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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1908)
(Static C O T T A G E G R O V E . OREGON L ocated on th e upper W illa m e tte River 144 m iles south of Portlan d on S ou th ern l*a- citic uud o re a o u Hi South K a sten i K uilroads. Pop ulation ¿¡VM; two b u n k s; p u b lic and lug It sch o o ls, live churclu-s, w ater, kiirhi and sew er sy stem s; cream ery . Hour m ill, tw o b ric k y ard s; saw m ills; wood w ork fa cto ry ; m atch facto ry ; steam laundry and th e L o a d e r . i '■ i ..................... .... ■ INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCES. <Treat forests of lim b er trib u tary to Cottage (•rove; hfteeu saw m ills; th ree shin gle m ills, w iilim a radius of 15 m iles. H eadquarters for .B oh em ia gold m ines an d Black Butte qu icksilver m ines; valleys and foot-hills w ell adapted to fruit grow ing, farm ing and d airying. F o r inform ation regarding this great country su b scrib e for th e W E E K L Y AND SE M I-W E E K L Y B O H E M IA S tä K * * * * * * |«— I— J -------- „ C O T T A G E G R O V E , O R EG O N , F R ID A Y , N O V E M B E R 6 ». .9 0 8 BROWN LUMBER CO’S. BIG SAW Mill. HAS STARTED UP After a Year’s Idleness-Mill Over hauled and New Machinery In- stalled-Capacity 60,000. After more than one year's idle water the donkey may lie dispensed ness the big sawmill of the Brown with. A fine grade of milling timber is being logged at Rocky Lumber Co. was started up on full Point and Disston, on Row river time in Cottage Grove Wednesday for this mill and is being delivered morning with a force of forty-five daily over the branch railroad, the men, which force will l>e increased O. & S. E. to the mill. as the mill increases its output. At present the mill is running Since closing down in August of on a big order for the Southern last year this mill plant has l>eeu California oil fields, including the completely overhauled and im big walking beams used in the oil proved, much new modern m a wells. We were informed by Su chinery having l>eeu installed, in perintendent White that there is cluding a new re-saw, edger, cut orders ahead to keep the mill run off, live rollers and other less im ning steadily providing cars can l>e portant machinery, giving the mill had to make the deliveries. a daily capacity of 60,000 feet of The starting tip of this big mill- lumber. j ing plant and the timber camps A Leader man called on Sujier- ; which supplies it with logs means iuteudent White and Foreman M. much for Cottage Grove, and this P. Garoutte Thursday and found i big pay role will soon have the them very busy men as the ini ! effect of greatly stimulating all proved plant while running smooth ■ kinds of business in and about ly required more or less attention. ! this city, while llie Saginaw, A1 -a, The mill pond which was recently ; Woodard Wildwood, Disston, Mc- cleaned out and enlarged was Kibbeu, Cerro Gorda and ( )wens piled full of logs but was not yet Sawmills and shingle mills are all filled with w a t e r . It is be contributing their full share toward ing filled as fast as the supply at making Iretter times in Cottage hand w i l l admit. This incon Grove and South Lane county. venience, forces the use of a don May all of their orders multiply key engine temporarily with which and plenty of cars be provided to logs are dragged to the seliute, but expedite the delivery of their lum as soon as the pond is filled with tier and timlier product. Roseburg’s Commercial Club has just completed a most artistic little exhibit building at the Rose- burg dejiot with one side and both ends of glass, in which is dis played, for the examination of passengers on the daily trains, all kinds of fruits, vegetables, min erals and timlier common to that productive locality. It will prove a fine advertisement, and is money well s|>ent. The wet season has opened, as suring an early beginning of placer operations in southern Oregon. S L A U G H T E R OF D E E R BY T I M B E R W OL VE S T . II. Goveau, a prominent resi dent of Jasper, was in Eugene Wednesday and told the Register a story of game destruction that is really shocking. A short time ago Mr. Goveau and John Vaughan went deer hunting on the big bot tom on Little Fall creek and they found places where the ground was literally strewn with bones and carcasses of deer. They found a deer that had been run out of the mountains to the creek and was overtaken in a drift where it had got fast and a part of a ham had been eaten so shortly before that the meat was still good and they used a part of it. They saw tracks of timber wolves as large as a man's hand and they evidently run the deer out of the mountains to the creek and then destroy them. Mr. Goveau says it is the duty of the legislature to provide a bounty of $10 each for gray wolves or cougars for if they do not take some steps toward the