THE MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREO ON, THURSDAY, AUQUST 19, 1900.
Medeord daily Tribune
Official Paper of the City of Medford.
Published every evening except Sunday.
MEDFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Geohge Putnam, Editor and Manager.
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Medford, Oregon.
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TODAY'S WEATHER PREDICTION.
Clear today and tomorrow. Warmer.
A rare aud salubrious climate soil of remarkable fertility
beautiful scenery mountains stored with coal, copper and cold
extensive forests streams stocked with speckled beauties game in
abundance a contented, progressive ' people such is the Rogue
River Valley. .
Average mean temperature 55 degrees
Average yearly precipitation 21 inches
THE TELEGRAM'S DISCOVERY.
GRANTS PASS WANTS
REAL PAVEMENT
Committee Changed Its Mind Regard
ing Macadam' After Visiting
Medford.
Portland's tall tower of journalism is beginning to
wake up. Only the other day the Oregonian discovered
the three-year-old thousand-dollar challenge of tie Med
ford Commercial club, and now the Portland Telogrnm
has unearthed the startling fact that pears are giwvn hi
the Rogue River valley. If this alarming rate of progress
keeps on, both papers will;sopn be aware of the fact that
there is such a section as southern Oregon and such n itv
as Medford. Says the Telegram:
"Oregon people have never tired of singing the prais vs
of the Hood River country, and commenting wiih' pride
upon the excellence of the Hood, River apple. The good
people of that section have well deserved all this praise;
for by their painstaking industry and honesty they have
given the state an enviable reputation which is move' than
national, Oregon has become known as the state if the
big red apple the biggest, reddest, the fairest to -look
upon, and the best-flavored apple that is grown any whero.
It is well, however, to take note in passing that Oregon
is acquiring fame for the production of other fruit than
apples.
"In yesterday's Telegram there appeared a story sent
; in from the Rogue River country that is worth' any. man's
reading who entertains pride in the bountifulness and ex
cellence of Oregon products. The story pertains to V,e
splendid pear crop of that locality; and it is one of that
sort which makes the" mouth water in the reading. To say
that 137,500 boxes of this luscious fruit will be put on Use
market by the Rogue River orchardists, and that niosf fit'
this fruit will go east and abroad, and will command fa icy
prices, is to repeat the oft-told Hood River story as appli
cable to another section of the state. It indicates but a
newly written chapter in Oregon's development, and the
opportunity for the writing of other and innumerable
chapters.
"As the years pass there is stronger confirmation of
the prophecy, long since made, that Oregon will be the
greatest fruit producing state in the Union and this, not
only as to the quantity, but as to the quality of the fruit.
In the production of deciduous fruits we havp vastly bet
ter climatic conditions than California. The fruit-raising eon'et ""'contractor ho .
." , , ... , ,. ., ., ... n putting in the bitulithic llir.rc. They
area is almost wirnour limit; ana tne excellence or me irun PIIII1B back
world's record for high prices for green fruit. Tins i$ not,
as the Telegram asserts, "a newly written ehapier in Ore
gon's development." Medford pears are acknowledged to
be superior in flavor and keeping qualities to any grown,
and for years have commanded record prices in eastern
markets.
The Oregonian estimates the Medford apple crop at
400 cars, the Medford pear crop at 300 ears, the Hood
River apple crop at V2't ears, and the Hood River pear
crop at six cars. These figures alone tell the story of the
two districts so plainly that he who runs may read.
SEND FRUIT TO FAIR,
Growers of fancy fruit are requested to send a half
box exhibit to the Seattle exposition. The Commercial
club committee has arranged to transport the fruit free of
expense to the grower, who is given the privilege, of adver
tising his orchard and the vajley.
It is unnecessary, to detail the advantages accruing to
the state and locality by creditable exhibits of products
before countless thousands of easterners. As the leading
fruit growing section of Oregon, the Rogue River valley
cannot afford not to be adequately represented.
If each orchard that takes a pride in its pack and out
put would reserve a few boxes of its choicest fruit for ex
hibit purposes, a great deal will have been done to advance
the interests of the valley. Surely there is patriotism
enough among f ruitmen to do this.
Leave the fruit with the secretary of the. Commercial
club.
Town Booming LIST OF NEW
Helps
IV. -Rah! Rah! Rah!
Two Americans meetiig in En
rope, one of them said, "I am from
Jones' Siding."
"And I," said the other, throwing
ont his chest, "am from Chicago."
"Seems to me I've heard of that
plaoe. About how far-is it from
Jones' Sidingt"
The Jones' Siding spirit is the
kind that helps a town. This man
considered his own home THE FIN
EST PLACE IN THE WORLD. If
there are many more there like him
Jones' Siding will some day be
crowding other places off the map.
He was the kind of man who
spends his money at home, who pat
ronises home industries, talks np his
GRANTS I'ASS, Or., Aug. 19.
