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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1902)
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CAM1CRON, I'HYHKIIAN AND HUIICIKON (Mice In llnttiltn llliwk Medford, Oieiion llnnidio III Mo, I Hi Ilium'" ronMvln.il (JLARI5NC1C W. KKKNK, I'HYHH.'IAN AND HUIKIKON Ollloo III Ailklin HIiH'k li!i(uril, Oiokoii (JKO. V. KINO, CiOVKKNMKNT I.ANI) I.OCATOIl Mitilloril, Orogon ('ii tomtit purlton 'in vnliinliln tlmlinr or nirrl. cullum llin,li tVrlln 1110 fur full lliriiiiinilloli uinud Willi K. M.HIdWurt real rnlalo nitetit j. i). mi its, i). u.s., Oltlcna III Adklm llluck, ndJolnltiK lliiWltm' Dnitf nluro Mudlurd, ureuoii )U. 11. n. nuri-Hit, liSTKtH'ATIIIHT Hooin it mid 4. Optra Moima ttlock, ovor titrmiK'n tlruy tor, r.liiinlimtloiin Iron MrUford. Oregon Qf T. JONKS, COUNTY HtmVKYOH. Aiiynrallkliulniif HurvnylnK tinuiiptly dornt. TI10 Ciiuttly Burircor cmi give you llio ouiy loKat work. Mrdd.nl. OrDKon AMMOND A NARRHGAN AlTOItNKYH AT LAW Oftloo In Stowurl ink. Mudford. Or. K.KIRCHCKSSNER. l'UYHK.'IAN AND HUKOKON, ' Contrnl I'olnt, Oragoo. ITodrordrjnicii-I.ln1liy llulldlnK. Wndnono.y ml Htur(lay,u:)io II . m., on und fta April 10. 'w. j, 8. HOWARD, HUUVKYOIt AND (J1VII. KNU1NKKH 0. B. DopulJ Mineral Hurvoyor tor Hid 8Ul Of Oregon. I'ontomcc Kdilrimn: Medford, Oregon. 'K B. PICKEL, rilVHICIAN 'AND bllKCRUN, Ontothourn-ll lolln. nt. hhd I :IB U3 p.m. X ltuy I.nboriti(iry Kunilimtlonn f.'.M) to $V. , Olllcoi llnnkln lllock. MMford. Or UJ gj j j L. . J W.I. Vawtkr. l'ron. II. F. Adkikh, V I'ron O. II. I.INKI.BY, OMhlnr. Jackson County Haul' ...CAPITAL, 130,000... MKDFORD, OniSOON Loan moaoy on approved noourltyt reoolva do ixmIw nulijooi to ohook and trnnnitoi a ganura tianklng hiinlnunH. Your tiunlniinH nottclloil.... Oorronpoiiduntn: Lltdd & llunh. Hulom. Anglo California Hank, elan Fruuolnco. tnild a TUIod, I'ortland.Uorbln Hanking Co., N. Y. H, K. AKKINV, I'ninldont. I. II, r.NYAUT. Uiinliliir. I. H. STUVfAKT. Vlco I'ninlilcnt. M I., Ai.roHii, Aunt. Cnntilor. The Hedford Bank MroronD. oncaor Capital, $50,000.00 A General Banking Business Transacted RTOUKIIOMIKItR j H. Rtownrt, II, It. Ankeny, K. II. whltehrnd, ,C. V. Ilcnkiimn, Mnrttuu l'olton.Uen Ilaymond, .1 nines Pulton, V. 11. Ilriwlnliiiw, J. K. Knynrt Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. This preparation contains all of the dlKostuiits and (HhchIs nil kinds of food, KkIvch Innlnnti rcllvrnnd novor fulls to euro. It allows you to cut all tlm food you want. The most scnsltlvo BtonuioliH can tuko 1 1. Ily I ts uso many thoiiHiinds of dyspeptics havo boon cured after overythlntr. else Titlled, ' It prevents formutlon of tjason Ihostom. itch, rellovlntt all dlstriwHaftereatlnt'. Dieting unnecessary. Pleasant to tuko, It can't help . but tlo you ijood lnipitroilnnly by 15.0. DiiWiri'&Oo., c'lili'iiita 1 'Xiiv l. buHlu OOuUilug tin UuicalUoOUciilzo, A(9j VOL. XIV. FltlJIT LAND FOOT llll.l 71 tii'n'N.HO uuri'N In inilllviillon hiillillnUM. l.lvlnu wiiliir trnlii 14 NcruH Niioiliitt to mriiirii. liii-ii unml iiriiliuril lmiil. VAI.I.KY HIJMK-'l-ili'rii I run I iiiliolniliu 0 lion, iiniiii iioiihu iiiiu iiiirn, 13 iiuiur kum nun miiu. vizim. a into Z IiiiiiH' for Himiuoiiii 2 CHAIN IIAKHII-iniiiurri, In milium. Allliiculllnilli.il. Itlrli. Iilmili noil, which fruit T . 1111111 f lllllil will Jiruvii niliiilrd to tririm. Klllr lulicfi unt nu liullillllKH. 0 only two iiilli'M from town. Tim priiNont crop niduIh for tlm riuiltly ol A tint noil. I'rlcit KH.UHI. l!rop ruMtrvml A I.HAI)l:K l:ul uiiri'Kiiri'lmr.l lunil nl In if fooMllIlK, two llillim from Olltrul I'olnt, 0 nil but uljolil llvr Itcrrn of wlilcli H IIio vury IminI of fruit Intnl. VtJ ncrun of tllulMir llllid uonn with tlm iiliuto. A 11 uxi-nlli.'iit 7 rouiii ilwnlllriK iioiimi w UllH'd iiiiii iiluntonid; tirli'k uiIlM Iioiinii. (Jooil Imrii nud urnimry; wood Mi11.1l. Miiuilii'liiiiiMff iiihI tiiiiliiillillnuM. 