Medford mail tribune., May 26, 1929, Page 13, Image 13

MEDFOTlfi i'MXTE TXtrRTTNTI. xMTTDFOTirJ, OttEOOW SUNDAY, MAY 2i. 1!)2).
EARLY HISTORY OF
PACIFIC, EASTERN
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Geynan Auto Pioneer Butt of
Jokes When Car First Sputtered
DECIDED GAIN IN
The announcement last week of
the OiviuiTQreKon Lumber, com-,
puny of plan) for the construction
of a logRlnK railroad from Butte
Falls t Klamath Kals, has revived
Interest In the Pacific & Eastern
railroad. The following history
was written by A.' B. KelloRg of
Central'; Point:
The history of the Medford &
I.oKKlnR railroad, better known as
p the old Pacific & Bastern, has been
I- a history of timber wars, beginning
in the late 'DOs in Jackson county,
and railroad warB followlnc. It
was back In 1902 the local people
of Medford spent : $200,000 in ac
quiring rights of vays and grading
a roadbed east of Meiiford, under
the style and title of the Medford &
Crater Irftke railway'.' . The .objeet
was to. tap the big timber belt up
Rogue river and provide transpor
tation 'to Crater lake. Disaster
came, and after passing through
the courts.' the assets of the con
cern fell' into the hands of the Co
lumbia Trust company of Portland,
as trustee.
It wtt during the days of tho
race of railroad building up the
Deschutes river into central Ore
gon by;- the Jlill people and com
peting line thnt the Hill interests
purchased the property. They
spent S2.000.000 building and fine
ly equipping the road to Unite
Falls. . Their objective was the
'Y 'uw Ka1V'n tn" Cascade mountains
! ' at the ftiot of Mt. Mcloughlln over
into central Oregon and making
this a connecting road with their
main road through this valley on
to the coast. In the meantime,
peace waa declared down on the
Deschutes and the building of the
J'aclflc & Kuslcrn was suspended.
The Hill people operated the
local road between Medford nnd
Untie Falls at a profit, in spite of
a large corps of high paid officers
and office equipment until the war
came on, as a connecting line with
the Southern Pacific. The war re
strictions so hampered branch
roads that the company found it
unprofitable and . abandoned the
local road; forcing the .trustees of
the original bondholders in the sum
of t ISO, 000 to foreclose its lien.
On passing fnto the hands' of a
court receiver,, he' suspended the
operation' of the road. ' For two
years operations were suspended,
.and ln'the meantime it totally sus
tnended (Operations of the large
' sawmills at Butte Falls nnd way
mills tributary to the mad and cut
off the'uHunl fuel supply of the en
. lire va,Uey. However, .at the end'
of twoars, arrangements were
made with the receiver, and for
. several months a large amount of
saw logs were brought In over the
road to the Medford mills, but
alter the court sale these ship
ments wero slopped.
Following the big timber boom
in the lnte '90s, M. D. Olds, a re
tired timber baron of Sheboygan,
Wis., acquired about 10,000 acres
of choice saw timber in the Butte
Falls district adjucent to the road.
This he acquired from .small hold
ers, nnd In making these purchases
he was considered :in intruder by
the several large holders of tlm
. ber in the district.
The largest holder of standing
. timber in the Mutte Falls district
and tribtary to the road, af the
closing down of operations, was the
Butte Fulls Lumber & Milling com
pany, with a 40.000 capacity saw-
mill at Butte Falls and logging
equipment Into the timber. This
W-ompany had liecn operating for a
number of years and owned about
SI, 000 acres of timber tributary to
Its plant and the railroad. The
Ttngue River Timber company, by
Whoeler, Dusenberry and Mer
chean, of New York. Pennsylvania
and Portland people owned 40,000
acres. The John 8. Owen company
of Wisconsin owned 12,000 acres.
h. H. Harkness of New York
owned 6000 ncres. W. L. Hrown
)ee and associates of Medford
owned 6000 acres, while about
10,000 acre were owned by tho In
dividual lotators of ICO-acre tracts.
