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7,
A SH LA N D D A IL Y T ID IN G S
l)artments of city government and of all city appointees. ’ werG man>’ eligible spots not yet ed up Rogue River on the north 1 sonvll’e, a town, then of extreme lem bir and ofl th e 2>th of No
There is no question here where the authority lies o o r r ! claimed> tfae recurrence of farm s side t0 Rock Point where there importance to Southern Oregon. vember following, th e first overt
¡There
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ith grain fields and meadows
where the responsibility
for
any sort of misgovemmeut in 'w were
, frequent,
„
* and . , bearing
, i was an eating station on the road Philjipps and Cardwell lived at act in the Modoc w ar was com
more
P ublished E very E ven in g E xcept Sunday by
the police or any other department rests. All matters of orchards were in evidence, the and a bridg9 over the river, Jacksonville and were now at mitted and for many months all
“ HOME.” W alrad, Myer and I of Southern Oregon seethed with
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ASHLAND
PRINTING
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________________________________________________ I discipline or of complaint relative to the action, of city roads were growing better with Tbere were r.o houses where Gold I lived
at Ashland, but remained excitement, which if my readers
B ert r . G r e e r ................................................................. .............. ........ E ditor employees is referred to the City Manager. And the only many side roads leading to settle- Hni now is and the stage road over night at Jacksonvill
and’ desire it I will presently tell them
George Madden G re e n ............................. .......................Business Manager question that can come before the City Commission is ments th a t were not in sight, a I skirted the foot of the m ountains I were welcomed by our Ashland about.
official city p a p e r .......................................................... Telephone 39 whether their manager should be retained or discharged great state was in its early grow-1 to Williow Springs an im portant friends the next day.
Ashland, Ore., August 2, 1924.
E n tered a t th e A shland, Oregon P o sto ffic e a s Second Class M all M atter
ing stage and sign boards gave Inining camp, and thence to Jack-1
it was now the middle of Sep-
C. B. WATSON.
It centers authority! and consolidates responsibility into ¡«fnrmQHnn
Subscription P rice, D elivered lu City
the hands ot one man, .who gives his entire time to the ¡we could not see.
One M o n th ......
$ A5 city’s business, and who is paid a salary commensurate
A nother Camp
Three Months
1.95
Six M o n th s .......
3.76 with his talent and ability for the job. It is a big job, re- The sun was growing low in
Ona Y ear .........
7-5# quiring a big man and he is paid a salary in line with his the west when we came to a place !-
y M ail and R ural R outes:
more pretentious than any we
I
; responsibility. The Manager is also empowered by law had
On« M o n th .............
seen before. A good house
Lhr>9
...................... ................. ....... *'.............. x ®5 to frame the budget, to publish same for two weeks, and freshly painted, barns, corrals,
One Y e a /
6:60 then h
laid before the Commission and they are free broad fields, stacks of hay, ex
jto amend, increase or decrease any item in this budget. tensive stubble fields from which
DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATES:
Single insertion, per inch ................ ........................................... $ .30 ¡The Manager of the city is in constant contact with the the grain had been cut with stack
yards indicating a heavy yield, to-1
Yearly Contracts:
One insertion a week .....................................................................
.27% [three .members of the Commission and in consultation gether with an orchard in bearing
Two insertious a week ...................................................................
.25 with them relative to all affairs that arise. He is bene and a garden to gladden the heart
D aily Insertion .........................................................................................
.20 fited by their ideas and advice, but they have no power of a hungry man. We concluded
Rates for Legal and Miscellaneous Advertising
F irst insertion, per 8 point line ................................................. $ .10 ¡whatever to determine his final action except by dis to camp near by and feed our
Each subsequent insertion, 8 point line.....................................
.05 charging him from the job. It is a most workable plan horses with fresh hay and, per-:
Card o f T h a n k s ___ __ _____ _____ ___ ,
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1.00 j and arrangement. It tends to promote economy and effi- haps, a little grain. They had
Q tytnaries, per line..........................................................................
