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VOL. XX. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH io, 1905. Ma 50. Good Leather AIS1 : Work Good At Reasonable Charges la what everyone wants put into their Shoe Repairing. For this class of work try W. KEENE and you will bo getting what you want and save money. Hoots and Shoes Made to Order. R. L. Bartlett's Shoo store. Grant la mm, Oregon. Grants Pass Banking & Trust Co. PAID UP CAPITAL STOCK 2B,000.0O. Transacts a fteneral banking business. Receives deposits subject to cbeck or on demand certificates. Our customer" are assured of courteous treatiueut and every consideration con sistent with sound banking principles. Safety deposit boxes for rent, J. FRANK WATSOM. Pres. K. A. BOOTH, Vice-Pre. L. L. JEWELL, Cashier. The First National Bank OF SOUTHERN OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK S50.0OO.OO. Receive deposits subject to check or on certificate payable on demand. Sells sijrht drafts on New York, San Francisco ana Portland. Telegraphic transfers sold on all points id the United Mates Special attention given to collections and general business of our customer!. Collections made throughout Southern Oregon, and on accessible points. K. A. BOOTH. Free. J. 0. CAMPBELL, Vlce-Prei. H. L. (J1LKKY, Cashier. r 4 Bert Barnes, Reliable Watchmaker At Clemens' Grants Pass, Ore. lAAAA aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa j-sSOUTHERN OREGOlTlRilisTl A very handsome piece of marble from the Cheney creek marble mine, Wm. KnoelL manager, la on display ( the mineral exhibit. The speol- men is of a remarkably fine quality of tone, taking a beeatiful poliih that makea it the ee,ual in attractive ap pearance of any of the varieties of marble which are brought here from other places. The deposit from which this specimen oomes la almost un limited In extent, being virtually a whole mountain of marble. R. S. Pierce will go to Williams Creek next week to spend the sum mer at the mining olaims be has in that distriot. So soon as the oity schools olose be will move his family to his mines so they may spend the vacation season in the invigorating air of the hills. Mr. Pierce has a fine quarts property on Williams Creek and be is a partner with F. W. Mahler in two other quarts ledges, one on Banning gnloh and the other on Ferris gnloh. Mr. Mahler has been at work on these ledges sinoe last fall and they give evidence of possessing considerable value. J. W. Beeves was in Grants Pass Monday from Galloe, where he is en gaged in pospeotlng. Mr. Beeves is the owner of the Gold Spring oopper olaim and he is now at work develop ing it While the ledge is- only opened to a limited extent, yet it is making a fine showing and the ore as says good valnea in oopper and gold. Mr. Reeves has some of the ore on ex hibit at the minerals exhibit room and it is pronounced by mining men to be fine appearing rook. Mr. Beeves also has a gold bearing ledge on Oalloe that is quite rich and has the indloations of being qnite extensive. SEWING MACHINES from $22.00 UP NEWCOODS! NEW PRICES I Prices: $22.00, 23.00, 21.00, 2 5 00. 28.00, 30.00, 32.50, 39.00, 10.00, 45 00, 50.00. We have no agents. We sell direct to t lie people and save you the agent's commis sion. ( all at the store or write for catalogue. Headquarters for Needles and parts for all machine. We pay the freight. C. H. OAItDINELli, P. O. Box SOS, Ashland, Oregon. Ike Davis, like nearly every busi ness man In Grants Pass has min ing for a side line and interest ed in some quarts or placer proposition. Mr. Davis is in partnership with bis nephew, Edward Tate, and they have a quarts ledge on Grave Creek in the Greenback district, which Mr. Tate is developing, that is showing np very , satlsfactoryily. Mr. Tate was in Grants Pass Friday and brought in a number of samples of ore that be said were of average quality. These be had assayed and the resnlt showed $24.20 in gold and $1.80 in oopper per ton The ledge has a six foot body of ore, which Is largely free milling and it has the earmarks of a mine that will be one of the big producers of Southern Oregon. THE NEW MEAT MARKET GUSTAV KARNER. PROPRIETOR Manufacturer of all kinds of foreign and domestic Sausages. Pork Packer and dealer in all kinds of First-class Fresh, Salt and Smoked Meats. Wholesale and Retail Main Street, Wstt of Pslsce Hotel TELEPHONE Ml MARIJLE AND GRANITE WORKS J. II. PADDOCK, Proprietor. I am prepared to lurnieh anything in the