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VOL. XXI
GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1W5.
No. 16.
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w. L. lHfcLAMJ, 1 lie Keal Estate Man 4
Rent Houses
Negotiate Loans
Write
FIRE INSURANCE
You aro Invited to investi
gate my large list of City and
Country property.
s BiG RED SHOP
. Sonlli Kixtlt Wtrt-et, coi'iicr .T
S. C NEAS, Proprietor
1 lorwt'Hhoeiiiu done by one of the lest shoers ever in Grants Puss.
"Vehicles lteinti,l. Fainted, Varnished and Trimmed and made
practically us serviceable and well appearing as new.
ltuller Tit-ess l'Mttcl by tho only machine for that purpose in
Grants Pass.
On !eoiil Order vehicles of all kinds and for all purposes built and
which are stronger and more durable than those made at factories.
Ititrlit Prict'M given on all my work.
Grants Pass Banking & Trust Co.
PAID VP CAPITAL STOCK
JS2B.OOO.OO.
Transacts a general banking business.
Receives deposits subject to check or on demand certificates.
Our customers are assured of courteous treatment and every confederation con
sistent with sound banking principles.
Safety deposit boxes for rent. J. K HANK WATSON. I'res.
K. A. 1SOOTII, Vice-Pres.
I,. L. JKWKI.b, Cashier.
Bert Barnes,
Reliable Watchmaker
At Clemens'
Grants Pass, Ore. j
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Announcement by
G. A. Cobb Heal Estate Company
We wish to announce to the public- in , General (rich or
poor) we can sell you a home at present, on terms to suit
you if you haven't cash by you to make full payment.
We can arrange it all satisfactory about that. It you are
rich, we can find you a good bargain for your cash. We
not only sell nice homes but have other speculations on
hand constantly, that a conseruative man can sometimes
double his money in properties of nil kinds, mines, timber,
ranches, houses and lots, stock of all kinds, wood, Hay
and grain etc.
We also buy and sell second hand goods and can outfit
all homes cheap.
call and let us get acquainted.
Our be?t bargains this week are 5 head of horses that we
bought at our price and will be sold at your price.
When You Come
To Portland
Make your plans to stop at a homelike hostelry; a place where .vou
will be showu every courtesy and trated as you would be ill joorowu
home, town or city.
THE FORESTRY
Is such a place, and it stands within one block of the Kxpos itiou Lu
trat.ee. on 2.V1. Street, facing Upshur. THE KORhsIB) INN cob-
structcd 1 on the log cabin style; furnishings, cms , and management
conforms thereto. It has 150 large commod ion. rooms all opening ou
broad cool verandas: with electric lights; hot and cold water and free
oath. Tr:s roof garden . ,,wi bad of the Km- t..... grounds,
the city aud surrounding couutry. Car service direct to all par a or
tne city. European plan. Lining service a la carte aud reasonable as
iu any part of the city.
Price of Rooms, $1.00 to $1.50
Special Rates to Parties of two or more.
MKALS A LA CARTK
THE FORESTRY INN, Inc.
Address,
P. C. MATTOX, Manager, or H. M- FANCHKR.
25th and Upshur St,. PORTLAND, ORK.
GRANTS PASS IS WAIT
ING FOR A RAILROAD
Wants Railroad to Crescent City-
Farmers Give Pointers How
It Could Be Secured.
One of the I idlest, yet least de
veloped sections of the Pacific Coast,
is the country between Grants Pass
and Crescent City. Its vast wealth
of copper, gold and other minerals,
aud of timber aud agriculture Is lying
practically undisturbed and all be
cause ot the Jack 01 transportation
facilities. For folly 20 years lias this
transportation problem been under
consideration by parties Interested in
the opening of this, the richest sec
tion of Southern Oregon, yet no rail
road has been built and the prospect
Ib none to encouraging even now.
The trouble has been that no con
certed local effort has been made to
ward having this railroad bnilt, aud
dependence only has been on ontside
capitalists. Railroads are sometimes
secured through this nieaus, but it is
seldom that local lines are built by
capitalists depending on the road
alone for an investment. And where
a community sits down and waits for
a railroad to come to them they
.usually have to wait a long time.