-02 %
far and were commencing
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ciency and the Citv Manager who gives the best govern- traveled
to show the result of hardship, j
W H AT CONSTITUTES ADVERTISING
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‘A ll future events, where an admission charge is made or a *i^in at the least expense and with the least friction to Mr. Phillips hailed the proprietor
collection taken in Advertising.
the citizens establishes a reputation that will prove a val- ; and asked if he could supply our
No discount will be allowed Religious or Benevolent orders.
wants and was answered cheer
uable asset to him throughout bis life.
DONATIONS
We advise our sister city to look into this Commis fully in the affirmative. As is us
No donations to charities or otherw ise will me made in advfertls-
ual in such cases many questions
sion-Manager form of government and feel sure that they were
iag or ^ob prlpting-^-our contributions will be in cash.
asked and answered from
will find so many points which recommend themselves both sides. Asked about m eat hei
AVGUST 7
to sensible business men that they will in time adopt it invited Phillips and me into his
COMMIT THY WAY unto the Lord; truBt also In him; and
instead of their present system.—Winfield (Kas.) Daily smoke house; the rest of the boys
he aha.» bring it to pass.— Psalm 37:3, 5.
were m aking camp. Here was a
Courier.
(E sta b lish ed in 1 8 7 « )
Mute Messengers of a Nation
great abundance of splendidly
n an underground telephone
cured meat. We selected a fine
could be heard. Contusion be
ham,
and
then
listed
the
things
B U IL D IN G F O R T H E F U T U R E
cable scarcely th ick er than a
yond description would reign if
A report comes from somewhere in the Rhineland we wanted, bread (w e’d only had
The Ashland resident of a quarter of a century ago saying that wine over a thousand years old is stored there. sinkers cooked by the camp fire
m a n ’s w rist t h e r e a re 2 4 0 0
this unhindered speech, now
doubtless ridiculed the prediction that the Ashland of That’s entirely too long to keep wine, whether in the since we - left Boise and yearned
th read lik e copper wires, each
h u s h e d by s c ie n c e in tin y
for good, old fashioned b read ).I
today would be a thriving, growing little city of six Rhine or elsewhere.
The wife said she had ju s t baked
pair providing a path for instant
strands, w ere voiced aloud.
thousand happy and prosperous people, aud now that the
up a lot and could spare us sev- '
speech.
swaddling clothes of a village have been cast aside and
eral loaves. That sounded good !
An averageof 54,000,000 tele
Ashland is assuming the proportions of a hustling city,
California is reciprocating so far as tourist trade is and we were hungry. We got
T hese highw ays o f the spo
phone conversations speed daily
predictions for the future are not absurd. The fact of concerned. For every dollar Oregonians expend enjoy fresh butter, two gallons of fresh !
ken w ord, buried beneath many
over the wires o f the Bell Sytem.
the matter is it is not unreasonable to believe that Ash-’ ing winters with our southern neighbor, Californians m ilk, coffee enough for supper
and
breakfast,
some
potatoes
and
an A m erican city, are carrying
land’s population will double within the next decade and spend two during the summer seasons.
By hundreds in cables, by dozens
other vegetables. We asked about
it will be displaying proper foresight and good judgment
thousands
ot
voices
sim
ultane
the orchard and was told to go
in the open wires, they travel in
only to build with that thought in view. Particularly is
in and help ourselves. We thought!
ously from office to factory and
And vet the backbone of our civilization is composed about our enthusiastic friend out j
silence side by side, to find voice
this true with respect to our municipal utilities.
of
men
who
eat
with
their
coats
off,
except
when
there
some from coast to coast.
in John Day county, especially j
The Ashland of today finds itself with a water supply
again only at their jo u rn ey ’s end.
is
company.
when this farm er filled a basket I
that is not capable of meeting necessary demands
I t released from their copper
M uted as they pass from tele
with apples and plums and would j
so far as the irrigation of lawns, parks, and gardens are
take no pay for them.
