Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1912 — WILL LOCATE IN OREGON. [ARTICLE]

WILL LOCATE IN OREGON.

Ex-County Treasurer Allman Buys Fruit Farm at Ashland. Ex-county treasurer J. D. Allman, who returned Thursday night from his prospecting trip in the west, purchased a fine 20-acre fruit farm in .the Rogue River Valley at Ashland, Ore., twelve miles from Medford, where George E. Marshall, Albert Marshall and Chas. Hanson are located, and will move his family there as soon as they can get ready to go. They hope to get away about the middle of August. Ashland. Mr. Allman thinks, is the cleanest and prettiest town he ever saw. It has a population of between 6,000 and 7,000, fine schools and churches; several miles of asphalt streets, waterworks, electric lights and all modern improvements. -It has a fine natural public park, the principal streets are bouleyarded, and it is an ideal little city in every way.

Mr. Allman’s farm, which he gets possession of at once with this year’s crop, lies about 1% miles from the postoffice and about % mile from the city limits. His orchards consist of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, etc. All kinds of small fruit also grows there in abundance. Ed Hunt, a son of the late Basil Hunt of Remington, is located at Ashland and has been there for seven years on a fruit farm. They have a fine crop of fruit there this year, and Mr. Allman is much impressed with the country and the climate, which is said to be ideal, and last winter it did not get colder than 16 above zero.

Mr. Allman visited the Remington colony at Redlands and found them all well with the exception of Dr. Morris, who is suffering greatly with asthma. The country about Redlands is all a desert, but irrigation is secured by boring big deep wells and using centrifugal pumps, which- are generally operated by electric current from the power lines that pass through there. Out a few miles one strikes this desert —Redlands itself was formerly a part of it —which is as yet uncultivated, but is held at from SSO to $l5O per acre. To buy a farm there, pay for the leveling and the irrigating ditches through it and then put down a well and pumping apparatus makes it quite expensive by the time one gets it in condition to grow crops. But it does produce “the goods,” Mr. Allman says, after one gets the, water; on it. However, he was not very favorably impressed with conditions there.

Irrigation is also used extensively about Ashland. One doesn’t have to irrigate, but those who do irrigate grow about twice as much alfalfa and other crops to the acre as those who do not go tp this expense.

At Medford, Ore., he met the Rensselaer colony and reports them doing fairly well. Chas. Hansen is running a blacksmith shop and has made some money in trading around. The town had been over-boomed, and just now it is rather dull there. Except for climate, however, for which he is making the move, Mr. Allman thinks Jasper county is about as good a place to get ahead in the world as any section he has seen anywhere, and were it not with the hope that his family will be benefitted he would rppiain here. . . JV ■'