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About Medford daily tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1906-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1908)
MEDEOBD DAILY TBJBUNJfl, MBDFOBD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER H, 1908. COL HOFER IS AMAZED AT IDFORD'S BOOSTER SPIRIT Has Words of Praise for The Tribune-Tells of the Men Who Have Pushed Medford Ahead Tells Sa i lem That She Should Profit by This City's Example (Col. E. Hofur.in Capitol Jurrnnl) The writer hns ber.i at many booster conventions. Ho hns held hotiiir fottti villa in nearly ll the principul fit ion of wentern uregon, but never did he run into specific calorie that mnkes a community get up ami hump and dtiuhlc up. its real estoato values like the one that struck Medford. Of courni, nil nn donttnd that the booster city of the Rogue river valley h:is been on all the United States maps printed the past fen- years iu box cnr lotterrs, but few iioupl know who did it. Tt was the Medford bunch discovered Harriman in hia lodge at Pelican Bay, and broko the ieo that unrounded him for mi! en and then swam through it with an iuvitntion in their teeth, asking the "Old Mnn of the Financial Mountain" to come and see them, lie did stop a few hours, and Dft Reddy took him in, too, with his 40-horsepower, Thomas Flyer, and when ho gnt through Harriman turned nnd safd to the crowd: "Reddy is the great est booster I ever met. Ho mentioned everything under the sun ns produced in the Rogue river valley except tin." Then Reddy produced some tin ore out of his hip pocket nnd gave ITnrrimen a piece with an assay attached, signed Healed and sworn to. The next time Horrimcn came' this summer ho staid three hours aad would have stayed all day except for the modesty of the Med ford bunch. They were afraid of over doing it with the old man of the mount ain. After he was gone they regretted they did not keep him over night. They got hold of Ifonore Puliner and young Vilas and gave thorn the time of their lives nnd each one has been the means of large investments being made in orchards. Young Palmer got his mil lionaire mama to come through and make the Rogue river valley her sum mer home stole the dame (ho fair to look upon from a real estate stand point,) bodily nnvuy from Kngene on promise to return her, after they had aeev the bottom of her purse. She blew herself for $H!.",0(H) worth of Medford orchards, nnd would have done ns much more but for the financial squeeze. Who Are the Bunch Of course, there is the premier, en titled to stand at the head of the list Dr.. ,T. F. Reddy, mayor of the city, fighter for nem ideas, landlord of t ho Nash house, about which I must nay a littlo more farther on, John I). OlwHI, first orchardist and organizer of this industry ns a factor of southern Oregon development; Dr. C. R. Ray of the electric power company, and his brother iUA. Frank Kay; J. K. Enyart, banker; W. I. Vawter, banker; ICdgnr Hafer the- box factory man; J. M. Keene, dentist nnd nil f around booster of all southern Oregon, who takes abuse for breakfast, eats it for lunches and dines on itand grows rich, fat nnd happy; .Tef Heard, new manager of the Sterling gold mine; Geo. Putmnn, who runs the redhotteiH little daily in seven states and. has libel suits aad imprisonments for contempt as often as the court meets Judge Withhigtoii, who is legal adviser of the hotair artists nnd Pres. V. M. t'olvig. I do not know whore yon would find 11 men who are such concentrated gey sera of information as these are, bu Medlford has many more like them, and is educating them every day. Those men are pioneers and have grown worse as they go along. A Pioneer Orchardist. Hon. J. H. Stewart is no more but ho is entitled to the grateful memory of all who lovo to recount the battles for, the upbuilding and transformation of Oregon. He was a pioneer, p. pro gressive mnn, a builder of orchards. He built one of 75 acres 3o miles up the Rogue river that very few person, have