VOL. XXII.
GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1906.
No. 20.
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WAR TO THE DEATH
ON CODLIN MOTH
11aJ D 1
, Ho Can Get This Peal Off of
Fruit Trees.
The codlia moth is one of the worst
enemies the frait growers of Rogue
River Valley have to contend against
Spraying will kill this pest, bat it
has to be done at just the right time
And A Aav fir tisn tnn aoplv m. fnA lofn
J makes the work useless effort. How
to keep the moth worms ont of upplps
will be one of the principal subjects
considered at the aeries of six frnit
grwers meetings that will be held in
this county the first week in Septem
ber. , One of the speakers at these meet
ly iags will be E. H. Shepard, manager
of the Hood River Fruit Growers
Union, and a big frnit raiser in that
famons valley. Mr. Shepard baa been
making a careful study of the habits
of the codlin moth and he will be able
to give the Josephine county grower
some praotioal pointers that will aid
them in fighting this persistent pest.
The Oregonian.of Monday has the fol
lowing intreview with Mr. Shepard
that is worth being read by every or
chard ist in Oregon :
"By an experiment ' which had it
t denuemeBt Wednesday, E. H. Shepard,
manager of the Frnit Growers Union,
has obtained information in regard to
the propagation of the codlin moth
k that may be the means of saving apple
growers here many hundreds of dol
lar. As is well known to entomolo
gists, the exaot period between biooda
of codlin moth is a fixed one. The com
ing of the first brood, however, is said
by apple growers, who have carefully
watched them, to vary with the tem
i peratore of the weather during the
early Spring. If the coming of the
first brood can be discovered, they say
that it can then be determined exactly
wheu to apray for the second and most
; disastrous brood.
This process Mr. Shepard has deter
mined, and this year fruit growers
here will know exactly when to spray
)in order to eliminate the wormy apple.
In talking about this interesting ex
periment the fruit growers manager
said :
" 'Of course we hav always sprayed
oar trees thoroughly and carefully both
during the Winter and Summer, but
the system baa been more or less hap
hazard. While it has produced good
results, there has been some wormy
frnit which it has been impossible to
eradicate, owing to the fact that the
moth propagated between tlie periods
of spraying. By taking a few of the
M first wormy apples that appeared in
my orchard and placing them in a jar,
I have hatched out a codlin moth, the
first one that I have seen in the valley,
although we have had undisputable
evidence that they were here. The
life of this moth will be four days,
when it will lay eggs that will take 11
days to hatch. So you see we can de
termine when to spray in order to de
stroy the second brood.
"'The late Spring this year was
" very unfavorable to the first brood of
cod in moth. But the weather during
the past mouth has been the most fav-
orable for that fruit pest that has been
known in many years, as for 2(1 days
during the month the minimum tem
perature at night did not fall below 60
4 degrees. As the moth flies at night
- and is not active iu a temperature of
leas than 55 degrees, it can be seen
that spraying at the proper time this
year will be most important. It may
ri mean the saving of manv hundreds of
-sB.rinllari to -rowers, and tnere la no rea-
'son why this experiment, which as far
Sell Real Estate
as I know has never been tried before
cannot be repeated each year until the
moth is praotically exterminated.'
The period of propagation of the
moth aa determined by the experiment
is SO days. The first brood of worms
was in the apples 21 days, in the coooou
seven days, io the period of transfor
mation aeven days, life of moth four
days, and eggs in hatching 11 days.
This agrees with the time between
broods aa announced by the State Ag
ricultural College, which places it at
from 49 to 60 days.
Peetrs Wanted
The Grants Pass Fruit Growers
Union will make a shipment of Bart
lett pears East about next Wednesday
and will accept merchantable pears
for three boxes np, delivered in Grants
Pass from growers 'whether members
of the Union or not. Call at the
Secretary's office in Courier build
ing or on President Reymera for an
acceptance and for rnlea for picking
and hauling. 8-10 It
TO HAVE EXHIBIT OF
FRUITS AND PESTS.
Fruit Growers Arranging to Show
the Good tvnd Bad of Their
Industry.
At the fruit growers meeting in
Grants Pass on Monday, September 8d,
there will be present from abroad, in
addition to the speakers, many strang
ers as well as fruit growers from Jack
son county and other sections of South
ern Oregon. It has been the current
belief all over Oregon that Josepbnie
county was only mining and timber
seotion and that the fruit growing sec
tion of Rogue River Valley was all in
Jackson county. To prove to those at
tending the frait growers meeting from
a distance that this section of Rogae
River Valley is one of the bauner dis
tricts of Oregon for growing high class
fruit it is the plan of the Grants Pass
Fruit Growers Union to have a com
plete exhibit at the meeting of all
fruits that are in season in September.