At the sale of the property by
the I'nited States district court It
was sold to M. D: Olds for 1 !.
flOO. he being the only bidder, nnd
tilts being the minimum sum the
court would permit the property o
be sold ."or- The new owner came
unheralded from the east a few
days before the" sale and departed
ns quietly as he m, leaving the
people of Rogue River valley still
guessing what his real object was
in acquiring the key to the largest
body of standing timber In the
Blate. Only a few -well guarded
. remarks by the Wisconsin man
rwhllo here were the basis of on
' opinion. The' various Interests
hampered by the two years' sus
pension of the road were ntlltist
sea an to the future of the road.
Some said that Olds would re-open
the road and market his limber nt
once, while others said he would
hold the whip hand over his en
vious cn-titnber holderi, by closing
the road until they came to his
terms, t However, the Olds nnd
Brownlee Interests were combined,
ntul Inter the Owen Interests came
In, nnd today Owen-Oregon Lum
ber company ha grown Into one
of the big -firmly established enter
prises of Oregon and has trans
lated one of the many talked re
sources of Rogue River valley into
terms of business nnd big payrolls.
MOSCOW Iff) The health de
partment hns organised a drive
with gas. tar, poison and other
ohi-mlrnl weapons nealnst the 3.
5ii.non rats In the city. The ro
'TTits cause damnge of about ".
One. non annually besides spread
ing disease.
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'ASTF.LGAJIXLKO.' Italy W
nxpectlng that Pope Plus will
come here this summer, a preten
tious new restnurnnt has already
heen opened. The first meal
served was a trre dinner to a se
lected list of the village poor.
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Karl Benz, Germany's pioneer In automotive invention (inset), haci
a bitter struggle with unbelievers when he first introduced a motor
vehicle (above) 44 years ago. It actually ran.
LADJCXBURG, Ct-rinnny 4
Almost .simultaneous with tho
establishment of a new motor car
.speed record in Florida tnere died
here one of the men who helped
make this n motor use.
A bare 44 yearn uko, when kali
Benz'8 liiKh three-wheeled "motor
velocipede made its noisy, smoky
way down Mannheim HtreetH, .It
was hulled with ridicule an "an ufo
HUidity that will never amount to
unylhimr."
It wiih only his tenncloiiH cIIiir
iMK to a childhood amMtiou in
Hplte of much discouragement that
gave the world within the Hpan of
a Hliitfle lifetime an imporlant de
velopment In llM great motor in
dustry. "My favorite Idea," Itonz wrote,
"xvim always the thought of setting
the locomotive on the .street. I
wanted to free It from its bondage,
and even in high school tho chant
'without rail' .was .the undercur
rent of thought that ran through
nil my work."
fienz's death vividly brought
homo the almost startling brevity
of the "motor carriage's" career.
The Inventor's first car made Its
existence known by violent rat
tllngs and hangings. It sputtered
and chugged while the onlookers
stood open-mouthed and speech
less. On Its first rjn Its steering
wheel got out of control and the
m nv h I n e w a e red nnd ca m o to' n
halt. The .crowd jeered at the
"useless absurdity."
But Benz refused to be discour
aged. By JfiSi, with n four wheel
model, he was sufficiently encour
aged to take out his first patents,
which ho jokingly termed the
"birth certificate" of tho great
grandfather of tho nutomoblle. '
Benz remained almost through
out his lifti a prophet unappreci
ated in his own land, for only dis
trust and lack of interest greeted
I'hls first real successes and It was
left to France and the United
States to give him his first recog
nition and support.
He finally succeeded in estab
lishing Jhe Mannheim 0 ...soli no
lOngine factory which later devel
oped into the Benz Works, an or
ganization which spread to Inter
national proportions, laying a
foundation for the world wide mo
tor and automobile industries of
today.