His
carriers, these messages would
phone to telephone, they weave
concerned. Although the city has already taken steps to
Our guess is that Lot’s wife turned hack because she charges for the other supplies j
sound a Babel, in w hich none
the pattern o f the nation’s life.
augment the supply by the purchase of water from the had forgotten to put out the eat, or else had left her fav were absurdly low. We g o t!
plenty
of
hay
and
bought
a
good
I
Talent irrigation district, this will not suffice only for orite hat.
feed of threshed barley. It was
a brief time, and it is well that the present administration
good to see how our jaded stock
recognizes the necessity of providing additional water
went a fte r it. As you may judge
B E L L S Y ST E M
through further development of the flow in Ashland
Let’s turn the old presidential campaign loose, Our we had a jolly banquet around our
camp fire th a t night and discussed
creek. To this end engineers are engaged in making a ears yearn for the sound of the political guns.
O ne P o licy - O ne System - U n iversal S ervice
our crater lake experience.
survey up Ashland creek with a view to constructing a
Eugene Is Reached
series of small reservoirs in which to hold the flood
No man’s ship comes in unless liis ship goes out.
The next day we reached Eu
waters of winter months.
gene city about noon. We cross
ed the W illam ette river on a rope
The Tidings believes it presents the sentiment of a
ferry and saw a steam boat lying
large majority of Ashland citizens in urging city officials
at
the wharf. This began to look
to continue their investigation to a point where they can
, as though we were getting back
give assurance of additional water from that source. It
into civilization. The town had
is almost imperative that the problem he solved at the
about
two thousand, or twenty-
Being a series of Interesting articles dealing w ith early day
earliest possible c te, and it Is important that the plans ' events and pioneer men and women who made history and
five hundred population and
looked business like. Everybody
adopted provide >r the utilization of every drop of j bnilded for succeeding generations.
(B y C. B . W ATSON)
we talked with was optimistic
water that it is possible to command.
about the future. It was my first,
In recognizing that a difference of opinion existed
C hapter Sixteen
born then would be men and wo view of the W illam ette valley and
with respect to securing water from the Talent irrigation
men fifty years hence and the I was surprised and delighted at
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T
he
Scene
C
hanges
R
apidly
as
clearing responded to the efforts its m agnitude, beauty and appar
district it is necessary only to state that there is every
Company today are One Million Dollars a year
W e Near th e W illam ette V al of more than a generation would ent productiveness.
There In
indicaion that within less than ten years Ashland will
greater
than the gross earnings for 1913.
A B eau tifu l Land E m erg represent a splendid
home of dian troubles were over but only
need every inch of available water that comes from that ley.
in g From Savagery to C iviliza plenty and comfort, its inm ates a few years had passed and many
Revenue-producing assets — solid structures of
source and from Ashland creek as well, and it is a patent
tion.
recognized forces in the operation of the actors in the early trials
wood, steel, copper and concrete—now reach near
fact that liad not the contract been negotiated for water
were still there and ready to tell
of a great state.
ly twelve million dollars—over seven millions more
their experiences. We went on
from Emigrant creek and Hyatt prairie that source of As civilization advances into
H og J o in s Com pany
than twelve years ago.
n atu re’s wilds, the recovery is in
supply would have been forever lost to the city.
About the middle of the a fte r to Creswell where we camped for
by the roads th a t are push noon, a lonely hog came grunting the night. The Oregon and Cal
Necessary attention must he given to developing and dexed
In eight years, the volume of electricity produced
ed out fu rth er into the w ilder from the brush at the road-side ifornia railroad had been com
by
this company has quadrupled. Electric energy
augmenting our water supply not only, hut if the city ex ness. The outposts are manned and, falling in behind us, follow pleted to Comstock, a few miles
from the eight Copco power houses operates entire
pects to continue reaping profits from supplying an in by the most hardy and advent ed until we camped near the river south of Creswell. There were,
sawmills, runs mine machinery, irrigates thousands
creased number with electric lights and power it is also urous who m ust have roads to j in an open glade. He seemed con- perhaps half a dozen houses at
Creswell
and
not
more
than
th
at
connect
them
with
m
arts
of
trade
tented
and
accepted
such
meager
of
productive acres, supplies power for domestic uses
imperative that consideration he given to developing ad
at
Cottage
Grove.
