C E N T R A L P O IN T HERALD, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1912
C entral P oint H erald
GEO. L. NEALE
in the valley. The soils an ! per mile to move a 100 less-then- these movements occur most fre-
climate conditions are favorable, carload shipment 191
miles, quently ai places where the |
and the only requirements are an while shipments in 100,000 car operator’s experience has led
Auctioneer and Valuator
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extensive development o f irriga- load lots can he moved from one him to believe that water may be
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'HE* i'r«' koku " tlon facilities and a movement to to one and one half mills per ton found.
tin» in ti'it’Hts
o f ,:
Coni
H iv e r Vali».-...
divert a part o f the energy of the per mile.
It will thus I e ob-
The uselessness of the divin-
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D. L . G R I M , P R O P .
arranged and
Sul»:*t riptioii im i , $1.00 |»« r year, in advance.
farmers along new lines. Apart served that tie- relationship in ¡ng rod is indicated bv the facts
All kinds of Hauling.
C O N D U C T E D
m .„ 4i «e from early fruits and vegetables the percentages prescribed by that it may be worked at will by i
Knti i.il a . leeoml-ilas.H matt
Freight
handled, baggage
at tin l*i- I oilir ,.i Cent ral ro in t. O regon, under
shipped in from other sections, the aw between the 100 pound the operator, that he fails to de-
-.f March
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t lie .I' t o f ( 'oliti .
transferred,
moving, etc.
Have
had
25
years
experience
as the climate does i ot favor an hipmenl and I he carload ship- teet strong water currents in
I ; hi pt on Tili' at the I>AKK At)-
and can guarantee satisfaction
I HIS PAN !< V Kit I'l.il NO AiiKNKY. INC . 427 extremely early production of mi nt follows a conservative in- tunnels and other channels that
All orders recive prompt
O ;-.t n < '. Los AnirrU'.'i. and 779 M arket
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and personal attention.
- I in I ro. where contractH fur at 1 ver- frilltS eint«
teil
lilt valley t i mciliab line, and yet provides. affor(j no Sl)rface indications of
A share of your patron­
For Day C a lls P hone C e n tra l Point
........................ could well afford to be a shipper r
iel to the shipper and a wide water, and that his locations in
age is solicited.
Lumber Company.
I of this clas of produce rather mm tin id piobt to the railroad. | mestone regions where water
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OREGON
| than an importer.”
i bat I no pi in.-iple embodied in fl0W3 jn well-defined channels
Appl< and pears are the prin
The report stat.s that straw the law is correct any person can , are no more 8Uccessful than
rrip'il crops of the valley and the '
berries do well on the heavier I 'ovc l',\ the application of the^ those dependent on mere guess.
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excellence ot these fruits has
j granite soils near Ashland, and I'W to I' i in.-.« 11 ns n transports- [n fact, its operators are success-
made the region widely known
upon the floor of the valley, ex­ t it , agency of which the railroad fu| on)y in regions in which
Lot 1 1 in this country and foreign
cept the a.lobes and upon the - Imt an amplification, being a ground water occurs in a definite
markets. Some o f the smaller
i lighter members o f the soils of Ii' 1 1 in\ention with limitations sht et of porous material or in
A car load was recently delivered to parties near
fruit
vegotaides and hay are
, the Agate series. Their pro a d operated by human intellect, more or less clayey deposits,
Talent and we have many inquiries from interested
a! ii yniwii, but the production
duclion is successful upon the l or in lance a person making SO | 8UCh as pebbly clay or till. In
landholders in different parts of the valley.
of i he e crops an- not siilllcient
soils o f the creek bottoms but trips daily between two given such regions, few failures can oc­
t i apply home demands, and
The wise man is always quick to investigate any
will mature a little later than on points at a w age o f $3 per day cur, for wells can get water al­
largo ipiaiitities are shipped in
proposition
to increase the earnings o f his land and
the higher soils.
I would receive 10 cents per trip, most anywhere.
annually” . Such is the interest
the use of tile in drainage work has been proven a
and at public hire for the carry­
in i iai in.-nl contained in the
The only advantage of em­
distinct advantage.
MW KAM I AW SAM AM) SAM
ing of goods his charge would be
s >iI urvey report made some
ploying a “ water witch” as the
bead on this requirement. If
One of the railroad commi,
J A C K S O N V I L L E BRICK & T I L E COMPANY.
li n a. o by experts o f Bureau of
operator of the divining rod is
Ii • carried one ounce a trip, the
loners
in
prophecy
says
o
f
the
S > 1-, lieparlment of Agriculture,
I s »metimes called, is that crudely
charge would Le 10 cents per
of l!i* Medford area, in Oregon, newly enacted initiative rate law
skilled services are thus oc-
oineb, $1.00 per pound, and it
c iiil; "irioj' o i l square miles or that it will make a “ killing” foi
jcasianally obtained, for the men
he carried 100 pounds per trip,
dls, liiu acre ; of valley and adja- the railroads, anotli r of the
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|so employed, if endowed with
lu- would carry it for one-tenth |,
c ml hill and mountain lands in commissioners says the law is
mv natural aptitude, become
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o f one cent per pound. This is
the central part o f Jackson “ meaningless” ; the Portland
through their experience in lo
^ Chafing Dishes, Coffee Percol ators, Carving ets, ^
press holds a brief for the rail the simple but basic principle by eating wells shrewd, if some
( 'ount v.
