Medford daily tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1906-1909, April 29, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextII' Medford Daily Tribune tl I i FOURTH YEAR. DEAL PENDING FOR SALE OF ' P. & E. ROAD Eastern Capitalists Negotiating for Purchase of Local Road to Ex tend It to Timber Belt Identity Kept Secret. ROAD WOULD PAY FOR ITSELF SHORTLY Taps District Rich in Resources and Means Manufacture of Lum ber Locally. A deal is ponding for the sale of the Pacific & Eastern railroad to eastern parties, who expect to extend the line to the timber belt. Negotia tions are not closed, so the identity of the parties interested are not di vulged. Th Pacific & .-Eastern now ex tends to Eagle Point, a distance of ii ;i- from Medford. The pur chasers fould extend it some 20 miles to Butto Falls in. the heart 01 the sugar pine timber district. From here the road could be extended into central Oregon if deemed advisable. It would eventually require approx imnti.1v 11 hll If million dollar invest- men to put the line in operation to Butte Falls. Taps Rich Region. One of the richest districts in Ore .. trnvsrand liv this road. There are thousands of acres of orchards planted along this luie, and its ex ui.a nnomtinn will mean the additional planting of many more thousands ot acres. 1 nere are i-,- nAn iinA foot of merchantable . '.luv.uw.wuw 'cm . J sugar pine, yellow pine and fir in the district that the roau wouiu iup, ou it is estimated that it would require oil years of continuous mnnufactur- :..-' vnm,l this SUDDlV. As fast as the forest is cut, the land will be cleared and planted to orchards, as ....nHliinns are oerfect for fruit producing, provided transportation is furnished. If the sale is made, it will mean more to Medford than almost any other news that could be announced. Since the failure of the Oregon Sav ings and Trust company the road has been in u bad way, and many efforts made to straighten out the legal tan gle arising through the receivership of the first company aDd the bank failure have hampered the sale of the road to those with the money neces sary to construct. Business in Sight. In addition to the timber now in sight and the orchard business, pres ,,.,.1 ,,msiwtive. a large agricul tural section will furnish business for the railroad while the coal and cop per mines now being developed would alone pay for the mad i" a short lime. An nil well is now being drill ed adjacent to the road, and if oil is found it would furnish an immense business for the line. Even upon present showings exerts as well as all residents of Jackson county who have sied up the situation, believe that the road would pay for itself within five years. Butte Falls, which would be the terminal of the projected line, is sit uated in the heart of the timber belt at the falls of Big Butte ei k. where immense water )Kjwer can be devel o'd. thus furnishing an excellent lo cation for a diver-ily of manufac turing plant-, being so situate! :i to furnish these plants with an unlim ited supply "f f""'st products for manufacture. Awaiting Transportation. Sawmills of l.W.unn feet daily ca- (Continued on page 8.) 50.000 EASTERN BROOK FRY DUE HERE ON FRIDAY James W. Ben-Ian, Superintendent of Ontario Hatchery, Bringing Consignment of Trout for Local Streams. SPECKLED BEAUTIES ARE PIONEERS OF SPECIES Cost Defrayed by Local Anglers, All of Whom Are Asked to Join the Association. J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the Ontario fish hatcheries, will ar rive in Medford Friday with 50,000 eastern brook fry, consigned to the Rogue River Protective association, which will probubly be placed in the waters ol Mine nunc. . . t These are the first eastern brook I to be planted in local streams, though a shipment, destiued for Crater Lake, was dumped in Union creek some years ago, and they have now spread into the upper Rogue above the nat ural bridge. These trout are a species of char, are speckled with red spots, one of the prettiest and gamest trout known. Funds Needed to Pay. The fry were procured through the courtesy of Mu.sler Fish Warden Mc Allister, the expenses being defrayed by local enthusiasts. Everyone inter ested in angling is requested to join the Fish Protective association, thus furnishing funds to pay for these and other consignments expected. J. E. Enyart is