Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, May 24, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text1 TAGS TWO DAILY ROGl'I RIMER COURIER VKlMl.V, MAY th 1010. Dally Bogue Elver Courier. Am Independent Republican News paper. United Ptm Leased Wit Telegraph. Barrio A. S. V00RHIK3, Pan. ad Prop. WILFORD ALLEN. Editor Entered at the Grants Put, Ore gon, Postofflce m second-class mall natter. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES "One Tear ............15.00 fix Months . 1.00 Three Months 1.50 One Month .SO Payable in AdTance OREGON WEATHER - : Tonight and Thursday partly 4 cloudy; northerly wind. WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1916. STRIKIKQ THE SHACKLES. It is rather an absurd feature of the development of the west that dis tricts so rich in resources as the Rogue - and the Unipqua valleys should hare to depend upon muni cipal bond Issues to make those re sources available. Southern Oregon is not a new country in discovery or in exploitation: But because the railroad company that has called it its very own was better satisfied to hold It for the future It has made . little industrial progress in the past SO years. The timber that was in easy reach of the main line was cut off. and the boll ding of branch lines to Up an adjacent country was not a part of the plan of the railroad. But now that the three main centers of population in this southern Ore gon country have literally "taken the bull by the horns." the railroad that has by its policy blocked develop ment will itself reap a rich harvest from the efforts of the common people. Roseburg Is spending $300, 000 to build a line into the big tim ber. But after this. timber is cut the Southern Pacific will still get the big end of the freight haul. Grants Pass will . bring timber and , ore to the markets, but where the new road will get a haul of 40 miles the Southern Pacific will get a haul of hundreds of miles. If the . plan ot the Bedford people works out, it will be to give the railroad which has held the timber and the ore bottled up for a third of a century many thousands of dollars of added rev enue in the way of freight rates. But as soon as the line from Grants Pass touches tidewater there will be a different story to tell. Then ore and lumber and apples and sugar will go by water after the short hauls over these municipally planned lines, with the saving brought by lower water rates. What this water rate means Is evidenced by a con crete example of the past week. A small shipment by freight from Port land to San Francisco, eent to the southern city by mistake in order was carried the long haul for 58 cents. The opportunity to ship by either rail or water established the rate. When the shipment was re- ' turned to Grants Pass from San Francisco the charge for the short haul was $2.20. This rate was fixed because the railroad had a monopoly of the shipment, a monopoly that will vanish as soon as the C. & O. C. line, the "road that Grants Pass built," reaches the coast. COXUKKSSMAX DELAYS VOTE OX O. & C. LAXD GKANT Standard Rolled Barley $ 1 .35 Sack KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY Quality First H T ffiS IF THE BEET T TO Tl n IE D O FIR What Good Has the Sugar Industry Done for the American Farmer?" X. B. Beasley. In "Sugar." That, to you sugar men, sounds like a strange question, doesn't it? And to you it la a strange one. But to the man in the street, the man without special knowledge, It appears to be a perfectly natural one. A logical one. If you please, fitting in with a train ot thought that finds a base in free trade. It would be rather difficult to sum up the entire advantages of the beet sugar Industry to the American farm er. It would mean tables ot figures that would take, we were going to say weeks but we caught ourself in time, months to prepare. And then the chance of overlooking something would be far greater than the possi bility of not doing so. It is better, then, to get down to a specific case. "What, then, has the beet sugar industry , done for the Michigan farmer?" Read: (1) From an agricultural view point sugar beets, when planted in rotation with other crops, leave the soil in very fertile condition and bet ter fitted to perform the utles ex pected of it. : : .-. (2) The farmer knows the price ot his crop ahead of time; he does not have to speculate on a market. (3) A crop of beets costs more to grow per acre, but the yield Is much greater in proportion than any of the other grains. (4) It Is a ready-money crop; the farmer does not have to trade It In for materials he may not immediately need. (5) The nroceeds come in when the farmer is most in need of the money In the winter months when taxes and the other additional ex penses of cold weather fall due. (6) Wholesale merchants report collections better In beet growing dis tricts than in sections devoted to grains or other crops. (7) Agricultural Implement men report sales as being better in beet growing districts and collections more prompt than In other farming sec tions. . (S) Bankers ' report desposlts as being heavier in beet growing dis tricts. (9) Direct cause for good roads. 