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VOL. XXI GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1905. No. 1. ' : .- . j n No Great Shortage In Placer Gold. The heavy rains of late with the large snowfall in the mountains and bills of Southern Oregoon bag given a fine water Hupply to tho placer miners, especially to those ou the larger streams that heart in the higher lati tudes. As has boen tbo oase in pre vious years when the winter was unusually dry, the succeeding spring was wet and the plaoer miners got in about their usual run for the year. Tbore in every prospect that the miners will be able to do considerable work this spring and that there will not be so great a shortago in the out put of placer gold in Son thorn Oregon as has been feared of late. In fact, intsead of there being less than half the yield of an average Year, there is a likelihood that there will be folly two-thirds or more of the amount of gold usually produced. This is made possible by the fact that so much more can bo accomplished iu a day now than in the winter months.. The days are now long, enabling over-time to be pat iu and the weather baing warm, ni.u can work to better advantage, for placer mining is a wot, cold job ut the best. Iu warm weather, a larger per cent of gold can be saved for the quicksilver will not flow as ft docs in cold weather and float away on the water, carrying -off the fine gold. Iu warm weather the quicksilver is more live, as miners term it, and Will take up W. B. Sl'EUMAN. $500 35 acres of unimproved river bottom loam soil or $j(K), if taken soon. $650 fv acre of river loam soil and a good five room cottage and a good barn, close iu for only &'M if taken at once. $1100 7 room house well finished within two minutes walk oi Pott Otlice for only $1100. Onlv a small cash pay ment required. Muht go quickly. $4000 280 acres, 100 arces iu cultivation, flue hay farm, fences good. Close to excellent stock range. Good market for everything raised ou place. Price only 1 1000. $1600 8' acres with a good d-rooin houso, work Bhop, cellar, 3 chicken boons and paik for each. 2 acres in line orchard, good windmill and tank. House is well painti d and in excel lent condition. (No. 273. ) vA-., 1 v .. :- " ' J CLEMENS Sells Drugs k Books GRANTS PASS, ORE. OREGON Timber, Mining L Investment COMPANY Successors to Josephiuo County Keal Estate Co. Courier Building. GRANTS PASS, OREGON. Improved Farms in Jackson, Josephine, Dou&las and Linn Counties. T I itl'Z It In Large and Small Tracts iu Washington, Oregon aud California. 31 I IV 13 i Placer and Quartz iu Southern Ore gnu, developed aud undeveloped, rang ing iu price from JotiO to fjO.lXH). CITY 'PROPERTY Vacant lots aud Residences; Busi ness Houses; Grocery, Hardware, Feed, Geueral Merchandise aud Meat Market. One, Two, Three, Five and Ten Acre Tracts in any part of the City. I I 1 1 !S Flour and Lumber. Below we give some of our bargains. No. 211180 acres placer land, Jo. I giant, 8x) feet pipe, ditrh and res ervoir, good buildings, land well tiiu bered, easy terms. Price i-'iOoO. Mme now in operation. No. ii'i Quarti miue, vein 11 feet wide, said to assay ti to (io ir ton. SEWING MACHINES FROM $22.00 UP NEWCOOOSI NEW PRICES! Prices: $22.(0, 23 00, 24.K', 25.00. 28.00, 30.00, 32.50, 33.00, 40 00, 45 Op, 50.00 We hsve no spent. W ell dint u ilie rrle and von the ii'ent rummi ion. Call at the tor or writ tor taiogue. llead-juaners or tieelin arid .m lor all machines. We pay the fmirhu C. U. CAKDISELli, f. O. llux SOU, A. bland, Oregon. the'gold more readily aud thus make greater saving in the sluice boxes. With everything in readiness aud with 14 hours of daylight aud comfort able weather to work in, a day with a good piping head will bring as muoh results to the placer miner now as would two days iu December or January. That crops uever fail in Southern Oregon, even that of gold nuggets, is to be as true for the year 1!05 as it has been in the previous 53 years in which its wealth has yielded profitable returns to the White man's labor. Profitable Pleasant Creek Mine. (J. Vi iokstroin was iu Grants Pass over Tuesday night from his placer mine on Ploasaut creek, a tributary of Evans creek. Mr. Wick strom had several hundred dollars with him, nuggets, in some going as high as 15, that he