-The quickest ard surest way to get
a railroad that is strictly local in its
field of operation is for the local in
terests to take it up and secure its
construction. Medford wanted a rail
road to develop the Upper Rogne
River couutry and to bring trade to
that town, so its citizens secured tho
right-of-way and put in 35, 000 cash
into the stock of the company aud
through the efforts largely of local
caoitalists at least 25 miles of this
road will be completed this year. A
start will be given that will cause
this railroad to be extended on to
Crater Lake and to Eastern Oregon,
to bring to Medford the tonrnt travel
to the famous lake, aud the trade of
the rich oountry lying to the east of
the Cascade mountains. Klamath
Falls wanted tailroad communication
with the cutside world, so the citizens
of that progressive little town of but
1800 inhabitants, together with the
land owners of that part of Klamath
county adjaceut to- Klamath Falls
completed last week the raising of a
subsidy of 1100,000 to induce Mr.
Weed to extend bis railroad now in
operation from Thrall, on the
Southern Pacific, lo Pokegama. on to
Klamath Falls. Other towns have
had to help themselves to get a rail
road and the probabilities are that if
there is ever a raiload built from
Grants Pass out through Southern
Josephine county it will have to be
accomplished largely through local
effort A recent number of W6rld's
Work tells how the farmers of Ram
sey county, North Dakota, built a rail
road without the aid of outside capi
tal or of borrowed money. Their
manner of procedure aud their success
contains some helpful pointers to
tlioro interested iu having a railroad
built to open up Southern Josephine
county :
These famerrs hauled thoir grain-
often a distance of 2.1 miles to Devil i
Lake, the county sest, through which
the Great Northern Railway passed
It kept the farmers hauling grain all
winter. They asked James J. Hill,
president of the Great Northern rail
way, to build a branch line from
Devil's Lake up through their suc
tion. Mr. Hill said he could not
build. Six of the largest farmers met
at a school house. One of them was
Joseph Kelley. who owned 00 acres
of laud and who hauled his wheat Ift
miles to Devil's, Las". Mr. Kelley
said "If the Gruat Northern won't
build, we will build." And the
farmtra bnilt a railroad 25 miles long.
Tliev asked every farmer whohaoled
grain to Devil's Lake to subscribe.
Some subscribed J5; others t-100.
They raised $.10,000. They sent a
farmer to Duluth to buy ties, another
to St. Paul to boy rails.
A laud promoter was building a
small brauoh line nut of Devil's
Lake to the south, aud they got him
to survcv the road. They ;h red seo
tion hands to lay the track. But they
needed more money. They bought
land ailing the line and laid out three
towns, sold the lots and used the
mnnev lo bur an old engine, a day
i coach, and four boxcars from the
' Great Norheru.
I Then the road was starte-i. It will
I slop for any farmer at auy place,
j Last vear the road made its expenses;
I it hauled AO, 000 bushels of wheat.
This year, with the railroad at hand,
1 the farmers planted more wheat aud
th road will haul 2,000,000 bushels.
of bis time in the vioinity of Eureka
and Ely and visited, while traveling
over that section of the state, several
of the big mines that have made
Nevada famous as a mining state.
Oue of these ininos is credited
with yielding over $300,000,000 and
its history is an enoouragement to
Southern Oregon miners, who often
abandon a mine because it pinches
out, when if they could or would con
tinue to follow np the trace, new
bodies cf ore might be opened op.
While the Richmond bad yet produced
but a small part of its great wealth.
the vein piuched out, but the owners
pushed their development work on a
mere trace of a fissure for over 800
feet when they opened np a body of
ore larger aud rialier than any they
had previously found
Mr. Law ton stated that he found it
very hot in both Nevada and Califor
nia and lie was glad to set back
where there were at least cool nights.
He found that there was much in
terest in regard to Southern Oregon
among the mining men both of Cali
fornia aud Nevada, and he anticipates
that a large amount of capital from
those states will be Invested within
the next year in ruining property in
this distrrict.
