1 VOL. XXII. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1906.. No. 21. M n ?V. Oran APPLE PRICES ABOUT SAME AS LAST YEAR Hood River Grower Will Sell Their Entire Crop to the Highest Bidder. The following interview iu the Fort land Journal, given by O. L. Vander- ilt, a leading froit raUer of Hood iver, oontaioa much information that value to the membership of the Grants Pass Froit Grower! Associa tion "From offers already received the impression prevails at Hood River that prices for Oregon apples thia year will be about the same as last year, when the highest prices ever known were paid and the entire Hood River crop was shipped to Eastern and European market. The crop In the valley this year is variously estimated from 100,000 to 130,000 boxes, nearly doable the amount of last year's crop. ' 'Already Eastern and European buy ers have visited the valley. The Ap plegrowera Association has not made any contracts and has fixed upon Au gust 20 as the date When the crop will be sold to the highest bidder. Sealed bids will be reoeived by the cashier of the First National bank of Hood River and opened by the bank's directors. ' 'The association represents 90 per cent of the apple growers of the valley and numbers about 128 men. No grower is allowed, under the rigidly enforced rules, to pack his own apples. "This work is done by experts em loyed by the associtaion'. A crew con sists of four packers and an inspector. Every apple is inspected before being placed in the box. An association wrapper and box label has been copy righted and is nsed exclusively by the organization fox protection of buyers and consumers from apples that are grown elsewhere and labeled Hoed River applos. "This year for the first time the Hood River Valley grower has sold bis Gravensteins, Kings and Wealtbles, early varieties, to the European mar ket. Of these there will be seven car loads from this valley. Two cars are from Beulablaod, the largest apple ranch in the valley. Oscar Vanderbilt, owner of Beulahland, who was in Portland today, said : " 'Conditions in the valley at pres ent are almost perfect for the apple buisDesg. The three early varieties now sold to Europe will be picked and hipped In about three weeks. Pick ing of other varieties will begin in October. This year is the third in which the association has followed the plan of selling the Hood River apple crop to the highest bidder. It has worked successfully and this year the growers will realize the benefits of both a large crop and a good price.' . "Mr. Vanderbilt said the increased acreage planted this year is not large, but a number of good Bales have been made. Some of these are at prloes that people might regard as fancy. But when compared with prices and earning capacity of Colorado orchards and elsewhere, Hood River prices are still conservative. Colorado apple or chards bring from $1000 to 0 per acre, while the Hood River prices do not range at half those figures, al MY SALES for the past 30 DAYS Elizabeth Jones to Fred Knight, cottage and lot. Edward Gouin to J. M. Newman, 3. acres of orchard with 5- rCT.0F.UOrorton to Julia Pardee, S lots, 8-room modern cottage. Rose Weidman to Samuel Provolt, 1 lot, 5-room cottage. Lincoln Savage to Hattia Miaer, lots. 6-room cottage. F. M. Miner to Lincoln Savage, 1 unimproved lot. 10 lots in Portland for Rose Weidman. I NEED MOKE fKurtun iu slll. LIST though the lattet oroharda have shown the greater earning power. In a num ber of Hood River orchards a single acre has been known to yield as much as flOOO gross in a year. "Mr. Vandrebilt has purchased SO acres known as the Valhalla or chard, now in . full bearing, and added it to bis Beulahland. This farm now consists of about 145 acres, and its bearing acreage is the largest in the valley. Last year the original farm yielded between 4000 and 6000 boxes. The ranch is cultivated to a high degree, bearing trees loaded with perfectly formed apples, the young trees looking thrifty. Every tree is trimmed and sprayed scrupulously. The land is cultivated and harrowed, and not a wed to be seen between all the long rows of trees. 