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Medford Daily Tribune
FOURTH YEAR.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1J09.
No. 133.
WILL TRY FOR
NEW RECORD TO
LAKEIN AUTO
Packard Company Will Send Car to
This City to Try for New Rec
ord Between Medford
and Crater Lake.
WILL BE DRIVEN BY AN
EXPERIENCED MECHANIC
Witt Take Seven Passengers and Have
19)0 Model of Packard 30 Will
Try for Record to Portland.
Kdgur Hufcr bus succeeded in in
lercsiug the nulomobilo company man
ufnctiiring tliu Packard euro to fiend
a 1010 modiil of the Packard ".'10"
to thin city to try for a new record
to (-'rater Inko. The teHt will ho mudo
at the end of thin week, a new car
being shipped here for that purpose.
The rar will bo driven by Tom Pitch,
one of I lie nioMt experienced driven
and niechanicH in the employ of the
company, and bu will be accompanied
by Prank C. Riggs und -A. C. Smith
of Portlund, who handle the Packurd
on the const.
The cur will carry seven passen
ger. on the tent run.
The Packard Iiuh Ion): enjoyed a
Hplendid reputation . for ppced and
durability, but of late reports have
br-cii circulated that the Puekard
cannot utand tho routig country. In
order to show what can bo done by
the car the trip in to hit made nnd a
new record tried for.
The race will advertise thu lake in
many ways und will be of much ben
efit to Houthern Oregon, for if it in
successful in making a record, its
trip will be used for advertising pur
h)hch. A try for a record will also
bo nindo betwocn Medford and Port
land in the cnr.
GOLD HILL MINES
BEING DEVELOPED
Grey Eagle Mine on Sardine Creek
Gives Promise of Being Splen
did Producer.
The Grey Kuglu mine on Surdino
crock now being oporntcd by tho Gold
Hill Oregon Mining Co., composed
of Portlund capitalists is now. show
ing some of tho best values in this
district, and better than have shown
for several years, says the Gold
Hill News. Superintendent Ebner has
opened tho mino 70 feet below tho
first tunnel und bus struck a body of
ore which shows values running from
$( to over $.'l60 a ton. A ten stamp
mill is now on tho wny to the property
the mill having been started thither
after tho main stockholders' and di
rectors of the company had exam
ined tho ground carnl'ully nnd fully
vorified thu reports of the superin
tendent.. Tho editor has taken occasion to
intorviow tho number of practical
miners here who nrn well acquainted
with tho properly' and several of
whom havo worked upon it, nnd they
A
II unite in saying Hint if thoro nro
any mines in this country and it. is
easily ileiiinuKii'iiieu mm; inn mines
nro hero that tho Grey Englo is ono
of thorn, , s.
In the workings opened under Mr.
PARTY FORCED
TO TAKE T
AS CAR BURNS
Los Angeles Capitalist and Family
Lose Machine on Siskiyous by
Fire Were Making Trip
to Fair by Auto.
MACHINE BURST INTO FLAMES
. WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED
Gasoline Tank Shot Full of Holes to
Keep It From Exploding No
One in Party Injured.
After lotting their machine by fire,
which entirely consumed it, ax well
us their baggage, Mr. 'and Mm. O.
W. I light nnd Hon of Los Angeles,
who were making a trip to Kcattle
overland, were forced, to tuke the
train on the Siskiyous Sunday after
noon and go on to Portland, where
they will purchase complete new out
fits. None of the party were injured.
The accident occurred ut the soutb
end of the Siskiyou tupmiel. The ma
chine, a lurgo Tourist, suddenly burst
into flumes mid before unything could
be done was entirely consumed, to
gctber with what baggage the party
had. They then walked through the
tunnel nnd caught tho evening north
bound train. The gasoline tank was
shot full of hoi o.i to keep it from ox
plodiug.
Mr. I light is a capitalist of Los
Angeles nnd had motored from that
city to Siskiyous without serious mis
hap. .
NOTICE.
