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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1913)
MTrWOTlT) MATT, TRTBUNT5, MEDFOHD, OK HO ON. WttnXKSnAV, JANITARV 1. WW. w ,fxo iwanT ! . . , . ' ' Millions Invested in Rogue River Power Plants Power facilities of tlio ItoRiie Rlyor valley are greater than thoso of any region in thn northwest. Abundant power has been developed to supply the valley's needs for year. Farm ln by electricity lit an accomplished fact. Tower and light lines are ex tending and being extended to all parts of the valley. The year 1912 witnessed tho com pletion of tho first unit at tho Prov pect power plant at n cost ot $7C0, 000, generating 8000 horsepower. Tho plant Is planned for flro such units, developing 40,000 horsepower at comparatively alight additional expenditure. Tho location Is an Ideal one. A dhortlng dam takes the water out of tho Rogue river. It Is carried In a flumo a mllo In length across a pumlco flat and dropped almost ver tically In a steel pipe over GOO feet over a precipice, Tho poln lino Is of unusually heavy construction and designed tor a volt ago of CG.000 volts. Tho poles aro forty feet long and spaced thirty to tho mile, the wires are No. 10 strand ed aluminum cable and aro carried on Insulators fourteen Inches In di ameter and weighing thirty-threo i pounds each. Tho pioneer power plant at Gold Hay generating 5,000 horsepower, Is used for emergency purposes. Companies Consolidated The CallfornlaOregon rower com pany was formed by tho consolidation ct a number ot small lighting and power companies In southern Oregon and northern California, tlio most Im portant ot which was the Blsklyou Electric Power company of Yreka, Cal.; the Klamath Falls Light & Wa ter company of Klamath Pulls, Or., and tho Rogue River Electric com-j pany of Medford, Or. The transmission lines of the California-Oregon Power company extend from tho Greenback mine, twenty mlleh north of Grants Pass, Or., on the north, to Ounsmulr and Costclls, Ca., on the south, and Fort Jones. CaJ on tho west to Klamath Falls end Bonanza, Or., on tho cast, reach ing ovory Important town In Joseph ine, Jackson and Klamath counties In Oregon and Siskiyou county, Califor nia. There being In all about 300 ' miles of high-tension transmission lines In the territory served by the company, supplying the following cit ies: Oregon Grants Pass. Rogue River, Gol4 Hill, Tolo. Central Point, Jacksonville, Eagle Point. Medford, Phoenix, Talent, Ashland, Klamath Falls, Merrill, Bonanta. California Yreka, Montague, Dor- rls, Etna, Weed, Dunsmulr, Horn brook, Fort Jones, Greenvlew, Slsson, Costclla. Fire rower riant Tbero are five power plants In op eration on the system: Gold Ray and Prospect In Oregon, and Shasta river. Fall creek and Klamath Falls, in Cal ifornia, with a sixth plant under con struction on the Klamath river, at Ward canyon, Siskiyou county, Cali fornia. All five of the power plants aro operated at once on the lines ot tho company, giving a more steady and reliable source of power than when ono plant alone Is operated. Any one of tho five plants can disconnect from tho lino at any time and shut down for repslra. If necessary, without ef fecting the other four plants. During tho past four mouths a numbor of changes huvo been made in tho switching system controlling the transmission lines and In cabo ot a defect in tho line at any point tho defective section can bo at onco cut out and servlco supplied from the plants nearest tho break until tho damaged portion of tho Hue can bo repaired. 