Keen. He wns an Illinois man and is suc ceeded by his sod, who is a chip off the old block. These men have lived to see orchards they planted sell for tHoOO, then sell for $20,000 nnd then sell for $rt0,0(0. ; They have bought and Bold some of these themselves and have made some of this money and kept it. It is not often that the mnn who sows so wisely also reaps the crop, but J. H. Stewart planted wiser than he dreamed of and his son is following with still larger enterprises. Oot a New Hotel. One of the first things the Medford boosters did was to get a firnt-clacs ho tel service. They got a new owner to renovate the old hotel Nash. They tore out the old partitions full of vermin, took up the old enrpeta that had been put down on top of each other seven deep and sometimes morp, tore out. the old unsanitary, disease-breeding plumb ing, and pnt in some baths. The firit step toward arousing a community out of its Rip Van Winkle slee pis to get n hotel where a civilized man with money who is not afraid to spend it, ca ntele graph for a suite of rooms with a bath and closet nttnrhew. Such n telegram creates surprise at Salem, but crr.inot be answered in the affirmative. The own ership of Salem s principal hotel re f fuses to make improvements or to al low a lessee to make any. Such en ta tiude is almost a disgrace to civilisa tion. Whoever is responsible for sueh conditions can nevor make good to this cr.mmnr.ity the injury they have done in advertising us to the world as a city where the traveling public cannot get decent n?commodat:ons even if they hae the monev to pav for them. Xcith- er the at ate fair nor thr state capital cn be kept at Salem with the filthy ennitary conditions that are imposed i upon the well-to-do and influential class ' of people, who have to put up with primitive conditions nnd go up wash- ed for wunt of decent hotel facilities, I wag delighted with the holel serv- . e at Ashland, where the Hotof Ore gon is up-to-dute with the service at Hotel Nash and Hotel Moore. The Nash Ikih suites ot rooms with baths on a the floors, and a grill room whero every thing is the fluent. Where oysters are served in the shells, and game is on the bill of faro every day. A hotel register at Med lord reads hko a register nt New York or Seattle. Medford is the Sent tie of southern Oregon and the state knows it. ' Found Some Salemites. Hesides Dr. Keene 1 found Frank Mollis, who has become a furniture king iu rout her u Oregon, owning three lied, carpet end chair and table Btorea, and looking for more to buy. Young Dr. E. R. Seeley has a medical practice orth about ten thousand a year. Dr. Keene was celebrating his 44th birth day nnd has made money enough iu II yoars to retire from Ins practice. He wears flawless clothes, spotless shirts and gloves without wrinkles. Ho knows everybody nnd when he goes down the street ho bowc to right and loft, young and old, f armors and bankers, womon and children, nud thev all seem to know mid like Doc. A man warned me not to be seen around with Doe. Wo hnd fought for and against each other, but when it coiiios to boosting Medford, Doe knows eo politics and is no respecter of per sons. He put us in J. D. Olwcll's Rco ear and we did 30 miles of penr, npplc and cherry orchards, when it conven ently broko down in fiont of a black smith shop just in tinio to take the train to Medford. There the doctor bun dled us into Mayor Reddy 's 40 horse power Thomas car and we did 20 miles more of pear nnd apple orchards on the east side of the town that is worth just like the west r.ide, from $500 to $1,100 nn acre. Medford sits like n big rose in tho center of a circle of mouu tains covered with blue mists nud over the plain, radiating like the spokes or a golden wheel of fortune one looks down tho long continuous rows of or chard trees. The Big Three Varieties. The big cash bumper crops have fix ed things so that about all that is plant ed now are Newtown Pippin and Spit- .enburg apples, and Cornice pears. There arc others