There will be nn hubportunt meet
ing tonicht of the Knights of Pyth
ias. A full attendance is desired. '
V. W.EIFERT, C. C.
Miner's muniigciiient, a thirteen foot
vein has been fond so far and still the
foot wall has not been reached. Tho
vein prospects evenly with the excep
tion of n rich streak, which pro
duces the $300 ore. From tests
mudo the ore is 'capable of being
treated by the cyanide process, and
it is probable (but a cyanide plant
will bo installed there.
Tho Grey Eagle is not the only
mine in (be Sardine Creek district
that is uttmcting attention. Tho
Black lluwk of Drummond Gulch,
now being operated by the Gold Age
Mining Co., while only development
work has been done so far has shown
up so well that the owners have in
corpornted and havo done u great
deal of road building, etc., looking
toward a fuller exploitation of the
properly. They have ore enough in
sight now it is claimed, to pay for the
mine at the rale the rock assays.
The Golden Age people are figuring
upon installing maohinnry for the re
ducing of tho ore and tho mining bus
iness in the Sardine creek country
looks good.
J. II. Ileeinali is having work done
on the Lucky Hurt group of claims
and from inside information were as
sured that active operations will be
commenced Ihore soon within the next
few weeks. The Lucky Hurt has all
tho equipments of a mine from ma
chinery to ore, if yon want to lake it
that way, or you con take it from ore
to machinery it has produced many
thousand dollars and there nro ninny
more to bo taken out. Tho man with
tho hummer may toll you that thoro
nro no mines in Gold Hill district, but
just dodge that, hammer and watch ns
for the next, few moilths.
RAIN
PITTSBURGSTREETS
RED WITH BLOOD
t. j
Martial Law Declared Today Following
Great Riot Last Night - Scores are In
jured-- Hight Known
Ordered Out.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 23. Martial
law has been pructicutly declared to
day following a great riot last night,
when eight men were killed, six fa
tally injured and scores hurt at tho
Pressed Steel Car company's plant at
Schenville and McKees Rocks.
The state constabulary is patrol
ling the streets of the city in the vi
RANCHERS FIGHT
FIRE FOR LIVES
Forest Fires Near Wenatchee Endan
ger Lives of Many '
Settlers.
WENATCHEE, Aug. 23. Ranoh
ors in tho ' vioinity of Twenty-Five-Mile
creek in Chelan county, arc fight
ing for their lives today against a
great forest fire which nas been rag
ing in tho Washington forest reserve
since Friduy. Owing to tho inacces
sibility of tho region, there ore but
meager detuils, but these show that
lives, homes and crops are endanger
ed. REALIZES BIG PROFIT
FROM RANCH NEAR ALBANY
ALBANY. Or., Aug. 23. A. C
Armstrong, residing ten miles south
east of Albany, will realized a profit
of $1800 on 120 acres of votch this
year. Incidentally ho will clear about
$0000 on a farm of 400 acres, for
which he pays an annual rental of
$000. Some other Linn county fann
ers are doing almost as well. Farm
ing in tho Willamette valley is paying
bettor this year than for many years.
Armstrong had 110 acres in votch
llo mowed 20 acres of it nnd after
storing his barns full of. loose hay
j for his winter's supply, had enough
leu over irom inc jo acres to nolo
20 tons, worth $13 a ton. The vetch
on the remnining 120 acres was
threshed for scod.
Armstrong had 70 tons of cleaned
vetch seed from his 120 acres. This
is worth 4 cents a pound. After Arm
strong pnys all expenses of thresh
ing nnd cleaning ho will realize a not
profit of $1800 on the vetch seed
alone, to say nothing of the vetch liny
ho haled.
In addition to his 140 acres in
vetch, Armstrong has 200 acres in
good spring mils.
HARRIMAN SEEMS TO
I FNIflY fiPFAN TMRIP
HALIFAX, Aug. 23. K. IT. Ilarti
mnn is on deck today for the first
liino since tho voyage began. lie
seemed to enjoy a promenade, lie is
following Dr. Streumpol's regiiiie
closely and said ho is feeling better.
