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
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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
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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
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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.
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THE
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Grants Pan, Oregon.
Has a Capital, Surplus
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And an additional Stock
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H. L GlLKEY, Cashier.
Wis Waiting Away.
"I had been troubled with kidney
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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
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caused by excessive drinking or being
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