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arEDirottD mail tribitntc, medford', oktcoon, Thursday, January 25, 1012,
Medford Mail Tribune
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AW INURt'KNDKWT NRWflPAl'Kll
puiimhuku MVKiir aitjjunooN
WACTl'T HUHHAT, IIY THIS
MKPKOUD I'ltlNTINCI CO.
. ThO Democratic Tlmo, Tito MetUArd
ninii, iito Ainunra xrmunc, Tito Routh
era OroKonlnn, Tito Anhlnnd Tritium.
Offlcn Mall Trlbuna llnlltllnir,
ntrcoi; phono. Mam
Worth Kir
Home 7r.
2R-ST-S?
3031;
aiCOUClH PUTNAM. IMItor nml Manager
m
Kntrrml na nccoml-clns.i matter nt
atalfnrit, OrpRon, under tho act of
Mnrcli 3, 1579.
Ofrlrlnl Pnnrr of tlio City of MeilforO.
Offlclnl Paper of Jackxon County.
BtmscnrPTioH rates.
Ono yenr, by mall ...$5.00
Ono month, by mall so
Per month, delivered by carrier In
MeilfvwM, Jacksonville nml Cen
Irnl Point K0
Pnturday only, by mall, per year. . J.flO
Weekly, por year 1.S0
MEDFORD 'S WINNING RATE FIGHT.
sworn cincui.a.Tiox.
T)lly nvernuo for eleven month end
Inic November 0. 1911, 1751.
Xnll Stnitd Wire TTnlUd Ftttl
Slipatohe.
Tho Mall Trlbnno Is on anlo at tho
Ferry News Stand, San Krnncleeo.
Portland Hotel Nown Stand, Portland.
Tlowman News Co.. Portland. Oro.
W. O. Whitney. Seattle. Wash.
KXDrORD, OSEOOK.
Metropolla of Southern Orccon nnd
Northern California, and tho fastest
Emwlnp city In Orcpon.
Population U R. eopuus 1910 SS40;
estimated, 191110.000.
Fire hundred thousand dollar Gravity
Water System completed, clvlnc flnnf
sunpiy pure mountain water, ana 17.3
miles of streets paved.
Postofflc receipts for year endlnc
November 30, 1911, show Increase of 19
per cent
Banner fruit city In OrcRon Rogue
Itlver Spltzcnberjr apples won aweep-
Bt&Kes prizo una nun or
"Avnlo Staff of tbe World'
nt tho National Apple Show, Spokane,
lsus, anu a ear or ixewiowns won
rint Prix In 1910
nt Canadian International Apple Show,
Vancouver, 11. --
rirst Priire In 1911
at Ppoknno National Apple Show won
by carload of Newtowns.
Rogue Itlvcr pears brought htchost
prices In all marl;ots of the world dur
ing tho past six years.
Write Commercial Club. Inclosing 6
cents for postage for tho finest commu
nity pamphlet ever published.
JOLTS AND JINGLES
By Ad Brown
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Supremo judges win their stations
IJy tlic power of their wits;
And tlicy win onr condemnations
When they knock our schemes Jo
bits.
As for tho baby emperor of China,
lie is 110 longer n two-foot ruler.
Says the man who loves statistics,
"Tito Jordnn is thu most crooked
river in tho world uiul that's
btmight." ,
Tho $20,000,000 collar (mst leaves
110 doubt as to where the public will
yet it.
"When our litlle bond olootion,
Which we voted to n man,
Met n bunch of supremo judges
It just turned its (ail and ran.
And the whole bond projioiitJon
Ihii't nny good they say;
Hut wo'll got the roads, Dod gnsl yo,
For we'll find another way.
King George got DO tigers in J3on
gal, but whore arc the 00 cheers that
should linvu gone with them? New
York World.
"I am not running," snys Mr.
Roosevelt, "but I dare anyone to give
me a shove."
