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'MEDFORD MATfr TRIBUNE, MEPFORP, OtttfOON, TUESDAY, DIOTMHMU 5, 101.1,
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NOTES ON THE GEOLOGOF THE RO,U , ,
RIVER VALLEY AS SHOWN BY SOIL SURVEY
FIFTY TYPES OF.
SOIL FOUND
However, Hot Uiiitl the Map and Ad
vance Sheds of (he Soil Survey
Arc Published Can Nature ot Typrs
Be Told.
Although nil of the Hold work on
tlio poll survey of the jRokson county
area lins boon completed, It will be
Eoino time before the results will be
published. Tho making or a soil map,
ns well ns n thorough study of tho
soils of tho lloguo Klvor valley, Is
no easy task wlion It will be remem
bered that thoro aro more than fifty
soil types In the valley. There is nn
impression held by a few peoplo that
a soil survey of tho valley had been
made some three or four years ago,
but this is not true. Naming perhaps
half a dozen soils in a very indefinite
way without mapping them is not a
soil survey. Previous to the making
of a soil survey it is usual to consider
the geology of tho district. This is
done in order to determine very care
fully tho nature of the rocks from
which the soils have come. Xho fol
lowing notes with the accompanying
map wltl show approximately the
area over which tho government soil
survey was made, as well as some of
the larger groups into which tho val
ley soils havo been placed. The notes
aro largely on tho general form ot
the valley, tho geology of tho rocks,
the geological structure and tho
geological history of the district, Tho
notes are in no way complete, but
represent merely an outline of what
one may find by a hasty excursion
over the valley. Not until tho soil
map and advance sheets of the soil
survey have been completed will
there be anything published as to the
nature of the fifty or more soil
types.
Notes cm the Rogue River Valley,
Oregon, Survey.
Tho "'valley' Is a lowland helf.
formed by the more rapid erosion of
a belt of soft rocks, along tho strike
of which it lies, than has taken place
on tho harder rocks lying on both
sides of It. Its floor is uneven, ex
cept when made even by the con
struction work of the streams that
flow along or Into it. A large part
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Tells of Ploiiccr Friends In Ronuo
River Vnlloy, nccnllcd by tho Death
of Mrs. Kenny, Nee T'Vault.
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of tho present floor of tho valley
consists of smooth but strongly slop
ing surfaces made by tho smaller
streams which flow into it from tho
adjacent streams, consisting in such
cases of alluvial fans and a former
high grade plain formed by Rogue
river and the larger streams which
flow into tho valley, forming a plain
sloping strongly toward tho avlal line
of tho valley. This plain is known
as tho desert. In addition to the
desert and tho alluvial fans, tho rest
of the valley floor consists of the
rather narrow flood plains or low
bottoms of tho existing streams,
Thero aro a number of bills of
rounded, rather smooth outline ris
ing abovo tho valley floor being most
ubundant jiear tho outer boundary of
the valley forming often a series of
low foot hills to tho bounding moun
tains. Most of those hills aro, up to the
nrnsftiit timn, in tho native brubh and
timber crowth oxcent their lower
slopes. The valloys among thorn and
between tlioin and tho mountain foot
aro usually cultivated. These small
valloys and tho low slopes of tho
bounding mountains aro iiyilnly cov
ered by colluvlul wash from tho
adjacent hills and mountains.
Tho bounding valley walls differ
strikingly. Tho western wall, ex
tending around tho northern end, i
tlmbor covered usunlly stoop and has
boon luft almost entirely uncleared.
Tho eastern wall, on the other hand,
has an uneven slopo, broken by
many breeches and is covered with
cleared, though steeply sloping, land
well toward tho top. It has tho
appearanco of never having been
heavily timbored. This slope, also,
has a number of romuants of uu old
colluvlul vulloy flljng occurring ap
parently only in tho aouthorn end of
tliu valloy. Thoy aro now long ridges
with uniform slopes from high up
above tho vnlloy floor tho highest
series starting from COO to 700 feet
abovo tho valloy, downward toward
tho axis of tho valloy, ending in a
ste.op drop to tho stream flood plain
along tho axial lino of tho. valley.
