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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1911)
N)WJt-AVJt.tlt-.. Jm44Hii jw.fc v s " iwf w mt . w---m-- V,,.,'if i.-TW4',v.-l ,--W'''VvB-J'rt.wi4r-i--v;,;"V tiwVvii,Tr,'-w(fr,-i''mM '" )"" 'i' V'Y""41i"WpW"'"i'''lrVVtVV,V' 1 M ,i jtJK i. i f it 4 EKGB TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MJDDFORD, OIWCION. SATURDAY. STCPTIQMIWR, 2,1, 1011. f f i t ' litMptlnji Traffic On Southern Pa d$n f Ickcd, pp Cpn,idfr.?Wy liucntal rlI)idH q liQiucsuckcrs jn lfiMfcslU hicn mUeehl)l6kinMH. A tlitt'ct result oC the special pas BCiiKor rules given by nil trnnseon- liue th ford for several tlnyn past. Tim Incoming pnKseiiKvr traffic Is greater by far than it wn's cluriK the summer months, and this increased travel in made tip almost entirely of people from ensteni 'and middle west era states who are here, tome of tliein, intent 111x111 pnrehnsinjj homes, in either tho city or country, while others are "just looking nrunn" but Wire it is there are more of them com ing now Minn have been at any time during the laVt six or eight months. Thoso who nro now coming are persons of moderate means, nud np jH'nr to bo good jubgtiutinl J&eu '? i sterling qualifications and a thor: otich business capacity. Most arc of the sturdy husbandry- type so plen tifully seen in tho middle western states men not in search of fnnty develojed tracts at from $1000 to $2500 per nacre, bnt good agricultur al land at from $76" to $125 an acre fact not the developed product in or chards but rather a tract suscepti ble to a bumbling, at their bauds into n 'finished orchard, alfalfa or grain product. Heal estate men should forgot for n few weeks that they have tio larg er orchard tracts on their lists, und go after these incoming, boincsccker with properties of such value as will induce them to put their woaey into an investment where hard work will Inter figure as an asset In other words sell the horaeseeker a piece of lnnd at a price which will show him vnluo received and which has n promise of a- good margin later on the energy expended. Aviator Killed. What the Passage of the Good Roads I V 1 -wr 1 Tf f 4 t f f Y t - " ii i i i. ninM a. ii. m - X means to uciciisoii vuuiiiv , v oonu H A I I It i ssue ' MANSFIELD. Pa., Sept 23 In the presence ot an Immense crowd, In cluding his wife, "Daredevil" Castel lane, the Curtisa aviator, was tnstaaU ly killed at the fair grounds here yesterday. Castellane's machine turned turtle at a great height and fell to the ground,1 crushing thei av iator under Its engine. Borden Friendly. HALIFAX, JS'., S.Sept 23 -Robert 1. Borden, the victor ovr Sir WJUred Lauricr in Friday's election, declared here today in a public statement that tho friendly relations maintained In .the past between the United States and .Canada were aot In the least Im paired by tho stand taken at the polls by Canadian voters. I'D ( j TACOMA, WnV A wnrrnnt was is sued today for the nrrest of II. If. White, president of the Standard Paper' Company, charging him with the killing) of little Pearl Van Jlorn Wednesday ovening as the boy was alighting-from a street car. The wnr rant was sworn out by Police Chief Fraser. SAN FltANCISGO, Cab Count Spiridau Oopcevic, a Polish author, wauled to seek nn aspiratuion by stroljing. through. Golden Gnto Parjc nt night Ho feared highwaymen, o nsked permission to carry a gun. This was .denied, squelching bis literary efforts, , , JJATTfE, Wh. Word was re ceived here today thut divers have recovered tho strong box containing $150,000 jn' gold bullion which went down .with the S(enmshii 1'umouu.nff Spanish -Island on. tho Alaska coast ten days ago. Tho treasure has been transferred to Mm Steamer Humboldt nnd is due to Jie safely landed in Seattle tomorrow. A Railroad Collision An actual collision of railroad locojuotiyes-, .gouig. -nt thoi ratet of locomotives going at the rato tf the jmw Star theatre, Sunday nnd MwkW .Sepl.eniber 2 mid 25. Tho railroad .company wpnt to nu enorr nioiiS' cxpenso to causo this collision in order to determine tho amount if damage that.. Wftuld bo occasioned when, jraips . ,vere (raveling nt- tbo rato ineiiljonod. Tito other piotures to,bp filiv9Wi( aro "Tho Surgeon's Temptation," ono of exceptional jrowor, nnd a very funny film, "How AlgiCflptured tho Wild Man." This oohiedy film is full of laughs all the way. tfirouglj,, The' Star Theatre opJiis ths yevpuing. It s one of the mgst .p;yinlQtet photo playhouses in ' Hq.BklnsJor lleaJtb, T J A Good Road Election will bo held in this county on Saturday, Soptember 80th, at which the question will be the issuance of One and One-Half Million Dollars worth of Good Road Bonds, tho bonds to run twenty yoars, and to bear interest, payable semi-annually, at the rate of f ivo er cottt. " 'It is proposed to use this money to build, approximately, throe hundred to throe hundrod and fity miles' off irsfc-class high'grade 'macadamized Good Roads in a caremlly-plannod trunk lino systom to cover ovory section of the county. P ' .