Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 01, 1912, NEW YEAR'S EDITION, ORCHARD SECTION, Page PAGE THREE, Image 19

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Hollywood OioIiiiiiIh.'oiihIhUiik of
'J 00 IIUIUH, lM 0110 Of tlHt MlltJHl llllll
iiiitMt lilimlly locatoil In Hot-uo ilvor
vulloy. It lu nltuiitotl two miles wont
of ttio B, 1. truck In Meilfonl. 11m
poHltlon I Ideal In Hint It lliw clout)
to tilt) contoi of tho Vulloy, anil In
uhiiut huff way between .Miulfonl and
JuukHonvlllo, mi thu iiiitln roml cdii
iiqgUmk tint two plnro it linn u
fruntiiKo on tliu .liirksonvlllo road of
2001 ftii't ami about I UK) fool of
th In In nrouploil by a iiiiiKulflmint
i;rovo of lurRH oak, madrono niul fir
trt'iin. In winter, uliout IhoJiDlldoy,
tliu ijrovo Ih tihhiro with tod nuiilroiio,
or luiirul, IioiiIoh which ho iiiiiuIi nc
minililii holly hence tliu iiuiuo Holly
,woud. In thin grove, containing about .'SO
nflroM, Ih thn lur ami oik puiltH whluh
buvo Imeonio ho wldoly luiown In thu
vulloy. taiidliiK baulc from tliu, road,
with tho door mil In front, HtnmlH
thu ronhinnco mill mulii IiuIIiIIiik or
tho niiiub lluro undur tin 1 1 1 mt 1 1 1 f I -mill
ouk niul madrono trees, mir
roiiiulOil with lawiiM and boniitlful
fluvvorii, live thu owner, Mr. Albert
J. Allan, mid hln faintly.
Iliilltllng.
Driving thnniKh tho main nutriiiico
to Hollywood Orchardn In tho miiiii-
imir, ono Ih luuiiiidlutuly liiprennl
with tho alumroot nlitiudanco or water
which Ih to bo noun playing roimliiuily
on thu Iiiwiim mul flowers. In tho
rirtdduiico la mn ovory convoiilonco
to bo found In ii modern city dwollliig.
It In lUthtud with ncolyle.no i:h, fur
iilnheil by n plant on tho much, mul
mod light Ih fitted with olctctrlo llght
Iiik nttnohiuuntM, making It h ion
voulonl iiH electricity. Tho plumbing
Ih of tho most iiiodorn mid (toinploto,
nnit wntur Ih supplied from tho un
fallliiK Hupply on (ho pinch. On tho
wont Mldo lu liullt two largo alcoplng
poralnw.
Nunr by stniiils tho lr(lioiiso, with
n utoriiKO capacity of hovornl tons,
and arranged on ltd shelves In a most
Soil Survey of the Rogue River
Alllioueli nil of the Held work on
thn Mill Mirvov ofytlie Jiicknoii eouuly
men Iiiih liroit uomploted, it will be
HOitio time before the rwulU will ho
inililUiml. The miikiiiK of u noil map,
ntS'WtiH nt ' thorough sillily of tho
hijllrt of tho Itogiio river valley. no
easy talk when it will ho ruimmihorcd
that there tiro more tliuu llfty noil
lypw in ilie valley. There in nn im
protwion held liy a few neople that it
hoi! Mtirti'V of ilio pulley litul been
inailo Mime three or four yearn mk-i,
hut thin in not into, N'lmiinir perlmp
half u ilozon mimIh in a very imlufluitu
Wtty without iimppiug Ilium ift not it
Hull Hiirvev. 1'rovlou to the umkiiiK
of h iiiil Hiirvev it i imintl to eon
niiler the jjooIokv of the ilixtriei. Tlii
ig ilono in order to iletorioiuo ery
uiirofiillv the nature of the rooki from
vhioli the boiln have eoimO The fol
lowiiiL' iioIom with tho iteeoinpauyiiiK
limp will hIiow iipproximutolv the nrou
over which llie government noil survey
kiih made, iim well iih xoiiio of the
lai'Kor urouim h,h, which the vulloy
noil have been placed. Thu notes
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vr.(rve!-iM.cAxricc,'v e. i v- "uxsjVv is. i
Famous
fiinilHli tho much with dlfforont
It. In l m of fruits for tho tubloM.
