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The mouth pf the Rogue river,
eonio hundred mlloa down strearn
from JnckBon county. Is one of the
moil plcturcstjuo spots In the entire
northwest. It Ilkowlso possesses the
finest clltnato t)n the const, being al
most the only spot north of southern
California free from gray days and
fog, where the sun shines through
tho pumnier season almost contlnu
outly. In addition to these lures, it
offers tho finest rod and lino salmon
Wishing of any place In the west. The
Mr fish, frequently weighing 60 nnd
TO pounds, readily take the spoon
during the latter part or August, and
in Soptcmher, and fight like a trout,
leaping again and again into the air.
Tho only drawback to Wcddcrburn
is its present Inaccessibility. It can
bo reached by auto from Crescent
City, Cal or from Marshflcld, Or.,
or by horseback on tho government
trr-l down tho Hoguc river from Cal
ico. Or tho trip can be made by
Ken in the gasolino launches which
ply upon regular schedule to Port
land and coast points. However, tho
prnporcd extension of tho Southorn
Puclflc syetcm from Eureka to Coos
Hay will remedy the transportation
problem, as tlio survey runs through
this region.
Location of Towns
On tho south side of tho llogue is
Cold Reach, county scat of Curry
county. On tho north Is Wcdder
liurn, at which Is located tho can
jiory, hotel, merchandise Mores, resi
dences and other possessions former
ly owned by tho late H. D. Hume,
now tho property of tho Maclcay es
tate, of which Roderick Macjcay of
Port'and is president.' The cannery
and allied institutions give employ
ment to tnirty people, and 100 are
employed directly und indirectly In
fishing. For the stores (one at Ag
jiow), hotel, blacksmith nnd machine
ehop, ranches, hatchery, etc.. twenty
tlvo moro aro employed. 11. Mori
dith whlso photograph appears among
pfe'ures showing him holding u GO
pound salmon, In. resident manager
for tho property. fc
Fishing Is thu niulil 'Industry, 28,
000 cans of chluook being packed In
1914, nu against 30.000 Hume pack
ed in 1910, und 06,000 packed In
J HOG. The dccrcarc is dun to the
Htrlngcnt regulations and unfavor
able restrictions.
Farming nud stock-ralsluginre also
chief occupations and cxtonslvo de
velopment efforts aro being made to
settle up the region. About t 15,000
worth of land has been Bo'd on time
payments to actual bottlers tho past
Bcason, and thoy are all Improving
their pluccs. Fifteen families havo
recently settled on theso tracts of
land.
Developing Country
'.Next year the enterprises will bo
extended, an thu Macleayu are devel
opers and not spocnlatorH. They ex
pect to do un extensive business In
tan oak bark, podar railroad tlos as
well as operate' a cheese factory.
Tho black sunds of the bars and
bcacheB contain much gold and an
exteuslvo drodglng apparatus will bo
installed,
At Wcdderburn, town, school, ho
tel, store, fishing rights, salmon can
nery, lumbor mill, big herds of cat
tle and sheop, extensive stock range,
fertile fields under cultivation and
vast tlmbor resources aro under ono
ownership. Whl'o the estate Is a
property which stands by Itself and
could exist alone and Independent of
the rest of the county within tho
bounds of 1(8 own fences and water
ways, that Is not the policy of the
present owners, The whole propprty
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I). Hume, who was known as "The the river there aro fertile bottom
King of the Rogue River" Tho en- lands backed li rolling hills rich In
tnto was purchased by tho Macleay ' grasH and used for grazing Farther
Interests of Portland In March, 1110,
.Mr. Hume devoted many enrs It
adding to his holdings and ncinlrliu
additional IhimIk and rights. Rut tin
present owners are developing afirt
have started to opm the landn foi
settlement,
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After Mr. Hume's death und be
lore the property pasred Into tin
hands of the present ownen, the
buildings wero much run down. Mr.
Mac'eay has expended many thous
ands of dollars repairing thu build
ings, putting up now ones whero
needed and building fences. There
aro now twenty-six miles of fencos
on tho farms. Moro luud has been
put under cultivation than ever be
fore. As a farm tho whole place has
been put In u workable condition and
pending the time of settlement the
property Is operated as one big farm.
