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MEDFORD OR IWON, SUNDAY, FEB R AIRY 20, 1910.
No. 287.
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Medford Mail Tribune
K'S REPORTED SALES
SEASON ON I
REAL E!
N FUIE SWING;
STATE MEN JUBILANT
Every Class Property Moving, Rapidly Many Buying Orchard Tracts
tor Homes City Property Is in Demand Many Building and Choice
Residence Sites Change Hands Banner Week In Realty Circles
Demand Is Brisk and Steady.
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One million eighty-two
thousand nine hundred und
fifty dollars ia the' total
amount changing bands dur
ing the past week in local
real estate circles.
Every dais of property
orchard, timber, city which
i offend flndH a strong,
Mendy demand.
The pale making the to
tal over a million of dollars
are thoK reKrted by locnl
real entate men during (he
week. There were many (-ales .
made which are withheld for
the present and two Hales of
over $50,00(1 are now being
closed, but the agent n yet
decline to announce the Miles.
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The week in the banner one
MedfordV historv, and it came
was predicted by realty men. an coon
n the weather willed and balmy
Mtien were conducive to trip
throughout the valley. The. yeai
promises to be n record-brenker.
Medford has Htruok her gait upon
the highway of prosperity
The big sale of the week wan that
of the Barrel! orchards to a nyndi-
ente of Spokane men for $500,000.
Thin is the banner sale in commcr
oiai on-hard property of the entire
northwest.
Following thi sale was a second
one, in timber land, B. H. Hnrri
polling 4000 ncres of timber land on
Foot creek to eastern men, the con
sidcration being $125,000.
In city property, the sale of the
James N. Smith Nob Hill tract for
$00,000 was the top-nolcher.
Other notable purchases in city
property was tho purchase of the
property ot Mrs. Hello Nickel! for
$15,000 and of Mrs. Brooke for
$10,000 bv Mrs. F. W. Carnahan and
Mrs. Lou F.nynrt. These nre both
ohoice business sites on South Cen
tral avenue. A. Conro Fiero nlo
purchased the Schermerhorn prop
erty on Wet-t Sixth street, paying
$10,000.
Dr. F, E. Page lias accumulated a
few more neres of I?ogue Hiver val
ley soil in addition to his already
oonsidorablo holdings, havi;ig pur
chased 228 acres from Sylvester
Patterson near Tnltno, and adjoin
ing the famous. Snncrest orchard on
the east, paying therefor $55,000.
The land is all susceptible of fruit
culture and will be utilired for that
purpose,
Dr. Pago Ijhh already contracted
for. trees to plant 200 acres, or 14,- South Central avenue, between Main
000 trees in all, and will have a crew
at work at once preparing the
ground for planting, which will com
mence at once.
J. E. Darksdull reports the sale
of the Brooks property, corner of
Kighth and Centra) avenue, fronting
50 feet on Central, to Mrs. Carna
han and Mrs. Enynrt, for $10,000.
Mrs. C. II. Carey is also among the
purchasers of city property, having
purchased two lot in Queen Anne
addition it double corner for
$1500. Mrs. Carey is undecided
whether to build on this property or
ujmiii the one she recently purchased
on the Orchard Home road.
W, M. Holmes reports the sale of
the Jos. Taylor & Son's place, north
of the chy, for a consideration of
$35,000 nil told. The property con
sisted of (15 acres, nnd It. A. Matth
ews of Minneapolis paid $1S,000 for
32 acres. The tract was placed jn
the market entire, nnd in order to
make the Matthews sale Mr. Holmes
was obliged to take up the balance
at $10,500. He isn't worrying over
his bargain, either. Five hundred
dollars an acre isn't much for that
class of land Hear creek bottom
and under irrigation.
. A. Folger. late general ninnnger
of the, Goodrich Rubber company,
purchnscd through the agency of An
derson & Green nnd Ira J. Dodge.
1(1 acres of the old Whetstone plnce,
wt-st of Medford, lying just south
of the Perry subdivision, and naid
therefor the very low price of $350
an acre. I en ncres of this is wood
land, which when cleared will make
a beautiful pnrk and home grounds,
nnd it is the intention of Mr. Folger
to build n home there, grow fine cat
tle and live tho simple life.