-. The money wil be spent, and the work done under the supervision of our county court, ASSISTED AND GOVERNED BY an Advisory Board of five representative citizens, in ordor that ovory section of tho county may fool safe and sure that it will receive a square deal, AND its i'AlK SHARE, OF GOOD KQADS. ' s Those men have already been named in advance by tho county court., They are citteons whoso honor, competence and vigilance in the servico of their respective communities and the whole comity cannot bo questioned by any well-meaning man Benton Bowers of Ashland, Miles Cantroll of Applogato, Frank Brown of Eaglo Point, Horace Pelton of Sams Valley, and Sam Mathes of Woodvillo. WHAT AUTHORITY WILL THE ADVISORY BOARD HAVE? Just read the following official statement of the county court, published in tho public pross on tho 19th of this month: "To the voters of Jackson County: There seems to be a fear on the part of some that tho county court in the expendidture of the money to be raised by a bonded indebtedness, should tho issue carry, will bo paid out by the county xiourt to foreign labor and dissipated in many ways without being applied to the particular uses for which it is to be voted. We, the undersigned members" of tho county court of Jackson county vory earnestly desire that every dollar paid out for wages in the building of roads in Jackson county, shall be paid to American resident laborers. We would like to know that when tho million and a half dollars has done the work of building three or four hundred miles of scientific roads in the county that the money which has accomplished the work is yet left among our people. 14 We have appointed an advisory board consisting of "Mr. Benton Bowers of Ashland. "Mr. Horace I. Pelton of Sams Valley. "Mr. Miles Cantrell of Applegate. "Mr. Frank Brown of Eagle Point. "Mr. Samuel Mathis of Woodville. and we promise the people of this county that each member of this advisory board shall have as full power and control over the expenditure of said fund in saying upon what roads the work shall be done, what salaries shall be paid, etc., as we, the county court, or any momber thoroof, has in the premises. " "This statement is sent out so as to inform the general public of the facts enumerated and of our pur poses and intentions in the matter. . , 'Vtf' - . . j "Dated at Jacksonville, Oregon, this 18th day of September, 1911, "J. R. NEIL, Judge. " ' - "JAMES OWENS, County Commissioner. "GEO. L. DAVIS, County Commissioner." WHAT WILL THE GOOD ROADS COST? The county court has built this year three pieces of first-class macadamized road. One and one-half miles on the Ashland road, just out of Ashland, cost $3,995.30 per mile. Half a mile of this road was up Mill hill, a very steep grade. Rock was laid on this road sixteen feet wide fourteen inches deep at center, sloping to eleven inches deep at sides... Ross Avenue, eight-tenths of a mile in length, was macadamized twelve feet wide and ten inches deep at center, at a cost of $1917.19 (or at the rate of $2396.39 per mile). .The haul here was five miles from tho rock crusher at Jacksonville. A stretch of six-tenths miles on.. the Eagle Point Desert road was macadamized the same as the Ross Avenue road at a cost of $2325.81 ( or at the rate of $3876.35 per mile) . Here there was no old road to work over; the work had to be done from the bottom up, breaking in black sticky soil, grading, ditching, etc., and the ma cadam on top of all. This work was all done under the supervision of the county engineer, employed by the county court. . The work and the cost speak for themselves. Doesn't it look like sticking to the facts to say that four to five thousand dollars will build a mile of road (on an average) anywhere in Jackson county? More miles of road can be built under that cost than over it, on any route that will ever be laid out in this 'county and the county can do its own work, employing local labor and teams, as it has been doing, and so KEEP THE MONEY AT HOME. WHAT WILL THE BOND ISSUE COST? One and one-half million dollars, to be securedby the proposed Bond Issue, at an average cost of four to five thousand dollars per mile, will build not less than three hundred to three hundred and fifty miles of Good Macadamized Road. Our roads cost us lastyear96,974.72; on an assessed valuation of thirty-five million dollars. The figures for this year are as yet incomplete, but it is safe to assume that we will spend as much or more than last year, and next year, when jour assessed valuation will, beyond doubt, run as high as forty million dollars, without raising the rate of taxation over tjiat of 1910, there will fce at least $110,000 in the road fund. Each year, as we are going now, the cost of roads will go on