tempting array or fiultu, vokuIuIiIoh,
old., all put up In kIiihh. lluro ran
ho round vuiiIhoii, wild duck, f JhIi
and otlior inoatHi all IiIihIh or votio.
tithloH from iiKpaiai;'uH to BwIhn
olid I'd; nil lilnitil or JoIIIoh, prenurvoM
and Hwoutn too iliiiiioiouu to ujontloii,
Thin Mr, Alton oiiIIh "tho cannery"
mid Ih u (lojiailiiiont or whlrh ho Ih
vory proud) ror ovory ono or tho lr.uo
or moro Jam wore put up undur tho
ill roc t Riiporvlnlou or Mm. Allini, who
ban evidently bocomo an oxpurt lu
tho nit or promirvlng nulla, vogu-
tubloM, otc.
Water Hupply.
N'oar tho Iioiiho hIiiihIm two larr.o
rodvvooil tanliH motiutitd on, towers
ovor .'10 rout IiIkIi. Thiwo contain
8000 k"I!oiih or water, clear mid
pure, nod Uioho Hupply all tho water
ror the hulldliiKH, pnrliHt litwiiiinnd
all other piirpOKiw,
A largo bam with novoial eorralx
eoiiltilu thu Minion mid hormw iiocch-
wiry to run tho ranch. 'I'lioro Ik iiIho
it now inodoru paultlifc Iioiiho COxGO
reel mid Uo Ktorhm lilli; bonldeH a
blacKHinltli Hhop, uurponlur hop, tool
hIiuiIh, otc, Ahio a KrcctnlioiiHo, lu
whluh u ro Ktown tho idautH ror early
npiliKS mittliiK. Undur tho nliado of
nouio larno oalm HtaudH tho lloardliiK
Iioiiho ror tho men and their HleopInK
iiiaitor. Kiirthnr iiIoiik Ik tho Iioiiho
ror tho foreman, and It HtaudH tmdur
Homo,ry larno oakn and redam mid
Hiirroutidod Ity fruit troon. ThU
Iioiiho, an aro all of tho bulldiiiKR, Ih
ftirulHhod with wator from Tho main
M)tHU,
Orrhurilx.
At tho noulhorn end of tho ranch,
running aloni; tho JaokBonvlllo road,
Ih n yearling poar ore hard with ponrh
flllorn. TIiIh oontnliiH nppruxlmatuly
Mix acroH, North ofTtilK Ih n youiiK
HpltrcuborK orrhnrd of nboul fifteen
acrw. Two ncrea of thla Ih net to
mixed frultn mid In known an tho
are largely on tho Konornl form of
thu alley, the geology of tho roekn,
tho gcologiunl hiruoturo uml the ywi
logical liihlory of ttio district. The
unlet are in no way wumilote, hut
represent merely mi outline of what
ono mtty (1ml by n linM.v exounuun
ovor the valley. Not until the noil
limp mul advance Hlioet of tho soil
Hiiruiy lime boon completed will
there lie iin,tliiiiu published iih to the
nature of the f0 or moro noil typo.
Notes on tho Itogtio Ulcr Valley,
Oregon, Suney.
The "filloy" is a loWJmid bolt
formed by thu moro nipiil erosion of
a belt of Mfl rook, alon the striko
of which it liet), than Iihh taken place
on thu harder roek Imiik on both
nidim of it. I In floor is uneven, e
ecjit when tniide even hy the eou
Ntrueiion work of tho streanm that
flow aloiit; or into it. A Inrge part
of thu present floor of the valley
oonsiSjtH of Hinoolh hut stiitnulv slop
liiK Hiirfneert made hv Ilio suinller
ulreaiiiH which How into it from tho
adjacent Htrcmiis, coiiislini; in such
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Hollywood Orchard Near Medford
Scene in the
"family ort hard," nu It In need to
(loin;; on through, ono next paHser
bittweon tho fmnoun bloeks or Comloe
mid Uoio poarn. lloro lien what If
probably the larKOHl block of hearing
Coiulco In ItoRiio rlvor valley, ron
tululuK about 60 acron, with about
hovou nenw or JIouc run nine In rows
through tho orohnrd. Turthor aleni:
on tho onat nldo Ih a block or 20
norori of Xowtowu apple trmm mid
lu tho iiorthoflt corner Ih a block of
SpltztmliorBH of about hIx acrH. Ituu
iiIiik iiIoiik thu north nld of tho
tWimlco mul Newton orchard In a
two-yoor-old Ihtrtlult orohard, and
thoro IhIiIho n block o( yomiK Comlco
on tho eit Hide. Altogether, Holly
wood hnfl about 115 acre In trees.
