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lorn Tribune, established lsuti.
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vember 1. 1009. at. tho . .Dostof t Ico ut
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March 3, 1879.
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AVKRAC1K FOR YBAIt 1010, 2185
THE RECORD OF 1010.
MZDFOBD, OBS002T.
Metropolis of Southern Oregon and
Northern Callromla, and the fasteat
growlng city In Oregon.
Population U, S. census 1910: 8840;
estimated In November, 1910, 10,000.
Klve hundred thousand dollar Gravity
Water System completed, giving finest
supply pure mountain water and six
teen miles of street being paved and
contracted for at a cost exceeding $1,
000,000, making a total of twenty miles
of pavement.
Postofflce receipts for year ending
November 30, 1910, show a gain of Cl
per cent.
Dank deposits wero $2,370,632, a gain
of 22 per cent.
Banner Xrult city In Oregon Hague
niver Spltzenberg apples won sweep
stakos prize and title of
"AppU Xlnr Of tbt World"
at tho National Apple Show, Spokane,
1909. and a car of Newtowns won
Tint rrls In 1910
nt Canadian International Apple Show,
Vancouver, B. C. ,
Rogue River pears brought highest
firlces In all markets of tho world dur
ng tho past six years.
Write Commercial club, inclosing C
cents for postage for the finest commu
nlty pamphlet ever written.
Fifty Years Ago Sunday
Jan. 1.
Governor Sara Tlouston ("Old
San Jnclnto") wnrncd the Toxnn
pcoplo ngnlnst southern radical
ism, but while bis auditors lis
tened respectfully they rejected
his argument
Twenty-five Years Ago Sunday
Grovor iClcvcnnds first New
Year's In tho, White House ami
last In lonely bachelorhood.
THE OLD YEAR.
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jOlt year, just by tiio vnuoment, lioro
. -. r I ptand,
., c, And look without, on brightest
moonlit night,
And listen to tho rustic of tlio loaves
That in fair happy Bummer woio
so bright.
i Old, your, thoso withorod loaves that
pass with you i
J .Aro hopes, ambitious, lost amid,
: v tho strife,,
i As wo rush with tho torront ever on,
J And"'find no peaceful uitrront in
this life.
; Old year, kind words and friendship,-,
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jwu inn iiiiiiki
And these wo cherish ovor with
tho best,
Even amid lifo's striving nud turmoil,
As wo grope on to find tho light
and rest.
Old year, wo would not shun, but
- bravo tho path,
Yet, .tho' it wound our tired and
weary foot,
Wo doom you now a memory of tlio
past.
While wo, with brightest btnilos,
tho Now Year erect.
JUNE MAC MILIjAN OUDWAY.
INETEEN hundred and ten's record is briefly told
- in this issue, it is a record of enterprise, progress
and development unparalled in the history of Medford
and the Rogue River valley.
No city of the world of its size has done such an amount
of public and private improvement as has been crowded
into the past two years in Medford and yet rapid as the
city's progress has been, it has scarcely kept pace with
the valley.
Medford has spent $.377,615 for 8.I3 miles of pave
ment, with as much more contracted for, $74,000 for 18
miles of cement walk, $11G,'1J2 for sewers, $167,159 for
20.07 miles of cast iron water main, $275,000 for a gravity
water system, a grand total of nearly a million dollars.
A score of fine business blocks, a new depot and four
hundred residences have been constructed in the past
twelve months, and as many more are planned for the com
ing year tho total expenditures in improvements exceed
ing five millions.
Nineteen ten has seen Uncle Sam give Medford a pop
ulation in May of 8842, an increase of 092 per cent in ten
years, the greatest increase of any city in the Union save
one. It has seen postal receipts reach a total of $29,431.
,an increase of 54 per cent during the year. T.t has seen
bank deposits totaling $2,376,582, an increase of over 22
per cent, it has seen the number of school children" in
crease to nearly 1700. Jt has seen the number of Bell
phones increase from 650 to 1250 and an independent sys
tem established.
The dying year has witnessed James J. Hill acquire
the Pacific and .Eastern railroad, its completion to Butte
Falls, and Medford made the terminus of Hill's Oregon
Trunk line now under construction, affording another
transcontinental line to the east. It has witnessed the be
ginning of an extension of the .Rogue River Valley rail
road from Jacksonville towards the Blue Ledge copper
district, and other railroad development.
