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ROGCE RIVKR COURIER. GRANTS PASS, OREGON, AUGUST 31, 106. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. fit C. FINDLEV, M. D. Practice limited to KYE, EAB, NOSE and THROAT. Glasses fitted and furnished. Office hour 9 to 12; 2 to 6; and on ap pointment Telephones 261 and 77. Giants Pass, - - Obsoon J)R. J. C. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND 8URGEON Office at National Drug Store. Phones, OIHoe 866; Beg. 1045. Residence cor. 7th and D streets. Grant Pahs, - - Oheoon I)R. W. F. KREMER PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office In Courier Building:. Office phone Oil, residence 413. Eyes tested and glasses fitted. Chants Pass, ... Oregon. g LOUGHRIDGE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEON Res Phone 714 City or country calls attended night or day. Sixth ana li, run s Dutiaing. Oltiue Phone 2U1. Grants Pass - . Oheoon j. "AL'L UNDERTAKER, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND LICENSED EMBALMER. orth 0th st., near Court House. Office Phone 751, Res. Phone 717. Grants Pass, Obkuok EARL V. INGELS ASSAYER AND CHEMIST. All work guaranteed accurate and re us Die. ;. OMoeopp. P. O. Phone 1003. Grants Pahs, Orioon. U. JNUKlUiX, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Practice In all State and Federal Courts. Office li Opera House Building. Grants Pass, ... Oregon A. C. HOUGH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Practices In all State and Federal Courts OQloa over Ualr-Rlddlo Hardware Co. Grants Pass, - Orkoon J. H. AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1 Union Building Kerby .... Oreu: YflLLIAM P WRIGHT, D. H. DEPUTY SURVEYOR MINING ENGINEER AND DRAUGHTSMAN 6th St., north of Josephine Hotel, Giants Pass, - - Orkoon Charles Costain Wuod Working Shop. West of flour mill, near R. R. track Turning. Scroll Work. Blair Work, Hand pswing.i mnei work, wood mnevs, haw ruing ana gumming, Kepajnng all kinds Prloet right. J. M. CHILES The Pioneer Grocer Is occupying bis new brick and is better prepared than ever to serve nis patrons. New refrigerator iustalled in which to keep BUTTER CHEESE EGGS And other perishables. Ice water water ou draught in 6 gallon cooler ou inside and drawn through wall with faucet. Call when passing and dry. G. B. Burhtnt Testifies Alter Four Yean. Q. B, Burhaus, of Carlisle Ccutr, bi. x., writes: "Atxmt four years ago I wrote yon stating tint I had been entirely cured of a severe kidney trouble by taking less than two bottles of Foley's Klduey Cure. It entirely stopped the briok dost sediment, aud pain and symptoms of kiduey disease disappeared. I am glad to say that have never had a return ofj auy of those symptoms daring the four years tbat have elapsed aud I am evidently oared to stay cured aud heartily rno ininiend Foley' Kidney Core to any we suffering from kidney or bladder trouble." For sale by II. A Roter and. , . i ne Conner nas me largest corps oi corrcsoonnVtit of nnv paoer in South " ' " "7" I bUte Maps OourierBuildiug. WHY GOOD KOADS PAY MAKE LAND VALUABLE AND CREATE HIGH AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE. triklna laataacca ot lnaportaaee f t Havlaa: Improved HikwM Told br ArkMMl Man Serloas ESet of Bad Road Tax oa Farmer. At the recent convention of the Arkansas Good Roads association held at Fort Smith, II. E. Kelley, according to the Goods Roads Magazine, spoke on "Good Roads Why They ray," saying In pnrt as follows: "Roads are the foundation of civili zation. They form the tnvans of com munication between people, and there is no bettor Index of the intelligence of any community tliim Its roads. Good roads pay. They make high laud val ues, and In tlino they create high aver age Intelligence 111 the country through which they are built. Perhaps no bet ter example of this can be found than In New Zealand, where tiie general government undertake the building and care of all roads the railroads as well as the wugou roads. The country of New Zealand Is much like that of Arkansas, but the government adopted a development p:licj which Is very effective and highly profitable. One of the main lines of business conducted R .............. X'..... " 1 I In real estate. It acquired by purchase or condemnation large tracts of land. The first thing lu tint way of develop ment was a highway built through the property. Along this the government sells out to settlers on long time and easy payments hind In suitable sizes for farms and homes. The settlers