PAGE FOUR
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, PRECOX, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1910
AlEDtORD MAIL TRIBUNE
NlNIvi:PBNI)KNT NEWSPAPER
PUBLISIIK1J KVBKY AKTKHNOON
EXCEPT KUN1IAY BY THE
MICDKOHU J'MNTINO CO
Office Mall Tribune riullillnu. 25-27-28
Kortb Kir Htrvet; televliono 75.
Tho Domocmtle Tlinrx, the Meilford
Mall. Th Meuford Tribune, The Kouth
arn Oreuonlun The AsliUinil Tribune.
GKOnOE PUTNAM, Editor
snBSCBrprioif bates:
One year, by mail
One month, by mall
Per month, delivered by earlier In
Medford. lJhoenlx, Jacksonville
nnd Central point
Saturday only, by mail, per year.... 2.00
Weekly, per year ' '
Official. Paper of the City of Medford.
Official Paper of Juclmon County.
Entered aa fM'Cond-t'luas matter nl
Medford, Oregon, under the act of March
I, 1879..
Sworn Circulation for 1916 246
Full IraHed wlro Associated Press dla-ratchea.
EM-TEES
. TOYIjAM) TAMi
Di; C1IAHI-KS II. DRISCOLL
Suld toyland dear to the little drum
"1 do wish Santa Claua would sonic!
I want to tell the dear, old man,
About my little Clirlatimia plan.
You see, I've eat hero on tho shelf.
And though It out all by myself;
want to ko to somo poor kid
Who has no toys nor Sunday lid!"
"Why sure! ".tho llttlo drum replied,
As he rolled over on his side,
"You want to ro where you will be
Tho entire show, and so do wo!
nut Santa Clans knows all this stuff,
lie's old, I guess and wise enough;
lie knows that rich kids too, must
play.
On overhearing nil this talk,
I very quickly took a walk,
And aa 1 hurried throtiKh thu door
I found this note upon the floor:
"Dear Santa ' Claus My dad has
dough,
But that Is not my fault," you know.
Please don't forget us poor rich boys,
When you're distributing your toys."
WOW
We see a Oorman U-boat sank a
battloshlp because It was "Sufreru"
and French.
KAltliK
Once upon a tymo thoro was a mov
ing picture that had an artist In his
luxurious studio pointing a portrait
of a woman and when ho finished yo
portrait, It really looked like hor.
OI,l) STUFF
In a theatrical ad
"Posltlvoly tho Inst appearance In
Araorlca."
m m
A Donvcr genius has Invented writ
ing pnper mndo of rubber. Tho prac
tical novolty of this paper Is that you
you don't have to stop writing when
you come to tho edgo of the pnper.
Writer of Talcs for Boys Dead
11ATI.B CHKIOK, Mich. II, Dec. 23
Alfred 'U. Tozcr, former Chicago
newspaper man and author, under
various pon names, of hundreds of
stories for lio.vs, died here tonight
aftor a long Illness. Mr. Tozcr was
born In Now York atato CD years ago.
II llttlo Howlott of'IOnglo Point wns
n Medford visitor Friday il'trnoon
Bell-ans
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. One package
proves it. 25cnt nil druggists.
FOR
COUGHS
AND t-ULDS
1 uennn tucaiypiut uintmam
AT ALL DRUO BTONCS
Tubes 2nc Jars goo
E. M. WILSON
Certified Public Accountant
.MeilfiHil, Oregon.
Itoom III nnd 112, M. !'. A II. Ilhlp;
acmtim;, svstkmatizixh
im)okki:i:i'I.(;.
Are you really getting all valuublo
liiforniation out of your bookkeeping
KystPin. Mutual benefit may result
If you talk It over with Wilson.
ASK Vol It (,UIM i:it FOR
SNOWY BUTTE FLOUR
C'onnldei lug price and quality It litis
them all going.
A I'Mgne ltlver Valley Product
IUtAMK)V IlltOS., Fugle Point, Ore
Medford Phono fi.'13-X.
JOHN A. PERL
UNDERTAKE
lmftj A.wlxtnat
SS 8. J1AKT1.KTT
Thorn M. 4?n nd 47-J-l
Automobile Hearts Ssrvlcs.
AmkuUnos Servlcs. Csronsr.
THE CAPITAL OF HEAVEN
THE Kingdom of Hon von is here on Earth.
It is the widest of earth's empires, and the most
beautiful..
It lias fifty-two states, which are the weeks of the year.
It has 3(J5 glorious cities.
And Christmas is its capital. .
