If K;f - PSGE TWO "v'r vsnut&mjpm MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1911. BIG WHEAT 'Wins Bountiful Rains Fall in Northeastern .Oregon Insuring Immense Crops- No More Rain is Needed at Present Say Farmers. itxtixm iiiiipiiiiM.aMi .m.i.himh m WALT..A WALLA, Wash., May 13. Tho bountiful rnlna which have fallen In northwestern OrcRon nnd pastern WaslllnRtbn tlurlnjr tlie lHBt two ilay politically InRurcH an Immenpo whc.it crop thin autumn. Tlio fall wheat hau an excellent stand wlillo tlio HprlnK sown Brain Is fulrly BhootlnK from tlio ground ih a result of tho lieavy preci pitation. Farmers today declare that no more rain Is needed or for tliii present. X90JBXIS BOT ELECTED BTUDEHT BODY HEAD TJNIVEltHITY Or OltEOON, 12U OKNn. Or., May 1?. As n result of th annual Hludent body election, held May 10, L. Leqn Hay of Ktiftunn was elected president of the student body; Itnpliuel QeUler of Portland, vice proHldent; It. Burns Powell pf Portland, editor of the Orepon Ememld; Corln Ocgarmnrle of Portland, ;dltor of the Oregon Monthly. Those successful fpr minor offlccH are Allan Hoborts of Kugene, manager of the Emerald; lulxh HukkIiih of Hood Illvor, manager of tho Monthly; Miss Birdie Wise of Astoria, secretary of Htu dent body. Hlgn Hchool utliloteH, vltdtorH and alumni aro arriving today to purtlcl patpiln the Junior week end. This year's list ,of evqnts Is better and inoro novel thun any previous wttek end. Now fea tures of ununual Interest urn the Inter sc9)astlo (rack meet, In which 28 high schqol atul 42p athletes have entered, and flic canou and water carnival on the mill race adjoining the campus. Satur day, the annual trl-stutu track meet will bo pulled off In Eugene between the universities of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The meet promises to bo close and Interesting between Oregon and Washington. Tho Week end will be brqilgltt to a grand finale by tho Junior prom Saturday evening. Electricity In Packages TJBBBMBBMBMBBBBM YSBTSKDA.Y'8 BOOBBS. Coast Xag-ua. At San Francisco It H 13 Ban Francisco ...., 17 11 2 Poftland . .., ,...10 1G 2 At Sacramento II II K Vornon 8 7 1 Sacramento C 9 3 At los Angoleo R II II Oakland 2 11 2 Loo Angeles 1 0 1 . national League. At Boston It Pittsburg 0 Boston ,.., 3 At Brooklyn ... It Chicago ...,,.,,,.,.., f Brooklyn i At Now York It Ht. Louis C Now York 19 At Philadelphia Cincinnati Philadelphia ... American League. At St. Louis It Philadelphia 7 St. Louis 0 At Detroit It Boston is Detroit U At Chicago H Washington 11 Chicago ,,,, C OB. B, X. PEARSON'S BVLEB TOR A LONO LirE Tirol of all, keep tho Ten Command ment and you cannot go far wrong Oct plenty of lee one cannot work without plenty of rest. Cut out wrong. It Is u health de stroyer. Eat moderately of plain, wholesome fo6J, and above all, eat regularly God gave us nil the fresh ulr wo cun uso for nothing; limkti use of It. Bo calm Of all pPaco destroyers Ill temper li.' the greuteht. Attend strlotly to your own business Never bo so bUBy some ouo has to do It for you. Bo honest; It pays In tho long run Drink, water when thirsty; It costs nothing and egrets with tho stmnaeli (In Alrll Dr Pearsons celebrated the 91qt anniversary of his birth ) OKLAHOMA IB INVADED BY 300,000 OATTLE NELOOANY, Okla., May 13. Slnoo the mniiiio or April tho nnuual Inrush of cattle from tho Texas ranges has been mining to tho imstures of tlio Omitt Cherokee and Creek nations pastures which cattlemen ussert to bo tho best In the world for fattening purposes This season not fewer than 300,000 cattle, worth more than $10,000,000, hae beqn brought In on long Wains a sin glo train sometimes contains us many n 40 cars, carrying from 1200 to 1(00 cattlo, a freightage worth J35.000 or 140,000 standing on hoof In tho pastures Despite a severe drouth In th range country fo rtwo years, tho cattle nro In much better condition when they roach Oklahoma than they have usually been In 'other years. i Stray Hog Oeti License. ..FOHEHT anoVE, Or.. "May 13 rar est (Irovq spgrtspien nmilo up a purse to ge a llcenso for Orphan Boy, a bobtail dor whjch tramps tho country. Ho has nojmuator. When hero last year he took a liking to the college boys and several tliiuB took part us a mascot In tho ii rades to advortlse the athletic contests, Tho otlier day ho returned to toyt ana II. I Decker started a subscription fufjd to get tho dog a II. SO license that hefmlght enjoy his freedom while within tho" corporate limit". ( Many Want Water. TjVlth their ditches full of water, the Itogue