has secured from his sluice boxes iu the last month. Mr. Wickstrom was able to begin pip ing the middle of December aud lie has been able to work steadily since, with tho exception of a few days when his water supply ran low, but having a large reservoir head, ho was able to put iu almost full time. He expects to have water foi at least two mouths more of work aud at the rate he is taking out the gold he will have a cleuu-up that will enable him to take life easy, which he proposes to do for a couple of months in tho bum The Rea KOSIH IIAKGAINM ISOAV OX OUIt LIST $5000 S0 acres of farm and timber land UK) acres in cultivation and uu ler irrigation. Excellent water-right and sattioiciit ti irrigate the entire freer A bolt 15 acres uow ill alfalfa. The eutiro lot) acres is a laplid to alfalfa. Vi ret clans nine room house, which is well painted. Two gooil hariif, fro it dryer, bl icksiuith shop tool house and many other buildings. An excellent orchard of all kinds of fruit, and a line assortment of tarries. This is oue of the best bargains over offered iu Southern Orei on. Will accept li. caih and give from 8 to 5 yi ars for the balauco. (3:11 ) $1300 An exeelleurrH room house witlr pan fry, woodnhed, good brick rclllar, chicken house, fine well of water, also city water on place and large rot in best ri'Hiduuce portion ol Grants Pass. Property iu excellent condition. Will accept cash. Easy terms. (IS'-S) $800 Good ti-rooui house with pantry and bath room aud large lot iu choice location. Terms euy. (3211) $5000 2X0 acres 100 under feuce, 00 acres under initiation, most of which is in alfalfa. Pino ftock range adjoining place. First water right ou creek. Price f000. $2600 20 acre HOP FA KM close to town. Good team, new harness and wagon and numerous farming implements go with tho place. Five room cottage and a good barn. Ou bank of Kogue liiver. A snap at ?!00. $1000 40 acres of orchard and vineyard iu fine location. Crop uever fails. Trees in excellent condition. Small cottage and a good barn. All well fenced. An excellent bargaiu at $1000. Terms easy. $1450 A fine 12000 foot capacity haw mill. Almost new. Everything ready to run. This is a Hue bargain. (No.2S2). No. 117 One acre, fi-room house, all kinds of fruit, good engine pump and tank, all piped, chicken house, barn, and otl.tr cut-buildings. Price, 11200. No. 32 Two lots, 6-rooiu house, pantry, woodshed, good well, nice shade trees. Price $750. No. 325 100 acres farming land, 1 iO acres but torn laud, balance bcnclt laud, good irrigating ditch 100 inches water will cover HO acres of the bot tom land. Good house and barn, i good well, creek running through the i place, 20 acres iu cultivation. Price i-ViOO. J1000 down, balance on long j time. It) head of cattlo at market ; price ii desired. No. 321 4 acres good garden or i fro it laud, one house 14x18, one house ! 10x24 with L, H'.i24, story, three liviug springs, barn, chicken house ! and woodshed. Good fireplace, 1 graiies, ai l lei1, proofs, peaches, (tears and berries of all kiuds. Laud in closed with picket fence. Price (1500. I No. 32310 room house, 6 acre good land, good out-buildings, gcd well, Dig inns, gooo. icne, j,e small sum of ftooo. No. 324-K acres good bott'jm land, all in choice bearing, fruit irees. No. 827 Oue lot on 8'uth street, new 3-loom nouse at VWj. No. 337 10 acre igood ricn river j bottom land, 3"0 bf arj,K fruit trees all varieties. No-, fi.r0oni house, i hard finish, 3 we tank aud wind I mill, small baru, J chicken houses. ; Price 210U mer when be will return to bis for mer home at St. Helens, on the lower Columbia river. Mr. Wickstrom and bis associates, among whom is E. E. Quick, a promi nent business man of St. Helens, have developed their property into one of the best paying placers of Southern Oregon. Mr. Wickstrom is oue niiu ing man who is never behind baud and lias his mine in perfect readiness with the first water in tho fall and then utilizes every drop until the season closes. Thorough prospecting has demonstrated that they have an ex tensive body of gold bearing gravel aud that it would be a good dredging proposition and several parties have olTured to purchase it at a good price aud to then equip it with an electrio power dredge. Grants Pass Man to Build a Quartz Mill. F. E. Willett returned