line ot Cemetery work in any kind of Marble or Uramte. Nearly thirty years of experience io the Marble business warrants my saying that 1 can till your orders in trie very nest manner. Can furnish work lu Scotch, Swede or American Granite or any kind el Marble. Front street, next to Greene's Gunsbnp. OREGON'S EXPOSITION is described in Sunset Magazine March Number Has a . finely illustrated article on the great Cen tennialjust the thing to send East. Many news articles, some good short 1 stories, clever verses and interesting miscellany. Vigorous work by enter taining writers. SOLD BY ALL NEWSDEALERS WOOD YARD High grade ore in small lots bought. -r-W. O. Wright OREGON TIMBER, MINING & INVESTMENT CO. Josephine County Real Estate Co. Successors to COURIER BUILDINO, GRANTS PASS. OREGON. Improved Farms In Jackson, Josephine, Douglas and Linn Counties. T I M B E It In Large and Small Tracts in Washington, Oregon and California. 31 I N E S Placer and Quarts in Southern Ore gon, developed aud undeveloped, rang ing lu price from SoOu to 60,000. CITY PROPERTY Vacant lots and Residences; Busi ness Houses; Grocery, Hardware, Feed, Ueaeral Merchandise and Meat Market. One, Two, Three, Five and Ten Acre Tracts in any part of the City. Flour and Lumber. Grants Pass Fuel Co. Third Street Between H and I Phono 434 We can supply you with some of the best wood to be had. GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER Cash Paid for Wood. Cured Htmorriujts of the lungs. "Several years since my lungs wore so badly affected that I had many hemorrhages," writes A. M. Ake, of Wood. Ind. "I took treatment with several physicians without any bene fit, I then started to take Foley's Hooey and Tar, aod my lnngs are now as sound as a ballet I recom mend it in ad t a need stages of laag trouble." Foley's Hooey and Tar stops the cough and heals the laogs, and prevents serious results froa a cold. Kefose tubstiteUs. For sale by H. A. Koteruiuud. Below we give some of oar bargains. No. 111180 acres placer land, No. 1 giant, 800 Jset pipe, ditch and res ervoir, good buildings, land well tim bered, easy terms. Price $6000. Mine now in operation. No. 94D Quarts mine, vein 11 feet Wide, said to assay 6 to $10 per toa. No. 117 One acre, 8-room house, all kinds of fruit, good engine pump and tank, all piped, chicken bouse, barn, and other out-buildings. Price, 1100. No. S3 Two lots, i-room bouse, pantry, woodshed, good well, nice shads trees. Price $?6U No. 825160 acres farming land, l'JO acres bottom land, balance bench land, good irrigating ditch 100 inches water will oover 80 aores of the bot tom land. Good boose and barn, sood well, creek running through the place, 20 acres in cultivation. Prloe $W00. $1000 down, balance 00 long time. 18 head of cattle at market prioe if desired. No. 831 -4 acres good garden or fruit land, ooe house 14x18. one boose 16x14 with I 16x34, IK story, three living springs, barn, chicken house and woodshed. Good fireplace, grapes, apples, proof s, peaches, pears and berries of all kinds. Land in closed with picket fence. Price $1(00. No. $3310 room boose. 6 acres good land, good ool-botldiogs, good well, big tank, good fence, for the small sum of $30u0. No. 134 t acres good bottom land, all in choice bearing, fro it trees. No. $37 One lot on Sixth street, new l-ioom bouse at $400. No. 13710 acre good rich river bottom land. 300 bearing frail time all varieties. New 6-room bouse, bard finish, 1 well, tank and wind mill, small bare, 3 cb token bosses. Prioe $UU Gellce Consolidated Pula in Big Flume). A.B. Cousin, manager of the Qa lioe Consolidated Mines Co., operat ing at Galioe, was in town several days this week and reports that good progress Is being made at the property and that two giants are in steady op eration. The work of buildiug the big flume at the month of the creek is being done with gratifying rapid ity Already some 600 feet is com pleted and new flume is being 'put in at the rate of 60 feet per day, ex tending it np the creek. bed. A glaut works constantly at the head of the flume, blowing out the gravel aud debris and clearing away a out for the flume while the builders keep their work close np to that of the giant. The flume is six feet wide and is being constructed of two inch plank ing in a very solid and substantial manner. The installation and completion of this flume is one of the principal objeots towards which the company bas been working sinoe its formation. The bed of Galioe paid