Ilenldoa tho orchnrdn, Hollywood
rnHPrt of alluvial finis mid a fonner
high grade tilaiti formed by ltopic.
river mid thu larger KtritmiiK which
floxv, into the valley, forming a plain
Mlopini Mtrongly toward thn avial lino
of the valley. TIhh plain is known
ax thu dontirt. In addition to thu
dtMirt nnd tho alluvial fnuw, tho roHt
of the vulloy floor constats of the
rather inirrow Hood plains or low
bottom of thu oxihtiuc streams.
Tliuro tiro it iiuiuher of hills of
rounded, rather smooth outline rising
above thu valley Hour, boiug most-
abundant agar tho outer boundary
of thu valley, forming often a Horiss
of low foothills to tho bouudiiiK moun
tain. Most of those hills aro, up to the
prtMenl titiin, in the native brush and
timber growth, except thuir lower
slope. The vulloyM ainoii-r them mid
between them nnd the mountain foot
are usually cultivated. TIioko small
valleys mid the low slopus of the
lioimdinc moiiiitaiiiH aru liinuily co
ored liv eolluvial wash front tho ad
jnooiit hill mid mountnius.
Deer Park Hollywood Orchard
inn 40 acres planted to alfalfa and
:raln. AIho at tho north end of tho
unch thoro In n plot of eight acres
ilautcd to Timothy hay, which hau
yielded an avcragti of four tons per
acre. In one cutting, anil without Irri
gation. Thero nro a rew moro acres
adjoining thla which Is used exclus
ively for vegetables.
Water niul 'Irrigation.
Horc at tho north end of the ranch
Is situated tho water plant and tho
abundant water upply Tho water
nystom or Hollywood Is unlquo and
one of Its most valuable assets. In
years gone by the loner, or north
end, of the ranch was a swnmp In
whlrh tho old settlers of tho valley
used to kill ducks and snipe. Tills
hau now all been drained by an ox-
Valley
The hounding vallov wall differ
strikingly. Thq weteni wall, ex
tending around the northern end, is
timber covered, usually steep and linn
been left almost entirely uncleared.
Tho eastern wall, on the other hand,
bus nn uneven vlopo, broken by many
brocclien nnd is covered with elonred,
though titoeply sloping, laud well
toward tho top. It has tho nppoar
nnee of ncvor having been heavily
timbered. Tiiia slope nlso litis a num
ber of remumitA of nn old uolluvial
valley flling, occurring, apparently,
only in tho southern und of the Vnlle3-.
They nro now Ion. ridRea with uni
form alopuh from high tu flbovc the
valley floor, the highest sorios start
iiiK from 500 to 700 feet nbovo Ilio
valley, downward toward tho axis of
the vulley, ending in n stoop drop to
tho stream flood plain along the axial
line of the valley. Thero seemB to be
nt least two series,- n higher nnd n
lower, of thej.o eolluvial romunuts.
They ntv really remnants of fonner
fans formed nt a time when thu val
ley iloor had not yut been eroded to
its present depth.
In ndditiou to these feature, the
east slopo is characterized hy u great
tunny narrow benches nnd escarp
ments. In fact, this and thu alluvial
fan remnants form tho chnmeteristie
feature of the t.i-lqru slope of the
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can. you be prosperous without money?
An account with our Bank is the first step to both Happiness '
and Prosperity, so WHY not open an account with us NOW ?