Blver Valley Canal company Is reeelvlng many application for wuter rlg-lits. In tho past two dan several tracts have been spoken for. among them bejnlf an 80-acre traot owned by Dr Flpkel, on the ICagle Point road, uud u 4oacre tract of the Snowy llutto or chtrd. owned by Xr, Hopkins In audi tlon to thw threJre numerous smaller tracts of 10 nd JB heir alreudy using thu with wMH mwtit vork dlichlng the water iq oifwr rpvt 1 ii Hi, ' If it wore practicable tor a liousowife to J)iiy u pack ago of electricity, wo would need no city franchise to deliver our product. Wc would not have to make a large investment in street mains, service Avires, and meters, nor would wo have to employ a i'orco to inspect and read the motel's. Under these conditions we could sell electricity at a much lower price than we now sell electric service. Were it possible to handle electricity in the way that groceries and coal are handled, we could install an electrical automobile express larger than the largest trucking concern in this city for a ridiculous fraction of the cost of our distributing system. But forced to accept certain things as they are, we have to invest more money in our electricity distribut ing equipment than for our generating apparatuses. SELLING SERVICE "We sell more than electricity. We sell electricity plus delivery and the two combined are covered in the term "electric service." This service diffei's very much from the delivery department of a mercantile house or dairy. It is constant eveiy one of the 24 hours and 3G5 days in the year. It is at your command instantly for the case of sudden sickness, in the early hours of the morn ing as easily as it is for the operation of household ap pliances and the motors and for supplying iwwer to fac tories. It is a service that must be prepared at any and all times to be sufficient to the greatest simultaneous demand. Everyone appreciates the fact that many more, electric Jninps are in operation from five to eight o'clock in the evening than during any other period of the day. It is also apparent that the darker and shorter the day the heavier will be the consumption of electricity. Our generating plant must be large enough to care for the. maximum demand of the shortest and darkest day in the year and also to provide reserve at such times for possible accideut or emergency at the plant to in sure continuity of service. This means that during nost of the time throughout the year three-fourths of our plant stands idle. wh we use the streets There is no way of transmitting electricity for (he ordinary illuminating, power and heating SERVfCE of commerce to places where it is used except through wires and cables. Electric service is needed in homes, stores, offices, churches, factories, on the streets and many other places. The delivery of electric service necessitates tho stringing of wiros and cables through the entire city and occupying a small amount of space either under or over practically cvovy street and many alleys. There is only one alternative to the uso of the pub lic highways for distributing electric service; namely, tjie purchase or lease of private right of way. Such purchases or lease holds would double, triple, even quadruple tho cost, of the distributing system. Tlio cost of interest on investment and taxes of pri vate rights of way would have to be included in the cost of service. Tho peoplo own the streets to use them. We use the streets in order to sell electric service at a much lower price than we would lie forced to charge if our wires and cables were laid or strung on private rights of way. FORCED INVESTMENTS, The manageiyof an electric generating plant has no better means of'seeing into the future (Jiaii any other citizen. At the same time, he is compelled in building and extending his property to make ainple provisions for the future as well as for the present. The manufacturing capacity of an electricity gen erating plant can always be enlarged by ADDITIONS, but unless a distributing system is laidout with liberal estimates for tho future growth of the city, it; may be necessary to reconstruct it long before it is worn Out. Such reconstruction adds excessively to the capitaliza tion of the property and the amount which must bo earned to pay interest on the investment. Therefore, every properly constructed electric serv ice property for many veal's contained a distributing capacity much greater than current demands called for. This at first thought seems expensive, but in the long run it is in conformity with