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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1927)
ASHLAND Scenic W o n d e r l a n d of A m e r i c a City of Schools, Churches, Homes and Business LUM BERING~FRUIT~ D A IR Y IN G — M I N I N G — F A R M IN G -S T O C K RAISING FISHING-HUNTING ______________________________________________________________ ____ ( S U C C E S S O R T O T H E C E N T R A L P O I N T A M E R I C A N ) ------- VOLUME 2 A S H L AN D , J A C K S O N C O U NT Y , O R E G O N , FR I DAY, CHEMICAL FIRM TO OPEN PLANT WILL UTILIZE WASTE MATER I AL S S U R R O U N D I N G County Men Owners Or egon Chemi cal C o m pa n y St a rt s O p e r a t i o n at T a l e n t ; Di rect ors a r e Elected. B A K E R MAN C O N G R A T U L A T E S ASHLAND WEEKLY PAPER Mr. .1. E. Evans of Baker, Oregon, read a copy of the Ashland Am eri can last week and hurried to the of fice to congratulate the m anagem ent on the appearance and exceptionally good newspaper for a weekly for Ashland. Mr. Evans said “ th a t was the best weekly newspaper, I have seen; your first page article on the presidential campaign was the best expressed and handled the subject from the surest and most direct tru th I ever read.” Mr. Evans f u r ther suggested, “ I hope you continue each week to urge the necessity of separating church and state in poli tics, and keep everlastingly a t it” Mr. Evans, whos. business is in Baker has been visiting nere several weeks. Mrs. Baker and two daughters are living in Ashland to give the girls the advantage of Ashland’s splendid schools. One daughter in ju n io r high and one attending the state normal here. MARCH 11, 1927 N U M B E R 47 I KLAMATH FALLS IS BUSY CITY R E N T ON B U S I N E S S B U I L DI NG S R E P O R T E D TOO H I G H Many Unemployed N o r t he r n Or e go n People Thi nk K l a m at h Falls a Chicago of O r eg on ; Pl umbe r» Still on Strike. We drove to Klamath Falls the The Oregon Chemical company, first of the week. Wanted to see the heretofore operated under a p a rt latest activity of th at much talked nership agreem ent between W. B. of city. Robinson and Gorge Schumacher, has been incorporated under the laws Klam ath Falls is talked of more of Oregon, and begins active o pera away from home than it is a t the tion this week in its fa ctory, form erly city. In northern Oregon everyone ----------- * ----------- the Bagley C anning company, a t thinks Klamath Falls a Chicago. GI RL S C L E A N CITY P A RK Talent, which was recently taken It is surely a busy appearing city over by this company. of ten thousand people. The streets To Wi n C r e d i t i a nd Honor Is Pr ide are crowded, but unfortunately, right The p resent building and railroad of C a m p Fi r e G iris. now about two thousand people on siding will facilitate the construction the stree ts are broke and looking for of the new distillation plants and Lithia park had a genuine surprise lead smelter, to be erected adjoining party on S aturday when twenty a job. The new buildings continually go the p resent plant. Camp Fire girls and four guardians ing up put on a busy air and if the The company is building a t present descended upon it for a spring house plumbers strike is settled there are a washing machine, fo r the removal cleaning. several buildings th a t will soon be of spray residue from fruit, but, be In order to win a national birthday finished. side from this connection with the honor of the group, one of the re Rent is twice, what it should be fruit industry, will confine itself for quirem ents is to help clean up some Business men the present mainly to two raw m a summer reso rt or week-end camping for business rooms. there tell us th at there aree too terials— lead, either as lear-waste or ground. The park authorities were many stores and th a t the business lead ore, and to wood waste the lat willing to use the girls in helping to would be splendid if it wasn’t di ter to be trea ted by dry distillation. clean up cabins and to pick up refuse vided so much. From the lead waste will be pro from the grounds. No event is all Some are discouraged over their duced lead, babbit metal, type metal work and no play made for a polly possibilities of getting two or three sugar of lead, arsenate of lead, etc. picnic lunch and the lunch episode new railroads as formerly hoped for From the wood waste will be p ro furnished some the girls opportunity — but Klamath Falls is a mighty duced chacoal and a few of the basic to learn their fire m aking honors. good town. products of wood waste distillation. - 4 — F or the circulation of money, for The directors of the company will C A N Y O N V I L L E O R E S ARF. excitement, for hope of bigger TO BE M I NE D SOON things and for general optomistic be W. B. Robinson, m ining engineer; George Schumacher, I’h. I)., chemist views by all, it is the best city in R ather slowly, perhaps, but surely, Oregon today for its size or thrice and m etallurgist; Ralph Koozer, m anager Ashland C anning com pany; nevertheless, the development of the its size. The city is isolated in a F. C. Dillard, hydraulic enginorr with vast mineral deposits adjac en t to way, surrounded by mountains, a Canyonville, Oregon, is drawing long ways from anywhere and we the city of Medford. nearer the point where actual metal don’t believe we could ever be P rof S