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EVERY SATURDAY VT GOLD H ILE, JACKSON COUNTY.
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OREGON, BY
Scribe of Ih« Stars
B e n H . L a m p m iv n
h iv - ro t at tl«? G«>ld Hill postatluv for transmission through the until« i
seeond-eltuM m atter
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1915
SUBSCRIPTION
$1.50
PER
ANNUM
IN
Stock Ranches T a ?
(AfRDRATTS
ADVANCE
ROBBING THE RIVER OE ITS HERITAGE
DISPATCHES from Gold Beach, at the mouth of Rogue
N EWS
River, declare the salmon season of this year to have been
G«a\ Bill! when ilw Angel aqnares «iff
f»»r to writ«*, and breaks a sta r pbint for
hi« pen, he dip« it down deep ill the ink
iest night and scribbles the recorda of
men,
I think that he smiles just a Wi-e
when the h u e wing« up from the garilcm*
of love, that he scratclie« III«* nub of hi»
pen on hi» non*, ami «ivea the old ledger
a shove! Hi« holder’s a comet n million
league« long—it is awful and awkward Io
wield—«o lie will not write down the fa
ir Un of a song th at lovers are singing
»Held. I reckon he «milt* such a tolerant
»mile, ami itmsiugly looks at the tnooo,
as he count« it a reeord th a t's hardly
worth while—to censure the ma<liie«H of
June.
It may be, I'm ^hinkiug. he en
vies them quite; for he will not write
down on his scroll the error of roses and
laughter and night, th a t gladdens the
saiutliest soul!
$
720 acres, solili liody, in Meadows dis-
■rlct, «mall lion««* ami g o o d I m i t i , olii «ir
li ih id In hearing, sevvral good springs,
«Isiut it) acre« under «ultlvatlon. Price
»12.50 per acre.
tttkl aefos. near Di'heilgvr Gap, 111 mile«
from Gold Hill, over It'll acnw midi r cul
tivation, 10 room heii«« , ip»»! barn, live
-'reck through it, uml ««'Vend springs, all
gemi land. Price $35.00 (n r acre.
200 acres near Beagle, finely improv« «!,
iiiclntllng stock mid all agricultural Im
plement«, all tor $40.(10 p«>r uere. Term.«.
004 acres in one «olid laxly five miles
out, Sams Valley district, m arly all m i
ller cultivation, m> letiei' alfplfa or g ra il
land iu ibis county. Price $100 per acre.
120 acres on Foots Creek. 7 miles mil,
4.1 to 50 acres under cultivation, as much
or more could be easily cleared ami cul
tivated, almost unlimited range for stock,
gissi house, two large barns, hog mid
ellickei, houses, gissi stream through it.
Prie«' $75.00 per acre.
100 acres m ar Asls-stos, 20 niili s v u t,
some nm ler coltlvatkin, s m a ll house,
large am ount <■( small fruit, small hear
ing orchard, most of (his is heavily tim
bered, unlim ited rang«' (or stock, several
giaal larve springs. This is a bargain at
$4500. Considerable stock ami imple
mento go with the place at that price.
Several other farms, large ami small,
several fine garden tract« from t w o up to.
50 acres, improved ami unim proved, sev
eral of them are decided bargains. If you
want anything in this line it will pay you
to call and see me. or writ«' for particu
lars on any of the above.
»Scnool D a y s
are A b o u t
Now is the time to think about
the many things you will need.
Our stock is complete and our
prices are th e lowest. We are
agent for the celebrated HAMIL
TON BROWN Security School
Shoe, the longest wearing shoe
made, every pair guaranteed.
THE NEW DR.ESS GOODS for
fall and winter are in. A number
of pieces special for school dress
es, priced very low.
Good Dress Gingham, 10 cents.
Best Calico, 5 cents.
ANNOUNCEMENT to our cus
tomers who expect t o compete
for prizes a t “The Fair”— We
have secured a large list of valu
able prizes, and invite your com
peting for them, according to the
rules to be submitted later.
W atch for them!
