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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1927)
ASHLANI > S ce n ic W o n d e r la n d o f A m e r ic a C ity of Schools, C h u rc h e s, H o m es a n d B u sin ess AMERICAN On. Pacific HigK w a y & S P TCa.ili'oa.d L U M B E R IN G -F R U IT -D A I^ V IN ------- G (S — U C C M I N I N G - F A R M I N G - S T O C K RAISING-FISHING^HUNTING E S SO R TO T H E C E N T R A L P O I N T A M E R I C A N ) ----------------------------- ASHLAND, JA CK SON CO U N T Y . O RE G O N . FRIDAY. FE B R U A R Y 25, 1927 N U M B E R 45 DIST. C O N V E N T IO N K. P. FOR ASHI AND, APRIL 1 POULTRY MEN PLAN L A RG E R ASSOCIA TIO N LOCALS LOSE RAIN DELUGE JACKSONVILLE On April first the Knights of Py Despite inclem ent weather, fifty BOTH GAMES thias district convention will be hi M WORKS HAVOC or Ashland, STILL CO. SEAT more active poultry grow ers of in Ashland. Many visiting knights G rants Pass, M edford and ¡will be here that day and night, and various other valley towns and dis S O U T H E R N PA C IF IC TRA IN S tricts m et Saturday afternoon at M ED F O R D L E A DS IN E L IM IN A some who have not previously visit OLD HISTO R ICA L BOOKS PR O V E ed Ashland. Local arrangem ents are the public library and took action TION C ONTEST. H E L D AL O N G ROUTE THIS FACT. being made for the convention and looking to the form ation of a co-op Damage I s High thsf1 Aihland Is Not Dam aged by Storm, Although Large A m o u n t of W a te r Falls Here. >un- side the High w ater in Jackson county last ing several hours, while rivers and creeks w ent out of their beds, play ed more or less havoc with farm s and cities of the county the first of the week. The new highway bridge at Gold Hill, however, did not go out as reported, although many sm aller bridges were washed away in various parts of the county. H undreds of workers a t the Copco works at Pros pect were unable to reach the place on account of washed out bridges near Prospect on the C rater Lake highway. Many cattle and calves were reported drowned from all parts of the county. Many homes in the lowlands west of Central Point narrow ly escaped dam ages from ti e high w aters. Many small bridges were entirely sub m erged and roads were inundated at many points, and made impassable. Thirty-eight cabins were washed out at M erricks camp. ard iles ker k s W o ri l in History. hi Southern Pacific railw ay men, some of them who have been here with the company for 25 years, de clare the storm has rendered unpre cedented damage to their line and is the worst in history. Slides and wash outs have occured a t num erous points north. The line is also blocked at several points south. The line was out for a distance of 200 yards near Bear Creek orchards, where the grade has been washed out from under the track It is also reported that part of tunnel 13, at the sum m it of the Siski you had slid in. Several huge rocks were on the track near Steinman and various other blockades occured in the south. Ashland was not damaged by the rain storm . Ashland creek was on a ram page, but held its banks, and outside of a thorough w etting, the city escaped unharm ed. On both sides of the city, how ever, damage was heavy. G reen spring road to Klam ath Falls was not washed out, but was very slick. Snow fell on the Siskiyou m ountains but stages made it through. At Jackson hot springs, w ater for an eighth of a mile covered the high way to a depth of three feet, and families m arooned in cabins were removed in boats. The highway was slightly underm ined but not greatly damnged. Tourists cabins at the re- sort were wrecked, and two cars ran into the ditch. While w ater covered the Jackson ville highway for a quarter of a mile from Ross laine west, with Ross Lane itself entirely ruined, w ater standing at the tops of fence posts and Jack- son creek a raging torrent, Jackson ville was feeling the flood which hit over the entire county. Applegate valley was flooded and the w ater coursed down into Jack sonville alm ost at flood stage. Southern Pacific trains were stal- led for 48 hours, standing idle while work crews worked feverishly to re- place trackage washed out by flood. Medford high school closed until erative association of sufficient mag nitude to export eggs in carload lots. Committees of three from each of the districts, Ashland, Grants Pass and Medford, with R . G. Fowler, county agent, as general chairman, were named to lend the movement and to enlist all grow ers of the dis trict in the plan. It is not proposed to organize a new association but to enlarge the present co-operative organization, making it representative of both Jackson and Josephine counties and enlisting the membershop of every poultry ow ner whose flock produces a surplus. The proposal for an enlarged or ganization was accepted and support ed with enthusiasm from each of the districts represented and there was expressed a unanim ity of opinion as