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T 6 THE MORNING OliEGONTAN, FRTDAT. JUNE 1914, GRANTS PUSS RAIL LINE CAUSES JOY SCENES ABOUT GRANTS PASS. People Jubilant Over Ruling Bonds to Build Crescent City Road Are Valid. S3 "The Store Where You Feel at Home" Washington at Broadway RICH LANDS TO BE OPENED licuutirul Little Municipality Is in Part or State Where Great Farms Arc Being Made From Formpr 'Waste Tracts. BT-ADDTSON BBN.VKTT. GRANTS PASS. Or., June 4 (Spe cial.) If you wish to sen ono of the most beautiful streets in Oregon. Just nation yourself on tlie brldga over Tiogue River and look north up Sixth fctreet in thla beautiful little city. Hixth street is the principal business thor oughfare hero. It is about a mile long from the bridge to Tokay Mountain, at the north end, and has a gradual rise of about 50 feet in that distance. It la a wide highway, well paved, curbed and Hidewalked, and the buildings on either ide are equal to those on any street in nny of the cities in the state, aside from Portland. When Sixth street is illuminated at night, it is even more beautiful than by daylight; but it ia something worth while to see any time. Just now the people of this little city sre jubilant, for the courts have finally jiassed upon the validity of the bond ixsue authorized by the votera last Fall to construct the first link iu a railroad out towards Crescent City, the bonds have been sold, the money received, the contracts Jet for bridges, ties and rails, and within a few weeks ten miles of this road will be built and in operation. The grading was all completed several mouths ago. Outlet for Timber Wanted. Of courso there is already a road here, the Southern Pacific, this being one of the principal stations on that road in the southern portion of the state. But the peoplo want an outlet to the timber, or for the timber, and a road out to the great Illinois Valley, to the westward, will not only touch a rich belt of timber but will reach iuto one of the sections of the state having great agricultural possibilities. It undoubtedly will be some time bo fore tliis -road, reaches Holland, iu the western edge of the Illinois Valley, and longer still before it reaches Crescent City. But it must bo remembered that the people of Grants Pass are aggres sive and resourceful; and there are peoplo at the other end who are as anxious to have the road built as those here. I am willing to admit that there grow in Josephine and Douglas counties as fine strawberries as ever touched tho lip of man. And I have partaken of them three or four times a day for the last week. I have eaten them raw and cooked, havo eaten them In .plea and In shortcake, have tried them with whipped cream and cream plain, have eaten them out of hand in the fields and gardens. Mrs. Booth, at Roseburg, and the Umpqua House of the same place, served them to me as fresh; sweet - and luscious as straw berries could be: Mrs. Waite and Mrs. Luce, at Sutherlin, treated me to dishes of them that no king or ruler of the Old World ever had the chance to eat, and I became somewhat. Just a trifle, colicky. Then I came here and the Metschans, at the Josephine House, served them before, after and between each meal. Hereafter I will think of this section as strawberry land. Great Tract Planted.' I mentioned that Sixth street leads up to Tokay Mountain. Go up to the head of the street and turn to the east, around the foothills, and you will find yourself on Tokay Heights. A few years ago R. E. Kxoh came here from Oklahoma and bought 2S0 acres there and in the bottom just below. Much of this land, by far the major portion of it, was in brush. It supported only a few squirrels and gophers and gave pasturage to a few rabbits. You know we have millions of acres of such waste land in Oregon. Mr. Kroh went to work and cleared and cultivated and planted every acre of this to fruit trees, apples, pears, peaches, cherries, English, wal nuts, and a little of it to grapes. And there are no finer young orchards in the state than in this Tokay Heights tract. I wish we could get about 10,000 Krohs, from Oklahoma, or from, well, no matter where they come from if they will only come and bring with them their weasel skins filled with coin and their hearts flrec" with the ambition to emulate this R. E. Kroh, of Grants Pass. I went out to the Leonard Orchard Tract again. There I saw Clyde E. IMlles, the manager, and took dinner with Mr. Nlles and his family. Let me Bay the tract consists of 1800 acres, lies about eight miles southeast of town, on both sides of the Applegate River, belongs to C. M. Leonard, who was the contractor for most of the work on the Multnomah Hotel, and is one of the great farms of Oregon great in every way. Mr. Leonard, under the intelligent management of Mr. Niles, ia doing things, big things. Let me enumerate briefly. They are milk ing 60 cows, almost every one of which Is fit for a show animal; they have, I don't remember how many hogs, but there are 300 little piggies. They have a great many horses and mules, and are just getting started in breeding this stock. They are starting a thor oughbred and registered herd of Jer seys and Holsteins, also Poland China and Berkshire swine. For these pur poses there are on the place as fine registered sires and dams as