on this land are first given employment by working on the roads. After the roads are In good condition the popula tion conies quite rapidly, and It is as tonishing what that government is ac complishing In spreading Its people out on the soil. There Is no congestion of the population In cities. Each citizen Is encouraged to get a home of as many acres of Innd as hn onn tnlta ram rf Fand the result Is a population whose general intelligence ana comfort are greater tluth I have seen elsewhere, "That good roads pay Is a generally conceded fact, and It has seemed strange to me that an argument on this subject should be needed. A visit to any of the rural districts of Arkansas Is convincing proof that an argument Is required, for the good roads are not there, and I cannot conceive of a great er contrast than that which the squalor. poverty and Ignorance displayed In our rural districts make with the Intelli gence, cleanliness and comfort one sees in a New Zealand rural district I think this difference is more due to the roads than to any other cause. Whether the lack of roads breeds Ignorance or whether the ignorance breeds the bad roads Is a subject I will not undertake to discuss. At any rate, both exist to such an extent lu our state that our first patriotic duty Is to either dispel the Ignorance In procuring the roads or procuring the roads to dispel the Ig norance. "I recently purchased a piece of land near Fort Smith pust which run two good roads recently built. This land was timbered, but the timber had been rated an Incumbrance on the land. In fact, it hadn't been profitable to steal It and haul It to town, which fact prob ably accounts for Its still being there. I had a lot of this timber cut and put a rather Intelligent person looking for a disposal of It. Some time later I was surprised when he told me that It was sold at a net price, after paying for the hauling, which would more thau pay for clearing the land. On looking Into this I found that the good roads made it possible to haul a cord or more at a load of this wood to market and make about four loads a day, whereas before the good roads were built two loads of one-half cord each were all that one team could do. It cost ?3 a cord to haul this wood before the good roads were built and 75 cents a cord after ward. In other words, the wood was worth I2.2S per cjrd after tho roads were put lu, while It was absolutely worthless before. 1 find that the dif ference In the cost of hauling a ton of hay to market lie-fore and after the good roads for a distance of seven mile Is alHiut fi. One of my farm teams over the bad roads will bring a tjn of hsy to town In a day. Over the good Muls they will bring three tuns, so the product of a meadow of 100 acres Is worth iili.nit $: more with a good road to It at seven aiiles from town than It Is with a bad road. Pcfore this good road was built the meadow was worth flO per acre. Since it Is built ?:!0 seems u reasonable price for It. "I have found by actual experience Ihnt the tnx tho farmers are paying which keeps them poverty stricken Is that Imposed by bad r wids. For many years 1 tried earnestly to locate an In dustrious j'hiss of farmers lu this coun ty. On different invasions I did suc ceed In getting several such colonics started. None of tliem remain, fsu ally they were a hardy class of Her mans such as settled the prairies and states to tho north and west of us. One by one they would sell out and go back to the prairie country. On closs questloulug 1 would Bud that the lack of roads and schools was so great these people wouldn't stay. The eountry they came from bad a tax three times as large as ours. In fact, many of the school districts In Kansas where they bad lived levied a school tax much greater than our total tax. and It was not unusual for the total tax to be S per cant In the counties from which these .......... ........ J "ul" try It a year or two lu our country of bad road and low taxes, then sell out and retnru to the S per cent tax rate. "Good city strwts pay Just as well as good countrv roads, mid It Is almost Impossible to have a clean, healthy, wholesome town without paved streets. We In Fort Smith have bad a notable example of bow good streets pay." DUSTLTSS COCNTR ROADS. Asphalt L'aed la PI arc of Macadam oa New Jersey Hlfkwars, If the experiments to be conducted by State Road Commissioner E. C. Hutchinson of New Jersey turn out successfully, as be predicts they will, the duy of the dustless country road Is at hand, and automoblling will be given a loom In New Jersey surpass lug even that which its unexcelled macadam road system has given it. says a dispatch from Trenton; N. J. Commissioner Hutchinson will during tlio summer experiment with the use of asphalt Instead of macadam for building country roads. The roads built of this material In the rural dls- tricts will not be like the smooth sur faced street pavement of the city streets, but will resemble the macadam roads in that they will have small broken stones for their principal com ponent, and these will be bound solidly together by asphalt. This will present a hard surface from which there will be no wearing of small particles to be whirled In clouds of dust in the fuces of travelers and in the homes of bor dering residents. Commissioner Hutchinson's experi ments have attracted the attention of roud builders all over the United States, who are watching the result with the deepest Interest. Sir. Hutch lnson asserts that the asphalt country road will cost no more than the mac adam, and that Its wearing Qualities will surpass those of the material at present commonly used. Within the last few months Commis sioner Hutchinson has been bobbing up most unexpectedly at the scenes of new road operations lu different parts of the state. This Is the result of the recent acquisition by his department of an automobile, which enables the commissioner to keep his eye on new road work much more readily than he could before. Contractors and Inspect ors receive no uotlce of the commis sioner's approach, aud consequently any shortcomings of which they may be guilty In the construction are quickly exposed to the gaze of the offi cial who has the say lu the distribu tion of the state's road appropriations. In several counties Commissioner Hutchinson has pounced down upon derelict contractors and lnsHctors, and he has not heslta'ed to call the atten tion or boards of freeholders to the conditions that he found, and In some Instances he has exercised his authority of withholding the state's money until the work was properly done. Commissioner Hutchinson l t pre eut paying particular attention to r.p plications presented to him for nor roads. He Insists that only the mos; traveled roads be Improved, and In this way Instead of building rj ids that will ueiieni ouiy s small seciTTin he is ac complishing the Joining of the chain of macadam roads crossing the state In all directions. This encourages auto moblling, uud In consequence the state treasury Is enriched the more by the increase of the receipts of its uuto uiobllo department. The day of the narrow macadam road, ten and twelve feet In width, has passed, and Com missioner Hutchinson now euforces strictly the rule thot he laid down when ho entered upon his otBce thot no road less than sixteen feet in width be built In New Jersey. State tllahwar Uepartmrat. Virginia is to have a state highway department. The bill, which has passed the senate, provides fur a state hlghwuy commissioner, to be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the legislature, and an assistant, both of whom must be civil engineers, and the commissioner, together with the professors of engineering in tho Uni versity of Virginia, the Military lustl tuie aim me roiyieciinic institute, are to constitute the highway commission. Local authorities are to apply to the commissioner when they desire perma nent road Improvement, aud ou his ad vice the work will be undertaken. The county Is to supply ticcessary materials and tools, and the state will supply convict labor free of cost to the local ity. The first year will necessarily be largely devoted to preparation aud or ganisation, after which a liberal state aid measure Is expected. Aaopla the Count? Road Sratvm. One-half of the taxes in the village of Munislng, Mich., is paid by the Cleveland Cliffs Iron coinpnny. This company has agreed to expeud $1 for every dollar raised by the village for permanent street improvements', so that, in fuct, three-fourths of the cost of street Improvements will be paid by the company. Alger county. In which Munislng la located, has, following the lead of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron com pany, adopted the county road system and voted to raise $100,000 for road Improvement In tho county. Draeclaa- Snath Kaaaaa Raaas. The three rural route carriers from Wellesvllle, Kan., report forty miles of dragged roads on their seventy-five mile routes, says the Kansas City Times. The work Is the direct result of the