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Cottage Grove and Vicin­
ity as Presented by
Booster Club
T he following brief, but clear
ami concise w rite-up of Cottage
Grove, appears on the hack of every
letter m ailed by the Commercial
Club and its Promotion Committee:
At the end of the beautiful Willamette
Valley in l.ane county. 144 mile« south
of Portland, and advantageously located
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
railroad, is the thrivingly progressive
city of Cottage Orove. It has a popula­
tion of .4000, which is rapidly increasing,
rhe city affords exceptional education­
al advantages and in addition to the
graded schools, which have an enroll­
ment of more than MHI pupils, with six
leeti teachers, there is a graded high-
school, whose graduates arc entitled to
entrance in the I'mversity of Oregon.
The population is more than OS |ier cent
American, and there is a healthy interest
ill education, churches and organisations
of a purely social and fraternal nature
Cottage Grove is an important point
along the Southern Pacific system. It
enjoys terminal rates on its exports of
lumber and in all the important matters
of passenger transportation is accorded
distinct advantage, being the initial
point for certain local trains.
The
Oregon .V Sontbeaatean railroad has a
line running from Cottage Grove twenty
miles up the Row River Valley within a
few miles of the great Bohemia mining
district. This line taps the famous
tiinlicr licit ill l.nne county. It is esti­
mated that tributary to Cottage Grove
there is as much tonnage for railroad
traffic as would lie found in any equal
area in the state. This consists mainly
of lumber, mining ami farm products.
There are thirty-one luililier mills
tributary to Cottage Grove, a score of
Which arc within twenty miles of the
city. The employes of these mills trade
in Cottage Grove, anil the monthly pay­
roll exceeds ISO,non. One of the princi­
pal resources of Southern I.atte comity,
of which Cottage Grove is the pivotal
point is its extensive forosta of standing
timber, therefore, one of the leading in­
dustries of Cottage Grove for many years
to come will lie the manufacture of
lumber and other timber products.
It is estimated by timlier experts that
there are sixteen billion feet of merchant­
able timlier in the area contiguous to
Cottage Grove. It will cost $7.50 per
thousand feet to prepare this timlier for
shipment in its crude form, according hi
the United States Government estimate
of costs. This involves an expenditure
of $ 1 JO .aoo.tK N i. The movement of this
timber, it is estimated by the experts of
the Government, will lie completed with­
in thirty years, and this vast sum of
money will lie expended in and aliout
Cottage Grove.
T h e destiny of the timlier growth of
I„ane comity is little short of amazing.
There arc quarter sections, loo acres, in
the vicinity of Cottage Grove, that con­
tains 22, IKS»,000 feet of merchantable
timber. The grade of this timlier )s ex­
cellent, running as high as 54 per cm«
clear. It must not lie forgotten that the
natural outlet for these vast resources of
tim lie r is at Cottage Grove, and that
C o ttag e Grove will continue to he the
market place for the workers in the lum­
ber camps and saw mills of this rich
territory. The merchantable timber
area of fame county embraces 59V,
square miles.
The lumber industry of this section is
in its infancy, and offers tempting op­
portunities for investment, not alone in
timlier, but ill a variety of kindred in­
dustries. It is not strange that dense
forests of towering timber, and luxuriant
plant growth are characteristic of l.ane
county, ami particularly of its southern
section, in which Cottage Grove is sit­
uated. Ideal climatic conditions and
deep, rich soil form a combination which
produces big tilings, giant trees and
botinteous crops.
The mining interests of the city next
to luililier are the most important of her
industries, as it affords snch a splendid
market for nil local products of the fame
Mines and miners produce nothing but
money, and are consumers of every ne­
cessity of life that is produce,! by the
farmer, stock raiser, gardener, poultry-
man. etc. The principal mining district
tributary to Cottage Grove is the Bo­
hemia gold mining district. V, miles to
the east which is fast proving itself to
be among the leading camps of ttie
Pacific Const. Nuuterons large mills,
concentrating plants, electric power
plants, sawmills, etc. are operating in
the district, employing several hundred
men. The Black Butte quicksilver
mines. IS miles to the sonthwest. contain
large deposits of cinnabar or». I-arge
deposits of mineral paint have been
discovered four miles north and a com­
pany has already been incorporated to
CO TTAG E GROVE, OREGON, T U E SD A Y , MARCH 1, 1910.