Even those not yet ripe are wanted as
they will show the frnit men quite as
well aa ripe friut their condition.
As many farmera do not know how
to recognize even eo geueral pest as
the San Jose scale it is desired that or-
cbardists bring in specimens of every
kind of diseased trees, fruit vegetables,
plants, etc., that they can find. These
pests will be identified by Prof. Cord-
ley, entomologist at the State Agrul
tural College, who will be present and
tell the farmers how to reognize the
pests and how to successfully fight
them. Thousands of boxes of fine ap
ples and pears are aunually los'. io thia
county because the farmers do aot know
how to keep the peats off their trees.
At these fruit growers meetings or-
chardists will get more practical knowl
edge and how to combat the pests than
could be learned in six months spent
intending on the subject. It will pay
every farmer who has even a dozen
frnit trees to attend this meeting and
learn how to grow fruit that will
bring a profitable price in the market
instead of being only fit for hog feed.
. Another Brick Block
Clause Schmidt has purchased the lot
50x100 on the south west corner of
Sixth and I streets, of Scott Griffin,
who formerly lived in thia city but who
now resides in San Francisco, paying
3350 for the property. There is
now on the lot the most unsightly
wooden building in Grants Pass, bat
Mr. Schmidt plans in another year
to replace it with -a brick structure.
He owns the adjoining lot on which
be last year built a brick block.
AND
Rent Houses
W. ;L. IRELAND,
G6e Real Estate Man.
Ground Floor, Courier Bldg.
Grants Pass, - Orboos.
NEW PROCESS FOR
SMELTING COPPER
Invention of Portland Nan txnd
Will Lessen the Expense of
Making Copper.
In a plain, old-fashioned frame build
ing at the corner of Tenth and Davis
streets, a Portland man has perfected
a new invention with wkinh he prom
ises to revolutionize the copper Indus
try of the world. The process is known
as the e.'ectrolytio apparatus for depos
iting copper. The inventor is John II.
Ryan, a mining engineer, who has ac
complished his purpose ouly alter
labor extending over a period of nearly
eight long years, says the Oregonian.
One filature of the new process, ac
cording to the claims of the inventor,
is that it will make the mine owners
independent of the trust which now
controls the copper market, and ia
accused of paying the miner what it
sees fit fcr the metal and charging
large fee for the smelter work, besides
which the electrolytic plant ia supposed
to aavs all the other metals,, such aa
gold, ailver and iron, for the operator.
Under the present trust system, the
mine owner gets nothing exoept to
much per pound for his copper, after
paying smelter charge of $5 per too.
The freight from the mine to the
smelter is also charged op to the mine
owner, who, after paying the smelter
fee, is allowed 11 cents a pound for
the pnre copper.
One of the advantages alleged for
the electrolytio process is the fact
that the plant may be Installed at the
mine and the ore treated, made into
"pigs" and sent to the market after
having passed through but one melting
vat At the smelters now in use the
copper is melted three and four times
before it is finally roady for shipment,
which, Mr. Ryan says, has a tendmoy
to weaken it.
HOW RYAN REDUCES ORE.
By use of the electrolytic plant for
depositing copper, the work is done by
electrloity instead of the melting pot.
First, the crude ore is crushed and
made into powder. Then it is treated
to a roasting process, whenoe it goes
to the leaching tubs. Here the copper
is dissolved by a chemical solution
poured into the vat and over the pow
dered ore. It is then allowed to filter
into another receptacle, after which
the solution, which has now absorbed
the copper, is transferred to the eleo-
trolytic plant. The fluid rans slowly
through a n amber of cell, which are
equipped with thiu copper plates anJ
charged with electricity. As the solu
lion passes alwoly from one cell to an
other, the copper is extracted aud de
posited npon a cathode sheet, the neg
ative being the anode plate.
The ouly loss io this new process,
the inveutor claims, is one-half of oue
per cent of copper, no matter what the
precentage contained in the ore.
This losa is due to the moisture left
in the tailings through which the
chemical solution passes before enter
ing the electrolytio plant. The differ
ent metals, Bacb as gold, silver and
iron, remain in the tailings and are
treated afterward by aeveral processes
to separate the different minerals.
SULPHUR ELEMENT ALSO
SAVED.
Another saving Mr. Ryan claims for
his process is that of tlie sulphur al
waya found in copper ore. This is ob
tained by the roasting method and
made into sulphurous or sulphuric
acid, which is used for leaching pur
poses, lu many cases where the ore
contains an nnusual amount of sulphur
the mineral may be saved in market
quantities.
