pacific
Tempting Bargains
fnr this week’s selling
YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO PASS
THESE SPLENDID VALUES
Men’s and Young Men’s
Trousers
Men’s and Young Men’s
Footwear
Worth $1.50 anywhere
Choice this week
95c
Worth $2.00 anywhere
Choice this week $1.45
Worth $3.00 anywhere
Choice this week
1.95
Worth $3.50 anywhere
Choice this week
2.45
Worth $4.00 anywhere
Choice this week
2.95
Worth $5.00 anywhere
Choice this week
3.45
Worth $2.50 anywhere
Choice this week
$1.95
Worth $4.50 anywhere
Choice this week
3.45
Worth $5 00 anywhere
Choice this week
3.95
Men’s and Young Men’s
Suits
Worth $10 anywhere
Choice this Meek
$6.95
Worth $15 anywhere
Choice this week
9.85
Worth $18 anywhere
Choice this week 12.45
Worth $20 any where
Choice this week
14.95
Women’s and Misses’
Footwear
Worth $2.50 anywhere
Choice this week
$1.95
Worth $2.75 anywhere
Choice this week
2.15
Worth $4.00 anywhere
Choice this week
2.95
Boy’s Knee Trouser Suits
Worth $2.00 anywhere
Choice this week $1.49
Worth $3.00 anywhere
Choice this week
1.89
Worth $4.00 anywhere
Choice this week
2.49
Worth $5.00 anywhere
Choice this week
3.49
states
new
system
Telephone Company at Work on New
$80,000 Plant for
Ashland.
IBy Eugene A. Sherwin, local agent.l
The Pacific Telephone and Tele­
graph Company is installing a com­
plete underground conduit plant in
the business district of Ashland,
This plant when completed will
represent the highest type of subway
construction known as “Class A”
construction, and will pro"ide facil­
ities for supplying the city of Ash­
land with first-class telephone ser­
vice for many years to come.
A
rapid, steady growth and a wide de­
velopment of the natural beauties
and resources of this city are confi­
dently predicted by telephone offici­
als, and the present improvements
in the systems are being provided in
anticipation of an ever-increasing
demand for telephone service.
The conduit now being laid, con­
sisting of 5000 feet of fibre duct and
and 2000 feet of iron duct, will have
an ultimate capacity of 2400 pairs
of wires along Main street and an
ultimate capacity of 3600 pairs
along Oak street.
A large appropriation has also
been made to cover the rebuilding
of and extensions to the present
aerial plant, which is in connection
with the new switching board and
other central office equipment, short­
ly to be installed In the new '»Tee
building, will provide Ashland wiin
a telephone plant -ecoud to none in
this part o? t ie countiy.
A superintendent from Portland
and an engineer from San FraneJsci
are in charge oi the week.
Industral Items.
Cement Work
Contractor
Cement Sidewalks a Specialty
Granite City Tea Store
COFFEES, SPICES, TEAS, etc.
Timber Lands, Mines
Or City Property
LOSHER’S
mportant Irrigation Proposition.
Temple of Truth
Religious Societies and Ministers.
H.G. ENDERS
ASHLAND
JOE OGBURN
An orchard in bearing order is
generally considered more profitable
than any other line of farming, but
when the income of those engaged in
raising garden truck, the question
arises which is the more profitable.
The prosperous appearance of the
truck farms of North Talent speaks
well for that business.
ASHLAND
OREGON
On the farm of J. E. Roberts, in —
In 1907 from 15 acres in all kinds of
—See the—
sold 500 sacks at one cent per pound,
brought
in
the
same
year
$1000.
Mr
Church of the Brethren
Roberts raised also a variety of veg-
etables, corn, beans, cabbage, mel-
—for—
ons, potatoes, onions and tomatoes
I< 1907 from 15 acres in all kinds of
vegetables were sold $2500 worth of
truck, an average of $166.67. per
Your Patronage Solicited
acre. The average yield on the same
land for several years has been $2,-|
A. E. COX. Proprietor
000 , or $133 per acre. It should be
Comer Maio & Second
Pbone 455
remembered that the garden yields
the same year it is planted, hence’
If you wish
one need not wait several years for
the first crop.
to buy or sell
The experience of Sylvester Stev­
ens will show what a young man can1
do in the garden business.