Mr. Folger has also purchased
from John Dent 10 acres east of the
Lindloy property for $3500.
A. Conro Fiero has purchnscd lots
1 and 2, block 50, at the comer of
Grape and Sixth streets, from G. L.
Schermerhorn for $10,000.
Judge W. E. Crcwes of Seattle has
purchased from Mrs. D. R. Andrus
en acres smith nnd west of the citv
and ndjoiuiug the city limits, for
$17,000. Judge Crewes didn't in-
end to fall 'in love with the Rogue
River valley when he enmo here, but
he just couldn't help it.
V, A. rolgcr nnd Ira J. Dodge
have purchnscd four lot in block 3.
This property fnces on the railroad
wo blocks south of the depot, nnd
it is the intention of tho purchasers
to use it for warehouse purposes.
he price paid was in tho neighbor
hood 'of $4000.
J. E. Rnrksdull renorts tho snip bv
Mrs. Belle Niekcll of her property on
OREGON'S ORCHARD WEALTH. t
(Portland Oregonian.; t
The Halo of tho Uurrell orchard in the Tfotnie River valley for $500,000 will hard-
I ly fail to attract attention far beyond the state lines. The purchase was made by
I experienced men familiar with the growing and marketing of fruit. There is noth- t
i ing in the record of the properly to indicate, that they have made any miBtake.
I The sale of this particular property is of exceptional interest aside from the mag
1 nitude of the transaction. It was one of the first "high-priced" orchards sold in
southern Oregon, and at the time of tho original transfer there were plenty of pes
simists who were firmly convinced that the orchard would never earn a satisfac
tory interest on the investment. We have listened to this talk of overproduction
and low prices for more than ten ycai-s and meanwhile the orchard acreage contin
ues to increase, the demand remains unsatisfied and prices advance and do not de
cline. What an Oregon fruit orchard can do not one year, or two, or three, but right
along, year after year is shown in the statement that the Bartlett pears on the
Burreli orchard have netted an average of $G00 per acre for the past nine pears,
this figure running up to $1000 per acre Inst year. There are smaller orchards in
southern Oregon which have made even better returns, and the same is true of
orchards in other parts of the state. It has been more than ten years since many
of these orchards began paying huge dividends on the investment. An increasing
output in the next ten years may slightly reduce the size of these dividends, but
there is an enormous "leeway" for shrink're in prices before" the industry will
cease to be remunerative, even at present hiirh-priced valuations.
Thus far the demands of the wealthy consumers take up all of the best Oregon
fruit at such high prices that it is difficult for consumers in moderate financial
circumstances to secure first-class Oregon apples or pears. If the supply ever
overtakes the demand, which is now fixing prices on such a' high level, even a
moderate decline in'prices will enormously increase the demand. At at cost which
would still leave the growers a good margin of profit, the demand could be expand
ed enormously. The fruit orchard which will turn off $1000 per acre represents a
good manv yetn-s of hard labor, and a considerable cash outlay, but there still re
main in Oregon many thousands of acres of land which is susceptible of just as
great a development as any now in the dividend-earning class.
Money is plentiful in the west, but it is not so plentiful that men will pay $500,
000 for an orchard unless they have positive assurance that it will yield a good re
turn on the investment. Judging the future by the past, the new owners of the
Burrell orchard have made a good buy.
BANK D P
SITS AND POSTAE
ECEIPTS MAKE GREAT GAIN
Month of January Shows Unprecedented Growth in ostal and tanking
Receipts These Are Probably the Most Unerring Indices tat
the M'aterfal Welfare ef the City and They Are Prem
ising Much for a Banner Year In Medferd. H'
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Bank Deposits.
January, 1905....$ 600,498
1906.... 726,971
1907.... 1,084,63k
1908.... 1,254,489
1909 1,261,431
1910.... 1,863.568
Increase during 1909, $602,-
137.
Per cent increase, .48.
January,
January,
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nnd Eighth streets, to
Carnnhnn nnd Mrs. J.
comprising 70 feet frontage on Cen
tral avenue, for $15,000.
W. T. York & Co. report the fol
lowing snles: .
A. J. Shirley to E. N. Campbell,
75 acres two miles west of Talent,
comprising 15 ncres young trees and
45 acres under cultivation $10,500.
