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About The Plaindealer. (Roseburg, Or.) 1870-190? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1903)
I Goes Bay, Roseburg Railroad. and Eastern The construction of the Coos Bay R. R. appears to be assuming more practicle pro-pastime than at any time heretofore. It is announced in the eastern press that George Gould is actually going to build, in the very near future, two roads to the Pacific Coast, and that the Coos Bay road is one of them. We are disposed to place a great amount of credence in these reports, particularly that re garding the Coos Bay road. We have two reasons for crediting this last an nouncement. One of our reasons is sufficient. There is a demand for the construc tion of this road. The commerce of the Pacific Coast, with the orient and our insular possessions is assuming enormous proportions and will in crease from years to years as our commodities come into more general use by those people. In order to meet this demand there exists a nec essity for more railroad carriage. This is prohibited to other companies by the management of the present roads; and there is but one way men handling the amount of traffic handled by such lines as the Gould, can reach the coast, and that is by their own independent lines. It is therefore imperative for Gould to reach the coast, if he expects to share in the oriental trade. He can't do it at Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco or Portland. He has lines as far west as Salt Lake. The construction of a road from Salt Lake to Coos Bay will give him just what he wants, an out let. It will do more it will give him a control of all the shipping business between Baker City in Oregon and years so strong a pressure on the part of the Eastern merchants as there is now to crush down prices to the min imum. The growers must stand to gether and not sell one pound at less than a good round price. The trade does not care whether it pays on a 3 or a 3J cent basis. What it does care for is that there shall be uniform ity. The demand for prunes was never greater. "In the European markets there is a very small holdover crop. Hamburg and Bordeaux being the only places where there is any to speak of. The prospects are for only one-quarter of an average crop. California must pack up to the brands, and not send fruit which has been strongly sul phured and then not aired well before boxing. The price of prunes this year does not depend on what New York or Chicago merchants want, but on what the growers of California say. A 3 cent net basis would be reasonable." Colonel Philo Hersey, president of the Santa Clara County Fruit Ex change, who has also recently return ed from a trip to Europe, and who ad dressed the growers during the same meeting, said: '"This years fruit crop is short in every country. All the natural prod ucts are light At the beginning of the season there were no French prunes on hand. Bosnia and Servia have only 2,500 wagon loads of eleven tons each, a mere grain for the Euro pean markets. "This country had a holdover of 27,000,000 or 28,000,000 pounds on May 1st. The largest estimate for this years crop is two-thirds of last Year's yield. There will not, there-1 fore, be the usual consumption of Your Watch! When was it cleaned and oiled H Is it running like it ought to? If i ia not, it would be well to have it ex amined, I will look it over carefully and tell you just where the trouble is and what it will coat to repair it. I guarantee all mv work and live! up to the guarantee. R.F.WINSLOWJeand - u-.'iuiau MRS. H. E ASTON l . .1 I w is rreparea in wan upon uiu and new customersand friends with a full and complete stock of -GROCERIES All fresh and of the very best quality. Teas aad coffees are specialties. Yonr patronage solicited. r i r 1 BEST MEAL IN THE CITY FOR 25 CENTS. THE NEW D I Cor. Washington and Main Streets Mrs. Belle Col Una Reno, Nevada. A county rich in all j western resources such as stock, grain, ! fruit in Europe and America, so that frmf Hmhpr and minerals Thf rlio-1 f-linro in nn nuiAn rrXr. tance between these points is 400 1 prunes should not bring a higher price miles, and is the largest scope of ter- this year than last." ritory in the United States without a J During the interview Manager Gile! railroad. The traffic of this section ! further said: ' iT,11 eaStem conn(f !ons ! "In view of all thefacts there is no ' atSalt Lake support a road on a 1 reason why th e K hrgdy paying basis The time is here - Q and Washinon ghoald take , for this road and unless all signs fail, t x. n . , r ,n -n . , . . 