Some
years ago Mr. Stevens bought ten
Free Metqodist Church acres of land for $200 per acre. It
.»»»»»« e n»»»»<♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦ »as all purchased on time, not one
Call on
cent ‘'eing paid at date of purchase.
In three years Mr. Stevens had en­ SILSBY & BLACKDEN
Farlo-w-Rhodes Building
tirely paid for the ten acres, deriv­
Room 25. Ashland
ing his revenue from the truck raised
on the land.
Since then
cleared $2000 per year from
acres.
Exclusive Plumbing and|
Steam Fitting Shop
Grant and Staples have purchased Just opened up in Paulson Block, Oak
the old E. K. Anderson ditch and street Ashland. Sanitary Plumbing,
water right. This ditch was built in Steam Fitting. All work strictly up
to date and guaranteed. Prices rea­
the early ’60’s making the water right sonable. Estimates given on work,
and ditch one of the oldest in this Give us a call.
vicinity. It has been used continu­
J. W. LOSHER
ously for placer mining ad irrigation^
as well as domestic purposes and has'
Plumbing Goods for Sale.
been of great service to the owner,
Phone Main 843
as well as the people along the ditch
who have been blessed by the flow
of water therefrom.
The purchasers of this ditch will
proceed at once to improve it by PEIL BLOCK, NEAR FLOUR MILL
installing the best possible head-gate
flumes, etc., with a view towards con j
tinuing and increasing the services
for the gardeners and fruit growers Tur ned Out and Satisfaction
living along and under the line of
Guaranteed
tie ditch. It will probably be used j
for mining some little part of *he
year, but the principal service will
be that of irrigating the lands trib­
Give the Shop a Trial
utary, and it is believed that with
economical use and the proper ^.‘pli­
I
cation of the water a considerable
area of heretofore non-producing iand
near the city limits will be trans­
formed into productive gardens and
orchards. The ditch is a little over J. S. Silsby, Geo. R. Wiley and Jas. W.
Wiley, Proprietors.
nine miles long and several miles of
it skirts the westeriy portion of the General Dray and Transfer
city.
Methodist Episcopal—H. J. Van
Fossen, pastor.
Baptist—Elbert Hicks,
Presbyterian—Ward W. MacHenry
minister.
Congregational—E. F. Green, pas­
tor.
Church of Christ—G. K. Berry,
pastor.
Seventh Day Adventist—John Ar­
nold.
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene
—H. C. Elliott, pastor.
Free Methodist—J. W. Sharpe, pas­
L tor-
Episcopal church—S. M. Dorrance,
rector.
Catholic church—Father John Pow­
ers, pastor.
The church of the Brethren (Dunk
ard)—S. E. Decker, pastor.
The Bremren church (reformed
Piano Moving
Dunkard)—D. M. Brower.
First Spiritualist Society of South­
All kinds of goods stored at
TO BRING KLAMATH RIVER
I
ern Oregon—Ida M. Gard.
reasonable rates
WATER BY EMIGRANT (REEK
Church of Christ—Scientist.
Warehouse on Third street, near depot
“Studies in the Scriptures—Dawn
Well-Known Promoters Plan Esti-
Office with CLARENCE LANE
Series.’’ Thomas Badger and J. M.
TELEPHONE 603
mates for Enormous Irrigation
Eastering, leaders.
Enterprise
R. H. DOW
S5S Blacksmith Work
[I nited S tates N ational B ank
Horeshoeing a Specialty
SUCCESSOR TO
Bank of Ashland
Founded
1884
Ashland Transfer and
Storage Co.
A QUARTER OF A CESTURÏ OF
Careful and conservative management
has brought our business to a place
where Absolute Safety and Efficient
Service is assured.
Capital, Surplus and Stockholders Liability
$125,000.00
Directors.
Officers.
D. R. Mills.
Geo. W. Dunn.
S. Butler.
H. Carter.
Carter.
Mills, President
Carter, Vice President.
Carter, Cashier.
McCoy, Assistant Cashier.
C. Emery, Assistant Cashier.
A. »((’ALLEI
President
C H. VIITEL
ïke President
Cashier
A. J. MICILLEI
Assistant Cash.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of Ashland. Oregon.