richly in the early mining days when it was worked with crude .appliauces. Since that time the ohannel ot the lower part of the the creek was deeply filled with debris, mainly from the work done on the giautio high channels. The old "tailings" which were dumped into Galioe oreek were largely from a oemented bank and carried a consider able portion of their gold through the boxes and into the bank. These tailings baring now for years been ex posed to the elements have became decomposed and will be readily dis intergated by the action of the glaut. Besides the tailings, the store of gold in the oreek bed has been augmented by the breakng down of the higher channels and by slides. Then also'the portion of the original gold of the channel whlob was overlooked and lost by the early miners must have been very considerable and, all things taken Into consideration, the project of working ont the creek bod, in the advantageous manner which the new flume will provide, has a very profit able appearance. Many low bars of known richness which could not bure tofore be "bottomed," will also be opened op by this flume aud a number of high channels which have not been worked because there has been no available water are now covered by the ditches of the oompany and form a part of the auriferous area, the whole of which can be worked sys- temtioally and advantageously when opened np by the flume. Sterling Mine Having Good Run. Hon. H. E. Ankney arrived in Grants Pass Sunday evening on his return from Waldo where he had been for a couple of days on mining bust nets, and left the same evening for Jacksonville. Mr, Ankney is the manager and principal owner of the Sterling mine, nine miles south of Jacksonville, one of the largest placer mines on the Pacifio Coast aud which has been a big gold produoer for the S3 years sinoe its discovery in l&VJ. This mine is supplied with wator from the bead of Little Applegate by a large ditch 37 miles in length. The waters supply Is from the Bixkiyon mountains, while moat of the placer miner have been handicapped this winter by a shortage ol water, Mr. Ankney stated that they had had am pie water all winter with which to operate their pipes aud the melting of the suows iu the mountains would keep up the supply well into the um mer, thus enabling bis mine to make the usual big annual cleanup. Mr. Aukeny is one of the leading good roads men of Southern Oregon. He considers the betterment of the roads of Rogue River Valley as the real foundation to the full develop ment of its vast mineral, timber, fmit and other resources. Mr. Ankeny is greatly interested in the success of the Southern Oregon dis trict convention of the Oregon Good Roads Association, to be held lu Grants Pass on March 30 and 31, and he will attend if nothing prevents. He hoped that every person iu Southern Oregon interested in good roads would attend this convention and thereby help In creating a strong publlo opinion tnal would baok up the county courts of the various counties in making a road tax levy large enough to enable road work to be done thoroughly and under modern methods of construction. Mr. Sluter has a quarts property on which he is carrying on development work aud which besides carriyug good values in the general character of its rock, has oh u tea of astonishing riohness. When first discovered, a chute at the surface yielded gold at the rate of from $10 to $."0 to the pan, this being merely the gold that wan free from the rock, the particls oi which yet , oarried extraordinary values that oould not be secured by panning. Another Stamp Mill 10 Be Erected A. O. Hoofer, manager of the Mt. Pitt Mining Conipauy, was in Grants Pass Mouduy and deposited in the bunk tho gold from the last olean-np of their mine, aud it was au exceed ingly satisfactory deposit to Mr. Hoofer aud bis associates. Tho Mt. Pitt mine is located on Jnnip-off-Joo aud was purchased last year by the Mt. Pitt Mining Company, of How land & Cook. It was merely an unde veloped ledge aud work was begun at ouoe to open it up. To handle the ore taken out of the tunnels, a two tub arraatre was erected aud these tests have been so satisfactory that now Mr. Hoofer's company has da aided to put iu a stamp mill aud his trip to Portland is for the purpose of consulting with his associates, who all resldo iu that oity, aud to plaoe the ordor iu for the niachiuery. It is the plan to put in a five stump mill for the present, but so soon as the mine is butter opened np