THE MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1909.
Medeord daily Tribune
Official Paper of the City of Medford.
Published every evening except Sunday.
MEDFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
George Putnam, Editor and Manager.
Admitted as Second-Class Matter in the Postof fice at
Medford, Oregon.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES :
I moats by mail or carrier.... 90.50 Ona year by mail 5.00
TODAY'S WEATHER PREDICTION.
Clear today and tomorrow. Warmer. :.
A rare and salubrious climate soil . of remarkable fertility
beautiful scenery mountains stored with coal, copper and gold
extensive forests streams stocked with speckled beauties game in
abundance a contented, progressive people such is the Rogue
River Valley. " i-. .
Average mean temperature.. ........55 degrees
Average yearly precipitation' ...... .v. i . .21 inches
PROSPERITY HEADED THIS WAY.
"With a record crop of Bartlett pears selling at the high
' price of $4 a box, with a large apple; crop at fancy figures.
with the extension of the Pacific & Eastern an assured fact
and the tangle of indebtedness involving the railroad
liquidated, Medford faces the brightest period in its his
torv. . i
The future for both city and valley is more roseate than
ever before. Rogue River valley lias demonstrated tnat it
is the most prolific and dependable of trait growing sec
';tions in the northwest; that its fruit commands the high
est prices in the leading markets ot the world, and its ch
matic conditions make it the most attractive place to re
side. All this has attracted the attention of the. world and
a heavv immigration of homeseekers is under waj.
With the extension of the railroad to the timber belt
' will come the payrolls essential to the development of the
country. Employment will be tumisneu those ot small
means who have invested their all in young groves, and
the payroll will make possible the era of small orchard
tracts without which the valley cannot achieve its destiny.
With the railroad assured to the timber, its extension
to the Blue Ledge copper district and to the coast will ul
timately follow, for the earnings from the timber tonnage
will build the necessary line, and Medford 's era of pros
perity will be f ullv under way.
ON OREGON FRUIT RAISING.
S. Glen'Andras, staff correspondent of the Chicago1
Record-Herald, in a special article on Oregon fruit has the
following to say regarding Medford pears :
"In every market Oregon fruit brings the highest
price. The world's record for pears is held by. Medford,
from which place a carload of Cornice pears were sent to
New York recently and were sold for $4622.80, an average
of $3.99 1-2 per half box. This means that a single pear
at the wholesale price cost more than 10 cents. In January,
1909, a box of Cornice pears from Grants Pass brought
$10.08 in London and $8.20 in New York. A single acre of
this fruit has yielded as high as $2200 and last year 16 1-2
acres netted the grower $19,000. This particular grower
sold his fruit free on board Medford and had no respon
sibility in picking or marketing it. When the grower does
the marketing he counts on a cost of $1.50 per box and is
practically assured of the not result of from $2.50 to $3.50
on every nox tnat he ships. Thus moans that the success,
fid grower in the Medford valley, or in anv one of the i'n
mous fruit dist ricts of Oregon, who lias an' orchard in full
bearing, has good reason to expect an average of $200 to
st-ow per acre, and he may make an even greater profit
nr.. i mi .. I'm .
in i. aiHuuh jias goi minus a nine mixed, lionneo pears
from Medford brought $1008 in London. Grants I'ass
ships no (.'ounce pears. The lb 1-2 acres that netted $19,
mm av:, vrn; i a i .... 1
ni-iu ii iim-r 4 its (.irar.N aim not v.'Oiuice. THere is
no Medford valley, but then, Mr. Andrus probablv got his
mtorniation trom Portland, where thev know less about
southern Oregon than is known m Chicago.
Regarding apples, Mr. Andrus says:
"The Rogue River and Umnqua valleys are more re
cent additions to the' commercial apple orchard districts
ot uregon, hut they are suttieiently dcevlopcd to show
that they have the soil and the climate to produce fruit
which will be as good ill quality and size and color as that
produced in the older sections of the-state."
As a matter of fact, the Rogue River valley is one of ihe
earliest commercial orchard districts in Oregon, and its
product famous abroad before that of anv other section.
but, of course, Mr. Andrus depended upon Portland for
his information, and Portland has only recently discovered
that there is a Rogue River valley. . ,
Upon peaches Mr. Andrus writes as follows:
"The peach orchards of Oregon, which do best on the
hillsides above the frost line in either loamy or decomposed
soil, yield all the way from $100 to $500 per acre. In some
places, notably in Josephine county, near Grants Pass,
there is much good peach land which can still be secured
for $10 an acre. The peach trees of Oregon begin bear
ing much earlier than the apple and pear, and produce
ten crops before they begin to decline."
