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; MEDrOBD'OACKSOM COUNIT, EE60I,; FRIDAY, JULY 29. 1904
10. 31.
THE LEAGUE
T
- Standing of the Teams.
WON LOST I'KllCKNT
Aehland it II WW
Med lord !) 7 5li2
Jaoksouvdle 8 S 500
Gold Hill 5 10 833
At a meeting of the board of direc
tors of the Rogue River Valley Uiiho
lmll League held at Jacksonville on
Sunday, it was decided by mutual
consent to drop' the schedule of games
planned and to dissolve the 'league.
This action was taken at the instance
of the managers of the Gold Hill and
Jacksonville teams, and for the rea
son that the attendance at the games
had not been sufficient to justify the
expense necessary to keep the teams
up. The expenses of all the clubB
have beeu very heavy, on account of
the rivalry between the teams, which
led the managers to go out after the
best talent they could secure.
Manager Hall went to Ashland
Monday to try to arrange a series of
games with the ABhland team. The
Ashland fans, however, had chilly
pedal extremities and uo games were
arranged.
The closing of the league in such a
summary fashion left the management
of the Medford team with a bunch of
good players on hand and nobody to
play against. It cost quite a good
deal to got the aggregation together
and Modford would have won the
pennant with ease had the schedule
been played out. . That might have
been one of the reasons the other
magnates were anxious to dissolve,
It would have afforded the Medford
faua much pleasure to have seen Sul
livan, Mitchell, Moore, Henley and
the rout of those hard wielders of
willow up against Martin's onrves,
There would sure' been a spanking
in store for the young man from San
Jose. 'HUlih is pretty game, but he
probably waded in Ashland's "ice
cold" water before Mique No. 2 got
there Monday, because his "tootsies"
were cold when it come to making a
match game with the "Grays."
GAME AT JACKSONVILLE.
Sunday at Jacksonville the last reg
nlar game of the league was played
between Medford and Jacksonville
and resulted in favor of the Grays,
by a score of 19 to 1. The slaughter
was terrific. The Medford lads tell
upon young Mr. LeBter's stunts and
pounded them all over the lot and
even were unkind enough to knock
some of them over the fence. The
Gold Bricks couldn't assimilate
"Tamarack" Henloy's offerings and
would have been shut out if Huliu
could have seen a double play which
was pulled off in the only iuuuig in
which one of Neuber's hired men
touched the rubber.
Medford oponod a package of fire
works in the first seance. After Sul
livan bad been hit by the pitcher,
had gone to second on Huston's
SHcriiice and stolen third Mitchell
lifted one over the fence for a home
run. That made two.
From thou Medford scored each
inning, excepting the sixth and
eighth, running up six scores in the
ninth.
In the third seance Pat Donegal!,
running for Henley's home run over
the fence, struck the fence and
loosened a couple of toeth. He was
looking at the ball and paying uo at
tention to whore he was going. In
this connection the Mail wishes to
say that the rooters should have man
lined and human sympathy enough
about them to refrain from jeering a
man when he gets hurt in the game.
Jacksonville scored in the sixth.
Ed. Donegan made first when North-
up took a hard chance at an iufleld
hit and fumbled it, Collins fanned.
Clyne hit to second forcing Donegan
and the ball was whipped back to
first by Moore in time to catch Clyne,
but Hulin didn't see it. Strub rapped
out two bagger and Clyne scored
That wag the only time the bell rang
for Jacksonville.
SCORE BY innings.
1 2 3 4 6 6 7 8
Medlord 2 1 2 3 4 0 1 0
' Jacksonville 000001 000
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Minerals, Fruits, Grain, Stock, Timber, Fish and Game
By James
The writer who attempts to describe
the resources uud products of Jackson
county Hilda himself confronted by a
problem id the start. It is not the
dilllculty of (hiding something of
which to write that confronts him,
but of condensing the many things to
be written of within the limited space
of a newspaper article.
Mines and Mining.
Perhaps one of the most important
industries of the future, in Jacksou
county, as it has beeu in the past, is
mining. The rugged mountains of
Jacksou county are seamed with gold
and silver bearing quartz, its gulches,
where wator can be secured, .yield a
rich harvest of the yellow metal.
