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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
Help Keep the
StreetSyin Shape

The tax levy for the upkeep of the
city's streets is really insufficient.
There are very few people who real
ize the reason their streets are not
kept up better is because their dis
trict does not pay in sufficient taxes
to do 1t. There is only one way to
remedy this.
There are many who will not work
themselves on the street in front OF
their house because they think "the
city ought to do it"-"that's what
we pay for" AS a result they never
have a good street in front of their
place. From this. then, 1t is easy
to deduce that every one should dc
what he can to keep up the street
In front Of his house.
1t Is a very small task to keel
fifty or a hundred feet of street In
good shape-perhaps half an hour {
month with a shovel would do II
Don't wait for the other fellow to dc
II. but stir yourself and don't b,
afraid to exert little
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
ASHLAND'S LITTLE" BEAUTY
SPOT.

Until otherwise officially an
nounced the name Ropers Bunion
will be changed to The Watchman'
and the new scenic drive to be con-
structed along its summit will be
called "Watchman's Drive" Later,
when the drive is continued around
the mountain west OF town that part
will be named Sentinel Drive" And
guarding the portal of the largest
and most magnificent natural park
in the United States stand THE
Watchman' on the left and The
Sentinel on the right.
"ONE OF THE LARGEST NAT
URAL PARKS IN THE UNITED
STATES" Had you ever thought of
that? Some have thought of the Ash
land park as comprising the two-acre
tract near the Plaza upon which the
flowers and greensward grow. 9th
ers have extended it to embrace the
Chautauqua grounds, and some aes-
thetic and venturesome souls have
even had vision of its limits as far
up the canyon as the lower intake
but others, like Judge Watson, for
example, have caught a full glimpse
of its magnitude. They have viewed
ii as starting in the heart of the city
and embracing all of the Ashland re.
serve, which indeed it does, making
it one of the largest parks on this
continent, and in simple grandeur
and verdant beauty rivaling the best
in the world, with dancing mountain
streams teeming with game fish
mountain Businesses where the blacl
and cinnamon bear have their habi
tat, where the cougar, panther ant
wildcat yield bounteous pelts to the
sturdy huntsman; with it's grass!
glades where thousands of dec
frolic, its precipitous canyons anC
charming glades, all beckoning tn,
tourists to Ashland.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
INSTRUMENTATION.

The world is over-organized and
results are being sacrificed every
where by reason of It. Good govern
ment is sacrificed to political organ
ization. Results in Christianizing
the world are hampered by constitu-
tional worship. Prohibition In Ore
gon is languishing because Of too
many organizations at work-one
spending effort against another that
could be better employed for the
common cpd. Results in Christian
work in Ashland are rendered almost
nil because OF division among heI
Christian people. II is the tendency
OF many to fall into institutional
worship, but institutional worship
has left no lasting good.
Let us broaden out a little and
look more to the principle to b'
maintained than to the name OF the
instrument through which II is hoped
20 maintain 1t.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
The Ashland Mineral Springs.

Central Point Herald: The Ash
land mineral springs project was CIV
en- the hearty endorsement of the cit
liens of that town when the special
bond election carried by vote of
1906 for to 30S against bonding the
city for $175,000 to be used in de-
veloping the mineral springs and
building up a health resort in the
city. Considerable money has already
been spent in getting the project
ready for the vote in having the wa
ter tested by scientists and getting
the opinions of experts regarding the
best means of developing the springs
and converting Ashland in to world
famous health resort, and from all
reports this part of the work has been
done thoroughly. Every detail of the
proposition has been investigated and
submitted to experienced men for
opinions and advice. With these pre-
liminaries over and the results sub
mitted to the people of the city it
seems the consensus of opinion that
Ashland has the very best of natural
requisites for a health resort of un-
limited magnitude. With other ad-
vantages offered in the mountain
scenery surrounding the city it ap-
pears that Ashland could be made
one of the most popular health re-
sorts Of the country. With this idea
In mind the people have voted $175,-
900 for the enterprise. They have
done we'll to start with, but 1t should
be remembered that 1t is only a start
The undertaking is one which will
require years OF persistent work and
united effort. II this is forthcomine
we may expect to see Ashland some
day a really great city mith many
visitors from all parts of the world
Such a city would work to the ad.
vantage OF the entire valley and IL
worthy the support of every patriotic
citizen Of southern Oregon. Will the
people OF Ashland keep up the sup.
port, or will they, having given It O
start, expect II to take care of itself
and begin at once to return divi.
dends? Time will tell better than
any prophecy that can be made.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
AN OVERSIGHT.