which freight rate schedules must
roads
that
it
will
“
confiscalt
’
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The report continues: ‘ ‘The
times unconscious observes of
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ilverware, and an Elegant Line of
finally be prescribed by law, and
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soil i of the area are numerous the small road, w hile the man
the occurancé and movements of
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this is the principle which the
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ground water.
and fall principally into two ager of a 16 mile road preaches
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people ado| ted in the uniform
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c-las.-e , n odual and allliv ial. All that the measure “ will restrict”
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A copy o f the report may be
rate bill.
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of the mountain and foothill soils the movement o f traffic because
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Tested by every common sense obtained ftee on application to
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are largely residual but includt o f the high rate it imposes. All
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rule
o f cost and profit and the the Director of the Geological
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some colluvial material, and var this is but the delirium of an ex
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Survey,
Washington
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principles o f transportation in­
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i'-s in texture from line sandy cited imagination, mere moon­
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i' t | orated in the initiative law.
From Which lo Select Holiday Presents.
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I rim to a clayey adobe. I’ rac shine.
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The Canadian commission law- i1 is a safe and sane measure. II PINES NOE GOOD I OK TURPENTINE ♦
tic illy nil o f the soils exce|
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fiirly and honestly applied by
Experiments just completed by ♦
those oecuring in the treelei- imposed on the railroads that
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they should file a maximum the carriers, it w ill produce all the office o f products of the
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di 11 icl . known a., (lie ‘ ‘desert
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Cu* rcvi-iiui' to which they an
United States forest service in
are covered with a heavy growth standard rate basis above which
I'utilb
il. and do this without any
Portland on the Whitman nation­
of tree and brush. Irrigation neither the law nor the railroads
radical revision of the current al forest, in Northeastern Oreg­
i not extensively practiced, it might go, but the law prescribed
rates.
The law does not say th«
no limit below which the min­
on, have developed the fact that
d'-vi'lopnienl having been retar.
i
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HENRY
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railroad
must
apply the maximum
c l by the co.t of installing a sat imum rate might be fixed and
the present market values of
P
iciuitagi'
rule
to
every
com-
i dnelory s\ lem and by the at provided for a flexible rule for
rosin and turpentine would pro­
til mb- of farmers toward sue the investigation and d"leriniii- m.xlity under the present ratings hibit the starting of the industry
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u n d e i t a k i n g T h e prices askei ition and the fixing of absolute f <r lo.-s than carload shipment. in the pine forests of this stale
Tue law merely prescribed that
for orchard land, although a| lessor rates than the maximum.
The experiment consisted in
l
in railroads “ must not exceed”
parentI;. high, are, it is stated
lapping the trees and collecting
The interstate commerce act
justified h.\ the returns secure, invests its commission only with this percentage, but leaves both the oleo-rosin avoiding to the
when orchards arc given proper maximum rate powers anil leaves the carrier and the railroad com­ best practices in the large tur­
care.
I lie price of land not set the railroad free to establi Ii mission free to fix absolute rates pentining regions of the Caro-
in Irnit tries is high, and has rates below the maximum which below the maximum prescribed Iinas and Georgia. The pitch
FOR
by the act.
l nded to rest rift the agricultiu the commission may prescribe,
was drained into cups, and was
al development of the valley to but any rate so fixed is open to
gathered every three weeks dur­
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th" product ion o f fruit. ”
ing the summer season, and a
Attack.
= t h e ;
I In* United States Geological comparison with the yields ob­
The report contains a full d.
The initiative law embodies
script imi o f the different type the same principle o f the Ca Sirvey states in Water-Supply tained in similar experiments
of soils ol tin* county and tin nudian law and the commerce Paper 255, entitled "Under­ conducted by the forest service
uuri iillur.il conditions and pros act in that it merely provides a ground Waters for Farm l fse, “ in Southern California, Arizona
poets.
I lie report will be illus­ maximum basis bin does not li.x just 1 « i sueil, that no appliance, and Florida was made on a weight
fW | / S U N S E T
10G0EN è SHASTA I
trated by a map in colors show in absolute rate, hence il cannot etilici maehaninal or electric, has basis.
R O UTES
y
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t
lic.cn
devised
that
will
detect
in", the different types of soil make a "killing” for the rail
Classifying the yield of crude
and their locations, every church, roads, “ confiscate" their proper­ water in places where plain corn­ pitch from the long-leaf pine of
; o!ioolhoii o, farm house, town ty nor “ restrict” the movement ili >n eie i and close observation the south as 100 per cent, the
settlement, road and stream in of traffic, and as ii is phrased in will not snow its presence just Arizona, experiments yielded SO
Has authorized a low round trip fare from all points on its
as well. Numerous mechanical
t he county.
the simplest terms possible it is
per cent, the California experi­
linos in Oregon: from points on the Corvallis & Eastern;
devi.'
h.ivc been proposed for
.ot “ meaningless” unless simple
ments yielded 71 per cent, and
W Inlc a mall amount of all'al
Salem, Falls City and Western and the Pacific Railway &
detect ing tin* presence o f under­
the Oregon eqporimonts yielded
fa is grown in the urei, the soil: 'English is so.
