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VOL. XXI. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1. 190S. No. 35 WWW WWW Se r vv. L. IRELAND, "The Real Estate Man. Ground Floor Courier Bldg. W'W'WW'WIWW'W'VJ CLEMENS S ELL S BOOKS and DRUGS. ?BfloNr?? GRANTS PASS, ORE. Grants Pass Banking & Trust Co. PAID VP CAPITAL STOCK Transacts a general banking business. Receives deposits subject to check or on demand certificates. Our customers are assured of courteous treatment and every consideration con sistent with sound banking principles. Safety deposit boxes (or rent. J. FRANK WATSON. Pres. K. A. BOOTH, Vice-Pres. h. L JEWELL, Cashier. r -WATCH flT HAND FAINTED CHINA Daintiest creations of Extjuisitely decorated. Bert Barnes, Cobb & Isaacs, Real Estate The real estate men, Cobb & Isaacs, last week sold a tract of land in the north end of town contain . ing 30 lots, and this week sold another tract of 30 lots, besides some improved lots with cottages on. If you want your property sold, list with us. If you want to buy anything see us first. Tho reason we sell so much property is, we sell right. Sixth Street, opposite Postotfice, Upstairs. BLACK 'LIVERY and SALE STABLES DEAN A. DICKISON, PROPRIETORS. POWER and Electric Light We are now ready for business. Do not make any contract until you have seen our isolicitors. Pat ronize and eneourago the com pany which has already fokckd LOW PHKKS, AND WHICH WILL AID AND HELP BUILD UP YOUR TOWS AND country. Judge us by what we have done and Condor Water Real Estate t Rent Houses Negotiate Loans Make Collections and Write Fire Insurance. Call upon 01 write Grants Pass, Ore. 92S.OOO.OO. WINbOW TOR- tho potter's art, Price from $1 up. wdTci.n.cK HORSE FEED are doing. L Power Co. POVERTY AND PROFANITY SEQUENCEOF BAD ROADS Mudholes Cause Farmers to Lose Their Farms, Their Piety and Their Boys and Girls. The Oregonian of last Saturday con tained an editorial tlut is oue of the beat representations of the bad roads problem that could possibly be made, and the Courier herewith gives it In fall, that the farmers of Josephiue oounty may read it and it ia hoped profit by it. Under the caption ol "Roads As A Means of Grace," the Oregoniau's article is as follows: "The favorite paving material for country roads in the United States is good intentions. The best-known highway where this material is em ployed begins in America, but its ter minus is elsewhere. It is much traveled, though iu one direction only. All the traffic goes downhill ; nobody ever comes back. The country it leads to is said to be undesirable as a residenoe section, but once there, the settler never tries to got away. He iuvariably makes up his mind that it is better to stay in spite of the climate than to attempt to return nphill over inch a road. This is the reason given by many theologians why the popa'atiou of Hades does not emigrate. It may not be true, but it looks plausible. Certainly nphill roads paved with good intentions and nothing else keep a large fraction of the rnral population of America fixed in conditions of lile to which Hades would be preferable The worst enemies to religiou iu America are mud roads running np and down steep hills. They were laid ont by the devil, every oue of them, aud his object was to keep people at home from chnrch. Millions of souls iu the Uuitt d States, now ir retrievably lost, would today have been rejoicing iu a happv salvation if they had not' been kept from the means of grace by mndlio ts iu the road. 'The devil trembles,' snvs the hymn, 'when he sees the weakest smut upon his knees. Maybe he does; but he trembles a good deal worse when he sees the same Faint get up off his knes and begin to haul gravel Into the uiudholes iu the road. "What pleases Satan above all things is to see a saint trying to drive over an Oregon dirt road in Winter with load of potatoes. At that spectacle the Adversary invariably corh his tail six times round himself aud licks his chops, for he knows that within the next 10 niiuoteg that saiutwillbea saint uo longer. He will bo a howl iug, raging, blasphemous, backslidden sinner. "Not only do mud roads and steep grade' destroy tho farmer's religiou, but, what uiuny