In reporting the banquet given to
the Bankers Association by the la
dies of Ashland the reporter failed to
state that Siskiyou mineral water as
well as the New Lithia was served.
Mr., Wagner kindly donated fifty
quarts of sparkling Siskiyou for the
occasion. MIR. Wagner also took his
team out to the New Lithia spring
on Monday and superintended the
work of bottling $50 pints of the New
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
BROADENING INFLUENCE OF THE
CHAUTAUQUA.

Chautauqua session this year prom
ises to be one of the best eyer held
in Ashland. Some of the finest tall
ent on the lyceum and Chautauoua
platforms has been secured and the
people of southern Oregon will this
year see and hear a session of the
finest entertainers and speakers.
Chautauqua has done great deal
for southern Oregon and Chautauqua
can still do great deal more if we
patronize it to our utmost.
The parents spend a great deal of
money to send their children to
school, and here, in the middle of the
summer, we have one of the finest
kind of educational and polishing
schools, and at a price that is incon-
siderable. This is the kind of school
that most children need. 1t is a
school that will enlarge their scope
of thinking, give them different ideas
of the world, teach them new things
and make them better able to live
clean, upright lives. Most of the stu
dents need this broadening influence
and need to cultivate themselves to
enjoy listening to distinguished
speakers and musicians.
Everybody should be broadened
and made better, so attend Chautau-
qua this year
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
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Large Sums for Good Roads.


Funds available in all of the states
for the improvement of roads during
the year 1914 are shown in the Off
cial Good Roads ear Book issued by
the American Highway Association
which is now ready for distribution.
This is one of the new features of
the book which will make it invalu-
able to every state, county and mu-
nicipal highway official.
The year book discloses for the
first time the appropriations made
by the state legislature for road i'm
provement in the various states are
available as follows:
Alabama, $70O,OOO; Arizona
$535,724; Colorado, 1915, 900; Della
ware, $1,000; Idaho, $275, 900; Hi
nois, $1,3OO,OOO; Maine, $7,54O,OOO;
Maryland, $3,7OO,OOO; Massachu-
sets, $2,447,415; Michigan, $4,18S,-
972; Minnesota, $5,672,254; Missis-
sippi, $1,72O,OOO; New Jersey, $3.50
600; New Mexico, $3S7,194; New
York, $6,OOO,OOO; North Carolina,
nearly $5,OOO,OOO; North Dakota,
$2,965, 900; Ohio, $3,5O0,0OO; Ore
gon, $3,2SS,OOO; Pennsylvania, 49,
100000; South Carolina, $1,000
600; Virginia, about $4,000, 600;
West Virginia, $2,2S6,557; Wiscon-
sin, $1,23O,00O.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

There is no place in a pretty little
city such as ours for rubbish piles
or dump" piles as they are some
times called. They mar the looks of
town more than one would imag-
inc until one visits a strange town
and finds these piles of rubbish.
They are far more noticeable to us
in another town than in our own, for
here, knowing where they are and
accustomed to passing them every
day, we soon cease to notice them.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

The best man we have in our town
for the general good of the town is
the one who you will always see on
the front seat in the progressive band
wagon. He is the first one to extend
an open and warm hand to greet the
stranger and welcome him to the best
town in the state.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

1t seems strange that people will
let their chickens run. They certain
ly are no improvement to a pretty
lawn. Now is the time when chick
ems can do the greatest damage to
flower gardens and vegetable gar
dens. Now in hot weather is the
time when people lose their temper
the easiest over trifles.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