destruction of these varmints there will lie no more deer left in a very short time. George F. Croner of Eugene says that the cougars and bear are actually exterminating the deer on the upjier McKenzie and unless something is done to stop them, in another two years there will not be a deer left in that country. He B y W IL B U R W R I G H T . A e r o n a u t. advises the offering of a good-sized H IN O S will happen with aeroplanes ns they did with steam bounty, say $10 or $15, for each engines and motor cars. cougar or bear killed, so that it will be an object for hunters to T H E P R IN C IP L E O F A E R IA L F L IG H T H A S N O W B E E N get out after them. The use of D IS C O V E R E D , A N D W E M A Y LO O K F O R W A R D T O B U T dogs should also be allowed, as it V E R Y S L IG H T M O D IF IC A T IO N S IN T H A T P R IN C IP L E . is practically impossible to make a On the other hand, the essential parts of tlio aeroplano will un successful hunt of cougar and dergo many great improvements, just as in tho caso of tlio essential bear without dogs. S w i f t P ro g ress In A e r ia l N a v ig a tio n A s s u re d . C parts of the railway locomotive. The scientific limit of the utilization of motor power lias already been reached. B y this I mean that it will never bo possiblo to raise a G R E A T E R W E IG H T with a given number of horsepower than is now done. F o r instance, two years ago with a motor of only fourteen horsepower I drove an aeroplane weighing eleven and three-quarter hundredweight and carrying one passenger with mo. I deem it IM P O S S IB L E ever to do better. MINES RESUMING WORK IN B OHEM IA The West Coast Mining Co., formerly the Oregon Securities Co. has a force of twelve men at work IN A V E R Y F E W Y E A R S FR O M N O W YO U W IL L SEE H U N in its tunnels in the Bohemia camp and now are mining ore prepara D R E D S O F IM P R O V E D , V E R Y L IG H T A N D S W IF T A E R O P L A N E S IN tory to starting the mill. When T H E N E IG H B O R H O O D O F E V E R Y L A R G E C IT Y . It has always been so. I t was so with tho locomotive, with the .5,000 tons of ore has been stored steamship, with the motor car. My own motto is not to look int6 tho in the bins the mills will Ire put to work and will be operated until it future, but to live and work for the present. has • caught up with the mines MARK M E. A N AER O PLAN E W IL L CONQUER T H E A IR AS when, to reduce expenses the mill Q U IC K L Y A S R A IL W A Y S H A VE CONQUERED T H E S U R F A C E OF will be shut down until another T H E G LO BE. stock of ore has been stored. It Spray & Co. for Leslie salt. Spray & Co. for grass seeds. is lint the plan of the management to attempt to operate the mill un less there is ail abundance of ore. Ill addition the company is driving the deep tunnel, employing as many men as can be used. There are indications that there will be lively times at this mine next sum mer. The mill has a capacity of loo tons per shift of 12 hours. At present the company has several hundred tons oj rock on the dump. Gradually enough men will be em ployed to quarry pay rock to keep the big .50-stamp mill running con p e r c e n t off. tinuously. GREAT REDUCTION SUMMER SHOES - IN — 25 All lines of Ladies and Gents Oxfords Also fine stocK of Children’s Shoes going at the sam e reduction. Best $4.00 Shoes now $3.00. Best $3 .0 0 Shoes now $2.25. Best $2.00 Shoes now $1.50. PEARCE BROTHERS. Phone Main 6 4 3 — Our own Delivery. C O M P L E T E LIS T OF CAMPAIGN M O N E Y S N’ew York, Nov. 4 .— In a state ment given to the press tonight, Hitchcock, chairman of the repub lican national committee, an nounced that a complete list of all contributions made to the republi can campaign fund would be made public in the near future, work having already begun on the tabu lation of the list. This was very long, Hitchcock said, and would show every contribution made. It will be issued in printed form. LATEST ELECTION counties will probably slightly re duce Bryan’s plurality but cannot wipe it out. Phillipine s Rejoice - Missouri Won by Taft--Philipp- ines Glad Manila, P. I., Nov. 4.—The Americans of Manila and the men of the fleet today are celebrating the election of Taft to the presidency. The people of Manila expect an entire change of jxilicy on the part of the government toward the islands under the administration of President Taft, owing to his in timate knowledge of the Phillipine islands, and his extensive experi ence here as governor. Latest Election Summary I?or T aft—California by 75,000, Connecticut by 38,450, Delaware by 3,000, Idaho by 14,000, Illinois by 175,000, Indiana by 15,000, Iowa by 50,000, Kansas by 20,000, Maine by 32,000, Maryland by 149,000, Massachusetts by 84,361, Michigan by 100,000, Minnesota by 60,000, Oregon by 25,000, Pennsylvania by 250,000, Rhode Island by 16,000, South Dakota by 15,1X10, I ’tah by 20,000, Vermont by 