6 ' less than 4 to 4 cents net for 40-oOs. tbe road is coming. . Tfae 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 pounds ; ' , of prunes produced in the Northwest ' Good Price for Prunes. , is a very small factor in the world's ' supply. The growers should not for- AND OREGON Union Pacific REDUCED All Colored Summer Goods Reduced to COST We must maKe room for New Goods WOLLENBERQ BROS., Phone 801. Of your life if you bu y a buggy, hack or road wagon befor 3ou inspect our stock of John Deere vehicles. We Are After You Haven't missed n sale since car arrived. spring goods ever brought to the county. Finest line CHURCHILL & W00LLEY Title Guarantee & Loan U). r. o BOSEBUBO, OBEGOK Hakiltox, President C. HlXILTOX. Secj. and Treu OOce In the Court House. Hve the only com Theprunes growers will be interest-, cet thata lare crop or a total failure ; rf o H ed to know that the price named by in 0regon veiy little effecfc on the ftc them in their conference meeting held at Salem, on July 25, were not far wide of real value of prunes. The WAla-lc Valley Prune Associa tion has since that date accepted a a" few orders, when buyers could be enormous total amount annually con sumed, but our conditions may be tre mendously affected by the failure of crops abroad." The prune crop throughout the Willamette valley is generally reported townhlt plat In the Rweburs. Oreeoa. C. S. Lan d D trict. WIU make bine print copies of any town ship induced to pay the price, the sales. making rapid growth, and the aggregating now upwards of forty ; grors are thoroughly pleased with carloads. Probably twice this amount , the fav0rable weather conditions and would have been sold had it not been , tne encouraging prospect. for the break made in Southern Ore-1 . gon, where some large growing crops j More than 5,000,000,000 pounds of were sold at an abnormally low figure, j valuej at over $100,000,000, the fruit being resold in the hast as ; wag brought into the United States in I low as 2 basi3, four cents for 40-50s. 1 tne year just en(jed. This is a ' In an interview with a Salem States- j uTsrer importation of sugar than at man reporter, Manager H. S. Gile, of ; any preceding year in the history of N. A. FOSTER & CO GOVERNMENT LANDS Of every descrivtion. Farms and eral Lands. Minnesota. (j23 Min- Oregon, Washington and OAKLAND. OREGON the country, and the value is greater than in any preceding year, except the importations of 1891, 1893 and 1894. These figures include the suerar brought from Porto Rico and Reduced Rates to Oregon State Fair. the Willamette Valley Prune Associa tion, said: "It seems strange that growers should be content to accept 3h to 3 cents for 40-501 when other growers are selling the same goods at A cents . the Hawaiian Islands in the bins, and this is what the Salem and Roseburg associations are doing." A letter received by Manager Gile from a representative grower in the Santa Clara valley states that all California crop estimates have been too high. The letter gives some inter esting facts to prove that the valley crop will not be more than 40 per cent of that of last year instead of 60 per cent, as is generally estimated. The writer had just refused 3 basis (4 cents for40-50s) for his large crop. F. W. Crandall, manager of the Sorosis Fruit Farm, who had just re turned from Europe, speaking before the growers at a meeting recently held in San Jose, California, said: "There has not been in twenty Abstract of TiUe to Deeded Land. Panera prepared for filing on Govern ment Land. Blue P'uita of Township Maps showing all vacantLands. FRAftKE. ALLEY Architect, Abstracter. Plans and Estimates for all Build ings. Special designs for Office Fixtures Office in new Bank Bnilding. 'Phone 415 ROSEBURG. OREGON A. C. MRSTERS & CO. DRUGGISTS. We Want Your Patronage and as an inducement we offer U. S. P. Standard Drugs, Fresh Patent Medicines, High Grade Perfumes, Soaps, Toilet Arti cles, and Specialties "The Oregon State Fair will be held at the Fair Grounds September 14th to 19th. ! The Southern Pacific Company will sell tickets to Fair Grounds and return, at one and one-third fare from all points on its Oregon Lines. Special exhibits of fine cattle and horses and agricultural products have been prepared, and every effort will be put forth to make this the greatest Fair in tbe history of Oregon. If you are interested in the develop ment of the State (and of course you are) you cannot afford to miss the Fair this jear." 69 sl8. Get your abstracts 01 title from J. D Hamilton. He has the only complete set of abstract books in the county, tf THE PACIFIC HOMESTEAD The Greatest Farm Paper of the North west. Published weekly at Salem. Ore mh. Ml ted hv the Farmers of the gS'orthwest. Twenty Pages. Illustrated. A WESTERN PAPER FOR WESTERN PEOPLE Sa Papers for $1.00. Leas than acta each Publication began March 1. 1900. Now has o.aoo subscribers. Phenomenal growth Is due to Its being tho best farm paper pub lished. YOU SHOULD READ T HOMESTEAD AND PLAINDEALER $2.75 A YEAR. go to THE ROSELEAF for CIGARS, TOBACCO 7ND S7VYOKZERS' SUPPLIES. Jackson Street, Roseburg, Oregon R. W- FENN, CliZIL, ENGINEER. 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