Mrs. Christy to Chnrles M. Eng
lish, house and lot at corner of
Grape and Fifth streets; $2600.
S. I. Wilson to Chnrles M. Eng-
HkIi and George Treohler, 33 acres
and a fraction four miles northwest
of Medford, 25 acres in bearing or-
chnrd; $17,500.
W. T. York & Co. to C. M. Eng
lish, residence property on New
town street; $2500.
One of the Midwny trncts to Mr,
Davidson for $2600.
S. M. Robinson, Talent, to W. T.
York & Co., about 30 Acres nenr
Talent, $6750.
T. Moffat t to II. D. Scbuler, bouse
and three lots in Ross addition to
Medford; $2050.
The Valley Land corapnny reports
the following recent sales:
Fifty-five acres two and a half
miles northwest of Central Point,
belonging to T. C. Law, sold to A.
P. Whitney at $12,000.
Thirty-one ncres of brash land
joining the George Hoover orchard
west of Phoenix, sold to Anderson
Mrs. F. W.;& Cook for $3000. This was the S.
E. Enyart, ,L. Stephens property.
Twenty acres just north of the
nbove, sold to same parties at $2600.
having formerly belonged to Mrs.
bvnns.
Twenty-six lots in the Westmore
land addition to the city of Medford
sold to L. J. Miksehe at $4000.
Three lots in tho same addition
sold to Hutcbnson & Lumsden at
$650.
Also four lots in same addition
sold to Everett Finlcy at $700.
Six ncres belonging to Mott Dcra
mer nnd lying in northwest part of
city, sold to the Medford Bnok cora
pnny at $40Q0.
The Oregon Orchards Syndicate
reports the following sales:
E. E. Miner to E. B. Suramy, prop
erty nenr Gold Hill, $20,000.
Five ncres on Siskiyou Heights to
J. W. Dunlop, $4500;
Three lots to Mrs. V. M. Chess-
more, $2100.
Twenty-two ncres in Crostbrook to
Lewis D. Hcese nnd George Cassell,-
3-tllUH).
Twenty acres in Cresbrook to J. R.
Benner, $4750.
Eighteen acres in Cresbrook to
Mabel Evans, $4500.
COUNCIL CALLS FOR
BIDS ON PAVING OP
13 MILES OF STREETS
The year ending January, 1909, is
the most prosperous ever experienc
ed by local banking institutions. Dur
ing thoe 12 months the number of
battles in Medford has been increased
to four, two have doubled their cap
ital stock and deposits have crown
$602,137, or an increase of 48 per
cent.
By consulting the foregoing table,
in which the tfttal deposits in Janu
ary of each year back to 1905 are
shown, it will be seen that the 1909
increase almost equals the entire
amount on deposit in 1905 in round
.figures, $600,000.
In December," 1900. the MairTrib
une, in gathering statistics for an
annual number, found the totnl
amount on deposit to be $1,847,300.
Since then the deposits hnve grown
jto $1,863,568 an increase' of $16,
26S in one month and January at
that.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McClendon ar
rived from Lompoc, Oil., .Thursday,
where thoy have been spending the
winter with relatives.
At a meeting of the city council
hold Friday evening the recorder was crossing.
instructed to call for bids for pav-1 Bartlett from Main to Eighth,
ing. The paving program is full and; . Front north to Jackson, south to
will soon be under way. Jcit5 limits.
Although the year 1910 is still Fir from Sixth south to city limits,
young, Medford has set a' mark in AJev between Fir and Grape, Main
municipal improvement which prob-,to k,!;n,h
ably has never been equaled by any1 Grape, Sixth to Eighth.
wvvwMM cwum tu J. IILL ICCULll
street.
Oakdale, with exception of railroad
city of S000 in the world, and which
no other city in the northwest can
show. Petitions for paving hnve
come in until the totnl on file repre
sents 13 miles of the city's streets.
This .work is all to be done this sum
mer. Medford has nearly three miles of
pavement nt the present time and it
is believed that by fall over 15 miles
of the city's streets will be paved.
Figuring 300 feet to a block, the
petitions on file represent the pav
ing of -about 200 blocks.
The streets to be paved are:
Genebsee street.
East Main from bridge to city lim
its.
Riverside avenue. Twelfth
north to the city limits.
Central avenue, both north nnd
south to city limits.
