YHBMOK:siy5h -oregonian tiitrsiat, MAT 26, iu 10.
BIG ACREAGE SET
NEW
ORCHARDS
Hill Party Notes Development
of Rogue and Umpqua
Valleys.
i SOME LAND LOW-PRICRD
Great Northern Disapproves Meth
ods of Minority Stockholder In
terested In Townsite Plan, '
Mr. Hill Says.
BT R- O. CALLVEBT.
ROSEBURG, Or., May 23. (Staff
Correspondence.) Something like 30,
000 acres have been set out to new
orchards in the Rogue River and Ump
qua Valleys In the last year.
These figures are those given by
horticulturists la the two valleys and
Include 15,000 In the Medford and Ash
land territory, more than 4000 acres In
the Orants Pass district, and 10,000
acres in the country directly tributary
i to RoBeburg, in the Umpqua Valley.
A fruit bug. this time attacking the
human species, apparently has invaded
Oregon, and as It is not confining Its
ravages to the two valleys named, what
Oregon will finally achieve as a fruit
producing State is hard to conceive.
Carload to Two Acres Estimated.
Those inclined toward the statistical
line can gain some Idea from the state
ment that in this section of Oregon,
horticulturists figure on a yield of a
carload of fruit to every two acres of
land. This average may not hold out
when the new orchards are in full
bearing, but if it does the one year s
plantings would produce yearly yields
of lo.OOO carloads, or about SO times
what the famous Rogue River orchards
around Medford are now yielding.
There is not yet much talk of fruit
canneries. Apples and pears are
graded, but it is asserted that boxes
or seconds" properly marked and
placed in the cars with the higher
grade brought better prices in the
Eastern markets last year than could
have been obtained at canneries, and
that what was left of the fruit was
not fit for canning.
But so diversified are the fruits and
vegetables that can be raised in South
ern Oregon that it seems only reason
able to suppose that the country as
it advances will not be wholly spe
cialized, but that some of the
product of the land will have to find
their way to canneries.
Some Low-Priced Land Left.
f,Jhe.KH111 P.arty dePrted yesterday
rrom the main road after Grants Pass
was reached that some of the Rogue
River Valley where it widens agiYn
could be seen. This section of the
valley once was devoted principally to
trl STZln,S 01 meIons. hay, grain and
are .Mlw I Patches and hop fields
Mi I, , bf seen' but tney ar rap
Idly giving place to orchards.
unnn J1? read of the 8ftles of
10 rc,hard ,and in the Rogue Valley
and thinks it requires a fortune m
" to fruitgrowing i the valley
has still something to learn. There
rc f !and about 12 miles from
Grants Pass that has the general char-
rCttehri8tlCf, f th ther d ?!t land
The" triley- at I Prlce of 15 an acre.
h k 1 Was bousrh by men who
In ?r,S? am"S the sucssful ones
set th 1 7lngri and they lntend to
t the land to fruit trees.
hi! fr0m. the waSon road, rather
than from the observation platform of
a railway car. that one can obtain th
best Idea of the fruit valleys of We8t!
ern and of Southern Oregon. Each of
the main valleys has its smaller trib
utaries and while the railroad follows
themain water courses, the wairon
road takes short cuts, climbing up I nd"
fltJt 'mountainous, barrier that
divides the Rogue from the Umpqua
y..a"d J" followi " the traveler
for a. time loses sight of orchards and
cultivated tracts othor , . "a
ThUendrn 1,nfrent mountain farms
Xuh X smooth when compared
with other mountain roads in Oregon
traveled by the Hill party and along
numerous stretches it is well graded
Even after the Umpqua River is
reached the rnart L. er . 13
Southern Pacific cloly. but goeTove?
?h fMm Whi.Ch lnsP'ring views of
the fields, orchards and oak-covered
knolls, are obtained.
Small Valleys Xumerous.
Small tributary valleys are more
UrRo,Btv the UmPa than of
the Rogue Valley and .thus from the
wagon road good conception of the
extent of the district is secured. The
Lmpqua has been a great prune pro
ducing valley and its orchards are
yielding something like 6.000.000
pounds annually, but the apple fever
has attacked the orchardists strongly
and the tendency toward apple plant
ing is growing stronger.
