Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-10-14
PROMOTING VS..
DEVELOPING
ONE HELPS BUT THE OTHER
HARMS.
The TRUTH ONLY PAYS
The Man Who Has Been Bitten Is
Worst Enemy Valley Has and VIII
Undo Amy Amount of Advertis-
ing.

In recent issue appeared a report
of a discussion at the Commercial
Club anent knockers and also as re-
CARDS the operations of real estate
which draws anew the
line of demarkation between the de-
veloper and the promoter. AS Mr..
Lamb in speaking of the development
of the Lamb mine said in regard to
the mining industry, SO in regard to
the general community, the develop
er is the best friend, the promoter
the worst enemy. Judge Watson
spoke to the point when he warned
the club that the trouble with the
Rogue River valley is that property
is too high. He quoted Louis Hill,
the head of the Hill lines, to that eff
feet, and J. j. Hill, the father of
Louis, has often been outspoken in
this.
There are men in Ashland today
who saw this at the height of the
boom of two years ago, and who
were so jumped upon by other
members of the club because they
dared to express their convictions
that some have left the club altogeth-
er and others simply pay their dues
and stay away from the meetings.
Ashland should learn by the past
and try to build up, not by getting
new men to buy property at prices
which will not permit of paying in
terest on the investment either in
rentals or productions, but rather
by keeping values where there is
some inducement to increase the pro-
duction of lands or otherwise in
crease the wealth of the city. The
amount of mony in the banks has
shrunk in the past two years, and
why? Largely because people who
came here with money and put it in
the banks awaiting investment, de-
cided, after seeing conditions with
their own eyes rather than through
the glass held by the promoter, that
values were too high and so went
elsewhere, taking their funds with
them. Had prices been more reason
able many would have, probably
opened farms or invested in some
other enterprise that would have
added to the wealth of the commun-
| ity. The success of such men mean
gain to the community, while the
success of men who buy up bis
tract of land and subdivide and sci
at prices that almost certainly pre-
clude success for the man who be
comes the final owner, are a detri
ment.
The story was told the other even
ing of gentleman who overheard
former Ashland man who had gath
cred a crowd around him in depo
in one of the central states and wa
roasting Ashland.
The speaker had needed the ad
vice of a promoter, had put his a
in partial payment in place nea
Ashland, relying on their glitterin
! statements that he could pay on
from the proceeds of his crops. H
had failed and been compelled to los
his investment and sell his house
hold furniture to get away. He wa
very bitter and will do his utmost
dissuade others who are inclined
seek the Rogue River valley.
One such man can undo the valu
of a large amount of boosting, an
the true friends of the communit
should frown upon every attempt t
sell property at prices that it came
be made to pay out just as strongi
as they would upon an attempt
swindle citizens of Ashland wit
worthless mining stock.
Ashland has good future befoI
it, but to succeed it must be an hol
est future. There is, as one man sal
at the Commercial Club, plenty {
good things that can be said trutl
fully, but in the desire to make
sale men have been known to at lea
render the truth so elastic that the
hurt by the rebound and the city ca
do the same.
Prosperity to stand must be base
on more dollars earned, and mo-
produce raised, not upon advances
the price of property which must
lost by the buyer.
Let us all work for the solid pro
perity of Ashland and not for Il
apparent prosperity which com
from the unloading of property
prices that mean loss to the buye
| 1t is no gain to the community f,
| one man to gain 500 at the expen
| of another. The only true gain is {
: increase of the producing power,
: the incoming outside capital. Nett
3 er can come from the sale of proper
!; at price above it's real value.
|; the buyer has invested his all
/; goes away and knocks Ashland.
4 he is a man of larger means he tax
!: his -uninvested capital away and lik
/: wise becomes a knocker of Ashlan
Il Every knock is a boost" on
q when there is no just cause for
/: knock. Every boost is a knock"
/; true when the boost is not based I
Il facts and when il works to the detl