theologian, account a great deal worse, they empty hi pocketbook. ' Five miles over a bot tomless road up aud down hill aie, for til practical purposes, farther than from N York to Chicago. A niau living five miles from town over such a road is as far from humanity's reach as Alexander Selkirk on his lout ly is land. If he goes to market he can haul oo more than three or four sacks of potatoes, whereas over a gravol-d road he could haul 30 A horse ran haul twice as much over gravel nr over the best dirt road, and four times asmuchovtr smooth stone. II- cau haul at least 10 times as big a load over gravel as be can through deep mad. Sad is the fate of the farmer living at the end of a bottomless road. His sous leave him and go to town ; his daughter never has a bean and grows ai an old maid; his wife goes crazy, his house goes to ruin, and he goes broke. ' Satan is the patron tint only of mud holes, but also of steep grades. It was the Old Scrpeut himself who put the notion iuto farmers' heads that it is shorter to go over a hill than aroui.d it. It is uot shorter. Have an apple aud lay it flat-side down. Tln-n measure over and half way around, aud compare the distances. Often t go round ou the level is shorter, much shorter, and it is always easier. Think of the time, the horseflesh, the wear of wagrms, the loss of the buoy ancy aud joy of life that have hei u spent in hauling loads up one side "f steep hill in order to haul them down on the other. The first tiling s railroad builder thinks of is a level grade, or as nearly level as ray be. It is the last thing the country road builder thinks of and yet an easy grade cols as big a figure in the farmer's little business as in the rail road's big business. "Ou a good, level ruad a horse his to throw on his collar only one thirty fifth of the load he hauls. A grade of only 3 per cent doubles his work. A 8 per cent grade means l.Vi feet rise to the mile This doubles the team's work. What then, happens to the team and load when the grade i ."() or eveo IUOO Seet to the mile, as it is on many roads? There is searely a road on tho Pacific Coast which does not need resorveying for the sake of better grades. In the level state of Iowa there are more steep grades iu the roads than there are In Switzer- land, 'which is all moantalus. In Switzerland the country roads have all been surveyed as scientifically as the railroads, and the grades are as easy. In America the country roads have been surveyed either not at all or else ou the 'dauiu-the-publio' principle which controls here so widely and so much. The time mav come when farmers will get tired of going to market by way of heaven when they could as well stick to the level ground, bat it is yet in the far future. "The money spent year by year in America upon roads is sufficient to make good roads without additional taxation aud without borrowing, if oul) it were well spent. As the case now is, the road fund is spent by men who know nothing of roadbuilding upon work which is often worse thau worthless. When the work is good it is so lll-plauned that it quickly per ishes. When it does not perish it is so isolated that It is ol little one. Every county should employ an engi neer and place the whole business of roadbuilding and repair unreservedly in bis hand. " KENNET SMELTER TO BUY SOUTHERN OREGON ORE Will Pay Good Price for Siliceous Ore for Flux for Their Smelter. A. C. Hoofer, superintendent of the Mt Pitt mine on Jomp off-Joe, was in Grants Pass Monday. Mr. Hoofer stated that development work was proceeding very satisfactorily at the the Mt. Pitt Iu connection with this work considerable ore is being taken out. The low grade is pet ou the dump, but the high grade is shipped to the Taooma smelter. A car load of ore, carriyng very high values was started Monday from Three Pines, which is the shipping point for the mine, to Tacoma. It is expected to ship about a car load a month this Winter. It is the plan of the Mt Pitt Com piny to equip their mine with a com pressor and power drills witiiin the next mouth. Water power will be used, thore being 60 H. P. now de veloped at the mine, heretofore need to operate a two-tub arrastre and for other purposes. Early in