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LUMBERING-FRUÏT- D AIl^VIN G — M l N l N G ~ FA R M IN G -ST O C K RAISING- FISHING-HUNTING
VOLUME 2
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DEER HERE
ARE PLENTIFUL
HUNTING, YES, BUT NOW THE
SEASON IS CLOSED
Game Birds Plentiful
Jackson County Ha* More Deer Than
Cattle; Quail and Pheaiant*
Abound in Number*.
Listen to this, you men in whose
veins /low the true sporting blood:
There are 60,000 deer that winter
in Jackson county, As a matter o f
fact, there are more deer in this
county than cattle 1
In all these
United States o f America, there is
just one county where the deer
population is greater.
Now, then, doesn’t that give you
a thrill the whole length o f your
backbone, and make you hungry to
come out here and establish a home
where game is so plentiful?
Why
come here to simply hunt? Why not
settle here fo r good, with plenty o f
game practically in your back yard?
Hunters often, during the open
season, leave either Ashlandbgkqjbk
season, leave town in the morning,
get a big buck and return home by
dark. Two sportsmen, not long ago,
le ft their city homes after daylight,
bagged three bucks and got home in
time fo r supper. This isn’t an isolat
ed case by any means. It frequently
happens. The automobile takes the
hunter within reasonable distance o f
his game.
A t the heads o f the streams are
the good hunfing grounds, particul
arly the heads o f Rogue river, Emi
grant creek and Evans creek.
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It is a rule in a day’s hunt to see
one to fifteen deer. One hunter told
the writer that he never spent a
day on the Umpqua divide without
seeing ten deer, not all bucks, o f
course. V ery seldom indeed can a
trip to the Cascade range be taken
without deer coming into view.
In taking a hunting trip fo r deer,
the sportsman nearly always runs
across a bear. There are plenty o f
cougar signs to be seen, but these
creatures are exceedingly cunning
and usually keep out o f sight. Any
one, however, in making a trip to
the Cascade range and taking a pack
o f hounds with him, can surely bag
both cougars and wolves.
There are so many beaver at the
heads o f streams that they have be
come a nuisance. Being protected by
law, they are multiplying fast.
Throughout
the 'country
gray
squirrels are plentiful. One hunter,
in a dry year, counted fift y in a
single tree where they had gathered
to feed on nuU. They were so easy
ot shoot that he failed to see nay
sport in it, and left them unmolested
In hunting fo r deer, mountain
quail will be found plentiful in the
woods. They are a fine game bird
and considerbaly
larger than the
Bob White. Near the quail will al
ways be found native pheasant and
blue grouse..
Hunters a fter deer
never go hungry. These birds will
supply them ^s fine food as ever
went down the human throat.
In grain fields and settlements
California quail (smaller than the
mountain
variety)
are plentiful.
Where these quail congregate, there
also will many Chinese pheasants be
found. It is a comon sight in driving
along the great Pacific highway
through Jackson county, over which
thousands o f cars pass daily, to see
large numbers o f both quail and
Chinese pheasants along the road-
CENTRAL POINT, JACKSON, COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1926
MISQUOTED
Medford Paper Misunderstand* Re
cent Amercian Article.
W e are sorry the Daily News o f
Medford,
misquoted the Central
Point Ameriacn, in a reecnt issue o f
that thriving and growing daily paper
The Amer • n never, on any oc
casion, even intimated that “ Central
Point would be TH E city o f the val
ley with Medford a suburb.”
Far
from it.
We have no such inflated
ambitions.
Medford, we know and hope, will
always grow and will always be the
busy city, the best city and biggest
city o f all southern Oregon— with
Central Point, eventually part o f this
big city, and Central Point the busy
suberb o f Medford.
Central Point is the center o f the
valley, the central point fo r its many
farmers, miners and country homes
— a trading center fo r a vast inland
empire.
Now, here is exactly what the Cen
tral Point Ameriacn did nsay in its
last issue. Read it again, Me. News
and help us to build and secure new
industries that will not only help us
but you as w ell:
“ Everybody believes the “ Hill lines”
will build a railroad from Klamath
Falls to Crescent City. Coming over
the hills forty miles from Klamath
the Medford logging road could be
taken over at Butte Falls, making a
small boom at that mountain town.
Thence the road would follow the
present grade to a depot site between
Medford and Central Point.
The present logging road would
have to swing north to avoid the mill
and head fo r Grants Pass— hence
Central Point will, many believe, be
the railroad center fo r the new road.
Medford does not object to this
program, as the two cities are prac
tically one now.
More trackage space is available
at Central Point and the town is the
central point o f the entire valley and,
should you care to dream, Central
Point will be part o f the largest city
in Southern Oregon.