increasing, as values go up and more people come in, subdividing present holdings and making more improvements, and so on. AND WE SHALL GET ONLY A LITTLE BIT OF GOOD ROAD EACH YEAR. All the rest of our money will go into the dirt roads. In twenty years, at the present rate of building, we will get Only Sixty Miles of macadamized road. Now, what shall -we have to pay each year for the next twenty years to take care of a million and a half of Good Roads Bonds? ONLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS A-YEAR! That will give us two million dollars raised by taxation in twenty years, and the SINKING FUND will earn the rest, One and one-half million dollars in twenty year bonds at five per cent will run up their face value in inter est, a total of three million dollars, principal and interest. One hundred thousand dollars a year, for twenty years, a total of 'two million dollars, put into a Sinking Fund, anrl loaned out on Farm Mortgages in Jackson county at Six Per Cent, will earn one million dollars before the bonds come due! That is to say, the interest on the bonds can be paid right along semi-annually out of this Sinking Fund, and the surplus, put out at interest at Only Six Per Cent, compounded, will amount at the time when the bonds are due to the million and a half required to pay the face of the bonds. ' Our roads last year cost us nearly a hundred thousand dollars; this year the cost will run at least as high. They are bound to cost us MORE next year, and each year after that MORE AND MORE, if we keep on as we are now doing. If the bond issue carries, we will get the use of.one and one-half million dollars for roads RIGHT AWAY) and the bonds wilj cost us only one hundred thousand dollars a year for twenty years. In addition to this levy of one hundred thousand dollars a year for interest and sinking fund, we shall still have to Jeyy just enough each year to pay for the upkeep of existing roads and for the upkeep of the macadam v&( rnarls n' finilf. v ' ' i. Every fair-minded, intelligent eitizen ought to know, and in fact does Know, that it will cost MUCH LESS each year to maintain a mile of Good Macadamized Road than it now costs to maintain a mile of ordinary dirt road. Nearly a third of our rdid.cojk last year (and this year, too, for that matter) went to "fixing" up" our dirt ryiufi... a pwyvpi jiuj uiuruBneu hock win raraaauy worn spot in a macaaamizea roaa ana ten years use oi a mapau amized road will actually leave it in fatf'betoer shape than when first built. Can you let a dirt road'lay out of door for jten years, with only a shovel full of dirt or gravel thrown on it now aim men, nere ana mere, iuiu'expecv w una me roaa nz an &i me ena oi inaz lime TPINK-IT OVER! ' ';', '' THAT 'TAX-RAfSiffG" ARGUMENT; Does it look to you from jthe afypye facts that.,the Bond Issue will raise our taxes? Do.os it figure up any more money than we shall have fo spenti Anyway, the..way we are cfoine now? uppose, however, FO)1 THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT, that the whole hundred thousand dollars a year were to be added to pur present aei;bam on pur present rate of taxation and our present valuation, without any thought of a reduction of the rate oran increase' in tne valuation at any time within the next twenty years, what would such an increase amount to' for eich individual taxpayer?.. How would it hit the small taxpayer, living in the smaller towns, or trying to niake b.oth'ehds meet and..pay for a ranch out in the country, WHERE, BY THE WAY ALL OF TE GOOD ROADS WILL BE BUILT? The county raised by taxation for all purposes this yoar (WW), pn,t.e levy of 191o;'$J7,p7f40,., Qne hundred thousand dollars is not far from one-fifth of this total; for all practical purposes, we may call it onetfifth... Suppose, that your tax this year was $25.00.. The extra cost to you, then, would rigure out $5.00. Now wouldn't you be GLAD to pay that amount of money every year to swap off the dirt road tjia goes py'your farm for a good year-rpund hard-surface macadamizeri road?.. It 'would figure out just forty-two septs a month. If you are now paying $50 a year in taxes, it.. would cost you eighty-three cents a month to have Good Roads. If your tax runs up as high now as $75 a year, then vou would have to die up $1.25 a month to keep out of pub-deepmud all winter. Wpuldh't you gladly pay that niuch to dodge the mudholes on even just one trip? TJJIWITpVER! .. . f-. . .- t t r ' Our l)Jew Location The Southern Oregon Elec tric Company is now lo cated in the College Block onN. Qrpe Street,. V j Southern Oregon Electric Co. j wwwwwwww Electric Irons Price $4.00 COST OF OPERATION,'3 HOURS, 10 CENTS. Small Investment Large Returns In buying ono of fhoso IKONS you got big re turns for .small investment-. Jt only takes ilirco (il) minutes to got thorn hot. . 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