the spring the mine will be equipped with a 10 stamp mill. The Mt. Pitt is one f the most promising mines in Southern Oregou and has every likeli hood of becoming a big gold producer. This is one of the few mines in Southern Oregon .that Is operated by Portland men. The capital though. for equipping the niiuo will mostly como from the East, wliero it has been arranged for Supt. Hoofer will leave next week for Chicago to complete the details of this financial matter. Herb W. Edwards lnurcd. Herb W. Edward of Des Moines, Iowa, got a fall on au icy walk last wiuter, spraining his wrist and bruis ing his knees. " The next day, " he says, "they were so sore aud stiff I was afraid I won Id have to stay in bed,- but I rubbed them well with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and after a few application1 all soreness had dis appeared. I feel that tills bottle of Pain liiilm saved mo several days' time, to say nothing of the suffer ing." Tliia liniment ia for sale by all druggists. Mill for Monumental Mine. The Monumental Mine Company is building a mill ou Shelly Creek which will be in running ordei with in two week. It is only an experi mental plant, but if it proves a sue cess the Comiaiiy will build a large mill next spring. The ore will be delivered by wagons at the top of the mill, and dumiied on the grizzly. The nndersi.e goes to the ore bill, while the oversize goes to a rock breaker aud thence iuto the ore bin. From the storage bin it Is fed by means of an automat io feeder into a six font Huntington mill, where it is reduced to the required i fineness From heie it passes through ; classifiers and Is distributed to the j tables. I bene consist of a Fruo vauner aud a Pindar table The con centrates will be shipped to a smelter. ) Sluice boxes will be put ill below the tables, iu the near future. The mill is purely automatic aud has a ! capacity of l0 tons per 24 hours. Gravity hand lis the ore from the time it leaves the receiving floor on I til it gets into the creek twlow. 1 wo men are all that are required to run the mill, oue for day and one for uight shifl. Crescent City News. I Curtd Consuuptioa Mrs. li. W. Evans, Clearwater, Kan., writes: " My husband lay sick forthne months. The doctors said that be had quick consumption. We procured a bottle of liallard's Hore- hound Syrup, and it cured hi in. That was six years ago. Since thin we have always kept a bottle In the house. We cannot do without it For ( coughs aud colds it has noequaL" Vic, .Vic, 1.00 at Model Drug Store and Hotermond's. MINING ACTIVITY IN GALICE DISTRICT Big Placer Mines Operated o.rd Quartz Properties Opened Vp A Promising District. Galice, Nov. 29 All preparations are now complete for a big season's work In the mines of Galice district While the greatest activity will pre vail on the big hydraulic properties, there will be steady development of the quarts ledges, upon which the future prosperity of the camp so much depends. Iu her day Galice was one of the most populous and richest districts iu Josephine county and they who yet remain, and whose faith has never wavered, confidently believe that the active days, of the 'GO'S will be repeated in a future that is not distant In those days, of course, mining was done with a pick and shovel and a string of sluice boxes and it is taid that men could average (iM per day by this comparatively primi tive method. Then came the day of the hydraulic giant, petmitting the mining of heavy gravel beds by the enormous amount of dirt handled. This method is still pursued and con stitutes the greatest industry in the camp. But many of the long buried quartz veins are being opened up and these promise to become the perma nent source of wealth of the camp. The bedrock flume ou the Galice Con solidated Mines Couiany's property has been coiuphted from the mouth of Galice cerek to Mill bar, which the company expect to work out this Win tor. There are about 10 acres iu this bar, bedrock varying from six to 10 feet. The Compauy owns several miles of gravel along Galice creek and its forks aud have several o itches aud reservoirs tor the cooveyiug and stor iug of the water supply. Four giants are operated aud about 30 men em ployed