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The Jacksonville Miner
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Ihere is no odier source of energy at any pnee that
will light the house, refrigerate, wuh and iron clothes,
toast bread. run a dock, clean the rug», cool the food,
heat water and provide the world'a finest music tn
your own home at an average cost of about three-
fifths of one rent for each dollar the family spends!
I .Tectnctry u the cheapest thing you buy.
THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY
ELECTRICITY
IS CHEAP!'