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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1902)
t YOU REMEMBER HOW IT WAS last Cbmtmai. Many of you put off buying presents until the eleventh hour. Tbc result waa that many of our handsomest and moat desirable articles were sold and you had to take what was left. There U nothing surer to give pleasure to the recipient and tiatifaction to the giver than ne Perfumes Pictures Photo Albums Fountain Pens Gold Pens Leather Goods Atomizers -Mirrors Toilet Sets Collar . Cuff Boxes Jewelry Boxes The important features Beauty, Usefulness and Genulness exist In such a lft So trouble to uhow Qoodn. Slover Drug' Company Front Street Grants Pass SEASONABLE GOODS IN STOCK Hill's bulk Mince Meat, 15 cents per pound. Ripe California Oil vis, 15 cents per pint. New Walnuts, Almonili, Raisins and everything good for the Xuias fiuit cuke ami pudding. New pack of c mined goods just In stock. The famous M. J. 11. and White House Mmlm & Java Coffees have no equal. As uii inducement for CASH TRADE we mic giving away a line of beautiful Hand Decorated China Ware, now on display at our stoie. From now on until January 1st, all Mine and underwear etc., at 1 j per cent discount. Hoping that you will call lit our stoie and icieivc one of the Ixiuililul culrndiiri for 190,). Yours for U-st goods at lowet cadi pi ices. Smith Bros. Mercantile Go. Corner Sixth and Front Strcctn (Jrants 1'ass, Oregon TIIK I'HIDK OK IIKIIOKH. Maojr aoldlera In tlio laat war wrt to nay that fur acratchoa, hruiaca, cuts, wnuuda, corns, Mir feet, Hint mill Joint, liui'kllu'i Arnica Halvn In tlin liNt in til world. Hamn for lluma. Hoalda, Holla, Uh-rra, skin Kruptlona and pile. It curvt or no ly. Uuly V aMtrvuu'r'a Drug atuiti. km VuortiU about Kodaks aud Huppll w UK K(U'M A t'l'ltK. 11. II. Foster, H1H M Htnut, Hull I-nka City, writ...: "1 have been lulhurvd wilh dyapria or incline.. Moil for HI Years. hVU tried mn doctors without relief, hut I havo found a cum tu llorhltin. I rvooin mend II o nil 10 v frtcinK wlio urn aMIIctcd Unit way, mill It In nirlnu tliiiii too. iit m hlovir Prim i'iv We are ngaln before the public with a well selected line of Holiday Goods We have a fine line of Handker chiefs of all kinds from 2 for 5c to the Muffler $1.25. Just the thing to send away to your friends. Wo Invite you to call liefore the rush at.... The Fair Store Front Street, Dan 11 Frederick. Propr, L. M Elwood Scientific Optician Recommended by the Press and Public. -JEWELER Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Repairing. Permanently locate1 in Grants Pass at ... National Drug Store. Thro Train Southeast. Northern Pacific Burlington Koulav Th St. Unlit HK'ltl, 1 1 1 through ri pwaa ot tli Northern I'trillo in J llnr liiiKton railroada (rom tin Nortlioral tu the Koutheaat. i liaiigml lime on May 4. The traiia-contintinul axrvlre it mated. ally l nellir.1, aa run oedema lor Hie Kant and South are now made with morning llama out o( Hi. Uniit and Clili ao. Tlie hi, l.oiiia KmvUI now Irsve. I'orlland, al .U a. in ; Te a, II 411 i. Ill ; Hvaltle, 3.50 i in.; hKkuna, tl ff a. in.: Helena. 10 15 n. m : li. linn", 7 00 a , in. Thti urw isid la tiior vonvenlpiil to itioet rltira in (lie Northwest. The train now rarnea atamlaid elrrptr, touriat elecprr, dinlnit car, rhalr car, roach, and .sni;an car, Portland to KaiitasCily without fhanaa, alwi Ire reclining eliair car, I'urtland In Ht. Unlit. It ruina'iit Hie great TlMK p.WKK, aa null at the only through train lielween Hie Nnilliweii and lh Siiulheanl. &arnplln Vain. , Tim pfoapcctr aa a ruWMoMi uot nonsidcr the sampling of lila'proapi-ct one lit tli essential polnta In develop ing bis property. But If tie will only omtAfat tut a monwnt th molt U, himself and to IIoj wlioro he 1 try ing to interest io tlieae proapecta, he. ahould