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iwhE V HIV! WHfqupm" :p. ", ,WV' MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1911. iWSSfe".. J- 3esV ' nOfe' PV a i'ii Ka ft 1 v 4 h. " '',!: Vfflrt &i i." , ,: i Medford Mail Tribune ai xwBEPKXDKirr lrxwsrAFSB VUaXiXSSIBS XJAH.Y bxoept atu- UT BT THM HIDFOXD rninrina co. A consolidation of the Medford Mall, established 1880: the Southern OrcKon- lan, established 1902: tho Democratic TIiiiph. entnb shed 1872! the Ashland Tribune, established 189C, and tho Med- lorn Tribune, established lsuti. OKOnon PUTNAM, ndltor and Manager .Entered as second-class matter No vember 1. 1009. at. tho . .Dostof t Ico ut Medford, Orrffon, under tho act of March 3, 1879. ufftcinl Paper ot the City of Medford. ' BUBBCrrriow bates. One year,, by mall,.... 15.00 Ono month by mall 60 Per month, delivered by carrier In Medfsrd, Jacksonville and Cen tral Point .., 60 H u rid n y only, by malli per year...., 2.00 Weekly, per year. L. ... . . .w. 1.G0 rail Zioicd wir Unlttd Fri Dispatches. The Mall Trlbuno Is on sala at the Perry News Stand, San Krancisco. Portland Motel News Stand. Portland. Powman News Co., Portland, Or. W. O. Whitney, Seattle, Wash. Hot!l Spokane News Stand. Spokane. , WOHW CXBCUZ.ATXOK. AVKRAC1K FOR YBAIt 1010, 2185 THE RECORD OF 1010. MZDFOBD, OBS002T. Metropolis of Southern Oregon and Northern Callromla, and the fasteat growlng city In Oregon. Population U, S. census 1910: 8840; estimated In November, 1910, 10,000. Klve hundred thousand dollar Gravity Water System completed, giving finest supply pure mountain water and six teen miles of street being paved and contracted for at a cost exceeding $1, 000,000, making a total of twenty miles of pavement. Postofflce receipts for year ending November 30, 1910, show a gain of Cl per cent. Dank deposits wero $2,370,632, a gain of 22 per cent. Banner Xrult city In Oregon Hague niver Spltzenberg apples won sweep stakos prize and title of "AppU Xlnr Of tbt World" at tho National Apple Show, Spokane, 1909. and a car of Newtowns won Tint rrls In 1910 nt Canadian International Apple Show, Vancouver, B. C. , Rogue River pears brought highest firlces In all markets of tho world dur ng tho past six years. Write Commercial club, inclosing C cents for postage for the finest commu nlty pamphlet ever written. Fifty Years Ago Sunday Jan. 1. Governor Sara Tlouston ("Old San Jnclnto") wnrncd the Toxnn pcoplo ngnlnst southern radical ism, but while bis auditors lis tened respectfully they rejected his argument Twenty-five Years Ago Sunday Grovor iClcvcnnds first New Year's In tho, White House ami last In lonely bachelorhood. THE OLD YEAR. i ! ,t 1 tl ' 1 .1 . tt ii-oniiwm opeciaior.; jOlt year, just by tiio vnuoment, lioro . -. r I ptand, ., c, And look without, on brightest moonlit night, And listen to tho rustic of tlio loaves That in fair happy Bummer woio so bright. i Old, your, thoso withorod loaves that pass with you i J .Aro hopes, ambitious, lost amid, : v tho strife,, i As wo rush with tho torront ever on, J And"'find no peaceful uitrront in this life. ; Old year, kind words and friendship,-, ' i!.i i...:.... jwu inn iiiiiiki And these wo cherish ovor with tho best, Even amid lifo's striving nud turmoil, As wo grope on to find tho light and rest. Old year, wo would not shun, but - bravo tho path, Yet, .tho' it wound our tired and weary foot, Wo doom you now a memory of tlio past. While wo, with brightest btnilos, tho Now Year erect. JUNE MAC MILIjAN OUDWAY. INETEEN hundred and ten's record is briefly told - in this issue, it is a record of enterprise, progress and development unparalled in the history of Medford and the Rogue River valley. No city of the world of its size has done such an amount of public and private improvement as has been crowded into the past two years in Medford and yet rapid as the city's progress has been, it has scarcely kept pace with the valley. Medford has spent $.377,615 for 8.I3 miles of pave ment, with as much more contracted for, $74,000 for 18 miles of cement walk, $11G,'1J2 for sewers, $167,159 for 20.07 miles of cast iron water main, $275,000 for a gravity water system, a grand total of nearly a million dollars. A score of fine business blocks, a new depot and four hundred residences have been constructed in the past twelve months, and as many more are planned for the com ing year tho total expenditures in improvements exceed ing five millions. Nineteen ten has seen Uncle Sam give Medford a pop ulation in May of 8842, an increase of 092 per cent in ten years, the greatest increase of any city in the Union save one. It has seen postal receipts reach a total of $29,431. ,an increase of 54 per cent during the year. T.t has seen bank deposits totaling $2,376,582, an increase of over 22 per cent, it has seen the number