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Medford
in 1917 MEDFORD. Jackson
County. Population 11,000. Settled in 1884, incorporated as a city in
[1885], located in the Rogue
River Valley on
Bear Creek and Southern Pacific railway, 328 miles south of
Portland, 5 east of Jacksonville, county seat. It is the
commercial center of Jackson County. The city is well
built and possesses the appearance of a metropolitan center. It has
asphalt-paved streets,
cement sidewalks, sewers. All
religious denominations are represented. It has 4 banks, 2 daily and
weekly newspapers, splendid
schools, water works, electric light and power plant, large hotels and
stores. Fertile
lands adjacent and extensive quartz and placer mines in vicinity. Ships
fruit,
livestock. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., Independent
Telephone
Co.
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