jy mitt attention to the. sampling. In tlie flrat Inatanc, aa ralf, h will pU-.k op a i,t or ir rrx-k, looc at It witn tlie -y. and analyze It. la tli!n erard he will eay to lilmm lf, "Oh. that don't rarry anything," and throw It away. Hi will then pick op another plw that is hearily mlu"rall-d with iron or aulphnr'rta, antimony, zinc and oiIht btuua, 'and any to liimv lf, "That'a K'iod; I'm going to hare it aaaayed." The r-nU of aoch sampling la alniply f'xjling hlmaelf, for the dimple rca that he might hare one or two Uu.Ui fit that atriiak with the balance of the Urdge of rock or quartz like that he has thrown away. He comes back from the aiway office Willi hia return, and claim that hia entire ledge haa a value of many dollar and cent per ton, from the rendu of hia picked aaaay. He pot in hi" time deviiloping the preapi-ct. In many caae stint hia tomacli all winter to nave enough for the spring to fumiah himaelf with grub to go on and develop to a greater eitent the procpnot of the former year. At the expiration of two or three month he return from camp with hia temple and by chance this time ha heard of hi fooliah way of trampling heretofore. He had taken an average aamplo clear acroa hi ledge, the pay- treak and that which he thought wan no good together, and tin it aaMiyed. It proves to contain traee only. He condemn theaaaayer, becauae he find nothing for him. He awear it ahould carry tomethlng, that he had an BHaay from the aame place before, that wan very rich, but he doeau't aay it waa a picked wimple. Now, Mr. Prospector, if yon will follow the line that you hould follow in sampling your prop erty, which ia thu: Wrap a hand kerchief over your eyea, or clone them If yon will, take your proHjKxting pick in one hand, a pau or reccp'aclc in the other, and from wall to wail, or roof to floor, If In tunnel or if in (haft, from a high a you ean reach to where you atund, pick, pick, pick, promiacuoualy, acroa aaid lodge, then ucntip same into a sack, open your eyes, mark it tie It up, and then have it aaaayed, and if your aaauyer ia true to you, and to lilmelf, there should be no reason why you ahould not get the actual value of your ore. Home proapuctors who like, and who do, sample atreak. If uch U the eaae wherever audi treak or anmll veins that are found ou ledge are to be wmplcd, tuko them aaaurcdly. That gives yon tho valuo of tlio different cam or atreak that occur. I do not complain of the proapoctor doing thin at all; It I a good idea; only ho muat not claim to tho public that hi ledge ia ao wldo, with the value contained in the amall atreak a. One rcaaon why ao many proatiecta arn turned lowu by tho legitimate mining engi neer la that ho hn boon miainformed ny tlio proHixictor before hn atari to iuvoatlgate the property that ho find not the tiling which he ha been, told of. Till dlarourage him, make him angry, puts him out; ho don't care to uvetigato further., and ho tell you It i not a you represented, that he cion i wish to kw any more or your property, that your price Ih too high anyhow, and ho quit and goca back. What ha ho dono? Not only ha he condmuuod your property, but hn has actually turned down tho camp, he aUHO hi rejxirt ha Ihicii reail bv in veator. aud they will nay, "Why, Mr no-and-ao, a mining engineer, visited that section and aaya ho could not see anything." Bo, you have not only hurt yourself, but you have hurt every man Interested In your district. If lu bringing proaisx-tH before thn min ing public, you would underrate it, then when they aeud their mining en glneer to Investigate, ho could find It Mtor than what you said In his re sirt to the licople. j he Mould advise, without the finest ion fil a doubt, the payment of any reasonable sum you might ask for thu prots rty. II could not, or would not, say to his people, "It I a good piece of pro