It is too bad that Mr. Andrus did not take the t ime to
visit some of Oregon's fruit belts ancUlcarn something
worth while. A far better account of the fruit industry
can be secured from the pamphlets issued by the Commer
cial clubs of the various cities than what he has gathered,
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ausoruing j.-oruana ignorance ot uregon.
ihe cardinal error made by Mr. Andrus and all other
superficial observers who secure their information second
hand, is that they assume that all parts of Oregon are equal-
i auapicu io iruu raising, wnereas iruu culture nas onjy
been proven a commercial success in a few isolated sections,
whose area is not large, where favorable sou and cli
matic conditions obtain.
Each locality produces some varieties of fruit that can
not be profitably grown elsewhere. Because the Roirue
River excels in -NewtOwn apples and all varieties of pears
is no reason that they i can be grown successfully in the
Willamette valley, because they cannot be. Hood River
excels in Spitzenberg, Winter Banana, and some other
varieties of apples, but; not pears.- The Willamette valley
produces cherries, prunes and cheap apples, but cannot
grow Newtowns or peaijs.in the same class with the-Rogue
Kivertruit. . I ., : ..... ;:
Only by a long . . series of experiments, conducted
throughout many years, can the commercial possibilities
ot trait raising in any section be proven. The great ad
vantage of the Rogue River valley is that the experiments
of 50 years have demonstrated the proven commercial suc
cess of certain varieties and eliminated the risk that grow
ers in newer districts face.
The Rogue River valley alone among fruit regions in
the northwest has long been developed, but has not until
ecently been exploited.
At the Savoy.
Kul low t ho oiowd to lliu Savoy (o
night ii ml witness a vcry.Ntrniig n-
tiM'tiiiiiiniMil f drmimtiu and' comedy
pirtiu-t'M. Kor nil hour of uiiijihi'Iiii'IiI
tho kind tlio Savoy jhiIh iiji cininiit lie
bout. No tirnomo vuitn or delays.
The pictmtm uro eleiir it 1 1 tl J'lielier
lotfH. Tho Savoy iri Ilia coolest and
hox.'h'kI uimiNenieiit pliieo in town mid
k'ivcK tho liesl milei'tninmenlri. Kn-
liro eliiinije of program tomorrow
mum. One dinio.
Granulate Sore Eyes Cured.
"For twenty years I suffered from
a bad easo of irraiiiilutnd sore eyos,"
says Martin lloyd of Henrietta, Ky.
"In February, 1003, a Kuntlonian ask
ed me ' to try Chamberlain's Salvo.
I brought one box and used about
two-thirds of it and tny eyos havo not
given mo any troublo since." This
salve is for snlo by Loon 11. lias,
kins' Pharmacy. .
Mt. Angel College
MT. ANGEL. OR.
in ohurgo of tho Bcnedietine Father.
For young men and boys. Term
opens September 7th. Preparatory,
commercial, seiontil'io and elagtiiaiil
courses. Writo for cataloguo.
There is no plmiu liko home, but
the Louvre cut'e cookiiiK is no near
I lie kind mother used to do that
you'll forget your troubles, oxpceiully
if you aro eating hoiiki of (heir l'.i-
iiiuiih hot wnflics and maple synip J
for breakfast. '
If You Want (o Spend
several of I hi- plrasamcst half
hours jou ever put in get ihe
September KVKR YKOIJY'S
and read in this order: " Happi
ness," "The Mellowdrainnier"
and "What Shall Wc IX
With the Old?"
After that read where you
will you'll say, "' a W
magazine." Try it and er.
"SEPTEMBER EVERYBODY'S
On Display by Medford Book Store,
Russell's Store and Hotel Nnsh x
News Stand.
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Economy
Get The Habit
of buying your fresh and salt MEATS, POULTRY,
SAUSAGE and LARD at the place where you are as
sured of the best at all times, regardless of price.
It Will Pay You
to Investigate for yourself the conditions that pre
vail at our market and give us a trial, after which
we are sure you will not trade elsewhere.
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HUTH & ASHP0LE, Proprietors.
Opposite Postofflce
Phone 461.
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140' acres black, sticky land; subject to irrigation (an ideal fruit farm; lying between the famous 401 orchard,
which sold for $110,000, the Vilas orchard and the Phipps orchard; for. only $150 per acre. . .
Figure It Out For Yourself
Setting out trees, per acre, $25; care of trees, $10 per acre yearly for four years, which makes a 5-year-old orchard
stand you $215 per acre expense, and at the end of that time you will without doubt sell' for $G00 per acre, leaving
: you a profit of $385 per acre, or $53,900 on incentive tract. ISN'T IT WORTH INVESTIGATING! ?
BENSON INVESTMENT CO