The tailings also contain mucu ox
idn of iron, which goes to the alime
table, is dried and then put np in bar
rels for paiut. This is a new process
for securing absolutely pore oxide of
iron, or paint, and is in great demand
on the market for the covering of iron
aud wood works along railroad lines.
It has a brown iron color, and is aim
ply mixel with terpentine and oil and
ia ready for nse. By the cold process
the oxide of iron is said to invariably
contain from 5 to 10 per cent clay, ob
jectionable to painters.
MAKES LOW GRADE ORE OF
VALUE.
A the new process la to be estab
lishedat the copper inlneaandisex
pec ted to save thousands of dollars an
nually to tbs mks owners in freight
rates and hauling fees, tbs low grade
ores which are now of do use can be
I treated at a profit Ore containing iK
per cent of copper can be pat through
the process and money made on the re
sult, which cannot be done under pre
ent conditions, the inventor claims.
because of the transportation charges
and the fee charged by the smelter peo
pie.
After eutering the electrolytio plant
as chemical solution and being de
posited as pure metallic copper on the
cathode Bheet, the copper may be
stripped off, melted and poured into
pigs ready for the market. Under the
Ryan treatment the copper comes to
the melting point only this one time.
Mr. Ryan claims his apparatus will
produce pure copper at half the present
cost.
Copper is one of the great met
ala on the markets of the world today.
The numerous electrical inventions,
all of which use copper in many forma,
have helped to make the metal valu
able. At preseut it is worth 18 cents
pound.
Mr. Ryan baa just reoeived hia final
patents on his new invention.
SOUND POTATOES
HAD BY SPRAYING
Cle-ckmas Farmer Kills Pest and
R.alses Marketable Tubers Is
a Cheap Method.
The spraying of potatoes has been
demonstrated to be an insurance of a
crop of marketable tubers. District
Frait Inspector J. H. Reid. of Mil
waakie. ha been eiving practical lea-'
sons in potato spraying in the sonth
part of the county, and in a recent in
terview he told the Canby Tribune the
following facts:
Spraying potatoes for blight is no
longer an experiment but the farmer
wants to be shown. We don't olalm
that we can make more potatoes grow
to the bill by reason of spraying, .but
we assert that more marketable pota
toes can be obtiaued from a hill using
the Bordeaux mixture. An acre can
be sprayed twice for f 1. which practi
cally means a crop insurance of f 1 an
acre.
"Anyone can make the spray, and
the expense . is nominal. The snray
should be made by taking four pounds
of bluestoue aud dissolving it in 25
gallons of water; four pounds of lime
with just enough water to slack it, af
ter which add 25 gallons of water.
Both the blue'tone and lime when pre
pared should be placed in separate bar
rels, then take a f'ird barrel and poor
a bucketful of blaestoue solution, and
then a bucketful of lime solution. This
makts the perfect spray. The blue-
stone can be bought for 83 cants and
the lime for 10 ceuts, making the total
of 42 cents. This amount will spray
an acre twice, the remainder of the
dollar being extra expense for t'me of
the ma'i and team.
"At the Cluveland patch certain rows
will not be sprayed, others will re
ceive oue, two and three sprays respec
tively. By this uietiiol oan be demon
strated the value of spraying aud what
amount of spraying ia necespaiy. "
Got 25 Cents for Pears.
G. W. Triplett who resides near
Hugo, was in Grants Pshs Wednesday
to join the Fruit Growers Union and
arrange for the Union to ship bia
fruit of which he will have a carload
of apples and about 100 boxes of pesra.
Mr. Triplett, like many frnit raisers
in Josephine county without exception
hai bad a hard deal from the commis
sion men. Last fall he sent 60 boxes
of fine Bartlett pears to Portland and
got 25 cents a box, which paid the
freight and the boxes, .leaving him
nothing for growing and picking the
pears. Mr. Triplett has a large
orchard just coming into bearing,
planted on hill land and the vigor
of his trees and tbelr prolific hearing
of extra fine frait is added proof that
the red clay hills of Josephine couoty
are ideal locations for orchardiaU.
Being np in the thermal belt bia treea
are never nipped by a late spring froat
as is sometimes the case on the low
wet bottoms and he baa a fruit crop
evey year. Mr. Triplett was some
what discouraged over his orchard
venture aa he feared it would Dot be
profitable bat now that the fruit grow
ersjof Josephine county have formed a
union and will be able hereafter to do
their own marketing in carload lots
be feels confident that frait raising
will soon become the leading and
most protfiabls industry of this section
of Rogue River Valley.