Thoro Booms to bo, at least, two se
ries, a higher and o, lower, of these
colluvlal remnants. Thoy are really
remnants of former fans formod at a
tlmo when tho valley floor had not
yet beon oroded to its present doptlf.
In addition to these features, tho
oast slope is characterized by a great
features ot the eastern s:ope of tho
vaney. Tney are much more pro
nounced, however, in the southern
than in the northern end ot the vat
ley.
Geology The Rocks.
There are flvo sources of material
for .the soils of the Rogue River val
ley. They are:
1. A series of hornblendic, mica
ceous, feldspathlc rocks usually met
amorphosed into slates, serpentines
and schists.
. A series of granites and gran
ite gneiss.
3. A erics of rather soft sand'
stones, shales and conglomerates.
The sandstones and sandy material
In tho shales and conglomerates seem
to be made up to a considerable ex
tent of other material than quartz.
Thoy are not at least pure, or nearly
pure, quartz sandstones. Tho peb-
bles In tho conglomerates, however,
are many of tbo.m quartz. They are
thus ot Quartzite and other metamor
phlc rocks and of various fine grained
Igneous rocks.
4. A series of basalts, tuffs, and
possibly breccias.
5. The valley filling consisting of
material from all the rocks named,
as well as material carried from
greater distances.' The greater part
of it, however, is derived from tho
rocks described in 1 to 4.
Geology The Geological Structure.
Tho rocks all dip eastward except
some sheets of volcanic rocks in tho
northern end of tho valloy which Ho
nearly or quite horizontal. Tho ma
son for this, whether duo to a flow
that took place subsequent to tho
folding of tho other rocks or to a
decroaso of tho folding in that di
rection, was not determined.
As a. result of tho eastward dip,
tho oldor rocks lie to tho west and
the younger ones to tho east. The
older rocks, tho metnmorphic rocks,
and the granites aro relatively hard
rocks and form the mountains of tho
western sldo of tho valloy, Tho mot
amorphic rocks seem to bo softer
than the granitic rcks; and along at
loast a part of tho valloy boundary
thoy form a series of lower mountains
with tho higher granitic hills lying
buck of them.
The sandstones Ho next abovo the
granitic and metamorphlc rocks. Do
ing soft, they havo been eroded, and
it is on them thut tho valley has
been worn. They form the low hills
lying in tho valley and along the
valley boundaries. They lie up on
the slopes of the lowor metamorphlc
hills and tho western shijo of tho
valley, but do not soom to teach
more than a very fow hundred foot
above the valley floor, Tho con
glomerate bods seem to bo respon
sible for a number of low hlllB out
In tho valley.
Above the sandstone series Ho the
basalt flows and tho tufa and breccia
beds. They form tho oastern valloy
wall but outoiop mainly on the
higher slopes; the sandstones dipping
Into tho mountain below their out
crop in tho lowor slopes. Thoro Is
more tufa beds and pqsslbly some
lava sheets luterbedded, but this was
not definitely determined. From the
soil standpoint, however, it is rela
tively unimportant, however impor
tant It may be from the geological
standpoint.
A very small proportion of the
tillable soil of tho valley lies op tin.
basaltic rocks because they outcrop
high above the valley floor. In tho
northeastern portion of tho valley n
number of ovens extend eastward
Into the basalt regions when the soil
is residual on the basaltic rock. Tho
basalt material is an important modi
fier of the soils along the eastern
slope of tho valley, especially; and a
great deal, In fact, tho predominant
part of the material of tho valley;
NOTEO GIRL
TO GUY
Miss Lawrentz, Champion Woman
High Diver of the World, Here en
Vacation, Visiting With Friends.