another battery of five stamps will be in stalled. Water power will be used, of which there is ample developed for operatiug a ten stamp mill and which is uow used to operate the arraHtre. The Mt. Pitt led go is ouo of the most promising of the mining properties that has been opeued up iu Southern Oregon during the past year aud there is every likelihood that it will become one of tlie best, paying mines about Grants Past r New Iron Beds $2.65 to $ 39.00 Regular value $3.75 to $50.00 New Couches - $0.75 to $30.00 Regnlar value $9,50 to $40.00 New Rockers and Easy Chairs $1.50 to $15,00 New Carpetiugs 40c to $1.25 New Laco Curtains 45c to $5.00 Now Wall Tapers - 10c to GOc Boautiful goods to please. at prices suro u R N I T U R E Guaranteed Rango, regular value $45.00, for this sale $37.50 Cook Stoves, regular value $12.00, sale price $9.20 Water Sets, regular value $1.50, sale price $1.00 Vases, regular value . 25c, sale price 10c Decorated Water Pitchers, regu lar value 40c, sale price 20c Baby Carriagos and Go-Carts, new linos, fold up close, big variety, $4.50 to $25.00 HOUSE FURNISHING t Watch for these signs on Front street opposite the flag pole. We extend you a most cordial invitation to visit our new store. You will find it the largest store south of Portland. We are located near the deiot. Our stock is the best for the money that can be had. lor Monky Back 1p You Want It. Furniture Carpets Mattings Laco Curtains Jilt Ureases Pillows T.iuuleuma Pictures Picture Mouldings Thomas (Q. O'Neill, Ujq Housefurnishers llltf llMount Halo ol" rrnined PictureH, . I-I s-t rt-t n e ITl lt-!flm-J Pnmnlnin -Li I 1. 1 1 a m iioinoa 1 uuiioiicu vuiujjicic uii mtj installment nan A Furniture Wall Paper Crockery Glassware Stoves Ranges Lamps Tinware Woodonwara Mirrors W t t Mining Opero-tlone ext Tckllmav. W. It. Whipple was at Takihna last week to make surveys, both sur face and under ground at the Queen of Bronze nil no. Mr. Whipple reports that the Takilma company aro carry ing on extensive development work ou tho Queen of Bronze auJ that the main tuuuol is uow iu over 800 feet and about 600 feet of other tunnel work. The lodge is showing up well and some good copper ore is beiug fooud. Avontilator plant was recent ly liiNtalled to givo fresh air in the tunnels, they having readied suoli a depth that the fumes from the blunt ing will not clear readily. Mo informa tion is obtaiuahle as to when the Ta kilma smelter will ho blown iu again, but it is generally understood that so soon as tho road is free from mud so that teams can deliver coke at the smelter aud haul the matto to (Jrnuts Pass for shipment the smoltlng of ore will bo resumed. As the Talkilma smelter handles from 1.10 to 200 ton of ore a day it ineuus employment of a large number of men and teams aud a monthly expenditure that will to a big fitotor in the prosperity of Josephine county aud Grunts Pass. Laying Pipe at Golden Drift. The Oolden Drift Mining Co. has nearly completed the laying of the long striug of pipe line which will connect the big pump with the giants at the diggings. Tho pipo hue is about 1500 feet lu length aud the pipe la 2i inches iu diameter, the iron being 8-10 of an inch in thickness. The wator will be pumped direct to the giants, forks iu tho 'pipe divid lig the stream near tho diggings. lour giants wlil ho used. It will piohably be a week or more yet be fore the pump will bo started. The water supply lu Jones creek las been so light this winter that the mine has run leas than a week all told. The weather, however, h been extremely fuvoralilo for the work of Installing tlio machinery and the managers of the property are looking forward to a "run" iu tiie near future that will be Independent of the weather conditions. attend that a conference may bo had as to how much the oouuty cau ap propriate for the exhibit. Almost all of the counties of Oregon have com pleted arrangements for having au xhlhit at tho Lewis aud Clark fair aud Josephine county, which olaims the honor of being nun of tho most progressive counties iu tho statu, should arrange it to havo au ox- ihit. The uintter cau not he longur delayed for the timo is now very short u which to get np au exhibit aud havo it a oroditublfl ouo, aud, besides te siuices aro rapidly being taken In tho Oregon buildiug and soon all the bout places will ho occupied by tho counties which were alert aud oiirly iu placing their exhibit. There Is every certainty that a vast number of eastern penplo