Medford Daily Tribune FOURTH YEAR. MEDFORD. ORECiON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1909. No. 36. F RUIT CROPS will Smash ALL RECORDS District Freight Agent Malboeirf States That Frost Has Done No Damage to Orchards in Rogue River Valley. RECORD OUTPUT OF 1907 TO BE OOUBLED Fully Nine Hundred Cars of Fruit From This-Vicinity, Is Pre diction of Expert. "No damage hai been done the fruit crop of the ltni,'.ie Kiver valley by frost," states C. A. ainlboeuf, dis trict freight agent of the Southern fneifie railroad, after r three days' examination of the trcliards. "Ev ery year of course swue iruit is dam aged, but only Ihe noiir.-ii damage oc curred this year. "A record crop, double that of any previous year, is in sight, and thus despite the fact that voung apples, just coming into bearing, were nipped, so that the producing area of apples will not be increased materially. There is every prospect of ft. good apple Clop, unless uilnioinuit; wijumuim occur iu the future. The apples will be the finest ever produced here. Pear Crop a Wonder. "The pear crop will be a wonder. Young pear trees are practically un- 1I1UIUU, ItU IIIC UCUMUg uv. C that of the record crop of 1907. "I estimate the apple and pear shipments from Medford at 600 cars, from Central Point ISO cars, from Ashland, including peaches, etc., 75 cards, from Gold Hill and Woodville at 2.1 cars, a total for Jackson coun ty of 8.10 cars, as against 423 ears two years ago. Orants Pass will I . bably ship .10 cars, as against 30 i :n? two years ago. Medford Leads in Pears. "The shipments from Medford will be about half pears ui.d half apples, making Medford the banner pear thipping center of the northwest." In this connection it may be stated that Hood River's total apple and pear shipment for 1908, the record year, were 250 cars. HOTEL MXLELLAND AT R0SEBURG IS PURCHASED One of the most important busi ness deals in Koseburg so far this season is the sale of the Hotel Me riallen to Mr. Geo. F. Myer. of Ft. Collins, Colorado. The formal trans fer takes place tomorrow and the new proprietor will a -nine charge on Saturday, May 1st. The negotiations for this sale were conducted by Messrs Stewart & Ilenle. of this eity. Mr. Meyer is a first elas hotel man of many years experience and for a number of years was actively connected with the Harvey syndicate of eatmi: house on the Santa F railway system. He eects to com pletely remodel the present hutel building ami make it thoroughly modern in all its details. A 50-room tour-story annex is to be erected on the .facksMii -irwl -ide of the pre en! 1'iiildini: und a -tun in beat h.g plant installed. Modem plmnbiui: tK In In- extended throughout the entire ?-1 picture. pl;i ii.i: led and eojd water i:i every r-.o-.i. At h-nf 'JO batll room ;iiv to !). added ;Vid em-h room w 111 I;. 1 it it- individual telephone. In f:tet, 01. e. v rj.odern c .;t eeieiiee v iii be -'inpli- d th;it i- to be fmntd in i? 'ir-t-i-':!--. modern hostelry. MAYOR GIVES REASONS FOR INDING CITY CHARTFR BANKS SHOW LAYING PIPE TOMEDFORD Contractors Start Mains From Res ervoir to City Can Lay 1500 Feet a Day. Laying the big wood-stave pipe from the city reservoir to Medford began Thursday, and 1500 feet had been laid at noon Friday. By Satur day evening the line will reach the curve on the top of the hill east of the city, und by Monduy the pipe will bo laid on the Heard tract at the head of East Main street. Progress in laying will go forward at the rate of 1.100 feet a day, and as soon as completed to Roosevelt avenue, the laying of the main to wards Little Hutte will be started, about two miles of trench having been completed. Halp H. Uoyd, vice-president of the National Wood Pipe company, the contractors who are supplying the pipe. i hcrp superintending the work. LIGHT CROP EXPECTED IN YAKIMA VALLEY Fruit buds growing on the leaves of peach trees is the remarkable phe nomenon observed in several or chards in the Yakima valley, where the original buds on a number of earlv-beurinir trees were killed this spring by an unusuul frost. As a re sult some of the orchards will have light crops, birt as good prices arc expected there will be no severe loss. Trees in the compound at rort hini mr and in other parts of the valley escaped the chill winds aud are now in full bloom, while late peach trees are also doing well. Cherry trees arc in blossom