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Ashland Has Had Steady a
Consistent Growth
R 'B I J f HRALTH HEWS
For the third time h f the last
few weeks, public health workers
are asked to rally to the support
of appropriation bills In the state
legislature. This time we are
asked to wire at once to Governor
Patterson urging him to sign the
full appropriation bill * for • the
Ooernbecher Memorial hospital
which would have to close Its
doors if be failed to endorse it,
Such a possibility is feared by Dr.
Dillehunt, dean of the State Medi­
cal School and Mrs. Sadie Orr
Dunbar, who sent a telegram to
Dr. Inskeep, county health officer,
yesterday. The hospital, one of
the finest of its kind on the Pacif­
ic Coast. If supported by the
state, equipped throughout by
subscriptions form service clubs,
lodges, etc., and is under the sup­
ervision of the State Medical
School which supplies the .staff,
supplemented by specialists in
Portland.
The Elks Lodge In
Medford has pledged Itself to
raise funds to help furnish one
of the departments, so under the
leadership of Larry Mann they
are sending wires to the governor
urging his signature to the com­
plete appropriation*.
From the day the first patient
was received on August 3, until
the end of December, 215 children
have been cared for In the Doern-
becher Hospital. They come from
21 different counties out of the
31 counties of the state. Out of
the 215 patients, only 33 have
been able to pay the full cost of
hospital care, and 68 have been
absolutely free of charge. Twen­
ty-two rases are committed by the
county Judges, who have paid at
the county rate of $18 per week,
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A View Oui Easf Main la ikd EarlyDdys
The early pioneers of the
Rogue River valley have with
singular nnanlminty and earn­
estness bourns witness to ttto
v sensation with which their hearts
were thrilled, when they first
set eyes upon the fair region of
their dreams,
Those tired and travel-worn
men and women had set out tor
the Pacific shore ea for a land
of promise, and throughout tha
long and terribly wearying Jour­
ney had traveled slowly toward
the setting ssn, intent only upon
reaching the country so often
but dimly described, end from first beheld by the Immigrants at
whence such romantic and charm­ the close of their arduous Jour­
ing accounts had corns.
The ney. The current of {immigration
* desolate never-eadlqg plains, the which, setting at first for the
drouth, the imminence of death vale of the Willamette, had been
from thirst and hanger, and the partially diverted toward the gold
ever-present fear of hostile In­ fields of California, suffered a
dians, weighed upon the souls still further change by the be­
ot even the strongest and many ginning of 1852* when the gold
laid down their heavy burdens placers of the Rogne River coun­
and sank to rest far from the try were discovered andgthe town
goal they had straggled to reach. of Jacksonville was founded.
In the year of Its discovery a
Perhaps there never lived a class
considerable
number of people
of men end women of such a
entered-Oregon,
passing through
strong and self-reliant character
the Rogue river valley the Hue
as those early pioneers.
of travel entering at the head
Mx M onths Trip
of
Bear Creek and following the
After the straits, to which a
six months land Journey across old California and Oregon trail
the most desolate part of north from the Siskiyous down Bear
Amertsa had brpught them, how crook to the Rogne river.
Jackson County
welcome to their vielon must
la 1851 began the settlement
. have been tha sight of tha grassy
-■ plains, the wooded f slopes, and of Jackson'county, or more prop­
tree-fringed water courses
of erly speaking, it then began to
Southern Oregon.
The country be looked upon as a possible
was one of primitive wildness, home for settlers. In the spring
yet of obvious fertility and pro­ and summer of that year three
duction. The wild graaeee grew houses or stations became oc­
In profusion, covering every­ cupied permanently by white men,
where the land as with a gar­ these being the three ferries on
ment of the softest and most Rogue river, namely, Long’s
luxuriant verdure.
The rich ■vans* and Perkins*.
Shortly after, Judge A. A.
soil, as yet unimpaired in fer­
tility, sent np tha stalks to the Skinner came to the valley In
height of a man or of a horse. pursuance ot his duties as In­
Wild berries flourlriied and the dian agent and took up his resi­
clear mouptain 'streams, clear dence southeast of Table Rock,
aa glass, ran, unpolluted by.tha pn
1 a donation claim, supposed to
dirt from mines. The wild deer have been tke first taken in
and elk, grased undisturbed in Jackson county, or in the whole
the open meadow, or sought the Rogue river valley, lor that mat­
His bouse was the first
shads of their leafy *covsrta and ter.
gazed out upon their quiet world. one bailt oa Bear creek and
•The hill tope, now mainly cover­ was a small log structure. With
ed with danse thickets of man- Judge Skinner resided the gov-*
Chealey
sanlta. madrope and evergreen ernment * interpreter,
Gray.