Placer mining has been most in vogue,
but of late years considerable atten
tion haB beeu attached to the quartz
HYDRAULIC M ININU, JACK. SON COUNTY
deposits, and there are many mines of
this character scattered through the
mountains of Jackson comity, which
are yielding their owners a good reve
nue and paying for the development
work at the same time. It might be
said that no deep mining has yet
been done, but it will 1)0 but a mat
ter of a few years, in the opinion of
experienced miners, until some one
will strike a great pormnnont ledge,
which will forever remove the idoa
that Jackson county is merely a
"pocket" country.
Hesides the gold mines, extensive
deposits of coal are fonnd at different,
points, but so far no effort worthy of
the name has been made to develop
thoin.
CimiabHr and galena are also found
and recently an extensive ledge ot
the former ore has been uncovered
on Rogue river, about thirty miles
from Medford.
The famous Blue ledge copper mine,
which will soon , be opened up. is
tributary to this county, lying as it
does on this side of the Siskiyuiis.
The outlook for the mining indus
try in this county, and, indeed, all
THE APrLK
over Southern Oregon, is very bright. :
Capital Is being attracted hither, '
confidence has been established in
the permanence and richness of our
mineral deposits; aud many mines,,
abandoned when they failed to pay
under the operation of old methods,
are being developed. ,
Fruit. J
Next in importance to the mining,
industry 1b that of fruit raising some !
readers may aver that it comes first,
and I will not engage In an argument
with them on that point, but, taking
past performances and future pos
sibilities, I have placed mining first.
Tn VAnm a an RniithArn OreffOn fruit
unknown In Xhi great market of1
D, Fay
the world. A great deal of it found
"its way there, however, under the
"California" label. Now it is known
Hud demanded in every great city.
Yellow and red apples from Jackson
county have beeu eaten and enjoyed
in every q .art or of the globe.
From w scattering shipments,
coi; i:ed to California commission
nouses, the industry has grown until
hundreds of car loads are sent out
every year, by associations and in
dividual shippers, each box bearing
the label, "Southern Oregon Fruit.'
Apples, pears, peaches, apricots, in
fact, every variety of fruit raised in
the temperate zone, grows to perfec
tion here; but the apple is our pride,
and particularly the Newtown. We
grow any other apple as well as they
do anywhere else, but the Newtown
Wioto by II. C Mtickcy
grows better than anywhere else on
earth. In describing his first sight
of the Rogue river valley in 1846,
Lindsay Applegate says in his jour
nal, made while laying out the route
over which many of the pioneers of
Oregon came, that "the valley was
a vast field of waving grass and the
clumps of oaks and other trees along
the water courses har the appearance
of orchards." Ho lived to see many
of those clumps of trees replaced by
' orohurds, and many of the grassy
! plains beside.
Not nearly all of the land capable of
raising fruit has as yet been set to
orchard ; but the orchard is rapidly
taking the place of the grain field in
the central valley, while the foot hills
are thickly iuterpersed with thrifty
and prolific orchards.
Hundreds of acres of orchards are
now in bearing in Jackson county
hundreds more will come into bearing
within the next year or two and
hundreds more are being planted
each year.
Agriculture.
Agriculture is followed and succoss
. fully, too, in the county, but the dis-
iMHVhHT
II. (J. Mac key I'hmo
tance from market and the greater
profits to be gained from fruit or
stock raising has roduced the number
of exclusive grain grower materially,
Three crops of alfalfa are raised to
the season and this crop goes to fatten
the stock raised in tue foothills and
the mountains.
Not an insignificant portion of the
wealth of Jacksou county Is derived
from Its stock. In the low foothills,
a heavy growth' of oak trees pro
duces nearly every year a bountiful
mast. Here hundreds of hogs are
raised, with practically no expense
to the owner. They are not of the
"wind splitter" variety, either the
Jackson county, rancher is wiser than
that but are well-bred specimens of
the porcine race, and fetch their
owner good emoluments when mar
keted. Higher up on the slopes of
the mountains cattle and sheep roam
aud graze upon the succulent grasses
of the upper slopes. They come out
in the fall, sleek and fat, to be sent
to market, or .to winter upon the buy
raised in the lower valley.
Timber.
