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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. Pigi, United Stales Urcucn Foundation
SPARK
OIL STOVES
YOUR OLD STOVE
TAKEN IN TRADE
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& Fuel Co.
890 Oak 8L
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A New Industry For Ashland
This writer was truly surprised a few days ago
when he walked into the Keith Johnstone home at 329
Beach street and found there a bustling home-made
candy industry.
The Johnstone family have for many years dabled
in candy making, for their own pleasure mainly, al
though they did just get an industry under way back
in Iowa when World War II broke out, tightening down
on sugar supplies and forcing them to postpone their
venture.
A few weeks ago the family decided to again start
their home-made candy manufacturing here in Ash
land and have set up in business.
We were amazed at the speed and art of hand
dipped chocolates and almond clusters.
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.
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