Some time since the property owners
in the-business portion of the city
held a meeting to consider street im
provement, and as u result came to
the conclusion' that they wanted ma
cadam, and appointed u committee
to confer with the council in the mut
ter. At the Just meeting -otify coiuir
cil K. L: Cob, for the committee, re
ported to that effect' and the council
instructed the city engineer to survey
the (streets and estimate the cost of
macadam. '
Since thai meeting J. 1). Fry made
a visit to Hoscburg. Mnrshfield and
Coos Bay,, and while in thsa cities
had an opjsirtilnity to investigate
hard surface paving. Prior to this
visit he had been in favor nf ma
cadam, but eiune back entirely cliang-
TAKILMA SMELTER
TO START AT ONCE
Starting of the Takllma Smelter Will
Furnish Employment to Four
. Hundred Men.
GRANTS' "PASS, Or., Aug. 19.
Mining activities in Josephine, county
are still increasing and good mining
men predict that within the next few
months the mines of tins-locality will
open the eyes of the' people of the
United States and that the production
of copper and gold will be the tulk
of mining, circles everywhere,
1 It is now definitely settled that the
Tukilma smelter will blow in in a very
short time, and m fact men arc now
working on the works getting them in
shape, and teams arc being engaged.
Tlio smelter will smelt the copper ore
of Hie Waldo mine, which is situated
only a short distance from tlio smel
ter. This mine now has 75 men work
ing getting out the ore. nud it is es
timated that there is $150.01)0 worth
of ore on the dump. It is the inten-
itself brings a price that is the envy of all other fruit-growing
sections. There is a good hint in all this for the thri fty
man who commands a little capital."
In the almost hopeless effort to enlighten both ihc Tel
egram and the Oregonian, both of which are strangely
dense when it. comes to learning anything about southern
Oregon, the following facts about Rogue River valley .'ire
again printed:
Rogue River valley contains twenty times the avail
able orchard area and four times the planted orchard area
of Hood River This vear with but a fraction of fie olant
ed area' i.n bearing, the fryit.'ontput of the Rogue River val
ley will approximate 865'cars as against" 1.10 enrs for llo.id
River. ,:'-
Rogue River vally:'apj)les are in Hie same class with
those of Hood River. The red KpitzeinVrg here cannot
be told, either in color, flavor or keeping qualities, from
the Hood River product. The Rogue River Newtown
Pippin is superior to the Hood River Xcwtown, because
far more prolific. t
Rogue River , valley produces three-quarters of ihc
pears grown in Oregon and its pears have long .Id the
ed in his views and was most heartily j 1'" "'at within .10 days there will be
in favor of the other kind of pave- I 400 '"en working on the property and
ment. lie went among the proper- j '" ,lie smelter, and that there will be.
ty owners and stated the result of I1"0 teams employed in hauling the
bis observations anil investigations! ""I6 '. the .smelter and the matte to
and also worked. with the committee, ! this city.
Another impetus to mining wux the
appearance of C. W. Thompson in
Grants Pass last week with the an
nouncement of the starting up of the
old Greenback' mine. Mr. Thompson
was formerly manager of this mine
when it was paying the best. There
has been in the neighborhood of if 1 .-
imo.UOO taken out of this niinn,.and it
with the result that last Saturday J.
1). Fry, II. L. Gil key, Lee Calvert,
Glaus Schmidt, 3. M. Ahlf, R., L.
Coc, Harry Andrews aud City Engin
eer llobson went -to Medford to 'in
spect the paving iu that city and to
came back much more enthused with
the idea that the macadam was not
the proper thing to put in and Mon
day evening a meeting was held of
the committee to talk the matter
over. ' , '
j tie committee as a whole are in
has paid over $10(1,000 in dividends.
The parties that last operated it clos
ed it down because they found no
ore on the 1200 foot level, but Mr.
Thompson thinks that they have miss-,
cd the old Greenback ledirc nnd bis
favor of bitulithic and their plan now familiarity' with the property and the
is to' pave three blocks on either side
of tl.e railroad and Front street
where (be business houses are. and
F street to '.he rear of the First Na
tional bunk and tbo rear of Kinney
& Truax store. This would bring the
pavement up and down Sixth street
as fur north ns the Western hotel
and south ns fur as I street and
would take iu all the railroad property.
We have some 10-aero tract-, one
mile south of town, Set to 2-vear-obl
Hurt let t and d'An.jou pears: tplcndil
building site; selnel neighborhood. We
can give you easy terms. We will
take pleasure in showing yon Ihnso
tracts. IV'cn tf.'I.IO per acre, Itcnson
Do you like crawfish 7 The Nash
Grill serves them. Fresh shipments
daily from tho famous Quelle cafe at.