agitation recently started when the Good Itoads special sent out by the Sauta Fe railroad stopped there and D. Ward King made a practical demonstration of the possibilities of the "split log" drag. At that time seventy -five farmers and business men agreed to build and operate drags. Fine commercial Courier office. printing at the DESTROYER 3F EOlBS AUTOMOBILES SAID TO BE CARRYING OFF THE OUST. Biacrlaaeata of GOTeraaaeat Experts hr Motor Cars Efforts Betas' Madi to Flaa a Raaaedr. The automobile stands accused 'on official government authority of a high crime and misdemeanor. It is destroy ing roads. And if It be asked. How so? the answer Is: By carrying off the dust The dust, strange though It may seem. Is the life of a road, without which it soon undergoes disintegration. This will be explained later on, bow ever. Meanwhile it will be interesting to describe some experiments which Uncle Barn's road experts are now en gaged In making, with a view to ascer taining just how much dust Is carried off from a rond by an average motor car travellug ot various rates of speed. One method adopted for the purpose is to mount a photographic camera on the front of a motor car, and, following close behind another automobile, to take snapshots of the Intter at different speeds. It is quite a picturesque and In teresting performance, the exact speeds being determined by means of stop watches held by men stationed along the truck, while additional photogra phers are placed at intervals on the roadside to take pictures of the ma chines us they fly pust. The work in question is being done in the neighbor hood of Washington under the direction of the bureau of roads, which utilizes a certain stretch of roadway for a given afternoon, warning all vehicles to keep carefully to the right. Then something begins to happen. The speed law Is abrogated for that afternoon over this particular stretch DUST HAIHKI) BY AUTOMOB1I.S TRAVELING TIUKTY MILES A!l HODB. of road. Several motor cars of differ ent types and weights are in readi ness. The photoin-anhers and the men with stop watches are duly placed at their appointed stations. Whoosh! Off goes a uiuchlue at a rapid rate, fol lowed closely by another, In the front of which, with the chauffeur, sits a uiun who opcrutes a camera. The dust flies upward lu u cloud, partly obscuring the uutomoblle in front, but that Is what Is wimted to show ' by photography how mucli dust Is thus thrown up from the roadbed, to be carried off by the breeze, and so. In considerable part, lost. To say Unit dust is the life of a road is not puttliiR the fact too strongly. It Is the cementing material of the road surface, which, comblnlm; with the moisture contributed by rain, holds to gether the stony particles composing that surface, shedding storm water aud preventing the particles from un dergoing disintegration. Thus It may be said that dust Is to a road what shingles nro to a house. If It Is takeu way the roadbed goes to pieces. The amount of dust thrown up by the au tomobile Is In proportion to the speed ot which it goes. Hut, in order to .ob talu exact fl!,nres on this point, the government experts take a series of photographs of each motor car, trav eling over the same stretch of road, at ! ten miles, twenty miles, thirty miles i and so on up to seventy miles an hour. I A stretch of r!'l with a fairly sharp ' turn Is chosen by preference. In order I that photographers posted at the bend I may, with safety to themselves, snap-1 shoot each motor car from directly ! lu frout, ns it approaches, and also ! directly from behind, after It has passed by. Now, It is not merely for theoretical purposes that the road bu reau Is making these experiments. It j Is trying to find a remedy for the mis- i chief a practical part of the Inquiry which Is being carried on slmultane- I ously with the automobile tests above described. Something must be found, obviously, to keep the dust from being carried off the roads, and the pre- j ventlve seems to b either tar or oil. For some months past the experts ! have been applying tar and crude pe troleum to different sections of roads, and they have found that either (though the tar seems to be preferred i accomplisK-s the purpose admirably, j It appears that an application of tar j costs less than 2 cents a square yard, j Including labor, and It will last for a year or so, though Just how long can-1 not be stated exactly as yet. The cost of oil is even less. The tar Is trans ported for the purpose In tank cars and