'This year's crop of Beulahland is estimated at 14,000 boxes. The apples from this farm sold last year at $1.75 as the lowest and $3 the highest price per box. These priecs amaze eastern apple growers, most of whom get less money for a barrel than Hood River growers receive for a bushel of apples. With the acreage of young trees that will come into bearing in the next two or three years the yield of Beulahland will be increased to upwards of 25,000 boxes annually. The entire farm is susceptible of irrigation, and has water at hand, but irrigation is little utilized at the present time." EXTRACTS FROM STATE GAME LAW Doe'e Protected Vutil Sept Elk Protected Until 19 0 7. 15th. Commencing Aug. 15 it is lawful to kill buck deer in Oregon until De cember 1 next. The season for does ends at the same time, but does not open until Sept. 1, at which time also it will be lawful to kill pheasants. The grouse eeason opened on the first of this month. . It clones December 1, as does 'J""jbeasant -season. The open season' for quail is from Sept 1 to Dec, 1. ,Elk are protected until 1907. The season for trout, which opened April 1, closes Nov. 1. The following brevities, extracted from the Oregon game lawf, will be of interest to sportsman. It is. UNLAWFUL To sell any game To kill mom than 10 pheasants, grouse or quail in 1 day To catch trout less than 5 inches To catch trout other than with hook and line To catch trout by night fishing To hun; deer at night To hunt deer with dogs To kill more than 5 deer in one season To bunt game animals or birds with out license except upon your own ground Black Bass No law. Snipe No law. J. W. Talhnadge who resides on Rogue River avenue has left at the Courier office a sample of timothy that would do credit to Illinois, the gieat hay state. The stems in this bunch of grass are from four to above five feet long and the heads are from six to ten inches in length. Real Estate AND , Rent Houses W. L. IRELAND, X5h9 Real Estate Man. Ground Floor, Courier Bldg. Grants Pass, - Oregon. NOW. A UNIFORM NATURALIZA TION OF ALIENS IN U.S. County Officers Cannot Giv . Paper Aftet Sept. 27th, . ThU Year. An act was passed during last ses sion of congress establishing a bureau of naturalization and immigration and to provide a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens through out the United States. The bureau is under the department of commerce and labor and the clerks of the several couVts must procure all the blanks required for naturaliza tion from that source. The attorney general of this state was notified by the commissioner general yesterday, through the gover nor's office, to advise the courts of this state that on and after September 27, tiia year, their naturalization jurisdiction will cease nnless they comply with the terms of the act. According to the act only the fol lowing oourts are given jurisdiction over naturalization. "United States circuit and district oourts now existing or which may hereafter be established by congress in any state; United States district oourts in the territories; the supreme court of the District of Columbia and the United State oourts of records in any state or territory now existing, or wbioh may hereafter be created, having a seal, a clerk, and jurisdic tion in action at law or equity, or law and equity, in which the amonct in controversy is unlimited." Aocording to this the county court in Oregon will have no power here after to issue final papers of citizen ship. The fees to be paid for naturali zation papers are to be divided, one- half kept by the clerk of the court in which the naturalization is perfected and the other half to be sent to the naturalization bureau at Washington. The work of "justifying" for nat uralization will not be so easy under this law as it has been in the past. No perosn who is opposed to organized government or who teaches that kind of doctrine can be admitted to citizen ship and all applicants who have not declared their intentions prior to the enactment of this law, must be able to speak the English language before be ing naturalized, unless they should settle on government land and make their home thereon. The apparent latent of this latter provison is to encourage the foreigners, so that they may not accumulate in congested groups in the large cities, with the evil results which follow iu many ways, Llie foreigner who gets out on a farm is not liable to beoouie an anarchist, but soon learns the lan guage of the country and becomes a good American. There are luaiiy other provisions of the law intended to protect the citi zenship of the oountry from undesir able and undeserving members of the ballot box form those who do not un derstand or appreciate its meaning and its legitimate uses. Naturalization papers cannot be is sued during the period of thirty days prior to a general election in the state in which they are applied for. TO HAVE EXHIBIT OF FRUITS AND PESTS Fruit Growers Arranging to Show the Good and B(vd of Their Industry. Tbe 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 io Courier build ing or on President Reymers for an acceptance and for rules for picking and hauling. 