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About Gold Hill news. (Gold Hill, Jackson County, Or.) 1897-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1912)
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GOLD HILL, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SATi RI > Ù, FEBRUARY 24, 1912 ▼ Ok 14 NO. 42 The Taxpayers* National Bank of Jackson County PEOPLE WILL TAKE SCALPS IN NOVEMBER JACKMON COI'NT Y HTIIIBKI* 111' PROOF OF ILLEGAL ACTIONS OF tXMJNTY OFFICIALS Ituun of Ashland Caudlilalc fur ('oiinly Judge— L f e w t of O u trai Point for County Conmilmloner N one Darr Predict Outcome of Free- ont Ferment— Heats o f Mighty Are Hlutken Y Jackson county politics arc In such * ferment that not even the wisest heads venture to predict either who w ill be the nominee« after Iho prlui arlee In April or who will survive the big slftlng-out at the polls In Novem ber, Charges of malfeasance In coun. ty office have been made and proven by the Gold H ill News, which Home time ago started a muckraking cru sade which many believe has already shaken the ancient thrones of Jack- son county political power to their foundations. Rumors of graft are rife, but as yet no direct evidence ha« come to light. It Is confidently ex pected. however, that the grand Jury session commencing March 18 w ill see something tangible brought out. It Is freely admitted even by those who are under the muckrake that the political battle of 1913 w ill be the hottest ever seen In Jackson county, with disregard of law by ftninty offi cials, Illegal bridge and road contracts and depreciated county warrants as a / e w of the Issues. Antioch Farmer Puzzling Over Good Roads COLD HILL TO HAVE $20,000 Problem Discovers Revolutionary CUSTOMMILL „ Economic Principle LONG-FELT WANT WILL BE FILLED WITH CF-TO-DATE 1920,000 PLANT M. J. SCOTT, a faraier residing in Antioch voting precincct, whose postoffice address is Central Point, Hural Route No. 2, lias evolved a plan of banking and bonding which, if it could be put in operation in everv county of every state in the union, he and his friends believe would provide an absolutely elastic currency obviate panics, and break the grip of the money trust, m other of all trusts, in thirty days. Mr. Scott has submitted W unv dug to whom he lias submitted the scheme has any doubt. An effort will be made to get the plan before the people of Oregon as an initiative measure at the coming general election. The Birth of a Wonderful Idea Mr. Scott frankly admits that his plan did not spring from his brain full-fledged, like Minerva from the brow of Jove, but that it had its inception in, and gradual growth sinc^ the attem pt to bond Jackson county for a million and a half for good roads last September, the issue carrying by an overwhelming majority, later being d e clared invalid by the state supreme court because it was not voted at a general instead of a special election. All but three of the thirty-three votes cast in Mr. Scott’s precinct of Antioch were against the bond issue, Mr. S cott’s vote being cast with the negative majority. Neither lie nor his neighbors could see the wisdom of paying $3 300 - (KX), principal and interest, for the use of $1,500,000 for twenty years, which is what the proposed bond issue ap peared to mean to them, and actually did mean. , r The plan advanced by the Antioch granger was first formulated with the idea of getting money for good roads for .Jackson county at as small an ultimate expense as possible to the taxpayers, but when he had it worked out he found that what lie proposed, if put in general operation, would actually revolutionize the banking system of th e country. ' o .■ How the People Can Bond Themselves Without Paying Interest Instead of issuing $1,500,000 in 20-vear interest-bearing bonds, meaning a total to pay, with interest for j tWCIlty \ eurs at 6 per cent, of $3,300,000, Mr. Scott pro|x>ses to take advantage of existing federal banking law< bv fllzx tA/lAVvln zxl* Jackson county X — A.____ A. I — - 1 1 A a . ° ® • ut Raving r the people of As a result of a conference held Central Point yesterday between Geo. Dunn of Ashland and Con I ««ever o f Central Point, both tentative contend for the republican nomination for county Judge, a compromise was ef fected whereby Mr. Dunn w ill become a candidate before the primaries for that honor and Mr. Leever w ill be come a candidate for county commls eloner. It Is believed In Gold HUI that Med ford Influence, Intent on making the (Continued on last page.) T o z h I v - zh z x w a - ~ ~ ---------- - - - art national bank charter, b or the use ot this money their bank would have to pay n o t h i n g, having the same privileges that are extended to