A new phase of the possibility of the
Oregon Trunk line entering any part of
this district by building across the
Cascades has been given since the visit
of Mr. Hill. Although the Trunk Line s
articles of incorporation have just been
amended to permit such construction
Mr. Hill held out no hope to the peo
ple of Medford thafcthe Pacific & East
ern would be extended into the Des
chutes country. In fact he discouraged
the idea. This was after he had been
out over the route as far as Eagle
Point.
Mr. Hill went to Medford admitting
little or no knowledge -of the line or
the conditions under which the Hill
Interests purchased It. He told the
business men of Medford that ne had
understood the mountains . could be
crossed at an elevation of about 2000
feet, but on investigation found that
the Survey attained an altitude of 6000
feet.
Scheme Xot Countenanced.
He asserted that the Great Northern
would not approve crossing the moun
tain range at such an elevation. Mr.
Hill also criticised the realty opera
tions of- a local minority stockholder
and officer of the road. The president
of the Great Northern discovered that
the Pacific & Eastern extension now
under way passes within a quarter of
a mile of the town of Eagle Point, a
village 61 years old. Instead of giving
the town sidings and depot facilities,
a new townsite has been platted three
miles away and the business houses
induced to move. A local officer of the
road is interested in the townsite and
Mr. Hill declared it was a scheme
which the Great Northern could not
countenance and to which it did not
wish to be considered a party.
Mr. Hill mentioned these things
briefly at the banquet given in his
honor by the Medford Commercial Club
Friday night and expressed regret that
he could not give the city more en
couragement as to prospective railroad
development.
100 LOSE LIVES IN FIRE
Steamer From Japan Brings Details
of Horrible Disaster.
VICTORIA, B. C. May 25. Details of
the' disastrous fire at Aomori, North
Japan, in which 100 persons were
burned to death and 8000 of the 11,500
buildings were razed, with loss of 2,
000,000, were received by the steamer
Inaba Maru today. The burned area
was one and three-sevenths miles long
and a quarter of a mile broad.
Soldiers, -searching the debris, found
several score of charred bodies. Thirty
thousand homeless people were gath
ered in refuge camps.. Great suffering
followed the. fire and supplies of rice
brought, in were, eaten raw, by. the
sta. mg people. A store of powder ex
ploded and shook the whole area soon
after the fire was extinguished.
The fire originated in a small house
and high wind and lack of water re
sulted in a conflagration on, both sides
of the river. One -family, seeking to
save valuables from a-storehouse, was
locked in by police, who were Ignorant
of their presence, and all perished.
Agonizing scenes' occurred" in the
streets, where crowds -seeking ' to save
their furniture, were . driven away by
fames and many who ferried their
goods across the river thinking to
find safety there, were driven away
and their goods destroyed.
CHAUFFEUR MAY BE THIEF
Youth Arrested at Roseburg Also
Wanted at Lebanon.
ALBANY, Or., May 25. (Special.) The
young man arrested at Roseburg under
the name of Edward Shultz Is wanted at
Lebanon for larceny. While at Lebanon
he was working as chauffeur for Dr. J.
C. Booth end went under the name of
Lennox. ,
One afternoon he secured a horse and
buggy at a Lebanon livery stable and
Invited a young woman to drive to this
city with him. When they arrived in
Albany the young man asked his com
panion to hold the horse while he 'went
into a store. She held the horse for al
most an hour and then went to investi
gate and discovered that her companion
had walked Into the front door of the
store and out a rear door. He had not
been heard of since until his arrest in
Roseburg.
The young woman who accompanied
Lennox to this city secured a driver and
returned the team to Lebanon. In the
meantime it was charged that the chauf
feur had taken a gold watch and some
other articles from the residence of his
employer. Dr. J. c. Booth.
FISH TRUST MEN INDICTED
Twenty Officials of San Francisco
Combine Are Held.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 25. Indict
ments against 20 officials of San Fran
cisco wholesale fish-dealing firms, com
prising the so-called "fish trust" of this
city, were returned by the grand jury
tonight.
The indictments are a result nf
investigations made into the business
metnoas or the fish companies bv Dis
trict Attorney Fickerts of heads and
other officials of the fish companies
charged with violation of the Cart
wright anti-trust law.
YAKIMA NEEDS 5000 MEN
Labor Bureau Formed, to Sunnlv
Help for Fruit Harvest.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash.. May 25.
(Special.) Leading fruit men of the Val
ley, meeting at Toppenish today, de
cided that 6000 laborers are needed to
harvest the fruit crop this season.
' A Yakima Valley labor bureau
formed, committees were named
was
and
help
plans formulated to secure the
needed. .
