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THE MEDFORD DAltY TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, OREOON, 8 ATlflU )A V,r :i 11 N K 12(, !()!). Medford daily Tribute HAS ONIV PRAISE LOCAL BANKING HOUSES SHOW GREAT GROWTH Official Paper 6f the City of Medford. FOR ROGUE VALLEY Stockholder in Westerlund Orchards Published every evening except Sunday. MEDFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY George Putnam, Editor and Manager. Spending Semal Days In the Rogue River Valley. Admitted as iSo.-otid-Cla.ss Matter in the Postoffiro at Medford, Oregon. r 1 ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES : One month by mail "f rnrr... $0 50 One year by mail. ...iri.oo f if TODAY'S WEATHER PREDICTION. Fair today and Sunday; cooler. A rare and salubrious climate soil ot remarkable fertility beautiful sceuery mountains stored .witfi coal, copper aud gold extensive forests streams stocked with speckled beauties-rgame in abundance a contented, progressive people such is '.he Rogue River Valley. ' Average mean temperature 35 degrees Average yearly precipitation 21 inches I , SALES OF ORCHARD PROPERTY. ! Four large sales of orchard property made in Medford this week, that of the Snowy Butte or Hopkins orchard at Central Point for $150,000, the young Stewart orchard near Jacksonville for $85,000, the Morse orchard near Phoenix for $80,000, and the Meyers orchard near Central Point, a young grove of 20 acres, for $20,000, shows that Rogue River valley orchards are attracting the attention they merit from investors. The prices paid, ranging from $500 to $1000 an acre for planted orchard, is very reasonable when the earning ca pacity of the groves are considered- In no other fruit sec tion can such orchards be secured at anywhere near the price. These orchards have earned over $1000 an acre and such property is worth several times the prices paid, and will sell for it before long. ' To the granger who for years has fanned the land, such prices seem incredible, but such do not realize the possibil ities of fruit culture, which are grasped at once by the business man familiar with conditions in the orchard sec tions of the world who comprehend what few natives have that the Rogue River valley is ideally fitted by nature to become the world's greatest fruit section. i On .the Snowy Butte Orchard are 16 1-2 acres of ."Winter. Nellis pears, which netted $9000 one year and $19,000 the next year, f. o. b. cars at the grove. This yield may be excelled, at any time from the same trees, for the world is short of this type of staple pears, and the dealers are keen to get it all over the eastern states, where the very scarcity of pears in the world's markets apparently is whetting the appetite of the people for a good article.' The Meyers orchard contains two acres of old orchard and IH of trees just coming into bearing, and the two acres afford many instances of the capacity of the Newtown and Snitzcnberc varieties of apple on the right kind of land to yield phenomenal crops in this valley. This mixed orchard, man v" summer varieties included, yielded no less than $2500 one season, single trees of the Newtowns producing no less than $52 worth of fancy fruit, besides a few dollars worth of nice "culls, sold in local markets. Cornice pears from the Morse orchard sold for $8.40 a box at auction in New York City in October, 1907, and will sell as high again, for this region is the only producer of Con;ice peal's in commercial quantities. "With 50,000 acres of planted orchard tributary to Med ford, with 'from 10,000 to 15,000 additional acres being planted each yearW-the future of the valley from a fruit .producing standpoint alone seems without limitation and the valley's development has hardly yet begun. . A. G. Wilton, t t of tin principal iiM-kholiU'r- in the Wc-lerlimd or- nds near this citv, has been tin' valley since Wednesday looking iimt the property held by the com puny in which lie is interested, as well ns other properties in tho valley. Mr. Willen's homo is in Chicago and on this trip ho has visited nil of tho principal fruit growing regions of the west, including those of Colorado, and aftqr thoroughly looking over each section stated in a most positive maimer that the Rogue River valley is the garden spot of .them nil. Mr. Willen expects to leave for Washing ton soon. He is accompanied by-his wife and while in this city has been the guest of J. A. Westerlund. 'This is undoubtedly the foremost fruit growing section of the country," said Mr. Willen this morning. ''I do uot say that because I urn interested here, but because it is a self-evident truth, as any one "will see ufter n visit to other fruit growing sections. Of course, I believed in this valley when I invested, but I had not seen it at that time. Now, having seen it, I consider myself very fortunate in having an investment in the valley."' IRRIGATION SYSTEM NEARING COMPLETION Grants Pass Co-operative Irrigation System Is Neaerly Ready for the Water, l.w.h--,..itrTTfaa.v MKDFORD HANKING IIOUSKS. Meill'ord boast. of three hunks which reflect to great degree prosper ous condition of the citv. Hank statements called for by the comptroller of the currency at the lose of business June 23 shows the prosperous condition ol .Memord banks. All of the three institutions show increased growth of business uud reflect tho prosperity of the city aud country. The growth since December, 1005, j banks of thu county. IZl K!" ? tl,'l'OHit.H ' n"u''lj' I What shows the heart of tho busi t .000 0 .0. To be exact, ,t is $882,- 1 m)Sl4 , ,,, .,. , ..02. The .mrcasc during tins year ,,,;, 0(.urilI( hoUK0 transaction! over HUM is over $2J8,r,00. , M wlllt,limui, llB M, Kuch of thu banks are conducted $100,000 a day, thd uvorago being along safe lines uml were heartily over $.'10,000 a day. The total de praised by the state examiner on a posits in Medford banks now total recent insectiou, us wcro thu other i. 100,8 12. SPOKANE'S EIGHT MAY COME TO NAUGHT Seems That Her Contest to Secure Advantages of Freight Rates Will Fail. STANDING OF CONTESTANTS IN THE CONTEST " Remember, you cun take the trip any time you choose, and that all subscriptions carry votes. Miss Hazel Tice Medford ,. 