Tho Garden of .My Heart,
Mv heart is u little garden
Set in a desert waste;
The walls are rough, the door is stnalj,
And high (he l;oy is placed.
Shnrlvt M. Hall.
My hoart'is a little garden
Whore foolish fancies grow,
And every time a roso blooms thero
A l'nwt doth lay it low.
Hirmhiglmm Ago-llorald.
My heart is a little garden
Whore weeds have grown of late;
And friends udvfco tho time is ripe
Tor 1110 to oultivate.
Anil .Mnybo Not.
With Hook on tho supreme bench
iimybu tho trust.) will got it. Grand
Jtupidu l'robs.
Hoosovoll's granddaughlor
Jiovor been photographed. Too
bhe iloohii't tnko after granddad.
has
bad
"Ainorienuitis is the catibo of the
divorce increase," says n Harvard
professor. Mow likely ltenoitis and
btago doorilis.
Those Campaign Funds.
J do not ask for office,
1 make no rash prolonsots;
Hut 1 would really like the chance
To handle the o.ponsos.
Somo Medford man would have us
pcriotihly believe that ttye only reason
they are uo,t spending great sums to
day is boonn&o the boiid issue was
knocked out.
VALLIJJO, Cal Word hns boon
recelvod at Mnro Island that two
fnsoB of moasles Imvo been roported
on tlio crulBor Maryland. Tho ship
wits rorontly cent from Honolulu to
pcuuUor undor sccrot orders,
nplIRKR important events for Medford lmvo happened
in the past week.
First, Jackson county road bonds were held illegal by
(be supreme court, but a way pointed out whereby the
county cannot only issue valid bonds, but change the en
tire form of county government, placing it upon a business
basis.
Second, the Blue Ledge. mines have been patented,
after five years' continuous effort, which insures the
building of a smelter and the operation of this groat cop
per mine.
Third, and by no means least, is the order of the state
railroad commission reducing rates to all points on the
Southern 1'acific a second twenty percent reduction for
Medford a result, secured solely by Medford enterprise
and fighting abilitv.
This calls attention to what Medford has accomplished
in rate litigation since the Medford Traffic Bureau was
organized two years ago to secure equitable rates a work
just as important, perhaps more so, to the community as
the work or the Commercial club. In addition to the cases
brought before the state railroad commission are three
others pending before the interstate commerce commis
sion, which will probably cause still further reductions
and enable the building up of a distributing center here.
Business men of Medford organized the Medford Traf
fie Bureau early in 1910. They each contributed a month
ly sum to support the bureau in its rate fights. Frank 11.
McCune, who won prominence by his work in the Spo
kane and TJono rate cases, was secured as rate expert and
commerce counsel. The decisions so far secured proves
that the state commission has been convinced that Med
ford 's claims were just.
It will be recalled that the Southern Pacific company
had two different scales of rates, one for Portland, the
other for the ulterior. The same thing was in effect on
tlie 0.-V. R. & N". companv's lines. Further, the O.-AV.
R. & N. companv had a different schedule of distance of
rates than the Southern Pacific oeinnauv: in fact the
whole system was irregular.
The. railroad commission on its own motion attempted
to adjust tho rates out of Portland to Medford, Ashland
and other points. In its opinion the first class rate Port;
land to Medford was reasonable at $1.1S the hundred and
to Ashland $1.23, and left the classes C. and E. the same
as the 1887 rates and class 1). higher.
Medford appealed for a reasonable adjustment of dis
tance class rates and outlined a schedule for which she
contended and supported bv evidence. Later Medford
announced by resolution a plan for a uniform system of
rates tor the entire state regardless oL person or place,
ana by her untiring of tort secured the formation ot a
league to prosecute such a plan to initiate rates on this
oasis.
immediately alter this announcement the state com
mission inaugurated on its own motion a suit against the
O.-W. P. & N. company and. the S. P. company and at
tacked the distance class rates on both roads which were
not uniform with one another.
conic nine alter tins the interstate commerce commis
sion issued its order in the Portland eastbound rate case
and changed its former opinion of a horizontal reduction
of 20 percent and instituted the mileage system exactly
upon the basis and practically at the same 'figures which
Medford contended for in its California distance rate case,
and which also was presented to the commission in a for
mer Baker case but not elaborated as in the Medford case.