27,904. Washington by 45,000, Wisconsin by 75,000, Wyoming ------, West Virginia ------ . Total: — 29 states, with .509 electoral votes. For Bryan— Alabama, Arkan sas, Colorado aHd Florida by 20,- 000, Georgia by 20,000, Kentucky, Louisiana by 40,000, Mississippi by 50,000, Missouri by 30,000, Ne braska, Nevada and North Caro lina by 4000, South Carolina, Ok lahoma and Tennessee by 22,000, Texas by 25,000. Total:— 17 states with 174 electoral votes. DEMONSTRATION TRAIN W I L L BE H E R E M O N D A Y Every farmer of south Lane county should visit the Southern Pacific Demonstration train, which will stop at the Cottage Grove de- I>ot from 8:30 to 10 o’clock next Monday morning. The demon strations and exhibits given on this train will equal anything of the kind given at the late state fair, so all those who were unable to visit the state fair this year will be able to see demonstrated all the latest methods of dairying, butter making; spraying, pruning, graft ing and budding of fruit trees, latest labor saving farm machinery and u hundred other things that will lie of interest and instructive to the farmer, dairyman and fruit grower. The train is under the auspices of the Oregon Agricultu ral College. Don’t fail to visit it Monday forenoon. Taft's Statement. Cincinnati, Nov. 4.— Taft today S P E C I A L T R A I N ON issued a statement expressing grat 0. & S. E. M O N D A Y ification over his election and as serting that business, labor and In order to accommodate the agricultural interests had support many farmers living along the line ed him. Today he made the prin of the O. & S. E. railroad, Mana ciple address at the laying of the ger A. B. Wood will run a train corner stone of the Woodward up to Disston early Monday morn High school, from which he grad" ing returning to Cottage Grove at uated when a boy. This function 8:15 o’clock a. m. in time to meet gave the city the opportunity to the Southern Pacific djemonstrat- pay its first tribute to the president i ing train at the Cottage Grove de- elect and full advantage was taken | ]X ) t at 8:30 a. m. where it will re of it. main an hour and a half or until Taft did not refer to the election 10 o ’clock a. m. The <). & S. H. or to politics and in his brief ad I train will make its regular rut: in dress confined himself to the his afternoon, enabling the Row river tory of the school which held for j farmers to return home. him many fond memories. On I-riday of this week he goes to the GR AN D O P E N I N G DAY Hot Springs for a complete rest of AT B E N S O N P H A R M A C Y at least two weeks. He declared that he is not going for {xilitical Saturday has been designated as conference nor will he cousider “opening day” at Benson’s new cabinet construction nor political appointments during the recreation pharmacy and upon this day from period. Over three thousand con 10 o’clock a. m. until 10 p. in. will gratulatory telegrams were de lie given a beautiful souvenir free as long as they last to every lady livered to Taft today. of Cottage Grove and vicinity who Bryan's Statement. calls at the new pharmacy in the " I am highly gratified over the Phillips building. results in this state, Nebraska. This souvenir consists of a lieau- National defeat is not such a dis tiful wood pannel 4x12 inches with appointment when we have so a circular oiieniug at the top in many things to console us. I hope which is set a pretty landscape of I have convinced friends that run western scenery. It is well worth ning for office has only been an in the time of any lady to call and cident to iny work. My heart has get this pretty souvenir and view never been set on holding office, Mr. Benson’s fine new quarters, but I wanted to do certain work furnishings and stock. and it looked as though the presi dency might offer the opportunity to do that work. I am sure that N E W P A Y I N G I N D U S T R Y in private life I can have a chance IN TH IS L A N E CO UN TY to do some good.” Missouri Safely for Taft. B. F . Finn came down from Missouri appears to lie safely Leaburg Tuesday evening witli a for Taft, to whom the latest re load of turpentine, from his manu which turns give a plurality of 800, with facturing establishment the prospects that the few final turns out as fine quality of the districts will double or treble the product as can lie found in the market anywhere. figures. Mr. Finn has long since demon Condceding Missouri to Tafi and leaving Maryland out of consider strated that Oregon balsam makes ation to lie split between him and j fine turpentine and there is an im Bryan, the figures show 310 repub mense supply of the raw material lican electors assured and 156 i in Lai:e out of which to make the product. Mr. Finn supplies the democratic. Latest congressional returns in local druggists with the pi..duct dicate that the next congress will and also finds ready market for it be composed of 216 republicans on the outside.