THE SCHOOLS OF
JOSEPHINE COUNTY
INTERESTING FACTS
ON GRAPE GROWING
A. H. Carson, Biggest Vineyardlst
In Oregon, Gives Information
of Value to Fruit Growers.
CLE
MENS
Sells Drugs & Books
GRANTS PASS, ORE.
I $100 Reward, $100.
! The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
! least oue dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages,
and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional di
sease, requies a constitution! tieat
meut. Hall's Catarrh Core is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
vstem, therxby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up
the constitution and agisting it iu
doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faitb iu its curative (towers
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any rase ttiat it fails to cure.
Send for litof testimonials. Ad
dress F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. lane
Hall's Family PILs for constipatioo.
Kodaks Courier Building.
Interested In Southern Oregon
Mines.
D. J. Lew ton returned last Friday
from Nevada, where he had spent s
month examining mioing properly in
the interest of some Ban Frsncisoo
capitalists. Ml. Law too spent most
Hon. A. H. Carson, member for the
First district, which embraces the
Southern Oregon counties, of the
Oregon State Board of Horticulture,
was in Grants Pass Wednesday from
his Rodlands fruit farm on Applegate
Mr. Carson, in addition to growing
largely of other fruits, Is the largest
grape grower in Oregon, he having 31
acres to grapes. Mr. Carson grows
several varieties, but most of bis
vineyard is to Tokays, Emperors and
Black Ferrerras. The Emperor is
similar in size and bright color (o
the Flaming Tokay, but it is a better
keeper aud is a good shipper. The
Ferrerra is a black grape similar
in appearance to the Concord, but ia
better flavored thau that grape, aud is
a fine tablo grape and it has the
further good quality of being a good
shipper.
Mr. Carson has found grape grow
lug quite as profitable as any other
line of farm product and he will con
tinue planting until he has 100 acres
to grapes. He will plant 20 acres to
grapes this winter and has the 10,000
cuttings rooted aud growing in flue
shape with whioh to do the planting,
Mr. Carson is firm in the belief that
Southern Oregon will become one of
the great grape districts of the United
States, for the soil aud climate are
exceptionally adapted for produoing a
grape of fine texture and flavor. The
failure that so many have made in
tliH grape bnsiuess In Rogue River
Valley Is due to a number of causes
that Mr. Carson states are easily
overcome. The first is to grow the
grape that the market demands, which
is thus the best seller. Plant on suit
able soil, red clay hill land being the
best for grapes, aud elevation
put the vineyard above the frost line
of the low, wot bottom lands. Cul
tivate the vines thoronghly, aud the
dryer the ground the more cultivation
but only on the suface. But in the
picking aud packing la where so many
growers fail, for grapes that are jam
mod into a box and not sorted, graded
aud neatly packed will not sell. Mr.
Carson takes special care that not a
defective or under sized grape gets
into a box and the greatest precau
tion ia taken to pack the grapes so
they will have a uniform and attrao
tive appearance. The boxes are all
labled with bis name and that of his
fruit farm and a person getting a box
of his grapes of a dealer, if pleased
with them, knows what to call for
when more ia wanted. Last fall, as
iu previous years, Mr. Carson was
unable to fill all the ordeis that came
to him for grapes, aud at prices that
were very satisfactory. He thinks
that other growers would have no
difficulty iu finding a profitable mar
ket if they would give more care to
the growiug and the picking aud
packing of their grapes.
As to fie grape crop prospects Mr.
Carson stated that bis vineyard could
not be more promising than it now Is,
aud he has every prospect of a record
breaking yield this year and of the
best quality. His apples, pears and
other fruit Mr. Carson stater
promise a good yield. Iu the dis
charge of bis duties as a member of
the State Board, Commissioner Carson
has visited many of the orchards of
Southern Oregon aud he finds the
fruit prospects about up to the.
average. In some of the orchards
that bore verv heavily last year the j
c rop this year is light, while some j
orchards on low bottom land will
have a small yield owing to late
frosts. Owing to ths large acreage
of new orchards that are coming into
bearing, Commissioner Carson thiuis
that there will be a considerable lo-!
crease iu the shipment of fruit this
fall from Rogue River Valley. The
outlook fot the market is encouraging
and fruitgroweis are likely to make
as much money this year as ars
farmers who will nave other products
to sell. Mr. Carson anticipates that
there will be a large acreage planted
to fruit trees Ibis winter sod the rite
of increase to orchards wilt be ap to
what it has been for ths last two
years.
