■ , ASHLAND AMERICAN With all our natural resources, (our beautiful spots, our immense tourist travel, our business houses, Oregon schools and a good working chamber _____ of commerce on the job, conditions here are not discoraging to say the least. Let us all work for new indus­ tries and each of us always have a good optomistic word for Ashland. $ 2.00 A s h la n d A m e r ic a n An Independent Weekly Paper Publi.hed at Ashland, (Successor to the Central Point American) PAUL ROBINSON, Editor and Publisher Office at 374 East Main Street BUSINESS AND NEWS PHONE 95 One Year ! The American ! first-class Job Printing Advertising Rates Given on Application Entered a t the Postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, as Second Class Matter, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 JACKSON COUNTY’S WEEKLY P A P E R Member STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Member NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1927 E D IT O R IA L Read and profit by the American. Patronizing helps your purse, helps . . . . . . chants, helps the paper, ads in the advertisers the mer'- , - helps the TWO EXTREMES There are the over conservative . . . . .. people and there are those too apt city. Live and let live and p a tr o n iz in g ! ^ ..jum p at conciusions.” Cities are home people is always good advice. the saITU. way. Both characteristics Read the ads each week in the Ash- are unprofitable extremes. land American. A new factory to locate may find other more inviting fields while the over conservative locality is taking PORTLAND SEEKS CONVENTION too long to investigate and “ think it over,” on a franchise or any contem- plated help. New comers are often An invitation to hold the next an- discouraged a t the individuals of a , .. , „ ,, .. . . city who, in their well meaning, con- nuul convention of the United States . , . . servative style treat the new citizen chumher of commerce in Portland, w¡th suspicion and delay to help his will be presented to the national or- affairs grow while they wait to see ganization by Irving E. Vining, presi- if he “ makes good.” Any business or dent of the Oregon state chamber of individual “ makes good" as long as « . . . . . I they are not operating bad. commerce, who will attend the ses- i _ 1 Then a man or community can be sion of the body in Washington, D. C. .. . . .. , i too energetic in demanding new busi- May 2 to 5, as representatives of this ¡ ness where business is overdone, or suite. The 1928 convention will be asking for enterprises or donations held in November. While he is in the without a thought to the outcome, east, Mr. Vining also will attend The ring leader in boom tactics is the third Pan-American commercial to be »voided. The over conservative __ . ___ . u, . . . always suspicions one in whom it takes too much time will often with­ hold support to a really worthy en­ terprise that might mean very good C. E. GATES ON HIGHWAY returns to a city. There should be a COMMISSION medium point between the two ex­ tremes. Advancement in all things takes a certain amount of action, pep Ex-mayor of Medford Gates, “ Pop' and speed, as well as the solid sen- Gates, C. E. Gates, everybody in sihle decision of conservative think- southern Oregon (especially Ford ers. But in individual business sub­ owners) knows Mr. Gates oersonnly, jects and public affairs it is always and practically everyone in the considered wise to avoid both ex­ state knows that Mr. Gates is a mem­ tremes and act. ber of the state highwuy commission appointed by Governor Patterson this week. Southern Oregon is de­ serving of representation on this im­ CONDITIONS GOOD AND NEW INDUSTRIES COMING portant commission and southern Oregon, in the person of C. E. Gates has furnished a member one hundred per cent true blue and loyal to Ore­ It is not the in te ntion to unduly gon. Mr. Gates is a worker and has boost any prospects or to seem over never been found wanting when there optomistic, b u t Ashland has ju st were any public duties to perform. cause to feel a t ease over conditions. Southern Oregon will benefit by the Ashland is safe, sound a n d su b s ta n ­ presence of C. E. Gates on the high­ tial. O ur sto re s a re doing n good way commission. business as com pared to m any towns the world over. O ur wholesale dis­ trict shows activities and all p r e p a r ­ QUICK TO SENSE THE OPPOR- ing for a big su m m e r business. O ur box factory, o u r planing mills are TUN1TY o p e ra tin g and industries feeling con­ fident. O u r th re e splendid banks rank high in the sta te and the heavy Absence of home advertising in th local new spaper gives the mail or- • deposits show th a t Ashland has con­ «1er houses the chance they are al­ siderable cash on h a n d — probably ways looking for. W henever they more than the a v e ra g e city of five discover by scanning a new spaper » » th a t local m e rc h a n ts are not b id ­ ding fo r tra d e in th e ir com m unity by am ple advertising, they a t once flood th a t com m unity with th e ir own publicity stu ff. They m a intain special b ureaus to keep in co n sta n t lookout . , , . , , for districts neglect, d by local mer- chants, nnd by this means increase th e ir sales by m any thousands of dollars tha t should never leave the home town. Read what the a dve rtis­ ing m a n a g e r of a large mail order house says on the su b je c t: SOUTHERN OREGON OR BOLIVIA The United States bureau