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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1911)
SOCIETY Medford Mail Tribune SECOND SECTION FOIi'l'V-MRST YIOAU. MIODKOWDOIfl'XJON, Sl'NIMV, JUNK 18, 1011. No. 75. WW t f Mkiri6 MfflRfifin the best bs.yed . r il I'ppor Mm HIiohn (irnilliigCnnip anil I'm lug Haul; Sotnnil Mint, Conrmin llano (Jang anil a (Jang iJijIng Surface, Third Mae Slums tlio Oomroto .Mixer anil iiiiilcr, tlio I'Kth tlio Curb ami (Sutter (Jang of thi Clark .Ji Henry Construction Company T IH'I tinto in elnso al linnil wlfoii I Medford will ho known iih tlio host pnvod i-ily of its size in America. 'I'll I co hundred incii, modern mnchinoiy anil nonily lf0 head of horses am einployodin transforming lint' Hlrcots, which hoietofnio lit mill-winter have boon Imt stronkN of iniio iiiln hoiiluvniiW open to Iraflio the . ttjir around. To ilata nearly !I(I0,IMI0 Hipiari) yards of pavoinoul has hern In ill while a contract I'oi' an additional ,100,000 square, yniils Iimk j'iihI boon Int. When completed Mod ford will Iiiivii nearly '!! miles of pavi'il streets, costing nonily $1,000,000, a IrenienilniiK iiiiiimiiiI aoii stilitiin Ihii )0)iilnli(in now ustiumtuct al I u.niio. TIuto ycaih npi llitno was not n HiiiKlo hiiuire jaul of paving in tlio slato honth of Salein, 'I'lion it was Hint .Medl'oiil, an aniliilions lit t to nity of .ri(lll(l soiiIk hlniti'il an auilation for liotlnr KtiTolh. Kanli uintni' I'onnil liar lliiminKlil'nii's iaipanhililo. Tlio iif;ilaiiiin ki'ow anil a Contrai't was lot for :ir,(l(IO yai'iU. TIuh was laiil on 1Iio piinolpal hi root of tlio oily anil ho ohwons were itn lionotith, that tlio following hoason an aildilimial oontraot wiih lot. This hoiisoii (his luih licon Hiipploinonlod liy a oontraot art fjroal as the first two toptthor. Ollior towns jn sonlliora Oiokoii liavo profilod hy Moilfonl'rt oxiun plo anil now ara luiviuir thoir si roots Hiirfaooil, Tlio uoiiiily ooiirt roooj,'.. i. Iniziii),' tint honol'ilh to ho ilorivoil from! Knoil toails liavo also oalloil for the' laying of an asphalt maoadam loiulj hotwoon tltih iMtv ami (Vnlral Point. , Afoilfonl polnloil I ho way, Tlio ji,imtio task of making lloil ioril tlio InWt pax oil oity'in Amorioa is In Hut luultls of tlio Clark oi Hon (Vy Conslriiotion company of Sacra mento and Stockton, Cal'. That thoy aro titling a good joh and aro layiicj a snpi'ritu' imvomont is evidenced liy Hut fact that (hoy havo just hoe'n awarded (ho second coalraot after laying hix or seven miles of their as i;lialt jmvoinent in tlio oily. They now hivo inoro work than llioy cult oomploiii this season, which will o Imiil iiili I lit rainy season M.,ts in,j hut I hoy aro making great effortsi lo got as much of tlio work dono' as poshihlo. They will comploto their original contraot Into, in .Inly! ami then will Mint on tlio work of layingytho additional 100,000 yards j of pavement. It may ho that a thiidj contract will he gien them ne.xt sea sou hut oxen if tlit"' is not done Mod-! ford, for its siyo, will ho the host paved oily in the Tinted Slate-, Tlio Clark A llenory Coiihiruotion company ih a California corporation, in which K. Clark and Samuol iroiiery aro the iinuipn and con trolling htoekholdei-. In charge of tho xvoi'k heing thuio in this city is Arthur V. Clark who is making a reconl for hiiiibclf and the conipuuy hy the manner in which he is handling tint job. I ho ctunpany i ono ot- tho largc-t contracting iiini- on tho Pa cific coa-t and now ha paving plaut al l!o-eharg, Stockton, Sacramento, Ckiah, San .Mateo, San Jo-iy Oak laud and Hurliugamo. Tho fact that all of tho citie- in whioh thoy have worked speak hiuhly of thejr pave aieiit and tho manner in which it i laid shows (hat the company can ho depended upon to do a hplondid joh in Medford. Iloforo letting tho lu cent contract tho nuunbefh of tho .Medford city council xl.-ited several of , theo cities and gained lufouuu tiou i'irbt hand in icgard to tho ctun pany and on thoir return immediate' ly entered into tho now eqntniut. . r But let us take tho field and see I how thi- company goes nlmut tho handling of a largo contract Midi a- i- iiimiT way in .tiuiioru. rui a few ligiuch regatding1 tho immensity of tho job and then wo will go for a rido with Arthur V. Clark, "tho bo-," Kow; of Medfonl's re-ideuts teali.e tho immensity of tho work now go ing on in .Medford. In order that thoy may grasp tliit in a conci-e manner hero aro u few fauts and fig ures : Threo hundred aro employed, all. for tho most part, being expert work in on. Ono hundred and fifty horses tiro owned by tho oojupnny, and thoy v aro constantly trying to obtain moro. Twenty carloads of iimtoriul ar rives and is tisedench day on tho streets, Tho largest size of any asphalt paving plant is in operation. A look screen is in operation which loads 100 wagons daily, scoop ing tho material front, tho orook hod. Threo steam rollers tiro in con stant operation. Ono grader is in use, xvjiieli plows up tho streets and loads tho dirt onto patent dump wagons. Eighty patent dump wagons aro in use. Ten thousand sacks of omiiont aro (Coatlaueil on PBl,)f '?