and a large crop is expected. Professor W. S. Thorn- bcr, horticultural expert at the gov ernment experiment station, Pullman. Wash., says he has record of in stances where peach trees, robbed of their buds by cold weather, have de veloped leaf buds into fruit blos- some. but this is the first time he has heard of it ui Washington. BOARD OF GOVERNORS CENTRAL POINT CLUB An important meeting of the com mercial elub was held laPt evening, when the report of the committee on permanent headquarters was accept ed. The location chosen is in the new Whiteside brick, consisting of two rooms 12x16 and 1 x22 respect ively. The following board of governors was elected for the ensuing tenn : .1 () Isaacson. Dr. K. Davis. W. K. Whiteside. A. I,. Aikins. W. K. Kah- ler. T. M. Jones. C. S Sanderson. W. D. Lewis aud S. A. Patlison. The board will meet tomorrow even in to leet permanent sub-committees. GRAPE ENTHUSIAST HAS A FINE PEAR ORCHARD l.a-i Saturday eeins W. M. Sher- iDu unpleted the plantinu of 22 acre of pear orchard. He has three varieties, namely. Cornice. Winter N'elli- ami KarlleU, planted alter nately, which should result in ex cellent vdlenization. The orchard i- ju-l ea-t of town on part of the old Tutf- land and the -oil i- e-pee-ialfj adapted to pear. Tie ha- also just completed -ettintr out 22 acres to Tofcnv '.'tape. and the eln-ei'e-- of hi- rehnrd ;"d ie:ird to 'own rvill M:ik" it very valuable propel tr. It i pi! such -ysten'Mlie orchard and ihevard p! mm tint: that is -join" to make Josephine county the ha"nr fruit section of the const. Ob-en er. ESSENTIAL IF WATER MAINS ARE TO SUPPLY ALL OF CITY Provides Way for Extension of System Without Hardship to City or Property Owners Ten Years Used to Pay in and Assessments Refunded in Water Rentals Simple Plan Needs Amended Charter to Be Put Into Effect. To ;he I'nblic: Within a few months the city q! Medford uitl have an abundant sup ply of puie mountain water enough I'm- everybody four or five times as much as will be needed by t lie pros i )i users 'of water. Tl.k water is for the people of Medford for all the people not Pititly for n few who lie in the cen ter of the eity. The eity needs more customers for its water, lots more of them. It must have them or the greater part of this splendid water supply will be absolutely wasted and lost. It wants its mains on every on every street, o that everyone (ran be supplied. To the eity it will menu larger rev enue. It will make it possible to pay the interest on the water bonds out of the water receipts. That will mean lower taxes. To the people it will means un nbundanee of pure water for their homes, lawns aud gardens. It will mean lower rates for water, better fire proteelion, lower fire insurance. Rut the city has no money avail able to pay the cost of laying these mains. Our plan is to pay for their cost out of the receipts from the ad ditional sales of water. That is the object of the proposed c.hnrter amend meat. If a property owner wants n water main on his street he will be asked to ndvnnee a small amount for the pure base of water. The city will take this money and put in the water main and deliver to the property owner -the water he has thus paid for at any time he may wiuit it without further charge. SAD ENDING OF TRIP HALF ACROSS CONTINENT Airs. Harriet Fuller of Merlin. Mich., died last evening at . 6:30 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. D. Cary, Almond street, in the 75th year of her age. Mrs. Ful ler, accompanied by another daugh ter, Mrs. G. W. Fillaspy, arrived in Ashland on Monday of this week from Berlin, with the expectation of paying their daughter and sister and the latter's family in Ashland an ex tended isit. After leaving Chicago Mrs. Fuller was taken ill and the ill ness grew into pneumonia, and she survived only two days, a cherished wt-h to i-it the relatives in Ashland. Arrangements for the funeral are awnithing word from the relatives in Michigan, but it is expected that the remains of the deceased will be ship ped to Merlin to be laid he-ide tbo-e of b. r husband. Tiding. 