The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-09-22
EDITOR TRUBSHAW
WRITES LETTER
Medford, Ore, Sept. 10, 1872

Medford, Ore, Sept. 10, 1921
Dear Editor:
suppose by this time you have
about digested that last lot of ''bunk'
written several days ago and may be
in shape to assimilate some more.
Well, we are enjoying great time
with our relatives and friends in this
beautiful little southern Oregon city
I say little advisedly, because Med
ford, is little when you compare it
with Seattle, Portland and other big
towns along the ocast, but it is a big
city as compared with North Dakota
towns. Medford is one Of the finest
cities you can find anywhereI 1t is
apparently a live tiwn full of pep and
progressive people. The town the past
few years has been improving Won
derfully fast. It now has % miles Of
paving in the city and going out on the
main highways you can ride for hum
dreds of miles on paved roads. sixteen
feet wide with scenery of every de-
scription on either side-fruit farms,
mountains, chicken ranches, etc.-to
suit the taste of the most fastidious.
It is wonderful climate out here so
far as we have discovered. Every day
has been like summer but the eve
nings are rather cool but very delight
full. They claim this climate will
lengthen the life of anyone at least ten
years and am getting very serious
notion to come out here to try it out
along those lines. Medford has two
very fine daily newspapers, one week
weekly and a couple of JOB offices:
Naturally drift into these offices and
put in little time as I do not want
lose the smell and flavor Of the print
shop. The city of Medford is situated
about half way between Portland and
San Francisco in a fine valley. Dairy
ing. poultry and fruit industries are
the main props of this country togeth-
er with wheat and alfalfa farming, OF
which much is done. We went out to
call on the VIM. Mckay family the
other afternoon, Tom Moffatt: a for
mer Valley City resident, taking US
out in his auto. We enjoyed very
nice visit with these former Valley
Cityites, who are nicely located on a
fine place with one Of the best or
chards around here and are doing nice
". They are happy out here and like
the country. They want us to remem-.
Der them to all Valley City friends and
asked us much about everybody they
knew. We also drove out to the big
fruit ranches of S. A. Nye, former
owner of the Times Record, and Mr..
and Mrs. Nye came into town Sunday
evening to visit US at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Moffatt where we are
visiting. Mrs. Moffatt, many of you
will remember is Mrs. Trubshaw's sis
ter. Mrs. Haskell, mother of Mrs.
Trubshaw, is also here so the visit is
more enjoyable on that account.
Mr.. Nye spent sometime with US
asking about former friends in Barnes
county: He is a very busy man, with
two or three fruit farms to look after:
He likes the country very much. II
anyone has notion that raising fruit
lis a soft Job they should get it out OF
their system, as it is like and other bus
mess, farming, printing or anything
you must work and work hard to OBJ
tain results. Trees have to be spray.
ed and pruned, fruit picked, wrapped
and marketed, and the orchards cult
waited, an endless variety of jobs in
order to obtain the desired results, and
like the poor and good farmer in
North Dakota you can tell the thrifty
as we'll as the shiftless and conse-
quently the successful Mr.. Nye and
Mr.. Mckay come in the latter class.
But this is a great country and if you
are content to live on fruit farm or
engage in business in one of the towns
out here, then the climate is the best
there is to find anywhere. Mr.. Motfatt
our brother-in-law, has fine grocery
store, very fine corner and comfort
able home on one of the residence
streets in Medford, and you could not
get any Of them to move back to
North Dakota seems to be the
feeling of all those who have moved
out here.
We have enjoyed several visits with
w. N. Campbell, who is in the real
estate business here. Mr.. Campbell is
not over worked with real estate
transfers at this time but he says
there is steady improvement and he
looks for good business from this on
Crops mature much earlier here than
down our way and consequently with
no rain here since July the hills are
brown but the trees green, and at first
lit struck us as peculiar: but they tell
us that all winter long the meadows
and hills are green as they get their
rains any time from this on until June
or July. The rains they speak Of
merely as just mists and do not seem
to mind it at all. There is one thing
about this country. however, that hits
me, you can get out with your car anc
ride for hours on a pavement either If
the town or in the country and do not
have to worry about getting bach
without having to be pulled out of the
mud. That means something to the
person who likes to get out Of doors
It is question Of whether you prefer
4 milder climate here with rain il
the winter or a more severe climate
there with snow and zero weather
This is a country of flowers and fol
iage-all kinds grow in rich profusior
and all YOU need to do is to reach out
now and gather in rose bud or some
other beautiful flower as many times
a day as you feel like it. I am going
to quit now as I fear John Busdickel
will get the fever and leave his ma
chine and take the next train out