, Mis La Iluinn Lnwrontz of Cleve
land, Ohio, is viiitiiitf hr cumin.
Jliss Dora Iuvri'iitr ami Mrs. Mtibol
Sturks, in this oily
Mian La Heinn is n world ranowncd
filling on tho eastern side is basaltic. R,.jt ns H, is tie highowt known
I1018K, Idaho, Nov. Sv ltl I.---Tit
tho Kditur: I wum very much sur
prised u)vlillo Intuit to ttotli'o the
loath ot my dour old friend Mrs.
Kcnuey (m Mb T.'Vttult). It wrh
In the month uf August,. 1 SRI, that
1 riii)t nwt Col, T'Vault in Oregon
City. At thut time (louerat Jim Luno,
DuIomu Smith. J. M. SlH'imt'd, and
his brothur-ln-luw wore willed thu
"wheel horouw of the dvniooriit par
ty," mid inn things to Milt Oiem
xi'lvv.1, but It didn't, Inst.
It was the spring of 1852, that Col.
T'Vnult moved out south to the lloguo
river vnlloy and took up a ranch 10
miles north of Jacksonville and ruled
tho pure where they hud thu postof
fleo Dardaiieolls. Cold was struck
there afterward by lsh, Johnny Aliiu
l.othlln, Henry Ctlppoll, 'August
Urown and other. In the Indian war
1853, Doc Itoso uud John It. tlurdlu
wore waylaid und killed near there
Hardin had married Amanda Caul ot
Uniil'tt creek, widow married Haw
kins Bholtou f KoHoburg, Hived
neighbors tq mo hero many years.
Iloth are gone now.
Of my old dear friends tho
T Vault's, tho old geutlonmii und
wife, May, Snlnty and (leorgo are all
gone now as tiro Col. John 10. lluf.
whom I kuow In Chicago In tho MOs;
Mike Hnuley, Wayouer Koudry tint!
hundreds of others. Have Iyuu mid
John Hnlly ot llolnu, Joo Plnkluuu
and JaiuoH II. Kinney are all that nre
left. At the rate tho pioneers aro
passing away, I soon will hu all nloue,
I tint iipproaclilng my SGth birthday.
My oldutit sister, Mrs. M. L. Sutttir-
lue, of 2704 Michigan uvuttuu, had
150 guests at her 91st birthday party,
which was on October 10.
Joo IMnkhnm Is mnuager ot tho
HoIbo avtiay office. John Daily mid
wife, neo Mlxs llurrul Griffin, and
Jim rir.ney that ran thu pack train
to Crescent City and who Is now pro
prietor ot thu Kinney thontur, which
cost 9100,000, are all 10 years
younger than mysulf, nndlurq till In
good health and vigorous.
Tho weather In Jlolao Is Ideal,
wnrm, elonr, sunshiny days, no storms
or wind yet. It Is next to Rogue
river valley, which hns the host cli
mate on tho coast. J. II, Twogood.
(7f H'sgWrTTO- ' TWK '
y copvinunr Jiif"1l illWVl
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Full Line of i
Peerless Lamps!
IS
j4rT4rtr'r''''4M'
All LMiiU'nnftH'd. Js'ow
I ho linio lo tf(t .N'our houno c
WHOM, VUMIU 1I.HIIU wuin I"
tho oiimfoi'l of wintm
luonihs,
Soutliorn Orciion Electric Co, f
North Grapo Struct.
