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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1906)
8 THE MEDFORD MAIL, Friday, March 9, 1806 T BE (Continued from page 1). directed towards Modford than to wards liny other town on ttie Pnoitlo slope of its Blze today in Minnesota and all the great northwest states There are many reasons for tills in terest, but the greatest nf all the causes is the charming oliuinto wltn which we are blosBed, and of which thejo pc plo havo hoard. Uy r-risultiug u metorologioul table, shoeing rue unuill range of the tem paraturus here the low uiaxinium and the high minimum, and comparing it with the range olsewbore, one can get some idea of the line oliuiate we really have, but to get a clear couceptoion of It, one must live here during a year, and the longer he stayB the louder will grow his praise, It is true we have some unpleasant weather in the winter soasou, when nature is making provision for the bountiful crops the coming summer for which this section Is noted, but after a tew days of rain, the mists always clear away, the air is ub balmy as spring, the thousands of birds which winter ( hers are tilling the atmosphhere with melody and the heart of man awakes in thanksgiving to tne Almighty. "As rare as a day in January," to paraphrase the poet, Is tne line to ex press a perfect day in the Kogue River Valley. The great seeding time of all the year is In February. Where else in all the earth will you find suah con ditions? The dweller in the Mississippi northwest, who oomes to this valley in the winter, alwayB Btays for he finds a country where men work In their shirt BleevoB, while at home he dare not venture ojt except be be clad In fur. Ho finds a land where farm work 1b uniformly aonduoted all winter long, whero the winter Itself remlmts lllm of spring, and where the "grass grows all wiutor. " Whore fruit trees are never killed by low temperature, und where the soil 1b as rogular In Its orop production as any couutry known to man. It is true we have some pretty warm ufteruoons in mid-summer, but thore is always plenty of air In circulation. , 1 7. There has never been a case of i suu stroke in ,the Kogue Kiver Vul ' ley. As regularly as the sun shines iu the afternoon, there is a steady, ! refreshing northwest broezs blowing up the valley, which invigorates auu enables men to .work in the open fields the warmest days In oomlort It Is the warm afternoons which pei- foot the peach, the apricot aud the table grape to a degree of perfection ,'vin to Mode Transportation Faclli whloh oven California cannot exuol. j Hes Is in Close Touch with East. It Is the sunshiny days In winter It has been said that Southern Ore. great bunks of fog and cloudy winter ; quarrel as to the merits or demerits supply of apples from an orchard iu , the displays of early days at the plo- days will not let them produce at of the private car liuee. the refrigera-' upper Rogue River Valley and had noer reunions. Woro's the pity that home There is a great future ahead tor ours which lij -e made It possible them sent to Washington City, to such is the case, aud it will be but a f.r market gardeners In Southern i to place our product upon the tables regal his family and personal friends. 'few years until our residents will sea Oregon, aud they are just beginning to find it out. SOUTHERN OREGON IS NOT ISOLATED of tho wealthy of the eastern shore nf (iradually the world learned of the : that their own necessities will compel the American ooif nent the faot n-, superior quality of the fruits from them to grow something for our own ins in tbiit but for th J refrigerator car 1 this suction, r.ud when the refrigera- use which we oan afford to uses we would be es complete in our Isola-, tur cars asms Into existence and the something whloh we cau eat iu its lion as we were twenty years ago. railways made the transcontinental perfection without a lingering fear Away back in pioneer days there ! rate which has developed the Indus '. that we are soandalously extravagant, were those who realized that tho j try, buyers came Hooking In from j . It is a matter of common local hie Rogue Hirer Valley had au uurlovel- abroad and demanded all we had to tory, the immense returns which have oped bonaizi in our fruit land, if , spare. Tne demand has oontinued ' been obtuined from our orchards in which will eventually lead the growers gon Is lik Oreot Britain iu one re- distance aould be annihilated snd our to laarense from year to year, until ' full bearing In this valley, on the best of winter vegetables lor tne toounu una speot. it is "mat.'Uiileent in Its lso rich und luscious fruits placed upon j now tne one ooa teatur ssAwfi -lit m i.;' K l T of the busl-1 of our fruit land. For year after year, the orchards have been repeat ing the phenomenal violds which Hrut brought them to the front, and but for the faot that so few nf nnr hnai j orchards are yet in full bearing, many moc instauoes could be oited. ! Some of the best orohard laud of j this valley is not yet even set to I fruit, aud the best of that which is I set is not yet in bearing. MANY SCENES LIKE THE AtiOVE ARE TO 3E FOUND IN JACKSON COUNTY. Columbia markets to establish green-, latlon." While this is true when flttiugs tor a mere dlstauce la tukeu into oonsider Atlantio slope ation, modern tranaportatiou fuoili- housos and suitublo trade whioh on the goos to tho far Indies and Florida. There are today going into new i:he tables of those who' would be only too glad to beoome our patrons If ciroumstanoes permitted. Wiuter apples and peas wfre our only fruits whi h oould be shipped fifteen yeirs , the "culls, ago, with nny safety to distant mar-! exi?t which ties have brought it into oloae com muulou with the custom status and York from forty to fifty cars pet day ! modern commoroe has made it possl- of head lettuoo aloue, which can be ble for the daintiest land dulicacies produoed in perfection hero with tho1; which we produce in suob profusion simple contrivances used in tho Curo-, to be placed, fresh from the orohard, signed a few cars, with vaiying llinas and it dooa not require the sou I the vineyard or the berry field, on , suits, aud we were in doubt as to . from of a prophot to know that In the near ' the tables of those who livin less whether we would ever be ble to real-; desirable to produoe even tho beat of ue9s of fruit growiue is the faot that our own oitiz-ns oauuot afford to pay the prices realized from our outside oustomers and we at home have to eat The same conditions enabled our earliest set- kets. About that time a few venture- tiers to grow the best of any variety some spirits took cbanoes and cou- of apples, but the commero'al app'e is re- supreme now, and as th distauoe our best markets makes it uu- There l none of that stagnant, dead future the great oitlea of tho far north-1 favored climes, and who are oacer to ' izo on our opportunities. air, burdo'ued with humidity whloh west will consumo os largo a propor- participate in tho blessings we enjoy. ' For yoarB the late Senator Stanford, endangers llfo lu the Mississippi val-1 tlon of theBB dolloaoles, whloh their Whatever may bo tho outcome of the of California, prooured his winter's the cheaper grades of fruit, nobody 1b now raising the superb epecimeuB of family fruit which distinguished climates of all other states combined. FEATURES OF ROGUE RIVER VALLEV. Conditions that Exist Here and Told In Paragraphs. The Rogue River Valley has the best pioduoiufj orchards in the world. The prospective irrigation will make it the most fertile in the world. The valley produoes aa tine wine grapes as are produced in any state in the Union. Tne Rogue River Valley has the finest plnm and prune orchards in the United States. The valley's gold aud oopper min ing industries are equal to any In the United States. The Kogue River Valley is the most fertile of any valley in the United States of its size. Tne creameries and dairiea of the Rogue River Valley are increasing at a phenomiual rate. The eduoatiend institutions of the valley are in keeping with the older states in the Union. The value of farm produots, per capita, is greater than any like area in the United States. The Rogue River Valley stands first in the production of apples and pears, both in quality and quautity. The quick silver belt of tho Rogue River Vailoy promises to be an im portant factor in the development of thla seotion. 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