“ the biggest season on Rogue River for years.” Never haVe the
fish been more plentiful; at least never since the canneries open Gee, Bill! hut his job is a task for tin*
ed to work at a continuous system of depleting the river. Gold test of mercy and memory and m irth;
and I reckon lie frowns quite as oft nt the
Beach and Wedderburn, the twin fishing towns, are rioting in blest as he d<x*a a t the godless of earth.
prosperity, due largely to the phenomenal catch of salmon, I thin k th at he scowls, till the wreath on
Down at the mouth of the Rogue they are celebrating the suc his brow is heavy and lurid with «trend,
w hen he sees a lean deacon foreclose on
cess which is enriching a few capitalists at the expense of the the
cow that furnished t h e widow her
entire river and the dwellers thereon.
bread. His pen, th a t's a comet a million
If the season of 1915 is the “best in years”, sportsmen of leagues long, must race in its rag«* like a
Hash, when kings purchase flesh at the
the upper Rogue may be forgiven for inquiring why the steel price of a song—ami pay for their bullet«
head run is the smallest ever known, and why a Chinook salmon with cash! But I reckon he smiles such C S. REDFIELD-GOLD MILL, OR.
is almost a curiosity. In the 12,000 cases of fish, presumably a whimsical smile, with eyes like a mist
the lake, and counts it a record th a t's
salmon, packed this season by the Wedderburn Trading company on
h ard ly worth while— when friendship bus
alone lies the answer—and lies—and lies. Wardens and sports sinned for it« sake. It may lie, I’m
men have been told that the fish found an unobstructed passage th in k in g , he envies them all, and shirks
the reeord is |x*nne«l of all the good
up river during the night. The truth of the m atter is that they ere
fellows who leap«« I at the call—and lied
found an unobstructed passage tor thirty miles during the night, w ith their li[>s for a friend!
when they met the morning-cast nets of fishermen. Their night’s
travel could not take them out of the danger zone, in which they Jackson County Eair Prem
were as helplessly penned as sheep in a corral.
iums Higher Than State Fait
Returned visitors from the mouth of the river declare that
the barrier of nets forms an almost continuous obstruction for The directors of the Jackson County
thirty miles up river—a woven and multiplied fence beyond fair to he held in Medford September 8 to
which it is practically impossible for salmon or steelhead to win t l desire to call special attention of tin
horticulturist« t o the prem ium s offered
clear. Now that the commercial season is temporarily closed, on all kinds of frtsite and desire to stab
until the 10th of September, a pitiful portion of that splendid th at t l i e prem ium s are higher than those
run, a remnant considered by the canneries to be “seconds” or offeretl by the sthtc fair and io most In
stances are double.
inferior fish, will be permitted to limp up stream for the solace Some of the fruit prem ium s at o u r
of disappointed sportsmen who fish with the fly and spoon.
county fair are:
A rthur M. Geary, for
eneral display of fruit« $15, $10, $5.
If ever a season demonstrated beyond doubt that the Rogue G Apples,
general display three varieties merly a fruit grower near
is essentially not a commercial fishing stream, it is the season of of one box each, $15 and $10. Display Medford, will soon give a
1915. Both salmon and steelhead have been withheld from their on plates $5 and $3. Single box exhibit«, lecture upon fruit m arket
natural spawning grounds on the upper river. Not alone with $5 and $3, and $3 and $1. Single plate ing here.
exhibit«, $3 and $2; $2 ami $1 and $1.50
held, but almost completely destroyed. Ask a commercial fisher and $1. Largest apple, $1.50 and $1.
Mr. Geary has ju st re
men, “ Where are the steelhead?” and he will tell you that he and For pears, general display, $15 and $10. turned from a two years’
his ilk scorn this noble trout as unfit for their pecuniary purpo Single box exhibit«, $4 and $2.50. Dis stay in New York, where he
play on plates, $5 and $3; single plates, was graduated
this May
ses. Yet the steelhead are as singularly missing as are the $2
and $1. Largest pear, $2 ami $1.
salmon in the upper river—while the nets at the mouth swarm Peaches, general display, $5 and $3. from the Columbia Law
with struggling, silver creatures that have about as much show Display on plates, $3 and $2. Single plate School.
While in New York, Mr. Geary ,
$2 and $1. Largest peach, $1.50
of ever fighting for freedom at the end of a sportsman’s line as | exhibits,
wrote market report« for Western pa
and $1.
a bean sandwich has of escaping the hungry hobo of the free The plat«' exhibit« f o r prunes, figs, pers and kept in close touch with the
fruit district along Greenwich arid
quinces, nectarines, apricot«, plums are $2
lunch.