Lowly Spud to Be Beautiful
WASHINGTON (&) Tie homely
Irish potato Is about to have Its
face lifted.
Agriculture experiment stations
In Maine, New York, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and other
Important potato producing states
are tho beauty parlors that will try
to give the "spud" a prettier face,
smoother eyes and a more attrac
tive skin. 1
There nre, several reasons for
the "operation." It is expected to
enhance the potato's commercial
appeal, and save the producer huge
losses from a number of common
diseases that the healthier tuber
may escape.
Dr. William Stuart, In. charge of
potnto Investigation for the de
partment of agriculture, has found
that strains resistant to mosaic,
lean-oil and other diseases may ho
bred at the same time for a better
general apearanee.
Primarily the government's plnnt
breeding program, for which con
gross has made an annual appro-
i prlatlorf Tf 820,000; is to develop
I high yielding strains of smooth
j eyed . Irish' Cobblers, Rurals lm
jmune, to leafroll and Green Moun
tains and Bliss TriumphH resistant
to mosaic. .. . ' .
I While all major potato produc
ing states will cooperate, the more
j Important projects In pollination
and hybridizing will be conducted
by the government In Maine dur
ing the summer nnd nt at .some
southern experiment station In the
winter.
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' CAM
" Autolst: "I want some times.'"
Salesman: "Balloon tires?"
Autolst: "Nuw, auto mobile
tires."
a parked car Is easier to get nt
with a summons.
When an automobile tiro blows
out in Chicago everybody runs for
cover.
Getting the battery charged Is
not nearly ho much of n problem
to the average motorist as finding
a place to g et the gasoline charged.
"What we want Is a cundidate
who Isn't too radical nor yet too
conservative; In short, i middle-of-the-road
mnn."
"Then Jenins Is the mnn to nom
inate, lies heen In the bus driv
ing busine58 for years."
Pat nnd Mike went motorcycle
riding one evening. All of a nud
den they had a collision. Two
hours later Pat recovered con
sciousness In . a hospital and
learned that Mike had been badly
hurt.
"He should have been killed,"
remarked Pat. "He saw the two
I lights ahead of him and the fool
said to me, "Watch me sneak thru
I there."
By having an automobile many
a man Is kept from having any
money to waste on fancy chickens.
A motorcycle nop pulled up be
side n parked .car on a country
road in the wee small hours of the
morning.
"Hey," ho yel.l, "what business
have you got to be out at (his time
of the night?"
"This Isn't business," came a
voice fnim within, "it's a pleasure!"
Solving 1 1 ie Traffic Problem
Oh, bury him deep
In some shady bower
He drives in the middle
At ten miles nn'hour.
Kiiend: "You never told mo you
hud a new car." . '
Proud owner: "Gee. I wonder if
I n i lured onyone else."
By the time evolution produces
n pedestrian who an lenp over
c rs. he"ll crack his head ugn I rwt
low planes.
The automobile has become the
country's most ruthless killer. ,
Still the fellow who believes In
pre-destlnatlon Jumps just as far
at the sound of a honk.
The advisability of passing a car
at the curve depends on whether
the widow will think the loss cov
ered by insurance.
"Judge; "What's the chargo
against this man, officer?"'
Cop: "Arson, your honor, burn
ing up the road."
It might help some to talk about
the "glury" of walking and provide
wound stripes for pedestrians.
people who take n short cut
ncnQ-rt the street are sometimes
taking short cut td1 the hospital.
' W ha t beca me of thnt hi red
man you got from th'Q'Uy?"
"Aw. he ued to be a fhaufft'ur.
nnd one day he crawled under a
mule lo rtre why It A-ouldn't go."
Home pedestrians who do not
choose to run. get thefr names In
the papers, too.
To thr Traffic Cop
You do not need a signul
When you act a "Traffic Cop."
One look at your hard features
Will make all traffic stop.