during the working season. For 30 yiars past uieu have been em ploy id iu bydranlicing the ancient channel which crosses the Gnlioe couutry at au elevation of H00 feet above lioguo river. This old chan nel has been very rich in spots and still carries good values. Six thous and miners' inches of water are brought a dii-tance of five miles from the Gulice and three giants are used, giving employment to about 1H men. Bedrock, where work is now leiug dime, is 150 feet deep and is com posed of slate. These diggings are now under lease to J. H. Harvey. Tho Hand and Almeda companies whoso properties are located about three miles below Galice and em oppo site sides of Kogue river, are in process of consolidation which will be completed aa soon as certain legal techuicalitU " ('u" to the fact that one is a Washington and the other no Oio t'oti corporation, have been removed. Doth comjiaiiies are using a few men in getting out timber aud iu building roads, a highway with au easy grade being under construction from the Aliueda mine to Lulaud, 13 miles dis tant, but active development of the mines thuimelves will not be resumed until consolidation is effected. The II lack Jack group on Quartz creek, a tributary of iialiesi, is being farther pened np this Winter hy liohert Jackson, the owner. This group lias produced some plienmne nally rich ore, about (HOOO having been taken out from one sum 1 1 stringer in the past five yeais. This stringer varies from the thickness of a knife blade to three feet and when the larger bunches, or pockets were en itouutercd Mr. Jackson could easily take oat from (100 to f I V) per day In a hand uio-tar. He has abundant faith supported by gooei evidence that two or three veins of good pay ore will yet be opened up ou the lllack Jack group. About 4UI feet of tunneling has aire ady been done. The Geildeu Wedge tunnel is now in over 400 feet and counting the differ cut drifts aheiut 12110 feet of work hue been done. Two men aru now at work there. The four foot vein is I art ly free milling mid pertly i-oneen tratiug witli the hanging wall of din rite and the footwall of au altere d porphyry Binno of the ore was worked in an arrs rn ami yie'in (TO 1st ton. Four years ago a two stump mill aud Jacob i-oucemtraleir was pat up. It is inteiiided by the owners of the Golden Wedge, whei aie Eastern people', to i-omme'Ue'e another tunnel down the uiotiiilaiu side and open up the prois-ity in first e-lass shu'ie. Ed Frldav is now at work ou the Richmond group in which he is joint owner with P. II. iiurth of Grants Pass. I his group adjoins the Golden Wedge and has BOO feet of tunneling giving a deptli of l'Mi feut. The out cropping of the vi lli show a ledge from eight to 2" inches iu width free milling 111 character. A horse arraetre ha been built and what ore lias been workeel averaged (10 per Ion. The Forty-five claim ou the oilier side of the Golden Wedge also owned by Ed Friday has an 1H inch vein opened by a VO foot tunnel. The Illaek Hear mine, owned by George aud Dan Green of Grants Pass, carries copper irouaud gold aud Cold Weather vSpecials ....HEATING Regular $7.50 Air Tight Heater for $5 50 Regular 6.50 Air Tighfllenter for 4 60 Absolutely tbe Biggest Bargain in Heating Stove we ever offered This is a Special We will not hold this offer open long, so buy now. New Dressers iu great variety. New Couches in best makes. New Center Tables choice designs. New China and Cut Glass at surprisingly low prices. PAPER tbe heavy kind; a lot more just received. Thanksgiving Necessities Turkey Platters, Carving Sets. Thomas & O'Neill Housefurnishers to Southern Oregon Is'a most promising prospect. It is located uear the Ranrf two miles dowu the Hog tie river fit m Galice. W. I. Dowell is opening up some of the lower levels In the famous Sugar Pine ou the south furk of the Galioe. This mine was located by the Greene brothers iu 1874 who worked it exten sively end from 1000 tons with au ar rastre took out $3000. This sum satis factory as it was did uot represent the value of the ore for the concentrates were all lust dowu tho creek with the exception of one small shipment which rau between (300 and (400 to the ton. The Cold Springs miuo owued by Johu Beeves, is opened by ?00 feet of tunned work aud makes a fine show ing. The ore is a chalcopyrlte and carries good values iu gold and oop- per. It is located on the main fork of tho Galioe, seven miles up. Ashland's Indebtedness. Iu compliance with resolution of the council asking for a statement of the financial condition of the city of Ash laud, Milton lierry, the recorder for that city, has filed a report. For the ourreut year from January 1st to No vember 1st the report shows that the recepta for the water works have been 13,311-1. 