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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1911)
PAGE EIGHT f "i arcnTFOTCn matl trtbtor MiwFcmn, ottrcaotf, Sunday, .tttly o, imt. Medford Spending a Million Dollars In Erecting New Buildings " - - I II I II1 HI I ... - t t LOCAL POSTAL RECEPTS OR YEAR NEE Forty-one Per Cent Gain Is Shown By Statement Covering the Fiscal Year Just Ending and the One End ing June 30 a Year Ago. JUNE, 1911, GAINED 20 PER CENT OVER JUNE, Another Clerk Is Added to Take Care of Night Business Postal Bank Finds Favor. Tho fiscal year Just ending has been a splendid ono In all line of ninterlal advancement in the city but in no way are the strides made by tho city better reflected than by the postal receipts for the past jear which show an increase of 51 per cent over the fiscal year ending twcjvo months ago. For the year closing Juno 30 the receipts totaled $32,Gi6.9S while one year ago for the year they totaled J23.2S3.G0 the Increases being $9,363.3S or 41 per cent. Tho receipts during June Ihis year were $2,005.54 while one jear ago during the samo month they were $2,017.11. The Increase was $488.43 or nearly 20 per cent. For the past five years the re ceipts of the local postofflce hare never failed to show an Increase each mouth. The postal saving bank Instituted June 12 of this year al ready has deposits totaling $2G70, i tho largest amount taken In by any postal savings bank In tho state In a like time. Over forty depositors are now enrolled. Another clerk has been added to the force of the local office and here after mall will be recoived at tho postofflce until 10 o'clock at night for dispatch to the north on the Shasta limited which passes through nt 2:30 a. ra. This will be of a mater ial advantage to the city. WOODS LUMBER CO. REPORTS G000 TRADE Buhinchb ut the Woods Lumber oompany'8 yards reflects the pro lerous growth of Medford. Thin company hab 1,000,000 feet of htock on hand and U keeping five teams busy. Manager Wilson of the Woods company Huys that business condi tions now nro thriving. Printinc of all kinds at Portland prices. Mail Tribune office. '10 I ' "- , TWi ci B0pflEpHBrfi!in9y9BVlfi. mmjIOKlIHi c SkkkkkkkkkkkkkkV KK?MkL2llr BV) HBfitifliU'1 mi 1 1 i-'-TKfr'f SPy MHf-HlMlm kkHBHkrWfiflWlkykkkkkkkkV-?f I 3 JJBMBWIIIWWWWBftwwwiiwi m JMKLmM I I IkkkEfflwiiSlBwlBDHBKiNaEnflMlikBflltkkkW ;? U bbbbbVbVbWbbb iBVAVbbB iiiJiJiJiJiJiJiJiJiJiJBlBMliB IBM Ml HlPfc i llapl (S:- 4- ---- . .18Wl-K?-j'Saa;lMI U wlfcS!Wf 1 ' a.f-ir: . saai-i,-, q I,- i null' 'TM 1 , m 7? V KiW C 1BllMiM!!jj wfiSIi HmM , ' ' ' nlkteiaBiiai ( , - I BkiHEIPP m illlli iter-"" m Ik II SBH SSI HLiPMKB ilnB L I irk ! hftmm Bf rrii win .. a i w i mpwmi Q-waaipiHaaaaaaaai -yurvi a u k : RiSSin iiiiiiSS&iJ iIbbIiHti i BANKS W 14 PER CENT GAIN IN YEAR Over Two Million Dollars Is On De posit In Local financial Institu tions Gain Has Been Steady and Consistent. GAIN IN YEAR HAS BEEN OVER A QUARTER MILLION H All of the Banking Houses Are In Excellent Condition as Is Shown by Their Statements. each! wasT. Top row At the left Queen Anne public koIiooI; ut the right, the ("niter Luke ,'iirii;o. Second row- At the loft, Mrdfurd hotel; ut the ri-lit, .t'Jfi.OOO Mail Trillium liuildiiij,'. 'Third row At the left, Sparta building; ut tlm right, A. A. Dais buildiii. Fourth row At the icft, Medi'oid Furniture & lliirdvwiru eoiupuny'ri liuildiiij; nt tho nlit, .lnckmili pub--Jic school. u Tim lunik OvpoHitH iii Hut nity nt' .Mi'dfoul nt the end of the prcHeilt fihfitl iMir hIiow ii kiU of II por ot'iil over the hiiiuo dale nun your iik'o. The iiinrmiHo wan $'J(IO,flllH r in or it titurlcr of a million. At prtiH out tlioro w on dcpuidt in looiil liiiukH f-Mai. iuVum. Tho dopoxilN in (ho locml liiiukH luivo hlinwii ii hIi'iuIv iitorfiiHo for tlm pusl fio journ uh Ih hIiumii by tlm lulliiuiui; tiKuroH; Juno mo;. . 110(1, 108.00 10011 7'Jrt,l071.00 UI07 I.OHMKM.m 11108 l.'Jftl.lHO.tMl iiion i,'jiu,i:n.nn lino i.H(i:i,r.i!8.(tii i tui J,i,j4,r.v..i);i An Hio cloiiriut; Iioiiho wan iiiMlitut od thli vour no fijiin for coin imnson tlioro nro nviiilnblo. All of tho bniikx Miow by tlmir Kliiloiiionth (hut thov nro in n Hplou did fiuiiiioiiil ootidition and rofloct iu u t-roiit doj;roo tho uiiitorial nd Muiceiiicnt of Modford. Juno Juno Julio Juuo Juno Juuo MEDFORD LUMBER GO. FINISH NEW QUARTERS The .Modfurd Lumber company, Third mid Hvorcrcou ntructH, Iiuh completed Hh unw iiinrlnrn wli'uli i it u ciicrod piico 200x170 fort, or oiitlil city IuIh. The huildiiiK ii. oipiippod witli water mid olcctrio IIkIiIh. Ono of the 1'calurcH of lliu new (iiurti'irt is a roihli ami door wiiroliituKo and another i a privalu spur from tho Koulliorn 1'aciriu iruukn k'ivIuk tliin cuncoru ono of thu fi private spurM in the oily. Start Bio Sale. Announcement of cxrcptimial piiooH aro hIiowii in this paior in (Jruy'H & Muu'k ire-inyontory hiio. TIiIh is I ho only naln of tho ynnr fur thin concern ami the. priccn nro markoil down in a inuiiiior to attract attention. No ono tdioiild fail .o Klaiico over the lint of offorinuM