This same principle and system of rates was contended for
before the state board.
The interstate commerce commission Portland case did
not include points on the S. P. company so that any order
made in that case would not have given relict to Medford
or S. P. company towns, hence if Medford had not been
before the stale railroad commission there would have
been "nothing doing."
By reason of the reduction gained in the distance class
rates the rates out of Portland have been indirectly ad
justed, and the alignment is a step toward the uniform
system of rates outlined in the initiative resolution in that
for distance over 200 miles on the S. P. company and lo0
miles on the O.-W. R. & N. company the rates are the
same for all points on these respective lines and the rates
are the same on both roads.
By reason of this reduction all towns on the Southern
Pacific company south of Roseburg will enjoy a reduction
in rates over the rates found to be reasonable by the com
mission on its own order, resulting in a cut of 18 cents
first class at Medford and 2,'J cents at Ashland, and all
this has been done by Medford without the aid of a single
town or the contribution of a single cent by any other
town being done by Medford alone.
Furthermore, the Washington state commission's or
der is exactly the same as the Oregon commission. In this
respect it will be noted that Medford and Baker asked an
adjustment based on a 115 mile scale, which scaled up
from the 115 mile point at 1 cent per 100 pounds for each
live mile increase. By comparing the order with the peti
tion it will be found that the order reads for "distances
more than 115 miles and not over 120 miles flic increase
for first class will be 1 cent for each five miles," which
indicates that the Medford and Baker plan was followed
by both the Oregon and the Washington commissions.
Tt is clear that it was Oregon and not Washington
which is setting the pace toward a proper and equitable
adjustment of rates, and this has been brought about
largely, if not wholly, by Medford.
It js well worth calling attention to what Medford has
accomplished as a beginning in her rate war so that other
towns see the beneficial effects of a properly conducted
and vigoroiiHly prosecuted campaign for just and enuil-
awu rales.
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BENEFITS
EASY 10 SEE
John M. Scott on Return From
Southern California Snys I link
ways Arc Great Attraction to
Tourists.
Principal luuein: Cnliforniu'n at
tract ions Por tjio lourwt, suyn John M.
Scott, xi'iiernl pflwointer ajjent of the
Southern I'neillc, who bus jimt re
turned from that Mule, is in the ex
cellent rondg, and therein ties a moral
tor Oregon, he declares.
Mr. Scott left Portland with the
party of Canadian excursionists and
passed tho intcrveiihty; time in the
rural districts of California, with the
exception of u few days' visit in l.os
AukcIcs and Sum KmneWon. Hi
principle purpose w" to )jct in touch
with eastern tourUls lo learn from
them the reason-, for their fivtpieut
pilgrimages to California nud to
sludy u method by which the snine
class of people tht isits the south
ern states in the winter mouths can
he induced to come to Portland in
the sumpier time.
'"Good roadp," ill. Scott believes,
i the key to tho situation. He found
that people on pleu-ure lriw like to
kep moving and that they like to see
new sihts. Travel over country
roads affords thorn these oportuui
ties. The nutoiiHtlalc has ki-owii to
be the chief menus of transporting
people on such hm trips. To make
automobile travel attractive pod
roads arc nouessary. California has
them.
"I found that hmiiv coplu who are
denied the dcliftfctn of mitomohiliiiK
in their respective home communities
K) to California for tho purpose of
iiiIuh;iur in these pleasures," said
Mr. Scott. "Automobile owners in
xnino northern states where the siiou
and ice preclude the po-ibilty or
road travel in winter time, take their
machines with them to California.