It is up to some organized e ffo r t
from Central Point to busy itself in
trying to secure ice plants, storage
plants, creameries, drying plants,
fruit cannery, clay products plants,
etc. And it is surely up to Medford
to asist in this, as the growth o f Cen
tral Point helps Medford, and to re
verse, “ As Medford grows, so does
Central Point.”
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With plenty o f water, mining op
erations are speeding up in various
districts o f southern Oregon.
The
placer miner, the man with the pan
and the “ pocket hunter” don’t care
how much it rains. Whether there is
anything mentioned about it or not
there are many dollars being taken
out o f the ground in Jackson and
Josephine counties every day. With
plenty o f water fo r sluicing that
work is being done more extensively
now than any time during the past
year.
o
Tliankigivint Service*.
Answer the call o f our president,
the call o f our governor and the call
o f God, and render Thanksgiving to
the AH gracious given fo r his bless
ings.
Services at the Christian
church Thursday evenin gat 7 :30 p.
m. AH are invited.
side. Chinese pheasants are stocked
by the state every year. Be;ng great
reproducers, they sre
increasing
rapidly.
Sportsmen from every section o f
the country come here to hunt, and
more and more o f them are settling
down and making their homes some
where in the county. No better place
fo r a home can,be found. Besides an
ideal home in an ideal climate, an
ideal hunting ground ia always at
hand.— From County Booklet
NOVEMBER VOLT
TELLS OF PIONEER
OREGON
CONTRIBUTES
TURKEY
TRADE
Number 32
IS
BRISK
Grower* Are Paid an Averafe of
Forty Cent* a Pound.
ASSOCIATION
IS ORGANIZED
They raise a few turkeys here in
MUCH Jackson county, also ducks, geese OFFICERS
ARE
ELECTED
FOR
and chickens.
The turkey market
ENSUING YEAR.
has been busy all week and about
$30,000 worth o f birds have been
shipped out during the past week.
The growers have received an aver
age o f forty cents a pound.
The
farmer with a big flock Of turkeys
will have a merry Christmas this
County Is Divided Into Two Divisions
Those Wer* Days When First Timber
year.
•
TO
TERRITORY
Many H ardshipsT old
H i gli Sta ndard Is Plan
Was Felled, and the First
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and Winners in Each Division
Acreage* Tilled.
RASPBERRIES AND BLACKBER
RIES IN V A LL E Y BEARING
to Play for Championship.
Through the medium o f a splendid
article on “ The Coming o f the White
Man,” the California Oregon Tower
company gives some fine publicity to
southern Oregon in the November
Volt. This miniature magazine which
is published by the Copco concern,
reaches a select mailing list o f some
22,000 individuals throughout the
United States. This article is illus
trated by some excellent
pioneer
photographs o f old-time stage coaches
and other interesting reminders o f
the early days when Oregon pioneers
struggled fo r existence. One photo of
particular local interest shows a
group o f stages about to depart
from the Ashland postoffice during
the early eighties. In connection with
the picture lay-out the following
paragraph appears:
Due to the mild weather so far in
the Rogue River valley some surpris
ing developments have come to light
in the way o f vegetables and berries
still growing.
Several days ago a cluster o f well
formed and sweet raspberries was
brought’ to the Chamber o f commerce
by N. S. Bennett that were grown on
his place in this city, nnd also there
was brought to the chamber by Peter
Betz o f the Eagle Point district who
lives 21 miles from Medford along
the Rogue river, a blackberry branch
with ripe and green berries, and blos-
Bomes and buds.— Mail Tribune
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STATION TO BENEFIT AIR MAIL
U. S. Weather Station to Be Ea-
tablished to Aid Air Mail.
“ Glimpses Into the Pait.”
That Medford will be made a Unit
ed States weather station was an
nounce din a telegram received here
today from Senator MeNary at
Washington, O. C.
The station will be operated di
rectly to benefit air mail planes,
captive baloons being sent up to
various altitudes to keep a thorough
check on weather conditions.
Medford has sought fo r years to
obtain a weather bureau station for
Th article iself is highly interest the Rogue river valley.
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ing as is readily seen by the follow
W.
R.
C.
CHAPTER
HOLDS MEET
ing, which is quoted from the column
o f this unique publication.
“ Nature’s great accomplishment Meeting Held to Secure Inspector
for Oregon Department.
in creating the land o f the California
Oregon Power company’s operations
A call meeting o f Wm. Henry
and service— a job that presumably
Harrison
Chapter, No. 27, W. R. C.
was in progress throughout several
millions o f years— was set forth in was held in the hall on Friday at 2:30
a few paragraphs in preceding issues p. m. the object o f the meeting was
o f this veracious publication. A to secure Mrs. H. E. Slattery, in
similar plan will be followed in de spector fo r the department o f Ore
scribing this land’s settlement by the gon.
Mrs. Slattery wa« well pleased with
whites; because o f space limitations
our account o f necessity must be the the work o f the local chapter and
complimented especially the presi
sketchiest o f sketches.