of school children" in crease to nearly 1700. Jt has seen the number of Bell phones increase from 650 to 1250 and an independent sys tem established. The dying year has witnessed James J. Hill acquire the Pacific and .Eastern railroad, its completion to Butte Falls, and Medford made the terminus of Hill's Oregon Trunk line now under construction, affording another transcontinental line to the east. It has witnessed the be ginning of an extension of the .Rogue River Valley rail road from Jacksonville towards the Blue Ledge copper district, and other railroad development. ' Nineteen hundred and ten has also seen the beginning of construction of the Crater Lake hidiwav. designed to the de signed to accommodate the. tourist travel. It has wit nessed the passage of an initiative bill by the people clos ing the Rogue river to commercial fishing, adding to the tourist attractions of the region the finest angling stream in America. The year now closed has seen the planting of an addi tional 20,000 acres of commercial orchard, which will make over 75,000 acres of planted orchards in the.Roguc .River valley. It has witnessed the organization of a central fruit growers'' exchange to handle'the business with profit to the producer. It has witnessed the cstablisment of brick and tile factories, the opening of granite and marble quarries, .of lime deposits and a revival of the mining and lumber industries. 4 Not only Medford, but every own and hamlet in the valley has grown and improved. Expansion in all lines of business, development in all branches oT industrv, the opening up of countless latent resources is the order of lite day. Among the many movements initialed by the prog 'tfltFA iltwmtin I I ...li1.....! !. i1 1 .. MM J A New Medford Planing MilL $150,000 Saved on City Paving :By the Present Administration open up to tourist travel a scenic wonderland fcqual .to Yosemite, and the commencement of three fine hotels But Mayor Canon and Councilman Weluh wore not yet untitled. From what thev had hceu thov were satU fiud that Jledford was entitled to still lower prices. The council relied on their .jmlKiiiciit and stood behind them. All the bids were rejected and new ones called for. Acuta the le.id ncain Prior to the present summer there had heen for several years only t iiivinc companies operatiuc in Orc- zon. Ketween tllef-e two companies there appeared to be .some sort of a ','entlcman's agreement. The city re oeatcdly advertised for bids on pav :iiC, but in 1 entity lllis wiih a need less and useless lonnalily. 1 ho. pencils wore sharpened and council kiM'w before the bids were there wns .some interct-t and excite opened what tho price would be. ment, Last hpriuc, wlien it became ap parent that a large amount of pnv inc would he demanded, iMayor Canon and the council determined (c sec if somethinc could not be done to break this apparent combination and cot tho citv's paving at lower prices by securing real competition. Accordingly Mayor Caimn and Coun cilman Welch wero hem as- n com mittee to California, from whence had come many stories of chcnpiT paving, The knockers called it a junketing trip at the city's expense, hat tho present administration has never minded the knockers to any great extent. The committee .hiient some (imn in California and talked witji most of the responsible contractors there, Their work was looked over and they were told of tho large amount of pavement to be done in Medford, and several of them wore indijced id come here and sulmiit bids. The Oregon contractors, -when they saw that-there was'to-bo real competition, iiIm; KyUhiuf with their lead pencils niid jylnui the time came for opening bids, lli'erc .was, some 'in terest and excitetn'entfor tho fir.it time in the history of paving opera tions in Medford. ( The bids wero opened and it was found that on the work to be done a saving of .18.".fl00 lind heen effect ed. Quite a silisfactorv profit on a junketing trip that had cost the citv .fioO! Most men would have boon satisfied with this showing and would have let tho 'contract' to the lowest bidder. ma . .. n . n- 917 Frintdrnwpf i ivinor-Mini i n. ri'E 11 XTMVrVA M. m vvt UdHI UlUg. 601 Sells and Exchanges Orchards FarmsRaw Lands ? City Business (Q. Residence JKropcrty t FIRE INSURANCE Z Best of Everything S,' Southern Oregon Electric Co. Fixtures, Wiring, Telephones, Motors, Supplies. 27 South Central, Ave. The new year finds us equipped ready to do all kinds of Electrical wiring and contracting. Call and figure with us. ( When the bids were again opened the wisdom of tho course that had been pursued was apparent. The new bids showed u still further sav ing of $G7,000, or $150,000 in all. This amount represents a sum equal to the total amotlnt of taxes collect ed for running tho city of Medford for tho past five years, including the payment of interest on the city debt, and it was all saved on ono contract hv one trip costing (ho city .