there are in the state. Dairy Herd Up to World' Best. Their dairy herd, the milk house, the treatment of the milk and the cows, are equal to that in any dairy In the world. Just so with the horses, mules and swine with fine poultry and a hundred or so stands of bees as mere Incidents. On the place there is a hopyard of 0 acres, a bearing apple orchard of 40 acres and 70 acres of young apple trees. Besides .there are lots of cher ries, prunes, plums, peaches and pears for home use. But it is the general farming where the Leonard tract shines. There are large tracts of al falfa, timothy and clover, 110 acres in corn, acres and acres of potatoes, all eorts of vegetables in great quantities, both for table use and stock feed. 1 think I can say without fear of contradiction that the farming opera tions on this place are fully as well carried out as on any of our experi ment farms, daddled by the state and Nation. For instance this last Spring Mr. Niles put out 30 acres of alfalfa. Jt is all in one-acre blocks and each block has received different treatment in the way of either inoculation, fertil izer or as to tlie seed planted. Of each tract a register is kept, so this Fall, or at any later time, it can be seen which is the best method to pursue. The same with the cornfields, as to fertilizer and seed. A record is kept and this will be extended on to the final results. Last year there were crown on the tract something like 80 - I I wiv-sn- & TjKiS-" "frf. 5 , "tt 111 t (iffsM t;,f ; JJJ m "i J - 'faster-.- "iFiF- TOP, GOLD IIO V DAM OX ROGTTE RIVER MTDDLK, SCENE IV CITY PARK. BELOW, TABLE ROCK AND GOLD RO V DASrr acrea of corn. Some of this went 70 bushels to the acre. From the best of this, 5000 choice ears were saved for seed; from these 5000 enough of the choice were used and from every ear used a test was made of its fertility. 1 Clo-ver Fertilizer Tested. - There is on the place a field of alsike clover. On one measured acre of this 250 pounds of super-phosphate was sown broadcast; on the next acre as much lime the balance was not treated. Yesterday we estimated that the acre treated with super-phosphate would yield as many tons as the other nine acres, and the acre treated with lime would yield as much as three acres of that untreated. Isn't it just splendid to have men make such investigations and give the results freely to the public? It strikes me that Mr. Leonard is doing as much for the state as any man within its borders. And I have only touched on the labors and experiments as carried on by Mr. Niles. For instance, when we arrived he had just finished taking the register of 32 minimum registering thermometers, which he bad set on all portions of the farm during the cool night just passed. He found that the difference in temperature between tlie bench and bottom lands averaged six degrees, the bench : lands being the warmer. How much would it have been worth to Oregon if that fact had been known to every Oregon husband man during the last 60 years? No man can appraise the value. And think of 250 pounds of fertilizer, costing less than $3 spread, bringing forth two or three tons of alsike? There is another place out near the Leonard tract, that of K. C. M. Neill. a compatriot of the Laird of Skibboo. Mr. Neill married a daughter of Phil Metschan. He has the makings of a line place, ' indeed, it is a fine place right now, but he will make of it a little garden of Eden. He has the money and the Inclination and the site and without doubt the brains. So you will within a few years hear of the Neill place as one fit for a king. City Baa Advantages. Just a few words" about the City of Grants Pass generally. There is no use telling about the excellent schools and churches; everybody knows- no city has better religious or educational advantages. As to banks there are three, the First National, the Josephine County and the Grants Pass Banking Company. These ' have aggregate de posits of about $800,000. which is a good showing for a city of this size. There are two good newspapers, an evening daily, the Rogue River Courier, A. E. Voorhies, editor and proprietor, and the Oregon Observer, a weekly, by Arthur C Coutant. Both of these have fine job offices in connection. The Grants Pass Commercial Club is a live institution. I wish to thank it for many favors during my visit. Marshall Hooper is the president. W. P. Quinlan the secretary. As to the business houses, there are few towns in the state that can equal them for beauty of establishment or extent and variety of stock. And every merchant I have spoken to says -"business is bully." Of the hotels there are many. The two principal ones are the Oxford and the Josephine. The latter is kept by Metschan Bros. I am there, or here, or anyhow at the -Josephine. I think it , is good , enough for anybody; indeed any city of five times the size of this place may feel fortunate In getting as good a hostelry.' But the surrounding country! Where can you find a town with more to fall back upon, with greater resources be hind it? Why, the timber interests alone insure a bright future, and the mines, the Josephine mines are the most productive in the state, and there is bound to be great strikes, made in the future. ' Then the lime and granite and coal that Josephine will send out in the future will