r ty. It I letter than them. sope rep. resented It to Im, hut I cannot advise the lwyiutint of so much moin v " Vou are mom apt to get for your prop erty what you asa than you would to t anything if you misrepresent. raclflc Miner. You Know Ythtat You Are Ttaklnf When you taka tlrtor Ta.Ulna l Timlc, Iwiaiiw Iha formula in flalnlv prinl l un ry IhiIII iIiuwIiik Dial It I. tin, ply Iron and giilnina In a t.tli lr, No I'ura No, Pay. Wi: lllue Irlut P.r by the yard or Mil lit the Courier oltiin. R.lvn.1 Apple Districts. There ia a rivalry growing up be tween ori'hardlsta in several irt of the atatea. Hood river ami Itnum river esss lally, lis to which can pro duce the lineat apples nnd which re aulta lu the Hunt apples of each sec lion being aeut from tlnin to time to the Mriuancnt exhibit cm Wnshington treet. Three hole of remarkably fluo apple hnve Just N.-n received from Holme llnw., of t'entral Point. Ilogtio river, tuie of Ituldwins and two of Yellow Kfwtown Pippin, fumy wk fir which one may traiel fur to llnd the npiala, and whic h nr.- of the Has that sells in New York at :l ,',e -r Ihi. They will hecshihitcd fresh for awhile and then Is- put lu J irs f preservative. Owing to the rivalry between lioKiie river mid IIimuI river, K. U Smith, of the latter place, I. forwarding to the cihjhit botes of SplUonUig and Yellow New in wo. Wllich he llOs.a will etee those e,l from Central Point. Holmes I:..,. , aro sending n-mnrkably On. ouiona from llutle Creek, mar Kagb Point, which are salil to Is. "a Intl. eitra," to 1st pirn cd fin eil.il, ill. n, They were Krown br Mr lln.ei,, w ho raised WI.IMI poiinda Juat aa tt" on 2', acres Home applet ri .1 ly Hon W H. Ilradahaw on hia f.H.tl, 1 II orchard without Irrlgntimi are also l,. In. b.h.11 at ihn permanent eihlbn, and oth.ra very fill" from a tract riphot.d by Porlhwhk A lutlr In year, ,.,, under the Hume (,f , I i ,,m Iriu t itorihwlck A Unity r aln.i,.t forKOllen. bill the tout all II prisluee. verv fine applet All the tr.vla m.oi Honed am tlrlVll.g to tllta. ray I, other In producing fine apples -live, goulan. Jaittnese llltii luket. si Cim. r 3 V 500 POUSDS-10 SACKS of FLOUR F BE E AT f5? Sugar Pine Store Cximbined with a 10 Per Cent Discount Sale . on Shoes and Underwear from Dec. 8th to Dec. 25th In order to reduce our stock for invoice January 1st, also a bargain table loaded with SNAPS from all departments including groceries. You cannot afford to miss this sale as we carry only reliable goods, and you get the benefit of pricei that are seldom made at this season of the year. Kvery customer will be sent a card December 25th that will entitle them to their choice from a large assortment of holiday goods which includes all lines in our im mense stock. Put a guess on the back of this card as to how many cards we will send out, re turning it before January 1st. Everyone, on presenting this card, will receive a present. The one gues-ing the nearest to the number sent out will receive SOO.lbs. of flour or its equivalent in any goods in our store that they may select. You make no mistake by calling at THE SUGAR PINE STORE Christmas Gift Sale IMaMtMWI Free gifts with every purchase of Holiday China and Glassware. With every 50c purchase of Fancy China wo give froo any 10c or 15c artiole. With every $1 purchaso of Fancy China wo givo free any 20c or 25c article. With every $2 purchase of Fancy China we givo free any 35c, 40c or 50c article. l"ThiB olTor holds good until aftor December 25th. W L'!r,r"y BCW Uml handson, goods in this lino and invite you to come and Wo an. al,, showing a handsome stock of Fine Carving Sets, Chafing Dishes, b. vor Ware, Fine Table Cutlery, Rogers liro, 1847 Knives and Forks, The c-ol.brated Catt.ringus Pocket Cutlery, Air Rifles, Boys' Tool Chests, Toy wagons, U lieelbarrows, etc. Hair-Riddle Hardware Company