Moses
Hopwood
came
with
brush, were then devoid of
bushoe and trees because of the his family and settled upon the
Indian habit of bbrning oVer the well known Hopwood farm on
surface to remove obstructions Bear creek. Several other set­
to their seed and acorn gather­ tlers came In at nearly the same
ing. in the streams roved tha time, and early ia the year 1&52
trout, the salmon-trout and the Judge Rice occupied the loca­
salmon, a favorite sustenance of tion next to Skinner’s and
brought his wife and small fam­
the Indians.
ily, the lady probably being the
second of her sex to locate per­
Seme scattered villages of na­ manently in the valley.
Mr^
tives formed the only fixed popu­ Lawless possessed the distinc­
lation of tho beautiful Rogue tion of being the first white wo­
Rlvor valley, which were located man settler, coming «fitte time
near Table Reck, on Ashland in 1858.
In December 1861
creek, Little Butte crank, and a Stone and Poyntq took up their
few other potato, where la after land claims at the crossing of
years they struggled manfully Wagner creek.
against
the
incoming
tide
of
Taho Up Clatau
white Bottlers.
At tha upper ead of the valley
Such was the aspect of the
lovely yaHey pf Regue river when the Mountain Henee claim was
Celebrate Coming of Railroad^
consmotetf t o railroad la tffff7 aas« a Mg termal eelehratioa waa
held at Astdsal te eomaseasemte tho event. Hntfread and Mate
relebritlca mat hasa a n . this oeeaaipn aag ffroffff.a »»Iden spoke
which united the Oregon A CMiforni* and the (’nlifornla A Orégon
railways. Both later were soon abaorbed by the Houthern Pacific.
20 feet on a solid foundation ot
cut atone, at a cost of $2000.
In this new building a school
of nine months in each year was
taught by the hast instructors the
country hftordod, from whence
250 scholars In its several depart­
ments, drew their educations.
The next enterprise was the
marble sawmill and ships built
by James H. Russell in the years
1861 sad 1801 for the purpose of
utilising the native marbles ot
th4 country. To Ashland belongs
the credit ot the first marble
works in Oregon south of Port­
land. The sawing department of
this mill was destroyed by fire In
1878,
The Planing mills and cabinet
shops of Marsh A Company ware
projected and partly built by H. ».
Bmery In 1188. In 1874, they
were purchased by Messrs Marsh
and Valpey’ for 81,400.
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N orm al School
Woolen Mllla
Thq Ashland Woolen Mill* waa
originally established by a Joint
stock company, cenalating of 88
members witk J. M. McCall
ft*
leader. It wap inaugnrated la
1888, under-the name ot the
Rogue River Woolen Manufactur­
ing company with J. M. McCall
as president; 0, K. Klum, secre­
tary and John Daly, > superintend­
e n t Tha mill was completed and
equipped with one 'set of cards,
one spinning Jaok, fonr looms,
and some machinery at a moot ot
888.888. It was sold after three
’years to G. N. Marshall and
Chnrlsa Goodehlld' During the
second yeer of this administra­
tion James Thornton became a
partner In the business and in
1878 he bought the entirp stock of
the concern. In the same year
W. H. Atkinson, Jacob Wagner
and E. K. Anderson became part­
ners with Mr. Thornton, when the
name was changed to •'Ashland
Woolen'
Manufacturing
com­
pany.” In 1881 Mr. Wagner
retired and Cept. J. M. MeCaU
again* became interested In the
business.
The planing mill end cabinet
shop of Daly A Co. was bnilt In
1878 at a cost of 83,800. It was
situated at the Junction of Mech­
anic and Heilman streets, and the
power used wee the water of Ash­
land creek, acting on a turbine
wheel. The'proprietors were W.
C. Daly, J. R. Tozer and H. 8.
Emery,
...
Tha ex ten sile, nursery of Or­
lando Coolidge, was established In
1168, and was the most extensive
of its' kind * In Southern Oregon.
It contained almost all varieties
of fruits, nuts, shrubs, flowers
and ornamental trees to be found
on the coast.
The Ashland college and nor­
mal school was Inaugurated In
1869, at a quarterly conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
held at Ashland in June of that
year. Rev.’C. Alderson, president
of this meeting, proposed the en­
taken up and here resided Bar­
terprise. Plans and specifica­
In
1854
the
Ashland
flouring
ron, Russell and Gibbs. On the
Tolman place were Patrick ftunn, mills were built by A./, D.' Hell- tions were made out b f the Rev,
Thomas Smith and Frederick Al- man, BbenyEm lry,- J. B. Eatery J. W. Kuykendall and' a contract
berding.
