THE MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MED FORD, OR., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, Ml.
MEDFORD REAL ESTATE DEALERS REPORT INCREASING ACTIVITY
BEST OF
YEARS NOW
IN PROSPECT
Indications Are That Sea
son Just Opening Will
Be Best in Rogue River
Valley's History.
Increasing activity in all lines of
r ;il estate is reported by local dealers.
Inquiries are coming in at a rapid rate
and the com in gseasou promises to be
the best in the Rogue Kiver valley's
hi -story.
The colonists' excursions, which start
in next month, are expected to bring
in the liirgest immigration yet recorded
for Oregon. Thousands are hradod this
way, and many will find their way into
tho Rogue River valley.
Many Inquiries Received.
Hundreds of inquiries have been re
ceived in the past few weeks from all
parts of the east, and realty dealers
confidently predict that the most prom
ising of years is in prospect.
Many small deals in city realty are
renortcd and the demna dfor completed
residences and modern cottages contin
ues unabated. Tottngos cannot begin
In be built fast enough to supply the
dt niaml.
The cutting up of several large tracts
of land into five and ten acre orchards
for sale on easy terms has filled a long
felt want, and made it possible for the
man of moderate means working last
un a salary to acquire valuable orchard
property to retire to when it comes into
bearing.
Advertising Campaign.
Med ford. (1 rants Pass and Ashland
have all taken pages of advertising in
the Sunset magazine and have contract
ed for pamphlets regarding the Rogue
River valley to bo distributed in the
east. This insures a campaign in pub
lieity unepi;iled in the northwest and
only surpassed by sect inns of southern
Cutifornin. the best advertise region
in the world.
The water eimiinittee nf the council
has returned from a successful inspec
tin of water sources and is formulating
a plan to submit to the cit iens for
sc.-n ring an adequate amount of pure
water for Med ford.
Prosperity Ahead.
There is every indicat ion that the
year 1!ns will be the most prosperous
in Me-d ford's history. Tlmugh scarcely
berun. a program of improvement and
growth is mapped out that will proba
bly double the population in a short
time.
A new city distributing system to
cost $(i5.oni) is to be laid at once. The
pipe has been purchased and the bonds
sold. The contract will soon bo let and
an army of men employed in laying the
pipe.
Much Paving in Prospect.
Kids have been asked for paving
Seventh street from (tear creek to the
schoolhouse for bitulitliic or asphalt
pavement and soon the city's main bus
iness thoroughfare will be busy putting
down the pavement ere summer smiles.
Between x and seven miles of city
streets are to be macadamized with
crushed rock.
IMans for a permanent supply of pure
mountain water from Itig Butte or
some equally good source are being
worked out. and the chances are that
another winter will see work under way
to bring into Med ford the biggest vol
ume of the best drinking water any ,
city in the west can boast of. !
Ground has been broken for a large
catholic school to cost. $40.(100. Tn ad
dition, a priest's house, to cost $7000,
a fine cathedral, a large hospital and
a Sacred Heart academy are planned
f'r Med ford in the near future, and
this city will become the Catholic cen
ter for the region between Sacramento
and Portland.
Railroad Extension.
Plans are completed fnr a magnifi
-i nt ne wtheater, the finest in Oregon
ourside of Portland, and before another
- :is.n goes by Medfordites can see the
1" -t productions. th' only small city hi
the state that can.
Work has be.-u begun n the exten
inn nf the Pacific X- Kastern to the
timber belt, wich will mean the erec
tion of immense milling plants at Med-f-id
tn handle the product of the
v-rld's greatest sugar pine belt, and
f employment of thousands of men.
T . the south, the spring will see work
'I'Wr-d on the development of the
mv mines of the Blue Ledge copper
district.
'-n.U have ! n v. .fed f-r a .
1 'Ji school and one of the let fMnn-.
' " - in the state will help make M'"l
f .'in educational center, attractive
' 'Tvnno with a familv.
V. and Mr. P. TL V.nrnoburg
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"MODOC JACK" IS
ENTIRELY FORGOTTEN
Troublesome Indian Tribe and Their
Contest With Federal Government
Wright's Slaughter of Porty-One Ab
origines at a Friendly Banquet,
(By . P. Tcrhune in the New York
World.)