. NOW IS THE TIME
TO HAW. P1C1URES FRAMED
We Handle Colonel and Oval Frames
&e ART STORE
Pacific Phono 1094 I Ionic Phono U5
27 NORTH GRAPE STREET
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A THRILLING STORY
h tola by liumhvdN f I'ltt'lT (IIMWI ISM In vrv nUI In llif Union of
their firvMt m'jilrxmiii'iitM lit ov, itmiliK from uuu to (lfHn di'uryvn of
front in ilwlr iti'hiuriM tr H" f
The HAMILTON RESERVOIR ORCHARD HEATER
It U tlm uit I.I I IK'TlVK, liiuol JCD.MJMK'AIi and lh HIMI'I.KHT
III connli Hi llmi .iiiil up. i.illon
Our h"tv lil'ititur. im i'iiv r""'ly. ioiiInIiiIhk imitli of IiiImmoI tu ymi
u ml Yiiirt Hihlir on ttiv I'nl ii in, nlUi in fur Wr nilvntiio )''iil' In
illrU'). IWIIi-r writ.- Iiulay iHm'l wail fw.i ii llm-o IimhiIIi
A. L KITCHIN 6 Co., KOSEBURG. Ore
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Geology TiColoKlnil Ill.storj-,
The first or oldost event, or serios
of events, seems to have beon tho
formation and metamorphosing of
the Borles of metamorphlc rocks ly
ing along tho western flank of theo
mountains. So far ns my observation
oes, it scorns to havo been mainly
eruptive in origin. How far west it
extends, or what change in character
takes place in that direction, is un
known to mo.
Tho next Important event sceniB to
have been tho Intrusion Into these
motamorpblc rocks of tho granites
which occur along tho west side of
tho valley and In tho higher hills
west of it.
SOHUJW B.
FATHER-IN-LAW
Mayoralty in Earjle Point Is Bound to
Remain in the Family Anyway
Will Van tier Hellen Opposes A. J.
Florey.
A hot Imttlo ut the polin h Ix-ing
waged nt Euglo I'oiiit todny, which
imrtukOb in it ilugrpe of n family
row. For A. J. Flyrcy, )f)itinuhtor.
who is in vtli. nice for mayor, him an
his opponent WMiinrn Van 1er Hoi
Ion, his hoii-in-lnw. No matter what
tho outcome is, tho job will he in tho
family.
Several important Municipal mut
ters liaiif? on tho rfcHiilt of loduy'n
hallotiiif,'.
liorxcbaok diver of the world. .She
mounts u tower sixty-five feet on
horseback, then thu horeo make n
iltvo down into the shallow depth-,
of eight foot of wator witJi Mins Law
rentz on ills hack. She also rnukei.
nivcs ot ninety-six leet witliout tlie
horse. She is now on -"li seven
months' vacation. Tho last dive she
made on liomcbnck hefnrc her iicn
tion was in tho presence of William
J. Hryan, who came forward tiftcr
pho made her dive ximl shook hands
with hor and congratulated hor fur
her bruvo mid daring not. 8ie has
also dived in the presence of Presi
dent Tuft, who also shook JiiiimIh with
hor and eongmtiihited her. When
miu u j ears tu age sue mane a nc
)f nillllf.V-Mv P.I..I "n.n ll.o ,... .
tower into the wonii. She i now n
tall, Hlondnr girj of nlmiit five feet
eleven inchw, wifji fino intnxnilar
development and a chest oxpaiisn.n
of fbo and thrca-fmirtliH inches
which js far above the average, .Mis
La Ifeiim is really a wonderful girl.
8CRANTON, I'a. Hugh Jennings,
manager of the Ootrolt Tigers base
ball club, who was Injurod in an
nutoinobllo ncclilmtt hero, Is much
Improved, according to an announce
ment from, tho sickroom today.
TO CURE A COLO IK OITE SAY
Take I.AXATIVK HHOMO Quinine Tnti
ttt. DruKKlMtx ri-filliil mony If It rntli.
to cure li W. OltuVlCri slRnaturo U
on oach box. 23c.
HsuUIub tor Hoaith.
fir-
many narrow bonches and oscarp
inontn. In fact, this nnd tho alluvial 'aomo Indication that tho upper part
fan remnants form tho characteristic of tho saudstono corlos tins ono or
Girls Attacketl.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.
