MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1910.
REPORT ISSUED UNCLE SAM SOON
ON RIVERS' FLOW 10 PLAY AT WAR
Notlco to Real Estate Dealers.
AW parties having my property
llrilud nro hereby notified to cancel
hiiimo from your lit.
2110 C, I' JIIOINHOTIIAM.
Government Compiles Roiiort Rc
lliirillnii All Streams In Northwest
Which Empty Into the Pacific i
Ocean, !
Entire Military Strcnoth of the
Country to Do Mobilized and With
the Militia of Various States to
Wane War.
A report on (ho flow of river of
tin) nortliwiiNt tliul empty Into (ho
PllOlflll OCHIIII llllll jltHt llHltl initlllHll'
cd by tlio United 'Htntos (loolnglcnl ; "playing at wiir" ilurlnc tho month
Burvny iih Water Supply Paper 252. 'of July, August and Soutombor, nc-
WAHIIINOTON, .Mnrfch 18.--l'rao
tkally Urn ontlnj military Hlrongth
of tho tuition vlll bo umlor nruiR and
TImmmj HtrmuiiN nro In WnHhlngton,
Oregon, Idiiho ii ml northwontern
Montana.
Ntiito mid Nittlon ('ooH'nit' In Work.
Tho work In Oregon linn boon dono
In co-operation with tho slatu. Tho
legislature begun coopiMiittou In ll'Ofi
co nil lit to tho plan of tho War De
partment for tho joint maneuvers of!
tho regular oriiiy ami tho mllltla to
EMPLOYMENT AND
BUSINESS CHANCES
FOR SALE Oil TUADB.
Equity in 10 acres irrigated land in
California.
10 acrcH in 0-year-old vinovnrd in
Californin.
GO noros, 7 miloB from Mcdford.
FOR SALE.
10 ncrcH near Woodvillo; a snnp.
20 noros, planted to trees, 2l2 railoe j
out; a snap,
I Four-room house, furnittiro and two
Ijo bold ut tho ten 11 k camp of In
fit met Inn. Tho wnr program, na Just
nnnouncoil, will plnco every regular
commnnd In tho fluid null only pro
cowh, $050.
Sovon-room hounc, lot 01x200, $3000.
HOUSES FOR SALE.
'A nrul il.mom Imnr.nlnurn. SOIln
by appropriating $2,000 for tho pnr-Porly guard will bo loft nt tho post. 6.wom bungalow, modern, K2300.
Poho and tin appropriated this Mini Tho regular fow In tho military I i.TOOm cottar S1700 '
from your to year ovnr hIiico, Tho districts, IncluiMng ovory arm of tho
Iwl, linn aervlco will bo utilized with tho mill-
-room cottage $1700.
FOR RENT.
(5-room house, $20.00.
'tin fffitil thi intillminilii hint an ntt.t i
tho eltlmi oldlor will bo Instructed i'n?m hoUB0. ncr"' 91.2
.00.
In nil tho field duties of tho oldlurJ.W0,V0rT ,,OUH0 fur"8,lcd
from "policing camp" to "battlo pr0. Jjvo-moiii Iiouhc.
Htato engineer, John II
roprenentiMl tho Htato In thin work.
A largo part of It Hpoeliilly that In
tho Yakima river bnln In Wash
ington and In tho Hnako River lmln
I.. I. fU 1.1 ..... I... .1... tf..l... ' t.1..(.ln'
BlatoH Reclamation aervleo. Assist-1 Tho guard organisation will bo or-i0"1 for cncr"1 hrk, no wnsn
anro him boon rendered by tho Unit-, gnnlxitd an follow: Tho citizen ol-1 , . , . , ,
ed Ht.it.. Weather Hurenu .nd the dim of OMo. Kentucky , Indian,., 1,,rf ,for KcncrnI orU
Unltml HtnloH KiikIuo.ii Corp. MIcIiIkihi, llllnol and Wont Virginia P".r ,
Value of Htmiiii uimliiK. will Join the repliant nt Fort Hen .J ?w ,
The inenHiirment of river flow to lliirrlon at Indlannpollti early In 8"p- n ! , v? ' ,'sr','l ..,n rn .,
.1..l..r,..l II,.. t :.rt.. S.,i.il,r- Tlw, T,.rn ..r,.,.,.lrnMo- will U,UJ rn,1C" "nllU' POr inOntJ'
r " : .: :"zr . nmi board.