'I'wu wiiIIm of Him wiitur. Klitlrc W liliii'ii vlHlliln from rnilili'liiiil. A urvui (.""qiiln lit ifi'M. Crop .rnnorvod m 'I'liU In the pcur of uuy frtlll Incntioll III Jurkxui ronnlv r 1IOI.MK.S HROI .... CENTRAL POINT J Pacific i cast Seeders I Plows Marrows j All kinds of farming machin- ery. New stock just being I received HUBBARD BROS. Medford, Oregon New Lumber Yard 'is IV Rough and Dressed Lumber .. .. Fir and Pine Shingles Rustic and Flooring ( Three Years Old. Thoroughly Seasoned. Medford Oregon 1 am proparcd to furnish HARNESS, SADDLES, ETC. First-Class Goods. Moderate Prices Gall and soo mo 7th Street Bedford. Machine Shops Boiler and Encino renairinc Engines, Boilers and Pumps Bought and Sold EXPE11T MACHINE WOllK OF ALL KINDS Gasoline Engines and Spray Pumps o.i Sale &AULT & COOK, BEDFORD PLANING MILL, MEDFORD PLANING We mnnufnoturo Doors, Sash, Kstimatos furnished on Store soft wood ' ' , Contrnotinpt and Buildinn Mill on North D Street MEDFORD, Advertise in THE MAIL and get good results Fine Job Printing a Specialty MEDFOBD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 6, 1902 BAIKMINH f IjiiJjco liriixli. 1'iilr liounu.bnrn nnd out. Miiiiiiliiln uiirlnir tilfifil illrmit to rimlilPIKIC only y inllni, rrooi (.'untrul I'olnt. Kvsry I'rlim CilSllll. Urim riiMiirvnd Coolrul I'olnt tuwn kIui. Wucnm In oulllva- Broad - 'UK 'IK Hi THE MORTAR DRUG STORE, i. II. I1ASKI.NS , I'rop H .H..HIP.. ,1. TN Of Uriign, I'nli'iii Meill. -urn. fiRokn, Hlnllcneij I'AINTj and OILS ('Ignrn.Tohnrco.Tolltil Artlobm. Klc Prescription Carefully Contponndrd 7th St., Medford. Oregon O. E. GORSLINE & SONS MANUPACTUKERS OF AND OEALRItS IN rd Pouth of man's WartnouBu all kinds of f? J. G. TAYLOR, Medford, Oregon sr. e-. r-. r e-. e-. n a "pecialtv. Second hand Mill CO., Proprietors mouldings, Rustio and Floori and Office fixtures in hard or . v' - ' odphoim V K V - 1 l Fropne JU JL HI LL L U . VS A Located In the Southern Part this Great State. of from ttio Halcirn Pacific Hutmmtead : "Snowy Butte" orchard, owned by Olwell Bros., udjoins the city limits of Central Point, Jackson County, Oregon. They had about $40,000 in cash and ccood notes, and n 188!) purchased 800 acres of land for which they paid $15,000 cash. One hundred and sixty acres were set to apples and winter pears 150 acres being set to apples. There were 5000 SpiUonbergs, 1500 New towns, 1500 Gravonsteins, 1500 Ben Davis, 500 Winesups, 100 Petite prunes, 500 Win tor Nellies and 400 trees of 8war, Ked Astrachans, Red Cheek Pippins and Bartletta. The trefscosl them $40 per thousand and there were 12,000 trees in the orchard. The land is what might bo called heavy, and ii very dark, ft was nine years before the trees came into bearing. Had the land been lighter they would havo come into bearing two years earlier, but l be trees would not have lasted so lung. Between the rows of trees was grown corn and watermelons which, for the first three or four years, paid for caring for the or chard. The amount was decreased each year as the trees got larger and discontinued altogether after the fifth year. The land requires constant culti vation until the middle of July, hence a crop requiring cultivation can just as well be grown for the first few years. One year sixty acres were devoted to watermelons. When the land was purcbaFed there were no buildings of any kind on it. Buildings had to be con structed, horses and machinery had to be purchased. When the trees came into bearing in 1S97, of course there was only a small crop pro duced about 2400 boxes; they had used up the entire $40,000. This partial crop was sold f. o. b. the card at Central Point for 90 cents per box. Since that the average crop has been 35 carloads, or 21,000 boxes, per year. Some years more and some years lees. In 1898 they were offered 75 cents per box f. o. b. care at Central Point for .common varieties and $1.10 for fancy grades and had they sold would have netted about $8000. This was when they were just beginning to see "daylight" in the orchard business. They were then inexperienced in the marketing of fruits and held the crop thinking that prices would advance