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Cottage Grove beside w
supply point for the varions mining
districts ami lumbering camps, already
mentioned, is also the principal trading
point for a vast scope of surrounding
country, such as the fertile I.orane val
ley, 12 miles west, which is important
for its dairying interests, this valley too
has attracted the largest fruit planters
in the Pacific Northwest who are plant
ing more than 1000 acres to apples and
pears, also Calapoo’ya Mineral Springs,
located 12 miles southwest, which is be
coming noled as a health resort, and is
reached from Cottage Grove by daily
stage.
So successful has been the business of
poultry keeping in the country surround
ing Cottage Grove anti so large are the
shipments of poultry ami eggs from this
point, that the city is frequently referred
to as the PetaJuma of Oregon, by those
who are interested in the poultry busi­
ness. There is no more promising op­
portunity for the development of a
lucrative business than the raising of
poultry in this section.
All grains, clover, vetch, alfalfa, corn,
kale, rape and roots do well in this sect-
tion and yield abundantly. Clover
yields from six to eight bushels of seed
per acre, and vetch will yield from
twenty to twenty-five bushels. Many
farmers receive from $.30 to $.10 p<?r acre
from vetch and clover seed, besides
securing a g»x)«l pastufe. Prom one-
quarter of an acre near Cottage ('.rove a
little more than one ton of clover has
been produced, and twelve acres in
clover recently yielded thirty-six tons.
Fifty-five bushels of wheat to the acre is
not an unusual yield in this vicinity,
and oats show a productiveness of one
hundred bushels to the acre. The conn?
try surrounding Cottage ('.rove is re­
garded as ideal for dairying, and the
industry is more profitable liecause of
the great demand for the products of the
dairy.
Cottage Grove offers splendid oppor­
tunities for the fruit grower because of
the deep soils of the surrounding coun­
try, ami because of the favorable con
ditions which serve to produce fruit of
the finest quality, irrigation being un­
necessary. The conditions for success­
ful apple culture are especially good.
Spitz.enberg, Baldwin, VVinesap, Yellow
Newton, Pippin, Northern Spy, Jona­
than, Gmvenstein varices are all grown
here ami attain perfect coloring. Sales
of these varities of apples in the New
York market during the last season
netted shippers $1.80 a 1>ox. All varities
of American grapes are grown here iti
profusion, the sunny slopes of the sur­
rounding hills, as well as the sandy
loams, offering ideal locations for grape
culture.
On Humane Mission
W .- E . W ilnier returned S a tu r­
day from Cottage Grove and vicin­
ity where he went in his official
capacity as hum atie officer to in ­
quire into com plaints alleging the
neglect of domestic anim als. The
offenders were given due notice to
provide for the comfort of their
stock. W hile in C ottage Grove
Mr. W ilmer arranged to meet the
ladies of the civic improvement
club Thursday night for -the p u r­
pose of organizing an auxiliary of
the Eugene Association through
the agency of the Cottage Grove
Com mercial clu b .— R egistei.
Jloost for Nesm ith county.
TO
FLY AIRSHIPS
Big Aviation Meet March
5, 6 and 7 at the
Metropolis.
OLD COUNTY SEATS
TO FIGHT NESMITH
A meeting of th e joint unti-Nes-
u r 'li county com mittees of Eugene
and Roseburg met ^»t Eugene S a t­
urday eveuiug regarding which
the Register says: “ The fiuauce
com mittee in each cotintv will lie
set to work at once to raise the
necessary funds to carry on the
cam paign against tiie proposed
new county to the very nook and
cranny of the state and the w ar­
fare is to be under direction of an
executive com m ittee of seveu. T he
meeting adjourned at a late hour
after all prelim inaries had !>een
gone into and a plan of cam paign
outlined that will lie heard from in
no uncertain nian u er between now
and the November election. I. If
Bingham in the absence of C. S.