the best public policy. IK AN OKD1NAKY MANUFACTURING ESTAB LISHMENT receives orders in excess of its capacity because of a specially prosperous condition, it may re fuse the business it thinks to be of a temporarv nature and will not warrant the expense of enlarging the plant. AN ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY must meet the demands for its service whenever they arise, and must make the necessary investment for extensions, ad ditional generating machinery, etc., regardless of what ever.it considers the demands permanent or temporary. It has no choice whatever in deciding questions of this kind. AN ORDINARY MANUFACTURING PLANT m dull times, can turn out and store products for sale in good times or may shut down altogether. An electric company cannot possibly operate on this basis and must maintain an efficient sei'vieo always. COOPERATION We think we arc justified in asking the co-operation of the public to the extent of holding toward us a friend ly spirit and considering our problems and dealing with .personal and municipal questions which affect us. The co-operation we desire is not the kind that would perform our work for us or lift our responsibil ities from our shoulders. Rather it is tho same appre ciation and encouragement which is accorded any wor thy commercial enterprise whose labor and ambitions help to make the city great. 'The city cannot get along without utilities. Nor can the utilities exist without the city. They are mutually dependent. An electric company that does not do its utmost toward developing its city is working against its own best interests; likewise, a community which fails to co-operate with an EFFICIENT public service com panv sacrifices its own welfare. On this point the RAILROAD Commission of Wis consin, an absolutely disinterested body, has said: "The relations between the cities and the utilities operating therein should be harmonious. There must be co-operation rather than agitation No one, it would seem, has anything to gain by the financial failure of public service corporations which are conducted and operated under ordinary or normal conditions. "Losses to such plants are, in the end, likely to re sult in both public and private injuries. It usually means poorer or depreciated service, which, of itself, is a very important item. METER CHARGES At the time the Rogue River Electric Company leased the electric plant from the City of Medford. the City, in some cases, required the customer to purchase the meter and in other cases charged a monthly rental for the meter, in addition to the minimum charge of $1.00 per month. For this reason, the Rogue River Electric Company adopted the city's plan of leasing the meter to the cus tomer by the month and did not require the customer to purchase the meter. Tho franchise granted the Rogue River Electric Company permits it to charge a minimum of $1.00 per month for electric current, and does not include the meter charge. The 25c monthly rental charged for me ters includes the repair of meters, and keeping them in an accurate first class condition, also the service of ex pert electricians day and night answering and attend ing to all trouble calls without extra charge. The Rogue River Electric Company has about 1200 consumer, and at the minimum charge of $1.00 for elec tricity and 25c per month meter rental, would ainout to $1500.00 per month. The Rogue River Electric Com pany expends for labor every month in operating the Medford Plant, over $3000.00. Hence it can bo readily understood that the minimum charge of $1.00 per month for electric current and 25c for meter rental docs not pay expenses, or even half expenses, and if the electri cal company did not receive a greater amount than this from some custoinors, then it would be unable to operate its plant in Medford. This is best illustrated by tho -fact that during the operation of the electric plant by the City of Medford it lost as high as $1000.00 per year, and for this reason the electric plant was leased to the Rogue River Elec tric Company. The City of Medford received from the Electric Company 5 per cent of the gross income, which amounts to over $3000.00 per year and is constantly increasing, in addition tho City receives a large number of Freo Street lights. The inhabitants of Medford are supplied with effi cient, modern Electric Service, unsurpassod and at prices lower than any town or city in the United States. The prices of all merchandise and products are con trolled by supply and demand or by combinations