08 and the expenses $7, HSU. 87 giving a profit of 1,214.31. The general fund showed receipts of (Ifi, 4I0.S1 and disbursements of (l), 228.28. Sewer fund receipts were (.1,374.115 and the expense 787. I I. Special Fourth streiet sewer assessments paid iu H31U13 and there was paid out (I.BOfl.Bl. The recorder's report shows the general dedit of the city amounts to f81,00 di'i.led as follows: (.lO.OOO water works bonds drawing fl per cent ; tMtflO city hall bonds drawing fl percent; (30,000 sewer bonds at 4 per cent; (1000 special water bonds at 41 per cent aud ("i(H0 in warrants drawing ! per cent. "I Ihsnk the Lord" cried Hannah Plaut, of Little Rock, Ark., "for the relief I geit from lluck- leu's Arnica Salve. It cured my feaiful running sores, which nothing else would heal, and from which 1 had Buttered fn five years" It is a marvelous healer for cuts, horns and wounds. Guaranteed at all drug stores ; 2'ki ; L. K. Hill made a business trip to Oregeiu lust week. He was accom panied by Mrs. C. It. CouhIiio, who made relatives at Grants Pass a brief visit, aud Mrs. Hill, who is visiting her homo in Oregon (.'re scent City News. Ufic Up lisc Talking Machine Arc Superior to all Others Tone, Volume of Sound, Sim plicity ami l iise of Operation. The Records are flat (lists, whuh are superior to the old M)le wax reconla in every respect; being thin a large number can .., be put in a hiuall space:. They uiiel will bist longer than the Come aud W. A. 4 "tVait'ieVeVi -i't STOVES.... BOOTH-KELLY COMPANY HAVE BIG LAND GRANT Worth Many Millions Get Big Sum for Their Kla.me.th County Lends, The laud grant that was made some 35 years ago to the Oregou Central Mili tary Bead Compauy for the construc tion of a wagon road from the Willa mette Valley, near Eugene, across Southeastern Oregon to the east bor der of the state, has proven a bonanza to the various owners of tbe land. The building of the roud was a mat tor of small expeuse to the origiual compauy, for the road In Its best days lucked considerable of being a turnpike. A tow years since the Iioad Company sold their lands to the Booth-Kelly Company of Eugene for a good price, and they turned their road over to the various oouuties through which it rau for them to maintain. The laud grant oovers an immense acreage lor it euihraoed every other aeotiou for a 20-niilo strip for the 400 miles of the road. A large amount of it ia fine timber laud and there are many thousands acres of flue farming and grazing land. The grnut extends through the Klamath Indian reserva tion aud the Booth-Kelly Comiwuy brought suit against the government to recover the value of the laud ceded to the Indians. The appraisers ap pointed to fix the amount have awarded the Booth-Kelly Company '.100,000 for the hinds claimed by the Company within the reservation. At this rate of valuation the entire graut ia worth several millions dollars aud will become a very profitable Invest ment to the Booth-Kelly Company, of which Senator It. A. Booth, now of Eugenie, but formerly of this city Is at the head. K. W. Wall, Sr., is in town having just cevno In from the Lost Channel placer mine where lie has been busily engaged for several weeks preparing the mine for the rainy sea son. It is now iu first-class shape and nothing is lacking except the heavy rains to make it give forth the precious metal. The Sugar Pine mine in tho same district Is another valuable property which at the proper time will prove most remunerative to it) owne rs. Glemlale News. Order seals and A. E. Voeirhiea. rubber stamis of m - to - Date J sf ( are also practically indcstructahle J, olel style wax recorels. hear them, Paddock, Apt. (VI