“ When the present-day tribesmen dent, chaplain and musician, stating
o f Siskiyou and Humboldt counties, that in this chapter she had found
California, forgather on the banks the only rival fo r her home chapter’s
o f the lower Klamath river at the musician. A fte r the special businuss
time o f the salmon run, or when had been disposed o f the regular or
those o f the Klamath lake region, der o f business was taken up thus
southern Oregon, hie forth in auto avoiding a return to the hall on
mobiles to engage in the annual Saturday which was the regular
huckleberry picking activities, we meeting day.
Following this meeting a most en
have a reflection o f life as it was in
the region before the white man joyable reception and luncheon was
came. Here was a land o f plenty, then held in honor o fthe inspector.
as now, a region o f mountains and Salads, sandwiches, cake, co ffe e and
valleys, o f
forests
and
stream», tea were was served.— News.
“ It is most unlikely that anyone in
tjie field o f Copco operations pines
fo r a returrt o f pioneer days nnd
ways, save in fleeting moments o f
sentimantel retrospection.
But one
may glance back with purpose; you’ll
realize what progress has been made.
One wonders, with Medford already
an air port, and the air mail no long
er a novelty, will the next fifty years
find us regarding the automobile as
today we regar dthe stage coach?”
abounding in deer, grouse, rabbits,
salmon, trout, sturgeno and a wide
variety o f wild fruit«, seeds and root«
to which its wild inhabitants resorted
fo r sustenance.
“ Came the white man. Long before
there wa sany consequential migra
tion to Oregon, before the days o f
the covered wagon trains, the ad
vance guard o f settlement was al
ready in the land; in the interests o f
the trade in peltries, wandering trap
pers, singly and in pairs, worked their
way from the north down into south
ern Oregon and northern California.
But it was the age-old quest fo r vir
gin gold and for farming lands that
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Aid Society Meet*
A splendid company o f ladies met
In the regular I Jidie’s Aid Society o f
the Federated church last Thursday
afternoon to assist in the work o f the
society; and to study e portion o f the
Scriptures. The
paste« is giving a
series o f short lessons on the book o f
the Revelation. The seventh chapter
was the lesson fo r this occasion.
A strong committee was appointed
to arrange fo r some special
work
which the ladies are planning to do.
It it hoped that they will have the
hearty cooperation o f the people, in
doing the local work wich they have
In hand.
A meeting o f the principals and
coaches o f the second and third
class schools in the county was held
at the Central Point high school build
ing on ^uturday morning, November
20, ut 10 a. m.
The purpose o f the meeting was
to arrange the basketball schedule
fo r the coming season and fo r the
election o f officers o f the Jackson
County Athletic association.
The
following officers were elected:
Supt. H. P. Jewett, president, o f
Central point; Supt. C. K. Cook o f
Prospect, vice president; Mr. Davies
o f Eagle Point, secretary-treasurer.
The association voted in favor o f
having each school become a member
o f the Oregon State Athletic asso
ciation. The association also went on
record ns approving nothing but the
highest standard o f conduct on the
part o f all athletes who compete in
the games. The opinion was unani
mous that while athletics should have
a recognized place in the Hchool ac
tivities they were to be secondary to
scholarship.
Mrs. Susanne H. Carter, county
superintendent o f school was present
and took and active part in the plans
fo r the basketball season.
The county was divided into two
divisions as follows: Talent, Phoenix,
Jacksonville,
Central
Point
and
Rogue river are in one division. The
other division consists o f Prospect,
Butt! I U I . ( M l Mill. feHM Valley
and Eagle Point, The winners in each
division will play fo r the champion
ship o f the county.
The championship was won last
year by Central Point who played
without a single defeat in the con
ference.
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THE
DIFFERENCE
Sunny Southern Oregon Can Now
Boast of Climate
Snow has fallen within the past 48
hours in many districts in Oregon, in
cluding Hood River, Pendleton, La-
Grande, Buker, Klamath Falls and
other points. Here in Medford
nd
Rogue River valley roses are still
blooming in unprotected parkings
and gardens, and various other varie
ties o f flowers are still in their ra-
dient beauty.
In some o f the upland districts
vegetation was destroyed several
weeks ago, and they
present the
bleak and dreary appearance
that
precedes the winter season.
The comparison that is here drawn
is not to reflect unfavorably the more
rigorous climate o f other districts o f
Oregon, but to emphasize the mild
ness o f the winter climate in sunny
Southern Oregon.— Medford News.
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Lodge Elect* Officers.
The Rebekahs o f Mt. Pitt lodge
No. 167 held an election o f officers
last Wednesday night. The following
officers were ejected: Emma Glea-
»on, N. G.; Shara Vincent, V. G.;
Inez
Furgenon,
secretary;
Nina
Reameg, treasurer.