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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1906)
! McMmh . Jtttttl Section Three Pages 17 to 24 VOL. XVIII. MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 9. 1906 NO. 10 TRANSMISSION OF ELECTRIC POWER. The Forces of Nature Have Been Chained to do the Bidding of Man. Even the foroea of nature have been chained to do man's bidding here, and tbe enthusiast sees the day approaoh lag when by touoning an electric but ton, tie grubs can be wound oat from the Testing place of years on tbe mountain aides, and tbe capstan and the oable, run by an electric motor, will indeed dear the ground for the modern farmer, and when even tbe fooulders in the channelfl of the oreeka and rivers will be crushed where they Hie by electrlo rook crashers, and the j iproduot used to redeem the roads ifrom present conditions to the most modern highways in the west. These mighty forois are now available, and the great Condor Water & Power Com pany plant, for a very moderate cost, furnish power on the ground for any purpose needed. Dan any other por tion of the earth furnish equal advant ages to the modern farmer or fruit grower? The mere fact that the dweller in the country can have lights and power for ipainping and all other farm uses, equal to tbe best facilities of dwellers In cities and towns else where, is one of the gieatest addi tions to nature's bounty which the ' present generation has seen. The ex tremely light cost at which power and lights are furnished by the company, the extensive urea covered by their wire system, the almost incalculable amount of power which they can gen erate, tbe divers uses to wnicfa it can be applied in a section where the water-bearing gravel lies so closely to the surface, make it apparent that tne prioe of realty situated in a region where climate and BG( uic surround ings alone attraot those who wish -to, live in one -of tbe most highly favored; couutries known, that present prices, we say, .nust greatly appreciate in a vsry few years. One who invests now can rest assured taht as he developes I the Condor Company is establishing a I seoond eleotric plai t. Here the water is taken from Rogue River above the falls, carried a.mlle or more through ditches and then drops over a preoi- pioe to the power house 250 faet be low. The enormouB power this sys tem is oapable of generating in almost inoaloulable, and indications point to the conclusion that the power will be used to operate not only Buoh ma. Pacific railroad, about half way be will ln,.'ln atr nmnnrtln 'obtuery as is now run by eleotriolty, tween Portland and San r'ranoisco. than any expenditure that be can poa- but el,6otl' "r "neB r ,he J1" . Tneu v- talXroai Hve mile, in alblymake. There are estates whioh ,e ln MeQ'rd wbra heretofore length, runs between Medford and tndav .re almnl. rHn In t.h. w. 'Bssollne or steam engines were usel, Jacksonville, the county seat tv In which natnrA nliuwrl .h.m .nA 'electricity is the motive power Last year there was built from Med- " i u..,.r ; his property, the demand for same named, is still a good-sized plant, and its promoters pu pose increasing it as the business justifies. They also furnish power aud light for Beveral mines. . . Medford as a Railroad Center and Shipping Point. Med loid Is located on the Southern E on which orohardB are gradually com ing into beating age where the expen diture of a very small amount of cap ital in installing lights; water-works, motoiB for household and farm uses, will oreate a veritable paradise, for which those who oan afford to Invest will be willing to pay a foitune. NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME TO IN VEST HERE. Tbe plant of the Condor Water & Power Co. is Bituated on Rogue River, some ten miles north of Medford, be neath tbe shadow of la bio Rook. Here for the first time in its history tbe waters of tbe Rogue have been successfully controlled. A migbty dam is built across the stream, so 'solid it will stand for ail time. Hero ore the mighty wheels and -dynamoB whioh (generate the electrlo current which furnishes light and power to the whole valley. Medford was the first olty to enter into contract witn ithls company. Since tnen eirb-eta tio is have been established at Central Point, Talent and Jacksonville, and ABbland in tbe extreme southern end ofjthe valley, over twenty miles from the source of supply islignted by elee 'trloity from this plant. Besides lines have been run into Josephine county , to "tie Granite Hill Housewives may run their sewing ma- f)rd to Eagle Point, fourteen miles The Building this Year Will Exceed Last. During tbe year 1905 oer one hun dred new dwelling houses were built in Medford. Nearly all of these were built by persons who own property here and those families are now occu pying them, Some of them, perhaps fifteen of tbe whole number, were built for rent, and strange aB it might seem these new dwellings are all now ocoupied and stranger still, It might seem, there is not a vaoant dwelling house in Medford todBy. Besides these dwellings there were built sev eral