The namo of "Modoc Jack" today is
forgotten. A generation ago it was al
most as well known throughout Amer
ica, and especially in the far west,
as that of the president himself. Hero
is ' Jack 'a" story:
The Modoes were a troublesome In
dian tribe belonging to tho Klamath
"nation" and living in California.
The name "Modoc" means "enemy."
and tho tribe won it fairly. They were
ever at war. At first with other Klam
ath tribes; later with the whito set
tlers. In 1852 one of these, settlers, Benja
min Wright by name, hit on a plan to
avenge himself for wrongs suffered at
the tribe's hands. He invited 4i Mo
docs to a banquet, and, having plied
them with liquor (to which they were
unaccustomed) until they were help
less, murdered 41 of them.
This barbarous act, worthy of the
lo.vest savage mind, was never forgot
ten by the Indians. They retaliated
by a series of outrages that dragged
on intermittently for 12 years.
Then, by treaty, the Modoes were
sent to the Klamath agency, or reserva
tion, and for a time there was peace.
But the reservation was barren and
almost void of game and fish. The
tribe could not eke out a living there.
The government agents and local trad
ers defrauded them. The other Klam
at lis took frequent occasion to molest
them.
This went on until a chief known as
"Captain Jack" collected an army of
' ' braves ' ' and went on the warpath,
.lack had already made himself feared
by the Klamaths and the more peace
ful natives of his own tribe. Com
plaints had been made to the govern
ment against hint, and when he and
his followers left the reservation those
complaints poured in afresh.
.lack was ordered to return with his
band to their "agency." He refused
and defied the authorities to capture
him. He pitched a double camp on
opposite sides of a river in Oregon and
calmly awaited attack.
In November. 1S72. a body of 1'nited t
States soldiers, reinforced by hundreds)
of armed Oregon settlers, marched
against this camp. The Modoes, un- J
der .lack 's clever generalship, beat their '
assailants back with great loss. Then, I
unable to hold his position on the riv
er, .lack retreated toward an inaccessi- j
ble region known as the "lava beds, "j
slaughtering many white pioneers and
their families whose homesteads lay j
along his route. j
The following dune troops under Gen-j
oral Whentmi tried to dislodge the Mo-'
docs from this stronghold, but lost scv- j
oral men and were unable to penetrate j
the Indian camp. A second expedition j
led against them by General Gilson met :
with equal failure. !
Modoc Jack was making good his
boasting defiance of the national an-1
thorities. The government was for the j
time utterly baffled. 1
A commission had been appointed to
confer wit h the Modoes. At an ap- j
pointed -pot the Cubed States commt- ;
missmncrs met representatives of thej
warring tribes with plans for adjust- t
iug the quarrel, i
Hut before any understanding could J
oe readied .iacK iook a h :m nir ir
Renjamin Wright's hook by trencher
ously attacking the government's rep
resentative's. Two of the commission
ers General K. If. S. Can by and Or.
Thomas wen- butchered and a third.
Meacham. was badly wounded.
After this horrible violation of every
rule of war there could be no further
question of compromise. The govern
meat (tressed tho campaign against Jack
and Iiis braves with a ruthless vigor
that swept all before it.
The Modoes fonght gallantly, yielding
no inch of ground without fierce resist
a nee, All suminer t he fight ing went
on. Little by little the troops beat
down their elusive foes, cornering them
at last like rats in a trap.
In the autumn nf that year the chief
and his band were caught, overpowered
and forced to surrender. Then came
the long deferred pnni-diment ,
,!a. k and three of his fonniot war
riors were t rie.J for UMird- r. ai.d of
Oetober :i. Is?::, wrv Lang-d at l..rt
Klamath. Tlie rest of tie- iii-iM'g'-nt-were
h.-rd-l without M O't.-n It y on n
roi'Tvat hoi in Indian t'-rritory.
C. H. Pierce & Son
Are planning for extensive advertising i
at onro, Lit vonr property with them I
to get best result".
