Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 28, 1911, SECOND SECTION, Image 14

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Newspaper Page Textn't it ' V ". ltvi,i , ., -k , , -.'."W"" MEDFOTIU MATE TRIBUNE. MUOTTORTI. oTTCCIDtf. SUKDXY, MAY 28, loll. at', Adding $5,000,000 Annually to Material Wealth of Medford (Continued from rago 1.) for. You bco tho factory will have to keep mnnitij,' In order to inula them nil ft living. Now, each fiunilj iniiHt tnko $1000 n yenr off of each 10 nnrcH in order to live. This is wlmt nir.Ht bo earned in n iiinimfac turinj center in order to keep n fn ta lly coimortnuiy. So tln.s ojhmi rur factory spread over 7000 acres of land must produce annually $700',000 Will that not ho a irent benefit to the valley? Will that not add to the ma terial wonltli of Medford? Is that not HceuritiK n "pnyn)ll" which is wild to he. the rculcst need of the city? Ottier Fnct. Hut there are additional interest iiiK facts. This factory must pro duce n profit, not alone a livirnr for tho toilers within If confines. There must bo somethiuc to show for the year's work beside the money ex pended among the toilers for the year's daily endeavors. So here an figures to show what the profits will be, nnd thoy arc conservative. Each workman has 10 acres to care for. One of these acres we will re serve for his home nnd surrounding grounds for ho lives within this fac tory. That leaves us uinc ncre. This wo will plant to fruit which in five or six yenrs will ho bearing. In the menntima wc will plant small ganlen truck between tho rows of trees. These trees will require two ncres of ground out ot the 10 rows, of trees. First we will plant nn acre of strawberries. Actual demonstra tion has shown thnt an acre of straw berries will produce annually on this soil from $250 to $000, acconling o the age of the plants. We will aver age this and sny that the workman will make $430 from his acre of strawberries. Then we will plant two ncres of cantaloupes. These tracts Inst year produced $250 an acre but again we will be conserva tive and cut it in half. The two acres of cantaloupes will then pay $250. Now we will plant an acre of onions which will be worth at least another $250. Then n half acre of berries nnd how those gooseberries do pay I One man took over $800 off of an acre of these and says they were poor nthnt and this hnlf ncrc should pay $250. Then because the cannery wants them, we will plnnt nn ncre of tomatoes and from them will secure eight tons, which we will sell for $10 n ton or $80. Then we will plant an ncre of alfalfa for tho chickens nnd tho cow. And so we have : Acres. Product. Receipts. 1. 1. '2. I! i. i. now nt Meilford's gates will produce annually $1,582,000. Truly the se curing of this amount of added wealth will tremendously bono fit Medfonl. Now in addition to this the irriga tion project as is being completed by tho Koguc River Volley company, will place threp times ns much land of the same character as the com pany has in their Roguelands tract under cultivation. So their project ronlly means tho reclamation of 20, 000 acres of land which can bo made to produco no less than $5,000,000 annually. Unless these figures seem to he exaggerated I will quota a few in stances of production on the so called "desert.' Hrommer Hro., tho cantaloupe kings, Inst year off of six acres of cantnloupcs took $1500 net. C. Jr. Parker off of one-third of nn acre of strawberries took $003. .Joseph Stevens marketed straw berries April 14. He marketed three additional crates April 22, worth $7 n crate. R. A. Jones produced the first to matoes as tho tracts lie on high ground nnd produce early fruit. Kxprriracntal Gardens. In order to determine exactly what different vegetables and small fruits will do the company has established an exKrimental garden. They have planted two acres of tomatoes, five acres of Rocky Fords, one acre of nlfnlfn, four ncres of strawberries, which includes 32 different varieties in order to delermino the best, and 20 ncres of pears. Aside from this they have 1000 chickens, 700 turkeys, ful blooded cows, hogs nnd horses. Now here we are agnin to n familiar topic. Some one is just on the point , ot snouting "overproduction, borne lands tract nud consider the project of this company from an irrigation standpoint. Irrigation will bring Into cultiva tion tunny thousands, of acres now barren and bring into the vulloy thousands of hotnespekors. There Is no laud that with water cannot be made to produce sumo kind of n profJ uaoie crop. The average fnrmer in Oregon has nover appreciated the value of irri gation as a crop insurer. It mav not will cost $2,000,0110. It iH oonslsl of Fish lake and Four-Mile lake res ervotrs, having i combined storage capacity of 35.000 aorcs feet of water; n connecting canal between the two lakes, a diversion canal 1(1 miles in lyugth to bring the water from l.ittlo Rutin crook into thecal .ley; three main linos of distributing canals aggregating 100 miles in length, and 400 miles of laterals to convoy the water to tho hind. Iw l'rlco ou ItltilitN. , Notwithstanding the exacting con ditions that on vvoiy hand involve heavy expense, the company, roallr.