Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-23

pie, ana curing the summer season
accommodates not less than one hun
dred thousand tourists. Her summer
climate is no better than Ashlands
and her winter climate is an hundred
fold worse. Now set Ashland's nat
ural advantages over against that of
Colorado Springs and it will be read
lily seen that we have but to make
the right kind of appeal to the right
kind of people, to build up a resort
here equal to that. Consider how
much more Nature has done for Ash
land than for Colorado Springs. Con-
slider the fertility of our soil, the
splendid medicinal waters, the hot
sulphur baths, the gorgeous foliage
of our mountains, the magnificent
scenic resorts within easy reach, such
as the Josephine county marble caves,
Crater lake, Shasta springs, the Lit
tie Shasta caves, the beautiful horti-
cultural aspect of the Rogue River
Valley, the trout streams of the ad-
jacent mountains, the rich finny at
tractiveness of klamath lakes and
the Lake of the Woods. These all
are ours, sufficient to attract and
hold large population. But the
world knows little of them.
Some people complain because
Ashland has no big hotel. Such are
laboring under a delusion. Success
full builders do not begin at the top
and build down. They do not erect
spire and hang it in midair. They
lay the foundation deep and build up.
Ashland today has more hotel facili-
ties than there are people here to
occupy AS soon as our present ia
cilities are crowded there will be
plenty of money to build more.
When Ashland is made as great a
resort as Colorado Springs there will
be better hostelries here. Let's get
to work on what we have All the
big hotels on earth will not do for
Ashland what her natural situation
and attractiveness have laid the foun-
dation for. Let us get together and
employ the advantages we have to
increase our population and wealth
When we begin to exploit Ashland
along these lines the present existing
jealousy between Medford and Ash
land will cease. 1t will be found that
the increasing population here af-
fords splendid feeder for our neigh
boring town. And they will like us
for it. Moreover, many persons COM
ing will not be ready altogether to
throw aside commercial pursuits.
Many of them will drift down the
valley and engage in horticulture and
in the commercial life of Medford and
the other valley towns. 1t is no
small item to the valley to overcome
the present unjustifiable rivalry be-
tween Medford and Ashland. AS it
is now the outrageous antipathy be-
tween them disgusts hundreds of
strangers coming here prospecting
and they leave the valley because
they are loath to cast their lot in a
community out of harmony with it.
self. Instead of this rivalry the most
friendly feeling should exist. Med
ford is and will always be the COM
mercial center of the valley. Ash
land is and always will be the most
delightful home town. Ashland
should assist Medford in developing
along commercial lines and Medford
should help Ashland exploit her spec
ial attractions. The two towns are
entirely different. They are not in
each others way, and the everlasting
knocking of one town by the other
is as idiotic as it is Improbable to
both. 1t should be stopped. To
properly develop along right lines
good roads are necessary. The great
er population in the valley, the great
er taxable valuation; and as valua-
tions increase, money needed for
these improvements will be less bur-
densome to all. Jackson county
should have a population of three
hundred thousand instead of thirty
thousand. She will comfortably sup
port such population. In truth she
is capable of supporting a half mill
lion better than she does her present
number. If she enjoys the solid and
rapid growth to which she is entitled
it will only be because of the har-
monious attitude of one neighborhood
toward another. 1t is a pin-headed
notion that a community can build
up by attempting to tear down it's
neighbor 1t is as futile to attempt it
as for an individual to hope to climb
high over the PROSTATE form of his
fellow 1t will take a long pull, a
strong pull, and a pull all together
to accomplish the splendid destiny of
this valley, and the communities
should be brought into harmonious
conjunction.