You yee, parking wrong n n
woiko crime than speeding because
BY CHINA BOYCOTT
MANILA iff) The boycott of
Japanese goods wnirh Chinese
have sought to make effective In
other countries as well as In China,
hns proved a bomerang In the
Philippines, wtys Koygu Yoneg.ikl,
Jmi&iese ponMil here.
The boycott hss given Japanese
men-hunts an opening wedge in
the retail hulncf of (be Islands,
a field which Is ho per cent Chinese
control b-d, and at the same time
bits not hurt Jap:inesn w hob-Male
business A number of new Jap
anese retail More have tvr. ripen
ed In the pilnrfpitl cities.
The consul says that the Chinese
merchant have not stopped buy
ing Japanese goods; they are
merely buying them indirectly, be
cause the Chinese Antl-Jn panee
Association will not permit them
(u purr-base openly. This Is costly
to the Chinese and has enabled the
Japanese retailers to undersell the
i 'hlnese.
The Chrysler Corporation report
ed a decided gain In shipments for
April of this yaer of all Chrysler
built earns as compared with April
of 1918. They announce shipments
for the month, both domestic, ex
port and Canadian, of Plymouths,
Chrysler "65"s, "1 5"s. Imperials,
DeSotos, Fargo commercial trucks
and cars. Dodge Brothers new six
es, ' Seniors, and bodge trucks,
buses and commercial cars, totaled
iii,7S5 units, a gain of over
the 47,155 units shipped during
April of 1928 a gain of 7 over
the shipment of 34,781 InAprll of
1927.
Total shipments of Chrysler and
ducts for th first four months of
129 amounted to 182,521 units, a
gain of 14.3 over those for the
same period of 1928 when 159.857
were shipped and an increase of
42.3 over the 127,903 units
shipped during the first, four
months of 1927.
A decided Increase occured In
Plymouth shipments In April, 16,
113 curs being shipped ns com
pared with 10,926 In March, a gain
of B.1S7 cars. Plymouth ship
ments, although the factory was
on schedule with production, failed
: to meet orders by 4,000 cars, so
'popular has this car become,
j There were 5.040 Chrysler "75"
cars hipped during April, ascom
i pared with 5.046 In March, and
5,48!t Chrysler "liV duriny April
ComVared with 5.676 in March.
DeSoto also experienced a new
high during April, making record
shipments of S,ss.V cars against
8,632 in March.
Farago trucks and commercial
car shipments Increased over 100"tf
for April over March.
Podge Brothers new sixes
showed (r decided increase, there
being 18.704 shipped, in April as
compared with 17.97 6 in March,
compared seniors wero 6S0 in pnl
as against 612 In March and com
mercial cars, trucks and buses to
taled 4.231 in April ns compared
witht 2.S75 In April, 192S.
dally should be allowed-, although
horses doing heavy woST and on
dry feed may need more.
ciatlons show that the big cows pounds nuiro butterfnt yearly than
within the breed excel in produc- 800-nound cows of the samn hreed.
, tion of milk nnd butterfnt nnd in The cost of feed for the larger
income over cost oi leeu. 1 1) one cows was 20 higher per cow, but
Studies of 139.000 cows on test breed of vows, averaging 1,500 'they returned t43 mom in unmmi
In drilry berd-lmproyeinent asso-j pound" Jn weight, produced 18 j Income over cent of feed.
Farm Pointers
(ByC.S. Department of Agriculture)
Cannibalistic habits of the corn
earthworm contribute to Its own
destruction. Whenever two earht
wornus come Into contact with each
other they fight until one Is con
quered. Often the victor Is fatally
injured.
Salt Is very important for hors
es. A delicate eater or shy drinker
often will developc an increased
nppeti'o if givm access to salt.
About three-fourths of nn ounce
High Compression
High Speeds
call for
QUALITY
PISTON RINGS
Greater piston travel, higher compression and
higher speeds demand better piston rings.
Rings must be absolutely and positively ac
curate, of proper tension, quick seating, and
made of the highest grade castings to insure
an efficient, long life.