ami each tihould realize that but u part of Ihn ImrKaiiiH arc. mentioned iu tho advortiHcuiciit. Aims, Objects and Purposes of Rogue River Produce Association By Manager Kirby S Miller (Hy Klrby Miller, Manager of Rogue Itlver Fruit and Produco Associa tion.) Llko ovory other great business of today, the fruit business, in Its de velopment, has become quite highly differentiated. The local association is ono department of this great busi ness, and tho one nearest the grow er. Attempting to serve a largo pub lic, that public should know Its alius and methods as clearly as pob slble. A mistaken idea as to the function of the association IcadB to wrong conception of what It Is try ing to accomplish. Instead of a selling agency for the distributing und marketing of fruit, thlH uhuoclatlon alms to be a part of tho producing end; Its definite func tion being the preparation ofllie pro duct for the market. After a product bus been manufactured, it Is one thing to put It In shape for thu mar ket and quite another thing to soil It, lluyers who handle strictly fancy fruit spoclfy definitely that they will not touch n "farmers pack," that they will not buy unless the pack Is sup ervised by some responsible institu tion. Tho necessity for this super vision of tho pack lu the Hoguo River Vulloy is not so apparent as It will bu In another year when our hither to largest crop will bo doubled in quantity. Puck Has Varied. Horo-lo-foro, without uny system or organization tho pack of tho fruit from tho valley has varied tho very bout to tho yory poorest; there has been no standard, no attempt at uni formity. But conditions bavo chang ed. Wo never hear of Sam Smith's apples from Hood River, or John Jones apples from Wenatchee: What we hear about and what Is sold to tho trade is "Hood River Apples," "Wenatchee Apples," thu fruit is sold as coming from a section, not from Individuals. And wo are at the point where our fruit must he sold as "Rogue River Fruit." It Is a distinct business to pack, grade, assemble, Inspect, secure uni formity, and ship fruit. Special knowledge must bo acquired to do this Intelligently and economically, and It is seldom possible for any ex cept tho few largo growers to acquire this knowledge. Organization of packers Is required to pack a crop of a thousand cars, for without or ganization of packers, with every or chard scrambling for, packets, most of the fruit would bo poorly packed and some rot on tho ground. Only a fow know what to pack lu order to pack the most fruit and still retain the grado. Tho fruit Is different each season and must bo known as a whole crop before n grade can bo determin ed; a few poor cats can ruin tho re putation of the whole valloy; It means u great deal at the other end, whcio tho monoy comes from, as to how tho fruit Is handled, tho tomperaturo it has when loaded, what assortment of giades Is Iu the car; and all the many details In connection with pack ing and handling ran bo worked out accuiululy only as tomo organization makes a special business of It, Is or ganized to do It and keeps at It ear after ear. Ho Not Muifcct Fruit. The association does not attempt to market fruit for several reasons, but chiefly on account of the large expense Involved If It Is dono prop erly. Selling and distributing fruit Is also a business of Itself and cannot bo made a sldo Issue to anything else, and It would require us much and as acurate Information to market to advantage our four or eight hundred cars as It would to sell and deliver a hundred times as much. When thero wnH ope or two million boxes of fruit In the northwest and buyers were coming each year to compotn for tho crop, wo had a very differ ent situation from that of 1910 when .oloven million boxes wero produced and u market had to bo found for the largest part of It. Tho Increase will be even greater In 1012, likely reaching fifteen million boxes. Iu this Immonsu quantity tho Individual grower loses his identity, and It be comes a question of maintaining the Identity of each section, because tho wprlds knowledge of such matters Is vory limited, oDiibtlcsu pikes will bo somowhat less as tho vuaru pans because tho comsumptlon must bo Incrcared among people of modciatc moans; and this in turn will call for a decreased cost of production, more economical handling and more scien tific distribution. HcIIImk of Fnill lo Conic, Thu I lino will come when the Itogim River Valley will maintain Its own selling organization: but that time will be when tho'productlon reaches five thousand cars. In the meantime we tako tho cheapest effective way to distribute our fruit to all markets by employing scml public and private companies who maintain branches In every district, who can reach every market every d.iy, who are lu close touch with all buyers and not select fow, whoso men aro on tho spot to attend to our business overy day. Tho uninitiated think that selling fruit Is llko selling Iron Just sell It, dellever It and collect your money, Hut fruit Is perishable, tho market fluctuates, from one to two cars In oveiy five arc