I according to a wireless message re
l . -1 i . i
Ceivcu luuuy.
Dead Militia to be
cinity of the car shops today and it
in ptobable that Governor Stuart will
call out the state militia.
Althongh. the death list is only
eight, it is certain that many dying
will be found when a house to house
seurch is made. Scores of injured
were secreted by fnends, and hospi
tnlH are crowded with those calling
to linveheir injuries dressed.. .
HEW OFFICE FOR
WESTERN UNION
. .
Superintendent Reed Will Arrive Soon
to Arrange for New Quarters
Local Office.
Within the new few days Superin
tendent Rccd of the Western Union
Telegraph company will arrive in
Medford to install the local office of
the Western Union Telegraph com-
puny in new quarters. Increasing
business makes it imperative that the
telegraph office be removed from the
Southern Pacific office.
The company recently - sent Carl
Reynolds here to handle the tele
graph business nnd with new offices
tho service will bo greatly improved.
WORK STARTS ON BIG
B0R NEAR EUGENE
EUGENE, Or.. Aug. 23. A hun
dred men under Subcontractor Mc
Ciibe are nt work on the 2200-foot
tunnel on the Nntnor-Klaianth Falls
extension of tho Southern Pacific
railway 20 miles cast of Eugonc. Ac
tual construction was begun tho first
of this week and will be rushed. Mc
Cube says he will work all winter if
wenthor conditions will permit, but up
that far in tho mountains the snow
may hinder such work.
E. II. Wattis of the Utah Construc
tion comunny has a force of men at
work on the tunnel at Lookout Point,
five miles this side of the big tunnel.
While less than 200 men nro now at
work on the tunnel between Eugene
and tho summit of the mountain, it is
(be intention of the contractors to
put on botweon 1500 and 200 about
the first of September.
W. 11. Sherman, the wide awake
realty man of Grants Puss, spent
Mondny in Medford having just re
turned from a visit to the Seattle fair.
NEW WHISTLE PLACED
UPON STEAM LAUNDRY
Glen K'aliriek of the local steam
laundry has installed an immense si
ren whistle on tho engino at the plant,
which will blow hereafter at 7 a. m..
12 m., 1 p. m. nnd p p. lii., giving
local people a ehnnce to set their
clocks.
Increasing crowds attest the popu
larity of Tho Wigwam. Tuesday
night.
STORM
WORKS
HAVOC OFF THE
BRITISH COAST
Twenty-Six Lives Known to Be Lost
Many Others Are Feared for
Three Vessels
Wrecked.
FEARED LOSS OF LIFE
WILL TOTAL HUNDRED
Storm Still Rages Without Abatement
Coast of England
Suffers.
"LONDON, Aug. 23. The entire
crew to the number of 26 of the
Spanish steamer Ushent were drown
ed today when the vessel foundered
off the British coast in a terrific
storm now raging in the channel.
The storm is reported to have
wrecked the Dutch ship Wotillie and
all the crew are reported lost.
A message has ydso been received
that the French steamer Menaran
ga foundered and all of the crew and
passengers are lost.
The storm continues without abate
ment. Considerable damage has been
dono along the British coast.
RAILROAD CONTRACTORS -
GET AUTO LICENSES
SALEM, Or., Aug. 21 Porter
Brothers have applied at the office
of the secretary of state for auto
mobile licenses. Porter Brothers were
allotted license No. 2227 and Twohy
Brothers No. 2228.
That the applications of both these
arilroad contracting firms fighting
for a right of way up the Deschutes
valley for their respective railroad
chiefs, James J. Hill and E. H. Hnr
rininn should arrive the same day
is quite a coincidence. .
Porter Brothers' car is a Stude
baker: Twohy Brothers' an Oldsmo
bilo. Porters' is a red car and Two
hy's is a black machine. Porters have
a 40 horse power machine to carry
five persons, while Twohys have a
30 horse power machine to carry four
passengers.