Jackson county has another re
source as yet undeveloped, tmt which
will .in time, and not a v ry ling
time at that, bring millions of dulhirs
into the county, and that is its tim
ber. For over fifty yours sawmill
havo been eating into the vast forests
which clothe the mountain sides, and
in that time they have scarcely made
a "scar." Thous-.mds of acres of
lofty sugar, white and yellow pine
A Mut'N'IM IN
trees cover the surrounding mountain :
and but wait the woodsman's axe to j
be converted into a marketable pro-1
duct. Projects are already on foot to
develop the vast amount' of woalt-h j
now lying dormant in tho forests of
Jackson county. A railroad survey;
is bebng made to tap the great timlwr
region of the Butte creek country.
and it is. not improbable that within
a year the hum of the sawmill aud j
the rattle or me logging tnion wiu w
heard in the section, where hereto
fore the wild denizens of the: forest
have held full sway.
Fish and Came.
Jacksou county is well supplied
with fish and game. Her stream
swarm with salmon and trout, the
valley is full of quail 111 tho fad and
the Mongolian pheasant, brought hw
a few years ago, is increasing rapidly.
II. HU) TO
In the nearby mountain deer are j
found in great numbers. Cougars, .
boar, lynx and other game of the kind
may be found, and even, occasionally, !
the king of the American toresi, wie
mighty and ferocious grizzly, may be
met but moat hunters are contont
to take the smaller game.
Scenery and Climate.
Mineral springs of msdicinal prop
erties are scattered all around, some
of the most magnificent scenery In the
world is within easy reach, the1 cli
mate is as near perfection as can lie
found any where on the continent,
j ti It nil ! all It iu a. iflnnl
jsna, I"; ... -
I t ki..li ti fuut. vnur lot.
Rid Wanted.
Notice is hereby given thut the
board of trustees of Modford school
district will receive bids for eighty
cordB of four foot wood, split body
Br, up to and including August 1,
1004. Wood to be delivered by No
vember 1, lfOt. 'Die board reserves
the right to reject any or all blda.
Addr. GAr'lT. JONES,
. . .Clerk
r? W3r '
A pile of telegraph polos near the
Southern Pacific depot at Ashland
caught fire one night last week, but
was easily extinguished. The audi
ence at the chautauqua building was
somewhat alarmed when the bell rung
in the town near by.
Early Alexander peaches are being
shipped from Ashland. Ashland
strawberries havo brought an average
of 10 cents more per orate in the
Portland market than the famous
Hood river product.
Ti e s:o.'otary of state has been ad
vised liy the attorney general that
the salaries of tin two district at
torneys of the first judicial district
HOMKST CAy".
H uuutl IMioit
will bo ftiOOO per year for A. J5.
Kenmea for the division comprising
Jackson and Josephine, aud Sl'iOO for
W. J. Moore for Klamath and Lake.
The Infant . daughter . of Mr., aud
Mrs. Wolboru lieoson, of Talent, died
Saturday last, aged six mouths.
The Stansel) sawmill recently
moved to Sard i ue creek, has com -
menced sawing luiUner.
Dr. W. A. .lamieson, of tlold Hill.
has attached the property of the
Howdcn (iold Mining Co., to recover
$1500 aud interest.
The prisoners in the county jail are
now denied the privilege of the cor
ridors, the four would-be desperadoes
captured at Ashland sometime ago
having been detected in an attempt
to saw their way out. Tho saws are
supposed to have been coucoaled in
11KAT
llRiitielt I'lioto
the jail by Walter Wyland.
Chief of Police Good, of Ashland,
arrested a man on train No. 10 last
Saturday afternoon, who wbb bus
pected of having been Implicated in
the robbery of a passenger on Fri
day's train. The susHict wbb takon
back to Siskiyou county lor trial,
Thus, (low, ofTalont, had a narrow
escape from serious Injury at the rail
road crossing juBt north of Ashland on
Saturday afternoon. He was driving
across the track when a light engine
struck the hind wheel of his vehicle
Mr. (low was thrown to the ground
and badly hurt, having a deep gash
cut tn his head and his right shoulder
and hip severely bruised. Carl Bee
son, who was with him, escaped unin-
jural. There was a large umbrella
raised ovor the seat and when the
wogon was struck, young Benson, Beat,
umbrella and nil were thrown' Into
the air. Beesnn hung to tho umbrella
which acted as paracnnM enu neipou
htm get to the ground uuinjureu.;
Some Changes.
