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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



IN a recent interview Mr. F. N. Cummings, man- 

 ager of the Rogue River Valley Canal Com- 

 pany, said: "Roguelands Inc. has sold more than 

 $100,000 worth of irrigated orchard tracts since 

 the beginning of the new year. It is true that 

 some of these sales were taken up during Decem- 

 ber, but every one of them has been closed since 

 January 1. We have interested some of the lead- 

 ing bankers and business men of Spokane, and we 

 believe that we will sell a number of other tracts 

 to Washington people who are now in corre- 

 spondence with our company. We have actually 

 closed twenty ten-acre contracts in Spokane at an 

 average price of $550 per acre, or a total of 

 $112,000. The company will plant the area 

 between the Boulevard, the Agate road and the 

 Pacific & Eastern Railroad, directly northwest of 

 the Niles cottage, to a standard variety of pears. 

 We have been advised by high authority that this 

 part of our land is especially adapted to pears, 

 and we have every reason to believe that we will 

 be able to equal or excfel any commercial pear 

 orchard in the valley. These tracts will be cared 

 for and be under the personal supervision of our 



experts for a period of five years, at which time 

 they will be turned over to the purchaser. 



"Here is a list of some of the Spokane pur- 

 chasers who have invested in our irrigated orchard 

 tracts: Charles E. McBroom, cashier Exchange 

 National Bank of Spokane, ten acres, $5,500; 

 W. J. C. Wakefield (Wakefield & Witherspoon, 

 attorneys), ten acres, $5,500; F. J. Finucane 

 (Holly-Mason Hardware Co.), ten acres, $5,500; 

 A. Kellett, ten acres, $5,73.3; A. E. Griffin, ten 

 acres, $5,733; D. W. Twohy (president Old 

 National Bank of Spokane), ten acres, $5,500; 

 Fred Wilson, ten acres, $5,500; George Cunning- 

 ham, ten acres, $5,500; R. T. Olsen, ten acres, 

 $5,800; E. F. Burns, ten acres, $5,800; Jolwi B. 

 Jordan, ten acres, $5,500; D. A. Rankin, ten acres, 

 $5,500; E. M. Brown, Vancouver, B. C, ten acres, 

 $5,500; E. F. White, ten acres, $5,700; J. A. 

 McAlpine, ten acres, $5,700. 



"We are expecting a number of visitors during 

 February, and have received dozens of letters 

 from Eastern people who tell us they have decided 

 to locate in the Rogue River Valley. We have 

 many letters from young farmers who are inter- 



ested in intensive farming, and in such cases we 

 show them what can be done by raising straw- 

 berries and cantaloupes between the rows of trees. 

 Last year's experience was so satisfactory that a 

 number of our tracts will be planted to cantaloupes 

 this spring, and it has already been shown that 

 in the future strawberries will be one of our most 

 important products. Medford Rocky Fords and 

 Medford strawberries are destined to rival our 

 apples and pears, and these products will prove to 

 be the stepping stone for the man who wishes to 

 develop an orchard property, for they will bridge 

 him over the time when his orchard is developing, 

 and provide him with a splendid income while 

 he is waiting for the income from his orchard." 



Roguelands Inc. is largely a Spokane company, 

 and two of its principal owners are Spokane busi- 

 ness men. R. K. Neill and P. Welch are directors 

 of the company, and both are men of large affairs 

 and have large business interests. 



R. K. Neill is the proprietor of the Grote- 

 Rankin Company of Spokane, which company 

 operates the largest furniture store in Spokane as 

 well as Seattle. He is the president of the Neill 



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