Make This Your New Year Resolution
v: We. pay 3 1-2 and 4 per cent interest on Time Certificates of
Deposit, and small as well as large checking accounts receive
' our careful, courteous attention
Farmers & Fruitgrowers Bank
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tcnslvo system of tiling, and tho sur
face is under cultivation.
Tho water running through the?o
tiles Is clear and pure, and no matter
how hard it rains or tho condition of
the surfnee of tho ground, this water
is always perfectly clqar. It is this
water which is conveyed to the ranch
buildings. Ono of the most striking
features of it all is tho simplicity of
the system and thu economy of its
maintenance. Hero is seen no ex
pensive machinery nor elaborate
pumping plant. Tho water Itself docs
tho work at a cost of a few cents per
year, for here, obscurely placed at
the bottom of a shaft, stands a hy
draulic ram, which thumps away year
in and year out, pumping Its never
ceasing supply of water to tho ranch
volley. They nro much more pro
nounced, however, in the southern
than in thu northern end of the vnl-
ley.
Geology Tho Rocks.
There are five source of material
for the Koiltt of the Rogue river val
ley. They are :
1. A series of hornblcndicr mica
cous, fcldspnthic rocks usually meta
morphosed into tJntes, serpcnlines
nnd schi.st.s.
2. A series of granites and gran
ite gneiss.
3. A scrios of rather soft sand
slonoi!, bhales and coiiRlomerntes.
The sandstones nnd sandy material
in the shales mid conglomerates seem
to he made up to a considerable ex
tent of other material than quartz.
They nro not nt least pure, or nearly
pure, (piHrtr sands-tones. The nob
bles in the conglomerates, huvvnver,
are many of them quartz. They ure
thus of Qunrtzite und other metomor
phic rocks mid of various lino grained
igneous rocks.
4. A series of basalts, tuffs and
jKissibly breccia.".
f. Tho valley filling consisting of
material from all the rocks named,
as well us material carried from
greater distance. Tho greater pnrt
of it, however, is derived from the
rocks described in 1 to -J.
Geology Tho Geological Structure.
The rocks nil dip eastward except
homo sheets of volcanic rocks in the
northern end of tho valley which Ho
uenrlj or quite horizontal. The rea
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You a Happy and Prosperous New Year
Asst. Cashier
K, If. Antlo
buildings. Jly bringing ono of tho
six-Inch lilo lines nearly to tho sur
faco and thou running a p(po down
to the ram (which is nino feet below
tho surfaca) sufficient head in ob
tained to force tho water anywhere.
The capacity of tho ram no"w in uso
is about SO00 gallons per day.
WnuUs Water CftiighU
Tho wasto from tho ram Is caught
by moro tile and carried down near
the fence line, whero It empties into
a (10,000-gallon reservoir. Hero is
built an onglno houso in which is
installed a three-inch centrifugal
pump with a capacity of 300 gallons
per minute. This pump is operated
by a heavy 12 horsepower gasollno
cnglno and is so arranged that by
merely extending tho plpo lino it is
possible to deliver tho maximum
amount of water to any part of tho
ranch. At present there l 7C0 feet
of plpo connected with this pump,
which puts about 1G acreft under ir
rigation. As Hollywood is abund
antly suppled with sub-irrigation,
Mr. Allen has not found It necessary
to Irrigate his orchards, moroly using
tho water to irrigate his vegetables,
flowers, etc.
In tho engine house is an auxiliary
pump which Is connected to tho main
running from tho ram. This is
merely an emergency plant which
can bo used to supply the ranch with
water in caso of an accident to tho
ram. It may be interesting to note
that, during tho seven years' resi
dence of the present owner on the
ranch, this pump has been used but
once, and then but for a few hoars.
During tho winter tho engine, which
Is mounted on a steel truck, is hauled
up snd used around the ranch to
furnish power. i
Well Arranged.
Anothor striking featuro of tho
water system is that all of tho dif
ferent tile lines (measuring over two
miles) are so arranged that they
drain Into tho reservoir. In this
son for this, whether duo to a flow
that took place subsequent to the
folding of the other rocks or to a
decrease of the folding in that direc
tion, was not determined.