Fall From Flume Injures.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. May 25. (Sdo-
clal.) John Huston fell from a lumber
flume at Lucia Spur, on the Northern
Pacific Yacolt branch, this afternoon,
and sustained several broken ribs, and
internal injuries. Doctors have been
hastened to the Lucia Company's mill
in an automobile. Once before Mr. Hus
ton fell from the same flume, but he
was not badly injured then. His in
juries this time are tnought to be ser
ious. Mr., Huston is one of the own
ers of the Lucia Company's mill at
Lucia Spur.
Grants Pass Wins Game.
GRANTS PASS. Or., May 25. (Special.)
The ball game this afternoon between
Glendale and the home team was won by
Grants Pass by a score of 6 to 0.
DUFUR HIGH
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EIGHTH GRiDE GRADUATES ARE ST.WDIXG, AXD THOSE OF TEMH GRADE ARE SEATED
DUFTjROr., May 25. (Special.) The accompanying photographs show the graduates of the Dufur Hirh
School of the year 1910. They are: Standing, left to right. Marion Winslow, Dudley Tobin Letah Otlv a
Thomas Strachan; sitting, May Strachan. Rodney Cooper and Stella Benedict. Those T standing are eith
grade graduates and those sitting are tenth grade. The graduating exercises were heM in the1ethfdist
Episcopal Church here, and were unusually interesting. The class colors are lavender and white Metnodlst
NEW HQUTESOUGHT
Surveyors Run" Line From
Jordan Valley West.
HARRIMAN CREWS WORKING
Intention Evidently to Enter State
From Main Line and Cross to Old
Oregon-Eastern Survey Grade
Comparatively Easy One.
BURNS. Or.. May 25. (Special.) An im
portant movement of the Harriman rail
road interests is in progress in the east
ern part of Harney County and across
Malheur to the state line. Crews of sur
veyors have been at work for some time
running a line from the Idaho border, at
Jordan Valley, practically straight west
ward through Barren Valley to Venator,
where the intention is to join the former
survey of the Oregon Eastern, made four
years ago by the Oregon Short Line.
The Intention, as near as can be ascer-
tained, is to enter the state from the
main line at a point in the vicinity of
Jordan Valley, then cross the Owyhee
River west of there and proceed on an
easy grade across the tablelands, avoid
ing the triangle that would be made by
going around by Ontario and Vale; .then
southward along the course of South
Malheur River; also leaving out Malheur
Canyon entirely, with its threatened
right-of-way troubles, and making a sav
ing of about 100 miles.
The engineers, who are now working in
Barren Valley, in the vicinity of Cord,
are said to have founVl an easy grade all
the way less than 1 per cent and few
curves. The only costly engineering feat
will be . in crossing the Owyhee River,
where a bridge of 100-foot span and 1200
feet high at the deepest point, will be
required in order to keep on the lines
of least resistance so far as the contour
of the country is concerned.
Attorney Zera Snow, of the Short Line,
W. B. Ayer, the capitalist, and Carl
Spuhna arrived from Prinevllle in their
automobile Saturday night, and after a
rest, without indicating their purpose,
they followed the track of Louis W. Hill,
going to William Hanley's ranch, thence
across the country to Lakeview and
Klamath Falls.
EFFECT IS FELT AT REDJIOSD
Coming of Railroad Sends Up Price
of Land.
REDMOND, Or., May 25. (Special.)
Railroad work is progressing rapidly on
the new contract for building the Oregon
Trunk through this country. District En
gineer Lentner has established his camps
along the entire line' and is now ready
for the contractors. Mr. McFee, of Henry
& McFee. the contractors, was in Red
mond Saturday, looking the ground over
and making arrangements to begin work
as soon as the supplies, which are on the
way, reach here. He has engaged the
services of all the freighters between here
and Shaniko to transport supplies.
The advent of railroad construction is
already affecting the price of farm lands,
and one farm of 80 acres, containing
about 63 acres of irrigable land,, has been
sold for J13.000. Men are looking for farms
and business locations as never before
and are coming in every day. The de
mand, for lumber is so great that none of
it is unloaded at the yards, but Is taken
direct to the building sites.
A contract has been signed for- the
building of an electric light plant, and it
is expected that within 60 days the streets,
business houses and' residences of Red
mond will be electric-lighted.
BEXD GETS DIVISIOX OFFICES
Town Is Made Headquarters for
1 2 5-Mile Contract.