nearly as good that make big money, but these are the best. John Wesley Perkins, now of Roselmrg, got the first record crop of golden Cornice pears, and they sold in New York for fabulous prices, and even got into the White House and tho senate through Senator Bourne, who distributed hun- reds of boxes of them to advertise Oregon. What did that do? Well, tAc Perkins Hillcrest pear farm sold for $:tri0i) originally. Perkins had the nerve to pay $LM,;"00 for it and he has sold it to Seattle people for $HO,000, and they took $)il,ni)0 worth of fruit off it this y.nr. De Hart, the Portland hardware man, bought a penr and apple orchard for $10,000 n few yenrs ago nnd has just sold it out for $.'io,000. The own ers are building fine bungalows nest ling snugly in brown-leaved kinmnas of oak groves nnd taking almost the price of their gold mine our of it each year in crops that increase each year. And mingled with in with the wagons haul ing the fruit crops to town are wagon loads of fine coal taken out of the mines in the foothills just back of the orchards. Fred Hopkins, off 19 acres of pears this yenr took $19,000 and the check wns published in fac simile. A rcnl eatnte man on the street corner v.as telling a man on the street corner in my hearing of 40 acres this year yielding $40,000, or 4.",000 net. and prepared to show hiin the expense and shipping books. Fifteen hundred .dol lars an ncre was refused for the Dillon Hill penr orchnrd this fall. It is 160 acres, or nearly a quarter of n million. Something to Talk About Here is something to tihnk about for the slggards of the Willamette val ley, where tho Boil is just ns good for apples and pears ns at Medford. Nearly a quarter of a million for a quarter :ection. Pear troos on that farm just beginning to bear, saven years old from the planting, and growing better every year. That land will never be sold for less than $2000 nn acre, and syndicates are already forming to tnko it in. Why shouldn't Medford boom when it has been the work of the boosters there to reveal the possibilities of that sort of fruit growing. The Hotel Nash, where I stopped, was as buiy in tho lobby as the Willamette when tho legislature is in session nnd there is a holdup In the senatorship. Why shoudl not Medford build high schools, lay off parks and pave streets? A half million dollar water system to be owned by the city is being brought in from the moun tains. The Medford Commercial club was started a few years ago by Keene. IVrkins and a half dozen others, and now has l-"0 members. The finest ex hibit building on the whole Harriman ystein stand- nt the Southern Pacific depot. It is .T'din OlweM's pet. There are others at Roseburg and Ashland, but not the equal of this. I wn tak en fifty miles through orchards, in the same seat and over the same route they took Harriman, around throngh old historical Jacksonville, up to whose door the rising sea of prosperity is lapping with its gold-glinting waves, nnd still the tide is rising. Where will it top t What ft Lesson for Haltm. Wit It such an example, what is the lesson from all this for the people of tho Willamette valleyf The achieve ments of M. O. Lownsdule at La Fav- ette are a pointer ns to what can be done in every nook aud corner of the Willamette valley. The work done on the Wallace orchard near Salem is a pointer. We haven't got the redhot tingling bunch of boosters that Medford happens to huvo. We have the facts and the noil and the products. We have nieu who cuu boost. We are ou the man. Things are coming our way. Can we not get the Medford spirit? Can we not get the Medford wayf The Seattle and Spokane spirit and the Medford spirit are possible for any community that is capable of awakening to the self conscious state of activity required o maue things go. Alas! boostors, like poets, nre born, not made. Tho man to boost Salem into tho aurora boro-, alts of promiueiico may not be born, but he will arrive. We ueed a bunch of him. They happen, but are not made to