wuiwr iivnmuiK iiir uariKiiiiou, wamr pm ii riwui ni i.vun ojiri. ca. ii'xnn, ;
water available for nuvlijnllon, water, AubumI IRj The ICnnnau, Missouri,
I.., . i . . H...a tr,....i....... .... ..I... ....... ...ii, i
irrigation on uoen ror mnny yrnim town, ..u. ...,M,,.m,u. k...,.m,l 'Mnn nnd wif , ,
a part of tho work of the uololcl ,ibllo nt Ft, Jllloy, Kanww, dur-, "'JJj J; ' h",St am
nurvey. rno great imitation pro- mik aiikiii:i; ine coiorajo nun umii
toKutber with tl'o Wyoinliig and
Mouth Dnltotn roRlmcntu will hhkpiii
nt Ft. I). A. miHHoil, Wyoming In
July; at Atnorlciiu Lake, Waslilnnton
tho Montana, North Dakota , tho De
partment of Lolumliln. July 30; nt
One ranch hnnd, $40 per month nut
bonrd.
Jontx of tb t.rld Voit bml their In
toptlon In the Hiirvoy over twenty
yearn ago, by lultattvo and tho per
Inrlty of Director John W. Powell:
nud tho work of draining Rwamp
IhiiiIn, If dortnkeii. will Inlbit tho
aid of tbo government' topogrnpher Matiratk'ro, California,
and bydrogrnphor.
Klglily-tluve Sti-i'iinm Menmired
, tho Arizona, Nevada and California
regiment will nHnemblo during Aug
Tho report juat publlhcd give tho Wisconsin guard will go Into camp
record of flow nt 127 gaging ta-,at Sparta, Wisconsin, Bcptomber C
tloiiN on S3 river and creek; nlrjo and ,tho Iowa and MlnneBOti regl
record of tho Htago of water on ment may bo- dlvertod from Fort
four lake. Tho stream monxiired Ulley to thin camp; tho now govern
dlffer greatly In lzo, rouging from Ment maneuver grounds at Pino
mnll creek on the Flathead Indian Camp, New York will bo used by
KoKervallou In Montana to largo rlv- Maln, Now llatnpnblre, Vermont Now
er. Including tliv Columbia. Theo!York, Conno-tlcut and Ithodo Inland
Btronma drain arenn of rMdcly differ-j troop; tho North Carolina, South
ent character nti umy lie "mi by Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Ueorgla,
Shccphcrder. $35.
f hnmlicnniimid, out, 2f.
HOMESTEAD' RELINQUISHMENT
140 aorcs, price $400.
100 neros, nriee $350.
WANTED.
California, 'n" wife, no children, woman. .
nRSIHI.
25 Ranch hnnds.
Chambermaid, out, $25, room and !
bonrd. j
Shoophordor. ono UBcd to lambing. ,
Hnvo you honio cleaning, enrpet i
nig to clean, chimneys to clean r
nny othor work, hour or dnyt I :
can furnish you tho help; also
Ruitv cleaned and pressed.
E. F. A. BITTNER,
208 Taylor & Phlpps Big. Phone 4141
Something to Investigate
and Consider
50 acres of the best soil in the valiev. lo
catcd 4 1-2 miles from Mcdford and 1 1-4
miles from shipping station.
5 acres planted to Bosc pears 5 years old.
2 acres peaches in full bearing.
22 acres pears and apples 1 year old.
13 acres alfalfa.
Balance of land ready for planting,
waste land. 1
No
Fine building site; good -water; splendid
location.
If this interest you, we will be glad to give
you full Information and price.
J. W. Dressier Agency
West Main Street.
$150 AN ACRE -270 acres, foothill land, about 6 miles from Mfld
ford; there aro about 85 acres on this place how planted to frwH,
which includes about 20 acres in bohrinjr. The benriiif? vrtriettes
nro Newtown and Spitzonborfr apples and Comloo pears. There
nre 2) ncres of Newtowns in their socond year with poach iillera
and about 0 ncres of Newtowns just planted; also 20 acre of
jonntrmns and 10 ncres of Hartlott and Anjou pears just planted.