Annual Report of Sipt. Se.ve.ge
Gives Good Showing
for Schools.
County Superintendent Lincoln
Savage completed his annual report
last week for the schools of Josephine
county and forwarded it to State
Superintendent J. H. Ackerman at
Salem. Tbe report is for the year
ending June 10, 1005, and the delay to
tho report was occasioned by tbe slow
ness of some of the district clerks Iu
sending ia their reports to Supt. .
Savage.
The showing made in Superinten
dent Savage's report is quite flatter
ing to Josephine county and indicates
that the schools of the county are In
good condition, and tbat for expendi
tures and efficiency they compare well
with the more populous aud wealthy
couuties of the state.
The following ia a summitry of
Superintendent Savage's report :
Number of persons in the county be
tween the ages of four and 30 years of
age, male 1570, female U4H, total
3013. Pupils on school register,
male 1169, female 1180, total 828lk
Days attendance during the year
194,122. Average daily attendance 84.
persona betweeu four aud 20 years not
tteodlng school, male 411, female
813, total 724.
Persons -attending school outside
district, male 13, female 23, total 8d.
Number of teachers employed dur
ing the year, male 14, female 89, total
103.
Teachers holding stats certificates
or diplomas male , fen ale n,
total 23. Teaohera holding first grade
certificates, mala 2, female 25, total
27. Teachers holding second grade
certificates, male 1, female 33, total
23. Teachers holding third grade
certificates, males none, female 8,
total 8. Holding primary certificates
1 female. Teachers holding permits,
male 5, female 16, total 21.
Teachers holding certificates of in
atitute attendance, male 10, female
4, total 6(1.
Teachers taking eduoational publl
cations, male 10, female 69, total 79.
Number of applicants examined for
certificates, male 3, female 34, total
27. Number failing to pass, male
none, female 8, total 8.
Number of districts in the county
47, Number reporting 47s
Numbet schools houses In the
county 49.
School houses built during this
year, 1, In district So. IS ou sucker
creek. Number months of schocl
taught, 2K4.
Number of legal school voters,
as estimated by district clerks 1712.
Number of visits made by county
superintendent to schools 94. Nu
her of districts visited 40. Average
time of visit i hours. Number
miles traveled 2020.
Number of books in sohool libraries
165. Number books purchased during
the year, 283.
Number of private schools iu the
county 6. Mouths taught 15.
Teachers employed, male 1, female 4,
total 5. Pupils enrolled, male 85, fo
male 83, total 68.
One blind and one deaf child have
been reported since the previous au
nual report.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Cash on hand at time of mak
ing last annual reiiort,
July 12, 1904 t 4.HW 21
RECEIPTS
Received from County Treas
urer from district tax . . W.OWI 77
Received from County Treas
urer from county sohool
fund 6.H47 III
Received from County Treas
urer from stale school
fund 4,:il 9'
Received from rate bills and
tuition 63 00
Received from sale of bonds
and warrants 18,026 24
Received from Cnuniy Treas
urer from library fund
Received for library from
other sources 152 70
Received for insurance ou
account of loss
Received from all other
sources ,
another girl of 10 years, was driving
one horse to a light spring wagon,
and when ou Sixth street at the rail
road crossing the horse became
frightened at a traiu and started on a
wild run down tho street. Instead of
screaming heplessly as some women
would have done, or boltng out of
the rear of the vehicle as mauy men
so often do under similar circum
stances, this brave, self-possessed girl
braced her feet against the dashboard,
aud while the little girl was bang
ing to the seat for dear lite aud not
uttering a cry, she bold a steady liuo
on the horse aud kept him iu the
middle of the street. After running
two blocks the horse got souiewaht
over his fright and tho girl by
vigorous jerking ou tliu bits was able
to soon have him under control, and
then she drove ou down the street as
though nothing unusual had hap
pened. While tho runaway was iu
progress a crowd quickly gathered
along the sidewalk expecting that the
girls would be thrown out and pos
sibly seriously hurt . r killed, aud
several men rushed for the street to
try to Btop the horse, but their efforts
were unavailing until the girl had
brought the horse to a moderate
speed.