Navigation Co. of
ground water, ranging in com-
will \ irld from 2 to 5 tons per
38 per cent o f the Florida yield.
Tin* living of a maximum rate
P
xitv fidili the simple forked
As results o f experiments in
acre. The Medford gravelly tin. bv the interstate cenim.Tce com
branch of witch hazel, peach or
s mil\ loam has proven admirably mission does not require that I lie
Southern California and Arizona,
o lu r tree to more or less elabo-
it is said that experienced tur­
n l.apt.>d to alfalfa without irriga­ •tinier must revise its out in
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talc media meal or electric con­
tion, w iili a \ ¡old of from I to (i
pentine orchardists o f the South
In-dull* o f rates, but .t needs
i'¡vanees. Many o f the opera­
t n p. r acre being maintained only to revise the specific rat.
are contemplating the leasing of
December 21st to 25th inclusive and from December 28th to
tors ol those devices, especially
ilai l.v year a I'ter year,
r
national forest lands with a view
orM-licdulc involved in tin-order.
January 1st. 1913, inclusive, with final return limit
those who use the home-cut fork-
to establishing this industry in
tic truck and \ eg.'table crops I'll«* only present revision n
January 2nd, 1913.
ed branch, arc entirely honest in
ive I'ci'ii neglected, a large sup piircd under the initiative law is the belief that the working of those two states.
f o r specific fares from any station, train service, sale dates
!> ol the demand in this area the class rate schedule based up­
tiie led is intluetieed by agencies
Tlio director o f the census is prepar­
limits, etc., call on nearest Agent, or write to
ivmg been shipped in by ex on the first class rale and ti e
u -ually regarded as electric cur­ ing to issue complete tig un s on Hgrioul-
p « s. In this connect ion the rc-
Arload rates are automatically
rents
loTowing
underground tural production o f this state for l'.Hr.i.
John M. Scott, G «n ’l Passenger Agt. Portland, Ore.
I• »cl a>
” There is absolutely made in connection with the m r
streams o f water that nre en­ He finds that Oregon produced crops in
I o I e,I . h w by t he product ìm- cut classification of rates.
tirely independent of their own that year to the value of $19,041,000.
p " I'd
oultl not bi- g row n w it h
The interstate commerce c. m bodies, and many peonie have
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mission says “ the fairest t.st of implicit faith in their own and
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reasonableness of rates is earn­ others’ ability to liH'ate under­
ings per car mile’ and under ground water in this way. In
this test and by way o f ilka trat experiments with a rod made
AGENCY FOR
ing the initiative law the follow from a
f.
i branch it seemed ♦ Bain and Milburn Wagons. Racine and Thompson Buggies and Hacks. Gasoline Engines. Hodge
ing table is inserted showing the t o un n
.lewi ward at certain ♦ Headers, Milwaukee and Osbourne Mowers and binders, Oliver, Canton and Moline goods.
*r mil.' earnings, the t.duction points independent of the opor -1
Hay Rakes, Harrows and Small Tools.
in rates to the shipper, and the a im ’s will, but more complete
increased net profit to the carrier. t • 1 s show nl that this down-
the consolidated . hipnu nt turning resulted from slight and.
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under the percentage rule ot the until watched for. unconscious
iw. It is assumed the shipment muscular action, the effects of
moves 1(H) miles and is compand which were communicated thru
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ith a less than carload rate of the arms an i wrists to the rod.
f ilwigcr to Ii« »tili $1 (Hi for lix> pounds.
No movement o f the rod from
annoi l»i* O n * ran-
: to In
eausi's
outside of the body be de*
oui plumbing. if
< m Mil«
it .it «'I. let U
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rnt# Vni' v.nt E >
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w,
prnrticnl |iliim<| I'o u m it rate j»«*r car trlit
U < M'liee. well up ill unni- »«••
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otnptlv. and art' known to SO.fl»«»
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naldt* in our churtfcn.
' ; > t it >n of tbe ' 'divining ♦
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l i t m h i i;
* Vehicle*. Farm Implement* and American Fence. Marne**, Saddlery Good», W in d ­
SALES
CENTRAL POINT
DRAY LINE.
Our Drain Tile Is In Demand
C U T L E R Y
♦ Rogue
River Plumbing & ♦
♦ C owley n
ä r d w ä rc ( Co.
jo .
Hardware
riley ♦
Home to the Folks
Christmas and New Year Holidays
One and One-Third Fare
FREEMAN & WILEY COMPANY
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lim ito.
Central
P H omo
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3.4
Oregon.
it
the
ties
of
or 11
the hand. ♦
mill*. Oil* and Extra*.
CENTRA!
Price* Always Lowest, Quality Considered.
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