Improvements have likewise been
made in the town of Wedderburn,
which Is opposite (iold Reach, the
county seat, and connected by means
of a forry ucross Rogue river. Mr.
Macleay had the hotel opened so
there would bo accommodations for
tho fishermen who wunted to board,
or for travelers, and now hoiibes for
employes and other needed buildings
have been erected. '
J,o00 Aries In Tract
The property consists of about 1C(
000 acres, abqut f000 of which aro
farming and grazing lauds. It ex
tends from tho ocean up Rogue rlvor
for about twelve ml'es, the estute
owning both sides of tho river for
practically the entlro dlajaucu. Alout;
up the river are timbered lauds. On
'ho M,tiito there uro about I "ft ouo,
000 feet of standing tlmlwr, but Ii
addition there Is a largo amount of
Imbor which Is on adjoining laud
and which mutt Qvcn'.inlly find Iti
way through the Rogue river. Th
sawmir In Woddcrburu run cut 50,
000 feet of luinl or a day. It has m
far only brcu used for furnishing
lumber for the citato and the local
demand, but when the lumber mar
ket warrants It could be operated
regularly. Mr. Macleay plans that ho
can build boats which can cross the
bar of tho rlvor and carry 200,000
feet of lumber economically.
Wild IMcliircMjuo Reality
Many claim for the lower Rogue
rlvor that It Is one of tho most pic
turesque parts of Oregon, There Ik
ono place on thu Macleay property
which Mr. Macleay claims affords as
fine a view ac can bo enjoyed In the
stato. On tho top of a hill at an ele
vation of 800 feet ono can, without
moving morn than turning the head,
look In ono direction ovor cultivated
fields, over tho river und town and
grazing lunds dotted with sheep and
catt'o; in another direction at moun
tains 3500 feet high; while In still
another direction ono can view miles
of the oeoun beach and expanse.
Tho fa nil management of the es
tate la quite a big IiiihIiiohh. Many
hundred acres of land have been
plowed and placed undr cultivation,
sheep by the thousands are herded
over the hllln nnd hundreds of caMlo
aro grazed. It Is the Intention of the
ownera to cut down tho number
, i
he
sheep to perhaps 1000 or 3000 and
go more Into tho cattle business to
save the pasturea from tho cIomi for
aging of the sheep which have fur
yearn pa:.t been raUeil In Curr)
count). Tbore are ueveial .fparatt
ranches which are numbered, but
there Is one main ranch about three
miles from tho town which Is th
hondquarlerK rjf the farming. Here
ire located the foreman's house,
quarters for the farm oiiip'oyes big
barns, hurness uhnp. blaekHiuIth
shop, (Iilekeu houses, piggeries and
every kind of building needed on a
farm, numbering fifteen or twenty In
all.
There is a first class slaughter
ho ii be and a Hheoji-shearing entail
llHhmont. Kvery kind of machinery
upcdcd for modern farming Is to bo
found.
In addition to the whoop, wool and
cattle produced, hoge are raised on
a large ncalo. When ready for mar
ket thoy can bo shipped to any port
on the small giisollnu ocean-going
schonuei'H which regularly inako the
port, drain crops and general fann
ing are Important factors,
Salmon Mslilng liiipoitaut
From a business standpoint tho
salmon flfhlug and packing Is the
most Important feature of tho big es
tate. In fact It affords the only big
payroll for tnat part of tho county,
and each year does uiiich In giving
employment to tho people and circu
lating cash. As high as ?1 00,000 Is
paid out by the company In a fish
ing season.
The Roguo river salmon aro fam
ous for their quality and tho Wed.
dei burn Trading compuny Iiuh every
facility (or catchlug und packing .the
fish. The flshermon are paid 50
cents each for chluook salmon and
the company furnishes tho fishing
gear in onormoim warehouses uro
iirpt evci) thing that tua be iiemK'd
In fishing. Tlio (oinpanj owns about
'1'iD big mitK The cannery has boor
equipped with the moxi modern mn
eliluery, experts are In charge ol
the departments and f'hlnameii niv
Imported fur much of the work In
the cannery, Tho plant Is built
along big 'AharfH and (onxIxtH of u
number of buildings, Including a
modern cold storage plant.