Satnrduy from Eugeue, where he was summon ed by O. H. Park, an English capital ist of large means, who is investing iu Oregon mines, to arrange for superintending the construction of a large quartz mill which tho latter will erect on a property he has in the Blue river district. The mill li to be equipped with four' Merrill quad ruple discharge batteries. No con centrators will be required as the ore is free milling and being friable it is expected that the mill will bundle $225 Two flue residence lots for 225. (25 down and $10 per month, without iuterest, a fine speculation. $1000 Two acres with a U room, hard finish ed house, good barn, fii.e well, chicken house and park. Niuo shade trees. cash, (No. S'Jll). $2500 0-acres of black loam soil. 5 acres in Spitzenberg appies, trees in good healthy condition and fine bearing. Terms easy. (No. 283). Houses for rent Collection Estate lien WE WANT YOUR PROPERTY TO SELL Your correspondence solicited. SHERMAN & IRELAND THE REAL ESTATE MEN Rooms 10 anil 12 Masonic 1 emple. Phone 731. Grants Pits, Oregon CLOSING T SA -AT- Welch's Clothing Store Everything New location, next 100 tons of ore eveiy 84- hours. Steam power will be used. 'The mine is located 60 miles from Eugene and Is near the famous Lucky Boy, where 40 stamps are now being operated by electrio power. Develop meut work has been carried on for the past three years and a large quantity of high grade ore has been blocked out. A saw mill is now ou the property aud is beiug operated in outtiug the lumber for the mill aud other buildiugs. The order has been placed for the machinery aud it is expected to arrive iu Eugene by the time the roads dry and are passable for loaded teams. Mr. Willett will leave next week for Blue river to be gin work upon the buildiugs ai get the foundations in place for the bat teries by the time they are hauled iu. Mr. Willett has the reputation of be iug a fast workniau aud he is a mill wright of long experience aud has had fine success with all the mills he has ooujtructcd. He drew the plaus aud supervised the erection of both the Granite Hill and the Opp mill, each of which uro among the best coustructed mills in Southern Oregon and have ruu without a delay since first put in operation. Colonel Draper on Inspecting Trip. Colonel T. Wain-Morgan Draper returned Saturday evening from Ta kilma aud Muuumeutul, where he has beeu for the past two weeks looking after mining interests ho has at those places. Co Ion ill Draper was aocoui puuied by his daughter, Miss Draper, who had been enjoying an outing at Takilmu, aud they left Sunday even iug for their homo iu San Fratioisco. Colonel Draper stated the prosiieet- W. L. IRELAND. $750 5 acres of excellent river bottom laud. All iu cultivation and well fenced. Fine location for residence. (No. 207). $650 Two choice residence corner lots, GO xl(H) each, in duo location, sower In. (No. 321.) $2500 33 acres river bottom loam soil on liauk of river. Neurit all in cultiva tion. About 2 Ja acres in fruit. Trees 7 years old, is well fenced. Terms easy. (No. 270). made. MONEY to LOAN. 1L 1(1 to Be Sold door to Lay ton Hotel. iiiR by a steam power drill, which be and other San Francisco capitalists are having done ou the Illinois river bottom near Takilnia, is progressing satisfactorily aud the showing is quite cucouraKlug. Development work is being steadily oarried on In the Queen of Bronze mine aud by the time the Takilina smelter is roady to blow iu this spring a large tonuage of ore will be blocked out. Colonel Draper spent several days at the Monumental mine Just over the line in Del Norte county. For more than a year devel opment work has boen carried on steadily at this mine aud it is esti mated that fully 400,000 tousofhigh grade ore, rich in both copper aud gold, is now bloeked out. The Monumental is owned by Co). Draper and associates of 8ui Franoisco aud New York, aud thoy are planning to put in a large suiolting plant and expect to begin work upon installing it so soon as the wagon road from Cresceut City is in shape for teaming. This road is in a bad shapo aud Col. Draper weut to Crescent City aud seourod a promise from the county board of supervisors to have BOiue of the worst plaoes repaired. Colonel Draper also applied to have a votiug product established at Monumental and