Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-08

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the Sth day of June, a paper pre-
pared and being circulated by the
oppositinn to the mineral springs
proposition has come into our hands,
and that people may know some of
the contents of it at the last moment
we are holding the press open to
give it to you.
First, the paper attacks the It'd
ings and the Record for unfairness
in not permitting them to have the
use of the columns of this paper to
print their opposition.
The Tidings is not now, nor will
it ever be, under it's present manage
ment, mouthpiece for the knocker
AS to the objection made to the
ordinance which contains a large
part of this paper now being circulat-
! ed, all that is needed to be said is,
read the charter amendment now be-
ing published in the paper, which
contains a complete answer to every
thing that is stated by our critics,
the ordinance authorizing an election
to vote upon the bonds is one thing,
and charter amendment which pro-
vides for the handling of the money
and all the details mentioned in said
paper is another thing and is pro-
vided for in the charter amendment
which is to be voted on the 23rd of
this month.
AS to the piping Of the Manitou
springs into Colorado Springs, there
has been no statement made of such
a thing. The fact that Manitou
springs is six miles away has no bear
ing whatever. The letter printed
from the mayor of Colorado Springs
says: THE things which chiefly at
tract people to this locality are mag
nificent mountain scenery and
MOUNTAIN RESORTS, our pure
fresh water, our invigorating atmos-
phere and large amount of sun
shine" These are exactly the things
which we expect to make Ashland
like Colorado Springs, a place of
forty thousand people, as Colorado
Springs is. You notice that the may
or says among other things, Our
mountain resorts" These magnifi-
cent springs in such great numbers
and diversity are the sites for our
mountain resort and the advertising
! which is to be given to this enter
prise is not expected to be the ex-
elusive asset of Ashland but of every
one of these springs and resorts
wherever the people owning them
will have the good judgment to build
accommodations for those arriving
there. This mayor says but for these
things Colorado Springs would not
be the city that it is now. 1t is now
a city of forty thousand people.
Piping these springs into this city
will not detract from the mountain
resorts and magnificent scenery
which is not excelled in the world
and which we possess, but will at
tract the world to these other things
such as have built up Colorado
Springs.
AS to the effect of mineral springs
mentioned in the said paper and
which have not caused rapid growth
to the towns or villages where they
exist we have nothing to say. Any
one of a hundred reasons might be
found and assigned for that fact
which could not be found here. The
places mentioned may or may not be
suited to the building of large towns
or cities and to our knowledge some
of them are not
1t is assumed in this paper that
the principal purpose OF this project
is to enable the people who live here
to sell their property and get away.
This of course is not true, and If 1t
were true and had that effect Mr..