good, substantial buBineBS build ings.' The work of building has been In progress all winter BeasonB do not often interfere with outdoor work. , The prospects are very flattering for thing here. The people of North i'aklma are not ln the habit of ad mitting that any section oan beat them in products of the soil, but we will have to take olf onr hats to tbe Rogue River Valley. Resides you have a ollmate that beats anything t ever saw. I've fallen in love with tbe Rogue River Valley at first Bight." . IKJThe Condor Water & Power Co 's Plant at Ur.ld Ray. Photo by Hull until his back aohed IB gone by. A little eleetrio motor will do that work, besides DumDins water for household oud Gieenbaok mines, and tbe motive purposos and for the stock, grinding ohines, washing muohiues, etc., by disttmop,the first divisiun of the Med- the elootrio current The aay when ford & CJiutor Lake railroad. It is the small boy turned the griud stouolvry pruDable that this line will be ex tended this season to Butte Falls, a new town In the mids'1 of one of the most valuable timber belts of the power whioh moves the machinery ol ! feed and TthAO. minaa Arun&a Pfinn.n (kn . J ' -u.uut, uwuiud wuiu but, VjUUUUf Water & Power Co. 's plant. The Opp mine, near Jacksonville, was the first to adopt electric power, to be-closely followed by tie Oregon Belle. Forty miles further up Rogue River, just below the falls of Rogue River, thousand and one other things Nowhere ii the country Is there a oommunity so well equipped with eleotric power and light. At Ciold Hill, live miles below the oounty Preliminary plans have been laid for the construction of a railroad . from Medford to the Blue Ledge oopper mine, thirty-five miles south and west from Medford, and it is not Ini, even a greater amount of building this to thlB looalily. The Orchard Company Doing Business. Mr. Frederick Lundahl, the local manager of the Western Oregon Oion ard Co., whoso land Is situated a short distanoe east of Medford, 1b do ing some good, substantial work on the tract. He ubb now twenty-five men atjwork setiing out trees He haB put out 16,000 trees this winter and is making ground ready for the planting of a good many more another Beason. Mr. Lundahl is exeroising extremely good Judgment in the man agement of this orchard work as well as in tbe selection of trees for plant ing. He is putting out the very best varieties of apploB and pears two va- rietles of fruit exoeptina'ly well suited , and a half dozen business blocks. Condor Water & Power Co. "a plant 1b I probable that work will be oouimenoed UU but, IIIIU bUIB BB-B-Jll. ,Ul-l IB uun season man last,. Aireauy piaus uavo . been made for over thirty residences j Fairly GOOQ Price for Apples : Some very valuable Spitzenberg ap ples were brought baok to Medford by Dr. C. R. Ray on bis return from Chicago last week. Notioing some Rogue River Valley Spitzenbergs for Bale at the fruit stand the dootor in quired tbe prioe and learned that tbeao apples of tbe golden west were retailing at fifteen cents each or eight for a dollar. The dootor, over come by a feeling of Badness and long ing strangely akin to pain, undid a reaf in bis wallet and bought a dollars' , worth, not to make a vulgar display of wealth, but just to be udoing. Tboso of our citizeus who were al lowed to eat a bit of one of these fif teen oent apples thank tbe Lord three times dally that their lot is cast in: with tho oroain of oreatlon, whore den izens are indeed theeleot of the eaitb,. and untrammelled in tbe enjoyment; A box of Didn't KnowThereWas Such a Country. H. L, Marble, of North Yakima. Washington, spent a few days in Medford last week. Mr. Marble ia a olvil engineer, and 1b now engaged in superintending tbejputting in of a big irrigating proposition in the North Yakima oountry. He was greatly as tonished at the productiveness of this valley, how greatly oan but be told in hiB tiwn words. "I never bad an idoa that there was Buoh a riob oountry as IhiB way up among the mountains," said Mr. Marble, "until 1 oame bere and hap pened to stop into the exhibit build ing, and then I could hardly believe my eyeB. Not only tbe magnificent sped mens of fruitB, vegetables and other agricultural products struck me of the fruits cf the earth, that of tho Uold HiU Canal Co , wbiob a tri-werkty Btage running from Med- while not so extensive as the first orli t0 tne mue Ledge, as remarkable, but the varied re- our four-tier Spitzenbergs at retail in eouroes. Why you seem to have every- Chicago would bring $10. Win. CROWELL, F. K. DEUEIv, Vice President M. L. ALFORD, President Cashier NAT10g4 MEDFORD, OREGON THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN THE METROPOLIS OF THE FAMOUS ROOUE RIVER VALLEY EVERY ACCOMMODATION CONSISTENT WITH SOUND BANKING WILL BE ACCORDED OUR CUSTOMERS. WE CAN SERVE YOU IN ANY PART OF THE UNITED STATES DIRECTORS: WM. S. CROWELL. Medford; Attorney F. X. DEUEL, Medford; Deuel & Kentner CHAS. STRANG, Medford, Merchant E. V. CARTER, Ashland, Cashier Bank of Ashland GEORGE W. DUNN, Jacksonville, County Judge O U R P A S S W O R D: FAIR DEALING, SAFETY, SECURITY
