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About Gold Hill news. (Gold Hill, Jackson County, Or.) 1897-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1926)
T H K COLD H IL L N IW g , JACKgQN C O U N T Y , OBBGON T H I RHDAY. OCTOBER 21, 192« U ia iu K Y OF COUNTY I »ion of all angles of the matter Io a Hl*.AI REMOVAL ISHl I*. vote of the people of the county without unnecessary delay. The court udopted tin- following Some lime early in the year of 1925 llir county Court, worricil by resolution: the luck of fire protection for the "Whereas, resolutions have*been valiialtle rrcordl of the county, ami presented to tlie county court by the by the large expense to which the city council and directors of the tnxpuyrrx o f the county were being Chamber of Commerce of the city put, such h i jurors witnesses, coun of Asldand, also by the city council ty officials etc. In order to transact and Chamber of Comim rce of the county business, announced thru city of Medford, und also a large the pres» that they contemplated committee of the Jackson County repairs to the present structure. Bur, urging the removal of the coun This notice caused considerable ty scat of Jackson County to a more discussion ull over the county ami u central location, and pledging an lurge number of the people expres curly expression by the people of sed the idea thut the proposed re Jackson County on such removal: "It is tiic opinion of tlie county pairs would not only cost between $30,000 und $10,000 but when com court that further expenditure for pleted would not furnish proper repairs and improvements ,o the protection for the rounty records present courthouse be deferred.” Following the action of (lie Jack- and would not provide adequate quarters for the growing business son County Bar Association, the of* the county, in a few years 11 Chandlers of Commerce of Asldand would be liupernllve to erect a new and Medford, nnd tlie city councils courthouse, in which case the pro of both cities, the city council of posed expenses for additions, al- MedLrd, on the Nth day of Oclober though admittedly imperative, nec of lust year submitted the question essarily woud result in u complete of building a concrete city hall, twice the sire of the present court loss of that much money. house nnd donate same free to the The individual directors of the county for court house purposes for Ashland Chamber of Commerce ut u a period of five years. This meas ri-gulur meeting Monday, April 5, ure carried on the ballot almost un 1025 and the Ashlund city council nt u regular meeting Tuesday, April J animously and the city council stands ready to build u court house 7, udopted resolutions urging the for Jackson County without any county court Io defer action In re- , . .cost to the taxpayers und give them gurd to expending additional money . _ , . . .. free use nt it for as long as they de either for improvements or addi sire. tions on the present courthouse in The question of moving the comi Jacksonvile, und that mutters re ty scut to a central location at Med main as they now are until such time as the people of Jackson coun ford is on the ballot al the coining ty shall have been given an oppor November 2nd election nnd it is gen tunity to vote U| miii the question us erally conceded thut inasmuch ns to whether it would not be advis the County Court w ill have to ex able Io move the county scat to Med pend thousands of dollars if the ford und Io erect a modern court court house remains in Jacksonville, while it w ill be furnished commod house there, A committee upimintcil by the ious cpiarters without any cost if Medford chamber of Commerce also moved Io Medford, thnt the taxpay unanimously adopted a resolution ers with the exception of some in asking thut the proposed additions Jacksonville and the Applegate, will to the courthouse he |>ost|M>ned un lie almost unanimous in voting to make the change. til the people of the rounty have a chance to express their wishes ut on C O t'N TY SKAT REMOVAL COM M ITT E E election. The Jackson County Bar Commit tee compose I of attorneys from d if ferent parts of the rounty, includ ing Ashland, after thoroughly con sidering all sides of the question from the standpoint of actual needs of the county, passed a resolution asking the county court not to ex pend money for further improve ments to the present structure or erecting other buildings, calling at tention to the fuel that a large ma jority of the |x*o|ile of the county, when visiing the court house pass through Medford und travel about ten miles furthc- in order to trans act necessary business at the court house, thereby incurring a loss of time and considerable expense. The resolutions also state that Medford is more centrally located und more convenient to the people of the county, and the removal of the rounty seat to Medford would not only greatly benefit all the people but would be an actual saving of ap proximately enough money in a few years to pay for the erection of a permanent courthouse. E. B. Briggs of Ashland, for the Ashland committees, und bar asso ciation nnd committee members from the Medford Chamber of Com merce went before the Medford city council Tuesday evening, stating what had been done by the direct ors of the Chamber of Commerce and city council ut Ashlund, also the committee of the Medford Chamber of Commerce und County Bur association, asking that the Medford council take some action regarding the matter, nnd submit ted a plan which they claimed had been thoroughly considered and which they believed ns business like and sensible. After thorough consideration the mayor nnd council unanimously de cided to pledge, on behalf of the city, subject to a vote of the people, to furnish free of charge to the coun ty n permanent site for the court house when needed by the county court, if the people of the county should decide to vote the county sent to Medford: also to furnish free to the county suitable temporary quarters for a courthouse until such time as the county court has suffi cient funds raised to erect the new courthouse. / A delegation of citizens, with E. D. Briggs of Asldand as their chair man, appeared before the county court nnd presented the several res olutions, nnd a thorough discussion followed by the members of the eourt nnd the citzens. The court explained the fact Hint the county's business enud no longer adequately he transacted in the present struc ture nnd that some relief would have to be given within the near future, hut that they were entirely willing, if prompt action were tak en, to await the w ill of the people, if the citizens present actually in tended to proceed w ith the submit- Facts About COUNTY