As a result of the eastward dtp, the
older rocks lie to the west nnd the
younger ones to tho cast- The older
rocks, the metamorphic rocks, and
the granites are relatively hard rocks
and form the mountains of the west
ern side of the valley. Tho metamor
phic rocks seem to be softer than the
granitic rocks; and along at least a
part o tho valley boundary they
form u series of lower mountains
with tho higher granitic hilhi lying
back of them.
The sandstones lie next above the
granitic nnd metamorphic rocks. Be
ing soft, they have been eroded, and
it is on them that the valley has
been worn. They form the low hills
lying in the vnlley and nlong tho
valley boundaries. They lie up on
tho slopes of the lower metamorphic
hills and tho western side of the
vnlley, but do not seem to reach
rnoro than n very few hundred feet
above the valley floor. Tho con
glomerate beds seem to bo responsible
-for n number of low hills out in the
valley.
Basalt Flows Above.
Above the sandstone series Ho the
basalt flows nnd tho tufa and breccia
beds. They form the eastern vnlley
wall, but outcrop mainly on the higher
slopes, the sandstones dipping into
the mountain below their outcrop in
the lower slopes. Thero is some in
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through tho ground nt or nhovo tho
lerol of tho tile, must go Into the
reservoir beforo gotting off tho ranch.
After tho reservoir is filled It over
flows and runs through a ditch
through tho Snowy Butto Orchnrdn,
past Central Point and Into Hoar
Crook. Tho average flow of wator
Into tho reservoir In about half a
million gallons dally. This can easily
and cheaply ho Increased to any
amount desired, 'but tho present flow
is sufficient for tho needs of tho
ranch.
ffoiiM.
Tho soil on Hollywood Is ynrloti In
character and runs from tho rich
gravelly soil, to bo seen at ttio south
end, to tho heavy black deposit soil
nt tho north. All of it is frco soil
and has no hardpan or bed rock.
From nn accurate record taken,
during tho frost season in tho past
threo years, It in shown that to tem
peratures range about two degrees
higher than tho average of tho valley
floor.
The Hollywood brand of Comlco,
though bat a cottplo of seasons oa
tho market, has become famous
throughout tho eastern msrkots and
tho European Cornice markets. The
orchards have Just begun to bear,
and will soon bo ono of tho' largest
producers of Comlco In tho country.
All in all, Hollywood Orchards is
most Ideally located. Tho ranch is
perfectly equipped and cared' for and
nature has been lavish wltt her gifts.
Tho lato Mr. J. II. Stewart, tho
"father of tho fruit Industry In Roguo
river valley," In a personal letter to
Mr. Allen, says or Hollywoci Or
chards under date of April 20, 1904:
"Taking tho place all together, I don't
think there is a better tract of land
in tho valley of tho samo numbar of
acres. It can bo Improved and fur
ther dovetoped so as to make an ideal
home and a money-maker at almost
any price."
dication that tho upper part of tho
sandstone scries has one or more tufa
beds and possibly some lava sheets
intcrbedded, but this was'.iot definite
ly determined. From the soil stand
point, however, it is relatively unim
portant, however important it may bo
from the geological standpoint.
A very small proportion of tho
tillable soil of the valley lies on tho
basaltic rocks, because they outcrop
high above the valley floor. In tho
northeastern portion of the valley a
number of ovens extend eastward into
the basalt regions when the soil is
residual on the basaltic rock. Th.e
basalt material is an important modi
fier of t soils along the eastern
slop of the valley, especially; and
a great deal, in fact, the predominant
pnrt of tho material of tbs valley
filling on tho eastern side is basaltic
Geology Geological History.
Tho first or oldest event, or scries
of events, seems to havo been tho
formation and metamorphosing of tho
series of metamorphic rooks lying
along tho western flank of tho moun
tains. So far as my observation goes,
ic seems to jiavo been mainly eruptive
in origin. Efovv far west it extends,
or what change m character takes
place in that direction, is unknown
to me.
The next important event seems to
have been tho intrusion into theso
metamorphic rocks of tho granites
which occur nlong the west side of
tho volley and in tho higher hills
west of it.
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