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MEPffOftP MAIL TRIBUNE, EEDFORD, ORKOpy, SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1011.
AND ITS EM OF BIG BUILDING
TJboriving City Where Five
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Millions of Dollars Is
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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.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)
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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.
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