8-10 It At the fruit growers meeting in Grants Pass on Monday, September liT, there will be present from abroad, in addition to tbe speakers, many strang ers as well as frnit growers from Jack son county and other sections of South ernOregoo. It has been the current belief all over Oregoa that Josephnie county was only a mining and tiuibxr section and that the fruit growing sec tion of Rogue River Valley was all in Jackson county. To prove to those at- tending tbe fruit growers meeting from ;ed I stance that this section of Rogue River Valler is one of the banner 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 fruit men quite as well as ripe friut their condition. As many farmers do not know how to recognize even so general a pest as the San Jose scale it is desired that or- chardists 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 annually lost; in this county because the farmers do not know how to keep the pests off their trees. At these fruit growers meetings or chardists will get more practical knowl edge and bow to combat the pests than oould be learned in six months spent inj-eadiog on the subject. It will pay every farmer who has even a dozen fruit trees to attend this meeting and learn bow to grow fruit that will bring a profitable prloe in tbe market instead of being only fit for bog feed. Fine commercial Courier office. printing at the PROF. C0RDLEY IDENTI FIES PEACH DISEASE Telle Ashland Fruit Growers As sociation How to Destroy Fungus Disease. A new fungus disease has appeared to a limited extent with peach or chards about Ashland, and fearing fat it might be a serious pest the Ashland Fruit & Produce Association sent a lot of the peaches to Prof. A. B. Cordley, entomoloigst at the State Agricultural college, for him to iden tify and to report as to its chaiacter. The following is Porf. Obrdley's re ply to trie Ashland Association, which was published in the Ashland papers and the Courier herewith published it for the information of Josephine county peach grower: Oorvallis, Ore., Aug. 16, 1906. i The Ashland Fruit & Produce As sociation. Ashland, Oregon. Dear Sirs : In answer to your let ter of tbe 2nd, which accompanied the letter are Infested with the fnng us disease known as peach fruit spot! which is caused by the fungus'Heliu- inthosporium Carpophilum, and also by the larva of the peach twig miner, Anarsia Lineatella. The presence of the fungus causing the spots opon the peach, which resemble those pro duced by San Jose scale should not in my estimation, be cause for condemn iug the fruit since it does not so far as known, injure the tree at all and does no particular injury to the fruit. The larva of the peach twig moth wiuters in small burrows which it makes In the bark of the tree, usually about the crotches of the limbs. Just as the Kaf buds start in spriug the larvae leave their winter quarters and burrow into tbe tips of the twigs where the first generation develops. From these larvae are produced small, grayish moths which deposit eggs for the second generation, the worms which are now attacking the peaches. The best method of fighting this pest has been found to be to spray the trees in spring, shortly before the blossom buds begin to swell, with the lime, sulphur salt spray. This application would also serve as the first one for controlling tlie fungus snd if this were supplemented with one or two sprayings with weak Bor deaux mixture, tbe first, say a week or ten days after the blossoms have fallen and the second two weeks later, tbe three applications would un doubtedly check both troubles. Very truly your, A. B. CORDLEY. Mrs. A. J. needay from spend about parents, Mr. Schrimpf arrived Wed Santa Paula. CaL, to six weeks visiting her and Mrs. Alex Watts. 