will isit tho Lewis aud Clark fair, and mnuy of these will be seeking invest ments on tho Pucilio Coast aud from nformatiou gathered at the fair will devidu tho seotiou or town that they will visit aud investigate Its re sources aud advantages. The district tat makus the best showing will be iu oue that will attract the most in vostors aud homo seekers. Josephine county and Uruuts Pass have much to offer that is attractive to tho in outer and home seekers and all that will be required to draw both wealth and population to tills section Is a igorous advertising campaigu aud the cheaiiust aud the most effective would be a comprehensive exhibit of the produots of this couuty at the .owls aud.Olurk fair. A "MILD" IDAHO WINTER J. D. Stevens Compares Weather Conditions With Josephine. Prollte-ble Wolf Creek Mlnee H. D. Bluter is steadily operating bis placer mine on upper Wolf Creek, bis water right beiug of a character that enables him to work the miue de spite the extreme dryness of the wiu ter. This mine Is furnished with a small bydraullo equipment including No. 1 giant. The ditch is of sufficient height to furnish any amount of pressure that can be used. The water is brought over a divide and then dropped down and as much as 1000 feet of pressors 000 Id be had if it were required. This placer yields richly In coarse gold, which is of two distinct kinds. The bank Is of moderate depth, ranging front six or eight to 12 or IS fuet and next the bedrock there is three to four feet of "channel wash" which produces smooth, heavy gold. The upper part of the baok is composed of slide dirt and rock which is quite rich in rough quarts gold, la ooajauetioa with this placer, AN EXHIBIT FOR JACKSON Josephine Should Be More Active In Collecting MtnereJs. Jackson oouuty has Ukun up the qnustiou of having an exhibit lor that couuty at the I win aud Clark fair aud on the request of a numb of prominent men, the couuty court has called a meeting of citizens of tha county to meet at Modford oil March lHtb to consider the matter. It is the plan for the couuty oourt to make a large appropriation, which will be supplemented by contributions from the residents of the couuty and it Is expected to raise at least (.1,000. bo far Josephine county has don nothing directly toward securing ai exhibit for the Lewis and Clark Fair. The O rants Pass Miners Association has beeu for the past six mouths gat! enug samples of ore lu their exhibit room in this city, from which samples are to t selected to make au ex dibit at Portland. The association is planning to call a meeting in Urauts Pshs in the near future ot citixeus from all parts of the couuty to counMer the matter of having general exhibit of all products of the Couuty. At this meeting the members of the oouuty court trill be asked to HE LITTLE FISH APPEAR Young Salmon Start Jones Creek. Life Home of the salmon eggs at the ones creek hatchery havo begun to hatch aud the little flail are coining forth Into the outer world. 1 ho little Mtluiou is au extremely fiail cleature, being less than au lueli long and nearly transparent. For some time after emerging Into the world the little salmou carries the remainder of the egg about with hiiu as a sort of lunch banket which provides hlui wltl nourishment for a time after whlel he is presumed to be able to 11 nil hi subsistence. As yet only a very few of the eggs are hatching but within the next week the little Ush will probably he omlng forth lu swarms. It requires 10 to AU duys for the eggs to hatch iu the running water In which they are placed. Tho pioueer products of the Jones creek hatchery appeared ou the 41th day. A young salmou seems to be com posod principally of a pair of big black eyes, all out of proportion to the rest of his anatomy. An outline of a back bone extendi from the eyes and Is surrounded by a uebulous tissue which later become llesh. A three foot salmou is a mag iiiflcent cieature but he comes from a moat Insignificant beginning. The llrst indication of the develop meut of the fish to be seen in the seuii-trauiqiareut egg are two little black points which are the pair of eyes previously alluded to. boon after these become visible a whitish line shows the development of the bark bone. A little later the creature reaches the wriggling singe, his motions gaining vigor as he grows uutil he bursts through tho casing aud becomes a Iih. Resort, Idaho, Feb. 10, 1005. Editor Courier: While sitting in my littie log oahin this evening, I