Quality Brand Rings are just such rings and
are made to meet a mechanical demand not
a price. However, enormous production to
meet the requirements of leading manufac
turers and the replacement trade has made the
price exceedingly low. .. .
LITTRELL PARTS CO.
317 East Main St. Telephone 237
Largest Auto Parts Dealers in Southern Oregon
Rely on This Mower
for a Clean Job of Cutting
John Deere If igfa-Lif t Mower
When you own a John
Deere High-Lift Mower
you're equipped to do a
clean job of cutting, this
year, and for many years to
come.
The John Deere is the sim
ple, durable mower that's
noted in all farming sections
for its high, easy lift with
either foot or hand lever.
By only slight pressure on
the foot-lift you raise the
bar high enough to pass
over ordinary obstructions,
and when you put the hand
lift into use, the bar is easily
raised to extreme height
even the inner shoe is raised
Don't w.lt until th. hrin. i
four ttMwr. Cmm in now and
high enough to pass over any
obstruction that can be
cleared by the doubletrees.
This lift i3 so easy to handle
a boy can operate it.
Other advantages of the ,
John Deere you'll like are
balanced drive gears, which,,
prevent side strain and undue
wear and increase power at
the knife; the special location
cf bevel pinion on shaft,;
which prevents end thrust;
and the 21 -point clutch,
which insures instant start
ing. All adjustments and
repairs are made with ordin
ary tools.
Because it is light-running
it is easier on your horses.
.ton tm h.r to Ionic afl.r
th. John Ur. t our .tor.
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Hubbard Bros., Inc.
Medford, Ore.
There's a real thrill
in driving the
new Ford
YOU'LL get a real thrill when you
slip into the roomy seat behind the
wheel and start away for your first
ride in the new Ford.
Perhaps there is no better way
to explain it than to say that the new
Ford is an unusually alert car.
Instantly you touch the controls
you sense a new aliveness a quick
eagerness to go. For here is a car
that combines power and
flexibility and security to
an uncommon degree.
Note these features
THE NEW
fcORD SPORT COUPE
. . . choice of colors Triplex shat
tcr-proof glass windshield four .
Houdaille hydraulic two-way shock
absorbers fully enclosed, silent
six-brake system vibration-absorbing
engine support theft-proof
ignition lock: Alemite chassis lu
brication quick acceleration 55
to 65 miles an hour smoothness at
all speeds ease of operation, park
ing and control typical
Ford economy, reliability
and long life. Call or tele
phone for demonstration.. .
Roadster, 450 Phaeton, 460 Tudor Sedan, 525 Business Coupe, 525
Coupe, 550 Sport Coupe, with rumble scat, 550 Fordor Sedan, 625
(All prices . o. b. Detroit, plus charge for freight and delivery. . y - :
Bumpers and spare tire extra,)
CE, GATES AUTO CO.
Sixth Street and Pacific Highway
11 'fflE
Phone 141
Perform ante
your
Yard stick
More than 150,000 new
buyers 'ft double the
record of any other
quality car have
placed the final stamp
of endorsement on
Buick performance
leadership! SV':"
BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICH.
Division of Ctntrml Motors Corporation
Consider the delivered price as well as the list price u hen comparing automobile values.
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Stdani - SI220 IU $1320
Coiipn . . $1 195 IO $1250
Spurt C.r- $1225
SERIES 21
SctUni - $1454) tu $1520
Coupes - - $139-5 tu $1450
Sport C.r-$1325 w
SERIES 129
Sedan! . . $1875 to $2145
Coupel- - $1865 to $1875
Sport Cus $1 525 lo $I5!0
These pricei f. o. h. Brick Factory, special equipment extra. Buick delivered prices include onlf
reatonablo charges Jor delivery ana financing. Convenient terms caa be arranged on the liberal
t. M. A. C Time Payment Plan.
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38-40 North ftivorside
Phone 73
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