BEND, Or.. May 25. (Special.) Bend is
to be the headquarters for both the en
gineers and contractors on the recently
let section of the Oregon Trunk Railroad
construction. Such a move, long expect
ed, has become a certainty in the action
of J. J. Cryderman, division engineer, and
Malcolm McPhee, representative of H. C.
Henry, who yesterday completed arrange
ments for office quarters here.
The engineer and contractor's chief have
leased for an indefinite period Lara's
Hall, a large hall in the center of town,
which hitherto has been devoted to dances
and public entertainments. The proprie
tor of the building, A. M. Lara, has been
instructed to subdivide the hall into a
number of offices. This work is now be
ing done, and within ten days the engi
neer and contractor will take up their
working quarters there. Mr. Cryderman
has entire charge of the engineering work
recently let to Mr. Henry, and Mr. Mc
Phee Is the latter's hight-hand man," who
directs the construction work along the
SCHOOL HOLDS ITS GRADUATING
it'. 4 i' i-ry..
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It furnishes tangible assurance of the good faith S. company behind
every Eastmoreland improvement promise. Work begins June 1st
Columbia Trust
Centloraon:
The
COLUMBIA TRUST
125-mile stretch from Madras to the Klam
ath reservation from the contractor's end.
At this place also will be situated the
headquarters of the medical work for the
Henry contract. Drs. Coe and Ferrel,
local physicians, secured the medical con
tract from the road-builders, and plan to
erect a hospital here at once. It is un
derstood that from the sub-hospitals sit
uated at the various camps to the north
and south, those patients who can be
moved to advantage will be brought in to
the headquarters here, where they may
be under the, care of the directing phyei-
EXERCISES.
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LAD D ESTATE COMPANY
WM IADD. Pres.
CHASi-lADD. VFK4.'
22 4-i STARK STREET.
Conpariy,
contract orlayins the water
Yours truly,
Make your Bastmoreland homesite selection
today Prices go up when the work starts.
slclans. At least two assistant doctors
will be employed.
Bight engineer camps have been "in
stalled on the right of way north and
south of Bend. At all of these men are
"on the Job" and there is every indica
tion that commencement of actual con
struction momentarily is expected. Cer
tainly every possible preliminary step ap
pears to have been taken, and it now
remains but for the "muckers," as they
style the grader workers, to put in an ap
pearance to transform the present mani
fold preparations into welcome railroad
realities.
LICENSE WINS IN ASOTIN
Majority of 47 Is Keen Disappoint
ment to "Drj-s."
i vote of 122 to 75 the advocates of 11- I
censed saloons won the election
here
- See Them in Bloom
ALSO
Rhododendrons
arid Kalmias
Nurseries on Columbia Boulevard
Take Vancouver Car
J. B. PILKINGTON
Nurseryman
LET
FREOEKICX H. STRONG. Scey &Treaa.
J. WESLEY LAOD. ArttSacyi
Portland. Oregon., nay 20,1910
mins 11? be. letTon Tuesday -
Gofiretart
COMPANY
yesterday. The majority of 47 in favor
of the "wets" was a keen disappointment
to the "drys."
The election was spirited. Of 217 reg
istered all but 20 cast their votes. Every
sort of conveyance was pressed into serv
ice to bring voters from out of the city
to the polls. The result makes Asotin
the oply "wet" town within 30 miles. It
is declared by city officials that the sa
loons will be regulated very strictly.
The winning' ticket was advocated by
the organization known as the Taxpay
ers' League.
MURDER REMAINS MYSTERY
Officials Have Xot Single Clew in
Thrasher Case.
JACKSONVILLE, Or., May 25. (Spe
cial.) Sheriff Jones reports that there is
not a single clew on which to work in
the Thrasher murder case. District At
ill
TEE
next;
BOARD OF TRADE
BUILDING
torney B. F Mulkey expresses his opin
ion that the mystery will never be
solved and has about given up hope of
ever bringing the murderer to Justice.
The Italian, Nlckolas Joy, has been re
leased, as there was no case against him.
Jacksonville Gets Concrete Walks.
JACKSONVILLE. Or., May 25. (Spe
cial.) Jacksonville will soon have cement
sidewalks the length of California street,
the main residence street of the
town. The Council has ordered prop
erty owners to replace the present
decomposed granite walks with con
crete and lines for the new walks
were laid off by the sirveyor today.
There is at present not a board walk In
the city limits.
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