SHOES
AT LESS THAN FACTORY COST
SHOES
SOMS EVIDENCES OF WHAT
THE SOIL WILL DO.
iBy Chas. W. Sherman, Talent.l
The proposition of pumping water
; from wells for irrigation purposes si
| fast gaining favor in this locality,
We are closing out our entire stock of Men’s and Boys’ Shoes
| there being four pumps in operation
and certain lines of Ladies’ and hildren’s at a fraction of their
i already.
Ed Robison's and N. O.!
Powers’s pumps are run by gasoline, I
real value. This without doubt, is the greatest bargain oppor
I and John Robison’s and James Gib- i
tunity of the season. Here you have choice of new styles in
son’s are centrifugal pumps run by I
electricity. John Robison has a re
Tan and Blacks at almost one-half price.
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markable supply in his well, and will
keep
his pump of 200 gallons per min
Ladies’ $4 (X) pat shoes .................. $2.25
Men’s $4.00 pat leather
$2.50
ute capacity busy for threehours a'
Ladies’ $4 00 pat oxfords................ 2.25
Men’s $4.00 velure calf
2.50
day. He states he can easily irri- !
Ladies’ $3.50 pat leather shoes....... 2.00 g^te
2.25
Men’s $3.50 dress shoes
his eight acre tract with it.
Ladies’ $2.50 dress shoes................ 1.75
2.00
Men’s $3.00 calf shoes ..
The pumping system is proving a .
All Children’s shoes at same reduction
great economiser of water. With sev j
All Bovs’shoes at the same reduction
eral wells on the same slope, the
same water can be used more than ;
once because the seapage water form
one irrigation will naturally refill the
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lower well.
That there is a handsome profit a
all kinds of farming the following
figures will show. These figures are
not padded, but are given by respon
Mr. Lambkin Buys Another Place. sible citizens of Talent and are ac
curate. We quote the amount and
Hon. C. B. Lambkin who came to trice of different farm products to
Ashland from Iowa last fall, and pur show the profits of each class. A.
chased a place on the Boulevard up Weider on unirrigated land has an
on which he has just completed a average of four tons of alfalfa to
handsome residence, which is a cred the acre, Fred Rapp on irrigated land
it to the c'iy, has made another in five tons to the acre. Hay for sever
vestment near the state normal school ( al years has averaged $12 per ton,
lots in -----------
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PRACHT’S ORCHARD
This tract has a gentle slope to the East. Every
lot contains from fifteen to twenty-two of the
great peach trees that helped make Ashland
famous.
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Smallest lots 50x135
Prices, $300 and up
VAUPEL’S
For particulars see
JAMES M. POTTER
Office with Valley Record
Ashland Trading Go. l53'59,hEasi"ain st
ONLY General MERCHANDISE STORE In Town
FAMOUS JARS
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The House of Stars, the North Star, the R. J. <fc R. Star
the line for the man who
a hundred cents worth of
alue for every dollar he lets
I have one of the best
of shoes ever brought to
town and the prices are
It will pay you to investi-
before buying elsewhere,
est shoe for the least money
•U is my motto.
Always the freshest staple and fancy
groceries on hand.
Rubber Ring
SelfxSealing
Airtight
K««ps P«rf«c*lx
Meats
Fish
Vegetables
Fruits
TRY A DOZEN TODAY
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Take a look into our
DRY GOODS
DEPARTMENT
for the best values that
money can buy.
SHOES AND
FURNISHING GOODS
ir Brand Shoes are Better
We Sell 6 Pairs Guaranteed Sox, $1.25
' hence unirrigated land has yielded
Mr. Lambkin purchased from A. H. 1
i $48 per acre, while irrigated land
Connor and wife five acres of red or- ;
yielded $60 per acre The cost of
chard land, partly planted in apples
harvesting a crop being $2 per acre,
for $1950.
unirrigated land nets a profit of $40
In December 1908 Mr. Connor pur
per acre of alfalfa and irrigated land
Corner Main & Helman Streets.
chased his 16 acre tract, known as
$50 per acre.
the Bissell place, for $2150, and it is
¡On the farm of E. K. Anderson, one
Phone No. 57
from this tract that the five acres
of the best farms in Rogue River
were sold Mr. Lambkin. Mr. Connor
valley, a good crop of wheat is 60
still holds he remaining eleven acre,
bushels to the acre, and the yield of
A Complete Stock of All the Best together with the dwelling house and oats
has been 110 bushels. This
buildings.
shows
what can be done on good land
Brands of Staple and Fancy Groceries
in this section.
Miss Helen Hughes, of Coquelle,
The most noted orchard in this vi-
Miss Elda Farlow and nerjpann An-
ctaity** jf**Th'e Pellet orchSrd, now-
derson visited Mount Ashland Sun-
owned by the Talent Mountain View
day.
Orchard company.
In 1908 from the 33 acres of old
Mr. and Mrs. James Martin and
on Lard were shipped eleven car
Dr. and Mrs. Barham of Yreka spent
lords of marketable apples, 600 boxes
a few days in Ashland last week.
t"> the car. These 6600 boxes were
They made the trip in Mr. Martin s
sold for $1.65 per box, making a to-
auto.
tai return of $10,890 for the 33 acres
For the
yield, or $330 per acre,
F. W. Moore and wife have gone
present year Mr. Quackenbush, the
to their land holdings near the coast.
superintendent, estimates the yield at
They will continue on to Crescent
12,000 boxes, as there is an enormous
City for a summer outing before re
crop.
turning to Ashland.
