Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-13

throb meant expenditure of vitality
not for luxurious recreation and
mere convenience, but for the build
ing of home, country, a nation,
each pulsation representing a stroke
effectual, hitting the nail on the
head" Every one with sleeves
rolled and hard at it producing cloth
from the yearly clip, shoes from the
home tan, sugar from the March
drip, lumber with the broad axe and
hand saw, thus ad infinitum pro-
ducing everything in the way of
home necessities.
Were those people happy? Mar
velously so.
A centurys developments were
wonderful. The hand spinning
wheel largely supplanted by the
great wooden mills of the New Eng
land states and the cotton factories
of the south, production demanding
of prosperity greater strides and
larger achievements.
Another century breaks the sod of
the middle west, and production,
enormous production, demands of
prosperity the mighty mills of com
merce today dotting this great ma
tion as do the. stars the armament.
Production stands at the helm of
all homes, countTies and nations
that prosper, Produce something
and the sequel must follow. This
great principle in natures economy
cannot be gainsaid, neither can it
be ignored without disaster.
Produce-not one thing only, but
any apd every thing that with ten
der fostering can be produced, and
prosperity is yours. The individual
who owns ten acres or less, and buys
the family supply of potatoes and
other vegetables from the grocer or
other source, violates the law of pro-
duction and prosperity and fully de-
serves the inevitable penalty Pru-
dence would not advise the planting
of oranges or other citrus fruits in
the Rogue river valley, even if the
Oregonian dubs it the old-time Gar
den of Eden" but dozens of natures
products, without which we cannot
live comfortably, can be produced
here profitably.
! There are few orchards that pay
we'll, but a large portion are a rich
mans luxury or perhaps poor mans
| financial pyre. The writer is in
! formed by those in position to know
! that more money is paid for grain
shipped in than is received for fruit
shipped out. Shipping out fruit,
even where the net yields are not
large, is all right. but to ship grain
into farming country is violation
of the law of production and pros
perity and is beyond doubt the cause
! Of lean bank accounts and RESPONSE
BILE largely for the locking of the
wheels of prosperity Farm lands
galore, with prices soaring around
the $300 mark, and shipping in
grain for feed! Perhaps $4,000
worth each year shipped into the
valley. The law of production is
violated and prosperity cannot fol-
low.
Timber lands produce great ar
ticle of commerce This production
demands means Of manufacture and
transportation. This demand results
/ in the forging of new trunk lines
and the installing of enormous lum-
Der plants. The rich gold ledge
needs only to be disclosed and her
demands for smelter and iron rails
find early response. We must be
producers if we would thrive.
Ten thousand hogs could be
grove and fattened on the products
and by-products of this valley, and
who dare say that there is no de-
manG for the porker? Who lacks
relish for the home-cured meats?
Ten thousand dollars are sent out
CT the Rogue river valley each year
for brooms and it never comes back.
1t is a fact, too, that no state in the
| Union can produce as tough fiber
in broom corn as can this valley, and
! it grows in such quantities as to
make it profitable for the grower.
The production of this commodity is
nicely started and now demands fa-
cilities, capital, machinery and men.
This means that $4,000 will be kept
at home. The development of other
resources should follow in close sue
cession.
The general cry among growers is
that the merchants refuse to buy the
home product. Admitting that there
may be some ground for such views,
the writer is slow to accept the state
ment as being true in general
sense. Surely the policy of the pru-
dent merchant is to not only support