Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-08-13
u. S. Engineers
Inspect HarbOr

The Board of Engineers for Rivers
and Harbors-working under direc-
ton of the War Department of the
United States Government-willp prob
ably visit Ashland between the twen-
tieth and the twenty-fifth of August.
They will at that time be on the Pa
cific Coast to look into the matter of
building a harbor at Crescent City
California that would serve the whole
of Southern Oregon.
These distinguished officials have
been invited to Ashland by the Com
mercial Club but have written Secre-
tary Seager that they doubt the possi-
bility of making stop here, owing
to lack of time. Led by Grants Pass,
however, the local club will make an
effort to have them stay over an ex-
ira day in order to see this wonderful
valley and its principal towns and
rural development in order that they
may be convinced that harbor is a
necessity.
The War Department and it's Board
of Engineers is willing to be shown
and for that reason the engineers are
visiting the coast after having the
lLlpOl lduCV Vi lDlS ItSlOI
laid before them at a meeting in
Washington City last April at which
delegates from this region and Cres-
cent City ably presented its claims
to recognition along this line. Grants
Pass is naturally the leader in the
movement from the fact that she has
already projected and started to con-
struct railroad to Crescent City that
will connect Southern Oregon with
the coast and place her in position to
profit by the general uplift which
must come when the Panama Canal
becomes actually highway OF traf-
fic.
The Board of Engineers will arrive
at Eureka California on the twentieth.
They will be met there by autos from
Crescent City and shown the proposed
harbor site and the surrounding coun-
try. Their next objective point will
be Grants Pass with a view of the in
tervening country and its mineral
and timber and agricultural wealth
together with the railroad now partly
built. Grants Pass citizens will see
to II that they are transported from
Crescent City by auto.
AsHlduu ana MeulOTQ nave Deen IN
vited 10 assist in this regard by fur
nishing one or more autos each
captained by their best boosters-in
order that the engineers may gain
comprehensive knowledge of the
country which harbor at Crescent
City would serve. The plan as out
lined by the boosters at Grants Pass
would be to have the engineers use
different auto from each succeeding
stop along the route in order that
all might become acquainted with the
boosters from the different sections
and their respective territories.
Shriners OF Hillah Temple at Ash
land held big ceremonial at Marsh
field August eleventh and many Ash
land citizens of prominence are
there. An effort will be made to get
some of these TO stay over and repre-
sent Ashland in the auto train which
will bring the engineers to the Rogue
Valley. The matter of properly repre-
senting Southern Oregon and her de-
velopment needs to these men Is one
of great importance which Ashland
should certainly promote in every way
possible. An outlet TO the coast prac-
tically half way between Portland and
San Francisco is one OF the biggest
things now projected for the develop
ment OF Southern Oregon.