to the need, as well as ultim ate suc cess of an enlarged association. The value of poultry products ex ported from this country alone in 102f> slightly exceeded $500,000 but at no tim e was the volume suffi ciently large to perm it shipm ents go ing forw ard in carload lots. Encour aged by the excellent showing, how ever,growers are confident th at if the association is enlarged to include all producers th at carload shipments can be m aintained with regularity, resulting in a m arked increase in prices. The comm ittees, together with Mr. Fowler, expect to launch into the work immediately, and will call an other m eeting of grow ers in the near future. Both Hard Fought One Game Played Here and O ther at Medford A ttra ct Many Sport Fans of Basketball. Last Friday night th e Medford high basketball boys came to Ash land for the first of the two cham pionship games. They were accom panied by Medford boosters in an auto parade many blocks long. The game resulted in a score of 17 to 2!» in favor of the visitors. Laing, M edford center, drew first blood with a basket soon a fter the game opened. A1 Melvin was high point man, with 13 tallies to his credit. At half time the score stood 15 to 2 in favor of M edford, after the lo cal boys had dazzled their bewilder ed opponents with speedy floor work. In the second period, the Lithians came out primed for action and net ted 15 points for themselves. In ability to check local work resulted in a Medofrd victory. A1 P arr was high point man for Ashland, with eight counters to his credit. In a prelim inary, M edford girls’ defeated the Ashland girls, 13-25. The boys’ lineup: M edford Ashland Melvin .................... F ................... N utter Anher ................F Parr Lfiirg .....................C.....................G arnett Anderson G .................... Hill McDonald G ............... Abbott PAY PR O L O N G E D V IS IT H E R E Leedom ........... s Deuw McGee .......... S.... Phipps Four days of visitors— four long passenger trains held up at Ashland, two at Medford and one at Gold Hill— hundreds of tourists and busi ness travelers visting the entire val ley for four days. In Ashland, among the stranded passengers was a big fruit cannery man looking for good prospects, one of the head Standard oil men, m anager of the buying de partm ent of the Skaggs-Safeway stores and several home-seekers. Ashland people entertained the com pany, and on Monday night gave a dance in the Depot hotel. Many of them will go away with a good feel ing for the city. The girls’ lineup: Medford Ashland Allen .......................F ..................... Myer Millard P. Stratton Singler .....................C ..... Swedenburg Demmer ..................C................ Beswick Knips .............. G Baton Singler G ................. Newhry Goss 8.................. Cook Saturday night, Ashland w ent to Medford and played in the arm ory. Ashland lost the game, 29 to 17, but it was a hard fought tug-of-w ar all the way and Ashland’s playing and defensive work was generally com mented on as extrem ely clever. Roy P arr played the stellar game for Ashland. For Medford, McDonald and Anderson played the best game, with Dews, substitute, forward. The contest was a thrilling one ------------------------- * ------------------------- from the spectator’s point of view, C. I. Homes, who lives about seven and kept the big crowd in an uproar miles out on route one was a pleas from start to finish. ant caller Saturday. Su m m ary of Game. The first was not as fast as it schools, due to pupils being maroon- might have been and it was some ed. time before either team connected Basement of the Medford Center with a basket. Idling succeeded in building. Term inal and Medford ho- tels, Federal building and many smaller buildings flooded and were pumped out, after causing damage to stocks. Surf are of C rater Lake highway practically ruined in many places where torrents tore across it all Sun day afternoon and night. Pacific highway underm ined be tween Central Point and Gold Hill. M edford-Jacksonville highway un dermined. Both roa ls still passable. Many residents of rural sections marooned and unahle to leave their ranches, due to washed out roads and bridges. Two Medford camp grounds, built along the banks of Bear creek are Wednesday duo to the inability of washed out with heavy property ten teachers to reach the school. damage when the ir*«k broke ov. F Partial attendance at all e»h*f it-» b-rks- ------------------------- * ------------------------- Lithians Do Entertaining. ------------------------------ * ------------------------------ Stalled Train Passengers Enjoy Hoi- pitality of Ashland Folks. all members will be expected to at- | tend lodge next Friday night when the subject will be discussed S. A. Peters, who is head of the Lithians, Ashland organization of boosters and V. D. Miller, whose ideas of telling them about Ashland run in the same channel, got out in their cars