. i -
From the capital of iliaven no guns frown; no bastions
bulwark its gold-paved streets against the armies of other
kingdoms.
The gates are open ever, and in its spacious parliament
nil languages are spoken, which the necromancy of the
edifice transforms into a common tongue called Love.
The avenues of this capital are lined, with evergreen,
emblem of that which is eternal; and silver stars sparkle
fro nithe shining towers that' pierce the gentle sky.
In these towers dwell those happy mortals for whom
the capital of Ilea veil wasbuilded the rulers of the king
dom's capital they of whom Jesus said: "Suffer little
children, and forbid' them not, to come unto ine: for such
is the Kingdom ot. Heaven.
So brilliant are the stars in the towers of tho capital of
Heaven that their gleams illumine the most distant states
of the kingdom; so that every dweller therein, if he but
look sharilv, mav distinguish the capital's beauties from
afar.
And through all the states and cities of the kingdom the
best used roads lead ever toward the capital.
As the wi'ys approach they grow more beautiful and
wider; they are inlaid with pearls which were tears of joy,
and they echo with youthful laughter.
At the doors of the capital, sweet music is heard, and
every traveler enters its portals to the accompauiment of
children's carols. . , '
The roads from the capital are noted for kindly deeds,
and are. filled with travelers sharing their means, and help
ing one another. .
These roads are suffused with a gentle glow, and in the
heart of each wayfarer abides the desire to help bear an
other's burden.
TJie glories of retrospect are slow to fade, and often the
good-will implanted by a sojourn in the shining city re
mains witli the traveler in the farthest regions of the king
dom, until it is again time to make the pilgrimage to the
capital.
i
The Kingdom of Heaven is here on Earth.
And Christmas is its capital.
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
WHAT'S this loose talk we hear floating around the
' talk of doubters and dissenters, the half-afral I
questioning of unbelievers
"Is there a Santa Claus?"
"Who dares ask this quest ion Who dares doubt ? Who
dares even grant the possibility of denial?
We call down upon his head the wrath of all right
ihinking men.
Would the world's hard heart turn soft each year amid
the snows and blows of winter, sending rays of gladness
into each dark spot, if then; were no Santa Claus?
Would grim-faced gargoyles, the buccaneers of busi
ness, cease their warfare against their fellows and try to
make right the wrongs they have done, if there were no
Santa Claus?
Would slinking servants of sin lay aside their tawdrj
tinsel and accept for once the things of the spirit and the
tidings of righteousness, if there were no Santa Claus?
Would war-mad millions halt in their slaughter to kneel
before tiny sprigs of evergreen, their death-dealing en
gines idle for once, if there were no Santa Claus?
Would st arved little children with pinched and piteous
laces laugh wiru glee over houutmu dinners and beautiful
dolls and marvelous tovs, if there were no Santa Claus?
Co to with that talk that would blast childish hopes
and snatch the joy from humanity's broastl Shame on
you, tor even suggesting such a question!
And if still there's a bit of unbelief if still vou are
unconvinced of the jollv saint's existence we ask vou to
wan iiu luonuay lor your answer.
Then, amid the squeals of happy children and the pleas
ant. voices of grown folk made glad, you'll have to accep
the universal verdict:
OK COUWSE, there's a Santa Claus!
FOR THE COMMON GOOD
O TUDKNTS of history are familiar with the long and
inner ngiu waged against t lie creation ot the public
school district by large property owners.
It was declared anarchistic and confiscatory to tax a
man's property for the purpose of educating his neigh
bor's children. It was held unjust to force a man to pay
for what did not benefit him personally.
Rich men, with heavy property interests, objected to
having their property levied upon to build school houses
and educate children of people owning no property, and
fought t lie assessments through the courts.
llie same opposition that greeted the formation of
school districts was also encountered in the formation of
road and improvement districts, of paving, sewer and
water districts, and later of harbor and port districts.
Property owners protested assessments for the common
good. It was argued unjust to force improvements that
individuals did not want, against their will. Yet without
such common action there could lie no progress.
When the first paving was laid at Marshfield. a few
years ago, such protests were heeded. Only one-half of
the street was paved, and objectors on the paved sideliad
their will, and the mud holes were left in front of their
property. The advantages of the pavement were so obvi
ous. However, that wit Inn the year all clamored for pave
ment ami the entire street was paved.
The same arguments use if against school districts and
against the creation of an irrigation district. It is argued
iliar to the people of the valley, as they are being used
againts the creation of an irrigation district. It is rgued
that it is socialistic and confiscatory and unjust to place
water upon a district when some of the individu.il owners
do not want the improvement, just as a century ago it was
claimed unjust to make the property owner pay for edu
cating the poor man's children.
