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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner 4 The Jacksonville Miner POEM Published Weekly at JACKSONVILLE, OREGON In reporting what kv ner and hear, we ought to try to describe it exactly as we saw it or heard it.—A. S. LEONARD HALL.... Editor and Publisher MAUDE POOL------ --- — Applegale Editor Address AU Communications to Boa 13< Subscription Ratal, in Advance: Oaa Year____ 4100 Six Month*........ S0< Headquarters: THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY Telephone 162 EDITORIAL BETTER BANKING LAWS It seems strange that a nation with men smart enough to wheedle two million dollars out of the gov ernment cannot work out a system of laws to protect people who trust their life savings to banks for safe keeping. The present situation has illustrated how much our hanking laws lack of perfection. We read the pleas of the administration to bring money out of hoarding, but we read nothing of efforts to pro tect the money after it has been brought out and put into circula tion. The odds are against the small man, and under the banking sys tem of today he has too little chance. A .'aw requires that funds of federal, state, county or munici pal governments shall be amply protected against loss, but makes no provision for the funds of indi viduals.—D. W. Bagshaw in the Zillah (Wash.) Mirror. I Two ears and only one mouth have you; The reason, I think, is clear: It teaches, my friend, that it will not do To talk about all you hear. Two eyes and only one mouth have you; The reason of this must be, That you should learn that it will not do To talk about all that you see. Two hands and only one mouth have you; And it is worth while repeating: The two are for work you will have to do— The one is enough for eating. —Anonymous. ises or boastful claims—is reputed to be a man of character and ex perience and one whose word is en tirely reliable. So when George Porter promises, if nominated and elected, to fill the office to the best of his ability voters can be certain that he will do just that. OLD AGE PENSIONS Odd Fellows hail, stood the old Franco-American hotel. John Done gan’s blacksmith shop and a store were conducted on the present site of the Sparks residence on the comer of Oregon and Pine street. Opposite the resident of Jim Littell stood the old Arkansas livery stable owned and operated by Kubli and Wilson. Mrs Wilson, wife of the deceased, still lives in our city. As the merchants moved from Main street to Oregon or Califor nia street Main street became known as Chinatown and that part also included territory in back of the Native Daughters’ building and the China house occupied ground in back of the meat market up to the next street. At one time Jacksonville claimed a population of 3000 and boasted of having 17 saloons. Most of the stores in those days sold whisky and other drink. Jacksonville was run on a fee system, so in 1868 an election was called to vote a three- mill tax and it was defeated, so things went on as before. Every few days the marshal would arrest some Chinaman, take him before the recorder for hitting the pipe. 1 If not the Chinaman, some woman, or pick up a drunk. In some way daily appeared somebody before “his honor” and contributed to the upkeep of the city and helped pay the officer’s salary. Among the duties of the marshal was keeping the street lights burn ing. In those days street lights were coaloil lamps on top of posts about eight feet high. Every afternoon the marshal would secure his lad der, visit each lightpost, fill his lamp and when night fell go out and light his lamps and at 5 o’clock in the momir.g proceed to put the i same out. Jacksonville was named after i President Jackson, was founded in; the late fall of 1850 and is the third oldest city in Oregon. (Continued from page three) Spring and scrip season seem to We have our millionaires, our bil be rather late this year, no end. lionaires and our poorhouses. We pension able bodied retired officers A VIEW FROM A READER of the army and navy, at the rate As the readers of The Miner do of $2500 to $6000 per year, and not hear me discuss the issues of give them positions at the heads of the day I am going to beg some useless bureaus, at salt. :es rang ing from $3000 to $9000 per year, to express my views. Jacksonville has had some hard and allow the spectre of poverty fights to keep some of our enter and want haunt the waking hours prises. Some of the office holders of our poor old men and women and would-be holders were bom, who have worked and struggled raised and gained here help to put and suffered to make this the them where they are from their greatest country in the world (for friends in the old town and nave rich people) and we call ourselves shown their appreciation by doing civilized. everything against tie town and have no respect for friendship. I hope the voters will inquire in regard to the merits of some of our (Continued from page three) “friends,” as there are candidates on both tickets who are not entitled camp was the scene of bustle and to a single vote in Jacksonville.