Where Nature Lavished Her Bounties.

Ashland: Daily Tidings Press, [ca. 1925]. First edition. Octavo (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches). ]32] pp. with a photographic illustration on every page. Publisher's pictorial brown wrappers with a front cover design in red, green and black of a cabin in a forest. Very good condition.A promotional pamphlet stating the glories of Jackson County, Oregon. Jackson County is at the very southernmost part of the state and includes the cities of Medford and Ashland. Climate, timber, fruit growing, mining, daitying, etc., are all discussed. One item of note is the photograph of the private lodge of Jessie Winburn. Winburn was a New York advertising millionaire who picked up and moved to the Ashland watershed in 1922. "Winburn’s former wife claimed he fled New York to avoid paying her alimony. Winburn bought a place in the middle of the Ashland watershed, with a cabin named “Sap and Salt in the Woods,” complete with swimming pool and cattle. That got him accused of contaminating Ashland’s drinking water supply. But Winburn proved to be a generous philanthropist. When the Ashland Women’s Civic Improvement Club needed money for a clubhouse, Winburn built them the Winburn Way Community Center. He also donated two swans and trash cans for Lithia Park. Winburn bought Ashland’s nearly bankrupt Granite City Hospital from local doctors and spent $30,000 on improvements. A Jesse Winburn Society is still affiliated with today’s successor hospital" (NPR).