Thq following white and M. B. N o r r is /a t a .c o e t - o f was closed with Messrs Blake and
persons were residing in the val­ $16,098 and were dedicated, by, a Emery for the erection of the
ley on New Year’s day, 1852: grand ball on * the night ot building. Before lta completion,
Major Barron, John Gibbs, Rus­ August 25 of fia t yegy. These however, funds failed and the en­
sell, Thomas Smith, Patrick mills became the aucleas of the terprise was suspended. d u 1878,
Dnnn, Frederick A(perdlng (R. coming city, which; was now laid Reverend'J. H. Skidmore, by fhe
B. Hargadine came to Ashland ont, with the * mills oooapyiag . the help of many^ friends, completed
In January)
Samuel Colver, southslde of tttq’ gtlasa, aroknd and furnished i th e’building - and
Judge Skinner, Chealey Gray, Which part of the business'of ,the eomme.nced »the, school a s ,a pri­
Sykes and two others residing at town is now bnilt,.and'thq!M m e vate enterprise. Heavy debts^so
Skinners; Moses Hopwood and of the sawmill "Ashland*’ was embarrassed him that he was
two sons, N. C. Depn, Bills and transferred to the] town. ’ Simul­ obliged to turn the school oyer, to
son, Davis Evans and one or taneously with ¡thet.mills, the first his creditors, from whom it was
two others at Evans’ ferry; Perk­ blacksmith, shop. w aa'bnilC bythe redeemed in 18.7 8* by its friends
and placed again under the super­
ins, and probably one assistant. mill company. -J,
Public Library
vision of the above cknrcb as a
Total, 27 or 28 persons, all males.
Quite a pnmber of other build-
college and normal school. Pro­
The public library was organ­
In January 1852, the placers lags were soon erected,', ns > fol-1
feasor L. L. Ifoger, A. "M m was ized in December, 1879. under the
on Jackson creek were discoy- lows; A hotel, by J. R. Foster; a
chosen president.
Unforaaea name of the Ashland library and
ered by Sykes, Oluggage, Popl hptcher shop, by Marlon Tffest- complications, ^owever, arising. It
regdjng room, of which J. M. Me-
and others and there began m g. .ffpl V- carpenter and cabinet. shop,
was soon In the dust of hwbffrifcy;1 Os’ll.’M. Banm. W. H. Atkinson,
tlve progress and development by Buckingham-.aid Williams; a
patrons forsook ft, friends became W. A. Wilshire, James Thornton,
of this county. The seat of trade wagon shop, by Joba «MbMon
and activity was Jacksonville.
^>d a store by ft. 3 , Harg
A great many land claims were
Ashland school district number
taken up In the year 1852, and 5, was bow organlsod pad thq
nearly all the bottom lands of first school w a ste g g h t near the
Bear' creek and vicinity ware resldenoe of Mrs, ftrtt two mites
claimed, and a large number of east of Ashland, by the Bar- My­
settlers had gathered here and ron Stearns. Tha first sc h o o lo f
found occupation.
In thq_Lol- the town proper, was taught Ip
Iowing year, 159 wagons came the house* o f When Bmery ia the
to this valley, via the southern year 1884-8. by Miss U ssle Ander­
route, accompanied by 490 men, son, who later became the wife
120. women and 170 children. of Gen. McCall.
Nothing more of special interest
These pioneers brought 8400
cattle, 1300 sheep. 140 loose transpired uhttl ' Agffl 8, 1858,
when Dr. Sisson' was' killed^ Thia
horses and 40 melee.
Jackson coanty was organised homicide is a datttt page in tha
hy an act of the legislature pas­ history of Ashland,. and cast a
sed January 13. 1868 and its shadow over the edmmunity which
affairs were managed by a board was net easily 'dispelled'. Many
and one of its first acts was tke theories regarding the crime we^S
establishment of a precinct at advanced, bat the- murderer, was
Emery A Co’s, sawmill at Ash­ never apprehended nor thé caofte
of the assassination brought - to dishmrtened and Rogers resigned H, C. Hill, J. P. Walker, H. Tf
land.
his position. Though the case Chitwood, W. H. Leeds, W. Nich­
By 1854 two flouring mills light.