Tho readers of the Mail have uo
doubt noticed iu fact we know that
some of them have a change tn the
shape of the paper. Three weeks ago
wo installed a folder and pastor. We
didn't mako any particular amouni
of noise about it, although it la the
first machine of the kind ever intro
duced into Southern Oregon. Fact Is
wo wanted to see how it was going
to work before we said anything, and
wo are glad to say that it works all
right. Hereafter the Mull, will open
up like a city daily and we lutond
to make the standard of excellence
as high as possible.
A second change we have made is
in segregating tho "For Sale" aud
Want" advertisement. Thoso "ads'
will hereaftor be found on tho third
pago in a certain column and will not
bo removed from that position. This
change would have boon made before
if it coidd havg been conveniently
arranged. We have been working to
thiB end for some time and are at last
getting matters anvngod to give our
patrous even better service than be
fore.
The Illustrated articles on Southern
Oregon which have appeared of late
will be continued and nothing will be
left undoue to make the Mail worthy
of the reputation It has of being the
best local paper la Southern Oregon.
The Mail is not glveu to "tooting-
its own horn," but feels in this case
that it is justified. We have been so
frequently told that this is the best
equipped office in Southern Oregon
or Northern California that we fool
that we would like to tell our patrons
what others think of us, aud invito
them to como and inspect our now
equipment.
The Owner Heard From. .
Sonie weeks ago an account np
peered in tho Mail concerning a.
wounded carrier pigeon which had
been picked up iu the streets of Med
t'oni, bearing certain marks which
indicated that it had been liboratcd.
for tho purpose of carrying a message. -
Tho following lotter was recently ro--coived
by the editor of the Mail:
'Modford Mall: In tho ' issue of
June 28th of the Eugene Morning;
Register nppeared an extract, from.
f our issue of the 17th ult. , concern-.
ng the finding of an injured carrier
pigoon, "P. P. C, y if27" 'by Mr.
C. W. Palm, of your city. As ap
pears from the item that curoalty
was manifested as to where it came
from, I will stato that this bird waa
one of six belonging to nombors of
the Pacific Pigeon Club, of this city,
which was liberated at 4:110 on tho
morning of June 11th, (the moruing
it was found injured) by Mr. SiunuoL
Hoome, at ' Eugene, Ore. But one.
bird, my own, returned from EugoiuY
The dead bird was tho - property of
Mr. II. T. Mcllaln, of Ouklnnd, nud
it had traversed more than 120 miles,
of tho dlstanc home when found. Wo
appreciate Mr. Palm's kindnoHS to
the bird, and wish to thank him -.
through tho columns of your puer
for his attention to it. It miido a.
brave fight, but waa overcome
Vours very truly,
A. W. MCl.N'T'yiiE,
liaco Sec. Pacific Pigeon Club.
Rogue River Apricots.
Capt. Win. Carroll, ' of 'the linn
Lomond orchards, has boon shipping
ipiite a number of apricots to Port
land markets of late. In all he had
xhipped, up to the first, of tho week,,
:Wir cratoH, and had received for thorn.
$1.2o as the lowoHt and $1.:1T as tha .
highest price. The following Icthtr
from tho house to which the fruit was
consigned explains itself:
, Portland, Ore., July 8, 1901.
Mr. Win. Carroll:
ji'Dear Sir. : Wo are in receipt of
your kind favor of the llth inst. , and
nlso of your two shipments of "cots,"
which Hold at .2ii to l.:i.r per ernt.'.
Wo had a shipment from Kastnrn Or
egon today in boxes which sold at
1.00 and wo are surprised, to see Ilia,
Oregon "cots" so early, as the Mnr
tinas "cots" have only just com
menced to come iu from California
These "cots" of yours, howoven,
are in good demand hero, and will
sell in -competition with anything
from California and will ensily bring
2o cents per crate more than tho stock
we are receiving from there. ,
Hoping to hear from you frequontij
and trusting we shall have a good
bulanoBB with you this season, wa
remain,
Yours respectfully,
PEARSON PAGE A CO.
W. C. T. U. Items.
Tho Union met on time at the homo
of Mrs. Carl T. Jones. After devo
tional exeroiseB some few minute
wore devoted to business. It boiiur
Capitol and Labor Day" several
good articles were read and all dis
cussed the question In general. Thai
Union was favored by several beauti
ful instrumental solos by Miss Peart
Bradbury. After alnging tho dntol
ngy the Union adjourned to meet at '
the home of Mrs. (limit, through
sieoinl Invitation, next Thursday,
July 28th. The members are requwaV
.d to cone.