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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1906)
Mail Section One Pages 1 to 8 VOL. XVIII. MEDFOflD. JA3KS0N COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MAR H 9. 1906 NO. 10 Jackson is , One of the Counties in tne VERT RICH IN CLIMATE, RESOURCES, FORESTS AND MINES Good Transportation Facilities, Fine Educational Advantages, Super ior Social Conditions, County Finances, Real Estate Values, Its Wide Markets for Home Products, Advantages for Manufacturing, Scenery, Etc. FOR SETTLERS WHEA AlEDFORD'S TOWN site was agreed upou, the principal determining factor taken into consid o;atiou was the location in reference to making the city the commercial center of the vaUey. With a sagacity bom of experience, the founders of giuuiug onr b nks and merchants have pu raped ch.it conservative course, based upou moderate profits and Bquaft dealing, which has commended the town to Hb patrons a d won the confidence ot the agricultural element whiob is rbe basis of all urban pros perity. Kven during the at:es of the are getting goods at the lowest possi ble price from Medford dealers. Iu recent years the great demand f or the sp3cial productions of Southern Oregon, our famous Spitz n berg aud Newtowu appleB, our wonderful Bart lett, Cornice, Boso, Howell, de Anjou and Winter NeliiB pears, tnentiou of Here is Offered the Soil and j Climate, and Other Re sources of Every Kind. ' The element whiob The Mail is uiistl anxious to see come into Medford to I remain, for all who uome htre d i re main, Is the great sturdy America u : yeomanry from the middle Mississippi Valley states the men of families ' the true bluo A men oh lis, business men or agriculturists, who wsut the I best that nature can provide and are 1 willing to put tuMr shoulders to tbe wheel and supplement liberal uatute's efforts in this happy -valley It is only the man who has 'raveled the wide world o-er who realize-? tbe tin approachable beauty of our surround. boir.e of myriads of lauded gentry in . tho trupst sen e, mou who with the caro and atteutiou which distinguish the modern noi -timil uri&t, will obtain from ton ajrts what the gteat whtat farmers of tbe uortbueet hare re- quired their tens cf thousands of acres to accomplish PRODUCTIVE ROGUE LIVER VALLEV. CLIMATE CANNOT. BE Everyone Who Has Ever j Visited the Valley Loudly Praise the Climate. Nearly Everything Required by .Mankind j is Produced Here. Iu its contention that the Rogue lu the folder iatuid by the Southern River Valley otters the greatest tnPueillo Uomua-jy, nndort be ouptloa, duoeuieute to the hnnitsoeker of auy "The Rogue River Valley," uceuia ' portion of the nortwast, The Mailjtho following oomnient: "From a desires to call forward espcuiully tbe ollmutio pilnt of view this Is the most mutter of .he great diversity of pro- inviting portion of Oregon Here is duotluns for whiob this valley is noted ; found the mean be tween bouutiful In the early pioneer days it was found moisture uud excessive dryness." that the valley produced withiu it! This la tbe unbiased opiuion of a self everything necessary for sustain- disinterested observer, who knew Ing life in comfort even ro iha item of ( whereof he Bpoke. Our citizens do Bait, although the salt produced at the ( not yet realize what it means to be old Meadows works cost about hb mucu j thus situated with regard to ollmiate. ! as tbe gold washed from the gulob . In the blizznrd-smitten central states iplaoers. Bread, meat, fish, game, the iuoleuieut nurtheasteru p. rliou of , PlSrl:!t;Hri fi . H , iff d -i Lain ;t.ii;J SEVENTH STREET LOOK1NJ E iST P.iOM E STEEET Photr. by Hu?, SEVENTH ETREET. LOOKlNti WEST i'ROM E STOEET hull iledford reulized that the Rogue hard times of tne early nineties, there River Valloy was then iu the coudi- ( were no failures in Medford When tion of au undeveloped pioneer settle- the rest of the oouutry was gaiping ment, and tbe pleus for its future for its very tiannaiul breath and the were eo cleverly outlined that today soundest easteru houseit were totter- we Mud it a flourishing youug city of ing as if to fall, there were very few ; 3(Xt population ; a city of more than i out of employment neiv-, and aside! usual business activity; a city of from beiuc a trifle more -jonscrntivA, schools, churches, good streets, beau-j our mernbauts steadily continued to ( tif 1 parks and beautiful homes, all of reach out. for trade until, when the! which have had .their especially fitted! sun of proeparity shown forth a.ca'.n : setting iu the chain of circumstances and the etockiwen, wneat growers and and events which have bullded quiok-j mountaine-'rs asfnin had "money to; ly and substantially the city which it j bum." cu9timi-rs camo thronging to ' is today. Medford from all the adjoining ooun-! Medford