There is nothing that causes SO
much trouble among neighbors as
chickens. Poor chickens! If they
are blamed for all the enemies they
have made in this world they have
scores of black marks against them.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

Lithia. BY the way, great and re-
freshing combination that-a pint Of
lithia with quart of sparkling Sis
kiyou water as a Chaser"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

Even after a man has lost all con-
fidence in himself he may refuse TO
give the undertaken a show.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

Every time the closet of your
neighbor is opened little do you
strain your neck to peek, and then
afterward strain your tongue in talk
ing about it?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

Love is like the wind-no one
knows when II comes or whittier 1t
goes.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

There are more ways than one fol
a woman to have her way.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

Wise is the man who knows what
not to say-then doesn't say it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

1t is easy for a good man to make
a bad break.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-22

Make 1t Ashland the Beautiful" {"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-13

San Francisco, caI-The story of
a platonic friendship as simple as it
was unusual, between an aged man
and two young married women of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-13

wealth was brought to light here re-
Gently with the fling Of the viii of
the late John M. Keith. S2-year-old oil
operator whose fortune ranged be-
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
HIGH CLASS COLONY OF GREEKS PLANNED
Salt Lake Man Proposes to Import Reclaimers of kanab Desert When
 New Railroad is Built.

The importation of a big colony of high class Creeks" is a plan re- Vealed yesterday by Dr. A. Brodbeck of Salt Lake City, in a letter to Register Weedin of the local land office. Dr. Brodbeck wrote inquiring for information as to desert land in the Kanab plateau region, and in- serts the news that the Southwest : ern Pacific Railway company, which contemplates building from Denver to San Diego, across northern Ari- zona, will back the immigration scheme.
 Fertile land, on which artesian wells may be sunk, public land that can be taken up at the rate of 320 acres to the man-that is what Dr. Brodbeck wants for the colony. He speaks of his cOlonists as high class Creeks" doesn't say that they are members of Uncle Samueps large family of nephews and neices-and thereby eligible to take up smatter- ings of the public domain.
 The plan is fairly ambitious, ac- cording to the writer. If it goes through, he says, it will mean the reclamation of thousands of acres of land that now stands idle, the wandering place of the coyote and the rattler. Irrigation by pumps from the Colorado river is part of the plan, though this, too, is left pretty indefinite and vague in the letter.
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
J, 5. SURVEYING
 PARTY RETURNS
Thorn Outfit Has Finished Surveying Nearly Half Million Acres of Land Storage Room Model of Efficiency

William 1T. Thorn, U. s. surveyor and special disbursing agent, has re- turned with his party from a sur veving expedition along the A. x C.. railroad. MT Thorn surveyed about 30O,000 acres of land, the greater part of which had been withdrawn rom entry in order to enable the state Of Arizona to select lands in satisfac- ton of the various grants embodied in the enabling act.
 Surveyor General Ingalls states that MT. Thorn is ve-y highly re- spected in departmental circles and has the honor of being the dean of the surveying camps of Arizona.
 Camp Equipment
 A feature of the work of the sur veyor generals office was brought to light by the arrival of the camp equipment of double surveying party yesterday. In the basement of the federal building is rOomy apartment, devoted to the storage of all the camp utensils, instruments, harness and tents.
 By systematizing the storage and packing, the surveyor general can send out a party fully supplied with camp necessaries at q moments mo- tice. It is a most orderly store room, and while there is already a large amount of material there, everything is so arranged that no confusion exists.
 The surveyors are quite proud of their luggage department. and mean to keep it the model of the service.
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
MELON DAY BY RIVERS BRINK GREAT SUCCESS

