Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-04

son county can afford to do anything
else. 1t is plain to me that Ashland
has no kick coming on this public
improvement.
c. w. DeCarlow of Pinehurst: ]
will vote for the bond issue for the
good it will do the entire county.
Personally l believe the route should
go by way of Jenny creek basin, the
pass between the Siskiyou and Cas-
cade mountain ranges. 1t would be
the most serviceable route to both
California and east of the mountains.
NJ. McGrath of Ashland Iron
Works: certainly believe the bond
issue should carry and that the ben
efits to be derived would be well
worthy of our best efforts. 1t is the
least we can do in the face of the
fact that should it fail the Pacific
Highway would more than likely
take another route.
G. F. Billings: Believing there is
one crop not heretofore raised in
Jackson county to any extent, and of
which our soil, water, climate, seen
cry, fishing and hunting combined
would produce a bumper crop each
year, if once planted-and always
sell for the highest cash prich-the
tourist crop-I shall vote for the
bonds.
John F. Rocho: 1t would be a
serious blunder to let the road bonds
fail. The interests of Ashland and
the Rogue River Valley would get
a setback. 1t seems so plain to me
and most of the thinking people that
have talked to that l believe Ash
land citizens will go to the polls and
roll up a rousing majority in their
favor.
R. P. Neil: Bonds should carry
as the improvement would serve the
best interests of the entire county.
The economic advantage to everybody
in every load carried over the road
would alone make it a first class in
vestment. Other conditions appar-
ent to all make it imperative. The
defeat of the bond issue would be
calamity it would take years to over
come.
Benton Bowers: The bonds should
carry by all means. Good roads are
a real substantial investment. The
Siskiyou mountain and the toll road !
are nothing short of disgrace to the |
state and to the county. The bond
issue will connect Jackson county
with the California state highway
and this venture will more than re-
pay the amount of the investment
itself.
G, S. Butler: ] am for the bond
issue strong. l fought the previous
one for the reason that it was not
sound in any feature. Aside from
the advantage of good roads / con-
slider the Pacific Highway of vital i'm
portance, and while I had thought
that powerful influences would wrest
it from us l believe that the conquer
ing of Siskiyou mountain will locate
the highway route.
w. j. Moore: The bonds should |
carry. l have been opposed to such
elaborate public improvements in the |
past, and the attendant Indebtedness.
but have become accustomed to see
ing the benefits that ensued as the
result of permanent work. 1t would
seem in view of what California is
doing in bringing magnificent state
highway from San Diego to the Ore
gon line that Jackson county would
be within the bounds of reasonable
conservatism by hooking up to it.
Thos. H. Simpson; We have solved
the woodhaulers' road and now
comes the motor vehicles and knocks
IT all to pieces through suction. The
motor machines are here to stay be-
cause the people somehow refuse to
slow up. The hard surface road that
carries the motor machine will carry
the other fellows vehicles and l guess
we must keep abreast of the times
whether we care to or not. The bond |
issue should carry.
Hermann Mattern: l am strong
for bonding the county for roads. To |
me it seems clear that building good |
roads is the best possible investment |
it carries it's benefits over a broad
er field than any other. Private cap
ital can develop any of the natural |
resources of the earth but it cannot |
invade your highways. That must be |
done by the people collectively. The
proposition as understand it is very
attractive to the most conservative
mind.
George W. Owen: l am strongly
in favor of the bonds. The present
system of road work is the most
wasteful kind and it can be figured
out to be the most extravagant ex-