president and Dr. Louis Bundy treasurer and either of them will issue membership curds for $1 a year. Mr. Berrian is well known here, having been in charge of the Rogue rtt-pr h.iteherv. That success has .,JA hi. work in his new field s shown by the following from the On-1 tario Optimist: He Makes Good 'Mr. Berriuii, who has had much experience with fisheries work and is deeply interested in it, has been very successful in the hatchery nt Ontario. "Mr. Berrian was for several years in charge of the I'uited States hatch ery on Rogue river, and during his c successful operation of it he won for1 himself a reputation for skill and in tegritv that made his southern Ore- ron friends colli i;j..i iv... t ho wnn I.I win out, wherever his duties us a fish eulturist might call him. 'Jimmy' Berrian, here is wishing you still greater success." JUDGE BECKER WILL HANDLE LAND CASES 1 .. .).... T v I llccki,r has arrived ',. i ,'. ,., .,,,A fraud i ' - V trials. Hi' will a pi ,.,n....ir hetnre rede- I ral Judge Hunt on Friday or Satur day as special prosecutor in the dis I position of cases the trials of which I wer mmenced two years ago. i Judge Hunt will arrive in Portland 'from his home in Helena. Mont.. I Thursday evening, nnd will hold a I special -e-ion of the federal court i hemmus on Friday morning. ' At Ibis time per-on convicted of fraud in laud cases will he present for -enti nee. All other mailer- immiiI- ing from the last term of court held l.v .Indue Hunt will be dism-cd of e;ihcr Friday or Saturday if po-si-jlile. .In. lie Beck, r -pent a large part ,of today in consultation with railed Stale- District Attorney .1 hn )li' Court, as to Hie best plan of proced ure in the ilisiosition of the laud fraud cases now tending. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1909. SMELTER SITE IS PATENTED FOR BLUE LEDGE MINE Seattle Bar Patents Secured Prob ability of Early Construction of Smelter and Railroad to the Mine. GREAT BODY OF RICH ORE AWAITS SMELTING Investment Too Heavy to Permit the Property to Be Long Idle. Superiiitctndent Camahan of the Blue Ledge mine spent Wednesday in Medford patenting the company's ti tle to the Seattle bar, the site of the proposed smelter. He was unable to state whether the construction of a smelter and railroad to the mine was . - , .... n . . o contemplated by the owner, Robert S. Towne, immediately or not, Dr. ,J. F. Rcddy, who recently re turned from New York, states that Mr. Towne informed' him that he would make up his mind within a few days as to whether he would build the smelter and railroad at once or wait until some future date. At present the mine is shut down, though the investment is so heavy that the owner probably cannot afford to let i the property lie idle for any length ! of time. ! Dhannman.il Chnuinn ! It is stated that thousands of feet I of development work upon the ore body has been done, and that the t-i.in in ni Injiut fiflO foot Aoon. as I shown bv tunnels constructed. The ore is said to average better than 8 per cent, including the gold and sil ver that is found with the copper. Several millions of dollars' worth of ore has been blocked out. The showine made by the Blue Irfdgc is pnenomenai It is said that only the famous Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, Ariz... carries ore that ap j proximates as rich in value us that jof the Blue Ledge. Probably a mil lion dollars and a half have been in vested in the mine in the extensive development work that has been car ried on for three years, and unless a railroad and smelter are built the ore is valueless. Smelter Once Ordered. It was Mr. Townc's intention when he first purchased the property to I construct this railroad and smelter before tins lime. i ne maicrun iui the smelter had been ordered when the panic of 1 007 caused the can - cellation of the order. The road to the mine will tap a rich agricultural limber country as well as to furnish outlet for the product of numerous mines. There is every indication that the ron.l will be built in the near future, and with the need- ed coal and coke developed at the ,, . .., , f mines near nemoi.,. ..,n.i .. itabl e venture OPINIONS RENDERED BY SUPREME COURT The following opinions Iuim- been handed down by the supreme court of Oregon : Kd. Tliomp-on. resoniieiit. vs. Kolilvin ; from Josephine county: n. l. Ilanna. judge: athnned: opinion by .lii-ticr Kakin. (iiant Powdi-r company. ap)elkant. vs. Oregon Western Railway Com pany: from Doughi- county: J. W. Hamilton. judge; motion to dismiss apHal allowed: opinion per curiam. William M. Brown, appellant, vs. U ',. Moss, from Salt Ijike County; II. T.. Benson, judge ; reversed and remanded: opinion bv Justice Bean. BALLENGER FARM PURCHASED FOR R. W. Clancy and Associates of Idaho Buy Well Known Ranch and Will Plant It to Fruit. $30,500 PRICE PAID FOR 140 ACRES OF LAND Property Now in Grain and Alfalfa On Griffin Creek Irri gation Easy. The Merritt Ballinger ranch, be tween Medford and Jacksonville, con sisting of 140 acres of fine valley laud, has been solrd for $30,1)00 to R. W.f Clancy and associates of Idaho. The land is adapted to fruitgrowing and will be pluntcd as model or chard. The sale was made by W. M. Holmes. The farm is one of the best in the valley and is now in grain nnd al falfa. Griffin creek runs through the land and in addition there is an underground stream of considerable volume, rendering irrigation, if de sired, an easy proposition. RICH STRIKE REPORTED NEAR TOWN OF KERBY The rich lellurido discoveries made on Canyon crock, near the old min- "JR g town of Kerby, western .Jose phine, have resulted in the striking ' "'s i K"m ' '"' '"' ,. . i- i . i . . .t.i ei WHS IJt nilLTIU 111 Ml HI II 111 I lilMl wcek a T".1'"'.!? "'' r.e. from the (flaims of Phillips & Miingum, thut dimes sold at the rate of $20,000 a ton. The tfold nm be whittled from the rock with a jack knife. The ore is thickly studded with wires nnd layers of the pure yellow metal. Some nt" the quartz is almost half gold. The strike was made in a "Kcket," but on a well-defined ledge Ihtn is being opened by a tunnel. This ledge has a width of four feet, and will be more deeply developed by a longer tunnel which hill be driven in at a point lower down the moun laiuside. The five claims of the group on which the strike was inude are owned by C. I.. Manguui and Charles F.. Phillips. BILLION DOLLOR ROAD IS HARRIMAN'S SCHEME A billion-dollar corporation is the j latest project from the brain ol h. j, Harrimnn, planned by the Napo- j ( of the railroad world with a view ,, eonsolidating and solidifying the j Vas railroad mileage represented hy tl(. ,,w Yo:k Central lines. A dozen ! m,,-,. ,,f the most eminent corpora , ij,, lawyers in this city, in Chicagu i "ini-iiiinilt i. Cleveland and Buffalo working on the nroblem of this ureal corporation, which llarri u. an hope1 fort of hi to make the crowning ef . railroad and financial career. Legal men in Ibe Harriinan employ have been told to discover a way in which more than 12,1100 miles of rail road miller Ibe control of the New York Central, and representing u capitalization of nearly 1 .1)00.000,- OnO. may be made over into a homo geneous rpiantity with central maun ii'.'emeiit, with one treasury and one purMisp- to enable it to assume the most commanding posilion in Ihe transportalion world. The iii a li houses of Khglunil. if place ic, would reach 27 '100 miles London imports 1.000.000 pound! f butter a week from Siberia. SCENIC DISPLAY FOR EXPOSITION Commercial Club Decides to Make Exhibit of Kiser Paintings of Natural Marvels at the Seattle Fair. OIL PAINTINGS OF CRATER LAKE ORDERED Officials of Southern Pacific and Sunset Magazine Bureau Are Thanked for Pamphlet. At a special meeting of the Com mercial club held Wednesday cvo niug, the finance committee was in structed to arrange with F. 11. Kiser for a scries of oil painted photo graphs of Crater Lake and other nat ural wonders of this vicinity. Sam ples of the work done by Mr. Kiser showed the paintings the finest yet undertaken to reproduce natural ef fects. The cost of the exhibit, which will be the property of the club, will not exceed $350, and it nan be used other places or used to adorn the club rooms. The special finance committee ap-! pointed to secure publicity funds for the ensuing year reported that with about half the possible subscribers seen a fund of .