Washington streets. lie gave a serie*
and $1; for nuts and grapes, $1 ami 50c, of illustrated lectures concerning tin
To every argument that commercial fishing does not deplete with $5 ami ?:> for basket display of
Pacific and Columbia Kiver highways
the stream, and thus desecrate its heritage as a natural resort grapes and $3 and $2 for first displuy of His lectures, coupled with his interest
in the markets, attracted the atten
for real sportsmen, the season of 1915, when the “biggest run grapes on plates.
to the prem ium s offered tion of the fruit auctioneers of New
in years” failed to pass the unmitigated fish hogs at the mouth for In the addition
largest apple, pear ami peach by York.
of the Rogue, will serve as a clinching answer.
In March, the first convention of
the county fair the Panama-Pacific ex
auction companies of the United
The stream was once closed by the people. It was opened position offers $5 for the largest spe«-imen States
was called for the purpose of
eaeb of the above, the fruit shown a t the
by a damphool legislature. The Oregon system was snubbed county
fair to be sent to the San F ra n raising funds and carrying out a
campaign of education among the ap
and set aside. Now — if the people value their self respect, aside cisco exposition.
from appreciation of this natural heritage of healthful sport In view of thi-se excellent prem ium s
and the effort being made by the fair d i
with rod and fly, they will close the river and keep it so.
Auction
rectory to put on the best displays ever
GEARY TO TALK
ON AUCTIONS
Oregon Man to Lecture In
, This City
GROWERS’ GOOD IS AIM
Read These You just the may thing find
Orders taken for any book published in
the United States. Also we are the sub-
For hard or soft wood of finest quality * r'P t 'on agent for all U. S. and many for-
order from John J. R itter, Phone 3F21. , f l*n m s«az'ne» and papers.
—John R. Kelsey,
Cedar Fence Posts for sale a t reason
with Gold Hill News.
able price. For information call at the
Wood by tier or cord a t lowest market
News office.
price, delivered at your «tied. Finest fir,
Butter paper, printed in accordance pine, laurel and oak. Jo h n J. Ritter,
with the law, for sale on order at The Phone 3F21.
News office.
SAVE M ONEY! From now until Sep
I saw eordwood to stove lengths with
e>*wer saw, promptly on order. Phone
John J . Ritter, 3F21,
Found—Valuable pair of eye classes,
specially ground lenses. Owner may re
cover property by calling at News office
and paying charges.
I weave rag carpets or rugs to your
order a t reasonable prices. Call or write,
Mrs. R. M. Nicholson, Gold Hill, Oreg.
One and on" half miles northeast of city.
Orders may be left at News office.
M ARKETS
Portland.
Wheat—Club, 85c; biueatem, 89c;
tem ber 1st we will sell school pencil tab
red Russian. 80c; forty-fold, 87c; red
lets a t 45c per dozen.
Bowers Pharm acy. fife. 84c.
A majority of governors and ex
state executives, delegates to the gov
ernors’ conference at Boston, at the
final session of the conference agreed
that the United States Is inadequate-
ly prepared to resist Invasion by a
hostile European force.
Prompt Auto Service.—My machine is
W a ln u t Growers Combine.
always ready for service and to him at
Portland.—Growing out of a meet
lowest possible rate. For four passenger
ing of the grange at McMinnville In
parties the rati' is no more than railroad
July, the walnut growers of the north
fare. Phone 32J.
west states met at the Imperial hotel
—C. L. DOUNBERRT,
here and formed the Western Walnut
Gold Hill, Oregon, j
association, the first walnut growers'
Common lum ber, sized, $13 per thou organization on this part of the coast.
Hay—Eastern Oregon timothy. $1«;
alfalfa. $13.50.
Butter—Creamery, 26c.
Eggs—Ranch, 25c.
Wool—Eastern Oregon, 28c; valley,
30c.
M ohair—31c.
Seattle.
Wheat—Biueatem, 83c; club, 94c;
red Russian, 81c; forty-fold, 87c; fife,
82c.
Barley—$23.50 per ton.