other national banks. The jK-ople, through their bank, would own the bonds them selves, with the assessed valuation of Jackson county, at present thirty-eight millions, and all the great natural resources, agricultural, mineral, timber and water power, together with the industry, intelligence and integrity of every good man and every good woman in Jackson county, now an d forever, back of their bonds, making them easilv the equal of the best money ever minted or printed. How the Principle Will Work in Practice Two-Acre Site Required Which WUl B e Furnished by Local Busi ness Men An amalgamating and concentrating plant with a capacity of fifty to sixty tons of ore daily w ill soon be con structed In Gold H ill, according to the plans, now practically completed, of Mr. and Mrs. W J. Morgan of Port land and others of that city. The In itial cost of the plant w ill be in the neighborhood ot >20,000, and the ma chinery w ill be of the most modern type. The plans Include a cyanide plant, as much ot the ore in the Geld H ill district requires that method of treatment. Tke capacity w ill be In creased as fast as required, and It la expected that the plant w ill ultim ately become one of the biggest ore-reduc ing establishments, using other than the smelting process, to be found in the west. The Gold H ill Business Men’s asso ciation has agreed to furnish a free site for the plant, and steps have al ready been taken to secure the »»m« A most advantageous site w ill be af forded in case the city of Gold H ill purchases the McClure water right and power plant. Just across Rogue river from the city, on which a tenta tive option la held. Two acres of land is required for the proposed plant, and the site, which goes with the power offers plenty of room and a most suit able location. • * Before deciding to locate their plant at Gold HUI the Morgans made a thor ough canvass of the district and satis fied themselves th at practically an Inexhaustible supply of ore is already In sight, carrying values averaging from >4 to >12 per ton. The Morgans and their associates were attracted to southern Oregon by the recent southern Oregon and north ern California mining congress at Medford. MEDFORD WILL H A VE To show how the plan would work out in actual practice, according to Mr. Scott: “ Taking $3 300 000 for a TAXES DISCOUNTED ’NOTHER GOOD SCRAP round number as the amount desired by the people of Jackson or any other county for good roads or other improve IF PAID BY MARCH M ments, it would cost the people in interest alone on 6 per cent bonds, under the present system of bonding and the Hobble Evans and Yonng D ises Io system that was proposed to the people of Jackson county last September, $198,000 per vear. Thus the people would Three Per Cent WW Be ANewed—T a a e t Rattle for Lightweight Honors be, as now, the slaves of the great god Money. On the contrary, under the plan which I propose to the people of In Medford U e U A fter A g r iH . Jackson county and all other counties, the people would have $3,300,000 in national bank notes issued on the bonds One of the best boxing contests ever on which they would pay no interest, saving $198,000 per year on this alone. Such money as is not paid out from I f the taxes are paid before March staged In the northwest Is to be pulled 15 a 3 per cent discount w ill be the laxpayers Bank of .Jackson County for road improvement or other purposes could be loaned to the local ■off by the Medford Natatorlum Athletic given. Taxes w ill not become delin 9 club March 8, when Robbie Evans, Jianks or to others on good security at a low rate of interest. Thus there would be a saving to the people of $198 - quent u ntil afte r A p ril 1, and not northwest’s lightweight champion, (XX) a year in interest that would be paid under the old plan, plus whatever interest was received from money not at that tim e if one-half o f the total meets Young Dixon of Kansas. This used for road or other public purposes. The tables would be turned, and the great god Money become the slave of amount has been paid. In the la tte r is a return match, It being their sec the people instead of their being slaves to it, as they are new, and as they would be to a yet greater extent if such a rase the balance w ill not be required ond meeting, they having fought one until the firs t Monday in October, bond issue as was proposed in Jackson county last fall were put into operation.” of the fastest ten.round draws ever witnessed In any arena a month ago. I t was such a clever and even contest that the Medford fans clamored for another go, so Manager Frankie Ed wards rematched the two boys to meet March 6. It is expected that quite an aggre gallon of Gold H ilt sports w ill Jour