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Medford
in 1901 MEDFORD. Jackson County incorporated as a city in [1885], in the Rogue River Valley, on Bear Creek, 328 miles s of Portland, 443 n of San Francisco, and 5 e of Jacksonville, the county seat, on the S P ry, settled in [1883]. Contains Christian Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, M E and M E South, Presbyterian and Catholic churches, public school, opera house, seating 600, water works, fire department, electric light plant, three newspapers--Enquirer (Dem. weekly), Medford Mail (Rep. weekly) and Pacific Rural World (semi-monthly), two banks and the Medford roller mill, capacity 100 bbls. The Hotel Nash is a prominent institution. A distillery, brewery, two planing mills and a saw mill are located here. Annual rainfall, 20 to 40 inches, averaging about 26 inches. Among the leading placer mines in the vicinity is the Sterling Mine, which yields from $60,000 to $100,000 annually. Another industry of Medford is the Sugar Pine Company, which at present is hauling 100,000 feet of sugar pine lumber per week 35 miles with a large traction engine, averaging 24,000 feet each trip. Water canal ten feet on the bottom and sixteen feet on top is now being surveyed from Butte Creek and Fish Lake, when finished will be about 45 miles long, to furnish power and water for Medford. [The project didn't reach fruition.] The land is fertile, suited to grain and fruit. Shipments flour, fruit and livestock; quartz and placer mining extensively carried on. Pop, 2,500. Tel, P P and W U. Exp. Oregon, Washington and Alaska Gazetteer and Business Directory 1901-1902, page 225 Last
revised May 28,
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