JOSEPHINE CAVES
A WORLD'S WONDER
Wonderful in Beauty and Attrac
tions, but Lack of Railroad Pre
vents Tourists Seeing Thein.
...Just
Arrived
Si New Iron Beds
$2.25 to $39.00
All the between prices.
Regular $2.50 Screen Doors for $1.9S all complete
Others in proportion down to $1.10.
TENTS buy them now, prices away down -$2.75
to $10.50.
Camping Outfits and Bedding, full line.
This week wo put up 2 CoUcHeS
The prices aro $6.95 and $7.80 Today
the duto this paper is mailed.
They will be reduced 25$ a day until sold.
Who gets them?
Get your BABY CARRIAGE now.
Thomas . O'Neill
X5hQ Housefurnishers
BUILDING ANNEX
TO HOTEL JOSEPHINE
U Two-Storv Brick Structure
Lower Story Sample Rooms,
Upper for Living Rooms.
., 2,101 SI
Total W.H07 40
DISHCKSEMENTS
Paid for teachers' wages . . . lU.gCi 31)
Paid for rent of rooms aud
aits
Paid for fuel aud school sap
plies 2.1173 82
Paid for repairs and improv
ing grounds W6 73
Paid for new schoolhouse
and sites 72 10
Paid on principal and Inter
est of bouds aud war
rants 1 2. CM !I'J
Paid for Insurance 4U H.'i
Paid for Clerk's salary 882 00
Paid for library books, . 127 17
Paid for all other purposes . 1,2X3 71
Total :tH,o:t7 2.',
Cash on band I 1,770 21
GENERAL
Estimated value of school
houses aud grounds ... $-"'2,800 00
Estimated value of school
furniture and apparatus 89, 4-10 00
Amount of insurance on
srhonlhouses and other
property 8Ji, 300 00
Average monthly aalary of
male teachers 48 00
Average monthly salary of
female teachers 41 00
Walter liurch and William Uennett,
from Fairviow near Poitland, arrived
in tlruuts Pass Sunday aud Tuesday
they left for the Urnybaek Mountain
district, going by way of Williams
creek on a prospecting tiip. They
will also visit the Josephine caves
aud get a lot of specimens for the
Lewis aud Clark fair.
Mr. liuruli wits n former resident ol
Josepliino county, coining hero with
his parents iu Mill. In lHSf. he iu
partnership with - Homer llarkuess
undertook to make a remit fur tourists
at the famous Josephine cures,
whioh bad been discovered a few
years previous, that honor being
oiaimi d by Elijah Davidson, of
Missouri Flat. Thu cave was on
unsurveyed laud and iu an almost im
penetrable mountain fastness.
Messrs. fiuruh & llarkuess cut In a
trail to the oavo from Sucker creek in
the spring of 188.1 aud In 1HM0 they cut
another trail from Williams rreek lo
the cave. They located a squat ti r's
claim on the land about thu cave and
built a house for the iiccoiuinndatioii
of touriits. Mr. llarkuess was at
the cave very little and turned the
venture over to Mr. Iiuich, who spent
three summers at the cave. Ue fully
explored overy recess of that under
ground labyrinth and measured ii'n
miles of passageways. He put Iu
mora than a score of ladders from live
to 211 feet iu length to enable access
to bo made to thu various chambers,
for to reach some a descent would
have to be inudu, while to gi t to
others a perpendicular cliff would
have to bo scaled. Among the di
coveries that Mr. Hun h made was a
waterfall of 2:i feet. At another
place was a uilnlatnro of Mt. lined,
that was eight fcut bigli and a per
feet reproduction of that mountain
At its base was a minimum lake but
four feet iu (liamcrtcr. The largest
chamber ho fnuid w.n Hill fei t long
anil fully ItHI feet lo the ceiling
Diamond Hall was thu must hand
some, for Its walls aud roof sparkled
like frost or finely cut glass.