W illiam s on account of sickness
presided as ch airm an and I). 1
l-'reeinan acted as secretary.”
NEW DISTRICT
Cottage Grove and Silk
Furnish Territory for
School District.
Industries.
VOL. XXI. NO. 45
i bert I.eigh, Secretary and m anag­
ing Engineer: Darwin Bristow,
Treasurer.
The first four m entioned an d
iGeorge A tkinson were elected as
] directors.
T he com pauy has developed
three very rich deposits of free gold
ore and will begin shippiug to tiie
Smelter as early this spring as tiie
snow will allow work to proceed.
The m eeting was enthusiastic
and harm onious and the stock
holders expressed themselves as
lieing highly pleased with the
showing m ade during the past
year and iu view of the present
rich showing passed a resolution
to advauce the price of the com ­
p an y ’s stock to It) cents per share
after May 1st.
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HEADY TO PLANT
Four Hundred Acres will
Be Set to Fruit this
Spring at Lorane
T he people of Oregon, W ash­
The Leader was iuformed by
ington and the Pacific Northwest
telephone today th at the county
will have an opportunity to see a
court had just granted the petition
of those citizeus residing in the
"m an -b ird ” in actual flight- l.ots
of us have read aliout flying m a­
Cottage G rove and Silk creek
chines and it is the desire of every
school districts who have been
Mill Construction Under Way
one to see one of these soaring
working vigorously for the estab­
across country, disputing for space
lishment of a new district iu that
The Botsford I.um ber com pany
in tiie heavens with the clouds,
vicinity, including C urtis Veatcb, of Portland, is m aking p rep a ra­
an d m aking speed th at will put
Charles an d W ilbur M cFarland, tions for the erection of a wood­
the fastest bird in the world to
W. A. Hetuenway, Messrs McGee work and sawm ill plant in Cottage
and W heeler and m any other farm ­ Grove, an d already lias the struct
shame.
Títere will lie a big Aviation SOUTHERN PACIFIC
ers, most of whom have been in­ ure well u nder wav. T h e new
iu the C ottage G rove school plant will be located alongside tiie
Meet at Portland on March 5, b
TO OPERATE MILLS cluded
district, but who are too far aw ay railroad tracks, between tiie Brown
and 7, w hich will be the first
chance that lias been given the
from the Cottage Grove schools fo Lumber ^ o tn p a n v ’s mill and the
T he Southern Pacific Com pany
enable their sm all children to a t­ fruit dryer, an d will be ready for
people of this p ait of the country;
will probably operate its three saw
tend. T h e creation of this new business w ithin thirty days. A
to see this actu al m arvel. People i
mills at M areola this year. T his
district will result in the early con­ force of fifteen men is at present
who talked of flying m achines five;
prediction is confirmed by the
struction of a new school building engaged in construction work. T he
years ago were considered dream ­
"T im b erm an ,” a lum lierm an’s
either on the M cFarland farm fac­ company will bring its logs into
ers, but it is guaranteed by the ! .
published iu Portland,
ing the Silk creek county road or the city over tiie Oregon & S o u th ­
business men of Portland who are r . . _
which is iu closer touch with the
on the opposite side of the road eastern road
back of tiie flying m achine meet
lum ber industry than attv other
from the M cFarlaud place on the
th at unless there are genuine cross­
publication in th e state. T he
Rudolph farm and this school will Closed $100.000 Real Estate Deal.
country an d high altitude flights
"T im b erm an ” says:
he a great convenience to the peo-1
ticket mAliey will be refunded.
" T h e Southern Pacific Com pany
pie of that rural settlement.