Portland.' .
fact that he is starling it. tip again,
nenrs mis opinion nut, Ho says that
he will have .15 stamps dropping by
the fiiVt of September and that (his
number will be doubled in a short
time afterwards. . :
A deal was also consummated lust
week whereby tlio Old Channel mine
was sold , to n new company. This
mine has been worked for Ihn past
few years by J. 1. Harvey, one of
the stockholders; who had the prop
erly lefised; This has 1 i one of
tbo best, ua.ving placer properties in
the counly and has' van- each season
and has always paid. It is understood
that most of Ihe stockholders of the
hew company live in Chicago and
that they will put more capital into
the proposition and work it on a larg
er scale than heretofore. . ', ' '
Orchestra music during dinner each
evening at the Nosh Grill.
T
home town and helps to build it up.
HE WAS A DESIRABLE CITIZEN.
The mail order houiei couldn't do
business with him unlet they were
located in hit own town, for he
knows that, far as he was con
cerned, Jonei Siding was the center
of the earth.
Think it orer and tee if we ean't
work np tome of that Jones' Siding
spirit right here! .
LET US GET TOGETHER AKD
MAKE THINGS BOOK.
Every letter that it potted here
should be an advertisement for the
town, even the love letters, for we
want the Tight kind of people to
come here and settle.
Let's advertise ourselves, our homo
industries and oar rood prospteU
IK EVEAT WAT 088I1LZ. .
HENEY WON OUT
BY 124 VOTES
Fickert Loses Out, but Wins From
Republican and Union Labor
in the City.
SAX KH A NCI SCO, Aug. 10. The
final count of votes in the city's
first direct primary shows that Fran-
eisj. Hciicy won tho democratic nom-
iuntion'oyer Chnrlcs M. Fickert, by
124 voles, while Fickert captured the
republican, nomination from Ifciicv
by a three-fourths majority and the
Union labor from Ilenny by four
fifths. - :
. Phono your want ads to the Tri
bune for quick results.
Miss Alberta Stacey of Beagle Pass
ed the Highest General
Average.
Following is list of tho successful
upplicunlH for timelier' certificates
ut tho Hctni-annnnl examinations buhl
lit Ji'iekwonvillo, Or., August 11-13:
ror lirst grade Alberto. Stucy,
Bougie; Jessie Asbby, Ashland; Julia
ISidkv. Lake Crunk i Thornton K. Wi.
ley, Ashland j (lay Webb, Medford;
i,tioy it. isuciilell, Ashland; Mary U.
Underwood, Ashland: Marv Muv
Ward, Talent; Violu I'liiestcr, Wood-
villc; Mrs. Katie Wouvor, Medford.
For second itiadn Lillian Thor.
durson, Flight l'oint; Anno S. Han
sen, Medford; Grace Ilullinger, Mud-
rord; Viral Hensley, Ashland; Mrs.
L. M. Shine, Ashland: llei-tba M
Ditsworth, Derby; 1'etnr J. Kingery,
Alcdlord; .Sarah hlmibcth Wright,
Portland; Lottio Swoct, Medford
For third trade Neil C. l'libner.
Ashland,- Nettie Marie Abbott, Ash-
I I M.IM.l.. 1......1 A. .1.1 1.
r.uilii isaliel Kaler. As i ami: Helen
rniiry, i.iikc i-icck; ruyu Iturclieii,
Wooilvillc; 1.(1 1 111 !(. Frcdcuhiirg,
Itutto Falls; liernice lleulah Carder,
Medford; llerlha Anna llryun, Vel
len; Miiykcu Gibson, Marguerite
Hoi s, Doris Olivia Magneto,, Tal
ent. For primary Mary K. liigbmn.
Fugle Point
Miss Allieita Stacey of 'lieagle, Or.,
was given tliu highest nverugof uuy
applicant taking the examination,
having earned an average of 05,2
per cent. Miss Viola Phioster of
Woodville :tood second with an av
erage of O i.'J per cent. Tho highest
average fur u third grade certificate
was earned by" Miss Nell C. Palmer
of Ashland, who received 00.7 per
cent.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Harness Saddles
Whips Robes
lents blankets
Wagon Sheets
Axle Grease and
Gall Cure
ALL KINDS OF CUSTOM WORK.
J. C. Smith
314 E.
The ABC of
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Bargains in Real Estate
A few investments' that wiil make money for you
40 acres fine fruit laud near railroad slnlinu, $M) per acre, t2 cash,
. easy terms on balance at J per cent interest.
100 acres of the best orchard land in the vnllcv, (IXIJ MILK FROM
UAILHOAI) STATION, ipso per acre, ONK-FOIIHTII cash, easy
terms on balance nt. (i per ceul interest,
10 acres of choice orchard laud close lo railroad station, if 100 DOWN'
' AND if 10 A MONTI I IH.'VS THIS. You will regret it if you
neglect to seenro Ibis l,en(acres on Iho above terms.
4 large city lots in West .Medford joining Kenwood addition, $200 en.
The owner of Ihn above properties purchased them four yearn ug
before the advance iu juices and will .sell lit a very moderale profit.
Cnnsidering qualify of land nud loculion, Iheso uro among the
cheapest buys in the market today. .'
- J.C.BROWN
Olfice in Palm Block, Upstairs Mwiford, Orcyon