Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 22, 1911, HOMESEEKERS' SECTION, Image 27

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Newspaper Page Text'Hf'P " """JF" "t -r 5 7 ?- -? i ' -1 rwwifrw'r-n s M ft MEPffOftP MAIL TRIBUNE, EEDFORD, ORKOpy, SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1011. AND ITS EM OF BIG BUILDING TJboriving City Where Five - - A JKL Millions of Dollars Is I. A.I V Being Invested Tbis Year. in Substantial. Structures January, 1011, finds Medford' maintaining its lend as the banner small city of the northwest. Postal receipts .show a gain over a year ago of over GO per cent. Bank clear ances and deposits nro nearly 50 per cent greater. More and coHllior buildings have been completed and aro undor vyay than over in the city's history. Railroad business has in creased in proportion. The heaviest pear crop in the valley's history was bhipped, realizing tho highest prices of any fruit in the eastern markets. Double tho quantity of apples pro duced a year ago were sent cast, while the U5.000 acres of young or chard show a most thrifty growth, and 20,000 additional acres arc be ing planted in the valley. j The new year finds tho Pacific & Eastern completed to Butte Fulls and the track laid into Medford. Other contractors nro rushing the extension of the Oregon Trunk down die Deschutes, across the Glamath cocuntry and the Cascades to a junction with it, thus giving Medford two transcontinental railroads and opening up an iinmenso timber dis trict to lumber manufacturing. The new year finds Medford with the best municipal water supply of any city in tho west, with n gravity system bringing water 23 miles from u souiee in tho snow-cupped senti nels of the Cascades, with pure water ample for a city of 23,000 people, ll iiuds Medford with a completed distributing system exceeding 20 .e oi cast iron mains and with . k (,egun on nine miles-of main tensions. I'ho new year finds Medford with nearly 10 miles of bitulithic and as phalt paved streets. New contracts totaling over 280,000 square yards of paemont, with curbing and gut .jring amounting to over a million d.iliurs, tho largest contract eVer ndo on the coast, is but 50 per cent completed. When completed, Med .jid will be the best paved city of ts size anywhere. The new year sees phenomenal i.ailding activity in the business and (111 i'c districts. It sees a com- ' palatini new depot of the Paoil'jc, costing $50,000, ii Oregon outsido of V t i .ue.s tho grounds graded preparatory i.jr; h witnesses tho com- tho fdO.OOO nntatorium and ..-. o-y of uniui-unionts, ihc linost tio of its kind north of San ciweo. h? i.ev year finds completed tho l rick block erected by tho irey Hardware company, .''.! cpi'fed bv (he r rrrr jjst Zirut- u i.ii-. tii- - . HH n it Ulna--. F- j i tM-itMyw J"" -t i . , -i . '7 - Tm iiL jHu-H-1-U-J4J-. lil-U-Aj-M-U-U. U-U--44-4-4-ti-W-U-4)- i HrH rir! " fl JLH f f I I u J 'm MJgiffiu soar WPB.W li.ViF, 1.11 iAnr-Tlll t'u v-.rllil I'll -J -li'i gj fSMwiiliniiiinT N r"! I "" " U-I.,. TV"1 I' "" '""' T? '!-: J-S-" "' ""1Z1 " ' ' l li " " b' " Lr nrf umui1 nnnTlPQ H PD T 1 ! r i 1 -A-v- "i i i 'tjl ' l ut iui .Mr ii-i, .MjIt u, j-jiij, nin - Sletct cost o.ooo laiMByf MMwBmtp&XmmiMMi xr ; Hpiscopal church, of the three-stoiy concrete building erected by the Hey brothers, of the three-.ctory whole sale store- elected by the Medford Grocery company and of the new pressed brick Davis block. The new yfear finds construction woll undor way on tho Medford Fur niture & Hardware company's fonr story reinforced concrete block cost ing over !j100,000, occcupying a quarter of a block; the babements completed for the six-story $100,- 000 Medford hotel, for the four-story 100,000 Page hotel, giving Medford two first class hotels and the best hotel accommodations of any Oro gou city, and the construction of the Hoot building, of tho two-story 80x 100-foot Mail Tribuno building, and several other structures, as well .is innumerable residences well under way. The now year will see the hoiCC tion of a site and construction pre parations under way for the new fed eral building, for which congress ha. appropriutsd $110,000; the erection of a $100,000 hospital at Medford In tho Sistoro of Providence, the crec tion of a $50,000 Masonic tempi eJ - and completion of a Fellows block. $30,000 Odd ! tlii (niniilo. . The new year finds tion of survo.NS, undor supervision I ot the gocnimout good uoad c.i- i ' dollars were spout in li'ilJJ I r viiion takoi a bond oar oi inaplo lum gineer. for an automobile bo'ihuud buildit-ir ; thin was thought enough bcr for l'lor.i- nlono. ..