No. 5747.
Catholic Church
ESTABLISHED MAY, 1901
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY
Capital Stock
|
- - $50,000
Sharehold-re’ Liability
Surplus and Undivided Profite - $15,000
.
$50,000
Does a general banking bueii eee. We solicit your account and will
give your bueinese prompt, accurate and considerate attention.
DIRECTORS
OTTO WINTER. W. H. McNAIR, L. L. MULIT, C. H. VAUPEL
E, A. SHERWIN. GEO. W. OWEN.
Cor. Oak and Main Sts.
A new irrigation system for the
Rogue River Valley is being promot-
ed by Julius W. Perkins, former
Ellsworth Davis a graduate of last
owner of the Hillcrest orchard and
year has accepted a position in the
more recently the successful pro-
White House grocery.
moter of Sutherlin, a fruitful valley
William Ritner is manager of the
near Roseburg.
He has recently
Freser, Ritner Fuel Co., in which he
disposed of his Interests in Douglas
has an interest.
county and is turning his attention
Prof. Lloyd Bridge, of Rochester,
to irrigating the Rogue valley. As­
N. Y., has been secured for priiici-
sociated with him in the project is
pal of the Commercial department,
Colonel J. F. Mundy of Medford
Mr. Bridige is most highly endorsed
It is proposed to bring the waters
M r. Bridge is most highly endorsed of the Klamath River through Emi­
by E. E. Gaylord, ex-president of the grant Gap above Ashland at an ele­
National Business Educators’ associ­ vation that will cover all sections of
ation, Prof. Zaner, Pres, of the Zane- the valley. The cost of the project
rian Pen Art School, S. L. Williams, is estimated at from $1,250,000 tc
Pres, of the Rochester Business In­
$1,000,000.
stitute and others. Mr. Bridge has
“The project is not beyond the
taken two post graduate courses and formative
stage,” said
Colonel
being an experienced business col­ Mundy when approached on the sub­
lege teacher annd an expert penman, ject. “No survey has been made and
he will be a decided acquisition to i 1 do not know whether the project if
the commercial school fraternity on feasible.
The government contou;
the coast.
maps show that two long tunnels are
Mr. Bridge ’s an accomplished in- necessary, but until a survey has
structor n calesthenics, gymnastics
been made nothing definite can be
and athletics and the students of the
stated. The money for such a pro-
A. C. C. will have the opportunity to ject can be secured. however, and if
I
secure trainin. in these lines.
a survey should demonstrate the
The management of the Ashland practicability of the proposition, an
Commercial college believes nothing announcement will follow of the
in the line of training for business plans.”—Medford Tribune.
is oo good for this “God’s Country,
and that s'6 successful efforts to se­
Men’s straw hats at half price
cure the best will be appreciated.
Beebe & Kinney.
Prof. Gaylord, of Beverly, Mass.,
who is a national leader in business
educational work, writes that he is
so enthused with representations
from the west in a” lines of indus­
that he is becoming dissatisfied with
condition on the eastern coast and is
thinking of migrating westward and
taking a hand here along with the
rest of us.
Ashland
A. McCALLEN.
Phone 1021
Church of the Nazarene
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Pnone 59
ASHLAND
Livery, Feed and Sale Stables
JE. F SMITH à SON
Proprietors
THE BEST OF RIGS, SINGLE OR DOUBLE.
With or Without Drivers All Hours of Day or Night
Special Attention to Commercial Men and Camping Parties
Congregational Church
Commercial
College
Notes.
There wil’ be quarterly meeting at
the Free Methodist church next Fri­
day, Saturday and Sunday.
Rev.
John W. Sharpe, district elder, in
change. Everybody invited.
GEO. T. WATSON
Practical Painter
and Paperhanger
Leave Orders With H. S. Evans
ASHLAND, OREGON
MacGOWAN
THE PAINTER
Painting,|Paper Hanging
Tinting, Signs and Carri­
age Painting.
Shop: 1st Street, near B
Residence Phone 214
Special
Matter.
Our 16 pages of illustrated industrial
matter did not contain all our mater­
ial, hence considerable of it is run
in the regular edition.
Trinity Episcopal Church