of mines has made an appropriation out of its funds which is to be spent for carrying on a survey and in in­ vestigation of recovery methods needed in the production of tin from ores found at an elevation of 12,000 feet in far-off Bolivia, according to a report in a recent issue of a popu­ lar mining journal. This purely • American bureau, which receives its > support from appropriations from Congres, has become interested in this far-away mineral deposit because of the scarcity of tin in America and because large American smelting and refining interests are financially in­ terested in Bolivian tin properties. Years of experimental work and thousands of dollars of American tax payer’s money will be spent In the research work necessary in d eter­ mining the best methods by which Bolivian ore can be worked commer­ cially. When the work has been complet­ ed, Bolivia will profit from the in­ vestments to be made in her owrn natural resources, large smelting and refining interests will profit from the discovery of recovery methods which will yield them huge returns in the production of tin and other minerals and the United States bu­ reau of mines will gain a little ad­ ditional knowledge regarding com­ plex ores th at can be put into text books to be read by those who lack the ability or initiative to make their own explorations into the fields of science. These same text books will then be used as a standard to con­ found the efforts and to nullify the results obtained by scientists whose practical experiments have led them into newer and more productive methods. While all of this effo rt and money is being expended by the United States government, for the benefit of far-off Bolivia, southern Oregon is left to shift for itself with a prob­ lem that is no more difficult and far less expensive to solve. That there is a problem to solve is shown by the fact that reputable miner- ologists hold widely different opin­ ions regarding the contents of many of our southern Oregon ores, d iffe r­ ences that exist largely because our own bureau of mines is wandering far afield instead of attending to the business of making a study of the natural resources a t home. Before spending money to assist in the development of Bolivia and her natural resources, the United States government, through its Bu­ reau of mines should spend a little thought and money in southern Ore­ gon, where a development of a mineral area and its associated indus­ tries will benefit a gre ater num ber of American tax payers.— Southern ' Oregon Spokesman. nut the b y -p m d u c ta to be derived a ttr a c t notice all over the c o u n ­ try ' w,‘l* kn,,wn Ashland mine is " t * ' ' * * to this •ummtr a» wH la« many other mine» .. n e a r »« the CIty 0 u r cn,am*m il an(1 jce owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds. mr>-< gages or other securities are none. _____________ £AUL ROBINSON, Editor and Owner Sworn to and subscribed b e f o r e me this 25th day of March, 1927. L. A. ROBERTS. local papers we immediately flood cream factories are continually work- Notary Public that territory with our literature. I t ; ing ar.d to make a conservative fore Mv commission expires April 20. r.lways bring* results far in excess of cast, one would say that new indus­ 1929. the same effort put forth in territory tries this year will undoubtedly ---------------- + -------------- - where the local merchants use their bring to our city a gain in popula- Send in a news item, or « com­ W al papers.— Roseburg I “ NOT J^h one. S A T I SF IE D U N L E S S 4 7 4 Y O U ARE S 2 4 RIVERSIDE S T MEDFORD. OREGON Lumber i/ Building Material Blox Coal Ashland LumberCo. 384 O a k St. A t R y. C ro s sin g , P a o n e 2 0 It’s the T n*ii,Vrme? i . h*V* as a * has P™“ « mg a st ason bt*foro thorn ever Statement of Ownership, Manage* presented itself, and the fruit ne v e r ment, Circulation, etc., required sta rte d out with b e tte r showing. by the Act of Congress of A u g­ ust 24. 1912. of Dairy fa rm e rs need little except more Ashlnn.l American, published weekly* cows and the chicken in d u stry p r o m ­ at Ashland. Oregon, for April 1, 1927 ises to be one of the biggest factors State of Oregon, for o u r city and su rr o u n d in g coun- County of Jackson. try. Too much a tte n tio n and help Before me, a Notary Public in cannot be given this chicken question and for the state and county as it m* an s much to Ashland. O ur aforesaidt personally appeared Paul Robinson, who, having been large c a n n e ry is p r e p a r in g fo r the duly sworn according to law, de­ largest y e a r in its history, ou r native poses and says that he is the clay fields have a r r e s te d a tte n tio n editor and owner of the Ash­ ¡of interested p a rtie s who will, we land American. "W c have a bure a u whose duty it believe, establish large brick and tile That the names and addresses of the editor and owner is, Paul Rob­ factories here. O ur extensive oil is to read each week the c ountry inson. Ashland, Oregon. new spapers from all over the c oun­ shale fields are going to m ake a big That the known bondholders, m ort­ proposition for onr city industrially try. There is not a paper of any „ „ d not , | one fo r the oj, tha t ¡g h„ re gagees and other security holders, consequence in our tra d e te rrito ry that our bureau dosen't get. This bureau looks over these new spapers and when we find a town where the _ v . _ . . . . . m erchant* art* not a