chum acher says; “ Most people have a ra th e r vague values will be taken from the ores tem pted to drive over those m oun idea about the chemical industry. and converted into real cash and tains again, even to sec Klamath They are hardly aw are th a t in nearly within a few weeks, or months at Falls. every article we use chemistry has most, a plant will be in operation ------------------------------- 4 * ------------------------------- played an im portant part. We p re there capable of taking out the OH YF.Z, IT DID SN O W H E R E pare our bread and pastry with b a k values from the ores which are rich ing powder and all the ingredients in gold, platinum, palladium and tin. So Much F or That , Now We will C o n carbonate of soda, phosphates or t a r The Polderwel Reduction com t i nu e to Pl ant Gardens. taric acid, a re the products of the pany, incorporated, of Reno, Nevada, Sometimes we get a little too p re chemical industry. has leased a building in Canyonville “ Generally speaking, the object; to he used as a mill, and the m ach vious. We would have thought th a t of the chemical works is to change inery for testing and dem onstrating beautiful, dry, mild southern Oregon one article into another, creating the ore values has begun to arrive, where we have more sunshine than thereby a higher priced one. It is with other to follow later to put the most of the world, would have snow interesting even for a layman, to ore reduction plant into full opera on the tenth of March. It snowed all night Tuesday night, -'•e how a very low priced m aterial tion. about three inches of it in town and can be tran sfo rm ed into a g re a t Mr. E. Derwent, president of the variety of articles which we use daily company, is now a t Canyonville, di a good many inches in the m oun And here we were planting without thinking where they come recting the a ffairs of the company. tains. from. Let us take sawdust and wood He has had wide experience as a flowers, attending Spring Openings waste for example. If wood is chemist and mining man and has and taking sunny pleasure rides. But treated with acid of one kind, and demonstrated beyond any doubt that it is all over and within another in one particular way, the cellulose he can get values from the Canyon week we will talk of the hot w eather and the trees will bloom and the i- formed into sugar, and the saw- ville ores. stores will have a genuine spring <lust is transform ed into a sweet With a process perfected for e x opening and we will plan for picnics mass of excellent feeding value for tracting these ore values the n - and everybody will be happy. ‘ uttle. It is not nny more sawdust. yonville section promises to bee'1 .‘ 0 But it snowed and we are going The same m aterial will of course f e r one of the biggest mining centers in to own up to it like a good fellow. ment and produce alcohol, and no the West, and the day may not he d"ubt many bottles of ‘g enuine’ im ----------- r * “ far distant which this obi mining j Many Dead in J a p a n Quake. ported bootleg got their birth from town of early days will take on new- Japan received its first accurate alcohol made in Europe from saw life and become a mining town of picture of the extent of the e a rth dust. T reated in a d ifferent way, the vast impo» lance.— Myrtle Creek Mail quake which rocked its southern '■'»me wood waste will produce cellu ------- + ---------------------- provinces Monday night, when the lose and paper. Albany E di to r It S t a t e Head. home office issued a report this morn “ The cellulose can be treated Eugene, - (A .P.) - Ralph Cronise, ing. placing the dead a t 1,790, with again with oth er acids and forms the basis of automobile laquers and varn editor of the Albany Democrat, of several districts in the quake area • shes. It is also made into a sythetic Albany, was elected president of the still to be heard from. Property damage in the rich silk 'ilk and many a damsel’s fine colored Oregon State Newspapermen’s asso mills region of Kobe is inestimable, ciation. George Turnbull, of the de fayon stocking contain nothing else and casualty estimates, including the partment o f journalism of the Uni than chemically transform ed saw dust injured as well as the dead, run as versity of Oregon, was re-electe«! sec ‘‘Again, by dry distillation, a var* high a« retary, Continued on Last Page P Y T H I A N S G A T H E R IN ASH- L AN D F O R C O N V E N T I O N P L A NS District Deputy Rowell and a delegation from Thermopolae lodge No. 50 Knights of Pythias of Grants Pass and a large delegation from Talisman lodge No. 31 of Medford attended the meeting of Ashland lodge No. 117 last F riday night a t Ashland a t which plans were laid for the district convention to he held here April first. The program will be announced at a later date. The southern Oregon district in cludes Roseburg, G rants Pass, Med ford, Ashland and Klamath Falls. Plans are being made for a record attendance from these cities. At this m eeting several applica tions were accepted by re-instate m ent and a general good time was had by everybody present. CARELESSNESS CAN BE CURED DEATHS IN SAN FRANCISCO A LM O ST O N E A DAY. Recklessness Charge More People Killed in San Franci sco in 1926 Alone T h an by all Rail roads of Pacific Coast. San Francisco police and citizens are alarm ed a t the increasing num