in late winter. Early in Maroh they shipped'the bulk of tbe crop to New . York which reached there about five days after the fruit held in cold storage had been put upon the market and prices were away down. They would have been better off had they never harvested their fruit. Yet, as one of them re marked to the writer, "It was prob ably worth to us all it cost, as it taught us a lesson." Tbe net profits on the farm were for 1899, $6000; 1900, $12,000; and for 1901, $20,000. , For the beBt care of a large bear ing orchard it will cost per year from $15 to $25 per acre; this is for cultivation, spraying, pruning, thin ning, etc The oodt for' picking, packing, wrapping, etc. that is from tho tree to the oar where the station or siding is near the or chard i3 from 25 to 80- oents per box. The paper alone for one year's crop will cost about $1000, boxes $1800, and nails $150. This will give some idea of the opst of a large commercial orchard. Pickers are paid $1 por day and board. Pick ing season lasts for about three weeks and from. 40 to. 80 piokers are employed 50 boing the aver ago. Tho packing is done by girls. Kniploy about sixteen who aro ex perioncod, It lakes about two years HO. 39. to becooie an expert packer; some never can become expert in that lino. The apples are picked off the trees by band, placed in what are called orchard boxes and hauled to the packing house' on long racks with springs under them, 60 to 70 boxes being hauled at each load, and they are stacked up. The red varieties are run through a polisher and are assorted into two sizes. The polishor is made by fastening nruflnes 00 a wfieeI. "er bBng a circular strip upon which brushes' are also fastened, all being attached ' to springs. Tbe wheel is revolved quite rapidly, the apples passing through between the bushes on the wbeel and those attached to the circular strip which gives them a glossy appearance. The imperfect apples are set aside. Tbe perfect apples are than wrapped in fruit papper, each piece having the ad vertisement of the orchard, and packed in standard boxes. The green-colored varieties are assorted, wrapped, and packed, but not pol ished. A good packer under favorable conditions can wrap and pack from 40 to 50 boxes per day of eleven hours. Ordinarily they 'pack from 25 to 30 boxes. The boxes are lined with paper, a blue cardboard id placed between each layer and in top and bottom of the box. Tbe art in filling, a box is in building it up as each variety of apples is placed in differently. r Immediately after packing the apples are shipped in car load lots. Newtowns go to the English mar kiits, Spitzenbergs to the large cities of tbe tfast, Ben Davis and Red Cheeked Pippins' usually to the southern states, and some to Alaska. If any of tbe crop is held it in not tdvieableto pack , until ready for shipment. Apples for the Englifb market are billed to London but if, when they reach New YorTc, the market tn London is not what is de sired the apples are put in cold storage at New York to await an advance in the London market. If there is a considerable amount tbe cost of cold storage is 5 cents per box per montb. . Fruit that is sold in London is sold at auction at 9 a. m., and by reason of tbe difference in time a cablegram is sometimes received at 8 :30 a. m. at Central Point an nouncing tbe price for which it was sold at 9 a. m. the tame day. lue uiweii tiros, nave bum up a reputation for 1 on"s?y of pack hence they sometimes sell ten thousand dollars' w;orth of fruit on a telegraphic order. The buyer knows that he will get just what he orders, and the seller knows that the buyer will be pleased. When they begin' hand pumps were used and the spraying of 160 acres beoame quite a problem es pecially when men refused to work when asked to operate the pumps. Finally they made a gasoline en gine, which operated the pump and also tbe agitator, aha placed it on a wagon, three men with one machine will spray about 400 trees per day. The spraying is thoroughly done, every apple is covered, and the tree after