order. Probate. Est u to Ben jam in F. Wagner; order made appointing O. F. Billings, E. E. Payne and Ed Farlow appraisers and Jienjamiti F. Wagner administrator. Estate Wulter S. Jones; order con firming sale of personal property. Estate Jucob Hugger; order continu ing final hearing until November 27. Circuit Court News, lu the mutter of the application of Tmvers H. Lynch to regi9tre title to real property; decreo by default. T. E. Pottenger vs. Lulu Phillips; suit to quiet title; decreo b ydefault. VMM Triton, tto fr Mttfc. lO Cents a Button. YYVs.!8 - $1.00 aRi For 4 Days 20 per cent Discount on Dutchess Trousers $1.25 Now $1.00 2.50 Now 2.00 4.00 Now 3.20 6.00 Now 4.80 City Business Directory; SAVOY THBATBB North d'Anjou Street. Lateet motion picture, aad illus trated long. Entire chug of program Monday, Wednesday aad Friday. Admiaaion 10 eente. ARTHUR H. SATIS OoBttMUac HlMtriMl Engineer. 810 W. Seventh St., Medford, Or. W. M. Colvlg. O. I. Beamea. COLVIO BEAMES Lawyers. Office:Medford Bank Bldg. Ground floor. BUOTJ THBATBB, W. 7T ST. Continuous . performance every evening of motion pioturei and II luatrated ballade. Entire change of program Monday, Wednesday aad Friday. Admiaaion 10 eeata. AKU FBNWELL The number. 1 solicit a share of your business, pledging , aetiefectioa. Cook Stoves aod ranges. Phone 91 MOBDORFF WOLF New and Second-Hand Furniture Bads' old stand, 18 20 F St. South Medford, Or. WM. H. AJTKBM Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating. Phoae at. S10 W. Seventh St., Medfeid, Or. roa Bi.Bonuo amp f&bnoh BBOLBAMUM ANB .FBEScV mtVWOBKaV W. a. las Ben, Preps. OpaaelM Hotel Meets, . MadfoseV Oregon KARNES BOOMING HOWSB Newly built and newly furnished All modern conveniences. D. O. Karnes, Prop. 80 8. O St., Medford, Or. BDBN TAJtLBT MTOBBBT Home grown , whole reet trees. N. 8. Beaaett Medford, Or. WABQHAU ft SHOWN . wlsh,te.aaatUH se their patrons that they ass located. in , their new aaarUai ia the, Young UuU : . . . haUUBag. . BUBaraa, dgaea aad Tobaceoe. FISH MARKET Froth fish rocsivod daily. Oys ters in season. Cor. Seventh and E Sts, Medford Hutchison & Lumsden THE OLD RELIABLE HOUSE. . A 5186 I am now Located with Martin J. Reddy aud am prepared to do all kinds of re pair work ou Watches, Clocks and Jewelry B. N. Butler Near Postoffice. Water Proof Shoes Lumbermen's Pacs, Knee and Hip Rubber Boots, Waterproof Shoe Oil. High Cut Leather Boots in all Sizes . SEE WINDOWS We carry the strongrst lines at the best prices iu Southern Oregon. Buy now. Rainy weather is roming. SMITH & MOLONYJ Watoh tUa apace. MISSION FUBMITUBB WOBKB at ft B. CANDY XTTOUBN We BMe all ear ewa candies. ' '' Martia aad' Barrow, Props. Ooraer Seventh and O Streets, Medford, Oregon. , MEDFORD TBA AND OOFFEH HOUSE Speciniiete in Teaa, Cof fees, Extracts, . Baking Powder and Spices'. We carry all kinds of dinnsr ware and fancy dishes. 81 W. Seventh St. Medford, Or. TUB BaUSUOX OAFH The best . restaurs!, la Benthera Oragoa.. W. B. Joaawoa free. SB. FRANK BOBBBT8 Office hear: t te.18, 1 to 4. Miles Baft assay Seventh Street, Medferd, Oregon. THE HOTBIi EMBBIOK Rooms from 00 cents to $1.50) per day. All modern conveniences. We solicit your patronage. VBBNB X. OANOM BUlposter and distributer. AM order promptly filled. Room T Jaeksoa Co. Baak BMg. Medford, Or. TUB MIBtUON OBILL Always open for business. Neat aad eaten. ' Up-to-date. Popular pricee. V8 Bo. 0 Si. Lambert A Brown I buy accounts) billa, notes aad judgments of any nature, any wbero. Address O. OLAT Box 88 Medford, Or. 0. F. OOOK Bell taeea that grow. Office: R. B. T. Deant. P. O. Box (41. Phoae MS. Medford, Or. THB B. R.'y. ITfNOH ROOM Finest , cup at , settee on MM.faeitt Ooast. t H. H. Lorhaer Prep. Livory aad Feci. Phoae 2431 WBST BIDS STABLES . . ChM. E. Tull, Proprietor. ' First-class Turnouts. Medford Orsgon MBS. ED. ANDREWS Voice Culture and Art of Maglag Studio at Residence. East Medford. Phone 886 Fur geed bargains in Walshes aad! 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