ney to Medford to see the m ill, the previous one having been witnessed by a few prominent local men who brought back glowing reports of a good scrap. Socialist Speaker at Medford Anna A. Maley, one of the mos’t w itty and forceful lecturers In the socialist party, also one of the most ’ noted writers of economics on the Pa cific coast, w ill deliver an address In Medford nt Smith’s hall, Sunday after noon at 2:30. Miss Maley Is a college graduate and ably handles the subject of "Trust Busters,’’ showing how non sensical such ’’grandstand’’ polltlca as have boeia practiced recently Is if It Is Intended to fool the American voter. I-atest word received by wire from San Diego Is that S. W. McClendon, who was injured two weeks ago In an automobile accident In that city, Is now conscious at times and th at his general condition Is much Improved. \ How the Bonds May Be Retired at Any Time Under what will probably be known as the Scott bonding system, the people at any time they see fit to retire their bond issue, may do so in the following manner: Assuming the amount of the issue to have been $3 300 000 the people may at any time tax themselves to the extent of $165,000 per year, the same amount that would have I.ecu necessary to pay the interest and maintain the sinking fund on a bond issue of $1,500,000, such as was pro posed last fall, and in twenty years the people would be able to turn the entire amount of $3,300,000 over to the government, it having cost them nothing in interest, i nd they having had more than twice the benefit that tliev ivculd have had under an ordinary bond issue for $1,500,000. At the present assessed valuation of Jackson county approximately thirty-eight millions, an annual levy of four and one-half mills would take care of a bond issue of $3,300,000 in twenty vears, and give a small surplus each year. This levy would be annually decreased bv the in crease m assessed valuation. Having recalled their bank notes to the T axpayers’ National Bank at the rate of $165 - 000 per year for twenty years, or having recalled them all at the end of the twenty years, the people can then return the $3,300,000 in bank notes to the government, surrender their charter, receive their cancelled bonds and go out of the hanking business—if they so wish. 8 The People’s Votes Will Make the Taxpayers’ Bank Possible William J. Scott, who is declared by all to whom his plan has been submitted to be the author of the greatest economic principle since Henry George promulgated his single tax, makes no claim to legal learning He lives in comparative retirem ent in his 1365-acre ranch on Rogue river, 14 miles north of Medford He has read practically no books on political economy or economic questions. He has simply worked out his plan of the Tax payers’ National Bank from ideas given him by the proposed bond issue of $1,500,000 for good roads in Jackson county last fall. He is an ardent good road advocate. He believes th at his plan is the way to get them, and also to solve the financial problem. Assuming that the government under which he lives is or should be of by and for the people and that when his idea is properly brought to public attention it will claim the thoughtful consideration whH’h he believes it merits, should there arise any legal or constitutional barriers against it, Mr. Scott believes that the same will he speedily removed by popular vote, expressed either directly through the initiative or through enactment by state legislatures, or by congress, of laws making the establishment of the T axpayers’ National Bank possible. which la October 7. Miss Frances Smith and Mr. Bert Carter, both of Gold H ill, were m ar ried. at Jacksonville last Saturday, and when the glad news arrived in this budding metropolis there was a chorus of pleased I-told-you-so’s. For all the world loves a lover. Gold H ill being no exception, and that this pretty little romance should have terminated thus happily— Is It exactly right to say that romances terminate at the hymeneal altar?— Is a source of much joy to the many friends of the happy young couple. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have taken up their residence on Foots creek, where Bart Is developing a very promising young mining prospect. The News believes that it expresses the sentiment of the entire community la wishing them a long and blissful m ari tal career, that the proepect turns out to be a bonansa, and that everything else they attempt turns out corre spondingly well. O. E. Blacklngton, manager of the Gold Crest orchard, has deserted hia Galls creek home the past week, the reason being that Mrs. Blacklngton presented him with a ten-pound son and heir at Medford last Sunday eve ning. _ ,