This
was
a
and
keep
them
In
touch
with
the
scraps as we could spare him and
and lights the lamps of streets and homes in forty-four
ditional electric power. -Ashland is fort’unate, indeed,
progress of the age. The roads rooted around to fill out his even very beautiful country and was
prosperous and growing communities.
that a municipally owned plant is supplying the major we were on, like all pioneer roads ing meal. In th e morning he was rapidly filling up. The next day
portion of electric power and lights to its citizens, hut were not much more than a trail, still there and greeted us with we passed through “ Paas Creek
the growth lias attained a point where it is now neces but pointed the way to centers friendly grunts. When we start- Canyon” , so named because it wan
sary to expend several thousand dollars annually in the th at were rapidly building. One I ed on he fell in behind and fol- the pass across Calipooie m o u n -;
through which all the ear- j
purchase of this commodity from a private source. With thing I could not avoid noticing, lowed as he had done the day tains,
The demand for hydro-electric power is only in
ly
travel
from north to south had
th at hardy sons of adverture were before. Abut noon we encounter
the construction of a number of small reservoirs up Ash always
its infancy. The California Oregon Power Company
hearty in their greeting, ed a forest fire th a t had crossed to pass. This was the old stage
land creek to conserve the water supply it will be a com royally unselfish • and cheerfully the
already has a definite market for the output of new
road and we had to dodge route between Portland and Sac
When
we passed
paratively inexpensive task to develop additional elec divided th eir possessions with the burning brush and shy around ram ento.
power plants and additional extensions now under
tric power.
needy traveler. They lived and burning logs. This was very em through it the railroad was not
construction.
communed with nature and the barrassing to the hog, who in ef yet completed, though a construc
Ashland now owns its system for the carrying ana lessons they learned tended to
An investment now in the new issue of The
to avoid the fire sometimes tion track had been laid as far
distribution of electricity. It is sufficient to carry the develop th a t hum anity th a t ac forts
as
Oakland,
sixteen
miles
north
j
got several rods behind. On such
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load of several additional power units^ Again, when we knowledges the Fatherhood of occasions he would squeal as of Roseburg, where we camped i
Stock (yielding 7.14% at its price of $98 a share)
consider that it is possible to use the same water again God and Brotherhood of man. though his h eart was breaking, the second night after leaving
opens to you the opportunity of sharing in this
The next day a f t e r ,
and again, it seems that the development of both addi Our host of the night bid us God apparently begging us to wait Creswell.
steady growth.
Oakland
we
passed !
tional water supply and electric power should go hand speed and invited us to stop and for him. W hen, finally he suc leaving
see him if we passed th a t way ceeded in extricating himself from through Roseburg which was the [
in hand and be the next and immediate objective of again.
There is always more than the apparent danger he would most im portant town after leav-
Ashland.
mere words in these sym pathetic sprint up until he had caught up Ing Eugene. That night we cam-*
greetings and partings. The sen with us where he’d fall in w ith a ped at Roberts Hill, a few miles
To make this investment convenient for all of its
tim ents disclosed are such as the grunt of contentm ent and tro t north of Myrtle creek where a
few
houses
and
a
flour
mill
stood.
customers
the Company offers an unusual Savings
experiences of pioneers necessar along beside us. Toward even
ANOTHER EXAM PLE
We
wer
etraveling
through
Ump
Investment Plan.