heated lu the car by Introducing a coll of steam pipe Into it and furnish ing the requisite heat from an engine ou wheels which Is run up alongside, sighls way the material Is made fluid. brooms or otherwise over the srf.? 1 ui uic nwuii-u iuil is id 11a nvirm. The tar gives a bard and smooth coat fcg, resembling asphalt It penetrates to a depth of one or two Inches, and In the case of macsdam forms a sort of matrix Into which the stones of the top layer are set A tarred street la dust less In the same sense tbat an asphalt street is dustless. lCAOHIERi(( Put yourself in the way of Success. j What life work do you eleet for yourself, youDg man or young wo man '. Q Are you starting out in the way that means drudgery and small wages, or are you getting in line for success and preferment by mak ing yourself competent to do the work tbat demands high remunera tion? 3 The Holir.vs Business College has started hundreds of young men and women on the road io success. J We have a whole index file filled with letters from our former stu dents who are now occupying posi tions of honor and trust. J All over the Pacific Coast and in lacl in every part of the world you will find Holmes Business College graduates in the professions, man aging businesses of their own or occupying places of trust in banks 1 or other large financial institutions. C The Holmes Bus. ness College prepares you for success by intro ducing you into'an atmosphere of success the moment you step with in the doors of the College. Write for folder giving detailed information about the courses of study, tuition, etc. It is worth get ting and worth keeping. It will be sent you postpaid by return mail. Write today. , . BUSINESS COLLEGE WASHINGTON CrTENTH STS PORTLAND. ORE. Write direct to Principal, Reom 621 CITY Phone 44 mm BIGGEST STOCK OF Best Grades of Fresh and Smoked Meats MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS J. B. PADDOCK, Proprietor. I am prepared to furnish anything in the line of Cemetery work in any kind of Marble or Granite. ' Nearly thirty years of experience in the Marble business warrants my savins that I can fill your orders in the very best manner. " Can furnish work in Scotch, Swed-j or American Granite or any kind of Front street, next to Green's UunshoD. THE SIGN OF TIIE BEST HIE BEST SIGN 4" Through Trains Daily From Portland to the East 4 Make it a point to try the -IVOXH COANT LOlITEn" The only Electric I.itrhte firctw,. t , D.ntng Car night and , It 11 the tram of little luxuries-hot baths, h.-k . private smoking compartment, clothes msiJISS" u M"ioe. liry, hat add to the comfort of a journey. lis beaofif A09' aU . ,he 1,ttl9 lation. The dining car service is Jailor Xljtv.At oa ' w4. 'v7.7';fn.aJ.u.u Ping. comfortable and hla. T.-, "d satisfying. J&?Jf!?rt -ning ... vuwuni, inrougn tne Yakiins Valla. .T """"t over &? -Ue .1-.Or.ilta nd over ihileLDSi? -.--a -- ouu u ureiue and Helena. Butte, Livingston, the i tLLOWSTONE thence to Miuneanolis. D,,lnn. . . Insist on ticket agent rooting yon via Porrt.n For.any Information call on or write Md Northe" Poiflo. Assistant General PassengeV PgenTffi Oregon. ( : : The Siren ot.h n-f Bank is shown , 1st, By its working capital 2nd, By its stockholders. 3rd, By its management. THE First Rational Bank OF SOUTHERN OREGON Grants Pan, Oregon. Has a Capital, Surplus ft Undivided Profits $77,500.00 And an additional Stock holders Liability (un der the National Bank ing Law). 50,000 00 Total Responsibility $127,500.00 directors : John' D. Fry, P. H. Hartb, J. T. Tuffs, H. C. Kinney. L. B. Hall. Pres. J. C. Campbell, V. Pres. H. L GlLKEY, Cashier. Wis Waiting Away. "I had been troubled with kidney disease for the last five years," writes Robert R. Watts, of Salem, Mo. "I lost flesh and never felt well and doctored with leading physicians and tried all remedies suggested without relief. Finally I tried Foley's Kid uey Cure and less than two bottles completely cured me and I am now sound and well." During the Sum mer kidney irregularities are often caused by excessive drinking or being overheated. Attend to the kidneys at once by using Foley's Kidney Cure. For sale by H. A. Rotermund. To Care a Cold In One Day Take LAXATIVE fiROMO Quin ine i ablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. K. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c. MEAT MARKET J. H. AHLF & SON, Proprs. 6th St. near G day and OWr JoP; g train whioh via Taoo.n. over th teL. i u"opi diVerlfn, tt ?h"tio NiTiftM .V " o. . A"K - na the East.