Watermelon Day turned out to be the biggest kind of splash; bigger than anyone dreamed it would be and as early as three o'clock yester- day afternoon $. O. $. signals for help in the shape of more melons were being sent all over the valley. In spite of the fact that four tons of the luscious fruit had been pro vided and iced for the feast. 1t dwindled so fast that the manage ment of Riverside had to send auto mobiles hustling all over the city and valley to get endorsements in the shape of more fruit. In all something over 14,O00 melons were gathered and distributed, and they had all disappeared before eight o'clock so that the late corners were melonless The management did their best but there were no more
 More than two thousand people turned out for the feast and fun and they certainly had their moneys worth The watermelon eating con- test judged by Simon Oberfelder and Joseph Trotter, was a thrilling feast and the fat boy who finally demol- ished his share was pounds heavier than when he began.
 The high diving exhibition by Corpstein and Pinney was magnifi- cent and Carson's fire dive drove cold chills down the back.
 The most exciting and hotly con- tested race witnessed in many a long day was the swimming race for the sprint championship of River side Park The distance was 55 yards and Kenneth Comstock won it in 32 and one-half seconds but the five men who were in it could all have been covered by a blanket at the 1 finish
 On Thursday afternoon one of the most novel and interesting events yet offered to Phoenix will take place at IRiverside on Thursday afternoon. It
 will be life saving contest open to
 all. It will require the bringing to
 shore of dummy, first floating, then from the bottom of the tank in a known position and finally hidden
 under water. The contest will be decided on points and the winner will | receive a bronze medal and leg or
 the splendid gold medal which will
 become the property of the first man to win it three times.
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
TICKET AGENTS
 WERE T|CKLED
Pasteboard Vendors Who Convened at Grand Can yon in March Express Appreciation of Valley in Minutes of Meetings

Just how well the delegates to the
 eighteenth sesqui-annual convention
 of International Association of Ticket
 Agents were pleased with Phoenix
 and the Salt River Valley is convey
 ed by the following excerpt from the
 proceedings" received yesterday by
 the board of trade.
 We passed Prescott in the night
 and arrived at Phoenix at 9:30 a. m.
 Saturday, March IA. We were enter
 the Hotel Adams and with an auto
 mobile ride around the city and
 country by the board of trade Our
 entire party was surprised and de-
 lighted with Phoenix We had sup
 posed that it was a small hot, dusty frontier town with probably one main street lined with small unpainted stores and saloons-a place looked to as a last resort by cOnsumptives- a place to go to die We found it a large. progressive. upto-date mod ern city where people go to live If l could make suitable business ar engagements, l would be glad to go to Phoenix to spend the balance of my days We were in Phoenix early in | the spring before the real hot wealth l CT begins In correspondence with a friend, I suggested that it probably got pretty hot there in the summer. i He replied, Yes, it does get hot here | in the summer time, but nothing like 1 as hot as in Chicago Of course,
 there is an element of truth in this statement, for while it gets very hot | in Arizona and the mercury goes up 1 to the top of the thermometer they | do not have the muggy, oppressive | days We have here occasionally. Phoenix is a modern progressive city I of 23,00O inhabitants, the capitol of | the state the natural trading point l for large district devoted to cattle raising and mining, and, acting as a foundation for a permanent and sub stantial prosperity, there is the Salt River Valley-a quarter of million acres of irrigated land. This land | is in a high state of cultivation, pro- duces everything raised in the tenn perate and sub-tropic zones, and is destined to be a very wealthy dis trict The Roosevelt dam. built by 1 the government at a cost of ten mil | lions of dollars and situated seventy four miles above Phoenix, impOunds an abundance of water to irrigate two hundred and forty thousand acres under present conditions It is thought that this acreage can be materially increased in the future. In other words, Phoenix has as foun- dation for it's prosperity the most | reliable of all sources-well irrigated | land in a high state of cultivation. 1 The soil of Salt River Valley is made lup from the washings from the mountains of disintegrated granite, | is of inexhaustible fertility and can 1 still be purchased at reasonable
 rate. We left Phoenix at 1:30 ?. m, | March II, and arrived at Tucson at | , D. m The trip from Phoenix to ! Tucson is nearly the whole distance up a broad, level and fertile valley 1 which awaits only water to cause it
 to produce untold thousands of wealth.
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
D|vERS|F|CAT|ON 0F
 CROPS CHANDLER MOTTO