8lie will also visit her brother George Elliott, and sister, Mrs. Harrington, st Myrtle Point before returning home. Mr. Schrimpf, who while here was en gaged in farming is now engaged in masonry work at big wages, as ever since the San Francisco disaster ma sons have been io big demand. The Courier has the laregst circula tion of any paper in Southern Oregon. CRODE OIL USED ON SALEM STREETS Clouds of Dust on Capitol Streets May Be Eliminated 'Soon Sprinkling the Salem streets with oil has actually begun, says the Salem Journal of August 17. . Portions of Court street and Liberty street in front of the property of Dr. J. H. Brewer, was treated to a coating of crude petro leum this morning. So far, the in dications are that it is a success. ' The work attracted a great deal of interest and hundreds of citizens passed around that way to watch lhe men lay tbe dust and greaie the road. The experiment may solve the prob lem of Salem's dusty streets, and the success of tbe effort will lead other property owners to adopt the same methods. The oil was spread by means of the water sprinkler, and did not spread as it will when a regular sprnikler is oon' struoted for the experiment to be oon' ducted around the court bouse prop erty tomorrow. The oil was foroed directly oo to the street by the sprink ler, and then the road was raked to as to spread the oil In better shape. Tbe sxpetiment was made on an area of 80x24 feet on one street 60x30 on the other. Dr. Brewer has estimated that it would cost about $8 to thoroughly sprinkle the distance of one block, and that an application of three barrels of oil would do tbe work on the streets This Tumbler sizes $1.35 to $1.73 per dozen Thomas & O'Neill H I Motto I The House Furilishers X I Quality and prices make thia store the economical n SOME Specially Interesting Pricos" 'on Seasonable jj Goods This Week: ( 2 'the'''besl rHI "is ftni'B0m8 Rpd X CTs Leonard V Rockor In nuraa 4f I C loanable jl .IL ty'8j no arm, spo- Jf ' Mi ad" stabta 'iIIeS ial " 1 flflt 1 shulves. r,i ; S9 W 1 Vul I Thl".weelt M 1 jPzitJ' Discount. JL--Mrw.JU Lace Curtuln Jf ' i 'lv IT Stretohors ' 'JftdSfr sa.7s. 3.50 1 --g.-js 1 1 1 Hsmmocki ,u fl IT tosOe T"P Muhogany Corner J I irarjfijr" ; 1tivI 'Ohalr, upholsUired 2 SkdjQj 1 V u d o r J 1 fc4 Get our prions. Vffw F r e n o h Dressing flfvJl Stands, solid quar- to red oak, French ! Water StU f I ', bevelod mirrors, fl 7 pieces W 7 ' regularly 119.75, V!Vyk I i Special $16.30. Aml r-u,arl' 850 . 3321' Special 65c r ,.,-,,,,, " Some big ! -ir'-Vi -' in 1 li3j-i,)J!51l',rt Dining f Water Tumblers ' ' 3 Tables , iVtrAxTPv Ask to see ' 15c Hot tjpj&Bfi Yh o u r new-' usually 30c 1 LXwLj '''Vh' ?1 e1 ' fuart Glass Pitchers I" ... $12 75 fine heavy fire pol- ' . lahod- f . Some es 20c t ft pecially Wire Vegetable and 'j'"'1' ' CjW" 2TtoUo0 J packages for ' 25C ST WALL ' fgT 8 qt White Mountain JjW A most ex- TJ VrVWrt In cellent selec- ' 'ySJ $4.00 Ul tlonof beautl- This only a sample of what we're doing all along the line io Furniture, Carpets, Rugs everything in Housefurnishings. THOMAS & O'NEILL, The Housefurnishcrs adjoining his property. Judge Soott, too, is optimistic at the interest mani fested. Thia experiment will be watobed with interest for if it is a success in Salem oil will bo tried on the streets of Grants Pass. A seotion of granite sand sid.walk will likely be given a trial of a coating of oil to try the effect of giving it a smooth surface and of eliminate the white glare it has from the bright son, m Will Instruct Cane.de Farmere. C. E. 8tewart of Cottage Grove, formerly of Bedford, has been engaged by the Horticultural Society of On tario, Canada, to instruct the fruit growers of that country in Oregon methods of frail packing. Mr. Stewart is well fitted by his long experience as a fruit grower to give the neoesaary instructions and has already lett for the scene of his labors. He will be there about three months. Mr Stewart is the son of the late J. H. Stewart of Medford, who planted tbe first big orchard in Rogue River Valley and demonstrated that frnit raising when scientifically carried on was one of the most profitable indus tries for the farmer of this Valley. Mr. Stewart bad a fine orchard near Medford, wbtob he sold for $15,000. three years ago, when be moved to Cottage Gsove to engage in business. Eastern orohardists and Eastern deal ers concede that the Oregon fruit rais ers lead the world in advanced meth ods in raising and packing fruit and for several years past Oregon apples and pears have brought a much higher price in tbe markets of New York and other- Eastern cities than the same fruit from other states. mail ttU iotoTic I gFlten ,C double roll, j