After trying for three years to
buildup a tourist travel to the caves
Mr. Huron gave up thu venture, after
loosing ou it over -!' i I in money and
time. The little louiist travel he
seemed payed iheir bills but he
was not so fortunate with resiih nts
of thu county ninny i f whom vi-i'ed
the caves anil alter l bad shown
them through they would tell him
they would pay later, as tiny were
short of money and that would 0- the
last of it.
The buldlngs anil ladders put in by
Mr. liureh are now badly decayed
and the trail, whthi y l parrahli', is
grown up. r-iuee .,ir i.urin
gave up thu venture no one has tlieil
to make a resort of Him place. 1 he
land is yet held by tint oveinno'ijl,
aud under the law it cannot be ac
quired by an individual, t,.e govern
unlit reserving all natural eurionities
and mineral spruits, though sut h are
leased. This cave, wl.b li is one ol
the largest and graude-it III the win Id.
Is visitud cjt: h suniiin r by u lew
sightseers. Were them a railrojtd to
the vicinity of this cave It .would
attract many persons each yuir,
but the III) iu iln wagon tool ami 10
mile trail from ltaiits I'ass, the
nearest railioad point tolhucavi, is
too much for the average tobiist.
1 he tune will come when some r
sou with money will lea -.n this cave
and v ill makn ot it nun of the noted
at tract ions of the I'aeilic Coa!, for
it is as great a wonder u the Mam
moth cave of Kentucky, and the i iual
as a natural attraction i f t'ratr
Lake, Southern Oregon's other won
derful freak of nature.
GRANITE INDUSTRY
OF SOUTHERN OREGON
Two Quarries Operated Near Jack
sonvilleOthers Would Be if
Freight Rates Were Lower.
Tho Hotel Josepliino, which holds
thu position of being the best hotel in
Southern Oregon, has added accom
modations that will bo greatly ap
preciated by the commercial travelers
for four flue samplo rooms are to be
provided in an annex that is now
bring built. This annex to the Jose
phine stands on E streot west of the
hotel and is of brlok and to be two
stories. The brick work is being done
by Hubert Muggins and Charles Hoss
and they will have it completed this
week. They also do the plastering
which they will do so soon-as the car
penters are through with their job.
Tho carpenter work is being done by
lleorgo Slover, Edwin Smith aud
(eorge Smith.
The building will bo 80x75 feet aud
tho luwor story will bo fitted for four
sample rooms. The rooms will have
large plate glass fronts so that ample
light will be had, aud each will be
fitted with tables aud every conven
ience that a drummer may wish to
properly show h s samples. Each
room will have a stationary basin
and hot and cold water so that a
drummer may have that appreciated
convenience. The upper story will
have an outside eutrancu from the
hotel side and will be fitted with
living rooms which will be occupied
by Landlord (Joorua Good and his
family. The rooms will bo arranged
in two suites, one to the front ami
one lo the rear. Each suite will have
a largo parlor and a large bedroom.
The middle space of tho floor will be
oeeu tiled bv large closets that will
opeii off each bedroom, and by a bath
and toilet mom, and a small bedroom
and a store room.
The space betweeu (hit annex and the
hotel will he cleared of the unsightly
woodshed that Is now occupying it aud
the plat of ground will be made attrac
tive with trees, flowers and grass. Tho
building Is erected by Consul Uuuerul
II. 11. Miller of Yokahama, Japan,
w ho Is the owner of the Hotel Jose
phine. While the architecture will
be plain yet the building will be
of ueat appearance and a substantial
addition to the building list of (Jrauts
i'ass.
Curtd of llriglit'i UlicaK.
Mr. Koh rt U. Hurke, Elnora, N.
Y., writes: "lieforo 1 started to use
Foley's Kidney Cure I had to got up
from 12 to 20 times a night, and I was
all bloated up with dropsy and my
ey sight was S' Impaired I could
scarcely see one of my family across
the room. I had given up hope of
living, win ti a friend recommended
Foley's Kidney Cure. Due fit) cent
li.iitlo worked wondcia aud beloro I
hail taken tbe third boll Iu tho drop y
had gone, as wi ll us all other symp
toms of llrigbt's disea-w. " For sail
by II. A. ttoteriuuud.