$:N00 had been pledg ed in monthly subscriptions. A vote of thanks was iiiinnimonsly given William McMnrruy, William Kittle Wells and other Southern Pacific and Sunset Magazine ufficials, for their interest nnd assistance in gelling out the Medford pamphlet. II. C. Bouncy, I.. A. Gregory, (leorge II. Bordeaux, Oeorgc Carter and A. K. Woolvcrtou were elected members. At the next regular meeting Wednes day all citizens desirous ol joining arc requested to be present and join. GRANTS PASS BLIND PIGS PAY BIG , FINES Over 'iOU in fines was on Satnr lay paid by violators of the local option law in Josephine county, in dicted by the grand jury, and who pleaded guilty before the circuit court, Ten other indictments were returned by Ihe -rind jury, against parties who have been engaged ill the sale of liquor contrary to the law. Daniel Johnson, one of the pro prietors of the I.ayton Hotel, pleaded guilty to the sale of liquor over the hotel bar. and was fined $200. His brother Frank J. Johnson, pleaded guilty and was fined $100. .1. II. Messier pleaded guilty to selling within :I00 feet of the school house at (lalice and was fined $100. A pe culiar incident in this case was that District Attorney Mulkey, the prose cutor, was the legislator who intro duced the passage of this law sewn or eight years ago. as a representa tive from Polk county. F.noeh Irwin pleaded guilty to selling in prohibi tion territory, and was fined $50. Mike Brady pleaded guilty to in terrupting and disturbing a country school while under the infliiem f liiinoi' and was fined $75. MAN AND WIFE PAN OUT GOLD AT TALENT J. K. Steele of Talent spenl Thurs day in Mcdfonl and astonished many of his aeijiniintauees and friends with the quantity of gold he had wilh him Mint he and his wife panned onl on their mine two miles from Talent, the old Anderson mine. Within two hours nod a hall' they took out gold amoiinl ing lo about $75. Mr. Steele remark ed that "talk about there not bein any gold hen', well, who ever say that should just see thai mine of mine." No. 35. L FOR DEATH FACES SULTAN ABDUL Former Aboslute Monarch of Turkey Is Stripped of Fortune and Power and Imprisoned In Salonlca.' ECONOMY WATCHWORD. OF MEHEMMET FIFTH Thousands of Useless Government Employes Discharged Guard Same as White House. CONSTANT1NOPI.F., April 21). Imprisoned ul Salouica, stripped of his fortune and power, the deposed sultan today faces court martial for death within the next few days, ac cording to rumor. The new sultan has inaugurated an economical olicy and has already discharged thousands of useless gov ernment employes. The force at the palec is now the sumo as at tho White House. WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD SPENDS DAY IN MEDFORD William I). Haywood, chief of the Western Fcdcrntion of .Miners, who recently focused the world's atten tion during his imprisonment ami trial at Buisc, accused of .complicily in the murder of cx-Oovcrnor Sleunen berg, spent Wednesday evening in Medford, leaving for Portland Thurs day morning, where he is May day or ator al an immense socialist gather ing scheduled lor Saturday evening. Mr. Huywood is much improved in health since his release from his long imprisonment and tedious trial. His looks suggesl tho able, ernfty leader of labor thai he is, while his one eye lends him a sinister iispecl in keeping with his reputation. Mr. Haywood is looking aflcr so cialist interests and spent the eve ning in consultation with local social ists. LUMBER DEALER IS CHARMED WITH VALLEY I!. I). Ivlcppiugcr and family ar rived here yesterday from Belvedere, Neb., and will make Medford their future luilnc. Mr. Klcppiiiger is one of the owu- rs of the Medford Lumber ciuupuuy, ullhough this is his first visit to Med ford. Hi1 has mil been afraid to in vest here. "Von may iiiotc me as saying that this is one of the prclliesl vnllcys have ever seen, nnd my wife and are delighted wilh it," said Mr. Klc pinger this morning. lie also slated lllal lliel-e would be nianv changes made in the Mcdfor Lumber companv's yard, New shed and a new office building will h( erected at once and other improve incuts will be made. WATCHMAN KILLED BY SAFE CRACKERS SAN FIfANi'ISCO. (al., April --A ruled onlv w ith a lantern, whicl lie used a- a weapon. Stephen Tud ziu-ki. a wali'lituau at Ihe F.ngle tan nerv on die San Bruno road, hatlei two sale crackers last nigh! and wa killed. Hi- Imdv was found in th yard this morning with u bullel his breiisl. the lanleiu clutched hi- hand, ll is supposed the wnlcli man iiitcrft.red when Ihe robbers nt telnploil to blow the safe. From coal arc produced more tha 400 different colored dyiw.