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X Southern Oregon News Review Ashland, Oregon Thursday. October 27, 1049 | More of (lie Some Old Brew Southern Oregon News Review Ashland, Oregon 38 East Main Street the Editor Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash land. Oregon. February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879 To the Editor: Ashland, Oregon October 24, 1949 Subject - Timber Sale in Ash land Canyon. * J. Logan White ..... .. ----- Managing Editor The Ashland City Council, at their meeting October 11, 1949, W. A. “B ill” Hemmelgarn. Jr. News Editor went on record favoring the sale of seven hundred acres of the city watershed and park lands on the authority that the Oregon State laws gave cities the right II to sell unneeded lands ÌIT III If the City Council would take the time to read the city chart er a little more closely they will find on page 3 of the charter Flameproof Y’our Future where the city has already ex ercised that authority and sold One of the poster slogans used for this year's ob all unneeded lands; then the reads: PROVIDED that servation of Fire Prevention Week, which ended Oct charter all lands now held or acquired ober 15th, was “Flameproof Your Future.” And there is hereafter shall never be sold; has been called to the attent a great deal more to that phrase than mere catchiness. as ion of the citizens and of Ash Fire has destroyed or marred thousands upon land City Council many times. Let us examine the next thousands of futures. The annual toll of lives is about words prohibiting this sale. 10,000—and many of them are small children. Other ASHLAND PARK LANDS water rights and locate mining CREATING PARK COMMISSI | claims, as the Forest Reserve thousands are maimed and disfigured. One match is ON. (has no rights on this Please turn to Page 26 AR sufficient to cause a ghastly tragedy. Your committee was astund- TICLE XIX, Section 1 of chart Fire’s dark influence on the future is found in er. ALL OF THE LANDS OWN ed that the Forest Service took ED BY THE CITY OF ASH such a narrow view on the defi fields other than the human damage it does. An in LAND (except the streets, alleys nition of watershed lands of adequately insured home or farm burns—and the work and plaza and a few small par Ashland Creek We contend that and ALL LANDS OWNED all the lands from the city limits and savings of years go up in smoke. A factory is cels) BY SAID CITY BORDERING sloping from Mount Wagner on destroyed—and men are thrown out of work, perhaps UPON OR ADJACENT TO one side and the Ashland mou ASHLAND CREEK AND EX ntain on the other are watershed for long periods of time. Taxes are lost, and families TENDING INTO THE ASH lands of Ashland Creek, as all the drainage, springs anil rivu must go on relief. There are cases on record where the LAND FOREST RESERVE are lets are draining into Ashland hereby reserved and forever de economic life of whole towns has died, when fire razed dicated to the people of said city Creek. The city of Ashland turns for park purposes, and shall a certain amount of water loose the principal enterprise and the concern moved else never be sold, leased, incumber to care for the water rights be where. ed or used for any purpose in low the city and within During Fire Prevention Week, practically every consistent therewith; provided The Peoples' Cyclopedia de that nothing contained in this fines watershed as follows: one in the country had the chance to learn simple act to impair or interfere with "Watershed or ‘divide”— a the proper construction or oper boundry or imaginary line of rules that make for fire safety. Now the important ation of the city’s light, water highest elevation between the things is to act upon them—not for one week but for or power system waters flowing away from it on 52 weeks of the year. The sacrifices we make to fire These park lands were dedi either side and draining the cated to the people of Ashland basins of which it is the separ are almost all unnecessary—the blaze which could not on as late a date as the 17th day ator.” have been prevented is a real rarity. The vast majority of September, 1908. The Forest Service mapper of fires simply result from human folly and failure. This act was done for no other labeled the watershed by a small purpose than safeguarding all splash in that vast watershed of We can “Flameproof the Future” if we will. the lands held by the city of Ashland Canyon — o— Ashland. All the lands owned by The Mississippi River has its the city means every acre of source in Minnesota but the vast New Look In Coal Mining those lands authorized to be $old divides sloping into it are class by the Council. Your Forest ed its watersheds. Ask anyone who has never seen a modern coal Ranger, in his speech before the mine how this fuel is produced, and the answer will Chamber, said that the commit visiting the Medford Super probably be. ‘By arduous, pick-and-shoyel digging.” tee visor office were astounded to That answer would have been largely true years ago. know that all of watershed lands