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The Ilig Bend Milling company is put
ting up tho last room of the three ad
joining the Jackson County hank build
ing on the north for the Med ford Phar
macy, and Mr. Roddy, who will put
in a big stock of jewelry.
Special Bargaiis In
Real Estate.
C. H. PIERCE & SOX
MEDFORD OREGON.
Canvass this list carefully, but bear
in mind that it is only a small portion
of the list we have on our beoks. Come
to our offico or write us. and wo will
tako pleasure in assisting you in se
curing tho very best bargain in the
lino in which you wish to iuvest.
1 4 lots, new 4-room house, barn,
woodshed and well, nice location.
Price $1300.
2 2 lota, 50x150 feet each, 6-room
house, in North Medford. Price
$1700.
3 1 lot, new 6-room house, two nice
shade trees, south front. Price $850
4 1408 acres, a combined stock, fruit,
timber and mining rauch, well b
cated, worth twice tho money; if
you can handle this proposition,
don't fail to look it up at once.
Price $25,000.
5 100 acros, a fino mountain ranch,
with irrigation. Price $5000.
7 3V4 acres, fine garden land, well
improved, joining Medford. Price
$2500.
8 1 aero in North Medford, 5 -room
house and barn, well, woodshed.
Price $1000.
9 80 acres near Medford, good im
provements, $1000 outfit goes with
place; can bo irrigated. Price
$0000.
10 18 acres near Medford, in the fin
est fruit district, with buildings
and over half in fruit, mostly 3
years old. Price $6000.
11 10 acres of fine bottom land, 5
acros of Newtowns, beginning to
bear; 12 acres of alfalfa. Price
$8000.
14 160 acres fine timber and stock
ranch and mining proposition, near
good road. Price $3600.
15 160 acres, a splendid ranch, 80
acres farm land, 43 acres alfalfa,
200 inches mining irrigation, fine
irrigation proposition, saudy loam
land, 6-room house, 2 barns, hen
house, shop, 2 miles from good
town, good well, berries, fino open
range. Price $8000.
10 50 acres finely improved well lo
cated choice alfalfa land. Price
$10,000.
17
100 acres, fine timber proposition,
Price $2500.
IS 1 acres joining Medford, nice new
5-room house, good well, barn and .
chicken house. Price only $1S00. I
10 10 acres, 6-room house, 3 acres in j
fruit, good location. Price $2000. j
24 50 acres of fino alfalfa land near!
Phoenix. Price $125 per acre.
25 SO acres, 60 acres under cultiva
tion, 5-room house, good condition,
two barns, woodshed, smokehouse, i
blacksmith shop, good well water,
springs, 2 acres of bearing orch-1
ard, 14 acres young orchard, 12 j
acres Spitzenberg and Jonathan, 2 '
acres apricots and peaches; place Sl! MITII A ND and Typewriting Those
well located, 1 i miles to P. O. ' wishing work of this kind done in
Price $6000. j evening call up Van, phone H.15, Rogue
2ii 320 acres, well improved, luo acres- Kier JOIertriv Co., or address P. O.
cleared, fine springs, 0 miles from ;
(iold Hill. Priee $".mo, and a spe FOU SALE One 45-horsepower auto
cial bargain. j malic Russell engine, in first-class
-10 acres near Medford, well ini- !
proved, all wet to fruit, 5 aeres
bearing. 5 acres young trees. Price
$:t.-oo.
-1 lot close in, 7 room house, city
water, small house un back of lot;
rents for $20 per month. Price
$2000.
-"i acre, fine front, as ni.-r a loea
tion as tlo-re is in the city, south
front, on 7th st.; good 5 room house,
well, wood (died, g'iod barn, chicken
huue and park, fruit trees and
lawn. Price $3200.
-I'i aeres. south front on 7th at.;
nice building site. Price only $401
-100 acres, splendid fruit and wood
ranch, some improvements, 4i
acres cleared, well located, near P.
o., school and ston A bargain at
$25(m.
-7 acres in the midt of choice fruit
district of the valkv; new improve
iio'iit. room ho-use, half acre of
sr ra uli rry patch, br ant if ul loca
tion, 1 j mil' s from Medford. 12
aiT'-s in one-year old l'.:irtl tt pears.