offers to the homeseeker ties, from ths confines of far Jobo-! the advantage of beauty of location,.' phine, troni the Siskiyous to the Dmp good health and a business future of qua divide, eveu from distant Lake which there can be no question, in j ond Klamath, and it began to look as the very heart of one of the most f Medford was the whole show iu tt-ft productive agricultural and bortioul- iine 0f trade in Southern Oregon tural sections of the northwest It ib Before the recnt. divnrgeucB of trade ' not to be wondered at that we are on : by railroad construction in Northern the eve of tremendous development, j California, It wa a common thing to irheu one considers the great advan-1 ' tages we have over less fortunately i situated towns. L,ong before the fruit industrv made the record of whioh , we are so proud now, even the casuul t observer could see that Medford in j her commanding situation, the distri- j butlug center for euoh a vast sectioj j of mining and timbored country to the north and to the south, over into j several counties of Northern Califor nia, reaching almost to the coast on the west aud to the orest of the Cas cades on the east, with the demand which is oreated by the charaoter of the occupations followed by the resi dents of tuat great district, making it lucumbmeut on the Rogue River Val ley to supply them with all produce aud necessaries not imported from the east, meant much in the line of trale to the leading town of the val loy. It is a strikiug commentary on the advantages of the situation we oc cupy to state that all the dairy pro ducts, all the poultry products, except fbauksgivin turkeys, all the sur plus hay produced, all the vegetables crown, as well as he berries and kin dred products, tind here as good a market as If we were located within fifty miles of Portland or San Fran The present situation is but a fore- ( turn togetner at tne counters 01 uea- i i,.t n, tnhiro hna in store I ford's merchants. Tnis great trade which will he found elsewhere in these columns, aud tbe adaptabilitv t)f rsuon of the soil in the vicinity of Medford tn the prod'u.t?ou of tile great forage pUut, nlfaita, resulted in cutting bbort the production of all cereals but corn in the valley, and the outside world is now wide awake to the fact th?tt Medford is the heart of what promises to be the leading ceutor for tbe production of those fancv fruits of the whole continent. Withiu a very fi-w years more there will be a long line of fruit warehouses, a modern chilling and cold etorage plant for refrigerated fruits and other preparations made or handling more than two thousand cars of fresh export fruit, to be shipped from Medford to tbe East aud Europe, and tbe trade and udded business, employment of labor Incident to oaro of orchards, pinking, sorting, packing and ship ping of fruit, will rauk among the lead- Jlnterior of Aledford'B Exhibit Huildlng. Photo by Hull see the miners from the Illinois Valley, tbe Indians from the Klamath Agency and the ranchers from the territory east of the Cascades, waiting their for the producers of local produots here, for hen the timber belt is in prOCf SB 01 WOrKlUg Up, tue ubuibuu will be quadrupled for suoh products, aud dairying, poultry farming and truck farming will 9iirely grow Into no lnoousequent features of our pros perity. There is not a town In the entire west where financial success has bo uniformly attended business invest ments as In Medford. From the be- justifled our merchants in stocking up heavily, adding extensive lines not usually carried In towns of less than ten thrusand people, until today tbe most complete stocks In Southern Oregon druw the best lino of trade, for once a customer always a customer, bis been the foundation on whicb trade In Medford has been built up and patrons are always satisfied they ing factor of Modford's future growth. The fruit business IB not an irides cent dream. It is an existing condi tion, a condition that is not depend ant on future operations, but one that is upon us now. The orchards already set and approaching maturity insure I the conditiou. The substitution of alfalfa for cer eals is rapidly bringing the dairy business, with its resulting prosperity and improvement of country life to tbe front. Much of the corn pro duced in the young orcbarda is going (Continued on page b). iugs; only tho nmu ."bo has wrenUed wl':h untoward coa litions eisewh jre. who known how kiud uature has brou to man here; o:ly th man sin-burued iu the tropics or t'rozju in the aroti:;s. who appreciates to the utmost tbe mild aud delicious climate which residents here accept as a matter of oonrso. These men will all dnd the Rogue River Valley the nearest approach to Elysium that they will ever find on earth. But we will have enough of them come driftiug into this little