— busy life. Gone are the days when J. B. W. the people sang: “We are coming. Father Abra Times are so hard now, too, that ham, Jacksonville gamblers are betting Three hundred thousand more.” m credit. Many of the dashing troopers who rode so gallantly in th® re BUT NOT WITH AMATEURS views at Camp Raker away back in the sixties have answered their last “Taxes can be reduced without roll call. May theirs be the honors impairing efficiency of our insti in the last grand review. tutions” says William E. Phipps, If the shadowy form of a trump democratic candidate for nomina eter should stand on the old parade tion to the county judgeship. This ground today, what would the sil most certainly is true, but no doubt ver notes of the trumpet say ? Not little actual reduction will ever re “reveille,” not “tattoo,” not jolly sult without impairment unless ex mess call, nor the ringing, soul perienced, capable men are elected inspiring notes of the “charge,” but to fill the various positions. that saddest and sweetest of all And in the entire field of candi trumpet calls blown over the grave dates for county judge there is just of a departed soldier—“Taps.” one lawyer, one man experienced in matters of law and probate busi-1 (Author’s Name on File) ness. Of the several aspirants for the position just one of them is Nine-tenths of all that goes really qualified, by experience, spe wrong in this world is because cial training or education to cap someone doesn’t mind his business. ably handle the county court’s legal When a terrible accident occurs matters. And that one mar. :<s Wil By J. B. WETTERER the first cry is that the means of liam E. Phipps, for more than 30 The early settlers of the north prevention were not sufficient. years at bar in Jackson county. ern part of the state of Oregon, in Everybody declares we must have a new patent fire escape, an auto And it’s certainly a fine thing going to the gold fields of Califor matic engine switch, or a high-proof nia overland, passed through the that newspapers don’t print popu- present site of Jacksonville. The non-combustible sort of lamp oil. lar opinions of weather men. trail they followed in those days But a little investigation will us is what is known today as the ually show that all the contrivances BY THEIR FRUITS were on hand, and in good order; “By their fruits ye shall know mountain or Gold Hill road, then the real trouble was that somebody them” was, and still is, one of the through Jacksonville to Ashland on didn’t mind his business; he didn’t wisest quotations of the ages. And | what we call today the Jackson obey orders; he thought he knew a it is a mighty fine thought to re- i ville-Ashland road. Some of these early miners or better way than the way he was member as election time draws told; he said “just this once I’ll near. And it also is well to remem packers found gold in the stream take the risk” and in doing so he ber that mature humans are more | now known as Rich gulch in the made other people take the risk, or less set in their ways and do not south end of the city in the late too; and the risk was too great. fall of 1850. They then went to about face often. At Toronto, Canada, not long ago And in this connection The Miner Yreka for supplies and spread the a conductor, against orders, ran his calls attention to the candidacy of news in that city and the stampede train on a certain siding, which re George Porter, Medford lumberman for the new fields was on. The first log cabin in Jackson sulted in the death of 30 or 40 peo and civic official, who has turned his attention to the post of repre-, ville was built in 1851 by a man of ple. The engineer of a mill, at sentative of Jackson county and the name of Fowler. The first brick Rochester, N. Y., thought the en seeks the republican nomination to 1 store was started in 1854 by Davis gine would stand a higher pressure this office May 20. Readers will and company, now known as our than the safety valve indicated, so note, on another page, Mr. Porter’s city hall. Just about the time the he tied a few bricks to the valve political advertisement wherein he building was finished it was partly to hold it down. Result: four work promises, if nominated and elected, destroyed by fire and the brick men killed, a number injured and to fill the office to the best of his building now known as the Native mill blown to pieces. Daughters museum, built by Brun In the city of Columbus an iron ability. Nothing we can say, doubtless, ers brothers, in 1855 was completed vessel fitted out with all means of will add to the already enviable and occupied before the repairs preservation and escape in use on reputation George Porter enjoys in were finished on the Davis building, shipboard, was wrecked on the best- Jacksonville and Applegate pre so has the credit of being