Charles K. H am ilton, the daring
Jack Rodman lias closed his big
is preparing to place their three
aviator who, operating a Curtiss
real estate deal involving aliout
W illam ette valley sawmills iu o p ­
biplane, holds the w orld’s records |
$100,000 for fruit lands near Drain
eration, to cut m aterial for the CHANCE FORSTUDENTS
for high speed with a mile in 1 :.!7, |
to Messrs Holton, Weiser and Dau-
N atron-K lam ath Palls extension
WHO WILL SIGN PLEDGE aher of F'argo, Nortli D akota, and
tiie world’s slow speed, which isj
of its railro a d .”
more difficult, with a mile iu 4
Minneapolis, M innesota. All that
T he three mills at Morcola are
Boston, Mass., Feb. 1H.— By rem ains now is to g ath er in the
m inutes, will try to tak e the high;
the only plan ts the com pany o per­ signing a pledge never to drink in ­
altitude record at the P o rtla n d '
deeds and abstracts for lands th at
ates in the "W illam e tte v alley .” toxicating liquors or to smoke to­
meet. Because of the stillness of i
have been bought and the money
bacco or to use “ anv other n a rc o t­ is in one of the FLugene's prom inent
tiie air currents around Portland, j
ic” auv young matt who fives in hanks to m ake paym ents on each
Will Visit Texas.
be believes he can do th is.
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Idaho or North D akota will short­ t r a c t . T h e C hurchill-M athew s
Railroad rates of one and one-
H enry Mooney, of p lk H ead, ly be able to secure free a college com pauy has contracted with the
third fare have been secured on
new com pany to put 14(H) acres of
the railroads leading into Portland. one of the old tim e fan n ers of education.
T he late Charles B. Botsford of the land into fruit in a short time
Rates extend to Medford on the Southern Oregon, was iu Roseburg
south and T h e Dalles to the east. Friday closing up business m atters Boston is the mail who m ade all and dispose of .Sot) acres of it w ith­
Kvery person in the state will have connected with the sale of his fine this possible. H is will, which in a year at a stipulated price. T he
M onday
Mr. Mooney I was filed trxlav specifies that the lands are some of the best fruit
au opportunity to witness this ranch.
started
for
a
visit
to
T ex as b ut major part of his estate form a producing lan d s of the coast couu
great event.
Among those who will have fly­ says that he does not expect to futid for the carrying out o f the try, and those interested in the big
ing m achines to ta k e p art in t h e 1 find a country nearly so good as plan. T he will orders that the sale will never regret going into it.
contest are several well known Oregon, w hich hebelieves is about North Dakota young men who — Register.
Portland business men who have the hardest state iu the union to qualify lie educated at the F'argo
The Best Cream Separator.
made recent purchases, and it is lieat. Mr. Mooney formerly re­ college and the Idaho men at the
Idaho Institute.
certain that the dates of the meet sided in Pass Creek ca n y o n .
will contain m any interesting feat­
Mrs. David Griggs Fractures Arm,
ures of w hat has been accom plish­
ed within the last few years in the
As Mrs. David G riggs of C ot­
m anufacture of flying m achines.
tage Grove, w as leaving the th e a ­
tre at Iiugene Friday evening, she
T his year F aster S unday will fell and sustained a fracture of th e
fall on March 27, fifteen days right arm, n ear the wrist, one lione
earlier th an it did last year. It being broken, ami the other dislo­
will be the second earliest Faster cated. She w as taken to th e hom e
in a quarter of a century. th at of I of l,er parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. H
March 22, 1904, being the vernal ; Bingham, and given surgical at-
I tention.
equinox in th at period.
T. R. Phillips, was in Cottage
< Irove Monday on his return to
Portland from Lorane where he
has been look ing over the Churcbill-
Mathews orchard lands iu that
valley, his father, K. Phillips be­
ing the superintendent of orchard
p lanting at Lorane for the C hurch­
ill-.Mathews Co.
Mr. Phillips stated to a Leader
representative th at he was most
favorably impressed with the f.o-
rane valley as a fruit section aud
says th a t it seems ideal for the
production of apples, pears, cher­
ries an d m any other Varieties of
fruit. H e says the Churchill-
M at hews people already have 100
acres of apple and pear laud sur­
veyed and staked, and that the
men who are digging holes for the
trees have nearly caught up with
the surveyors aud stake setters.