$250, and still the knockers knocked. These same knockers will doubt less sny at this time that this is nothing more than any set of offi cials would have dene: yet tho fact remains that every citv in Oregon outside of Portland had for yeas beep patiently paying the price ih manded by the Oregon companies, and not one of Ihem had ever at tempted to better the situation. It remained for the present city admin istration of Medford to soiure com petition m-Orogon on paving and bent down tho price. Other Oregon cities have, however, profited by this trip, and should in all fairness pay Medford their share vf that $J.")dv That trip of Mayor Canon and Coun cilman Welch has resulted in a sav ing of many thousands of dollars I . Ashland, Grants Pass, Kospburg and other Oregon cities on their paving work diirini' tho past summer. . Nearly nine miles of pavement has been laid in Medford in the past two years, nearly four miles of bitn tithic and over five of asphalt. A manv more miles aro contracted for the coining season, alt of asphalt. . . . For Pure Dairy Products See . 1 Southern Dairy Co. South Central Avenue Main 881 Farmers 7183 'i A Specialty of Frozen Puddings, Dainties & Ice Creams ....Claud Miles.... REAL ES 1 A jlej Producing Orchards, Large Undeveloped Tracts. Exclusive Agent Eagle Point Townsite Property. For full particulars and information ahout in vestments call at 128 East Main Street. The principal disadvantage ol duck shooting from an aeroplane, at shown hv Aviator Latham's oxpoit enco ut Los Angeles, is ttiat it is rather awkward to stop and pick birds up, particularly out at sea. If tho aviator could contrive to catch tho smitten ducks while they arc falling, this difficulty would he obviated. uM.fii.Wi, ui luiiium is me strenuous enorr ueingtlie Ictliargv so long prevailing in other parts of Oregon, made to secure or the city lower railroad freight rates j What does the future held 'for Medford and the Rogue to Alcdlord and distnlmtivc rates out of the city. Actions ttivor- vallev? Just as rapid progress as the past five; anr pending hel ore the interstate commerce commission years. Development has onlv started. With the aiu the state railroad commission to secure rates that opportunity afforded hv geographical location, with en wtll enable the biiildmg up here of a jobbing center. A terprise and industrv and unitv of action, no reasonable -U per cent reduction trom Portland has already been or- limit can he placed upon the growth of citv and eountrv ucM- mm iiiougu appeaieu, win probably shortly go into Nineteen eleven will see 12,1500 population for Medford e,tc;' . . i ,. , and 1915 should see 25,000. .lhe development ol southern Oregon is not due to a (iod made the eountrv and expended His best efforts boom, m any sense ol the word, but to steady and syste- on the Kogue River vallev. Man makes the town and malic ei lort and enorirv an tin nnW nf i iiliivmiu H.. i...,i.,w. a :.....,. i.: i. ..:n i ..... ... -11.H..1 v ,. ., ., . c1' , i ' V,J lt,"v " "" ''i.- it ,um ith m iiK lie wins iriut oL whose enterprise is each year becoming more ap- willed to make this a big citv an parent. I he progress is rapid only when compared with i efforts to do it and we will. d are expending our best , Tho sorj of tariff commission the standpatters want is one that will borve. piovent ,any genural tariff revision, and yet at tho same time practically iiumompiish nothing and bhclvo the whole subject. It would bo.hettor to have no commission at ,ull than one of the kind tho stand patter desiie. Tho' fact that Alaska has Rained only 1 per cont In population In the Just 10 years would uoom to Indicate that Homethlnt; needs developing up there, There arc now flvo Btatoa In which tho women vote In others they' merely control tho .votora, Colonel nooHovolt has found IiIh voice. MalofuctorB of great wealth keep to tho right. This ends tho open Henson for Rettinj? divorced from your coin. 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Slzo 2 by 10 inches, on heavy map paper, tinned at llll in UllllS, No homo complete without this map. It tolls ror ?2.:0, but will bo given away freo to subscrib ers to tho Medford Mall Trlbuno. HOW TO GET THE MAP FREE , SUMSCKIllB TO THH DAILY MAIL TIUHUNB FOR ONK VKAU IN ADVANCK .-,. uii run tjiij WKKKLV MAIL TRIBUNK TWO J YEARS IN ADVANCK AT $1.B0 A YEAIl.$:i. AND THE MAP IS YOUR8. t)0 Or got one now subscriber to tho Dally or two now ones to tho Weekly, remit and wo will send tho map. Old subscribers may seeuro tho map by paying up arrears and subscribing In advance. Medford Mail Tribune 27 N. Fir Street Medford, Ore. ii i rOWKU FOR NAl.LIJY IS (UUKK.Vrivll. b-.. ,.. lt.trMt J