or trusts, and have largely increased during the past five .veal's. . The price of Electric Current is controlled by the Medford City Council as specified in the franchise, and is the same as it was five years ago, notwithstanding that the Electric Company is forced to pay far greater prices for labor, materials and supplies of all kinds. The world is suffering from too. much competition, too many non-producers added burdens to the labor er and producer. Corporate production and management is the most efficient and economical in the world, and when held in check br government, state or municipal, equitable supervision, economic pcricction will be near attained. The Rogue River Electric Company has already ex pended over one million dollars on its electric plant and extensions; new money brought into this country. The Rogue River Electric Company is now building an additional power plant at Prospect, Oregon, which will cost over one million dollars more and wilj insure to Medford and the Rogue River Valley, still more effi cient and uninterrruptcd electric service, more manufac tories and industries as yet unannounced. The Rogue River Electric Company pays more taxes than any concern in Jackson and Josephine coun ties except the Southern Pacific railroad. It is paying half of the cost of a bridge across Rogue river and many miles of road. It is always foremost in advocating public improve ments and enterprises and liberal in its cash donations for the general public welfare. Medford and the Rogue River Valley needs more manufactories, more industries, more payrolls, the life blood of prosperity. This means more capital, but cap ital is timid, and will not invest in a country unless as sured of protection. Medford and the Rogue River Valley are blessed with a climate unsurpassed in the world, a soil unsur passed in its fertility, boundless resources, which when developed will insure and maintain a city of over one half million people. The'peoplc make the city, the greater the harmony, boosting spirit and good will to both capital and labor, the greater the prosperity. COMPLAINTS It used to be good form in the utility business to ignore the word "complaint." The word has an un pleasant sound to managerial ears. "Information desk," "adjustment bureau" or "department of claims" were among tlio terms favored, and every ef fort was made to minimize the fact that the company ever received such a thing as a protest from a patron. Times change and so do the customers. We do not like the word complaint any better than you do, but we are frank to admit that in a business as large as ours some mistakes will happen and some imperfections oc cur. We know that vou realize this and will consider the MANNER in wliich we rectify errors, RATHER THAN THE ERROR ITSELF. We guard against defects and strive to prevent them to the best of our ability. When things go wrong with the electric service, we prefer to have you tell us im mediately and give us a chance to straighten them out instead of cherishing a grudge against- us and telling your neighbors about it. An overcharge or a delayed connection may be due to no conscious fault of ours, but the spirit In which we correct the mistake is the criterion by which you should judge our professed determination to render good service. Our employees are instructed to he as polite and willing to repair grievances as the manage ment itself, aid we believe as a body that they are. Tf, however, one makes a slip and temporarily forgets our duties to the public, you cannot possibly regret it anv more than we do. We are very desirous of giving good service and satisfaction to the public and are at your service da and night. During the daytime, call at our office, No. 21(5 West Main St., and ask for E. A. Duffum, Complaint De partment, or telephone Alain 1GS1, or Main 1402, or the uomo Telephone 1L'S-L. During the night, call Main 1-102 or P. F. Loder, Superintendent of Construction Phone 7379 Suburban; residence Central Point road. E. O. Stinson, Foreman, Phone G222 or 3003; residence, 1119 West Fourth. W. G. Medley, Phone 2752; residence 211 Genesee. U. h. Evans, Phone -1224; residence, 21 Genesee. A. L. Wright, Phone 27-11 ; residence, Fire Hall. S. Tl. Lewis, Phono 4091: residence 819 N. Rontiw A. L. Turpin, Phone 101 ; residence, Diamond Rooms. James McClaugherty, Phone 2751; residence South C St., Limits. G. P. Council, Phone 3992; residence 235 N. Ivy. Any inattention report to Dr. C. R. Ky . 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