About 200 acres of first-class fruit land on tho plnco. Thore are
many springs on tho plnco and considerable wntor could be do
voloped for irrigation; two houses, good barn and othor bnlldinjc.
Would subdivido nicely. Easy terms.
$2500 Sixty acres, 0 miles fromMedford, about 15 ncres cleared and
partly planted; small building
$250 AN ACRE 70 acres, about 1 miles from Modforrf, free soil 25
acres planted to Nowtown and SpitzenKon? apples, mostly 3 years
old; in addition, about 25 acres under cultivation, balance easily
cleared; good new 0-room plastered house, new barn; also set of
old buildings. Could be subdivided into two or three tracts nicely,
easy terms.
$5500 Six miles from Mcdford, good new buildbfrs, about 8 acres
pianiea to Wewtowns, Spitzcnberffs and pears, 1 and 2 years old?
about 7 acres additional cleared, balance not hard clearing;; good
team, wagon and machinery gCB w,tn tn8 place. This ta a 40
ncro tract.
$275 AN ACRE Seventv ncrea of level land within a mll 1 t.1
of the city limits of Medford; first-class fruit land; priced at I
least 5j0 an acre less than anvthinir in the vielnltv: ooad hmMiner.
Would subdivide nicely.
$12,525 Eleven acres in Cornice pears, 10 years old 9 acres in Bart
lett and Anjou pears, 1 to 3 years old; close in; good soil; terms.
$12,000 Eleven acres in Cornice and Bosc pears, 14 years old; these
, , trees are in full bearing and will pay a good income on the price
asked.
$7000 Thirty-five ncres of black sticky, 3 miles from Medford, all
under the ditch and can be irrigated.
$13,000 Thirty-two acre, close to Medford, 8 acres in Newtowns
and Spitzenbergs, 5 to 7 years of age; 14 acres in alfalfa, 3 acres
fp peaches, 2 ncres in berries; irrigated; buildings.
$14,000 Thirty-five acres; buildings; exceptionally fino place for a
home; 12 ncres in apples and pears 3 years old; about an acre of
bearing orchard; 11 acres in alfalfa; all fino deep free soil.
$150 to $200 PER ACRE Stewart acre tracts; 2 miles from Medford;
tracts aro from 10 to 25 acres in size; fine building spots on all;
can all be irrigated; cheapest tracts in Medford neighborhood; easy
terms.
$300 PER ACRE Finest 5 and 10-ncre orchard and garden tracts in
the valley; easy terms.
W. T. YORK & CO.
r. Hansen iIM Moffat
t i. maki nay mm k ana sn (- .it windows. "Wh carry
glass of any size on hand.
Medford Sash & Door Co.
comparing tho barren divert of Cen
tral Oregon with tho heavily forest
ed lope of the Cm cad oh and Count
range, where tbo annual rainfall
In until o place exceed 100 Inches.
Irrigation in (lie Iteglim
In the region conldored In this
report tho Unltod State Reclama
tion Service hn roven projects tinder
rontitructlnn, covering nn Irrlgablo
area of 77C.000 acres, and has eight
project under consideration. Prl
vate capital In developing at lenat
MlKHl-nlppll and Tonneeneo regiment
will occupy tbo camp at Chlcknmu
gua uaod during tho Spanish War
atiHombly, early In July. Tbo date
and plnco for tho mobllzatlon of the
PemiHylvanta, Maryland, Delaware
Now Jcntey, Virginia and the Dlntrlct
of Columbia ha not a yet been dc
flnntely oct.
At overy camp tho regular form
tho military ilUctrld in wh?ch tbo
camp Ih situated will rotnaln la the
field for ono month and rill receive
twelve project under tbo authority , ono month of lntructlon. Tho raan-
of tho Carey act, tho largest, tho
Twin Fall project, covering an nren
of nearly half million ncrea, About
1,!iO0,OOA acre of land are under ir
rigation In tho northwest and thU
nren will bo more than riotiblod whon
tho project now under way nro com
pleted. Tho aucce of all these pro
Jeot depend primarily on tho ad
oquney of their water supply.
Water I'ower
The water power available In thin
folgon I very grent. The Htrenmn
draining Into tho north Pacific ocoan
will furnloh nt low water over 12
million horHopnwor ono third of tbo
total of the United State.
