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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.
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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
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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
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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 .
At your service,
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