it has been-. sprayed has the appearance of having been washed. A Farson's Noble Act. "I want all the world to .know," writes Kev.fJ. J. bud Ion?, o! Asbaway, R. I., "what a thoroughly good and re liable medicine I found in Electric Bit ters. They cured me of jaundice and liver troubles that had oaueed me great suffering for many years. For a gen' ulne, all-around oure they excel any thing I ever saw." Electric Bitters are the surprise of all lor thoir wonderful work In liver, kidney and stomach troubles. Don't fail to try them. Only 50 cts. Satisfaction Is guaranteed by Unas. Strang, druggist. The largest library in the world is the National Library, of Paris, which contains forty ;miles of sbolves, holdin" 1 400,000 books Thora are also 175,000 manuscripts 300,000 maps and charts and 150, .000 coins and medals. - ON 2200 8TATI5 O? C,JOriN, I , CriWAy'ril Jiu on i, a.m. iilllun, IioIiik flrHtdulynworn, of 'rim MKDn l. MATr . weekly nown. paper pnlillnlied In the City of Medford. Juoknyn (Jounty, Or.iiri, ihnt tho nnm! Iior of Medford Mnlln printed each weok In 2Mt. i, nd that ihla minihur han boon printed ench week for the past eight months and oror. A. 8. BLITON 8u.6j0ib1l'1"1-"worn 10 before mo thin 2lt day of July. lri Z?lTI M STEWAUT A OF EVERYTHINfi. . The native runners postman of; Natal are strikingly pictaresqtte when on business bent.. With their sandaled feet and headdress of dried leaves, which rattle as they run, and a military greatcoat, un derneath which is a garment called tbe mucetu, thay travel for miles at a jog trot at four miles an hour and receive as payment $5 a month. Most men know that corn, lees than any other of our cereal crops. depletes the fertility of the soil on which it is grown, yet not all know why this is. Corn to a greater ex tent than any other cereal is car-' bonaceous or fat producing, and as this carbon element is all derived' from the sun and air the crop there fore draws lightly on the soil. The study of curl leaf in .Italian prunes is the subject of a trip on which Prof. Cordley, of the Oregon Experiment Station, has just sturted through Southern Oregon. He if to go as far Fouth as Ashland.. i Much work on tbe disease has been ' done in the s ation laboratories, and it is hoped that ultimately the cause of the trouble may be. dis covered and a remedy applied. , Pacific, Homestead. The United States government is spending $10,000,000 annually for i he furtherance of agricultural in terests. . Every state in tbe United States has an experiment , station for the investigation of agricultural problems. Agricultural colleges are teaching the "new science" of farm ing and it is proposed to establish a rustic kindergarten in every school by teaching "nature study" and primary agriculture to the little folks. Pacific Homestead. "Nothing new under the sun,1, said the preacher. Yet many people think that he did not foresee the bicycle., Neveatheless, Mr. Yang. . Yu, late Chinese minister , to , this cuntrp, dpcHrps - that they used l'ii;M-.i-ri hi !ii - Flowery kingdom twenty centuries ago. He adds' that their manufacturer was finally prohibited by the Emperiorbecaueo the Chinese, women rode so con stantly that they neglected their families and domestic duties. . This bit of satire indicates that Mr. Yank' Yu ba attained a very intelligent, appreciation of occidental humor, during his residence in thib country. What is Btated to be the oldest ship in the world has recently been sold at Teneriffe. to be brokeu up. Ibis is the Italian ship Anita, reg-. istered at the port of Genoa. The Anita, which resembled Christopher Columbus' ship, the Santa Marie, was built in Genoa in 1548, and effected her last voyage at the end of March, 1902, from . Naples to Teneriffe, five or six months ago.; The Anita was of tremendously stout build, and had weathered countless storms and tornadoes all over - tho world, but it was also the slowest ship afloat, taking 205 days on one voyage from Baltimore to Rio de Janeiro. iiiFismissw ENGINEER'S OVERALLS SAN FRANCIseO, OAU ' S