It is the intention of this com pauy
to set out 40<> acres this spriug, the
trees, principally apples and pears,
already being at hand. A force
of twenty-five men is in w aiting
for th e weather to clear up so they
can begin setting out these fruit
trees, it being intended to set out
tw o-thirds of this acreage to apples
aud the rem aining one-third to
pears. Only the best com m ercial
varieties of apples and pears are
being plauted, such as Spitzen-
berg and Newtown apples and
D ’A ujou and Comice pears. Mr.
Phillips says his father will head
¡til of these trees back to two feet
lengths after they are set out,
which will m ake a beautiful, uni­
form orchard. W ith the favorable
soil an d clim atic conditions in the
Lorane valley, which is 12 miles
west of Cottage Grove, we m ay
confidently expect to hear from
that section in a few years as a
fruit growing district unrivaled for
the excellence of its product in the
great Northwest. A block of Lo-
Before b uying a cream separator raue fruit land is a good, safe in ­
you should step into the furniture vest m eat.
NORTH FAIRVIEWMINES
store of W alker & K inter an d see
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WILL OPEN SOON. th at latest improved Sharpless
Hogs $10 A Hundred.
.'ream separator. N othing like
T he a n n u a l meeting of the it and costs you no more than
North Pairview .Mining Co., was some of the in ferior m akes. For
Portland, F'eb. 26.— Livestock
held in Iiugene on F'ehruary 21, prices an d term s consult W alker values are going to unheard of
and the following officers were^ & Kinter or S. C. Veatch, ugent. heights. Hogs in the Portland
elected: Geo. VV. McOueen, Pres, j
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m arket today are worth $10 a h u n ­
and general m anager: Jas. F. | T h e Iiugene Lumber Co. is re dred, the highest price paid here
Powell, 1st Vice President; II. K .'r e iv in g logs from Mohawk and since Portland becam e a livestock
Metcalf, 2nd Vice President; H er-) will resum e operations soon
m arket and the highest in the
memory of men who have no reo-
collectiou of the scarcity and fam ­
ine prices that prevailed about the
close of the Civil W ar.
T he hogs sold at the figure indi­
cated today was not given out offic­
ially by the Livestock E xchange,
'A I b u t , from another source it was
> * i learned that $ lo a hundred was
actually paid for high-grade pork-
yjlers at the yards today*
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M a lion is exactly the same. For
| lam bs of best q uality the phetiom-
TCF# j ' ,,a* Pr 'ce of $7.75 a hundred was
- i | paid at the yards yesterday, and
s' wethers of the best quality moved
at $6.50.
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Whereas; Halley’s Comet Will Appear
m
May 19th at 2 A. M.
r~PHEREFORE, Be it Resolved: That Wheeler-Thompson Co.
1 the Eusy store will fit you out any old time with one of those
New Nobby Spring Suits at $15 to $30 or one ot our Nifty Spring
Hats at $2 to $3.50 or a pair, of our Snappy Spring Oxford Ties
at $2.50 to $5.00. Be it Further Resolved: That everyone ap­
pear at our store forthwith and be redressed so they will be pre­
sentable on Easter Sunday. Be it Further Resolved: That Ever-
wear Hosiery and Wheeler-Thompson Company will wear
forever with the public.
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Gim pl brothers k illed a big hog
on Spencer creek T hursday th at
w eighed 755 pounds live weight
and th a t dressed 650 pounds.
T here is certainly money in that
k ind of porkers with hogs valued
v > ,1 at $10 per hundred on foot.
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WHEELER-THOMPSON COMPANY n ¡j
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A $75 50 Hog.
Case Appealed
T he case of J . F . and E. C.
Spray against ( ieorge Lea, tried
before Justice V aughn at Cottage
Grove, in which a judgm ent w as
given plaintiffs for $97, has been
appealed to the circuit court.