ber of automobile accidents occur ----------- * ----------- ring on the streets and highways. A U TO S U P P L Y FI RM TO MOVE Last year 126 people were killed, and since J a n u a ry 1, fatalities have Lack of Local P a t r o n a g e Forces Firm averaged almost one a day. to Move to Medford. W hat is occuring in San Francisco J is common to nearly all largo cities. The W estern Auto Supply com Careless driving is inflicting death pany is leaving Ashland. The splendid 1 or injury on an appallingly large corner location will be vacated Sat | scale. u rd a y :; the stock being moved to i That accidents can be prevented is their Medford store. Lack of busi | proven by the railroads. The rail ness is given as their decision to roads m eet the situation by organiza move. The m anagem ent tells us th at tion of safety committees among The all the time they were here, their their officers and employes. Medford store sold to as many Ash com m ittees’ purpose is to eliminate land people as did the Ashland store carelessness by education in safe* and of course, the prices of the dif practices. During the last seven yenrs, the ferent stores were the same. It is the fact that Ashland farm- | Southern Pacific alone has moved ers, adjac en t homes and hundreds 300 million passengers more than 11 in Ashland read the big fu rn itu re billion cum ulative miles, without ads, grocery ads, clothing ads, etc., fatality to a passenger in steam train in Medford and, naturally trad e there accident. In 1926 for each fatality This isn’t so had, it is to be ex to an employe in train and train pect«'1. But a g re a te r fa ct fa r more service accidents, a train was run a disasterous to home industry is the distance equivalent to three times large num ber of people patronizing around the world. Statistics of the In tersta te Com mail order houses. Money to a mail merce Commission show a steady order house goes out of the county downward trend of accidents on all for all time. Mail order tires, furni ture, clothing, yes and even groceries the railroads with each succeeding are a calamity to the home people, y ea r, the direct result of systematic safety work. who pay taxes and give credit. On the other hand, vital statistics W’e are sorry to see the Western show that in 1926 more people were Auto company leave, but business is killed by autom obiles in San F ra n business. cisco alone than by all the railroads ------------------------------- 4 * ------------------------------- of the Pacific Coast, including fatali M. D. F I E L D IS N E W S E C ties a t grade crossings. R E T A R Y TO C O PC O PROP. We hear much clam or of taxing the people for grade changes, but very At a recent m eeting of the little of curbing reckless driving, board of directors of the California which is claiming nine victims on the* Oregon Power company, M. I). Field, streets and highways for every one general auditor of the Copco proper at grade crossings ties, was elected to the position of The* way to re form is to reform . secretary of the company. This ac Automobile climbs anel associations tion takes care of the vacancy caused may well follow the example of Ih e by the appointm ent of I). G. Tyree, railroads, perfec t a safe*ty organiza form er secretary, to the position of tion and eelueate elrivers in safe prac m anager t>f the investm ent d e p a rt tices. The railroaels have greatly ro- ment, a new depa rtm en t recently eluced accielents, anel what they have created for the benefit of the com elone aute>me»bile associations can ele>, pany’s stockholders and customers. by adopting a like systematic meth- Mr. Field has been a m em ber of ■ in elculing \?ith accident causation the < opco organization for nearly ------------ 4 ------------- four and a half years having become Two f or One;. affiliated with this company in The National Farm News, one year October, 1922, and is well qualified free with every subscription to the to assume his new duties which will Ashland American. The* Farm News be combined with his resent position is published every week, a national of general auditor. Prior to his con weekly, large pages, eight of them. nection with the Copco concern h-- Best farm paper puhlisheel, special enjoyed a varied career with the o ffer for ten days; two papeTs f«»r Pacific Gas and Electric company of the price of one. The Ashlnnel Am- San Francisco, the J. G. White En- I'rican is a true boosting local Ash gineerin gcompany of New York and land news weekly. Most petpular other utility and construction com weekly in Jackson county. panies throughout the country. ------------ 4 *------------ ------------- * --------- One hundred per cent of the paid It would aid this city and pay subscribers to the Ashland American every business man if every business are back of its policies and are in was represented by an ad each week sympathy with its e ffo rts for a good in the Ashland American. Even if the j weekly paper. It is the home paper individual ad am ounted to only two and their daily words of praise and dollars a month in space or less, it encouraging com m ents are greatly would put up the appearance at appreciated by the publisher. O ur least and let the world know that Spring Opening bargain o ffer last Ashland had several business houses. Tuesday and Wednesday added many We have the readers. mop- rural readers