HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
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Productive Rogue River VaDey
and Jackson County, Oregon
(Continued from Pajp 2.)
cation ana surroundings, being west of
the Cascades, a low altitude, the Valley
nag the same mild climate found along
the Coast, from Puget Sound to Southern
California, due to the Influence of the
warm Japan ocean currents. The Win
tel, monthff are mild, with little snow,
which usually melts rapidly. The 28
inches of rain conies from October to
April, with occasional showers during the '
Summer.
There is an average of 270 days of sun
shine and there is always an evening
breeze. The humidity is very low. The
hottest days in Summer the humidity Is
between 15 and 20. The nights are cool.
The average minimum temperature dur
ing the Winter Is Just below freezing or
31 degrees.
Damaging winds are not experienced.
Water Resources.
Water available for irrigation and
power is one of Jackson County's valua
ble resources. Rogue River and its tribu
taries drain the entire area, and accord
ing to tho State Engineer, has 300,000
horsepower, with a total annual run-off
of 3,200,000 acre-feet of water, so Jack
son County has an abundance of water for
all purposes. The large planned irriga
tion projects started are yet uncompleted.
It is estimated that 2000 acres of land
Is irrigated by means of electric pump
ing and alfalfa fields of 100 or more
acres are irrigated. The cost of pumping
varies, according to the lift and Bize of
plant. The cost to raise one acre-foot
100 feet by electricity 1h $2.80 per year,
and the cost of the plant, $5 to $10 per
acre.
Water Power Development.
One of the large prospective uses for
electric power is for electric roads. The
largest developed power plant is at Pros
pect, where 7000 horsepower Is gener
ated. This is capable of expension to
40,000. One hundred and twenty-five
families in the Valley cook with electric
ity, 80 per cent of the total county popu
lation use electricity for lighting, as the
service is extended into all rural districts.
Timber Resources.
Two-thirds of the acreage of Jackson
County is classified as timber land, 850,
000 acres is privately owned, 427,000
acres in natural forests. The estimate of
merchantable timber has a total of 23,-
000,000,000 feet and contains some of
the largest standing bodies of sugar pine
found in the United States. Compara
tively little use has been made of the tim
ber resources up to. this time, as only
a few small mills have operated.
Minerals.
Tho mineral resources of Jackson Coun
ty are first among all the counties of the
stato, according to special investigators
of the Oregon Bureau of Minos and Geol
ogy. The placer gold fields of Southern
Oregon have yielded $150,000,000 since
their discovery.
Large coal deposits are now being thor
oughly tested. These veins range from 8
to 12 feet in thickness.
Building stones offer an Inviting field
to the developer, which include granite,
sandstone and marble from pure white to
black, with grain rivaling Vermont quar
ries. The great need toward the development
Is a road to the coast, only 100 miles,
where it could be loaded upon transports
with wide market possibilities.
Special opportunities might be summar
ized aud emphasized as: Lumber mills
and box factories, alfalfa meal mills, ad
ditional fruit and by-product plants,
creameries and beet sugar factories.
Good Roads,
Sopternber, 1913, Jackson County voted
$500,000 for the construction of a mod
ern, first-class; hard-surfaced highway
more than 50 miles in length, through the
Rogue River Valley. A unit of the Pa
cific Highway from British Columbia into
Mexico Jackson County was the first
county In the state to Improve this unit
of the Highway a leader In the agitation
of good roads in Oregon. We have 17
miles of the Highway completed and 13
miles over the Siskiyou Mountains graded
and will be hard-surfaced early this Sum
mer. For the Tourist.
" Jackson County offers many varieties
of mineral springs, mountain streams
with unrivaled fishing, wildernesses with
deer, bear and cougar, historic Table
Rock, Mill Creek .Falls and Crater Lake,
one of the scenic wonders of the world,
with Medford the gateway, and Just across
the line In Josephine County are the
Marble Caves, promising when fully ex
plored, to equal the caves of Kentucky,
. Rogue River offers royal sport In fly
fishing for steelhead (rainbow) trout,
weighing from 3 to 10 pounds.
Medford.
Medford, with an estimated population
of 11,000, Is located in the center of the
Valley and the most important financial,
trade and shipping point, and la now a
Jobbing city. No city the size of Med
ford has a greater length of first-class
paved streets, having a total of 22 miles,
29 miles of sewers, 28 miles of water
- mains, 28 miles of cement walks, and a
Jft-mjle gravity water system,! posting
Pianos of Highest Quality
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"A poor piano can never be a good bargain, but a good piano may be a bad
bargain." There "are two essential factors in the purchase of a piano QUAL
ITY AND PRICE.
WE CARRY THE LINE OF HIGHEST QUALITY.
Pianos that have proven their worth by 50 to 92 years of satisfactory service.
Our line is headed by the world-renowned Chickering, the piano that is oldest in
years and highest in honors.
. ' How are you going to judge the quality of a piano? To be able to judge a .
piano from a mechanical is well as an artistic standpoint requires years of
study and experience. You must know its construction from the raw material to
the finished product. ,
WE HAVE MADE IT OUR BUSINESS TO KNOW.