build a large city, and I have not touched the principal resource, the tens and hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural and fruit lands lying contiguous to the town. In one thing Josephine County beats any portion -of Oregon, for good roads. Yes, Josephine has the most and best road material and the best system of roads, good roads, in the state. I have Just rethrned from a 40-mile ride out to the east, up the Applegate and then up in the Williams Creek sections, our Journey ending at the home of Wil liam Sutton, about 21 miles from here and -about 12 miles this side of the Josephine Caves. We - had dinner there-and Mrs. Sutton gave us plenty to eat and well cooked and well served. Out in that direction are some, many, as fine farms as can be found any where and everybody seems prosperous. There are thousands and thousands of acres there yet to be cleared, for sale at a low; price. I -was also told that there are some few homesteads, but these are mostly rough or inferior land. Passeneers on a steamer to Portland, Me., were surprised when about 13 miles from the Maine port to hear voices and music coining apparently from the air. When they Eot into the harbor they found that on a boat tied up at the wharf ther wu a wire less apparatus, to which wu attached a wlreleaa telephone attachment en whioa the operator had keen experimenting. STOCK SHOW OPENS Exhibition Held Despite Rain. Which Prevents Parade. NOVELTY STUNTS PLEASE Backing Contest and Drunken In dian Bide Get Applause of Crowd. Entries of Fine Horses at Un ion Surpass Previous Year. UNION, Or., June i, (Special.) A chilly, unfavorable day ushered in the opening of the Stock Show. The man agement donated 1500 in free passes to the guests by opening the grounds and grandstand free of all charges to vis itors. A rainfall at noon prevented the mammoth parade, so the exhibition was held on the grounds, beginning at 2 o'clock. Bucking contests and high hurdles excited the admiration of the crowd, while the drunken Indian ride by George Thomas, of Round-Up fame, drew the applause of the crowd. Arm strong, riding Fred Spain's relay string, won the race by a small margin. Each rider drew a genuine outlaw in the bucking contest, and each con quered his mount. This feat was made easier by the soft ground of the arena. The mixed race, walk, trot and run one mile, was won by Bert Woods, with Kenneth Paddock second and E. O. Zeek third. No serious mishaps marred the fea tures of the day. The picturesque Indian village on Little Creek was in plain view of the grandstand, and the war dance of the Umatlllas in their gorgeous feathers and tribal paints was a novel aight for the visitors. The running and harness races were postponed until tomorrow, when the delegations from Baker and La Grande will be In attendance. " The entries of fine horses surpass all other years, and tomorrow will be the best show of choice equines ever held in Eastern Oregon, it is said. J. D. Farrell's high Jumping horse is in the city and will be exhibited to morrow by John Elliot. The judging of fine horses and the awarding of prizes begin tomorrow. The clouds cleared at 3 o'clock this afternoon and tonight it is clear, with a promise of fair weather for the remainder of the week. GASOLINE LINE . IS URGED Chehalis Asks Northern Pacific Rnn Service to Walvllle. to CHEHALIS. Wash, June 4. (Spe cial.) 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The aim of the Citizens' Club is to afford better transportation facilities, not only between the various points on the South Bend branch, but to make it possible for persons living along: the line to have the advantage of passen ger service at the various wagon cross injrs. Such a service, it is believed, would have a splendid effect in securing further settlement of the Chehalis Val ley and the cutting of larger holdings into smaller tracts. POST MORTEM IS HELD Autopsy Performed on Woman Who Died After Taking "Cure." CENTRALIA, Wash.. June 4. (Spe cial.) Coroner Edward Newell yester day held a post mortem over the re mains of Mrs. Josephine Anderson, who died at Winlock Tuesday night after taking Frank Lot' celebrated cure for all diseases. Dr. F. G. Bickford, of Cen tralia. and Dr. Webb, of Winlock, per formed the autopsy. It is possible that an inquest will be held'by the Coroner after the findings of the physicians are announced, but it is not known just what action will be taken against Lots. Mrs. Anderson is the second patient of Lots' on whom a post mortem has been held. Elderly Man Accused of Thef t. CHEHALIS. Wash.. June 4. (Spe cial.) John Davis has been bound over 1L ILL accept the best offer made for a 1911 six-cylinder Pierce-Arrow five passenger automobile. In first class shape through out, and complete in every way. Runs like new. Compensation must be either cash or first class mortgage well secured, or part cash and mortgage, or other good collateral. If yon don't want a high-class used car at a reason able price and one which is very much better than a cheap new one, don't answer this advertisement. Will consider no trades involving: payments of any kind by the seller. Telephone Main 852 or A 1852, Portland, or address AP 33, Oregonian. to the Superior Court entering- C. H. 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