51,920 Hiss Kva Patterson Medford 16,603 Mhis Lee Williams Central 1'oint 4,233 Mifio Hazel Messenger Central Point, R. F. D. 2. . 515 Miss Luetic Humphrey. Central Point' 3,039 Miss Donna Bel) Urownsboro 3,852 Miss Anna Spieer.v.- Jacksonville 1,390 Miss Cordelia Renter .....Jacksonville 1,407 Miss Martha Price. . .-. lllahc 4,40 Miss Whine .Tones.... Gold Hill 511 Miss Martina Thicl Gold nil 710 Miss May Mitchell.' Grunts Pass ,')00 Miss Perl Hollenbeck Prospect ;. , . . 505 Miss Mabel Parson's! Ashland ' 2,020 Miss Donna Hell. . lirownboro 2 243 CONGEST. CLOSES JULY 17,' 1909. GKAN'T.-i PASS, Ore., June JO. Work .on the irrigation system here, into a part of which water will soon be turned, is progressing rapidly. It is generally agreed that the amount of worfi done with money expended is remarkable. This is owing to the willingness of the people to give financial assistance and to tho un tiring work and energy of the men who have had the work in charge. For some lime it has" been an ac cepted fact that irrigation with wa ter taken from Rogue river, which here flows through the Rogue River vaNoy proper, would lie of great value t crops mid -orchards during; the dry months of July and August! but it is only within the past few' months that the matter has been se- j riously taken into consideration by ! men who do things. j Last summer, the latter part of j which was unusually dry, brought to j these men the realization that 'prompt j tion was necessary if this section I was to t reach the greatest prosper-! ily. During the mouth of October, last a meeting of the property own- j ers was cullfd, at which it was voted to take the project up at once. A little later, "pot: the completion of the preliminary work of an engi neer, the irrigation company was formed and sufficient stock sub scribed within a few days to curry on the. work for the season. A week following the first ground was bro ken nnd sine? then the ditch has been creeping around so rapidly that it is difficult for even the townspeople to realize all that has been done. Citizens Own System. It speaks well for the people of Grants Pass and vicinity that such a svstcm of irrigation is to be com pleted and owned entirely by them selves. The life nnd energy exhibited in the efforts in this deal were evi dently of a contagious nature, as there has been the spirit of push here ever since. .The people have sub scribed liberally in, advertising the advantages of Josephine county; the professional knocker, with which nil sections are infested at some time in their history, has mostly gone over to the other side, nnd if he wilfuflly refuses to be converted, like the bat is ashamed to appear in the light, and is heard only as the grumbling of the distant storm. WASHINGTON, June 2C The ag gressive contest for years that Spo kane aud other cities nnd towns of the far west have been making, in an effort to secure the advantages of freight rales on the basis of water competition which Seattle, Portland and other coast cities have been en joying is destined to prove a failure. They may secure a reduction in rules on shipments from the cast, but the decision will be based wholly upon the reasonableness of the rales, and of cities against Spokane, coupled nothing more. ' j with their advantage in having the ' , . . 7 , i Hill and Harriiuan 'interests with Hits announcement w as matlu ov , , them, may prne so lormulahlc that Interstate Commerce Commissioner ( SM). ,, wj, cartuin benefits Pruuty, during the recent hearing on wliirli she was about lo pluck, the .Spokane rate case. In advising' The trunk line of the east aro counsel fwr the Chamber of Com-1 watching this readjustment of inter iiiercc of SHikane to prepare testi- Mountain rales, fur the cities aud mony to be submitted at hcariiiL'S to 'towns of the "Inland Kmpiie" are lie given durnig ihe early fall by sev oral of the coininissinners, l'routy directed him not to be mislead by the rates granted Seattle and other cities, for, he explained, the commission and the courts had already determined that water competition gave nn ad vantage to a I'il.v, loi'iiti'il on a navi gable stream or on the ocean. San r'rnncisco, Ixis Angeles, nnd Portland have joined with Seattle to maintain the advantages arising from their location. Although the so-called water rates cannot have but a bear ing ,upoii the question of rates from the east lo Pacific coast cities not lo cated on the oceaen the combination iniliiig thill Ihev be given the sum I'l'cngiiilioii in rates to Chicago and SI. Paul us are granted the ocean cities. Marriage Licenses. Thomas Hardy and Lucy H. (.'nr--son ; Kranklyn V. Maple and Eto B. Pillsbury; George V. Lindloy and Lauretta May Martin; Krnest N. ISiilcii and Klva Wiley;. Oswald R. MeUsner and Maple I'eil. (iiiaraiiteed lo do just what we say it will. Come and seo thcra in tho lout her case the Colons bottles. Hodson Auto Co. Table d'hoto dinner nt the Nnsh grill Sundoy oening. Specin! mti PALM V1R IN V KSTM ENT CO., Owners of i i MODOC ORCHARD , (1300 acres lying on both .sides of Rogue River.) t . - . Offer for sale small tracts of irrigated land, with per petual water rights, at reasonable prices and upon easy terms. , .' These lands consist of rich river bottom loam and are , suitable in the highest degree for, the culture of Winter peare, Winter apples and all fruits for which Rogue River Valley is famous. A lso for tho production of Alfalfa, Oar den 8tuff, Root drops and Grasses. Inquiries relating to the resources of Rogue River Valley or of Western Oregon will be answered cheerfully and comprehensively. PALMER INVESTMENT CO. Medford, Oregon. CRATER LAW. "The Orenlosl Natural Wombr of the World." , Medford, Oregon, ' .. ,A .,-rw - "V "