Others who have not tho time to use
automobiles for ilcaurc at home nml
who, consequently, do nol own ma
chines rent cars bv the month whon
they an to California.
"While 1 realize that it mpiiros a
jjreut deal of money to build llrst
class public liihviiys, this kind of
money would !J well spent in my
it(inmlioii." v
California Mo! owners, Mr. Scott
rcMrted, arc -ratlllud over the heavy
movement of northwestern people (o
that state for their winter vacations.
A reciprocal t-cutiment now i hum::
engendered with tho probable rcsnlt
that Cnliforwn people wdl start to
come to Oregon to pass their sum
mers. Some of this business is al
ready under way.
NOTICK TO MINE OWNERS.
All persons who arc- desirous ot
Bocurlng space in tho Medford Mining
Jublleo Book on tho mlnornl resourc
es ot southern Oregon nnd northern
California, to bo issued Keby. 1, 1912,
should Immediately call upon or ad
dress C. W. Patterson or Guy T.
Thrasher, Kaih hotel, Medford, Ore.
BENSON'S
ARGAIN
"We wish to impress you
with tho I act that wo are
Hasldna for health.
1
It Takes Expert Work
to Prepare a (lootl Ab
stract. Yes It taken nioro than this
It takes equipment capital
tialulng, Tbnt'H why our nb
Htracts nrn preferred by attor
neys becauso wo make
Abstracts
That Are
Absolutely
Reliable
When you buy or loan money
on property If you'll lmvo us
prepare tlio iibHtruct and lmvo
It paHBcd upon by a rollnbio at
torney, you need havo no fear
rcgnrriliiK tho condition of tho
title to the property,
I
Jackson County
Abstract Company
Corner )th nnd Ir fits.
North Mall Trjbnno HIiIr.
Medford, Oregon
EXCHANGE HEAD
QUARTERS Through us you can ex
change! what; you don't want
tor what you do want.
120 acres J) miles from
Central Point, will exchange
for California property.
Price, $75 per acre.
:15 aero orchard tract with
in V, mile of iMedford. Some
thing choice. Ask us.
1(50 acres level land all till
able, G miles from Kaglo
Point. Prieo $7000; $!f)00
will handle or will exchange
for other property.
120 acres in Sams valley,
17 miles northwest, of Med
ford, 7 miles east of Gold
Hill. This is a good sidehill
fruit ranch in the rough. Soil
is deej). Some saw timber
and wood enough to pay for
place. About 12 acres cleared,
cheap new house, barn and
chicken house. Part of this
can bo irrigated from spring
and creek. Price $tt300. Will
take half in city properly or
sell on easy terms.
" acres truck and berry
land on Bear creek for sale
or exchange.
ibu acres timoer, will ex
change tor lots. Price $3200.
Will exchange, real estate
for automobile.
List 3'our alfalfa hind with
us. Wo have inquiries.
8 room house, fine resi
dence district, '1 bedrooms,
each with sleeping porch,
modern in every way. Price
very low considering value.
$1750 will handle.
If you consider buying lots
be it a high class residence
lot, suitable for a mansion or
something cheap, wo have
them and you will find both
price and terms right.
Wo hnvo (tilto a number of trnelB
ranging from 5 to 20 acres each
within a rndltiH of mllo ot Mod-
city limits. Considering tho past
wonderful irrnwtli or .Medionl and nil
signs Indicating a continuance of tho
wnno, wo havo no hesitancy In rec
ommending tlio purchase of ncruago
adjacent to this city. I'or tho past
tbrco yearn wo havo 'jiot only
preached but practiced this policy
wllli gratlfylug rottuMs, Our nxpo
rleuco and advice aro at your dis
posal,
10 ncros doop, black stick noil near
Central Point, 5& acres ,'J yonr old
orchard. Price, $21100; 1000 will
handle. Will exchange. Submit
proposition.