Sixth, Rivorside nvenne west to
street
Ivy, Sixth to Seventh.
Laurel. Main HRDLUSHRDLUU
West Tenth, Oakdale to Hamilton
in Ross addition.
Laurel, Main to Fourth.
North Orange, Main to Fourth.
West Fourth, Oakdale to Colum
bus. Roosevelt avenue, Main north to
city limits.
Jackson, Riverside to Columbia? '
North Peach, Main to Fourth.
Summit avenue.
MEDFORD THEATER
RECEIPTS GREATER
THAN PORTLAND
Postal receipts for Janu-'
ary, 1910, show an increase
of 55 per cent over January,
1909.
January receipts are tb
largest in the history of the
local postoffice for any
month in any previous year.
If the growth continues,
Medford's receipts for 1910
will be over $29,000.
Jasnary, 1910 $2424.43
January, 1909 ..... 1564.49
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$ 859.94
Incraasc
Per cent increase, .54 plus.'
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Exceeding January, 1909, receipts
of the local postoffico by nearly 55.
per cent, the January, 1910, receipts
are the largest ever known in any
one month in the local postoffice, to
taling $2424.43. The receipts in
January, 1909, -were $1564.49, the
increase being $859.94.
Daring 1009 the postal rewipts.of'
Medford increased 33 per cent over- 3f
the receipts of one year ago. Eu
gene's receipts increased 19.6 per
cent and Portland's 5.09.
During the year ending December:
31, 1909, the receipts totaled $19,-
013.68, -while for 1908 they totaled!
$14,591.69, an increase of $4,421.99,
or a little over 33 per cent.
The receipts for December, 1909,
were $2,403.59, while for December,.
1908, they vere $1,733.49.
Receipts by quarters during the
past year were :
March 31 $ 4,164.25
June 30 4.799.90
September 30 4,304.23
December 31 5,945.30
Total ,$19,013.68'.
The receipts for December, 1909,.
show an increase of 26 per cent ovecr
December, 1908.
The receipts for Mclntyre & Heath
ill- 1 1 jt
in nnyu company Drote au rec-
THE LA FEAN APPLE BILL
ords for the. house, being $201 more
than Eugene, $211 more than Sa
lem and $7 more than tho last night
at Portland, and this following a
show the night before when the re
ceipts ran up to $700. Manager Ha
ielrigg is particularly grateful to
the Medford theatergoers for the
good showing he was enabled to
make, for this being Klaw & Erlan
ger's own show, and they controlling--the
bookings for the entire United.'
States, it means that Medford will
get all the big attractions for next
season. Manager Haselrigg reports
that at least 200 people were turned"
away Friday night. ,
Tho following is a portion of the
nddrosH made by C. E. Whisltfr of
Medford before the National League
of Commission Merchants at Nor
folk, Vn., in opposition to the pro
posed La Fean bill, regulating tho
sl?o of apple boxes. It embodies
most of the arguments against tho
measure from a fruit grower's
standpoint :
"Tho question of standards is the
only question with us. So far as
tho grading is concerned, so far as
tho main features of tho bill nro con
corned, well and good. 11 will moot
with tho hearty support of all tho
producers of the northwest. But it
will not meot with tho support of
those producers in regnrd to meas
urement. It hns been demonstrated
in this bill tliit tho hnsis which was
taken nB a .standard for rnenKuro
ment was tho Now York barrel. It
flays, 'tho barrel now in common
liso.' That is what tho bill snys,
Gentlemen, whnt barrel is now in
AN ADDRESS BY C. E. WHISLER
usot Is there n merchant among
you dare stand up nnd say just
what barrel is referred toT Tho bill
is lame in that respect. It simply
says, 'tho barrel now in use.' I
measured ono of those so-called
standard barrols in Washington dny
before yesterday. I also measured
ono of the boxes which wo have scat
down here, nnd I wnnt to say to you,
gentlemen, that I have here a box of
tho npples that won tho grand
sweepstakes priro nt Spokane, at tho
national apple show, when a car
load of npples won a prize of
$1000, and n prize for thrco boxes.
"I havo two standard measures
there, one-half bushel each. We are
hero to defend that package. We
will not stnnd under tho imputation
of favoring a short package. Tho
Lord abhors n short package, but n
Just measuro is his delight, nnd so
is it of all of us of tho northwest.