— Register. and 175 democrats, a majority for the republicans of 41. Bryan Plurality Decrease« Lincoln, Nov. 5.—A feature in Ihe Nebraska election count today was the steady decrease in the es timated Bryan plurality. Returns complete from 81 to 9*1 counties in the state give Bryan 1 2 !,OHO; Taft, 118,699. The remaining nine Seeing Snakes at Lorane. M. B. Stone, from l^iraue, tells The Register that his neighbor, R. Maloney, has killed 56 rattlers during the past few days. He found a den of them in the rocks at the north end of the valley on his place. One snake was 4 / i feet long and as large as his arm. 60eif,r °**'« R lo » l 1908 . V O L. X X . NO. 30 WHIT ONE SOUTH TINE FRUIT GROWER HIS OONE Wonderful Returns From Prune Crop of Our Sister County on the South, Old Douglas. Monday’s Daily Roseburg Re view had the following to say re garding a fruit grower of our neighboring town, Creswell: ‘‘Mr. Gile tells us that perhaps the largest crop in volume and value which he is handling this year is that of Dr. L. D. Scar brough, of Creswell, Lane county. Dr. Scarbrough began prune grow ing on a small scale eight years ago. He now has about 165 acres devoted to that truit and this sea son Mr. Gile is paying him about $30,000 for his crop. After build ing two new driers at a total cost of $4otX>, Dr. Scarbrough will still realize a net profit, above all cost of production of over $15,- 000, for this year's crop. How prunes bring money from abroad is shown by the fact that Mr. Gile shipped ten carloads last mouth direct from Rosebnrg to European markets. This fruit went to Eugland, Germany, and one carload to Dublin. ” trees, occupying just six acres of land, he harvested this season 37,- 000 pounds of fruit—that being the weight of the crop after it was cured and ready for the market. These prunes were of the Italian variety and averaged 55s to 60s in size. This crop has beeu sold at 4% cents i>er ixmnd, bringing a total return of $1665 from the six acres, or an iuconie of $277.50 per acre for this one crop. P R U N E S B R IN G BIG MONEY While as yet it is impossible to make any exact estimate of this year’s prune output iu Douglas county, as many growers have not yet shipped their crops and pack ing is scarcely half completed, still it is safe to say that the growers will receive upwards of $200,000 in the aggregate for this season’s crop. This may well be termed as being all new money, as the fruit is all sold abroad, and the income thus received adds that amount to the permanent wealth of the coun ty. This is for the prune crop DOUGLAS COUNTY P R U N K S. f alone, and it means more than $10 What would be considered phe-1 per capita for every man, woman uonieual returns for fruit crops in 1 and child in the county. Perhaps less favored localities are being re- | nearly as much more is received ceived almost daily by fruitgrowers j from the exjiorts of other varieties iu Douglas county. Among the j of fruit from this county, and it is latest to report is Peter Flam, of beyond question that Douglas Riddle, who was in town Saturday, county fruit exports will Ire many accompanied b y Mrs. Flam, times multiplied within the next While here Mr. Flam called on the decade. A million dollars per Review and kindly favored usj year seems likely to be a couserva- with a statement in regard to his tive estimate of the-Douglas coun prune crop. From 600 prune ty fruit crop five years hence. F au lt o f the P resen t E d u ca tio n a l System A n d Its R e m e d y . B y EUGENE D A V E N P O R T , Dean o f th e lllin o l» C o lle fa o r A g ric u ltu r a . n II E greatest trouble with our educational system today is that it is laid out too much on tho plan of a trunk lino with out sido switches or way stations, but with splendid terminal facilities. C WE SEND THE E D U C A T IO N A L T R A IN S T H U N D E R IN G OVER T H E C O U N T R Y Q U IT E O B L IV IO U S O F T H E P O P U L A T IO N E X C E P T T O T A K E ON P A S S E N G ER S , A N D T H E S E W E T A K E ON M U C H A S THE FAST T R A IN TAKES M A IL BAG S FR O M THE HOOK. Wo do our utmost to keep them aboard to the end, and those who leavo us arc fitted for NO S P E C IA L C A L L IN G and drop out fo r no special purpose, but roll off like chunks of coal by the wayside. I would reconstruct tlio policy of tho system by making all trains LO C A L, both to take on and leavo off passengers,-mid I would pay as much attention to the sidings and tho depots and their surroundings at tho way stations, to tho end that those who do not complete the journey may find congenial surroundings and useful employment in SOME C A L L IN G ALONG T IIE L IN E . This is education f o T efficiency, whether it ever earns an academic degree or not. W e Have Recently Received a Splendid Line of Trunks, Suitcases AND Bags W e Have a Fine Line of Clothing AND Furnishings Bpth Ladle*' a n d M en’s to put in em . too. 3X *