- ...- mi i inrrcr : i ,r-ll m i ' -"-jn n i JJl jJ i i i ,." ' 3 IW9 MCCHCB P3 j i i Jo- Ut - -Jt T iWrr-r ,. ' Fl P i ' I f l IIOTLL -SOW to Crater lako natijual park, the .s'cenic wouderhmd, and construe tion work under way on the most difficult Dortio'i of the road. Medford is growing by leaps and bounds. Yet, rapid as the improve ments are, they cannot keep pace with the demands. There is not now and has not been in five years i. vacant building or a house to lot. And Medford's future is brighter this year than over. Medford looks like a city .just built, torn down and rebuilt again. Streets are return up in ovcry di rection, huge piles of building mu aterial block the way and hundreds of men anil homo are at work on various private and public improve ments. Frame structures stand astride tho thoroughfares in tho coarse of their removal, from the business district, and cause a 'still greater detour of traffic. Tn every quarter buildings aro going up, cither for business or residence pur poses. Garages are to be seen on all sides. More than 400 automo biles are to bo cared for, find addi tional sale, are being made daily. Energy and activity arc rampant. the .Modlord spirit, alter the tie mendous operations of 1001). moiv'y took the second breath and went at ' ngi. Two and a half millions fq hjiiuiiiiiiititjixxtvtiixxeiif DEW on I II I imM i i S l.MJUl CONs'lltUTION IN MKDI'OltD Till; HOI'I.I, .MI.D1 Olll) M city .iust nas inir tho 7000 mark, but the retard for 1010, ju.-t closed is marvelous. Ovor $5,000, 000 was expended for various im provements. Truly an era of new building bus been reached, more be fitting tho ordinary city of 25,000, than one that has increased from 2000 to nearly 10,000 iu less than thrco years. The aggregate c,ost of the businet.s blocks completed and started dur ing 1010 is not less than $750,000. Nearly $1,000,000 is being expended in dwellings, and public improve ments represent ovor $500,000 moie. Roe rent ion is not lost sight of. One. of the largest nutntoriums in the United States is completed. It cost $00,000, and its composite featurns aro complete iu ovary detail. The Mvimming .pool, 50x100 !'et, w quired more lh.ui ton carload cement. Twenty carloads of hint- hoi' are used in this huge building and a w)ioe carload of sash awl doors was necessary to imo liuln access and egress. The dancing in --Si- - ' ' m i'-' "'' "in rl lMc Jj . -- - ' " , , - :wmam .NEW SOUTHfcTJW -PACIFIC DEPOT C03 $50,000. Census Shows Tho city of Medford nuido tho greatest per cent Increase In popu lation of any city In tho United Htutes with tho exception of Oklahoma City, during tho 10 years botween l'JOO and 1910. Sho Increased tho population from 1791 to 88-10 an In crenuo of .'Ifl.'l.C per cent. Medford at out ran he sinter clt , i in Orogo.i and I'inipod fr mi he- t 0 . l(Hn city iu t!e ralo to lie- Ing the 6th. The caniua bureau Kaiiuiincuw tlio poimlntlou of nil oitlea in Oregon, having a p pnlatlun of ovr B000, This Hat, .oliwlvo of Portland, fol- 'ews: PACE 1 III, I' (. HOII.h, BOTH I V TO 1) ittwm Gain of 393 Per City 1910, 19100 1890 Vshland H.OUO 2031 1781 - .rln . ... 9,599 8381 C18-1 linker City C.7I2 G0C3..2C01 RiiBono 9,000 323C Medford -U.8 10 1791 0C7 Salqin 11,091 4258 Cities hnvliif. n papulittlou of mor I .in 5000 cont rlhiilcil 5 5 por cnt o li ct.if ' toi'.l P'l'iousi of J." '',.'." In thv last utrode. Portland's 'u 'H'b n writ 81.6 per cont of t!je ton1 'nroaiio of ttoee cities, mid 36 per iu of o cUte' total. Statlctlcs chow ovuu eltloi of mora ll'iiti 6000, an luoroaxtt of four clneu 1 ii00. Mobt of DiHTii r1ioi'0(1 Inige In- ZOTSL, MEDFORD, ORE, ROWER I.RJSEVE3 ATI; HOVriCI.UlKS, wtss, n? Cent Ten Years cronao. Medford Heads tho list with 393. ii por cont; Eugene with 178.3 por cont; Portland with 129.2 por cont, mid Ashland with 90,5 per cent Nono of tho cities showed a loss. Business to .tho oxteut of over $:i,000,0l)0 has been bundled by tho local banks and the postoffico dur ing tho quarter ending Decembor 31, 1010. To koop paco with growing needs md to fucilitatu the handling of tho cily'a increased businobs, tho four local banks and the postoffico formed u clearing-houso assoeiatiou last August, agreeing to divide tho additional duties that such an insti tution required by handling it in turn for a week apiece. AHCK'T'd .&&ll . Sf i ii U I1 .,:w-i ' mmj?-'p5F&mji! " " L'