also a school district and the Colonel offers to donate a school building free of charge to the dis trict. Murphy Gulch Placer Mine Doing Good Work. Eugeue Pearson, of the Oregon Tim ber, Mining & Investment Company, returned Tuesday from a trip to Evans creek, where ho had speut several days at the placer mine that he, in oompauy with W. K. Nipper aud E. V. Smith own on Murphy gulch. The late ruins aud snows in the hills have giveu them a fine bead of water aud with their two giants they have beeu keepiug tho dirt ou tho move ut a lively rote. To increase their water they have two largo reservoirs aud with these they w 11 bo able to con tinuu piping lute iu the season. Hav ing rich grouud aud easy to work, Messrs. Pearnou, Nipper & Smith ex pect to make a good cleuu-up even though tho season has boon short. THE GOLDEN KING MINE Company Incorporated and Milt to Be Installed. A, J. Bennett a well known miner of Placer creek was in Grants Pass last Friday and Saturday. Mr. Ueuuett iu company wi'h T. J. Mackin owns the Gulden King quartz mine. This prop, erty is located on llurgess gulch, a tributary from the south of Urave creek and it is but 2,'s miles from the Greenback mine, una of the largest gold producers iu Oregon. Metsrs. liennett & Mackin liavo been at work for some mouths pant developing theii mino aud uow iu additiou.to consider able surfuco work, have a crons-cut run in 11? feet and which intercepts the ledge at about 100 feet from the surface of the ground. They have the cross-cut In 14 feet beyond tho foot- wall and no indications of tho hanging wall. Ou the surface the ledge shows for a width of about 27 feet and it has the appearance of being fully that wido at the level uow being worked, Tho ore in the first seven feet of the crons-cut gave au average axsay of $10 40 per ton and the remain der ol the ledge is showing to be all but as rich. The ore ou the sur face is even more rich and having oxidized, the gold is rondllv extract ed by means of an arrastre, which Messrs Bennett & Mackin operate by mi ans of water power. The arrant re cuii only be run for limited periods, owing to tbo small water supply, yet rich Is tho uro milled that the gold secured pays a very lurge portion of tho expenses of developing the miuo. The development work now (lone has convinced Messrs. Bennett & Mackiu that they have a mine that will Justify tin) expellee of putting on a mill. To secure the money with which to complete the development work ami to install tho mill they havu incorporated as tho Lnlaud Min ing Company with a capital stock of fiO.OOO, of which l."i,(KW is to be treasury stock and uon-ussnssalilH. The Incorporators are A. J. Bennett, T. J. Mackin and W, A. liemieit. Fur the present Mr. Murkiu is president of tho company and A. J. Bennett, vice-president and manager, and W. A. Bennett, secretary and treasurer. Whcii iu Grants Pass Sat urday Mr. lienuett placed au order with the Courier for stock certificates and other stationery for his company. For the present only a small aniouut of the company's stock will be placed ou the market, fur no great expendi ture w ill be made until next fall when the mill will be iustalled. Fur the next six mouths tho time, will bo put in blocking out ore aud putting the mine iu shapo for permanent work. Messrs. Bennett & Mackiu have two other claims adjoining the Gulden King that are very promising. But for the present they will not be devel oped, but by another year they expect to be in a position to fully ascertain their valuu aud equip them if the showing warrants. It is reported that Fred Clemens, who has a bond ou the Yellow Horn mine near Placer, aud who has been having extensive development work done ou the property will start up in a short time the mill with which the mine is -ulpi-d. The mill is a Merrill three stamp and operated by stuiui power. The Yellow Hum is making a iiood showing aud the ore now on the dump aud that blocked oat carries good values. NEW STORE NEWS Another lot New Iron lkds, full size Well worth $3.50 for $2.25 Grandmother's Rockers Rregular $4.00 for $3.00 Trunks $2.50 to $9.00 Kitchen Treasures $3.00 to $5.50 Kitchen China Closets Glass Doors, $3.00 Waitor Tray s all sizes 25o to 75o HOUSE FURNISHING Watch for these We extend You will find it near the depot. p&- Furniture