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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1915)
jt -. fi MEBFOTW fATTi TRiniTNE, "MEDFOHD, (TRITON, VRfDAY, JANUARY 1, 1015 PAGE EIOIIT; T Forests Primeval Line Jackson County Hig SpyKkjuf-jp &fy ffcj & t-yw r -,jV" ..I., .1, ' " ,.JJW hways T 4 TInKIt WKAIiTIl GHKAT 4 Thoro nro In Jackson county, Oregon, today as BlnndlnR timber moro than 20, 000,000,000 (cot available tor mnnuractu rln ft purposes, and at the present prlco of labor It coBts $8 per 1000 (cet to manufacture tho name into lumber. In order to manufacture tho Available stand ring timber In Jackson coilnly into lumber at the rata of 500, 000,000 feet per annum, it -will aroqulro forty years to cut the -present stana; and tho Increas ed growth of tim ber In Jackson county would off set a manufac-, turcd product of tho timber stand in: of 600,000, 000 feet per year. If thero wero 500.000.000 feet of timber manu luruber in Jack eon county at tho c.st or $8 per '1000 feet, it would represent an outlay In lab or of $4,000,000 par annum, and it would require 'C000 men work ing each day to turn out the pro duct. For tho manu facture of this timber, a saw mill and box factory at Med--ford are being financed by Kd gar S. Hafer In co-operation with local business mon and orchard Ists, to the end that all Rogue river fruit, that is estimated to require over a million boxes a year, will be shipped in homo manufa cturod boxes. Develop m e n t of the timber re sources of south ern Oregon In the hands of tho government will probably tako place rapidly within tho next few years, no doubt much more quickly than the timber In pos session of prlrato ownors. Of the 20,000.. 000,000 feet of standing timber in Jackson coun ty, more than one-half of it Is in tho hands of private owners. Yet tho lumber ing Industry In Jackson county is In Its Infancy, whilo it should bo foremost among all Industries In tho .county. In Bomo futuro tlmo It certainly will bo, but such development depends on bettor transportation facilities. Own ers of largo tracts of flmbor have bo much capital Involved In tho nc qulrofcnt of their holdings that thoy are reluctant to Invebt heavier In the construction of railroads In order to set their timber to market. Market values for lumbor have constantly boon increasing and they feel it a good Investment to continue holding thplr timber. Tho govern ment Is willing to sell Its mature timber at any time, and Its recently fire killed timber It is ndvertUing for sale now at extraordinary low prices and in large enough bodies to warrant the construction of rail roads to the timber. Tho Pacific & Eastern railroad al ready touches tho timber belt of Upper Rogue river, and tho railroad proposed. t tlie?llluo Jedgo copper V HUf ' 11 1 Tnf ill ' "T JwSKKHRS -h! kj. iLvf lr 4 .IBBTfMIilrWrMBnBsMfeSF t jtavyNI Atwt9l. wsMHBBtBsK.W'rBBr' irfVi VfVB- j ft t tAi f Air ( yjcSfJmBfKKK S Sfll tfC .Mr a fK. to Wi w Bl whiiiht liui: riu). TIIOTION Tho Timbered Wealth of JaiUon roiinty Comprises oirr Twenty .Million IV.t of .Mcnlimitulile TIiiiImt. Pilnclpully Kiigor will Yullnw Pine, Do ugl" I'lr, llen.loiK, Irfiiili, etc. Ono f tho chief features of tho federal gov orniuont'ii fl prolnctlon work In tho northwest, Iihh been the es tablishment of lookout station upon tho natural peaks of tho reg ion penkn vary ing from 2000 t over 3000 feel In elevation, Tho equipment of thelje peaks with tho neces sary qunrlern for a lookout man has, In some ln stnnres, almost reached tho I(C nlty of an engi neering feat. Till In trim of tho lookout station on top of lllack HocK fountain on tho UinpquR National Forest In oulhernNOr gon. Thin moun tain Is r,B0 ftl high, and the sta tion Is built oh the bare rocky, summit. On tho (Jrrtler forest In south ern Orexon, thero are 12 lookout points, tho chief of which aro Wagner Hullo, 7 tfiO feel In ele vation, Uuitlur I'oak, C200 teat, and Itoblnson Unite. fiOOO feet. Wagner llutte In on tho divide be tween Rogue- ahil Klamath rlv;pi, and commands a lnw of Hear rrHik valley, Medford, Ash land, Talent and other towns. On Hdlilncoii Ilutle, the ranger linn dnlsed an ori ginal lower by boring a spiral lino of two inch ahgitr holes In a Mg tree, driving In yew pegi, and connecting their oiitnliln enits with fir poles partly sawed through to mako them pli able. Lookout sta tions are fitted nut with tele phone, for tho telephone system on tho National foroiitN forms n network of linen connecting all tho Important admin istrative Rites. Koine lookout Pplnts. however, are 10 Inaccess Iblo that tho 'cost of stretching ,a tolophono lino would bo prohi bitive ' Tho past sea son has demon strated boyotld doubt the benefit of a system of lookouts, , I I mines will open up tho vast timbered