0LWELLS AUTO CATCHES FIRE WITHOUT DAMAGE There was excitement tin- morning I w hen John Ol well's automobile i cniiL'ht on fire. Mr. Olwell started to leave the tjarae. when the oil which had eitthered on the mechan ical part- under the seat enught on i fire, re-nl tinif in an explosion in the muffler. For a moment it seem- , ed that the fire would spread to the t;a-oline tank of the maehine ar d there was some rapid work with buck et. The fire was soon ei in nich ed. Vcrv little damage was done to the machine. While the cost to the city in the ag gregate for all these mains would be very large, to each individual proper ty owner the cost will be almost tri vial. Take for example the case of a man owning a 50-foot lot un which a six-inch water main is to be laid. Fie will be asked to pay about $3.00 in cash, and a similar amount every year for nine years, with interest on deferred payments at li per cent. This amount, both the principal and inter est, pays for just so much witter, whieh the property owner can use whenever he gets ready. If he is us ing water on the premises, he will, of course, be asked to advance nothing, for his water bills will amount to more than the $M each year. If he is not using water at the time the main is laid, he will have just sit much water paid for whenever he gets ready to use water ou the premises, whether that be in five or ten years. Those in charge of the city's af fairs have given a great deal of thought to this matter, and the above plan seems to be the best, mid in fiict the only feasible one. I hope the vot ers of the city will show their inter est and loyalty in the city's welfare by getting out on election day, which is May 10, and giving the amend ments n henrty endorsement. The amount given above is as heavy as any property owner will ever be called 111011 to pay for the reason that it will be unnecessary to lay any mains larger than six-inch, and even if any larger mains should be laid, the eity would pay the ad ditional expense over and above whnt a six-inch main would cost. W. II. CANON, Mayor. WOODMEN OF WORLD PLAN BIG EXCURSION The members of Kogue Itiver cunip, No. .1.1, of the Woodmen of the World, are planning l'or a big time on the veiling of May 28. The hoys uro jning after new timber and doing nil thev can to have a record-breaking lass of candidates. Their district organizer is in the ity to help roll the new logs into camp. The Wood men ot the World nave nan a num ber of large log rollings the past few onths in the northern part of this district, the Inst one being at Eu gene on the 19th, when a very large lass was obligated. Nearly one- quarter million dollars of the reserve fund of the Pacific jurisdiction is in vested in municipal securities jM the state of Oregon. "Their investments in Orants Pass. Medford and Ash- l:n.l amount to over $72,000. Ob server. COMMERCIAL FRUIT PLANTING PROGRESS Knch year the planting out of new orchards is done. I.nst winter aud spring (1007-8) Jackson county planted about 8.000 acres to new or chards. Douglas eoiinly will plant it larue acreage the corning winter to nples and pears. Large tracts ,,f fine apple land have been nin-ha-ed by CMUimei'eiiil apple 'rowers. Coos. .',-cphipe. Klamath and Lake are f eparinir for activity Ihe coming v-i' ter and -prin'.'. planting new nr . Slate Horticultural ,m- nii-sjm!er A. II. Car-nti in his animal report just issued. SURESUGCESS Experiments on Bear Creek Orchards Show Raised Temperature Caused by Fires. Smudging for front is a proven success. Lust night nil ilmibt of the efficacy of smudges in raising tem lieriiturc nliout un orchard was dispell ed hy experiments conducted at the Hear Creek orchard by I'rofessor Vincenl nf the Oregon agricultural college, whieh were participated in by Messrs. Whisler. Waterman. Al len. Olwell, Webb, Martin and other orchardists, and witnessed by Freight Agent. Mnlbueuf of the Southern 1'a cil'ic anil others interested. Temperature Raised, While there was no frost, the tem perature was raised from 2 degrees to 9 degrees according to the fuel used. The temperature of the sur rounding atmosphere was 44 degrees, while that in the orchard, where the imudging was conducted, was .12 de crees. The night was quiet and still, wilb a slight northwest wind. The tem perature wash raised innt iii those eclions where the smoke raised by Ihe different smudges collected. Crude oil, oil aud sawdust mixed, wood fires covered with wet struw ir manure.. Rock Springs coal aud Vfedford coal, and brush were the materials used. The results proved (he feasibility of raising the temper ature at small cost, as only a small proportion of the ordinary number of fires used were lit. Different