- protecting hhcllur of tho nook nod cranny. Tho birds of tho ah tuo busied from tho break of' day to sol of sun in preparation of u place to hatch their young. The vorv fishes of the water seek tho protection of tho jagged rock. Why should not man then, more permanent in bin abode, strive to gatu proprietorship of a plot of ground? Hero Dio Feme, the over disap pearing Reyond will not call. The fixity of tho population will bo com plete so fur us the owners of these tracts will be coiicniod. Tho out bound trains will bear no discon tented. Here men will establish their micht be off vears "nnnsunllv drv. a-very Foothill lands are made hv water, "f wu'r ritf'tk to he -old. Pcrpot- more valuable than valley bottom land because freer from fro'-t. F.veil- tuallv in the progress of the vallev ual water rights aie now being old to the oouMimorit a price of $50 per acre, which is fur below that being every acre will be in demand and un- J'"''1 Ml0 motion as the Spokane tier cultivation, hence tho irrigation 1. . . 1 . l i . . I tit. t tut i ttMtvit I nt ti ts ni tit titnllt ttiiit' oo necueii a i year, nut it aiwavs ii"k " ''" " !" ".i .. , .... ., , .... ,... . .1 k . .. . (t, llin'lfiumn itvl.f vnllov bilk ulAi ) "v-'s aim iiye lueut out. imo inner- sures a good crop m what otherwise. the Koguc i ver nl , 1 ,..,, , .,.. Vl, wift , , ,.,.,. nrw price on ni nrsi niocKl. ,,: ,;v --"" " "- "ill nun l ll lit in nudiupH in IIIMUHI- tcivt. N'o siren of migration will "niug to him n siren Kong that ho ma.V be destroyed upon the treacherous reefs of Far Away. He who owns a home I The answer to thu prayer ho prayed will lie part ly hidden in the vines that will blos som at his door. The trip to thu ltoguelauds tract was taken Thursday by a half hun dred business men of the city, They are all boosting now for tho proMsi tion for they found n littlu something being done along lines worth while. They saw a great stretch of country which will rnipHirt 700 ftimilien. learned a little something about their own country about home. Tho trip wrisi n "hurrah" trip to encourage optimism. They found something worth while. project menus more for the Rogue river valley than any scheme yet un der wny. First Kffort Made. The first effort to provide a water supply for the valley as a whole u inaugurated about inn the Fish Lake Water valley, where a price of $175 and $200 per acre is quite common. Tho cost of the water right is payable in five annual instalments. ' The expenditure of approximately two and a half millions of dollars in developing these large projects means ..... .1 t. . 1) .. .... .u .. .11 ... V 1 inaugurated about nine years ago by,.,,,,.. -,u ...,,... ....,.., , i i ,. comimny. This I .., ,,,., U ' ,K. e ' ',' company constructed 10 miles of t. n( I()0a cin.llIn-ioi, of tll0 iunm canal and succeeded in bringing water into the north end of the val ley, but difficult construction and apathy on the part of landowners j m the matter of purchasing water rights prevented the further devel opment. After lying practically dormant for six years, the possibili ties of this project, through the ef forts of Fred N. Cummings were brought to the attention of Patrick WeJsh, n millionaire contractor, nnd R. K. Neil!, mining nud irrigation ojcrntor, both of Spokane. Company Organized. After mnking nn exhaustive exam ination of the old Fish Lake Water how that word seems to always be company's properties, these ..House $000.00 ..Alfalfa 000.00 ..Cantaloup's 250.00 . .Strawberrs 430.00 .Onions 250.00 Tomatoes ..... 