' Nineteen hundred and ten has also seen the beginning
of construction of the Crater Lake hidiwav. designed to
the
de
signed to accommodate the. tourist travel. It has wit
nessed the passage of an initiative bill by the people clos
ing the Rogue river to commercial fishing, adding to the
tourist attractions of the region the finest angling stream
in America.
The year now closed has seen the planting of an addi
tional 20,000 acres of commercial orchard, which will make
over 75,000 acres of planted orchards in the.Roguc .River
valley. It has witnessed the organization of a central
fruit growers'' exchange to handle'the business with profit
to the producer. It has witnessed the cstablisment of
brick and tile factories, the opening of granite and
marble quarries, .of lime deposits and a revival of the
mining and lumber industries. 4
Not only Medford, but every own and hamlet in the
valley has grown and improved. Expansion in all lines of
business, development in all branches oT industrv, the
opening up of countless latent resources is the order of
lite day.
Among the many movements initialed by the prog
'tfltFA iltwmtin I I ...li1.....! !. i1 1 .. MM J
A New Medford Planing MilL
$150,000 Saved on City Paving
:By the Present Administration
open up to tourist travel a scenic wonderland fcqual .to
Yosemite, and the commencement of three fine hotels
But Mayor Canon and Councilman
Weluh wore not yet untitled. From
what thev had hceu thov were satU
fiud that Jledford was entitled to
still lower prices. The council relied
on their .jmlKiiiciit and stood behind
them. All the bids were rejected and
new ones called for. Acuta the le.id
ncain
Prior to the present summer there
had heen for several years only t
iiivinc companies operatiuc in Orc-
zon. Ketween tllef-e two companies
there appeared to be .some sort of a
','entlcman's agreement. The city re
oeatcdly advertised for bids on pav
:iiC, but in 1 entity lllis wiih a need
less and useless lonnalily. 1 ho. pencils wore sharpened and
council kiM'w before the bids were there wns .some interct-t and excite
opened what tho price would be. ment,
Last hpriuc, wlien it became ap
parent that a large amount of pnv
inc would he demanded, iMayor
Canon and the council determined (c
sec if somethinc could not be done
to break this apparent combination
and cot tho citv's paving at lower
prices by securing real competition.
Accordingly Mayor Caimn and Coun
cilman Welch wero hem as- n com
mittee to California, from whence
had come many stories of chcnpiT
paving, The knockers called it a
junketing trip at the city's expense,
hat tho present administration has
never minded the knockers to any
great extent.
The committee .hiient some (imn in
California and talked witji most of
the responsible contractors there,
Their work was looked over and they
were told of tho large amount of
pavement to be done in Medford, and
several of them wore indijced id
come here and sulmiit bids.
The Oregon contractors, -when
they saw that-there was'to-bo real
competition, iiIm; KyUhiuf with their
lead pencils niid jylnui the time came
for opening bids, lli'erc .was, some 'in
terest and excitetn'entfor tho fir.it
time in the history of paving opera
tions in Medford. (
The bids wero opened and it was
found that on the work to be done
a saving of .18.".fl00 lind heen effect
ed. Quite a silisfactorv profit on a
junketing trip that had cost the citv
.fioO! Most men would have boon
satisfied with this showing and
would have let tho 'contract' to the
lowest bidder.
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Sells and Exchanges
Orchards FarmsRaw Lands
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FIRE INSURANCE
Z Best of Everything
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Southern Oregon Electric Co.
Fixtures, Wiring, Telephones, Motors, Supplies.
27 South Central, Ave.
The new year finds us equipped ready to do all
kinds of Electrical wiring and contracting. Call and
figure with us. (
When the bids were again opened
the wisdom of tho course that had
been pursued was apparent. The
new bids showed u still further sav
ing of $G7,000, or $150,000 in all.
This amount represents a sum equal
to the total amotlnt of taxes collect
ed for running tho city of Medford
for tho past five years, including the
payment of interest on the city debt,
and it was all saved on ono contract
hv one trip costing (ho city .$250,
and still the knockers knocked.
