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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1906)
fraftaWrii t"i ROGUE RIVER COURIER GRANTS PASS. OREGON, MAY 11, 190b. Opportunity is low I(n at Tour Door GRASP THE CHANCE Are You Looking for Money? Do you realize the fact that Water will Double Crops? Yes, we will put it stronger you ought to quad ruple your crops with water. Yes, and it can be done. Not in a minute but it can be done. YOU and WE can do it pulling together. Our business is helping your business. Our prosperity depends upon your prosperity. You can get along without us, but you can get more money with us. IIow can this be done ? Here's the point: fill in the figures yourself. We come to you with a proposition to furnish you ample water for irrigation, where you want it and when you want it ; cheaper and more convenient than a ditch or steam or gasoline engine. We do it with the ELECTRIC PUMP. The Electric Pump In Competition With the Ditch, Canal Steam or Gasoline Driven Pump. The Electric Pump has driven the ditch, canal, steam and gasoline pump out of the field in Southern California and olsewhoro. It has made tho desert bloom; made worthless land valuable: quadrupled the value of lands and pro ducts and in some cases the increase in value has been 10-fold and a 100-fold. Can sufficient water bo obtained for irrigation from wells ? Some pooplo say no. Thoy usod to say No in tho desert of Southern California; but they Jo so no longer; they are Ret ting the water and plenty of it and also in the Rogue River Valley. In California they have to go from fiO to several hundred feet in depth and pay $54 per season per horse power. In the Rogue River Valley, in most of the cases you got amplo water from 1C to 50 feot deep and you pay $30 per horse power for the irrigating season. WHAT IS THE Advantage of Irrigation with Electric Pumps Now, here is where we SHINE. FIRST The price is cheaper; the average cost per acre (or the season with an Electric Pump is $1.25 per acre for water. SECOND You pay no BONUS. THIRD You do not have to mortgage your land forever. FOURTH You do not convert your land into a swamp as with a ditch; you thus avoid malaria, mosquitoes and all the at tendant evils. FIFTH You can get your water When you want it and where you want it; you do not have to wait your turn and quarrel with your neighbors. SIXTH You do not have to enter into any contract for any stated period ; ifpump irrigation does not suit you you can quit ; the only guarantee that you will give is that you will pay your proportion of the cost of the line and this money you get back in power or light; in other words, you simply guarantee your GOOD FAITH. SEVENTH You can use Electric Power to Saw Wood, Grind Feed. Churn Butter, Separate Cream, do the Washing and Ironing. Cooking and Heating. Keep yourself cool in Summer with Electric Fans: it drives away flies, purifies the air, runs the Sewing Machine, and numerous other uses of which not the least is to have your wife and family rise up and bless you for the comfort and ease thus afforded. EIGHTH You can use the Electric Hot Water Bottle or Pad, one of the greatest and most beneficial discoveries of the Tweutieth Century; affords dry and continuous heat, warms the bed, preveuts cold feet ; is of the greatest benefit for Pain, Rheu matism, Neuralgia, Pneumonia, Bronchitis. Coughs, Colds, Con sumption Croup. Whoopiig Cough, and pain in any part of the body. NINTH You can use Electric Light , as the Sun (which is concentrated electricity) dispels the fog, dampness, disease, and gives life itself to all the human race and the animal and vegetable kingdoms, so the Electric Light at night performs the same life giving functions in a milder form. TENTH The Electric Light is the cheapest known light if you value your time, your safety and your health worth anything ; it does not vitiate the air like Oil or Gas Lamps, there is no odor, there is absolute safety; your insurance is les sened; it is convenient simply presj the button. Perhaps you think it would cost too much money more than you can afford. NOW, SEE HERE. It will cost you 2 cents to find out. Write us today and State Your Wants; you will be surprised to see how little it costs; we will take pleasure in answering all inquiries and send our agents to you promptly. Now, where is the hitch? Get together with your neighbors and form a party line and thus divide up expenses among yourselves for Electric Power, Electric Lights and Telephones. Irrigation Central Point, Ore., March 20, 1906. CONDOR WATER & POWER CO., Tclo, Oregon: Gentlemen : I thought it might be of some interest to you to give some kind of a statement as to what I thought of your centrifugal pump, operated by Electric Motor purchased from you last May. How it works and how it suits me : The Electrrio Motor I use is a Ave horse power belted direct to a three inch centrifugal pomp. Thii pomp will give from 300 to COO gallons per minute, de pending on the lift. A three hone power motor, however, would run this painp nd give the same amount of water. On one part of my place I had to force water 480 feet ona grade of 12 to 18 feet; 20 feet from well through a four-inch pipe I got from 850 to 400 gallon! per minute. Thii elevation I speak of is above the pump. I could pump 500 gallons per minute from my well, day and night all seasons up to November 1st. This was;the last pnmping I did in orde' to wet the ground so I could dig my trees. My well.is 16 feet deep, six-feet wide aud 12 feet long, with no tunnels. I estimate that I can irrigate 12 aores of ground with my pump. Now, as to tbe working ot the electric pump and motor nei ther have given me any trouble. I coald start the motor running on Monday and it would be running Saturday night, if some one would not call around aud atop it. My motor ran the season through with only one oiling, but I oiled tbe pomp evsry morning when I started the motor, which is all there is to look after. It gave the least troubleof any machinery I ever used. Now, as to what I Accomplish with water I more than trebled the yield in corn and I doubled the apple crop. I had no alfalfa to water and was not preparedlto get wa ter to our garden, but I raised a fine crop of beets on ground that without water would not have raised anything. As to sweet corn ask J. W. Merritt. It was the largest corn I ever saw, and I have raised corn in Iowa and on the Missouri River bottom. I am going to grow some more this year, call aud see it, ' I used water on my seedlings fornorsery stock and I am well pleased with the results. I grew 150,000 seedlings, that, without water, I could not have grown, and as a result have 135.000 pears bndded and grafted and 25,000 apples, to say nothing of the benefit in other. ways. The Electric Pump is the thing. You can have the water where you want it, which every one knows is the essential thing. My children could start and stop the motor and oil the pump. I consider that there Is no more danger in motoi than ma ohinery with cog wheels, and not as much for children. To eloM will ay that I am well pleased with the motor and pump, and well pleased in the way y.u p, have ttJ Hoping yon success, I m Very truly yours, J. S. BARNETT. Now Altogether! Pull Together! Today I All the Time for Everything Electrical Yours Truly, for More Water, More Power and More Light, WAT CONDOR ER & POWERCC2 pff 1 1 ---BssiMssMaw' ' aJiaiitjf. w Sub-Stations : Medford, Jackaonvillo, Central Point, Gold Ray,Woodville, Grants Pass f