Dr. Frederick Page, who was in Medford recently upon a visit to his friends, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Streets, returned last week to his home at Woodstock, Indiana, but before going he invested in Medford real estate, having purchased Wesley Green's new residence, on North J Street. The price paid was $2600, and within a few weeks the doctor and his family expect to come to Medford and make this city their future home. Mr. Green, we understand, will buy property elsewhere in the city and erect a dwelling thereon for his own occupancy.
"City Happenings," Medford Mail, May 4, 1906, page 5


    Dr. Frederick Page returned to Medford last week from Woodstock, Indiana, where he has been for several weeks past, settling up his business affairs preparatory to taking up his permanent residence in Medford. When he was here a few months ago he purchased the West Green residence, on North J. Street, and as soon as his family and household effects arrive he will commence housekeeping therein.
"Purely Personal," Medford Mail, July 13, 1906, page 5


    Dr. Frederick C. Page and Frederick W. Lawton have incorporated a company for the purpose of dealing in and buying and selling real estate, stocks, bonds and negotiable securities, as well as mining properties and timber lands. Firm name to be Page & Lawton, Inc. Place of business to be in new Medford Bank building. First operation to be the opening up of the entire Eagle Point district, which includes all the rich irrigated bottom lands of Butte Creek, Antelope and Rogue River, besides many acres of upland orchard lands. A most extensive advertising campaign throughout the eastern states to be a feature.
"City Happenings," Medford Mail, December 28, 1906, page 5


    Dr. F. C. Page, of the real estate firm of Page & Lawton, departed a few days ago for a business trip to the East, his itinerary extending as far as Chicago. Mr. Page has several important matters that will claim his attention while on his trip and which it is hoped will prove a benefit to Rogue River Valley, but his principal object is to interest capital in the completion of the Medford and Crater Lake Railroad as far as Butte Falls. Messrs. Page and Lawton have been in communication with industrialists in the East for some time, and their prospects for their becoming interested in this important railroad project are encouraging. We wish the doctor success in his efforts.
"City Happenings," Medford Mail, February 1, 1907, page 5


    Though Medford pats itself on the back as a community of aggressive boosters, the fact remains that, compared with its resources and opportunities for boosting, this town is really hiding its light under a bushel. Considering what outside people and the world generally think of Medford, local people, boosters though they be, are as the schoolgirl who blushes at every compliment.
    That is what Dr. F. C. Page, owner of the Suncrest orchard, thinks after taking a trip to the north. The doctor returned a short time ago from a trip to Seattle and other cities, and the story he tells is an interesting one to Medfordites.
    "I found an astonishing change in the attitude of people in their interest in and knowledge of Medford and the Rogue River Valley on this trip, as compared with one I made two years ago," said the doctor.
    "Then very few people had heard of Medford. When you went to buy a ticket to this town, the ticket agent had to be enlightened as to where Medford was located. Now, when you ask for a ticket to Medford the agent not only knows where the town is located, but so many people have bought tickets to this place that the chances are that he can tell you the price without looking the fare up in his tariff. Two years ago very few people knew about Medford.
    ‘Now, however, it is different. Wherever I went, as soon as it became known that I was from Medford, I was besieged with inquiries about the place and requests for booklets. Everybody apparently knew something about the place and were eager for information.
    "Way up in the frozen wilds of Alaska there are people watching this town and planning to come here either to live or invest, or both. As an example, while at Seattle I met a gentleman who operates a fleet of freight steamers on the Yukon River. He clears about $20,000 a year and is looking for a place to invest it. He heard of Medford and had studied the place and asked a lot of intelligent questions. He expects to come here to look the valley over in the near future.
    "I carried a supply of the booklets with me on the trip and distributed them, and the people who received them seemed to consider that I was conferring a favor on them. We little realize how generally people are looking toward the valley as a location for their future home and as a place for the investment of their cash. And the next few years will see an immigration into this valley that will put the records of the past in the shade."
    Dr. Page is the owner of the Suncrest orchard, the largest commercial apple orchard in the valley. On it there are 137½ acres of apple trees, six and seven years of age. At this time he is having set out 60 acres additional, 50 of which will be in Newtowns and ten in Comice pears.
    Besides, he is having set out 3000 peach trees between the rows. Peach trees mature and get into bearing early, thus affording a revenue while the apple trees are growing. This will amount to over 200 acres in fruit on one place.
    Apples from the Suncrest took the first prize at the Southern Oregon district fair, held in Medford last September.
    Dr. Page states that he met many of the fruitgrowers from the apple districts to the north who waxed eloquent over their ten-acre tracts. When he unfolded the panorama picture of the Suncrest orchard, showing 137½ acres all in one orchard, the fellows from the other places had nothing to say. He informed than that there were several other orchards approaching the Suncrest in size in the valley.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 29, 1909, page 8




    The Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the [Oregon State Medical Association] met at Medford, Oregon, on September 18th, 19th and 20th, 1913. The first two days were employed in the regular scientific work of the society, interspersed with social functions. The third day embraced a trip to Crater Lake.
    The meetings were held in the Page Theatre. This modern, up-to-date theatre had special attractiveness because it belongs to a physician, Dr. F. C. Page, who, although now retired, has made his mark in professional work elsewhere. He came to Medford, drawn by its marvelous climate and its business opportunities for investment, and retiring from practice, has in the space of a few years doubled his fortune in speculation and, like all successful physicians, reinvested his added increment to the development of his home city. This theatre, leased by Gordon & Fuson, is modern in every particular and a credit to the community as well as to Dr. Page. Dr. Page sold a pear and apple orchard at Medford some years ago for something like $200,000, and some of this money doubtless went into the Page Theatre.