20 acres In cultivation 2 miles
S. W. of Medford. Prlco $0000. oasy
tonus. Will exchange. Submit your
proposition.
120 ncros nlno ttiIIch from Central
Point will oxchaugo for California
proporty. Prlco $75 por aero.
87 ncrcH foothill fruit land, 8
miles N. W. of Medford, partly In
young orchard. Can ho Irrigated, 0.
room houuo. Will oxnhango for other
proporty, not nnccssarlly local, Can
puy cash dltforonco.
10-ncro tract within Vi mllo of
Medford. C acres lu .'I year old peara
lid acros hearing grapes; houso,
barn, honnory. Prlco $0000; tonus.
8.1 acres choice commercial or
chard, clouo in, ono half lu hearing;
Ideal homo slto. You'll like this.
Prlco $1000 por ucro.
I )( acres Insldo city limits on
paved stieot, room furnished hoiuio,
barn, chicken houso, all kinds of
fruit or borrles. Prlco $4fi00. For
sale or oxchaugo.
lfi-acro orchard tract within
mllo of Medford. Something choice.
Auk its,
Wo aim to handle and ad
vertise ony real bargains.
Benson Investment Co.
REAL ESTATE - MINES
ilOt (JAHNWT.COUUV l!l'jf,IHN'tt
A'Iioiich; Hell, 7001 j liopie, Mj.jf
. Valley
Second Hand Store
'Buys nml Sells Secontl-Hniul Goods,
Copper, miiiiirr, urnss, tic,
M. J. PILCKER, Prop.
15 North Fir
Home an i itdi :to7u
Clark & Wright
LAWYERS
WASHINGTON, l. O.
Public Land Matters: Klnal Proof.
Desert Lands, Coutesta and Mining
t'asoa. Scrip.
Awoclato Wok for Attorneys
REAL ESTATE
Wlllnmctto Valley Farms
of nil descriptions
Garden nml Fruit Lands, Timber
Lands.
Some excellent bargains In AI-
MANY CITY PHOPKItTY.
Wiilo or call on
J. V. PIPE,
J0!1 West Second SI.. Albany. Ore
C. A. POE
For your Repairing, of Plumblno
nnd Pumpwork.
Colls installed and guaranteed
to give satisfaction.
KsllmnteH given on Water Sup
ply System and Plumbing.
No job too hmnll or largo.
ALL WORK POSITIVELY GUAR
ANTEED. No. 24 Fir Street South.
Pacific 3702.
WOOD
COAL
ANY Ql'ANTtTY
BURBIDGE FUEL &
TRANSFER CO.
UOTH PHONICS
PLUMBING
Stoam nnd Hot Wator
Heating
All Work OimrniilxniL
1'rlrt'M KruKohiiUte.
COFFEEN & PRICE
33 Howard Slock, Entranco on Clli Ot.
FacUlo 3031. Horn 349.
Seattle Appraisals
Bovornl Medford pooplo havo
omploycd us to npprnhto Honttlo
roal oHtato, Hnch nppralaal la
usually worth moro than It cotn.
Ira J. Dodge ot Medford wan
fonnorly connected with thin of
fice Other Soattlo and Medford
rcforencea on rcquoHt.
It. C. HltHKINi: .V COMPANV
UOII New York Illk., Henttlo
(Charter Member Hcattlo Heal Kh-
tato Anmi.)
Medford Real Estate
& Employment Agency
I'ou ham::
280 acrco mllo from (lold
Hill.
180 ncros Reed grain nnd otock
ranch,
20 acrcB near Central Point S100
por aero.
100 neron d 'i mlleii out, SlftO
por aero.
Fiirnltiiro for -1 rooms, dlulioii
go with thu deal, $100.
TltADIC
IIoiihob In Lou AiikoIoh in trade
HtoeU of hardwnro in California,
$70,000 worth of proporty to
trade for ranch.
10 ncron near Contral rolnt for
houuo lu city,
MISGKhMNKOUH
Wnnt from owner, ncroaRO to
Irndo for I-o.i Angoleu proporty.