I region of tho Siskiyou range. Tho milling of tho lumber from these great forests will bo reduced to minimum cost becnuso of tho un limited water power afforded by Roguo rhor and Iintto cieek on tho ono hand and by tho Applegate, Lit tle Applegate, Joo and Hlllott creoltH on tho other. All tho merchantable timber In cluded In this cfitlmato Is of first grado. The trees aro long-bodied, towering from 100 to 300 feet, the straight brown trunks free of limbs for many feet up. , Ashland's environment present a charm seldom met with jn Uuropeun tours, for It combines. In a be witching degice, both rugged moun tain and quiet pastoral scenes not awe Inspiring like the Alps, but of superb beauty aspect appealing stiongly to aesthotlo natures anil quloiliig lo sensntlvo norves, Ashland Mineral Springs Development (My Hert It. (Ireer, Chairman Ash land .Springs Water Commission.) The Roguo rler willoy is destined i-oon to become famous us a tourist resort, as she has long boon us a deciduous fruit region. Nature has placed, In the lclnlty of Ashland, flowing from her hillsides and cleft banks of mountain stieums, about -10 mineral springs, gaseous and rudlo-artlve, of marvelous heal ing power and high mineral constit uents combined and inoi tured In her own secret laboratory. These nro grouped In a radius of 12 miles and are privately owned and held at high values, although llttlo developed. Those mineral waters havo been long locoghlzed as Ashland's great est resouico, but pilvato cnpltnl If Itlmlil and few of them huvo boon piaetlcnllv utilised. About a year ago mlucial water develonment was started as u muni- (clpal enterprise, Heiuch wns mudo I anil five now sprlngH discovered by tho city and nro now owned by it: ono of Ilthla, earning higher llthla content than any other natural min eral water In the world, save onoj another of Iron, magnesia and soda; ono of sulphur, ono hundred degrees thermal; one of soda and llthla com bined and ouo of carbon dlnrlde gas. Resides these, sulphur springs, both cold and thermal, abound In the cor porate limits of tho city. Two of them havo been utilized for ears for bathing and drinking purpose:) and well appointed natatorlums, equipped with swimming pools and hot mid cold tub and shower baths, mo In suciossfiil operation. HohIiIi.s highly mluentlUed waters this legion abounds In carbon dlo- jxldn gus springs. The sumo charac ter of gas now being utilized In baths at Kuropean spas with splendid re sults In tho treatment of heait dis eases, gout and cceinii Ashland waters havo proven beneficial iih well, used Internally, for stomach and kidney affections, nnd the sulphur and gns baths havo many rheumatic ciiich to their credit. Analyses and careful comparison, both as to mlnoial components and piactlrnt results, discloses Ashland wators as not Inferior, If not superior In curative value, to the wnters of Had Nouhelm, Kisslugon and Carls bad, Tho combination or highly mineralized water, with sueh Ingiod IrnilH as occur hoio, mid carbon dio xide gas, especially waters tlassud iih allclllne, Is now icxognled by tho medical piofemilim generally as of great vliuio In treatment of numer ous tiffed Ioiim, both external and In ternal. When It Ik lomumbuied that but one eastern Hpilng entries car bon dioxide gas tho superior vlitue of Ashlund waters over all other Amoilrnn wateis for medicinal uso becomes at once nppuniu'.. Last Juno tho city of Atliland au thorized a bond Issue of 1175,000 for the further developmo'it und uti lisation or ItH flvu mineral itptlngH, In ltn new Llthla paik, embracing 07 acres Just above Its present Plaza paik. A magnificent wntor tomplo, tho fluent or ItH kind In America, Ih now planned and will be at onto con structed and tho new park developed to a high degice for beaut v and com fort. Hand conceits afternoon nnd evening will bo a font urn of enter tnlnment after the first or Juilo. Plana mo now under way for u flii bo new totirlittjiotol to cost about $lp0, 000 complete, with broad verandas and tho last, word In appointment un'! porvho, nud a modern water curb Miiiltarlum, ''under supervision of sklllo physicians. The plan of operation now roico at Carlsbad, Austria, will followed hero, An attractive feature of tho park development Is n freo automobla camp ground, with sanitary ap pointments, cooking ovens, free wood and all tho Conveniences that mako camp life pleasurcable, , A numbor of attractlvo sconlo drives wl(h iong safo curves and cany grades aro laid out along tho bluffH of Ashland canyon, ono of them semi-circling tha city for 15 tulles, The splendid example In permanent loud construction set by tho Jnclcson county court In reducing tho grade on tho Pacific highway over tile summit of tho Blsklyous will bo followed in this now development.