Special bargain at only 3"Ofl.
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C. II. TIERCE SON,
Medford, Or.
SMELTER FOR GAUGE
DISTRICT FURCftA&D
On the Rogue riwr, in the Oalice
mining district, a few men have been
drilling and blasting for the past eight
years, uncovering the largest body of
copper-bearing ore known in the Pa
cific Northwest, says the Grants Pass
Courier. Work has been quietly done
and the result is shown by the placing
of a contract by the Alameda mine, a
local corporation, with the Willamette
Iron & Steel companv for a 100-ton
smelter to cost $40,000.
Uids were called for recentlv from
manufacturers of smelters and the lo
cal concern was not overlooked. Much
to the surprise of the mine management
the best proposition wan submitted by
the Willamette people, who begin con
struction this week.
Tho plant will consist of a standard
water jackoted furnace 36x72x84, occu
pying a building at the mouth of the
mine 80x110, which will house the en
gine, boilers and ore crusher with charg
ing floor of 200 square feet. The com
pany owns its own sawmill and is cut
ting thousands of feet of lumber for
the building, ore bins, etc.
It ia expected that the plant will be
in active operation by the last of April
and another dividend-pay ing property
added to the already growing list of
Southern Oregon.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.
SINGKR Sewing Machine Co. Tele
phone No. 045. A. D. Singler, Mgr. 296
WANTED Woman or girl for Bilvor
pantry. Apply to Steward, Nash Cafo.
WANTED A boarder in a private fam
ily. Address P. O. Box 2S1. tf
WANTED 100 people to have their
shoes repaired at C. M. Kidd's Shoe
Store. Our shoemakers arc experts, tf
FOR RENT One nicely furnished
room with or without board, 4 blocks
north of P. O. tf
FO URENT Newly furnished rooms,
by day, week or month. The Odell,
ovor postoffico, Medford. Or. tf
FOU SALE Two incubators, used only
one season, for sulo cheap; capacity
of each, 216 eggs. Inquire nt War
ner's store. Warney & Snyder, tf
FOU SA LE 50x200-foot lot, 3d lot
from cor. 11th and h sts.; n bargain;
S. W. Medford. Call any time. W.
Vogili, residence.
FOR SALE One five horsepower mo
tor, good as new; take it away for
$75. Poils Elite Laundry, Medford.
Or. tf
FOU SALE One acre, west of Medford
city limits; prico $200, payable $10
down and $10 a mouth, without inter
est. Address P. (. liox 571, Medford.
Oregon. 202
FOR SALE New residence, just com
pleted, Bccond block west of high
school, West Seventh street; fine col
onial interior; cheap if sold soon. Tu
quire Tribune office. tf
LOST
sonvil Finde;
ford.
A fur boa, between the .Inelt
i' County school and Medford.
notify Ellen Erieksen, Med
2M7 FOU SA LK Webster 's International
Dictionary, hit est edition, new ami in
dexed, for unle at a bargain. Inquire
of Tribune or address P. O. Kox 41M,
Medford. 201
WO K K W A NT E D .1 a pa neso 77. ntrac
tor; can do all kinds nf general farm
ing; general helper in all work; town
or country. Address A. E. Tat sum i,
Gen'l Del., Medford. Or. tf
sape; look this up, the prico will sur
prise you. IVils Elite Laundry, Med
ford, Or. tf
Xi;USEUV STOCK All kinds of fruit
trees, hot h large and small fruits,
standard varieties of nppcs and pears
ami peaches, including Newtown and
Spitzenberg apples; a full line of up
todate nursery stock, in large or small
lots; also all kinds of ornamental
trees and shrubbery, at my resideneo
in South Medford, having just re
ceived a large shipment, am prepared
to fill orders immediately. Inquire at
Werner's Store. L. Ft. Warner, Sr.,
Medford. Or. tf
FOR EXCHANGE Medford property
for other property. Adrdess Iiork Fiox
418, Medford, Or. tf
FOR SA LE Having purchased over
."(Mi, 000 f,; t of first class milling logs,
we are prepared to furnish first-class
lumber of nil kinds in any amounts
on short notice. If you contemplate
build iug place your order with us;
prices very reasonable; dimension and
line finish lumber n specialty. Write
r call. Itutte Falls Lumber Company,
office f.er .lackson county bank, Med
ford. Or. tf
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SEAL 3TAT TRAN"EIS.