Hay—Timothy, $16 per ton; alfalfa,
$14 per ton.
Butter—Creamery. 27c.
pie
Eggs—26c.
Bend.—A fire which started from
sparks blown from a waste pile com
sand, thoroughly seasoned. All building
m aterials at reasonable prices. All com- ! Citizens of Newport planted 8000 pletely destroyed the lumber yard of
the Bend company, burning up ap
petition cheerfully met.
agates on the beach for the pleasure
proximately 5,000,000 feet of rough
!ig Pines Lumber G —»’•iny,
of the tourists, who take interest in
and finishnd lumber. The lc. s Is es
On!
hunting for them.
timated at $75,000.
C ompany
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t e e n b u i l d i n g » f u l l y e q u ip p e d , t w o « p le t id id
« y in n n » d n u t » .
T u it io n F r e e .
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w o in e tt, E i | > e n i ie i L o w e i l .
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
K I'U K N K . O R K S IO N
Association, which was formed on Erie Pier, where all the fruits
at this meeting, asked Mr. deary to from the Pacific Coast sent to New
visit the other principal cities of the! York, are sold. Seven and a half
United States, where auctions are million people form the inhabitants
found and prepare himself thoroughly of Greater New York. If the local
concerning the miction system as it is i market is flooded there is always the
now operating in this country and opoprtunity of shipping to Europe.
later to come to the Coast with lan South America and South Africa, if
tern slides to give illustrated lectures. the fruit it in good condition.
Mr. deary is an Oregonian of the
second generation, both his father and Currier Confesaes Burning Bulldinga.
mother having been born in the Wil
Poftland, Or.—Sanford W. Currier,
lamette Valley.
a contractor and builder, who was ar ,
He was graduated from the Univer rested last week, confessed that he
sity of Oregon in 1910. At the com
has, for the past 10 years, made a fair
mencement exercises he won the Beck
man prize of one hundred dollars for ly profitable business of building ,
houses, partly furnishing them, set
oratory.
shown, the fruit growers should assist by
preparing their exhibits now and placing
them in cold storage fn*e, in Medford.
Pick out your R artletts and Howell« to
day, you will receive a far better price in
premiums than in shipping your best
fruit.
THE
L ance
ARTHUR GEARY
Who come, to West with mlaalon to
frultgrowera
growers of the Pacific Coast,
which are the only fruit raisers on
the Pacific seaboard who do not sell
all of their fruit which is marketed
in the sixteen or seventeen largest
cities of the country through the me
dium of auction sales.
Mr. Cleary Makes Campaign.
The American F ruit and Pro-’-
Twice Manager Orchard.
After his graduation, Mr. deary
managed bis father’s orchard near
Medford for a couple of years. Later,
he became graduate manager of stu
dent activities at the University of
Oregon. While employed at the Uni
versity, he began the study of law.
Attendance at a Bummer session of
the University of California and two
Winter terms and a Summer session at
Columbia University completed his
course in law.
Next Fall Mr. deary plans to begin
the practice of law either in Portland
or New York.
New York Is Orest Market.
New York and Liverpool are the
two greatest fruit and vegetable mar
kets in the world. Buyers from New
Haven, New Rochelle, Jersey City,
Hoboken, Brooklyn, Newark, and a
dozen
ner citif
nttend
b ltv
«"■ -
t he f
«
ting fire to them, and collecting the
insurance. The operations of himself
and seven or eight accomplices whose
names are being withheld by District
Attorney Evans' deputies, extended
from Texas to Washington.
Nolke'to Creditors
Norte« is hereby given th at Isora L.
Hodges, the undersigned, has'lieen ap-
(xiinted A dm inistratrix ofjthe Estate of
Samuel T. Hodges, deceased, by th«>
County Court of Jackmin County, Oregon ;
and all persons having claims against
said 1'Xate are hereby notified to present
tlie same, <lnly verified, to tlie undersign
ed A dm inistratrix, at her residence at.
Gold Hill, Oregon, or a t tlie office of
Darling «Y Hodges, at Gold Hill, in Jack-
son Countv, Oregon, on or before the ex R
piration or six m onths from the date of
first, publication of this notice.
« Date of first publication is August 14th,
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— I sora L. H oixies ,
A dm inistratrix,