Slushing three men with n raror nfter
altqmpUlij,' nil Uc)c upon two girls,
Stephen Jiglusjjy . is dyinj,' nt the
lii;;oiKilcy hftspinl today, und J'o
licoinau Jolm W. Sheehun, one of hii
victims, and tho man who shot Zo
lasky, is Jso in a Rcrioiis condition.
Annie Hrmjley find Mary Jlutlcr, JinJI
TO, who were nltnchcd hy ZelnK),
aro also in a eorious condition.
Many Failures
liut Parisian Huge; Qverfutno MJh
Kiiigcr's fi,jr Troubles
1'AIIISIAN' 8AGK is not guuran
toed to grow hair on bald IksiiId, bin,
It Is guaranteed by tho well known
druggist Chas. Stranj; 'o stop falling
Jialr, eraditato dandruff and stop
Itching scaJp, or monoy back, 3old'
In every town In Amorica by loading
drtiGKlBts for CO cents a bottlo. Head
Miss Krugor'g letter.
"PAIIISIAN hAOKIs tho best hulr
growor and buautlflor and dandruff
cure. I lost all my Jinlr through ty
phoid fovor; I was almost bul'dhoad-
ed and my scalp wos as soro as could
be. I tried ovcrytbinj;, but In vain.
Finally I tried PARISIAN 8AOH, nnd
after using one bottlo my hair started
to grow, and has grown throo or four
inches Inside of two monthfl. I ad
vise every woman who wunts beauti
ful hair to U8o PARISIAN SAO10."
Miss Mela M Krugor, lirowntovn,
Minn,
dJfusf Say'
HORLICK'S
It Means
Original and Quiulna
MALTED MILK
Th Fa od-drink for All Ages.
More healthful than Tea or Coffee
Agrees with the weakest digcition.
Delicious, invigorating and nutritious.
Rich milk, malted pram, powder form.
A quick lunch prepared in a minute.
Take so substitute. Ak for HORLICK'S.
Others are imitations.
. ir irs t . .
National
Bank
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MEDFOKD, OREGON
N , CAPITAL STOCK $100,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits 08,000.00
0. itod SUttcs and Postal Saving Depository
Wosolie5- your business, which will receive our care
ful attention.
F. K. Dcuol, President - M. L. Alford, Cashior
Orris Crawford, Assistant Cashior
MEDFORD
THEATRE
Thursday, 7fh
MEDFORD THEATER ONE NIGHT
WEDNESDAY, DEC. GTH
.si'ijrni, KvauikMK.vt' ok
IDA HT. I.KO.N I 4
In
Of tlia WfJrld Khihoii Circus Family, "Tlfif St. I.ou"
POLLY OF THE CIRCUS
Huuiiortod by the Orixlunl Coiuptiuy
Think of a circus ring mid iierforinauco upon a tlumter Htagel
Uareuack rider, I'lowns, Kcrobuts and lumhlliix. Kvory boy and girl up
to Moenty years old will bo dellglited with It. (Now York World.)
Seat Sale Hiitttrduy, liitNliliii'. I'rli.m ii.no, il.OO, nor.
4, rrt rt ni,
AT NATATOR1UM RINK
Tuesday and Wednesday Evening
The KohIim) Lu Slicllo I'i'odiictloii
eckers
eii
Tho groatost
ovor written.
American play
Ilobart CaynnaiigU ns CltucltorH
Davo Ilraham as 'I'uidi M 11 lor
Florence Ilostyn uu I'ort.
Tho
thtill,
grout racing scono 1h n
IVices: First 10 rows, 81. DO;
next 7, $1; orcheutra circle, 7(jo;
balcony, first thio rown, $1; next
3, 7nc; gallery, dOc, Seats now
selling. '
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Howard Fielding and Helon Carlos
Vaudovillo'fl Groatost Skating Novolty
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