Alt liludii ot Irailon lu California.
Homoi! for nalo,
Fiimlfdiod hoiiflcn for rant,
Vacant houscu In all purto of tho
city for rent.
List your proporty with tin,
KMPLOYMENTfl
WnltroHB.
Woman to coolc on a ranch.
Cllrltt for gonorul 'housowork,
E. F, A. BITTNER
ROOMS 0 AND 7, PALM BLOCK
Opposite Naflli Hotel
I'liono IM1 1 Home, 14,
rt0t-
WHERE TO GO
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nnd the
HANTINU Ulltli
Tlnw
ThotiMlid Vn
Picture
of Motion
If voil don't IiiiikIi you aro Mick.
Three rcclx of tho lxt plelurcH In
town alwayn on hand- Ono fen
tiiio film.
HmtIii1 Mallneo Kciy Hatunlay
nud .Sunday, ii I'. .M.
i:iiilii IVi'fonimino T 1 00
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Under direction of Pcup!o Annuo
ment Company
ALWAYS IN THIS LKAII
10(10 feet of .Mnti-hlcx l'llui dOOO
"THIS KltONTUIU IMKTOU"
Powerful Wcwlorii Drama
"CAIMTHINO POLAU IIKAHS"
OroMl BporlliiK Htory
"llOVKIt IS JKALOl'S"
Clear Comedy Drama
"K.YAMINATION OP STOMACH
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lllxhly Kdncntlount
"TIIK .MAID AT THU IIKIAI"
A true lu life ntury of tho eihlUK
Klo ami (ho hrlny deep.
tiik YicvritiLogtriST'S
TltPNU"
Hide Splitting Comedy
AL SATHISIl
Tho Slider
WOOLU'OUTIIS
Tlio MumIcIuiih
Vottr Otrn (JoihI Judumeiit Will
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IIOUSU AND KION PAINTINO
Up-to-I)nto Auto nnd Cnrrlngn
Painting, flold Leaf Slgnn nud
Interior Decurntlng a Bpcclnlty.
Shop nud Offlro
K. (Jnipo nml lOlh St.
Offlco Phono 7771. Hen. 7S12.
All Work Positively Guaranteed.
TUSCAN SPRINGS
Mavliu; no rfjunl on earth In variety of
mineral water) and curing dlnonnon
that medlclucn will not roach. If ymi
aro In need of health, como now. Wo
nro open all tlio year and can gtvo tho
bent of earn and attention now an well
oh In uummer. Htago daily from Ited
Illuff to tho npringH. Furlhur par
tlcularH addrcDH
E. B. WALBRIDGE
TUSCAN HPUINjGS. GAL.
EAGLE POINT
LIVERY
STABLE
Tho uiiderHlguml having j tint
completed u largo now livery ntnblo
In Kaglo Point, wo Invito tho travel
ing public to call nnd examine our
rlgo, toamii, etc,, nil bolug In rirnl
chiHii condition. Our motto In to
Live nnd Lot Llvo, Phono nt utabto
and roiddonco. Call central.
H. 11. HAIINISII A SON. Props,
- - '
Draperies
W curry a vrry eomplnte I Inn
of ilrnpiikH, lucn curloiiiH, fix
tlircii. otc, unil ilo nil i-Iiihhch of
iipliolMlcTlnif. A itp'vlul iiiiiii lo
look nfier HiIh work cxi'limlvely
nail will kIvh ii h itdoil iiorvlco tin
IH IIIIHIOII! 1(1
IlirKI'Ht I'Ul'H.
gel la oven tlio
WI;I;I(S & NcGOWAN C8.
IF YOU OWN
A LOT
Wo will build you a homo on
monthly payments.
MEDFORD REALTY AND IM
PROVEMENT COMPANY
M, F. nml II. Co, Dullillni)
M. 4 A Alt