but a very few acres-something It is lmost 100 per cent wrong now. like 240-were in the Forest Res Today less than three per cent of the total coal erve. I would remind the Ran production is hand cut. and most of that comes from ger that the Forest Reserve was created to take care of the for small marginal or family-operated mines selling to ests, of its water neighborhood markets. All the rest is mined by mach sheds, preservation prevention of fires, ero ines, which have taken over the heaviest part of the sion and precipitation, for the of the people. Any citi work and greatly increased the miners’ productivity. benefit zen or corporation can go on the Last year about 71 per cent of the coal was also mach Forest Reserve and take out MR. and MRS J. LOGAN WHITE Publishers ine loaded. Great interest is now being shown in huge and incredible new machines which combine all the steps necessary to mining in one continuous operation. The fruits of mechanization have been many. It has helped make possible a better and more uniform quality of coal. It has been a strong factor in making mining safer—U. S. Bureau of Mines figures show the industry’s death and injury record due to on-the-job accidents has steadily been getting better. And, finally, by making it possible for the miner to get out much more coal during each working day, it has been directly responsible for the high rates of pay he now enjoys. In this connection such progress always serves the cause of labor. It is true that mechanization, throu gh its greater efficiency, has reduced the size of the mining force. But the displaced miners have found em ployment in other enterprise, while the 40,000-odd miners who are still in the industry have a far higher standard of living. That is a real achievement. I have often remarked that the Ashland watershed an a wus the finest that I had ever seen, covered us it is with a growth of underbrush and timber, thus u minimum. As an example of this, under our ownership, thro ugh a dry yeur Ashland has had no shortage of water, while nearby cities have had a short age. Under this condition, are we going to send in the wrecker and change for a comparatively small amount of dollars that are soon spent? Your water right is forever protected as it reads • Page 3 of charter. Your Park laud is forever protected from sale, as is on Page 26, Article 19. The people of Ashland can not even sell these lands with out tearing to shreds by amen ding your watershed and Park lands, wrecking the very foun dation of the charter itself. We cannot imagine any Agent of the United States Government buying any land from Ashland with a defective title. I could go to work and sell all the City Councilman's property, b u t when I went to deliver title I would be stalled • the title Is held by them The City Council can sell the watershed and Park lunds but cannot deliver title, because that is held as perpet ual by the people of Ashland. The City Charter, by two iron clad restrictions, prohibits such sale Respectfully, W. McLaughlin Member Ashland Taxpay ers, Inc 330 High, Ashland, Ore. ÂS—' U f From where I sit J o e M arsh Now They're Sitting Pretty Squint .Miller, who's working as a telephone lineman, was telling ms about some birds that got into s fight with his company. Seems a couple of woodpeckers act up housekeeping in a telephono pole. Nobody minded them living there, but they kept pecking nt the wires — causing one short circuit nfter another. Finally, the telephone people — who had nothing personal against the birds—just stopped up the hole where they lived. But they kept coming back At last, the company donated that pole to the woodpeck ers and net up a brand-new one for their own use! From where I sit, we'd all be bet ter off if we wore as tolerant with our own kind as that telephone outfit was with the woodpeckers. Let’s consider the other follow’s point of view — whether I t ’s his right to live where he wants, or to enjoy a friendly glass of temper ate beer or ale when and if h» Cop) right. 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At present Mr. Johnstone says that the four of them can put out about 150 pounds of candy per day, but that as the demand grows they expect to increase the output. At present the product is sold in Ashland only at the Johnstone home and at the Boulevard Market. A wholesale house at Roseburg has contracted for most of the product. It is indeed good to see another industry in Ashland and we wish success to the Johnstones for increasing the volume to where they will employ many people. DON’T DELAY ! CHECK UP today your Fire Insurar Don’t wait until j have a loss to learn tl your protection is i adequate...:., that sor thing has been ov looked.....that your p icy does not fit becat of an addition to yc property or a new mo £age. Call us now. S. C. Jones & Sons BILLINGS AGENCY (Since July 1883) DEPENDABLE tNSURANCE COUNSELORS Comer Main and Oak Ashland Hotel Building Phone 8781 your Long Distance calls is this push-button equipment. 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