Medford daily tribune., July 21, 1909, Page 4, Image 4

THE jtEDFOBDDAILY TRIBUNE, MED FORD, OnEOOK, WHDNESIUY, .JULY SI, 1909.
Medford Daily Tribune
Official Paper of the City of Medford.
Published every evening except Sunday.
MEDFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
George Putxam, Editor and Manager.
was classed with the progressive clement of his own parts,
and .labored in concert with the insurgent republicans. '
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TODAY'S WEATHER PREDICTION.
Fafr and continued warm weather tonight and tomorrow.
A rare and salubrious climate soil of reuiarknble fertility
beautiful scenery mountains stored vith oonl, copper and gold
extensive forests streams stocked with speckled beauties game iu
abundance a contented, progressive people such is ,'Jhe Rogue
River Valley.
Average mean temperature ...55 degrees
Average yearly precipitation 21 inches
CHAMBERLAIN'S STAND.
The Portland Oregon ian, continuing its opposition to
Senator Chamberlain,, is now imputing a pro-Aldrich at titude
on the part of Mr. Chamberlain, whereas an exam
ination of the Congressional Record covering the entire
special session shows the following facts :
Chamberlain, -when he was absent a few days in Mis
sissippi, was paired with Oliver of Pennsylvania, so he
is to be counted as it voting against the Aldnch rates.
On roll call or recorded votes, Chamberlain in the en
tire course of proceedings on the bill voted only twice for
schedules presented bv Aldrich. These were the lumber
and iron ore schedules, and on the latter his vote was for
a reduction from 40 to 25 cents a ton.
Chamberlain voted altogether with ' Aldrich twelve
times, three of those being against amendments reducing
the lumber schedule. He voted with Aldrich against Mr
Cumber's coal amendment, against free raw wool, against
the motion to recommit the wool schedule to committee,
against Tillman's tea tax and against Stone's Philippine
amendment. He voted for free art, and tor the submis
sion of the income tax amendment to the Constitution, for
which every senator voted. On an ave' and nay vote,
Chamberlain voted the same as Aldrich for an increased
duty on hops.
On eight votes only was there difference of opinion
between Chamberlain and the progressive republicans.
Five of these were upon minor amendments offered bv
Stone and on Gore's proposal to place textbooks on the
tree list. ' . . '
Chamberlain is recorded as voting against Aldrich,
with the majority of his party, and with the insurgent re
publicans, 67 times. He was paired against Aldrich 's
propositions 27 times. He was for the income tax mill
and opposed the corporation tax, being one of the .three
democrats who voted with the insurgents against its adop
tion. During consideration of the schedules of cotton,
manufactured woolen products, sugar, iron and steel and
most other articles of greatest consumption, Chamberlain
In another column will be found an article bv Agnes
C. Kant, concerning the price paid for bad roads in the
I nirml Xf.ifou 'I'll.. .. I.. c ii.. i i
- --Hi"". .lim n- i.i niir in uie iicsi recenilv ap
pearing upon the sub j.vl. Aiming other things, the author
shows :
Two hundred and f iff if million dollars a icar air wasted
on bad roads in . f uitcd States. Added),, loss on haul
tin' storaijr ami c.rtcu food rales make the fatal ctiwiisr
Ui.l ln')i'., ,?..... 'Ill ' '
""" f.- a ii nr. i ins means a tax of 1L.) an
every man. woman ami child in the count rij. Corners in II,
frain mari.cts arc f rcipientl the direct result of bad roads
in jour uaa-roaa states three Hundred ami sevenl n-fit
iionsana peoptc out of seven million can not rend or write-
in jour ijooil-road slates out of si.r million uooulut ioi
fM-r uu i tt t in if uiouwmi imrcrarrs.
Hunger and Illiteracy Stalk
Along Our Ill-Kept Highways
Agnes C. Lant, Writing in Collier's Weekly, Presents Timely Article Having
to Do With the Price Paid for Poor Roads in the United
State of America.