the old known portion of the Atlantic coast, on a moonlight night, at the cincts and among the many people est brick building in the city. When Jacksonville was laid out cost of 100 lives, because the offi who have at some time or other dealt with the successful business as a “city” the main street was cer in command took it into his man. He is well known for his fair named Main street and runs in head to have a few ship-lengths in dealings and particularly liked in front of the town hall. Next to this distance by hugging the shore, in Jacksonville for his opposition to was Pat Ryan’s store and on west direct disobedience of the captain’s moving the courthouse several were other merchants. orders. The best ventilated mine in On the comer of Oregon and Colorado was turned into a death years back. H? has not made glowing prom- Main street, just across from the trap for half a hundred miners be- CAMP BAKER Mind Your Business STREET LAMPS, FEES MARKED EARLY DAYS cause one of the number entered, with u lighted lamp, thf gallery he hail been wunusi of. Nobody sur vives to explain the explosion of the dynamite cartridge factory in Pennsylvania, but us that type of disaster is almost always due to heedlessness, it is probuble that thia instance is not an exception to the rule. What is most wanted in this world ’s people that will mind their business; all the «levices, inventions, contrivances you can shake a stick at won’t insure sufety. The real nee«’ is automatic obedience*, pu- tient honesty, non-combustible brains, high proof character. Men that can furnish these are In de mand. Be sure, whutever your dis advantages, however humble your present position, your services will not long go a-begging if you have that fuculty of minding your busi ness. FOR CONGRESS FINDS MINING CHIEF INDUSTRY 1885 TO 1932 I came to Jacksonville in 1885. I found mining the chief industry of th«* country then. I was here for many years and in 1901 I left this country, spent 10 years in the south, then drifted back to this coast in 1912. I went to I a » s An geles, Calif., where I lived until January, 1932. I cume back to Jack sonville to find the mining interest still in the mind and muscle of sturdy miners of today. 1 also found a progressive little paper, the Jacksonville Miner, that was willing and always alert to give the correct and best information that could be secured, which I find to be very reliable. Yours, T. M. REED. PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION A youngster asked his father how wars began. "Well," sai«i the pater, "suppose America <|uarrele«l with England and----- ” "But,” interrupter ‘he mother, "America mustn’t quarrel with England.” "I know,” he answered, "but I am taking a hypothetical instance.” "You are misleading the child,” sai<l the mother. "No, I am not,” he answered. "Yes, you are.” "I tell you I am not! It’s out rageous------ ” "All right, dad," sai«i the boy. “Don’t get excite«!. I think I know how wars begin.”—Boston Tran script. JAMES W. MOTT James W. Mott is one of the out standing figures in the public life of Oregon—a man with an estab lished record of constructive leader ship and accomplishment. A m (Jorporation (ommianionrr As present Corporation Commis sioner in th«* administration of Gov ernor Meier, Mr. Mott has «luring the past 12 months performe«! the herculean job of ridding the state of financial racketwring He has to «late convicte«! every financial out law he has prosecuted, has restore«! the building and loan business of the state to a sound condition and has save<l millions of dollars to the investors of Oregon. As a Ixgislator As a member of the state legisla ture during the past four sessions, Mr. Mott has achieved the unique distinction of having secured, by his own bills, the enactment of every piece of legislation, without exception, in which the districts he represented were interseted. He is the author of many of Oregon’s most important laws and has hail a leading part in the enactment of all progressive legislation passe«! since 1923. What the Records Show Mr. Mott’s record shows not only that he knows what his constitu ents are entitled to, but that he also knows how to get it. The problem confronting those READ STATEMENT OF RECORD putting up the political platforms is AND DIGEST OF PLATFORM IN to make the flaws in the wood look VOTER’S PAMPHLET like knot-holes to the drys and bung-holes to the wets.—Ohio State Paitl adv. Mott for Congress Com. Journal. Wm. P. Ellis, Chairman America spends TIMES AS MUCH FOR SMOKE ? s < d.s for ■ -j ELECTRICITY 'T’HE annual per capita expenditure for 1 electricity in 1929 amounted to $5.00. In the same year the American public spent $16.50 per capita, or more than three times as much, for tobacco. We spent $8.00 per capita for ice cream— about one and three-fifths times as much as for electricity; $8.50 per capita for candy—$1.50 more per person than for electricity. 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