Klijuh Kenton to Luanna Don
ton, property in Short's addi
tion to Mt'dford t
Henry Hill to M .S. liny, prop
erty in Cooksey Addition, Cen
tral Point $
Iluttie I. Calvert to Charles K.
Houston, property in I'hoonix
V. Koss to Charles X. Hansen,
lots , 7 and 8, block 2, West
Medford
C. N. Hansen to G. 0. Dow, lots
0, 7 and 8, block 2, West Med
ford Leon Pneien to Kstubrook & Ol
200
750
214
400
son Furniture Co., 1110 acres in
section 14, township 33, range
3 W
James Taylor et at. to V. R.
Taylor, land in section 7, town
ship 3P, range 2 K
John R. Ilclmnn to A. K. Imb-
ia:o
10
ler, property on Main street,
Ashland 1
Irvin Pinley to Frank ,T. New
man, 40 ncres in IX L. C. 73,
township 37, range 2 W 13,000
Special Sale of
ORCHARD
We are able to offer for a few days the most desirable
voung orchard within a few miles of Medford, which
we have been able to offer our customers for a year,
and within roach of the man with reasonable capital.
The tract consists of 272 acres of orchard laud, with
GO acres in cultivation and 45 acres in orchard of the
right varieties of fruit, just coming into bearing.
Thirty acres of the orchard is in Spitzenberg and New
town apples and Cornice pears. Fifteen acres in
prunes, with good dryhouse on premises. Fully 60
acres more of good fruit land on the tract, covered with
brush, but with enough firewood on same to pay for
clearing and setting to fruit. Now is the time to act in
this matter, for values are advancing so rapidly that
only the rich can afford an orchard in this valley in a
few years. Why shouldn't values advance, when the
right kind of an orchard is yielding such fabulous returns?
Roue River Land Co.
EXHIBIT BUILDING,
Business Blocks
For Sale
The only good business location left in Med
ford that can be purchased on any such
terms as this property ean be had for. Come
in and talk it over with inc. It is absolutely
an 8 per cent income invest merit. Don't cry
alter it is picked
el C. Brown
PALM
Rogue River Valley
Orchards Company
CAPITAL .$'200,000
We luive jiiir.-li.'iHiil from Mr. K. V. Curt.-r imi.I Mr. K. T. Htnplrs of
AmIiIiiii.I h tni,-t of 1073 ii.t.'S of wluil is r,iiiHi,I.T.-il us good nile ttii.l pear
li.nil Hi th. re i in the ROGUE KIVER VALLEY, tvhirh we have subdivided
in five and ten a.-re Inn-tn, wltirh w lire selling upon the following terms:
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in the HOOUE RIVEB ViLLJlY.
Iji7.iie A. Dolnn to 0. L. Haven,
land in section 0, township 39,
range 2 K 2300
J. h. Downing to It. E. Gale,
1.45 acres in section 9, town
ship 39, range 1 E 300
0. E. Chamlierlain to F. M. Ward,
land in 1). I.. C. 64, township
,'IS, range 1 W 500
T. H. P. Engel to Charlotto F.
Aeree, property in block 10,
Phoenix 350
J. N. Smith to Minnie E. Lovo,
one acre iu section 3, town
ship 37, range 2 W 1
Paul Demmer to Ernest E. Wol
ter, land iu section 25, town
ship 37, range 2 W 10
Paul Demmer to Ernest Wolter,
fi.08 acres in section 25, town
ship 37, rnnge 2 W 10
( B. Rowe et ul. to Iteinrich
Hoist, propertv in Sam's Val
ley ! 150
(leorgs F. King to Roguo River
Timber Co., 320 ncres in town
ship 32. rnnge 2 E 10
MEDFORD, OREGON.
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