Homo Long Hct'ord
Mont of tho record of stream gag
ing given In thoHo report covor only
1007' and 1008, but record at Clark
Fork, at Newport Washington, Juat
below I.nko Pond Orlolle, cover six
years; horo on Wlllainetto river at
Albany, Oregon, covor olghtoon years,
tlioao on Columbia rlvor at Tho
ouvers nro oxpected to arrouae popu
lar Interest In tbo military arm of
tho government.
TO
INCREASE SIZE OF
MONSTER BATTLESHIPS
LONDON, Mnr 18. According to
Hear Admiral Hecon today, battle
ship to bu bnllt In tho near future
will be nearly fifty per cent Inrger
than tho mounter fighting vessels of
thu proBont.
Rear Admiral Hccon, who wns tho
commander of tho first Dreifdnought
of the English navy, stated further
that tho enlargement of tho ships
nnd tho power of tholr guns must
nocoHsarlly Increaso until war con
firms or modirioo tho theory af naval
construction.
CimiCl) WITHOUT A KNIFE.
About olght years ago, attor hav
Ing conoultod tovoral physicians who
failed to euro my wlfo, 1 callod In
GILT EDGE
INVESTMENTS
88 acre fruit Innd 3 miles out; 50
acre poara, 1 to G years old; all
under ditch; a good investment; $22G
per aero; good torms.
14 acres, apples, Nowtown and
Spit; nice 6-room houso; modern
Improvements; ono mllo out; 12,
C00; caBy torms.
Mco 7-room bungalow; 5 rooms
finished: 100x108 foot lot; nice oak
ahndo trees; high lot; a dandy homo
buy; onry $2350; ?500 will handle it.
ONE ACRE of fino land, half sot
to 5-yoar-old fruit; nlco 6-room
houso; cast front; cloao to Main at.;
only $3600.
A fino corner lot GOxlEO, Improved,
Juat off or Oakdalo; a snap at $1000.
Tako a look at our Ross Park lots.
Thoy aro A No. 1; only $350; terms
to suit you.
Nice 8-room bungalow, all modorn 1
conveniences; best resident district '
In city; close, to Main street; only .
$4500; torms; lot 60x200.
LET US SHOW YOU.
128 East Main.
Wright 6 Allin!
DRIVERS: that know the country
BIGS ihat cover the. country
QUICKfclr AND WITH COM- MTT TO YOU VHE AJ.WJrS TO UK k
FOCNn A1 TIIK
FARLOW & DOWNING, PROPRIETORS.
WEST SIDE STABLES
PHONE 3431 . 8. GRAPE STREET
A SNAP IN ORCHARD LAND
Ono hundred and sixty acres of free red soil, 10 to 30 feet depth;
two wells, about 25 acres cleared; a very gradual south hill slope;
one-half mile from postoffice, lees than one-fourth aiile from school
and soven nnd one-half miles southwest of Jacksonville. Only 20
per acre. Call on or address j
i
JOE THOMAS
222 SOUTH HOLLY STREET. MEDFORD, OREGON
128 Ean Main Street
A.L. VROMAN
PLUMBING;
J3team and Hot Water Heating.
All work guaranteed. Prices reasonable.
I. P. MOORE AND' E. E. SMITH
Dalle, Oregon, covor thirty year. Dr. lllng, Chinoao Phyotclan, 725 J
The Columbia Ir tho larnet rlvor stroot, Sacramento. Aftpr making an
wIioho dlKchargo has boon computed examination bo pronouncod It n case
by tho Geological Survey and tbo ro-'of abscess of tbo bowolo, for which
'cord at Tho Dalles Is tho lowest on bo successfully accomplished n euro
mo report, in viow or t no tmnor-, w tnout a Kniro. About a year aco
tanco of long rocords In .a' general
study of run off nnd Htronm flow
UiIh record will bo of groat value to
tho engineers of tho country.
Flood Flow of tho Columbia.