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A modern Tungsten lamp, delivering sixteen candlo power, con sumes only twenty watta per hour, and at tbo present prlco ot enrrent ten cents a thousand, four hundred hours' uso of a sixteen candle power lamp can bo secured for ono dollar, or four tlin oi as much as was posslblo ! ten years ago, The uso of Tungsten lamps makes ' a marked decrease in the uso ot clec-i trie current for lighting and makes posslblo the oxtenslvo uso of electric heating and cooking appliances. In tho ltoguo Itlver valley there arc now over ono huudrcd families that ' are doing all their oooklng by means I of elect) le curron it. and therb aro I more who aro mnk- several hundred more i ii Meqtord, UjijaUott oey, wltlvb ha jugt IV 4 . I .- " t N t Stxr - ; ).' 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Tho motto of tho Callfornla- Oregon Power company Is, "Cook by Wire." and thoy predict that tho tlmo been aU?d la he supreme csurjt Ham nml Power Plnnt. in rra liifci H II IIMilHM I .- Prnhect Power l(oue, Hlioulug' .10(1 Fool Vertical Prci Is rapidly coming when every family lull tho water for baths, luvutorlus In tho ltoguo Itlver valley wl'hlti I anil Ulicheus by olrctrlc heaters, reach of tho electric wrvlco lines wt'l t Irrigation by iiiimiih of pumping Indeed "Cook by Wire." Cleetrlc Homing Electric houtlng Is tho latitat appli cation ot tho electric current, and a great Improvement has been tnuilo lu electric heating appliances In tho last few j ears. This uso of electric cur rent Is bolng developed In southern Oregon as nowhere else lu tho Unit ed Statos, being used In a Urger num ber of rases for office rooms, store rooms where onllio residences uro heated by electric boat. Anothor now dovalopmont Is tho electric water boater that Is connect ed In series with tlio witter pipes and lwatH tho witter for tho ordinary range or kitchen boiler. A number of resilience on tho power com pany's linos uso this moans of heat ing water itnd throe litrgn hotels hnut -Ma cost of I3S.000 thero (s now being constructed across Hour crook near tho heart or HiIh city, u concretu brldgo which promlson to bo ono of tho most handsome structures of Its kind In tho state. Tho county pays 118.000, tho city JKI.SOO, and tho Pacific & Kastorn railroad 12,000 for the privilege of laying Us tracks bo low It. Tho brldgo Is of concrete through out. Cluster lights udorn thn para pets on either side. Its center Is paved with asphalt, and tho city, with an eyo to tho future, had car trucks laid along Its conter In orilor that the bridge nood not be damaged whon a street car lino Is laid. Contractor E, G. Porhant, has charge of tho work and Is doing a splendid Job, Tho strticturo will be completed March 1, 101.'!, and will link tho city closely together. Work on tho bridge was deloyed until wiutor owing to suit being In stituted to check it. A supremo court decision miHtalnod Medford's position and work was started lute this fall. r asy -'twrwf f 3 v. . ' HV s. (' nA LP'" ' ' JMt fi SIBWsvSBHbbbbbHbbbPp'?' A ! MsCtf JigvWfflriiTBssBBri Ng: WagMittCa:'? B?tgaig.SM za-. mmsmatBassssn, insm i'V.1?- ? : ,r l.&i rV' T k,. WS-rn --- -' V i plants oporaUd by electric motors Is rapidly growing lu favor In southern Oregon. Gravity ditches aro often expensive to build mid keep up and In many cases It Is Impossible to ob tain a supply of water by gravity; but tho electric pump can bo Installed wherever thero Is a well, spring or small stream, Is easy to Install and economical to operate and requires practically no attention except to open unit close tho switch operating the motors. The California-Oregon I'ower company has ono pumping plant at Gold Ilay with a twelve-Inch pump having a cupaclty of two thou sand gallons u in 1 it ti to thut delivers water through about six miles of plpo lino to an elevation of two hun dred feet it ho vo tho pumping plant ami capublo of pumping water enough for three thousand unres of laud. On tho company n IIiich In California aro several largo pumping plants pump ing wuter from ono hundred to threo hundred feet high uud some of tho plants capable of pumping water for ten thousand ncnu of land. Tint