Do good roads concern .von .' U'ulilion of tho ronds, u is possible f
I'jiit n n nun ..r lli.. 1". (Hill i .. -I 1
jUU u.i ...-..! . ..,.,, minor our speculators t Kct possession of til
owners in the United Status, it i n
fairly safe guess tbat you give sonic
thought to the good roads movement
and a great denl more thought to the
bad roads that exist on u sv.stem of
"pig-track trails" with wallows and
"tliank-you-inums" and "bump-yo'i
quicks" in tho proportion of 3 mile
bad for every one hundred miles of
road,
Or if you are one of the 30,1)00,000
people who live on farms in the
United States, it is also a fuirlv safe
guess thut you know something about
bad roads, even f you do not know
and have never chnnccd to cross the
7 tcr cent of improved roads of the
total 2,000,000 miles of highway in
the I rated states.
Buti f you are a city dweller, whose
use of the highway consists chiefly
of the street railway, does the good
roads movement concern vou? That
question is best answered by ask
ing another. When the price of
wheat goes up from 70 cents to
$1.30 a bushel, and tho price of po
tatoes from .r0 cents to $1.23, and
the price of bread from 0 to 10 cents,
and the price of flour from $1.30
to $7.50 a barrel do those facts con
cern you? If they do, then you at-.'
vitally interested in good rouds. Tako
wheat, for instance. Do you kno v
why it is possible to corner the mar
ket in wheat? First of ull. because
wheat is scarce the demand grow
ing faster than the supply; but seo-
ondnrily because, owing to the con-,
whole year's erop of wheat. The west
is the Kreat granary of the wheat
supply today; anil in the west wheal
must he rushed to market iu the clear
dry autumn days when the prairns
minis are hard as Unit. If tho farm
er held his wheat over, past the drv
w'alhcr. iu the most of counties he
simply could not deliver during lain
autumn ruins or early spring break
up when roads are a churn of mini
The result is. for three mouths nfto:-
each crop there is u glut of wheat at
elevator .railroad, wnter front. A
lnrge proHrtion of the erop (foes ;
storage. lliese storage charges
amount m u grain center like Chi
cago to ns much as nine cents a
bushel in n year. On Minnesota's
wheat crop, storage charges mount
up. to $.-,.000.0110; on the two I).
kotas, to twice as much, nnd so for
every grain area on the continent.
Tho farmer docs not pay those stor
age charges at water front. Tho spec
ulator does in. t he adds those
charges to the selling price; and the
man who pays is the buyer vo.i,
Mr. Town Man, who ent dear bread
all because some mud road buck in
a hoosier slate has not been graded
up properly.
As n matter of fact, America'
country ronds are so notoriously bud
that it costs more to haul a Ion of
wheat from farm to market than to
ship that ton from New York to Liv
erpool. America's country ronds are
so bad that it costs the American
farmer 23 mm Is to haul a ton, when
it costs tho English or the IIcIlmiiii or
the French or ' the German farmer
only from 7 lo 0 cents for the same
haul. Von, Mr. Town Man, and you,
Mr. Funnel-, pay for the unnecessary
waste of those bad ronds, tho lowu
man by extra cost of what ho eats,
the farmer by lessened profits mi
what lie sells. The same reason ex
plains why the town niiiii pays $1.2")
in spring for potatoes which eort
from 50 to 7.'i cents in tho autumn.
That may not be as striking u wn
ol showing what bud roads cost as
,ou weui out in your motor cur am
ruptured a pair of $litl tires; but
al'l'ects more people.
II you want to know what Im
roads cost the country as a whol
keep iu iiiinil thai American fanner
lire paving 23 cents a ton I'm- hu
ing, wneu I'.ui'opciiii luriucrs urc pay
ing from 7 lo i) reals. Now, the in
lerstiite commerce report shows that
the railroads yearly haul 2lS5.000.000
tons ol farm products and that tho
average haul from farm to murk'!
for the whole country is nine nnd
fraction miles. Tut the cost of haul
ing at a round $2 a ton for the nine
miles, and you have the cost of haul
ing I arm produce at a round hal
billion dollars u year. Half thai cost
is wste, solely owing to had road
Look squarely at tho facts! '
Two hundred and fifty million dot
lars a year wasted on bad roads
which the fanner and consumer joint
ly pay!
flic charge to haul wheat from
NV.v York to Liverpool, 3100 miles,
is 3.5 cents per bushel. The charge to
haul a bushel of wheat from farm lo
market, fl.-l miles, is a. 11 cents! The
storui;o on wheal at water fronts, 0
cuts a bushel a year. Do good
oads concern youT
Total up the whole cost of Im 1
roads, the waste on haul, tho storugo
at water Ironls, the extra price paid
for tood owing to scant market iu
spring and you have an expense bill
of a billion dollars a year against bud
roads, or, on a bsis of HO.OOO.OOi't
popultioii, a lax of $12.50 a vear.
which every man, woman and child
pays tor bad mads
The results of bud roads ure year
ly tolls of $12..0 against every per
son who eats farm produce. That
early waste would build 200,000
miles of Al inaca nimi.ed muds every
year; or in ten years would turn ev
ery country road into such a high
way as the Komans famous Appiim
Hay, basing the cost at the very
highest average of $.1000 a mile.