Fuels. Ifock Springs coal raised the tcin jicrjiture 2 degrees. Medford coal burnt we i.... .1-, . . , ii ii i inn noi prouuee as much smoke. Wood with wet straw, . . . , . , , ., ,,, , i ,i ii. i ,i , i turns having heen received, and he produced the most heat ami the most i " ' smoke. Oil nnd sawdust were very ! ''hristmas business of the merchants effective, raising temperature 4 de- swelling the total, iiees. Wood and brush raised the ! What shows the heart of the bus temperature 0 decrees. Crude oil 'ineKS s,ronger than nnv!hinK else is raised the temperature, but did " j the daily clenring house traiiHuetions, work to advantage, as the pots had L,.,, w)m(. limps ,.,, hi)h as a tendency to boil over and smother Uinn.Oon a .lav. and av..i'.,e nor tiie iiiime. It will ieri::rc n iimujImt of tenls with Kc-i t inn of f j re reversed to .trrive nt nceurnte hnsis of cornpnri' BIG SUCTION DREDGE ON KLAMATH RIVER , newspapers of this country have 'Die bin Miction dredge built by the every reuKou to support Out bill in Norlhern California Dredger com- troduced by Senator Hnylmrn of Idu pany at Hamburg has started mining ho, providing for a tax on advcrlis operatioiiH und is apparently a com-,ing signs. In foreign lauds these plete success in every way. siK1)8 are taxed and afford a eon- There has been much speculation as siderable public revenue. Senator to whether or not this type of ma- jHevburn proposes a tux of two cents I'hinf con 1(1 siieces;-! nil V cope with the irold gravel bed- of the KL'llillltll river, known to be filled with roeks of immense size, und many predict ed failure. On the contrary, how ever, everything is goina without a hitch and larire quantities of gravel are beiiijj handled in a way to make the old-timer and hi- crude method look like "thirtv cents." Thi- company, of which .1. A. Ilient (irt . hetn- made to suppress the ad is superintendent und local manager, j verlisiui; sign nuisance. It has been has spent a good-sized fortune in buildini: and equipping the dredge, j Ml,j(. want, because the newspa The transporting of the heavy ma- per-., magazine', and oilier puhlica- ehinery. of which there were severan tons, about f.n miles from th railroad , iver mountain roads mis one of th1 ma ii y problems miccc-.-fully -olved. The company ha- -ueiired by pnr--ha-e and otherwise th possix.snry title to an unbroken stretch of over 10 miles ,,' (he bed of Kla inn ri r. n jrrent portion of which known to be immensely rich in g"M. PROSPERITY OF COMMUNITY Deposits Have Doubled In Three Years Million and a Half Now Record of Three Lo cal Banks. QUARTER MILLION GAIN IN PAST THREE MONTHS Statements Issued Today Reflect the Growth of City and Surround ing Country. BANK DEPOSITS. December, 11)0,1 , . . December, 1000 . . . December, I HOT . . . I lecembcr, 1 !)(I8 . . . February. l!IOtl . . . April, 100!) Three months' gain $ 000,408 720,071 1,084,034 1, 2:14,480 1,205,000 1,49.'),000 228,000 Dank statements called for by the controller of Ihe treasury at the close of busi,,css April 28 shows the pros perous condition of Medford banks. All the three institutions show in creased growth of business aud re flect ihe prosperity of the eity and country. The gain since February .1. when tile prcwous statement was issued, is 22H,00. The gain ); . Unit dulu . and the l) mbcr f.i(cincut wus 411.0110, hut it hi' taken into consideration that December is a ban- .... ,,,.,,,,1, .,,. j,11u1 t, ,.,.., A BILL FOR TAX ON ADVERTISING SIGNS A bill to tax advertising himh und afford ii considerable public revenue has been introduced in the houxe. The jjer siiKrt icial square toot on signs advertising products which enter into interstate commerce. The taxes lire to he paid to the Tinted Slides treas vry, and to be collected annually. This new source of revenue miuht well be con-idered in connection with the ef fort to revise the tariff and reimpose war taxes of an objectionable charac ter. Throughout the country an ef- i tolerated altogether loo long. It meets tjlMis .,v the legitimate channels for tjM. ust. ,,f the advertiser. They con- 1 ti ihule to the educntion of the people and to tic prosperitv of the nation. If the prc-s will etand solidly behind Seitnior lleyburn's bill, its passnge will be assured and it will he effen- t h f 1 Vf in suppressing v haf hn enme In i" be an intiduruhle nuisance. The bill I lll)tnl must go.