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Medford
News 1935 Medford-related
news items from
1935. Also see
descriptions
of Medford and
Jackson County
for this year.
Four Building Permits Issued--Building permits issued within the past week include one to remodel the residence belonging to Wesley Coffeen, 320 Mary Street, at a cost of $250, one to demolish a residence belonging to J. W. Fine, 306 South Fir, at a cost of $50, another to rearrange the cabins at the Phipps auto park on North Riverside, at a cost of $150, and one for alterations at 102 North Central, for Dr. Lee, at a cost of $500. "Locals," Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 1935, page 12 Building Storage at Medford.
Medford, Ore., June
14.--Construction commenced this week on a new three-story cold storage
and pre-cooling plant for the Pinnacle Packing Corporation, to cost
$100,000. Raymond Reter, general manager, states that the plant is
being pushed to completion in order to have it in shape to handle this
year's fruit tonnage. The new structure will be an addition to the
company's present plant, and when completed will give this firm a
storage capacity of 235,000 boxes of fruit. The new structure is of
concrete and steel construction and is modern throughout.The Chicago Packer, June 15, 1935, page 17 Pear Crop Outlook in Rogue River Valley.
Medford, Ore., Aug. 9.--A close and careful checkup of the Rogue River
Valley fruit crop for this season reveals the following figures on
tonnage for this season: Bartletts 65 percent of normal crop; Anjous
100 percent; Howells 100 percent; Bosc 75 to 80 percent; Comice 65
percent, and Nelis 100 percent.
It is expected that pear picking in this valley will commence around August 12. Packing houses are all busy preparing for the season, getting their plants in readiness to take care of the tonnage. The Pinnacle Packing Corporation is rushing to complete its new $80,000 pre-cooling unit which will handle 250 cars of fruit. The Medford Ice and Storage Company has just completed its new addition unit at a cost of $100,000 and will be able to handle several hundred additional carloads of fruit in storage here in addition to its already large capacity. Southern Oregon Sales, Inc. has been busily rushing to completion a number of major improvements to its plant, which will be ready when the season opens. Pear growers here are feeling quite elated over reports arriving here from California regarding opening prices for cannery Bartlett pears, and growers are reluctant to sign up for anything less than $50 a ton for No. 1. Owing to the ever-increasing rules and regulations being forced on shippers of Bartlett pears, there seems to be a desire on the part of many growers, in view of increasing demands of canners, to ship their pears to eastern markets rather than turn them over to canneries, and it is believed that canners will experience difficulty this year in securing their desired tonnage from this valley unless they let down on stringent regulations and also pay top prices. Two unusually heavy rain storms struck this valley recently, and orchards received a good soaking. Over an inch of rain fell in most districts, and there was some fear of hail damage, but the storms passed over without any damage to fruit.
The
Chicago Packer, August 10, 1935, page 31
Medford Pear Harvest.
Medford, Ore., Sept. 27.--Pear
shipments from the Medford (Rogue River Valley) district for this
season passed the 1,000 mark some days ago, with 567 cars east and 516
cars to canneries. The bulk of the Bosc pear crop has been harvested.
Picking of Winter Nelis pears commenced this week.Export shipment of pears from here has commenced, with 20 cars being dispatched last week for loading on ships bound for European ports, two of these shipments going to Portland and one to San Francisco. The Chicago Packer, September 28, 1935, page 11 To Celebrate Pear Week.
Medford, Ore., Nov. 15.--Plans for
the first annual Community Pear Week are being made at Medford by the
Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' Association, service clubs and other
civic organizations. The time has been set for November 30 to December
7, and plans include a large window display at the Chamber of Commerce,
window displays in local stores, speakers at service club meetings
during that week, and questionnaires on the fruit industry.The Chicago Packer, November 16, 1935, page 6 Fruit Harvest Concluded in Rogue River Valley.
Medford,
Ore., Nov. 15.--Harvesting of the season's fruit crop in the Rogue
River Valley was concluded late last week with the picking of late
Newtown apples. Owing to cold and stormy weather the previous two
weeks, picking had been delayed. Damage from the weather was not
extensive, inasmuch as practically all of the crop had been harvested.
Fruit shipments from the valley for the season up to this week totaled 1,353 cars, apportioned as follows; Packed pears, 1,124 cars; cannery pears 616 cars; apples 102 cars. Pears and apples are now being shipped at the rate of five cars per day, with an occasional special train for export shipment, or eastern markets. The Chicago Packer, November 16, 1935, page 9 Last revised September 24, 2016 |
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