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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 :
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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
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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,
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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
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