Diversity your crops; grow, lettuce, melons, potatoes, any one of a num- Der of crops; the cities are waiting for your produce. Knowing it is from the Salt River valley and better and sweet CT than that gr1Wn in other sections you will have no trouble in dispOsing of the same in eastern markets. Organize into associations and produce those things which the market demands and Chandler will be the most prosperous community in the Salt River valley.
 Full of enthusiasm for the Chandler district, decidedly aggressive in his plans for cooperating with the farmer. Dr. A. J. Chandler, just returned from an extensive business trip in the east, gives a good idea of ti.e things we need to do here in order to be success ful in the business of farming.
 While 1 was in Chicago" continued the Doctor, T was served with melons from the Imperial valley that seemed taStelesS to me compared with the ones served here at )me. One commission man told me that when thcy put up signs that tl; Arizona. melons Xele in the people welt "ild in their scramble for them. We should aim to get into
 the cantaloupe game The farmers should organize and when they have sufficient acreage to make carload 1 shipments, the commission men will
 take care of them
 q found that potatoes were being | graded as to size, color and smooth
 ness, wrapped and packed as carefully
 as oranges and shipped to the eastern
 markets from Oregon, Idah1 and
 Maine, bringing farcy prices We ca1
 put a clean. smooth potato in the mar ket weeks ahead of any other district,
 as proven by several of our farmers l this year.
 1 "I came down on the train with
 Traveling Freight Agent Sparks" con- tinued the doctor. ''dnd re told me that
 last year MT. Heard Of Phoenix planted l three acres in lettuce. sat out about
 the middle of August The first ship
 ment was ready January first going in
 refrigerator cars to New York and Chi l cago markets, and netted above all i Shlpplng and marketing expenses, $4O0 for the first car and $500 for the sec
 ond, making total at the land of $500
 per acre.
 There is a market. and a big one for this class of produce and which can
 be supplied by the Salt River valley at
 a time of year when green stuffs are
 not available from any other districts "The Arizona Eas,ern has completed | plans for special car shipments of | poultry, etc, to Los Angeles and San
 Franciso during the ensuing year, and | contracts can easily be made for all | the poultry raised in the valley. T would be delighted to arrange a
 meeting of MT. Heard and myself with
 the Chandler farmers and lend them
 what assistance we can toward devel
 oping their farming along these lines" l Hire a little salesman at The Re-
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
MORE NOMINATIONS
 FILED WITH RECORDER

Further nominations for primary election in September have been filea with the clerk of the board of super
 visors. Aspirants to office to date comprise Andrew Jackson Moore for the office of sheriff on the Re publican ticket; Col. c. w. John- stone, for justice of the peace for the West Phoenix precinct on the Re publican ticket these two having filed petition but not papers, P, r. Parker announces himself as candi- date for justice of the peace for the East Phoenix precinct to succeed himself, having filed both petition and papers. Paul R. Ingals, Repub-
 lican, is another candidate for judge
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
From the county come the pet

From the county come the peti- tions of F.. w. Keene, and Walter Daniel. both democrats, for the of flee of constable at Buckeye, J. H, Pa~kman, democrat, is a candidate for justice of the peace for Buckeye.
 John Riggs has filed a petition as candidate for the office of justice of the peace at Wickenburg, on the democratic ticket; and J. B. Wood,
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
THE LESSON OF SPRING

This is the lesson of the Spring. That all things change, that all things grow.
 That out of Deaths most frozen woe. Come life and joy-and blossoming.
 -Priscilla Leonard.
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
THE WOMAN OF IT

She-Think how it disgraces me before the neighbors to have you come home as you did last night, drunk,'
 He-But my dear, no one saw me. She-Suppose they didn't; they must have heard me scolding you.
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
REPORT NEARLY READY-The

first report to be issued by the state engineers office will be off the press soon after August l. The report covers the operations of the depart ment from 1909 to the present time.
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22

democrat, has put in for the office of constable for that district.
Arizona republican., 1914-07-22

Hire a little salesman at The Re, publican office. A Want Ad will see more customers than you can.