Hundred Piimr In tho Itogun Itlver ulley -about two hundred small pumping outfits huvo been Initialled, ranging In uUn from small outfits, pumping (rout a well for household uso to lurgor'out fits capable or Irrigating twenty to forty uerfs of orchard, Tho Irriga tion problem of tho foothills will probably bo solved by means of tho electric pump; iih, given a water sup ply, tho electric pump will deliver wa ter through long lines of plpo to any holght desired. Elertrlc mototrs arn being lined for lutiumerablo power purposes, Includ ing tho operation o( QttarU mills, liiarrl(iH and brick yards, planing mills, box factories uud lco plants, and tho time Is not fur distant when a largo quantity of electric power will bo needed for intcrurbun roads In this torrltory. Ouo thousand horso power or elec tric powor from tho plnnt -at Pros pect, Or., goeH to oporato tho Wood Liiunbor Co, nt Weed, Cal., this com pany having found that thy could uyym tt-- v i,r rpni-trwwfl tt!Pr4 V ' v,,,:Wi -r tnnke nil actual saving In operation by fchlppliig thnlr slabwood and sentp material to San FrancUco ami Moil ing it for fuel, Instead of burning It umlcr boilers for fuel, and using elec tric power to operatu their plant. The California-Oregon power com pany during the season of 1912 has built over fifty tulles or distributing linen along tho country roads ot tho Itogun Ulvor valley, mipp!)lng elec tric current to ranches, orchards and rou it try li onion, the owners of which are quick to reallio that electric cur rent Is no longer a luxury, but a nr censlty, and that as labor Is uncertain and high-priced every labor-saving device lit the home and on the much Instead of being an uxpensn is n true economy. Finest Fly Fishing in the World (lly Walter F. Hack us.) Wo hnv soino good average fish lug near Portland. Anyone with n fair knowledge of the country can get trout fishing within 30 miles of thn city. In tho spring months wo huvo salmon fishing that Is considered mighty good nport. Hut If you wunt to know what real fishing Is, you must go to southern Oregon and tackle an eight-pound steclhend trout lu tho ltoguo river. It will make you forgot any other fishing you ever had, nud If you are lucky enough lo get several days of this royal sport, It will spoil you for any other kind of angling. At least, that's what it did for mo. Ever) thing is on a big sculo. You hnvo to wndo to tho very limit, rnst every foot of lino uu run (Kisslbly get out, nnd thou handle flo or ten pounds ot tho gnmevl triftit flesh that over broke . man's tackle. There's nothing euny about this stcellieud fly fishing. It's hard work, every min ute of it, hut for tho tuuii who enjoys righting a big fish on it fly rod, It's worth nil tho energy it rosis. Ntot'lheud Trout l-'lililuir. I'nlijuo In tho tlrst plnco tho fishing Is (jtilto different from ordinary trout fly fishing, Tho stcelhoads aro found In a different sort of water, and tuku too fly In a manner (iilto unlike tho rainbow or cutthroat trout. You may bo a Hiitrossful fly risher mail on tho average niouiitiiln htroani, and then fish the ltoguo for it week without hooking a single steolhotd, Tho experienced ltoguo flslioriiinn will walk along the Nlreiim, comploto. ly IgnorliiK plucea that look vnry promising to thn amateur, nnd pick out spot iiftor spot where tho Moid heads urn sum to bo hiding. You don't find thorn in ordinary gravel bottom rlrfles, nor in deep, swirling eddies, but wherever thero In a solid bedrock bottom, with crock and grooves scattered through It, and six or eight feet or water running ovor It at u inodorato puce, then look out for trouble. Cust your fly tUralghl across tho current, and lot It hwlng qulotly around until It straightens out be low you. Don't try to klp It alonjr tho surface or glvo It any motion whatever. Just lot It null quietly along, until It suddeuly dlsuppeurs, und