ily cultivate. If we were to pur- ing we came to the most preten-
Arkansas City has the Commission form of govern sue our inquiry on this line we 1 tious place we’d seen. There was qua valley which possessed a
An initial deposit of $5 per share and payments
beauty differing from all
ment. Winfield has the Commission-Manager form of would discover why th e great a good house and barns, quite a varying
other sections we had seen. This
of $5 per share per month will make you an owner
government. A striking example of the difference in effi N orthw est has so rapidly grown field in cultivation, w’ith hogs, valley, like the W illam ette was
into im portant states. Among cattle and chickens about. Here
in one of the fastest growing enterprises in Southern
ciency in the two cities is now in evidence. Arkansas these
early adventurers were the our hog turned in with a grunt rapidly filling up, and even then
Oregon
and Northern California.
City lias a first class row on between the chief of police cream of many lands. I t req u ir of satisfaction and bade us good- gave evidence of the importance
and the Mayor. The law granting the Commission form ed a hardihood ' to venture and by, saying by his swinish actions it has since achieved. We left the
ot government divided the control of the various depart a deep intelligence to accomplish th at he had got home at last. My Umpqua at Canyonville, village,'
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then of some importance, f
ments of the City between the three members of the Com what they did under such vast j readers will be ju st as able as I even
Many started across to figure out how he had got so We were now following the old
Offices :
mission. Io the Mayor seems to fall the police depart vissistudes.
the great plains as youths ju st far away, and to account for the stage line and met the stages each
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ment. Yet the Commission elects the Chief of Police. This entering manhood and reached i “ hunch” which he evidently had day. From Canyonville our
Roseburg
Medford
Grants Pass
course
was
up
the
“
Canyon”
to
Klamath Falls
Chief of Police decided to dismiss two policemen on the their destination prepared
__ to take th a t prompted him to follow us
the
crossing
between
the
Umpqua
back. We noticed among tha
ground, lie said, of inefficiency. The Mayor declared that ' on the work of statesm en
CALIFORNIA
Cow creek, the same route
Y rek a
D u n s m u ir
this action was purely personal and political and did not As we plodded our way by the other hogs w hat we interpreted as and
now
traveled
by
the
Pacific
high
rejoicing at th e prodigal’s re
endorse the dismissal, so the matter is to come up before side of thi3 beautiful river; list a turn.
way. We fpund no one between
ened to the music it made and
the full commission. If the other two members of the communed with each other and
1
Canyonville and Cow creek and
Scene Changes
I
but
few houoses there. Then over
commission vote with the Chief of Police, then the Mayor with our surroundings, I could The scene was rapidly changing.
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ydurpamners
.
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,
the
Wolf
creek
hills
and
the
Grave
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ould seem to he ( cprived of what little authority lie h as1 not hut feel th at some mysterious The m ountain growths were g iv -1 , ,
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creek
h
l,,s-
camping
wherever
with the police dej artment. And if the Mayor should be ’impulse was directing purposes to- ing way for the grow ths of the! night overtook us until we reach
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sustained by the r ajority of the commission then it ward higher things. We passed valley;' groves of oak, m adrona,! ed G rants Pass. Here was a
Stock and special partial paym ent plan,
an occasional cabin in a small ash, and other hardwood. T h e !
would appear that ihe Chief of Police has little authority. clearing,
stag e' station about a mile east
o
f
our
organization
or noted the choice of continuous forests were surrend- i
In either horn of the dilemma the respect of the citizens a beautiful glade with a musical ering
Name.
to open glades and the h ill-, o> where
. . the
. . city of G rants P a s s
for their police department will he lessened. Here in Win strea mand tried to visualize w hat sides were spotted w ith grassy j n?W i8‘ ? u t there was not a 1* U8e —or mail this coupon
field the City Manager is elected by the Commission and th at spot would disclose a half slopes covered with the sucucu- W ere e present city is.
— today !
cAddresa.
lent
bunch-grass.
W
hile
there
T
,
”
°
m°
ARain
century
afterw
ard.
Babes
un
the law gives him the sole and exclusive control of all de-
Leaving Grants Pass we travel-1
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