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
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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-
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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.