10) Industry Is substantial, as shown by fact that more farm mort gages, are paid off In beet growing districts than any other part of the state. There, Mr. Alan In the Street, are ten reasons for sustaining this in dustry; there are ten real reasons why it is ot material benefit to the farmers of Michigan. If of such benefit to them, then it surely must be of equal benefit to the beet grow ers in the other states when the beet sugar Industry la an important factor in the industrial lite. , The Michigan beet sugar Industry has been In fore for fifteen years, ap proximately speaking. In those fif teen year Michigan beet sugar pro ducers bare paid to farmers for beets better than $60,000,000. This means that $4,000,000, on an average, has been spent each year tor the raw product during the short time, com paratively speaking, that the Industry has been in existence so far as the Wolverine commonwealth la concern ed. Right now Michigan beet sugar men are paying out approximately $6,000,000 a year to farmers for their beets; If the Industry Is permitted to thrive under the protection ot a tariff It means that there will be a corresponding growth; If the indus try is permitted to be smashed by the cheaper labor of Europe then It will be a distinct loss to the farmers. For there is no other crop that can replace the sugar beet Michigan sugar men have proven many things. They have proven that fifteen years ago. when the farmers were unacquainted with the desirable properties of this crop that they were prejudiced against It and that in many Instances they refused to give over their land to the cultivation of It. But precedent is a stranger thing than many of the plots of fiction, so when one farmer saw his neighbor going to sugar beets be decided to try the experiment for himself. As a re sult approximately 120,000 acres are annually under the cultivation ot sugar beets in Michigan. This means that farmers give work to more people In the cultivation and harvesting of this crop than they would have done In the culture of grains. The crop Is one that Is, of course, planted in the spring. It grows through the summer months and Is harvested In the fall at a time when other crops are In the barns. One distinct advantage of growing sugar beets was demonstrated In Michigan during the punt summer. iflmln rrruin In nmnv Hlftlrlrttt wpra almost total losses because or the wet weather throughout the growing months. In practically every section of Michigan fields of wheat, pats, rye, .barley, corn and other crops were 'stricken, and within a redlus of fifty I miles from Detroit were hundreds of .farmers who did not attempt to put 'a reaper In their fields. I "It was useless," they said. "There , Is nothing to save In the grain aside from the straw, and this Is so short that it is hardly worth going after. Washington, Way 24. Congress man Foster of Illinois blocked pas sage of the Oregon-California land grant bill this afternoon when he forced an adjournment of the house, raising a point of no quorum. The measure will be voted on tomorrow. MILK COXDEX8ERIE8 OF OKEUOX KKFl'SK OHDKIW Portland, May 24. Orders from European governments for five mil lion cases of condensed milk were received by Oregon condenserles and can not be filled because ell plants are crowded to capacity. Condensers say that they can not even supply the home trade. A three-cornered fight between creameries, cheese factories and condenserles has resulted in an increase in the price of raw milk. Vour Initial Steel Die mbo$$ed in a beautiful color combination on Stationery or Correspondence f'srds Special Z 23c CLEMENS Sells Drugs The t(&XaSlSL Stare Besides, the ground is too soft to per mit harvesting." ! With sugar beets it was different. From a wet summer Michigan passed into a beautiful fall and farmers who had planted their acreage to beets realized on tbelr crop. The Michigan Sugar company bad abopt 60,000 acres planted to beets and of this total It lost approximately 15,000. But at $5 a ton, the farmer could af ford to lose some land and still realize a good profit on his land in vestment. Far better than to lose almost everything on the speculation ' of grain. Registers of deeds in various coun ties can testify that farmers who i planted acreage to beets were far i more successful In paying oft land ! mortgages thnn were their brethren who gambled In grains. In the Saginaw district one of tho big beet growing sections of the state farm ers are very prosperous and It Is very striking that In only a few Instances where sugar beets form the principal crop are growers forced to pay off on mortgages. And veo, these are fast 000 in round flgurvs and the con- overhauling to their financial diffi culties. . The good roada question Is a very vital one to growers throughout the country. In a beet auxar belt good roada are a necessity not a luxury. The Michigan sugar companies know. tng that good roada are very desirable truetlon of these- factories meant work for the architect, tha draughts man, the engineer, tlia Iron worker, the mason, tha carpenter, the build ers of beet sugar-making iiischlnvry, and the score ot lesser importance, but to whom Ufa Is Just as desirable. .Sugar compaulea apvud approxim ate notified farmers In the different jately $1,350,000 a year In freight sections that where the farmers are 'rates, meaning employment (or the willing to show-one dollar for good roads (after they have paid tbelr taxes and other nerAua'tfet). the manufacturers will match It! In other words, the beet sugar men will match 'transportation .l.tlta tt9 it.tllihii In ih nntift tt nuul .State. ' ' Mi". vit ... .V...... ... ...V .-li.'. V. I - - f - roads. In no other section of Michi gan, outside of Wayne county (wherein Detroit Is situated) are roads so well kept up as In the beet sugar districts. These road have all been built since the erection of the beet sugar plant. The beet sugar Industry is one that affects practically everyone. railroad clerks, car checkers, con ductors, brakemeu, engineers, fire men and tha hundred of men em ployed In different department of the companies of the tilth; KK HTKAMKH 1HTIIOH - lKNTKOYKI IIV SI UMAKINB tandon. May 54. The Greek steamer lstroa ha been dtroyed by a ubntarlue, Its crew arriving In Kng. land today. Tha captain asserted three sailing vessel had also been submarined. ( .KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL . There are from 30,000, to 35,000 farmers growing, sugar beets In Mich Us a each season and this means work to these and the scores of help ers who are necessary for weeding, etc. .','';:',;! During the beet suitar season ap proximately 75 per cent of the suitar used in Michigan is beet sugar and resent an Investlment of $14,000,. The alxteen Michigan plants rep-jthi results In cheaper price for th- housewtves of the state. 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