Though macadam mads sometime
exceed that rfigure, owing to special
lilliciilties n swumi) or bridge work,
easy grade near the source of
the rock beih the average has com"
ow as $200; in New Jersey for
instance.
The beauty of the relentless scheme
of things is when we mend our ways
iu this case, mend our mads Xn
turc not only wipes out the deficit,
she puts a plus to the account where
there used to be a minus. Snnnri
ing of the 2.000,000 miles of rouil-i
in the United States, all were im
proved instead of only 7 per cent,
uiiat would he the result to fanner
anil coiisu Y FirM of (,, i,
deficit of wasle on haul, on storage,
on cornered prices-- wiped mil! Tho
minus goes off the iialioiial slate mi l
Hie plus conies on.
Good Ronds Reduce Distance.
The good roiid inoc the remotest
farm right next to the market. A
farm 20 miles from the market on an
nll-hi'-.vear-roiunl good roiid is near
er market than a farm seven luihw
away on a bud road. Truck farm
ers can haul their produce to nun ki I
30 miles cheaper than they can ship
by railroad; ami llml produce nets,
1 "riling lo well known averages,
as follows:
I'Yuil. $HII per acre; flowers, $2000
per acre; corn, $H an acre; wheat, $7
per acre; outs, $7 per acre; vegeta
bles, $.2 H,r ucre.
With a ss to market and best
ruling price net returns iuereas-i
and farm lands jump in value. It is
an actual fact, wherever good roads
have gone, land has increased in val
ue from 7i lo $0 an acre. In Jack.
son county, Alabama, a bond issue of
$2:.0.000 built 12.r mbilcs of macadam
road. The selling price of land wu-i
from $11 to $l.'i before tho roiul win
(Contlnuod on Page 5.)
Medford TimeTable
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY.
I Northbound.
N'o. 20ltosehurg I'iihs. .
N'o. 12Shasta Limited..
No. 10 Orogou Express.
No. llll'ortland Express
I Southbound.
N'o. lljShusta Limited. ,
No. l.VCnliforniii Express
No. l.lS. F. Express . ,
Medford to Jacksonville.
7:41 a. m.
0 :2" . m.
5 :24 p. m.
8 :3I) p. m.
6:50 a. m.
10:35 b. m.
3:32p..m.
Motor car leaves
Train leaves
Train leaves
Train leaves
Motor car leaves
Jacksonville to Medford.
8 :00 a. ui.
10:15o. in.
3 :35 p. m.
C :00 p. m.
0 :30 p. w.
Motor leaved
Train leaves
Train leaves
Train leaves
Motor car leaves
No motor ear service until about
July 20.
PACIFIC & EASTERN RAILWAY.
7:00 a. m.
8 :-l.p a. m.
2 :30 p. m
4:30 p.m.
7 :30 p. m.
llLonvcN Medford...
o. 3 Leaves Medford . . .
No. 2'Arrives Medford..
No. 4Arrivos Medford . , .1
o. 1 Arrive Eagle Pt
No. 2Lcavos Kaglit I't...
No. 3Arrives Eagle I't...
No. -llLeavcs Eagle I't.
MAIL CLOSES.
8:00 a. m.
2:20 p.m.
10.-10 n. in
5 :00 p. in.
8 :4,1a. m.
0 :0.r n. ifi.
3 :0r p. m.
4:15 p. m.
Northbound .
Southbound .
Englo Point.,
Jacksonville
8:50 n. m.8 :00 p.m.
4:20 a. mj3:00 p. m.
7:20 n. i"..3.fl0 p.m.
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Why CRESTBROOK ORCHARD TRACTS are selling as
they are to discriminating buyers. They have beautiful
location, ample air and water drainage, deep rich soil, and
THEY GROW FRUIT
Reasonable Prices and Generous Terms.
Orchards Syndicate
on
Rogue River Valley
Medford, Oregon
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