you fool it tug thut makes your blood tlnglo c!our down to your toon. Afternoon' Hport Is (Ircnt I hud a grand nftornoou'H sport on tho ltoguo about ten miles nbovn Medford, At this point thero was nn iiniiHiiilly long and houvy rapid, und Just abovo thin fust water was tho finest lot of bedrock I have ovor soon. Tho channel hero was probably a hundred feet throes, wltU an nvorago M"4Ml!f . lk T - f. '--. h; pm K8 Tho lino eslenslons bttllt by the company In tho itugun Itlver valley lit 1912 cost over fifty thousand dollars. Among tho extensions contemplat ed for next srasou are: A service line for electric llglttand power down the Applegatn from Jacksonville to Grants Pass, nn extension of the main transmlxklou Hues trout Grants Pass to Prospect, and front Pronpsct to Klamath Palls, giving two complete line for trannnilnnlnn of power front imicIi plant to any town on the system, A number of shorter lines lu tho Itogun Itlver valley aro conletup)aUd lit 1913, and oiperlal effort will. In' made in run servlcn lines wherever there is a prospect of electric pump ing for Irrigation. depth of perhaps eight feet. There was quite a swirl to tho water, but I rould dimly see a series of crevices III tho bedrock that looked very Reed tndeed. Ho I put on a No. i Gristly King, uud sent It flouting over the pool, No response nt first, so I grsd itully lengthened the line until 40 feel wax Hying through thn air. Then tho fly settled a little farther out, drifted ii yard or two when bang!- and my rod bent double and tho reel began fairly to scream. Out of tho water he came, looking so big thut ho fairly scared me, ami then he tuudo it straight shoot for the rapids below. Down ho went to thn very brink, taking out lino until my reel looked pretty sick, Hero he stopped long enough to let mo wsdn ashore, and I was then nblo to fight him or. oven terms. After ten min utes or plunging, during which ho thrcatoiuil to go over tho falls sever al times, I finally drew him ashore. I had no scutes at hand to weigh, hint Just then, but after hanging up lu the warm nlr nil day, ho weighed a strong eight pounds In tho evening, so you fun see ho was "somu flab." Four Mitre PrUes Taken Then I went ut It again, using first tho Grizzly King, and at times thn yellow body gray buckle, and In tho next hour landed four more out of tho snmo witter, none of which weigh ed less than four pounds. About this tlmo they quit striking, and I went ushoro to rest until the evening shad ows reached tho upper end of tho pool, which I had not flshod. This portion of tlio water wan more diffi cult to teach. After wading nut to thn edgo of deep water I found that the choicest part of the pool wus still above me. Tho sin was now behind tlm trees, ho put on it No.. 6 Itoyul Cnsnuiiiiu, uud begun dry-ratillng It diagonally up stream. Jt sottM Just hoyoijd tho edgo of a bedrock roof and ramn drifting down toward me. Tho wntor was fairly clour und quiet, uud I felt sure I could see uny fish that might rise. Hut thuw. big 'fel lows must bo mi fnt as they ore ntrotig, for Just as I wus about to re trieve the coNt thero won a Httsplclouti boll near tho fly, It disappeared, and I struck Just In tlmo to hook a regu lar whopper, Ht might Into the ur ho went, throe tlmwi within 10 sec onds, tho last tlmo falling so ttou thut ho splashed water all ovor me. Hut tho llttlo hook hold firm, und ho cumo ushoro in duo order, After a fow minutes' rcqt, I went at It uguln, getting two moro, ono on 0,11 iipHtreum cast of f ully 40 foot, which Is something tinuauartor steeU head fishing. Medford Is tho homo of tho major ity of tho steolheud fly fishermen, and thoy aro a most onthttslustlo lot. Thoy think thoy huvo tho finest fly fishing In tho United Htnteos, and I nm inclined to itgrio wllt tUont,- J T J I Ik. .1,. ft MMMMSMiMH0tfci4ijTfa ai wTu!Tii1wii iitijiX j t 'in .e'aiV .i .. .