paradise. It Is the man of energy. the man with a bright family of healthy boys aud girls, the hfuest. bus iness man, the brave agriculturist who comes to subdue the "little tyiaut of bis fields," the live man, who can speoiall.e hie knowledge and adapt hiuiBelf to new conditions and do his purt towatds building up tbe countr who are the most valuable aesctts which Medford will get from the tide of immigration setting towardB Ore gou. We want the man who will help us to establish the best schools, oou- struct tbe best system of public roads, build ui) tbe prcttiust aud most at tiactive city and assist nature lu mak ing of the Rogue River Valli-y the gurdon spot of tho Pacific coast The foundation for ail this has been laid and well laid. Welcome then the tohers who will carry out the plans to full fruition, aud within unutner doo ade we can poiut to thiB valley as a model fol all creation tu follow ; a fitting position for the "Cream or Creation" to hold. The commercial element will com0 fast enough, when the uuy iB r.avta by the pioneer. The Huuucler uh ui knows a good thing when he sees it It is true their demands will f far toward building the city, but u.e man we want now is tne man of ac tion, ud tho mau who wun .B to avail himself of the opportunity which Medford presents for a permanent home a hoalthtul, pleasant, attrac tive home iu a community where It la eaBy and cheap to live; not merely to exist, but to LIVE, to live and enjoy the best that cun be had any where. We who hAve watched the trend of events locally, know beyond all question that tbe time is at hand when the greatest progress ever con oeived or undertaken inOregi.n is at hand, and we wknow that with the forcoP of nature subjugated to man's use, as they are being subjuguted here, in thiB mountain-girt valley, nroteoted from tbe chilling blasts of ' winter, and balmy with ocean winds of summer, this valley wl'l becomo tbe fruits of all cbaraoter, wool for cloth- iug, hay for forage, timbers uud luni-b-jrs for dwellings and construction -oi'lc of ull kiuds, iron, copper, the precious metals, only short tu the Item of fuslug coal, to enable any occupa tion to be oarriod on lu the mauufau-' turiug litis of old methods; aud now this deficeuoy more than made good by utilizing of nature's forces in the transmission of power over tbe eloctric wires. J When one pauses to reilect what". thiB one item iu the valley's progress' means to future generations, it is ul niost appalling to spsuulate upon the chaugei which it will make in men's ideas of agricultural aud mauufaotur iiig possibilities Tne ouo matter of irrigating from tbe water bearing gravel whiob underlie much of the valley by pumping with electric pow or will revolutionize truit culture locally, within the next ton years the continent, the poiuts iu the northwest where nature is continually weeping, the dry, arid portion of California, the people everywhere are overjoyed to hear of a sectiou where mau can really enjoy life while living out his time in alllireuce brought about by tho productiveness of tho soil, and amid surrr undiugs euoh as can bo duplicated now bore else on this continent. A shcrt tltuse ago onr Commeroiul Club assisted in raising a fund tu sot foith our advantages In the fruit grow ing and alfalfa lino in a syndiuato lot of easteru fnrni journals Tho party who wrote tho advertisements know wher" the journals circulated and that the peoplu who ruad them are heartily tired of inclemont woathor so dl ro"ted a (rood doul of attention to our adviinlMgeH in point of ilmato. At IfHst four fifths of tho answers ro ceirod to these advertisements, and htvtiw burrl". hihJ Uokk Photo v" Hull Iu niHiiy localitioit, ut a depth of nut ; more tban forty feet, an ubundu ce i of watur can bj found for all purpose The Mall predicts now, timt ivitliiu h jdecdde, Medford will he B'irrciuid((i ! with eloHnt country homes, fert.Ho j i hh the Nile lu the soli, Irrigated irom i ; pnmpH beloiigiiJK to the owner and Independent of all corporate and ex traneous Influences, due to tbe fuct that nature has provided tho means, aud mau of later dy pru'dltvittet la laquhh to tcal..e on viich pottdbiltties We are it I most In touch with the pttlod when the man who wises to (Continued n page 5) j ttmre v-oi o many ifforr d Lu tho unit cor o cliii.Ht'.. afti td thai tlio "ltetv v.bie it Hid uf t he bfi that Uu' tin, Minuo tit, lo.ii, Nobraskn cp Kaur-as enuld fl'er Now, those hro ull diiiiible ucr.cult nt l states prorot -Ipc and fjrMh. rr.t n make ood hure fur all tlit.r dttici-Miulea In point uf climate. The residents thero have heard or our iidvautfeB lu thiB respect, and they are ull look ing this way for their futuio hones. An ex-rallrona conductor from tho. D&kotas, who whs recently here, stated that tboro is more attention (Contiuucd on iiiyo 8).