80.00 Vi.. Berries 250.00 2V$..Trce rows, etc 000.00 10 S1.26Q.00 t This $1200 represents the profits. A?ide from, this the fworkman has made his living, estimated to cost $1000, fio that he has produced $22G0 from his 10 acres. Of course he has his chickens nnd his cow which al lows him to practically "feed him self" on tho place, Now tor FigHrcs. Seven hundred workmen arc doing this snme thing. So the big factory the Inst resort of the pessimist Here is tho nnswer: Garden Truck Needed. Records of tho Southern Pacific freight department nt Portland show that within the past GO days about 40 cars o potatoes have been shipped into the stnte from Minnesota. If reports received by the railroad can be relied upon it is anticipated that the total movement before the new potato crop reaches necessary pro portions we will have imported nt least 75 more cars from the some source, 'I.'' In addition to potatoes many cars of onions were shipped into the state. Over 200 carloads of batter eggs and poultry were received this winter from tho middle west at Portland, two or three cars of which came on to Medford but a much larger ton noge' moved to this point in smaller shipments. So there seems to be no I immediate danger of any overprodu !- tion of vegetables and small fruits, for berries of all kinds are in heavy demand throughout the season. Hood River grows strawberries but tne berries grown on .these tracts are fully a month earlier, which means reaching the market first when bl prices prevail. President Kerr of the Oregon Agricultural college recog nized the need of small fruit "nnd veg etable growing recently when he urged the. planting of tljcm between trees nnd cited instances of returns from vegetables nnd berries ranging from $200 to $600 an acre. Now Ift us turn from tho Rognc- inen with their associates organized the Rogue River Valley Canal company, larger part of this great amount of money, but, the assurance of our fruit I crop and the great addition to our population resulting from tho thick .settlement of our idle lauds means u grout increase in the general volume of business in the future. Hut let us turn from tjic advant ages which will accrue to Medford from this great proposition and con sider it from the stnudoint of the man who takes un one of the com pany's 10-ucrc tracts. Tho price has been so arranged that any man of moderate means mny secure one. Ho then owns his own home. The Home Owner! What advan tages in civilization arc not his? Whnt secret of tho soil, what mys- I. (. (. K, NOTION, i Monday evening, May ISO, election of offkorit, All mombuiH of Mod font UuIrc, No. 811, roiiuented to bo prOKOtit, My order of tho noble grand, , f8 W. t.. MIMilOU, Heit. Look at thu classified nils if you havo lost something and If tho finder hasn't advertised, you ndver-Use. BETTER DRESSED FRIENDS You hoo your frtomlti looking bet tor drcHHCtl than you do, Huh It in curicil to you thai their clothes liavo been clciiuod and iiickniuI by un? Try It ou i)(un ot thu olothoH you luivo itlncai'ilcd, and you, too, will bo ad mlrml, l'ANTOUIlIM OYlfl WOHKH. j)i.l SPKClAr. STANDARD HLKKPKI18 On Juno nth and Juno 7th tickets will be sold at a faro and a third to and on July 1, 1010, for n cnnsider-ltery of the growing plant has lie not anon oi $.uu,uu(; purchased the en tire interests of that company. The irrigation system to be built by the Rogue River Canal company solved x wnal stronger turenil In wnrp or woof of life than ownership of land of roof and hearth? The bensts of hficld fight for the Portlnml ami return for the Hoao Festival. A standard sleeper for Medford people will leave on first section of No. 1G on tho Cth and another on tho 7th. KesorvntlonB can now be mndo by calling, writing or phoning tho passenger depot. Pacific 341. Home 34. G(J ONE MORE WEEK Of slashing at Kdmcadjs Brothers' Shoo Store. j.i.xS EVENTUALLY YOU WILL TRADE AT TaggjP- n.i SSr" The Man That Dresses j Well Wants Clothing of jj Unquestionable Character. .... c "' THE TOGGERY Medford's Best Clothing House WHY NOT NOW? X CLOTH INCI inadt? over Convrt Mod els. Clothing made of pure wool, steam shrunk fahries. CLOTH I NCI built to hold its shape. You hwi secure, tho COUHKCT STYLh) and proper fit in Kuppenhcimers Hand Tailored Clothes for $20, $25, $27.50 $30 and $35 il i I i ! T h e " .' Golden Rule -- ! ! Men's Popular Price Clothing, $8.00, $10.00, .$12.50, ; ; $15.00 and $18.00. 4HM4HHM4fMMM000000lMHHHefMMMf4HM44MHt04MM NtH THE BIG CLEAN SWEEP t - v. . W ? . . h -V.v FIRE SALE W :. f v. n v -'vv .'v ' V O fffr-vn ; i tih&il' .V i.L. vvm Will Continue One Week Longer. If you Need Furniture Don't Fail to Come Here. Iron Beds Less Than 1-2 Price Weeks & Mc Go wan Company UW'WIMMIIIIMM X V- l'A4.Ji-t'V'V4-''" -- 'iM' 4 M .- ..-wH j., r a. tAJlJ.ft.iA.) ,,. t a.vii-, . -.-.. 4U- A-. V ' V . i K-i. 4 -444J.ifcte