The Courier has the laregat circula
tion of any paper in Southern Oregon.
CHEAP HAY MAKES
CREAMERY A NECESSITY
More Hav Will be Revised Than
Can be Sold Probexblv In
This County.
C. C. Englsh was a caller at the
Courier office Wednesday to ascer
tain what the prospects were for a
oreauiery being built "either in""tne
Applegate Valley orinGrants Pats.
Mr.
.ugii8ii is oue oi tlie receut set-
tiers in the Applegate valley, having
bought a fine pleoe of land in tha
New'Hope diBtrictndbeT'is'one of
the most progressive farmers of the
oouuty. He has a 43 aore hop field,
planted last year and 30 acres to alfal
fa, 15 being sown last year and 15
thia year. He will add about 20 acres
next year and increase hia acreage each
year thereafter nntil he geta all hia
land suitable to alfalfa sown. In less
than five years Mr. English will have
75 or more aorea in alfalfa. With three
to four crops each year giving a total
of six to eight tons of hay per aore.
Mr. English will then have about
600 tons of hay each year. To get a
profitable market for this quantity
of hay will be no small task, especial
ly by five years hence whan the hay
orop of Josephine oounty will be four
or five times larger than it now is.
In hia own neighborhood Mr. En
glish stated that heretofore he and
most of hia neighborhoods had bought
hay, hauling it from Provolt and
other sections of Applegate Valley.
This year for the first time New Hope
farmers will be in the markets with
a larger quantity of hay to sell. At
the price hay now brings in Grants
Pass, which is the priuoipal market
for Josephine connty hay, it will not
pay to sell it even if bot a hanl of a
mile has to be made. Sellng bay off
a farm is selling at a very low price
the fertility of the land. Mr. En
glish is fully aware of this fact and
proposes to feed on bis place all the
bay it produces. A careful investiga
tion of the conditions that govern the
beef trade as now controlled by the
paokers' trust, convinces " Mr. En
glish that it will not be profitable to
raise beef oattle on the high priced
land of this seotion. Butter not being
a commodity that a trust is ablo to
oontrol is at saoh a price as to make
dairying a profitable industry for
Rogae River Valley farmers. As soon
as he can bay the cows Mr. English
Intends to go into the dairy business.
His farm is well situated for dairy
lug and he oould readily keep 25 to 60
cows more than a creamery conve
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nient to take the cream. Mr. English
it certain that when the land injtbe
New Hopiedistrlctls"'all"iu" cultiva
tion that can be irrigated that the
settlers can readily keep 600 cows.
As to location for a creamery Mr. En
glish would prefer that lt be located
on theApplegate, but he could readily
deliver cream to a creamery In Grants
Pass, aa his place is bat six miles
from this city. He is of the opinion
that were a stock company formed to
raise the funds to put In a creamery
that many farmers would take one or
more shares. And the supply of cream
Mr. English thiuks that the Apple
gate Valley alone there will be 300
cows by next year and if the cream
ery was run as it should be and the
farmera paid the fall price for cream
that the number would be doubled by
the following year.
' The Classified Ad oolumus of the
Courier contain many items which
will be of interest to yon and yon
should make it a point to read them
each week.
JACKSON COUNTY
GOOD ROADS
Has a Crew Who Are Doing Good
Work. Josephine County
Needs Roe-da.
2 Jackson county does most of its
road work with a crew of men and
teams hired by the month under the
foremanahlp of a competent road
builder. This crew has a camp out
fit and are at home whereever they
are at work. And this crew has an
equipment for doing real road work,
and not for aummer fallowing the
roadbed and for deadlng the oak ahade
trees by the road side. The latest
improved graders, a rock crusher and a
big steam roller that rolls the roads
so bard that a freight team will net
out ruts in the sorfaoe, and whloh
also does duty aa a stationary engine
to operate the crusher and as a trac
tion engine to haul the crusher about
the country is the equipment that
Jackson has for its road builders.
Of what is beinir Booomnllshed for
the betterment of tlie roads about Cen
tral Point the Herald of that place
bas the following to say :
Jackson oounty is getting to the
front with many srtetchea of good
roads and the value of adjaoeut prop
erty is being thereby materially
enhanced. A flue piece of work has
lately been done near Agate and the
winter time tribalations of the resi
dents of Sams Valley and other locali
ties will be considerably lesseued.
Good roads are beoomiug a necessi
ty In up-to-date communities and the
people of this oounty are to be con.
gratalated on the good work being
done along that line.
& O'Neill
Furnishers
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buy Ranges?
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offering goods. Will you try?