Monday and made a round up of all they could see to help en tertain the stranded travelers at the depot. The result was th at a royal good tim e was had by the visitors who will always have one pleasant thought about Ashland. They, in turn, will tell their home folks, giv ing us a little indirect, but g >o,J publicity. Found in Roseburg Jacksonville Designated a* County Seat in 1852; Capital T hen at Oregon City. (From Daily News) Discovery of historical inform a tion which, on the eve of the erec tion of a court house building in Medford may block such a move was uncovered Friday by a News re porter. Today, plans are made to commence excavating for the new court house building. Discovery th at in 1852 Jackson ---------------* --------------- ville was officially designated as the Mrs. S. A. Dusenberry, who has county seat of Jackson county has spent the past few days visting with come to light, and it is probable that Mrs. Maude Boswell in Central the inform ation will be used by those Point and Mrs. H. H. Elhnrt in Ash who have been opposed to moving land, has returned to her home on the county capital as another ob Sardine creek. stacle to keep the county seat away It rnins in southern Oregon oc from Medford. casionally. The inform ation was unearthed by rainging the first one. At the end George Himes, secretary of the state of the period M edford had a com historical society with headquarters fortable lead with the score 7 to 2. at Portland, and forw arded to the The second quarter opened with county clerks office in Jacksonville. more speed when Ashland caged one According to Mr. Himes’ com foul when Roy P arr dropped it into m unication, the facts of which were the hoop. On the next play he got a gleaned from old territorial archives, basket but Melvin evened it up by a Jackson county was form ed in 1852, m arker. Ashland soon got another before Oregon was yet a state and basket and later repeated. This set Jacksonville was named as the coun the fans wild for the score was now ty sent. tied i) to 9. There was a g reat deal At th at time Oregon City was of fum bling steps and fouling for the* stnte capital. John B. Gaines ap the rest of the quarter and Melvin pointed by President Zachary Tay went out of four personals. The lor, was governor of Oregon and the score at the half rem ained at 9 to 9. territorial legislature, in hennial ses Ashland drew first blood shortly sion selected a large portion of south a fter the opening of the half and ern Oregon and called it Jackson Dew and A rcher beat it one point county, with boundaries extending on converting three free throws— from the Umpqua divide south to two of them on Dew. Again the score the California line and from the was tied but Medford got the lead Pacific ocean eastw ard to the in by one point ju st before the end of terior of what is now Luke county. the quarter. Abbot went out on four Jacksonville, struggling mining personals. The score was 14 to 13. town in the lower end of this vast The opening of the last quarter was selected as the seat of found both team s striving for the domain, governm ent county and the lead and considerable roughness de \ first session for of the court convened veloped, but was held down by Ref September 5, 1853, with Hon. Mat eree Stritm ater. Ashland now took thew P. Deady, appointed territorial the lead and held it until A rcher judge by President Franklin Pierce, caged a long one and gave the lo president. cals the advantage. A rcher found the hoop again and the Medford team Mr. Himes being curator of rel went into a stall with about four ies for the state, had knowledge of m inutes left to piny. During the stall an old territorial digest wherein the Ashland got some free throws hut records were kept, found the above lost her advantage by not converting when previous searches failed to re more than one. The stall was fought veal where Jacksonville had ever hard by Ashland and Medford barely been mentioned as the county scat. escaped from two or three tight Acting on this assum ption, the places. When the gun sounded Med state legislature passed a bill desig ford had the best of it by ju st two nating Medford as the county seat. W hether the discovery of the old points. record will annul the recent action of the legislature rem ains to be seen but it is certain th at those op- j posed to the county seat removal I will make the most of it in attem pt ing to keep Hit) county seat away A in’t from Medford. a’ goinv ta rain The Mighty Little Adv. Mr. Sams had a classified adv one issue of a range for sale. He says I itdone the trick and he sold the I stove. All ads in the American are I read by people the advertiser wishes j to talk to. It pays. no moh ! w » « r V * —» Srf' «■* I m j. . ------------------------- + ------------------------- Mrs. Kester Gandee and Mrs. Raymond Ruger of Dunsmuir, Cali- i fornia. formerly of this city, arc trending the week-end in Ashland visiting with friend* and relatives.