How to judge a piano, and we select pianos that represent the very best values
at their respective prices the world affords.
We will gladly give you the benefit of oar knowledge, at any time.
Our policy is low prices; our practice economy in every department of our busi
ness. When you consider that the "Eilers Music Houses" are the leading piano con
cerns in all the prominent cities on the Pacific Coast, you get an idea of the magni
tude of our business and judge yourself of our standing and ability to buy at the
greatest factory discounts.
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"These are the time for you to purchase to the great
est advantage" and this is really one money-saving op
portunity that you cannot afford to overlook.
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in Portland and vicinity has read of our great "500 Piano
Club" and considered it carefully. Have you read the" com
parison of prices and noted the liberal discounts this "500
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one money-saving opportunity, if you feel that you would
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You simply associate yourself with 499 others and secure
a piano on a wholesale buying basis.
Buying and selling, as we do, in large quantities, on our
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possible retail prices. By taking advantage of the "500 Piano
Club" you secure a saving that you cannot possibly obtain
otherwise in buying a new piano.
Write us today and let us outline to you the fairest, best
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Eilers Building
BROADWAY
AT ALDER
PORTLAND, OREGON
$275,000. The city is supplied with gas,
electricity and power, and has several
four-story office buildings, a public park,
a $20,000 library, a $140,000 hospital,
a $75,000 natatorlum, several fine hotels
one five-story, erected at a cost of
$125,000 four banks, a $50,000 opera
house, the key station of the United
States Weather Bureau, splendid stores,
a Federal building now being erected at
a cost of $110,000, five large schools, an
academy, 11 churches, 20 lodges, a Col
lege Woman's Club, a University Club
representing 43 colleges, a Golf and Coun
try Club with 100 acres of ground, an
active Woman's Civic Improvement Club
and Commercial Club. Two modery daily
newspapers and an electric streetcar sys
tem. A Land of Plenty.
If one were ever justified in lauding
the possibilities of any land, he 1b cer
tainly Justified in giving this beautful
Vallev and its throbbing wide-awake
heart', tho progressive city of Medford, a
lull measure of praise. The object of
this article is to tell the people from out
side, that they may know and enjoy, it
they will, this garden spot of the West.
Those who live there know of no other
place so attractive none with such pos
sibilities. The writer has endeavored
rather to underestimate than to exagger
ate, knowing that so much can be said in
favor of this favored Valley, that even the
plain unvarnished truth would seem to
some' as the limit of exaggeration.
Wool Clip in Washington
in First-Class Condition
THE wool clip In Washington this year
Is coming from the sheep in first
class condition. The growers in most
cases are selling early and shearing is
anywhere from 15 to 30 days ahead of
time. Coarse wools seem to be selling
very freely at what is considered the mar
ket price.
The Hibbard-Stewart Company, of Se
attle, Wash., purchased the Coffin clip
of wool at North Yakima and their vari
ous camps on a basis of 22 cents to 23
"cents per pound, according to the clean
ness. This clip consisted of about 250,
000 pounds of wool. The same firm also
bought the Satus Stock Company's wool,
at Toppenish. The good coarse wool
from eastern points have been mostly
cleaned up, but Mr. Hibbard, of the above
mentioned firm, today stated that they
were active In purchasing Puget Sound
valley wool and also any good, clean
clips of wool from coarse wool sheep.
As to the value of wool In the near
future, it will be entirely determined as
to whether the war in Europe will be pro
longed or not. But the advice from peo
ple who know Is to the effect that it is
better to shear early and sell oarly this
year.
Refused to Leave.
Lawyer You say you told the servant
to get out of the house the minute you
found it was on fire, and she refused
to go?
Mrs. Burns Yes, she said she must
have a month's notice before she'd leave.
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Oregon Silo Co.
208 Northwest Bldg., Portland, Or.
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When y&u see an engine
balanced like this you will
see one that will give the
greatest service with the
least wear. This is a pho
tograph of a Rawleigh
Schryer Gas Engine run
ning at its regular speed
for 48 hours without even
shaking these barrels.
Oregon
Silo Co.
208 Northwest Bldg.
Portland, Or.
The Stay Round Silo
If you have made the mistake of buying
a Silo that is not keeping itself straight,
we will put on our appliances and then
guarantee it to stay straight five years.
If you have not bought a silo, don't
make the above mistake, as remedies are
always expensive.
Get the A. 0. C. bulletin that tells you
how to take care of the silo and see how
much trouble it is, and then buy the
Oregon Stay Round Silo, and save your
self all this trouble.
Ask for catalogue of the silo, and also
of the Climax Ensilage Cutter, the lightest-running
cutter made.and the Pwaw-leigh-Schryer
Gas Engine.
If there is any particular commodity in which you are
1 interested, and you do not find it advertised in these
J columns, let us help you. Write advertising manager,
Oregon-Washington-Idaho Farmer, Oregonian Building, Port
land, Or.