SEAT REMOVAL Jacksonville lias made this public statement in a page ad signed by Jacksonville citizens: County court should those who prepared the statement have desired to be fair. "The removal o fthe County seat to .Medford means the ultimate outlay by this County of a half a million dollars for a new court house." I lie County Court has been considering the needs of the County, making plans, talking with architects and contractors and looking over the Josephine County Court He use and other struc tures for many months with a view c f forming an opinion as to what is the best for the taxpay ers of this County. This statement is absolutely untrue as could easily have been determined by consulting the What Competent Contractor Says About Old Structure ITiey have been advised by a competent con tractors that it would be wasting money to re in» die the present court house, as it has served its purpose, having been erected in 1883 and is not fire proof. He further advised the court that it would he far better to build a new court house cither now or in a few years. Why Not Accept New Court House Free Free For 5 Years Offered by Medford? \\ hy not accept Medford’s proposition to build a new structure, twice the size of the pres ent Jackson County Court House and about the size of the Josephine Court house— which the city of Medford recently voted to build and to start work immediately upon the people of the county voting t oremove the county seat to Medford— and to give rent free to the county for five years. Free Site A lso Offered by Medford Medford also agrees that when the county 'decides to erect a new court house the city will give a site absolutely free to the county to be se lected by the County Court. C onvict» S tag ed P lay» Though the first regular theater In Sydney, N. S. W ., won Levey’s Theater Royal. opened by Burnet latvey, a hotel kee|>er. buck of his puhllr house on O rtolier 6, 1X13, some performances w«>re given In n build lug erected on Church hill, erected at a cost of J.'itSl ns enrly us 179R These eurller performances were staged hy convicts who were warned Chat nny Impropriety In the show would canse them to be banlslied to the outlying settlements. T hat w arn ing apparently was heeded, but It wns discovered that the homes of people • who went to the theater were persist ently robbed, probably by other B rit ish penal exiles In league with the players, so the theater wns closed nnd the building razed shortly thereafter. — Sydney Bulletin. F o rtu n a te E x c la m a tio n A friend of Prof. W illia m I.yon Phelps related this odd incident to him : My nephew nnd 1 arrived In Parts at 2 a. m. and later went to the Gare SC I.nzare to get our trunks. We knew no French and the porters at the station could not »peak English. A fte r fallin g to make them under stand w hat we wanted, nty nephew In despair exclaimed : "Oh. b'gosh I" Im mediately a porter replied. "Out, bah gabs; nut, out. hnhgnhz”' nnd soon he brought the trunk. We never knew before that the French language con tains the word "baggage" or how It was pronounced.—Boston Transcrip t Sound C om m on Sent» Between the value of a man's work and the money n buyer w ill pay for a finished article, the capitalist has his Indispensable function. He must sup ply what people w ill find they want, itut thnt w ill not In itself make them want good things. Sir Ernest Beven advises them to save rather than to spend, hut only taste nnd morals enn teach them spending. And when they hove done both, they w ill need to ad just the social organism by some giv ing, which means as much from mind ns from pockets. I f the dues for that are left to the stnte, hundreds of mil lions w ill be thrown away.— Robert Lencourt In the A tlantic Monthly. T h e D o m e td a y Book» When Queen Victoria came to the throne the national archives were scattered In about sixty places, hnt by nn act passed In 1888 they were concentrated In the public record of flee, which now contains records of the chancery, exchequer, various courts, nnd departments of state such ns the treasury, home office, foreign office, w a r office, adm iralty, board of trade nnd customs. Amongst the principal exhibits are the Domesday hooka, thnt are the out come of n general survey of England ordered hy W illiam the Conqueror at the end of 1086.— London Answers. Court House to Meet Demands for $210,000 The County Court has also been informed by a competent contractor that a court ho.ise twice the size of the present Josephine County Court house, which the Jackson County Court believes would be sufficient to meet the requirements of this county for the next quarter of a century or more can be built for about $210,000 or less than half what the committee who issued the Jackson ville statement claimed. W h y don’t the Jacksonville committee stick to facts and not try to mislead the taxpayers of the County. County Court to Erect» Court House Either In Medford or Jacksonville The county court believes that the time has come, in order to meet the demands of the coun ty, to safeguard the records— involving the title to all property— which if destroyed by fire could net he replaced at a cost of millions of dollars, to save the office rent, time an,d expense of the county offices, extra time and expense of the tax payers traveling to and from Jacksonville, paying taxes, attending court and transacting other bus iness estimated to be nearly $50,000 a year— that the wise and economical thing to do is to build a new, modern, fire proof court house regardless of the outcome of the election. The Fuels Are |Thc present court house is not fire proof and cannot he made so without excessive cost. Jacksonville has not sufficient water for fire protection, neither has it an adequate fire depart ment. i Jacksonville has no banking facilities. last bank there having cost the taxpayers over $100,000. Jacksonville has no hotel accommodations. Only One-Twenty Fourth o f Population West of Jacksonville Another reason why the County should not build a new; court house in Jacksonville is because only about one-twenty fourth of the population lives in Jacksonville and west of there. M hy should twenty-three conscience.’ --Washlugton Star. twenty-fourths of the people have to be inconvenienced and taxed extra to please one twenty-fourth. WE SUBMIT THAT THE PRO POSITION OF THE REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY SEAT TO MEDFORD IS THE WISE, SAFE AND ECONOM ICAL THING TO DO. WE ASK THE VOTERS OF THE COUNTY TO— Vote 5 0 0 X YES D a r k y P h ilo to p h y “D o r aln' no such thing us easy money, tf you count In de hard ex planations an’ de wear an' tear on The Paid Adv. County Seat Removal Committee