In the evolution of civilization, the. individual selfish
desire has had to give way to the common good. The
courts universally hold the broad view that the individual
has no right when it conflicts with the greatest good to the
greatest number. The progress of civilization can be
traced directly to the growth of this principle. The econ
omic and industrial progress of the people depends upon it.
The only way this region can secure water cheaply is by
the creation of irrigation districts. Reactionaries who
oppose all progress are making a desperate fight against it
from selfish motives. They seek to block development be
cause they do not wish to contribute their share to prog
ress. Yet if the improvement was forced upon them, and
the advantages demonstrated before their eyes, like the
reactionaries of Marshfield, they would realise the advan
tages and be eager to seek its benefits.
the city wuter mains, for wliieli lie
paid 10 cents per 11X10 unllons, or a
total of $400. Next mason, if Mr
i Kpun irrigates under t!w suine sys
tem us during l'JHi. he must nunili
pay the city the .f WU, wliereus if lie
was miller the district lie would have
I hud to pay only luuiiitunuin-e.
The 4.000,000 (inllons wus used for
the irrigation of tliirtv acres of pears
once, and for irrigating tw ice a forty
iicre upplo orchard.
Willi tho use of this waler the pear
orchard produced 'JiifiS boxes of
Bartletts, 2li! boxes of Huwvlls, 100
half boxes of Cornier, 50 half boxes
of Hose. These pears netted Mr.
Ebiiu iWOOO. The apple orchard pro
duced 9-0 boxes of Jonathans mid
J.'illll boxes of Jonathans.
FRUIT CROP 1916
ttIJ0 WATER
(Continued From Page One.)
boundaries and arc receiving water
from present ditches have expressed
themselves for the district plan, be
lieving Hint the general use of irriga
tion will raise land Values throughout
tho valley through increased produc
tion. This will bring prosperity to
the valley ns a whole, nnd these men
arc selfish enough, if you wish to so
call it, to have fl share in a wave of
prosperity oversweeping the entire
Rogue Hivcr valley.
Wlint Irrigation Did.
The condensed statements follow:
Dr. J. h. Helms by th use of wa
ter was this past Benson able to cut
six tons of alfalfa to the acre from
his ranch south of-Mcdford.
Ouy Connor, fruit distributor of
Medford, cites sales slips showing
that Winter Nelis penrs grown under
irrigation bring over $1900 to the car,
whilo unirrignted Winter Nelis penrs
from this section brings only $1300
to the cnr.
II. W. Bingham raised on the
Hampton orchards, this past season
by the use of wnter 6000 boxes of
Ben Davis npples on ten acres.
The 401 orchard is not irrigated, 1
and on its 576 acres, of which about
100 are in bearing, raised in 1916 only
2412 cars of fruit.
The Hear Creek orchards, with
about half that acreage, raised in
1916 with the use of water 60 ears of
fruit.
The Austin Corbiu orchard, near
Eagle I'oint, with less thnu forty
acres, produced 8894 boxes of fruit, '
or about 14 ears. In addition, a cover
crop of red clover was grown between
the trees, of which the first nutting
in 1916 produced two tons of liny to
tho nere. Tho use of the irrigated
cover crop nlso eliminated all ex
pense of cultivation.
Crentes Not l'rofit.
The Gold Range orchard in 1916,
with the use of water, produced ten
cars of npples nnd four ears of penrs,
the first year that' it has ever paid
any revenue. Their alfalfa field nlso
pnid Ibis year its first net revenue.
C. M. Speck in 1916, with the use
of water, picked twenty ears of np
ples and seven curs of pears. Ill
ldlfi, without water, his sixty-acre
Xcwtnwn orchard produced H.r00
boxes of poor grade fruit. In 1916,
with Hear creek wnter, the same
trees produced 11,000 boxes of high
grnde fruit.
II. I,. Irwin produced seven nnd
one-half cars of penrs on his orchard
in 1916 with the use of water which
net led him $1.00 per box.
George I!. Carpenter produced on
thirty-seven acres eighteen ears of
fruit nfter several ears had been
blown off the trees by the wind, nnd
without water would uot have had
much of n crop.
Krank Isaacs, expert orchnrdist
nnd packer, states that the superior
ity in quality nnd quantity of fruit
raised in the Wcnatchee district over
the Hoguc Hivcr valley is due almost
entirely to the universal use of irriga
tion by Wenntehee orehardists.
