Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-18
WHAT is REQUIRED TO DO 1T.

If Carlsbad found it necessary to .
expend $2,5OO,OOO in a watering re-
sort plant in order to make it the
leader of the world in that line; if .
Nauheim found it necessary to invest
$3.50, 900 in hotels, baths, grounds
and equipment in order to have a wa
tering resort of the third class; If .
Harrogate, England, found it neces-
sary TO invest S1,75O,0OO before it
became a resort of note, how much .
community force will Ashland need to .
supplement her investment of S175,- .
600 to put her in a class with Euro .
pean resorts?
In America, more than in Europe,
such enterprises are left to private
capital, and it is customary to make
private investment in such undertak-
ings. But it is as essential that Ash
land resort be backed by a two or
three million dollar investment as it
was that the European resorts invest
cred in the first class.
The s175, 900 available for the pur-
pose will simply mobilize here min
eral waters and fairly develop the
park in manner to start the enter
prise. But hotels, sanitariums and
all the Improvements called for at
either of these European resorts are
as necessary to success here. 1t will
take as much capital to install them
here as there. We must depend upon
private investors for at least two mill
lions of the capital necessary. 1t is
the business of Ashland to induce
that capital to invest in the Ashland
enterprise. 1t is no small job to do
that. Men seeking such investment
must first be convinced that force
enough will be put behind the enter
prise to make their investments pay.
Convince them OF that and millions
will be ready for investment and Ash
land will be made as good and as
popular as these European spas. Let
the matter drift differently and it
will take five hundred years to reach
an eminence that will justify the
term Success"
With these considerations maybe
those who now halt at the effort be-
ing put forth to make the CONNER
cial Club an efficient agency in this
cause will better understand the ne
cessity of systematic organization
and power behind our effort.
Development of Ashland mineral
waters is her supreme cause. There
is potency enough in them to make
fer a resort seconw to none. II will
take a supreme effort to accomplish
II. Drones and donothings, and
"fraids," and kickers, and pessimists,
and "ferninsts," and "cants," and
''ifs" will never accomplish IT, It
takes life, and ginger. and ability
and push. and faith, and solid coop
Grafton, and money to do II. And il
will never be accomplished unless
every citizen is willing to do and does
do his full part. With a solid front
she cannot fail. Necessary capital
will be forthcoming and the enter
prise will magnificently succeed. VIII
YOU have a part in this tremendous
Observation-Disclosures in effort
and tremendous in possible results.
All OF this can and will be accom-
plished. and once properly started the
task will be easier The next two
years are big with possibilities Fate
DEGREES success TO the swift, the en-
terprising. the doers OF the world
Wha; Ashland makes OF herself de-
psnds upon her own cooperation and
effort Success does not come by the
silver platter route. II is a product
u systematic. hard work. The mys-
tssy of overbanging fate Is locked in
or koaOm. Will We recognize the
tsezsn9oBa possibilities in our unex-
ceiied mineral waters and assist in
their nzteFisilzstiOn7
Citizens OF Ashland. know this:
The future Of Ashland depends upon
your effort II she succeeds II will
be because you played your full share
in the game. II she fails charge II