trend of fashion In Ashland by wearing our last summer's Btraw hats. There are so many of us In on the deal that the whole town has begun to think that our hats which are all alike, are the latest thing. This took some tall headwork on our part. But why should we buy a new straw hat every summer If our last year's hat gets through the winter In good shape? Of course If you hang your hat In the barn and the cow eats It, or if your credit runs out at the, grocery store and you run your straw hat through the meat grinder to make breakfast foor, or If you work in a hat store like John Enders does and have to wear a new one In order not to set a bad example, it Is a different matter, but for us common ordinary run of high-salaried mortals to turn our perfectly good hats over to the Sunshine Society or place them In the hen house for the chickens to Family the Assurance lay eggs In Just because they are wearing them a little higher , in JJawall, seems the height of subjec tion to the caprice of fashion. After all, summer hats and summer not. Oh, yes. Our limerick contest will be Judged during the next three weeks and the final results, from which there will be no appeal, will be published as-soon as we are In the army. Then we would welcome hav ing sonenne batter us up a 'bit so that we can get out of doing guard duty. They tell us that some of the girls are wearing half hose. Would some well-informed person inform us whether half hose sells for half price? Conductor Gill is a railroad man and speaks mostly In railroad terms. He is the father of two boys. One day he Invited the minister home to dinner. The hungry boy3 wanted to pitch in, as usual, but Mr. GUI, in a stern voice, cautioned them to wait. The minister bowed his head to re turn thanks. The boys, innocent of what was being done, began to eat before the blessing was half said. "Excuse me a minute," said Mr. Gill, addressing the minister," until I switch a couple of empties." A Portland lady who Is visiting In Ashland was startled a few days ago by hearing the words, "EX STRAW, EX STRAW, EX STRAW' and think- lng the kaiser had been assinated or peace had been declared, rushed around the house, found a nickel, ran out to buy an extra from the newsboy, but to her dismay, Instead, of the newsboy selling papers, she found an old Barred Rock hen had Just depos ited another egg In a nest nearby and was speeding the glad tidings by say ing "Ex straw, ex straw, ex straw." me People's Forum Quicksilver In Jackson County , (By Alvah E. Kellogg) For many years Jackson county has been producing In a crude manner quicksilver for local consumption. Now that this metal Is absolutely essential in the manufacture of flu ru inating caps for explosives the war prices have been an Impetus to in crease the production of this metal, and the deposits in this region are now sought to Increase the supply. In view of the fact that a substitute for the metal In the manufacture of am munition is nearly out of the ques tion, the demand and high prices will rule during the war. Then there is a chance that the demand and remun erative prices will prevail after the conflict Is over, as the metal Is much used In the arts. At any rate, it means the permanent development of the quicksilver Industry In this dis trict. California clnce the early history of the state hasvproduced about 75 per cent of Mie metal yield of mer cury In the United States, right on the border of Oregon. Since the new fields have been ransacked for the metal it has been demonstrated that Go East Round Trip Summer Excursion lares Will be on sale to eastern destinations on many dates in June, July, A-ugust and September. Liberal Stopovers Limit Three Months Enjoy your journey every mile Crater Lake, Mt. Shasta, Sacramento Can yon, San Francisco, Yosemite, LakeTahoe, Del Monte, Los Angeles, Orange Empire, Salton Sea, Apache Trail, El Paso and many other points. For accurate information and booklets, phone, call local agont or write John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Ore. Southern Pacific Lines Have you bought your liberty Bond? ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS is to be raised this week by voluntary and gen erous donation to the American Red Cross, for relief from suffering upon bloodstained battle fields and tearstained hearths alike. What Will YOU Give ? Whatever the amount you can spare will be received here. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK ASHLAND J OREGON 6L.V. CARTER.. President ,W,McCOY Cashifr. the mercury zone extended from the borders of California Into Oregon, and discloses large and rich deposits of the metal, which expert and' gov ernment reports show outclass any thing yet discovered in the United States. The history of quicksilver In Jack son county dates back to the year 1878, when an early settler in the Rogue river valley, discovered cin nabar ore in the Meadows district, 12 mile3 north of Gold Hill. From that time up to 1900 when the dis coverer sold his claim he and others annually distilled mercury from the cinnabar by roasting it in a crude open fuinace. They recovered less than 50 per cent by this treatment, which they disposed of to the local miners, who used it In their sluice boxes to recover the flour gold. The new owner of this valuable deposit lot the property He Idle until ex perts sought tho metal in this dis trict when he. two years ago, era ployed H. A. Ray and G. L. Haff of Gold Hill, the discovers of schee lite in this district, to exploit and develop the property. They exposed the rein at Intervals by audits for 2000 feet, attaining a depth on the vein of 75 feet in several places. Since that time all available space on the extentlon of the vein has been located on, one' corporation now con trols a group of 35 claims contigious to this property, which they are de veloping. This vein is at an elevation of 2500 feet, occurring along a granite sandstone contract, where the gran ite is in part pegmatitic. The miner alized zone Is from 100 to 200 feet wide. It Is not a well defined vein, but is mineralized along an Irregu lar contact, with many faults In the vein. The ore or mass, contains cin- j nabar, native quicksilver, pryite, . gold, zinc, silver and a heavy black mineral resembling meto-clnnabarite. Samples taken from all the audits 1 on this mass assay from $5 to $6 per ton in gold, $5 In silver, 2'4 peri cent zinc, and 1 per cent mercury. ; The rich cinnabar ore appears all through this dyke, and in the hang Through California ! Costs Little More see National Red Cross Week C.H. VAU PEL. Vict Pies. CLARK BUSH Ast Cash ing and foot walls In the form of seams and kidneys. Tho seams are from 6 to 20 inches thick and average 17 per cent mercury. Last year the owner of this mine employed two miners in developing and during their employment they retorted and ship ped 800 pounds of mercury from these scams using a bench of three 6-lnch retortd four feet long., While several miners on an adjoining claim retorted and shipped 1200 pounds, using the same process. Such is the description as to for mation and contents which apply to the va3t mercury producing dyke, which extends from California Into and through Jackson , Josephine and adjoining counties on the north. This dyke makes its first appearance in Oregon in the bedrock of the "49" diggings four miles northwest of Ash land, but the extent of the deposit at this point is unknown, there it is in a calclte vein, These dykes which are very faulty, appear as laterals from the main strike on the west in the Applegate district, extending oa down Into Josephine county and on the east In the Butte creek country. The main vein makes it next ap pearance striking north In the above described Meadows district, with a recent discovery directly north over the Umpqua mountains in Douglas county, a few miles from Tiller post office in a new settlement in th mountains. Mrs; O. W. Long went to Wheat land. Cal., on Tuesday to visit her daughter, Miss Violet Wilson, for a few days. Mr. Long's mother will keep house for Mrs. Long during her absence. Harold Merrill returned Sunday from Berkeley where he has been nttendlng the University of Califor nia.) He is a member of the 1st com pany and will probably remain here until the call. Eugsno Lumber Industry soon to enter upon g.-eat business era. Busi ness of mills has revived after 15 years of depression. WIDEMANN .GOAT-MILK CO. rhiwn t Bl). -. r m San f. -.. C. 4IMIIIIII mi IIIIIMIH