- ,’te naw seemed almost hopeless, the ols and. others were members.
upon Bear Creek were built, one
Ashbtedt ftoase
The Ashland bank was incor­
trustees resolved'to make one
by the Thomas Bros., and the
The hotel know» as the "halt-
porated Feb. 9, 1884 with a capi­
more
trial
sad
on
Angnst
26,
other byH elm an, Emery & Mor­ land House” WM. bulUdn the year
tal stash of $60,800, , The Incor­
ris of Ashland, which later was 1859, by E ben’Emery at a cast 1882, Rev/M. O. Royal A. M., was
porators were J. M. MtCaJl, W. H-
owned and conducted by Jacob pf 83,000, hy whom It.was kept appointed to tke management and Atkinson and H,'B,’Carter.
Wagner. .
tor 10 years and. (ben sold to alace kis Installation the course
Population of tha town In 1864
Jasper Houck Joe J|6OO0.
Of the school was onward and up­ was $6; la 1884 was »8; ia 1870
The first pül^lc t school house
ASHLAND
ward, and the state mede It a was 300 and Iq'18f4 it waa 1000.
was built Iq 1887,on a lo t donated
and probably no town in Oregon
The town of Ashland was in­
of its*normal school a sys-
hy .R. B. Hargajdine. I tw a s ' »g k branch
.
has evinced ’such refined and ele-
corporated October 13, 1874 hav­
substantial frame building 18 by ton».
i l W /»tqd sentiment as .Ashland.
ing then a population of 300.
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i.
The first officers were: Jacob
Wagner, F. W. Ewing, J. R.
Tozer and H. C. HUI, trustees;
C. K. Klnm, .recorder; W. C.
Daly, marshall; and J. M. Mc­
Call, treasurer.
On the sixth of January 1858,
R. B. Hargadine and Pease set­
tled on the land recently known
aa the Applegate farm, but now
occupied by the railway depot
buildings.
On the eleventh of
the same month, Ebon Emery,
Dowd Farley, J. A. Cardwell, A.
D. Heilman and A. M. Rogers,
also came and settled near by.
The first house built was the
dwelling of Hargadine a'od Pease,
The second wag the sawriill built
by Eban Bmery, J. B. Emery, J.
A, Cardwell and Dowd Farley. ■
It was commqnced In February
1$62 gnd finished. June 18 of
that year at a cost of 08,000 In
money and libor, and waa nam­
ed the * "Ashland Sawmill” in
honor of Ashland, Ohio, Mr. Hell-
man’s former home, and also in
Ashland . canyon from Main street an d,th e plasa; ajM>ut 1WW.
sd Flouring Mills, oeeup)te* ,f»e ground bow comprising the
honor of the home of Henry
1. there mills the village af Ashland banged. . The view was token
Clay, Ashland, Kentucky, the ma­
une at the mill awaiting te-un*end Undr. «affama at'newly threats-
jority o f . the company being
It oa <he right waa occupied by a ruraltare ’store an the Drei
VVhigs. The third building w u
t la the rear o f which waa the Tidings ' second < home la Ashland,
the street. In'the> rear of Chit wood's Drug More. The brick hnlld-
the residence of A. D. Heilman
■tldiag.aad th e flunk balidlag, the i latter- ne saplsg« by the Hank
and the fourth that of Bben
iblhad. • Tne. poet office occupied quarters, la «the-Marnale balidlag
Emery.
liltas enrnop'Iff f nnv 8hJh8*t * fkf ' iti»
h ltw lr_
HPA Y*,
• were seat by one organlxatUpi
who whs responslbln for the anil
at eoupty rate. IS eases hays
been able to pay a assail propufr-
tlon of the coat themselves. Tie
average length o t stay In the hos­
pital, Including both medical aad
surgical cases, has been 14 day}.
Discharged pattents are returning
to the out-patient department far
observation and follow np ca n .
The Services of this department
are available also to any other
children who come. The very be|t
equipment has been provided far
this department by the Junior
League of Portland. The members
of the League are also giving
time and service in many wayb,
making nursing supplies, assisting
at the clinics, providing mottfr
service, and training the children
while in the hospital In ha^l
work.
J
Jackson County health workegs
should plan to attend the annual
meeting of the State Tuberculosis
Association to be held in Portland
March 2 and 3.
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Cream of Chicken Noodlo
Hogue Kivep Valley Pear Salad
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Fried Belgian Hare, Country Gravy
Cream Minced Chicken on Toaat
Baked Young ( ’hicken, (Selery Stuffing
Roaat Leg of Pork, Fresh Applesauce
Crecuned Cauliflower
Mashed Potatoes
’ T-Biscuits and
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Butter Scotch Meringue Pie
Pineapple Tapioca Cream Pudding
Fresh Bauiina Sundae
Coffee
Tea
or
Milk
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