Cannery ittlliiw I'liiiit
The salmon Is put up In attractive
shape In cans and also a largo
amount Is mild cured and packed In
tierces. All through the season fish
erinon uro at work on thu river and
receive money for the fish while tho
cannery Is a busy place taking euro
of the catch and shippjiig out on
HchooiieiH the finished product. La
ter on In October ellverMdoH are
caught and canned, On account of
the existing laws of the statu tlio
Roguo rlvor salmon fishing Is c on
ducted under disadvantages not suf
fered at other fishing places nu the
coast.
After Scptonibor I the fish are not
as good and do not bring as good u
price as earlier lu tho year. Until
that time only gill lints can be used,
Koines can only he used after Sep
tember I, when tho fish ore not o
good.
There are also reitrlctloiis regard
ing steolhouds. They cannot be
caught during the summer, This is
because tho people of tho upper
Roguo river wunted to protect the
game flub,
Jackson County
Climate
The climate of .lucluou county
mn bo hi. whul Judued b Its In
cation und surn'tiiidliigii. Doing all
Killed webt or the tillged ('flHcmlt
motinlMln and with a compMrntlvult
low hltltude, irVltonuo Klvir vad
I as the hiiiiio mild e liuate found
along thu entire Pacific coast, from
Piigct round to southern California,
due to the Influence of tho sarin Ja
pan ocean currents. The winter
months aie mild, (be slight snow
fall In the Rogue Itlwr valley usual
ly melting very rapidly. Tho greater
part of the precipitation Is In tlio
form of ruin, averaging between
twent) and twenty-eight Inches an
tiually, ur oiillug to the location III
the valley, ami coming mainly In the
fall, the winter and spring seasons.
Only occasional light showers may be
expected during the summer months,
Theio are on the iiveiago from 270
to 280 days of sunshine dining the
j ear. There Is almost always u
bieezo during thu suuiiuer days,
which uicwfteu warm, but never hot.
Also, the humidity Is almost always
very low, modifying the summer
beat, The mimmer nights uro iihii
ii. ly eomfoitubly cool. The lowest
temperature ever recorded In the
Rogue River valley was three de
grees below zero, while the average
minimum temperature during the
winter Is Just belo'v the freezing
point, about III degrees Farhenhelt.
Damaging winds aro not experienced
lu tho Roguo Rlvor valley.
Mcdford Water
System
(ID W. .1. Roberts. C. K.)
Tbi'ie are three points In tlm gaiiiu
of municipal water supply: (Juantlt),
-1 I ct 1 1 1 and iont. .Medfoul won en
ill three points,
The quantity do lereit at the city
reservoir exceeds the original esti
mate b) a third: the quality Is better
than was originally proposed, and
finally, the total cost of tho gravity
portion wan $;i-',000 lesa than the
MOO.ODO allowed.
An Isiiuo of :i(!5,000 of bonds
was authorized lu May,- 1U0K, of
which i!5,000 was to be used for
cast-Iron pipe within tho city pioper
for distribution, hydrants and acces
sories, and $:IOO,000 was allowed for
the gravity supply and reservoir,
The citizens of Mndford may welt
be proud of their water supply. CSo
belter water Is furnished any city lu
the state,
The supply Is adequate for 20,000
pontile without restrictions, and fig
ured upon such averages as apply lu
the middle west, jhu quantity dally
delivered to tin; distributing reser
voir go a little' lower, and gravity
syntonic Is sufficient for 25,000 to
;li. 01)11 people,
In this connection It may be In
teresting to nolo that the average cost
of a municipal water supply for cit
ies of this class Is not far from $50
per capita. Pumping systelus uro n
little higher, Mcdford'H gravity
supply has cost less than $50 per
capita of picBout population,