On the eight acre orchard of Fred
Rapp in 1908 the crop was sold for
Mrs. Lucien Henderson, who re
$5 000, or over $€00 per acre. The
cently moved to Hilts with her two
average crop on this orchard for
children, where her husband is con-
three years in succession has yield
m.-eted with the Northern California
ed $500 to the acre. Elmer Oatman
Lun.bi r Co., visited Ashland friends
and Fred Rapp have handled this or-
Residence of Hon. C. B. Lambkin.
this week. She was formerly Miss
■ hard in partnership for this time
Belle Ross.
and have kept an accurate account
William Abbott and wife left Mon
Miss Helen Provost left Saturday;
if i.ue expenses. In 1908 the total
G. H. Chrisman, of San Jose, Cal
day for Pierre, Minn., on a visit. for Portland. She will stay a montn
exp« use for plowing, pruning, thin
visiting her sister Clara, and friends. ifornia, who solicited the busines. ning, picking, packing and marketing
men of Ashland for advertisements
Ladies' dress skirts to be closed
• he iruit was $1800, which leaves a
out at one-ithird to one-half less. Bee
Mrs. George Myers, of Los Ange and write-ups and otherwise great lair profit of j.3,200 or $400 per
be & Kinney.
les is visiting her brother-in-law, L. ly aided the special edition leaves acre. This orchard is 27 years old
for California tomorrow. Mr. Chris
R. Ulen, of Ashland, Ore.
and is a good example of what a ma
man is an energetic and optimistic
H. C. Emery is again at his post
ture orchard with good care will ^o.
in the United States National bank
Mrs. Claudine Mellinger and little booster.
E. E. Foss has a peach orchard
after an outing at Newport with his daughter Margorie are enjoying an
All waists one-third less at Beebe 20 years old, which has borne a
family.
outing in Klamath Falls.
& Kinney.
crop for sixteen years without a
C. J. COBURN
133 East Main St
Nims & Cappellar
College Preparatory
and Business School
High Sshool and University Prepara
tory courses in connection with the
best systems in Commercial and Sten
ographic lines makes this one of Or
egon’s best schools.
W. T. Van Scoy, A. B. Pres.
A. C. Crews, Sec’y.
Miracle Block
Ashland, Ore.
GET WISE
Spray Pumps
Spray Hose
Lime
Sulphur
Blue Stone
■'ingle failure, and the average yield
for tile sixteen years has netted the
owner $600 per acre.
In 1908 Mr.
Foss realized $860 per acre.
The
logan berries on thiis place for the
present season have yielded at the
rate of $1000 per acre.
On the farm owned by W. D. Hol
Below market prices
dridge is a young orchard five or six
years old. It is a mixed orchard, ap
now lowest at
ples and peaches alternating.
This
orchard has borne fruit since it was
three years old.
In 1908 from 15
acres were sold $2000 worth of fruit,
or $133 to the acre.
In the present
year there have already been sold
1600 boxes, and the indications are
that the present crop is more than
twice the crop of last year.
In truck farming and berries there
ere good profits also, but we have
not the data to give an extended list
of figures. On the farm of Frank
Reed east of Talent two acres in to
matoes in 1907 yielded 38 tons.
383 East Main
An orchard in bearing order is
generally considered more profitable
than any other line of farming, but Full line of jewelry and silverware,
when the income of those engaged in
cut-class, and imported china, com
raising garden truck, the question
.rises which is the more profitable. plete assortment. All new and up-
The prosperous appearance of the to-date good.s
truck farms of North Talent speaks
We ask you to kindly give us a call
well for that business.
On the farm of J. E. Roberts, in and get acquainted when you need
In 1907 from 15 acres in all kinds of
anything in our line, we will apprec
sold 500 sacks at one cent per pound,
brought in the same year $1000.
Mr ; iate to have you give us a trial. You
Roberts raised also a variety of veg will be satisfied with goods and
etables, corn, beans, cabbage, mel
ons, potatoes, onions and tomatoes prices.
I- 1907 from 15 acres in all kinds of
vegetables were sold $2500 worth oi
truck, an average of $166.67 per
acre. The average yield on the same
land for several years has been $2,-
000 , or $133 per acre. It should be
MANZANITA HALL
remembered that the garden yields
Palo Alto, California.
the same year it is planted, hence
A home school for boys desirous of
one need not wait several years for
a thorough preparation for college in
the first crop.
a minimum of time.
Location adja
The experience of Sylvester Stev cent to Stanford permits unusual ad
en® will show what a young man can vantages. Ample facilities for all ath
do in the garden business.
Some letic sports. Seventeenth year opens
Aug. 30. Send for Illustrated catalogue.
years ago Mr. Stevens bought ten
W. A. SHEDD, Head Master.
acres of land for $200 per acre.
It
vas all purchased on time, not one Wm. W. Wilson, the up-to-date black
cent being paid at date of purchase. smith and horseshoer; shop corner C
street and First avenue; none but first-
In three years Mr. Stevens had en class workmen employed. -.11 work guar
tirely paid for the ten acres, deriv mteed. Special attention given to horse
ing his revenue from the truck raised shoeing.
on the land.
Since then he has
Try a pair of those swell shoes with
cleared $2000 per year from his ten out the hurt and look pleasant. Co
acres.
burn sells them.
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Carlquist Bros.
New Jewelry Store
Watch and Jewelry Repairing
All Guaranteed