Carpets Mattings I. ace Curtains Mattresses Pillows I.inoleuma Pictures ricttira Mouldinirs pttr nomas (Si O Neill, V Pi. .tur. Uya Housefurnlshera Homes Furnished Complete on the ALL-NIGHT SALOON TO GO City Council Has an Ordinance to Close Them From I to 3. At tlio meeting of the city council uext Thursday evcuiiiK an ordinance providing for the closing of saloons luring the morning liours from 1 o'clock to 5 o'clock will 1'0 put on its third reading and dual passage. The adoption of this ordiuaiico will meet tho approval of all who have the best interests of Grants Pass at heart. This ordinance Is supported quito as strongly by the better class of sa loonuien, as It is by the temperance people, for It Is only tho saloous that cater to the tough element that desire to keep open all night. Men who tespect themselves are lint roam ing the streets and freiueiitiig saloons during lute hours at night, and hus bands who have any regaid at all for their wives and their families will be at home at a seasonable hour. labor ing men who desire to be at their work at a proper hour nod to liavn a clear brain and a steudy hand do not frequent saloons at the midnight hour, and busiuebS and professional men, who expect to bo alert aud to meet the sharp competition of the times, have no (lcslro for tho all-night saloon. Many u clerk and many a laboring man has lout his position by reason of patronizing the all night snloou ami tlieu coming to his work with dulled brulu and a cross, irritable temper. The eay victim for the gambler Is the man who is found iu the suloou uf'i r midnight. The gam bler, like the other predatory animals, sb eps during the day that lie may bo fully awake and vigilant at night iu the pursuit of his prey, while the mau whu has his day hours occupied in earning money, if up lute at night and plied well with liquor, becomes loft too reason and prudence and readily rinks his money at the curd table and the slot machine that have lnni made a sure thing lo the dealer. The majority of the disturbances ii' K.ilnons occur late ut night when the all-night muuder, crazed with liquor, is ready for a quurrel and a light on the least provocation. Tiiu provision of the ordinance requiring that the ruinous lake down all screens and curtains during the cloned hours Is iicccmiry to tun en forcement of the ordinaiH e. If the sa loons uro allowed to be shut olf from strict view, tin re will to a tempta tion ou the part of dishonorable nu n to continue business during the closed hours and to hold such In chick, it is ni ci Mniry that the policemen have a ch ar view of the room that they may seu that the luw is being ob served. New Homestead Ruling. The method of proving up on home, steads has been changed by rules re cently adopted by the department at Washington. A special government ugiut will v 1 rti t ull the prluclp.il towns of the land district each month ou spiicillu date for the purpose of taking homestead proofs. Hie land office will idvortise for proof In the local paper nearest the land and thofe having prcx.fs to make will in'ot the agent ou the date fixed. The new rule Is di signed to preveut frailuh nt proof of residence upon claims. I'tnli r the old rule prmf could lie made to the fulled States Cnmmilnncr and a opeeial agent visited a locality only where there was fraud ueetd. Three million feet of timber, !(." r cent sugar pine, ou t suction of U. 8. (. land within throe miles of town, all down grade; I will show It to yon for I2.'. W. H. Bhermaii, Masonic Temple, (j ran Is Pans, Ore. F U R N I T U R E signs on Front street opposite the flag pole. you a most cordial invitation to visit our new store. the largest store south of Portland. We are located Our stock is the best for the money that can be had. Monky Back Ik Yew Want It. IlijX DlNcouut Nulo of Framed Plcturosi, SPTTLER'S VIEWS ON ROADS la Willing That Non-Reeldenta Help Build Highways. J. W. Giluiore. who conducts a store at Murphy and Is postmaster for that place was In Grants Pass for a load of freight, he operating a freight team between this olty and the middle Ap plegato settlements hauling for set tlors and minors In addition to taking out goods for his store. Mr. Gllnioro is thus Iu a position to know the con dition of the roads of his section of the county aud he Is