got to thinking of ear old Josephine and Orauta Pass, where I spent tha greater part of my life. I was reading your good paper and saw that the wild flowers were lu bloom aud the grouse hooting, which I know is true for I spent so many days and years iu that country. Here I am about 1000 miles north of there and this is considered a very mild winter for this oouutry. There Is 5 feet ct snow on the level aud everything frozen up. The Cesach Iver Is just shout 100 yards from my oabiu aud you oould not toll that thoro was any river there. It is frozen over aud covered with two or three feet of snow. Wo have beeu having some very cold weather. On the uiuht of tha llth, tho thcniometcr registered 8(1 degrees below zero aud the Nth, 40 below, aud that Is getting pretty cold for a teuderfoot Oregouiuu like myself. This is a very rich mining couutry, principally placer. They usually start to piplug about the first of May and run until uhout the first of No vember. I am working- for the Gott Mining Co. who will ruu four glauls this coming season It is a new camp just got rigged up this last fall. They own 2iHX) acies of mining ground aud will put 011 a big ditch next summer from the Cesach river, distance about 10 miles. Thev will work about 175 or 200 men ou the ditch aud iu the mine. We get our mail very regularly. three times a week. It is hauled ou a toboggan by three dogs, worked tan doni and the mail man uoes ou skees. I huve just returned from a trip to the railroad at Council, the terniiuus of the Pacific Idaho Northern, ft" miles distant from here. We went 45 miles on snow shoes to Hnlmne Meadows. There they ruu rutteis :!0 miles to the railroad. Ou the Cesach summit, uoliiur out to the meadows, the snow Is Ma feet deen. Wo crossed over the summit and down about eight miles to Little Payett lake about two miles wide and Ave miles long, ' whioh is frozen over and we went down through the cen ter of it on snow shoes, and on down about 10 miles further to Big Payett lake which is fonr miles wide and 10 miles long aud just the same froisn over and we went the fnll length of it through the oentor. It was a bard trip on me for I am a new beginner on snow shoes and my first winter In Idaho. I came back with the mail man aud a three dog team. We bad to come 88 miles the first day aod it was snowing hard. When we got within six miles 'of the station, there was two foet of new snow and the dogs had just about given out, when we came to cabin called Fischer cabin. Mo one stays there In winter but the mail man had a key. It was now about 4 o'clock p. m. Wa went in, bnilt good fire, found plenty of grub, made a fine Mulligan stew aud ate it ont of the frying pau. We foo the dogs and started on the other six miles to the station about dark. We made it, but it was II :30 a. m. when we got there. Next morning we started for Ro sort, 24 miles over the summits, but It was not storming and we pat on five dogs aud got along One and got in about I p. 111. I was glad to get back to my little log oabln once more. I was gone 10 days traveling all the time and never saw bare ground while I was gone. Wages are good iu tills country in summer time, but I have not seen any part of Idaho that I would live in to make a home. Old Josephine is good enough for me aud there 1 am sore to land sooner or later. J. D. 8TEVIN& A Chics Alderman Owts fill Elsctloa te Chambtrliin's Cough Remedy. "I can heartily and conscientiously recommend Chamberlain's Cough Kctnedy for aireotious of the throat and lungs," says Hon. John tiheuick, i.'o Ho. Peoria HU, Chicago. "Two years ago during a political oaiu palgn, I caught cold alter being over homed, which Irritated my throat and I was finally oonipolled to stop, as I could not ijieiik aloud. In my ex tremity, a friend advised me to use Chamberlaiu's Cough ' Remedy. I took two doses that afternoon aud could not believe my seuses when I found the uext morulug the in flammation had largely subsided." This remedy Is for sale by all druggists. frA AAAA AAAAAAAA A A A AAAAAAAA Jil -CLOSING OUT- The Beit Cough Syrup. 8. L. Apple, ex-Probate Judge, Ot tawa Co. , Kansas, writes: "This is to say that 1 have used llalhird's lioruhouiid byrup for years, ami that I do not hesitate to recommend it as the best oough syrup I have ever used." 60c, 11.00 tt Model Drug Hloie aud xtotermnud's. Fishing Tackle at Paddock's Bicycle Den luist of Depot Grants Pass, - Oregon Buy now and save money. J tint received somo fine poles.