Wo hnvo arrived nt this box ques
tion, gentlomen, nftor 15 yenrs of
experience of close application and
hard learning. We hnve established
a paokage wwhich exactly fits that
box, and it has taken those years
to do it, at an immense expense.
You gentlemen in the east ore just
now coming up to the proposition
of n better pnokage nnd God speed
you, becnuse we want you to ele
vate to tho highest possible standard
of perfection the grading nnd tho
packing of npples, so that they will
come to the consumer in the best
possible shape.
"Now, wo have conducted schools
all over the northwest. 1 nnd my
partner this fall pnid tho entire ex
pense of n pneking school conducted
under the supervision of the state, in
order to eduento packers along tho
lino of packing in this box. When
yon nttompt to pack apples in a box
you will find that there nre some
scientific principles involved that do
not obtain in pneking oranges, which
seem to have been taken as tho
standard for the pneking of apples.
"The reasons nre plain. An apple
is not shaped like an orange. An
ornnge can be packed equally well
in a square box, in cubical contents
or in a coffin or n cheese box, so
far ns that is concerned. becnntP it
is round; it will stand a certain
pressure which an apple will not
stand. Apples aro not of an eqnnl
and uniform shnpe, therefore it re
quires a systematic packing, n sys
tematic princinle to be observ!.' in
put thoso npples in n box proporlv.
o nnvo studied that out carefully
after years of experience and hnvn
found that there nre 17 different
packs that we must cninlov in nut.
ting npples properly into n box. Now,
the minute von chance the sh
thnt box you disorganize the whoio
systom ot pqeking and yon have
ruined our education and mnrl it
of no effect. Wo must then start
nnew nnci educate our pupils all over
again, which is a despernto job, gen
tlemen, to bring those packers up to
the knowledge which they must have
Jin order to pack that box as it
.should be packed.
J "Now, we have discovered as
nearly as practicably the box which
fits our needs. We guarantee it to
you, gentlemen, as containing a
bushel of apples. If you have tnken
as n standard a mensuro which con
tains more than a bushel, which we
know nnd charge to bo the fact,
you hnve taken a wrong standard.
So we come back with tho govern
ment bushel nnd ask yon to adopt
the standard of the government to
dny, which, as, yon all know, is'
iiOW.4 inches. Tho box which wo
hnve contains 2173.5 inches, without
any distension whatever on the box.
"Now, gentlemen, can you look mo !
in tho face nnd chnrgo me with try-!
ing to defraud, as I rather took "it
thnt it was charged by the last gen-!
tlemnn on tho floor, who said that j
tho only men who raised any objeo-'
tion to this bill were the men who
were trying to obtain money under
false pretenses. Gentlemen, we are
doing nothing of the kind. We offer
you a fair measure. We offer you
the standard adopted by the United
States and we eive vou annuel, in
fill that bushel up.
"Do not for one moment lose sight
of the fact that the northwest is
wideawake on this proposition; that
we feel we are giving the mo6t sci
entific package there is in the world
I We are the ones who nre setting tho
grades and raising the standards
more than any other point. I nm
continually getting letters of inquiry
from the old state of Virginia hove,
from the state of New York, from
the state of Pennsylvania, asking,
'How do you do this thing?' They
nre beginning to see that we are iii
the advance, but tfcey do not know
how to do it.
"Now, so far as the Colorado
pneknge is concerned, gentlemen,
they nro trying to get out of their
package and they with their pack
can use any and all shapes and sizes
of box. Whyt Because their method
is simply to face tho box and pour
the rest 'in. Doesn't any man know ,
that you can pack that in a coffin
or any kind of a drygoods boxt You .
can do it, gentlemen, but you can't
put them up in Inyers and tiers
without some consideration. There
is the difference.
"Now, I would like to have thnt
box of npples brought in. I want to
convince you. I hnvo two govern
ment standards hero of one-half
bushel each, and if thoso npples do
not nil those two monsurcs brim
full, condemn our trade; but if thov
do fill that measuro, gentlemen
hich i? the United Stntes govern-.
ment stnndard, we wan$ your con
sideration. 1 1 want to say tkut; wA
have the sanction of tho secretary
ox agriculture at Washington. If I
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