Porter Brothers wrolo in for an
application blank the other day. Two
hy Brothorb made their application
direct without asking for blanks. Both
applications arrived on today's mail
from The Dalles. D. D. Ren was the
applicant in the cose of Porter Broth
ers and A. N. Giulbault for Twohy
Brothers.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
At the Moore Mrs. H. II. Fitch,
Chester Fitch. New York; A. L.
Raught, Jr., Portland; A. A. Sobers.
Donaldson; F. J. Gabreath, Ellen
Loppcr, Ross Gabreath, Wray; E. S.
Suylor. Eugcno; E. P. Gilchrist. New
York; R. II. Parsons, city; S. C.
Burgess, Russellville; G. A. Scoville,
E. C. Sharpc. I. J. Miller and wife,
Sun Francisco; E. A. Dundns, Port
laud; R. W. Chang. Gem.
The public has shown such nu ap
preciation of the efforts of Manager
Johnson of tho Louvre cafe in pro
viding a special table d'hote dinnor
the ulst two Sundays lint he has
deiuded to make them n permanent
feature hereafter iu order to accom
modate the ninny families who do not
care to go to the trouble of cooking
on Sunday.
Mrs. O. W. Smith of this city is
visiting for' a few days in Central
Point. , 1
ROG
E LEADS
FANCY PEARS
Professor Twright, French Horticul
turist, Inspects Local Orchards
. and Says Valley Leads
. , - All the World.
NEARER PERFECTION
THAN IN NATIVE LAND
Medford Groves Surpass Anything
Anywhere. Asserts Scientist Who
Knows the Business.
Professor Twight, formerly profes
sor of horticulture in one of the large
universities of France, since then for
four years in charge of experimental
work at the University of California
at Berkeley, now, in charge of fruit
planting and growing for the Wala
Fruit company, who have a large ir
rigation plant and fruit raising
scheme in Idaho, arrived Saturday
from Seattle to inspect local or
chards and spent Sunday at the
Burrell, j Bear Creek and other orchards.-
He was accompanied by' R.
H. Lacey, right hand man for the .
Burrcll Investment company, owners
of the Burrell orchard. .
pttft"am delighted with the " Rogue
Biver valley and think you have an
ideal fruit growing section, especially
for pears. I believe, from what I
have seen, that pears grow nearer to
perfection here than, any place in the
world better even than ; " France,
where they originated. As a pear
proposition the Rogue . River valley
leads nil sections."
Professor Twight, being raised in
France and having made a study of
pears tin their native land, is quali
fied to pass upon the merits of this
section as a pear producer as few
others. Ho was much interested in
ascertaining the effect of irrigation
on pears, and will plant some pears
in Idaho to sec if they can be made
a commercial success there.
75 CENTS PAID EACH
FOR OREGON APPLES
PORTLAND. Or., Aug. 23 Ap
ples at six bits apiece! A world
record prfice, but some ardent admir
er of President Taff, supposed to be
either Theodore B. Wilcox or United
States Senator Bourne, will pay about
that price for two boxes of select
Winter Banana apples. Tho apples
will come from Beulnh Land, Hood
River, the fruit farm of "Apple king"
Oscar Vanderbilt.
Nevcr before in the history of- fruit
growing, either in this state or else
where, has such a fancy price been
attained, but a part of the cost will
bo absoi-bed in the method of selec
tion nnd packing of the two boxes,
which will grace tho White Douse tu
ble some time next winter.
! The apples have been ordered
through Dresser & Sealy-Mason com-
panny, who have ,ust closed a con
tract tho first of tho season for
all of Vnnderliilt's Winter Banana
apples at $7 a box. As these lus
cious pomes run about an average of
40 to the box. it means that this firm
is paying nn average of about 18
cents each for the entire crop of Beu
lnh Lnndll. This orchard will run
about 100 boxes of this variety.
PRODUCING
Mr. and Mrs. O. Miller have re
turned from n two weeks' trip north,
during which they visited the Seattle
exposition.
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