IncM-aws In Yield.
J. V. Hansen & Sons, orehardists,
increased their yield of fruit from
1271 boxes of inferior quality without
water to H8J7 boxes of fancy nnd ex
tra fancy fruit with wnter.
W. 1). Stone, orchnrdist of the
Willow Springs district, before using
water oH'rated his orchard at a net
loss. With the addition of water he
cleared $234.30 per acre.
J. J. lliiuri of the Willow Springs
district raises with water six tons of
alfalfa to the acre, while his neigh
bors, without water, v.iise only two
tons to the acre on the same kind of
ground.
Orehnrd of P. W. Hnmill Apple
yield, 1915, without wuter, 275 boxes;
1916, with wnter, 2500 boxes. Pear
yield, without wnter, 200 boxes, with
water, 1400 boxes. The quality of
the fruit was raised from second
grade nnd jumble to n pack practical
ly nil extra fancy.
Diversified Farming
Alfalfa field of 39 acres, properly
of Fred Hopkins, Central Point.
Yield without water, 171 tons; with
water, 251 tons a net guin from the
use of wnter of $20.50 per acre.
Com crop on ranch of Victor Bur
sell, Central Point district Yield in
,1915, without wnter, 20 bushels to
the acre; yield in 1916, with water,
50 bushels to the acre.
Strawberry crop on small acreage
of J. R. Stevenson, C. II. Howell nnd
W. F. Smith. These men have dem
onstrated that it is possible for a
man to make n comfortable living for
himself nnd family on a tract of laud
as small as one acre, raising berries
tinder intensive cultivation nnd in nd
dition providing plenty of water for
their plants.
Alfalfa field on ranch of Tyson
Bcnll, Central Point district Yield
increased from three tons to the
acre without water to over seven
tons to the acre with water.
W. V. Burnum, orchnrdist of the
Phoenix district, by the use of irri
gation was enabled to profitably raise
normal crops of fruit during the dry
years 1914 to 1916.
" Muc-FoUI Iuerenso
William Budge, orchnrdist, in 1914
and 1915 picked one ear of fruit each
year. With the application of water
he picked in 1916 nine ears of fruit.
Dillon Hill, orcburdist, by the use
of water improved the quality of his
fruit crop so that it packed 95 per
cent extra fancy half boxes. He in
creased his yield of ulfnlfn from n
little over one ton to the acre to four
tons to the acre.
Slater Johnson on his orchard on
Antelope creek produced five cars of
apples with the use of water drawn
from tho ennnl.
George Lyman of Gold Hill raised
3030 boxes of apples in 1915 nnd
3 100 in 1916 when, without water, be
would not have bad u marketable
crop.
Bought City Wnter
II. Chnndlcr Egnu thought highly
enough of irrigation this past season
to purchase wnter by tho 1000 gal
lons for the irrigation of his orchard,
lie pumped 4.000,000 gallons from
When stocking up for Christinas, don't forget to
order a sack or two of
XT
The Flour of No Regrets
A Home Product Sold on Its Merits
Absolutely Dependable!
The equal of any flour made on th" ""."st.
And it sells for less money
Manufactured by
The Central Point Mills
For Sale by the Best Grocers
JTUller I ires
"Miller"
Geared to
the Road
Tires
The tire that has stood
the test of Oregon roads
the past season; a quality
product that is well
worth the price.
RIVERSIDE
GARAGE
ROBERTS BROS. Props.
For Sale 153 Acres
$150,000
BRJ
A Magnificent Country Home Now on the Market
Over 5000 pear trees, best commercial varieties, seven years old
1400 Newtown apple trees eleven years old
50 acres of alfalfa on choicest Bear Creek bottom land
One among the "show plaees" of the famous Rogue River Valley, lo
eated on the Crater Lake Highway, one miles from the city of Medford,
the metropolis of Southern Oregon.
Climate unexcelled, no extremes of temperature. Mean minimum
temperature for 25 years for coldest month of the year, January, 30 de
grees ahovc zero.
ALL UNDER FENCE ALL UNDER IRRIGATION
"I consider this remarkable increase in returns from my orchard
($254.30 net per acre on eight-year-old pear trees) the direct profit aris
ing from my investment in irrigation," said Mr. Stone of Medford.
Irrigation adds 500 per cent to the value of an orchard, 150 per cent
to alfalfa.
"My net gain on alfalfa was 20 .50 per acre by the use of water."
states F. II. Hopkins of Central Point.
DR. E. B. PICKEL, Owner