decidedly In fa vor of their being improved, so much so, that he recently made the propo sition to his neighbors that thoy would each donate the work to grade and driiiu the road In good fhapo in front of their laud, leaving the road fund to bo expended by the so pel visor In Improving those sections of the road through tho railroad aud speculator lands. This plan did not appeal very strongly to tho settlers, as they could not see the fairness In bnildiug their own roads aud then paying taxes to help build roads through uou reildent owned lauds. Mr. Giluiore did uot himself think the plau Just, but it was tho only way whereby he could see It possible to get good roads under the present system. Mr. Giluiore is iu fuvor of change in the manner of car rying ou the road work iu Joseph I ue county aud ho would favor a plan whereby the railroad company aud speculators could bo made to pay their share of the road Improvement aud that would bring a system of high ways that would not be canals of mud in the winter and deep iu dust iu the summer, Embroider Pillow. You will enjoy the occupation and nothing elo will so improve the ap pcarauco of a bro corner. We have pillow tops in many desigus put up by Hichardsou Silk Co , iu special out fits to sell at HO ceuts. Ksch eutelow contains stamped pillow top and back, four skeins (ireciau floss, em brolder hoops and lesson sheet, (let them at li. A. Wade's. W. II. Hherman is the mau to look afu-r your timber iutcrchta. Tho tlireo jurioH at the SL Louis Fair, con nintin,' tf tho aMoHt mechanical engineers of Europo and America, wcro uninimous in (IccidinK Uo RACYCLE to bo tho IllOSt rEKFl.CTLY CONSTKCl'TKI) and K.A8I EST itrNMNo Hicyclo made, and awarded tho ltacytio tho only Grand Prize given in tho bicyclo class. i y7 a PAnnnru acfnt Grants Pass, Oregon Couch Uovera $1.60 to $8.00 Indian Coaoh Robes $4.75 to $6.00 Carpets 65 patterns to select from. Art Squares $3.50 to $32.65 Mattings An extra choice line 20 to 35c Hotel China' Genuine, guaranteed to outwear any othor; full line. It will pay you to borrow the money to get some of the extraordinary bargains we are now offering they caa't last. Furniture Wall Taper Crockery Glassware Stoves Bangos Lumps Ttnwaro Wooden ware Mirrors Installment Plan X BIGGEST CELEBRATION IN ROGUE RIVER VALLEY Grant Pass Preparing for a Great Day-Drilling Contest for Big Puree a Leading Feature. Grants Pass is to celebrate the Fourtli of July and Is beginning early in the preparations that every detail may be completed to make the oelebra-' tlou tho largost aud most successful ever held in Kogue River Valley. The GrauU Pas Coruet Baud Is at the head of the undertaking and the Land boys have the promise of the hearty oo-oporatiou of all business men of the olty in their effort to provide a pro gram for the day that shsll ba the best as to orator, muslual features and sports. The mining men will assise in the sports for the day aud expect to' have the blggost drilling coutest ever hold ou the PaoiOo Coast. The con test will be open to teams from all the mining districts of the United States aud prizes large enough will be offered to Induce all the craoK drillers of the country to eutor the contest. Grauti Pass will prove IU right to the honor of being the Spokane of Southern Oregou by taking hold of this event with the true Spokane spirit aud with no shirking ou the part of a single cltlr.en make the celobrallon a success lu every particular and a credit to the city's publio spirit aud au advertisement that it Is on the map of the county as a town that is able to do things. Barley Headed Out in March. W. J. Boo ley, who resides a few miles north of town was transact ing busluess here Monday aud In con versation with the writer he men tioned the fact that he has a patoh of barley that stands from two to three feet high aud is headed out most beautifully despite the fact that it is louy March uow and spring may be a long way off. Those that have seen this wiuter field of gralu declare that It Is certaiuly a wonder even for sonny Southern Oregon where the recent winter suasou has been oneoou tiuual round of balmy, summer days, with little raiu, fog, cold or cloudy weather. Mr. Hoo.ey has promised us a sample of this barley for exhibi tion pnrposes a a curiosity. Jackson ville Uenliuel.