A ledge of granite which is owned
by Dr. E. P. Genry, of Portland,
which ia located on Griffin creek four
miles cast of Jacksonville, has been
leased by 8. and W. rl. Penulston of
Ashland. They will at onoe open it
up aud begin the quarrying of rock.
There is another ledge of this same
granite two miles north of Jackson
ville in whioh a quarry has been
operated for several years, aud stone
both for building purposes aud for
monuments has been gotten out.
This same granite lormatiou extends
ou into Josephine county, but as vet
no effort has beeu made to devlop it.
This grnuite is white, mottled with
gray, and it takes a high polish and is
very handsome for either monuments or
trimmings for buildings. The ledges
are usually very thick aud the deposits
so even iu texture as topermit the quar
rying of very large blocks. The time
will como when there will be a great
industry in shipping grauita aud other
high grade building stouo from South
ern Oregon to Portland aud San
Francisco, but at preseut the high
freight races charged by the Southern
Paoitio preclude shipments, and most
of tho granite used in those cities
comes by ships from Scotlaud uud
other distant countries.
Doctor Ssld He Would Not Uvc.
Peter Fry, Woodruff, Pa., writes
"After doctoring for two years with
the best physician iu Wayueburg, aud
still getting worse, the doctor advised
me if I had any business to attend to
I had belter attend to it at once, as I
could uot possibly live soother mouth
as there was no euro for me. Foley's
Kidney Cure was recommended to me
by a friend, aud I immediately sent
my sou to tho store for it aud after
taking thiee bottles I bgau to get
better aud coutinued to Improve until
I'wua entirely well," For sale by
11. A. liotertnund.
He Went Too Far.
Hans, the rurallst, was iu search of
a horse. "I've got the ery thing you
want," said Hill Lennox, tho stable
man, "a thorough-going road horse.
Five years old, souud as a quail, l?r
cash down, and ho goes 10 miles
without stopping. "
Hans threw his hands skyward.
"Not for me," he sald,"not for me.
I vouldu't gif yiu five cents for
hlui. I live eight miles out iu do
country, nut I'd baf lo walk back two
miles."
Buy It Now,
Now is tho time to buy Chain
berlain's Colic, Cholera and diarrhoea
Hoinedy. It Is certain to bo needed
sooner or later and when that time
conies yoa will I d it badly you
will need it quickly.
It may save life,
druggists.
liuy it now
For sale by all.
Eugravcd Cards Conner Building.
W. L. IRELAND, KEAL ESTATE
A INSURANCE, Courier Building ou
ground floor.
A Girl Shows Presence of Mind
svnd Skill.
A 14 year old girl from ths oountry
gsvs an exhibition Tuesday, of
horaeman-blp and of courage aud
presence of mind tbat would bare
beea a credit to a man and skillful
driver. This girl, in company with
Bu'h'H Plsyirt sad Foot Kxcn!
Loots J. Kruger, xchauiplou
long distaucn foot racer of Germany
and Holland, writes October 27lh,
IV0I : "During my training of eight
weeks' foot races at Salt Lake City,
in April last, I used Htillsid's Snow
Liniment to iu y greatest Mttisfaclitu.
Therefore I highly recommend
Snow Liniment to all who are
troubled with sprains, bruises or
rheumatism." 2.o, Ms-, (l.tsi bottle
at itotermund's anil Model Drag
Store.
Friends and Patrons
TaKe Notice!
I have ovod my repair shop to P.ultlot'k's
Uicyelo Den, east of depot, opposite tho ling
pole, where 1 will ho ahlo to servo you hot
ton than ever. liriug iu your hahy carriage
ami have now tiros put on. Hr'mg your
axes, knivts and scissors ami have them
ground. I will repair umbrellas, lilo and
k'tim saws, make keys and do any li'lit re
pahinj? you may wish done. Tho shop is
equipped willi the latest improved tools and
machinery for lepniring Incycles and nutn
imdiilos, and I am now prepard to repair any
thing from an umbrella to an automobile.
Yours for repairing,
JUD TAYLOR
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