Teh maximum flood of tho Colum
bia occurred In Juno, 1801, wheji tho
croBt dlHchargo nt Tho Dalles was
1,380,000 socond-foot nbovo tho
mnxlmum drachnrgo of tho Ohio at
Pad u cah and nonrly tho maximum
recorded flow of tho Mississippi b'e
low nil Jts largoat tributaries. Tho
porlod'of low wator Ih In Docombor
nnd Jnnunry. Tho lowest discharge
on rocord 18,500 uecond-fout oc
cured In January, 1888,
Tho damago by floods In tho Unlt
od States oxcood $100,000,000 annu
nlly and any project of stronm control
must bo basod on an aeurato know
lodgo of stroam flow,
Tho roport Juat published covers
410 pagos and can bo had without
charge by applying to the Dlreetor
of tho Burvoy at Washington.
ho also trontod bor for l oi.rt troublo,
with which ho had tho samo succocs,
Some tlino back ho cured mo of n
caso of kldnoy troublo. Anybody want
lag any roforoucos can addross mo at
538 Ouk avonuo, orAntolopo, Sncra
monto coun'y.
T. J. ATWOOD.
January 8th, 1910.
PLUMBING & HEATING
CONTRACTOR ,
No job too small, none too!
large. Tweuty-fivo years''
practical experience.
OFFICE
113 SOUTH FRONT STREET.
t Old Tribune Building.
Phone ,931.
SUMMER EXCURSIONS EAST.
Tho Southorn Pacific cpmpany will
noli oxeurclon tlckots to oastorn
points nt reduced rates on tho follow
ing dates: May 2d and 0th, Juno ?d
nnd 17th and 24th, July 5th and 22d,
August 3d and Soptcmbor 8th, going
limit ton days, total limits 00 days.
Rates to Missouri Rlvor points and
return $00,00; to Chicago and return,
$82,40. Fo- furthor Information call
nt local ticket c'flco or adlrosa A, S.
Roaonbaum, Local Agont Southorn
Paolflo Co.
Ilaskins for Health.
BuMy - -
Robes - -
FINEST ASSORTMENT OF
BUGGY ROBES IN THE CITY.
Single Harness
Now Is the time to food Man
hattan Stock and Egg Foods.
Horses shed coats and look splen
did. Egg Supply Will Increase-One-third.
J. G. Smith
814 EAST MAIN STREET;
MORTGAGE LOANvS
Money on hand to loan on Heal Estate. City and County
Warrants bought. Fidelity and Indemnity Bonds Furn-
isnea. i-ire insurance.
JAMES CAMPBELL 1
Phono Mala 51231. 0H Fruitgrower' Hunk Rulldlngl
For Sale - - - -
Splendid Bargains
Piecre, Shepherd & Co., 128 East Main Street.
A 5-room house, porches, plastered, modern, large
"barn, xroodshed, new buildings; price $2500 and
$1050 t?an remain one year at 6 per cent. Lot 50x168
feet.
Three-fourths of an acre, South Central avenue,
with building; easy terms, $1600.
A 6-room bungalow, modern, maple floors, an extra
good buy, $2000; North Riverside; $1000 can remain
on place.
A fine bungalow in Queen Anne addition, $2100;
5 rooms, bath, electric lights, fireplace, cobblestone
foundation, corner lot.
Can also sell you two as fine homes as there are in
the city, one $5000 and one $6000. Come to office and
Jkt us show you these special bargains.
"We also have good buys in ranches and small tracts.
Pierce, Shephard & Co.
128 East Main Street.
I
RESOLVED
Th best resolution for you
to make is to come to us for
your next suit, if you want
something" out of the ordinary
We do the best work and charge
the lowest prieea.
W, W. EIPERT
THE PBOQKfcSSrVB TAEOOK
CHI n!KT RATFQ
T0 OREGON
GREAT NORTHWEST
Tho management of the Southern Pacific Co.
T N 1 .
twines m uregon; raices great pleasure in an
nouncing that the low rates from Eastern cit
ies, which have done so much in past seasons
to stimulate travel to and settlement in Ore
gon, will prevail again this Spring DAILY
from March 1 to April 15, inclusive.
PEOPLE OF OREGON
Tho railroads have dono their part; now it's
up to you. The colonist rate is the greatest of
all homo-builders. Do all you can to let east
ern people know about it, and encourage
them to come here, where land is cheap and
home-building easy and attractive.
PARES CAN BE PREPAID at homo if desired.
Any agent of tho road named is authorized to "
receive the required doposit and telegraph
ticket to any point in the East.
REMEMBER THE RATESFrom Chicago, $33;
from St. Louis, $32; from Omaha and Kansas
City, 25. This reduction is proportionate
from all other cities.
WM, McMTJRRAY,
General Passenger Agent Portland, OrtfM