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iu his Ford and we came to a block of trees, which a man 

 ^\ as just clearing up, a block of orchard trees. The inspec- 

 tor said there were 27 acres in it, Spitzenbergs 18 years old. 

 They were just then grubbing them out and the Inspector 

 told me the story of it. It seems that this orchard of Spitz- 

 enbergs were on a heavy type of soil, and when the apples 

 came into bearing the man found he had great, big. coarse, 

 T.ncolored Spitzenbergs which did not bring the prices that 

 Spitzenbergs on a better type of land did. The man had 

 l)aid $20,000 for the orchard. The inspector had talked 

 with him about the matter several times and tried to show 

 him that as he was putting money which he got out of the 

 rest of the farm into that orchard the longer he kept it the 

 worse off he was. Finally the man decided to pull them out. 



Medford, as you all undoubtedly know, is the most 

 famous pear section and right near this 27 acres which the 

 man was pulling out I saw a block of 10 acres v4hich be- 

 longed to a Chicago woman. I do not know hoAv long she 

 had owned it but they said she had paid $28,000 for the 10 

 acres. I do not need to tell you you could l)uy that for less 

 }f you wanted it now. 



Another very interesting case came to my attention 

 through one of my old students M'ho was teaching out there. 

 This was the instance of the IMethow Valley. Six or eight 

 years ago they had groAvn a few apples up in there and they 

 started to develop the region. There was no railroad up the 

 "\'alley at that time and their cry was "Come in ahead of the 

 railroad and develop your orchard and when your trees 

 come into bearing you will he all ready to sliij) out your pro- 

 ducts and everything will be lovelx'." Tliey offered raw 

 sage brush land at $250 an acre and lots of people went in 

 and bought and got in ahead of tlip railroad — in fact, so 

 much ahead of the railroad that they are still ahead; it 

 hasn't come along yet. Today you can l)ny tliese fine bear- 

 ing orchards for a good deal less than $250 an acre. 



Perhaps these are enough instances of the boom side. 

 You can find any number of cases fitting into those different 