rejected or questioned after being sold ,ind delivered, and If the belter Is not represented on the spot ho will faro badly. Ono largo department of a credit agency Is de voted entirely to tho adjustment of .inch disputes, which usually hang upon whether or not tlm fruit Is up to the guide specified. The point of tho matter Is that thu seller must he represented ut thu other end If his business Is not to suf fer. When fruit Is sent to auction, llko tho bulk of our pears, or sent to a general maiket, thero must bo some one thero to receive It, look after It, put It on tho auction, Inspect It per iodically If It Is stored; who over does this must ho paid, To do such work In many maikets roqulres organiza tion ahd system and it must bo com- polont lu eveiy way If tlm business Is dono piopuily, A fow traveling salesmen cannot do (his; nor can they cover more than a limited ter ritory, whereas wo aro raising fruit for the markets of the world. Moio losses result from fruit being mis handled or poorly handled than from low mnrkets, It Is essential, for profit that nothing bo allowed to got away from us on this account, that evory car finds Its place In first-class condition and at thu right time. It Is the association's plan to employ tlm most competent organizations for this pint of tho business, and such oxpert service Is many times cheaper mid better and lu all ways safer than tho haphazard, chaotic, unintelligent dis tribution and sales made by Indivi dual glowers or commission houses. And this method will get tho lesulls. Any man or company or association promising abnormally high prices for fruit Is to ho shunned, for no cum can do any more than guess at such things; no cum can get better than tlm market pi Ice all tho time. All the association can offer In tho way of prices Is thu market; but with sys tem, effort and caio we should al ways bo able to get tlm market prleo for all ft nit, and this Is all I hat should bu expected, A few pilvatu customers may pay a grower more than tlm maiket for a limited quan tity of fruit, but iilnoly-elght pur cent of our crops must go to tho markets of tho world, and our returns must bo based on the demand and tho way In which wo meet It. C'oinnilMsloiiH a liar. It Is thu contention of some that this method of handling fruit puts It through too many hands and that the growers pay too many commissions. Mut to any ono that has examined the operations of fruit handling, It Is clour that tho grower has always paid more In commissions than tlm as sociation method culls for, only ho never know It, Ily assembling large quantities of fruit, tho association not only helps to regulate tlm sup ply but, on account of tlm volume, seen i oh tho host sor vices at a fig ure that hi enough lower than the Individual growur can got to mah the association ohurgo for handling no outluy for him: lie may pay as much "but It Is divided differently, and part of tlm charge pays for load ing, liispoc Hon, supervision, collec tion, etc, Ho gets morn sorvico for tho Maine or less monoy, with his busi ness done lu a safe; conservative) way. Tlm association does not Increase tlm charges to the grower. Tlm general huslnosii that pertnliiH to all shippers or fruit, the Interest of the whole valloy, would bo looked after only by an oigiiulzutloii, Huch things as ralliond iiites, tialu sorvico for highly perishable) fruit, quality of spiny matoilul and paper, investi gation of storage and keoplug quali ties of fruit, providing shipping fac ilities that are adequate, tho estab lishing and maintaining of grados-- theso things with many othois give gioweis tlm conditions under which fruit can bu marKotou to auvantago-, but mi limy aru provided, apparently out of the iiiihuuii, tho avunigo grow er Is not apt to think of them as a result of some one's efforts. Tlm Adulation Is dm Growers. Tho association was organised and Is working for thoso who aro pro ducing fruit to soil and tho present management is uttohiptlng to put It lu line with tho modern fruit business In Ita functions and methods. It Is not a foreign corporation Booking to tako money out of the community, but tho association Is the growers, who In thu organization, aro attomntlnir lo do their own business, iu what souiiih to them, tho best possible way. It In founded and working -on correct lines; and If ono sot of inou dan not carry It on successfully, another sot will bu round who can and wlll.Muuy things remain to bu. worked out and theiu will always bo tho difficulty In- hoi out In having to sucuro a new crew of workmen overy your; but when the tremendous amount of fruit conies Into bearing, and tho packing and handling of it Ipts to bu done by hundreds of iuoxporiuncod growors or by an organization womowhut fitted for It, It dooa not lako thu uvorugo man long to boo tlm Importance of an organization for this one thing alone. A profitable fruit business is depen dent on propor packing, handling and selling. WANT TO HUV i or 6 good milch cows, 100 care Mall Trlbuno. 1 Uanklne for IleultU. 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