These same knockers will doubt
less sny at this time that this is
nothing more than any set of offi
cials would have dene: yet tho fact
remains that every citv in Oregon
outside of Portland had for yeas
beep patiently paying the price ih
manded by the Oregon companies,
and not one of Ihem had ever at
tempted to better the situation. It
remained for the present city admin
istration of Medford to soiure com
petition m-Orogon on paving and
bent down tho price. Other Oregon
cities have, however, profited by this
trip, and should in all fairness pay
Medford their share vf that $J.")dv
That trip of Mayor Canon and Coun
cilman Welch has resulted in a sav
ing of many thousands of dollars I .
Ashland, Grants Pass, Kospburg and
other Oregon cities on their paving
work diirini' tho past summer.
. Nearly nine miles of pavement
has been laid in Medford in the past
two years, nearly four miles of bitn
tithic and over five of asphalt. A
manv more miles aro contracted for
the coining season, alt of asphalt.
. . . For Pure Dairy Products See . 1
Southern Dairy Co.
South Central Avenue
Main 881 Farmers 7183
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A Specialty of Frozen Puddings, Dainties & Ice Creams
....Claud Miles....
REAL ES 1 A jlej
Producing Orchards, Large Undeveloped Tracts.
Exclusive Agent Eagle Point Townsite
Property.
For full particulars and information ahout in
vestments call at
128 East Main Street.
The principal disadvantage ol
duck shooting from an aeroplane, at
shown hv Aviator Latham's oxpoit
enco ut Los Angeles, is ttiat it is
rather awkward to stop and pick
birds up, particularly out at sea. If
tho aviator could contrive to catch
tho smitten ducks while they arc
falling, this difficulty would he obviated.
uM.fii.Wi, ui luiiium is me strenuous enorr ueingtlie Ictliargv so long prevailing in other parts of Oregon,
made to secure or the city lower railroad freight rates j What does the future held 'for Medford and the Rogue
to Alcdlord and distnlmtivc rates out of the city. Actions ttivor- vallev? Just as rapid progress as the past five;
anr pending hel ore the interstate commerce commission years. Development has onlv started. With the
aiu the state railroad commission to secure rates that opportunity afforded hv geographical location, with en
wtll enable the biiildmg up here of a jobbing center. A terprise and industrv and unitv of action, no reasonable
-U per cent reduction trom Portland has already been or- limit can he placed upon the growth of citv and eountrv
ucM- mm iiiougu appeaieu, win probably shortly go into Nineteen eleven will see 12,1500 population for Medford
e,tc;' . . i ,. , and 1915 should see 25,000.
.lhe development ol southern Oregon is not due to a (iod made the eountrv and expended His best efforts
boom, m any sense ol the word, but to steady and syste- on the Kogue River vallev. Man makes the town and
malic ei lort and enorirv an tin nnW nf i iiliivmiu H.. i...,i.,w. a :.....,. i.: i. ..:n i ..... ... -11.H..1 v
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iriut oL whose enterprise is each year becoming more ap- willed to make this a big citv an
parent. I he progress is rapid only when compared with i efforts to do it and we will.
d are expending our best
, Tho sorj of tariff commission the
standpatters want is one that will
borve. piovent ,any genural tariff
revision, and yet at tho same time
practically iiumompiish nothing and
bhclvo the whole subject. It would
bo.hettor to have no commission at
,ull than one of the kind tho stand
patter desiie.
Tho' fact that Alaska has Rained
only 1 per cont In population In the
Just 10 years would uoom to Indicate
that Homethlnt; needs developing up
there,
There arc now flvo Btatoa In which
tho women vote In others they'
merely control tho .votora,
Colonel nooHovolt has found IiIh
voice. MalofuctorB of great wealth
keep to tho right.
This ends tho open Henson for
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Official Map of
I Jackson County, Ore.
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Jackson County Abstract Co. Approved ami offl-
s dally atlopteil by tho county court, July, 1910.
Shown ownorshlp of each parcel of property,
township and section linos, county roads, forest re
serves, railroad grant, city and town boundaries
and all other necessary Information.
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X of Jackson county published in many years. Slzo
2 by 10 inches, on heavy map paper, tinned at
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ror ?2.:0, but will bo given away freo to subscrib
ers to tho Medford Mall Trlbuno.
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FOR ONK VKAU IN ADVANCK .-,.
uii run tjiij WKKKLV MAIL TRIBUNK
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Or got one now subscriber to tho Dally or two
now ones to tho Weekly, remit and wo will send tho
map.
Old subscribers may seeuro tho map by paying
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