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VOL. XXII. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COCJNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1906. No. 31. CITY HAS COMPLETE SEWER SYSTEM Never He.d tv Filth Disease Epi demic, Portland Po-per SaysJ Town Has no Sewers The Portland Medical Sentinel, one of the ablest medical journals pub lished on the Pacific Coast, its edi tion for October has an article on the sanitary condition of the towns of Ore if on. The article makes some good points on sanitary science bat grossly misrepresents as to facts when men tioning the condition of Grants Pass for it says that though a city of 4500 Grants Pass has no sewer system. If the editor of the Sentinel hag that lit tle knowledge of the sewer system of the other Oregon towns that he has of Grants Pass the storm of censure that will come on him will far out balance all the good he intended to accomplish. The fact is that Grants Pass has a sewer system not excellled and equaled by but few towns of its size on the Pacific Coast. Proportionately Grants Pass is better sewered than is Pert land, and mnoh better than Salem, Engene, Albany, Roeeburg, Medford or Ashland. With the completion of the sewers now under construction Grants Pass will have 95s miles of main and lateral sewers and when by another year the laterals are ex tended to all the outlying residence section the city will have over 13 miles of sewers. With the completion of the extension now being made to the Seventh street sewer there will be 414miles of main sewers of a capac ity large enough to carry all the sewage that will ever be required. These three main sewers extend en tirely across the city, the shortest one being over a mile long and the longest over a mile and one half, and with their system of laterals fully cover the entire business and all the principal residence sections of the oily. These main Be were all empty into Rogoe river below town and the outlets are put at an angle so that high water in the river will not choke them, and the swift running water- quickly carries away and dissipates the sewage. Giants Pass has never bad an epi demic Of typhoid or other filth pro duced disease for the drainage of the town is perfect even were it without sewers. The townsite is on a second bottom underlayed with a sandy subsoil and a lower gravel strata and no water stands on the sarface for the land has a perfect slops toward the river. The only cases of typhoid fever is where persons contracted the disease at other places as was the case this Fall of several persons taking the fever while wjrsiiig at a saw mill in Swedo BuNin and comiug to town for treatment and other members of the family taking it from them. The gross misstate ment made by the M-dical Sentinel will do much injury to Grants Pasa j and the Commercial Club and the local Medical Association should each ask that the Sentinel correct their iu-1 jnrious statement. Tax Commission Makes j . Recommendations. The Oregou 'fax Commission in its I report recently printed recommends that the ditty ot collecting taxes should be taken from the sheriffs and , Imposed upon the couuty treasurers. ! The principal reason for the proposed I change is that the handling of public funds is more particularly the work of a treasurer and not of a sheriff. There would be one less opportunity for mismanagement were the taxes colleoted directly by the treasurer and I Sell Ground rioor. courier Duuuuig, uuuw vic, the sheriff's office being relieved of the duty of tax collection would have more time to devote to criminal matters and other duties that properly belong to the office. Various other reasons for the change are advanced by the commission. No change in the time of the payment of taxes is recommended as the present plan of payment appears to be working no hardship since onvhalf may be paid in the Spring, the other half in the Fall. COMMERCIAL NURSERY FOR GRANTS PASS Keep Thousands of Dollars Here Enables Farmers to Buy Acclimated Trees. There is a certainty that a large commercial nursery will be estab lished near Grants Pass this Winter. While attending the Hood River fruit fair Charles Meserve, secretary of the Grants Pass Fruit Growres Union, met a nurseryman who was seeking a location where the trade wonld war rant his establishing a large nursery. On Mr. Merserve's recommendation he will visit Grants Pass in the near futnre and consider the location and examine the various tracts that are suitable for nursery purposes. Thongb Rogne River Valley is soon to be one of the great fruit districts of the United States for it has an area of 60 miles by 100 and thousands of fruit trees are planted each year yet the Valley has no nursery large enough to supply the trade, the three small ones ib the Valley barely sup plying the demand in their respective neighborhoods. While the trade of Rogue River Valley alone would tax the producing capacty of a large nur sery an even larger outside trade could be had for an accessable market could be had in Umpqua Valley, the Oregon coast counties, Klamath and the other Eastern Oregon counties and Norhern California. A nursery at Grants Pass wonld be central for sll this terriory as large as the state of New York, or Ohio. The soil and cli uiatio conditions are perfect and labor and transportation facilities are as favorable as for the other big nurseries of the Pacific Coast. The fruit growers of Rogue River Valley are anxious for a nursery in the Valley for then they could got trees accli mated to this section, a most im pirtant matter, for it takes (rees grown in a damp soil and humid climate, like the Willamette Valley, several years to adapt themselves to the dry climate and peculiar soil of this Valley. The more than a hundred varietur of pests now making havoc with the fruit industry in all parts of the United S'ates make it imperative to stop the importation of fruit trees to Rogue River Valley. This Valley is so completely surrounded by mount ains that it is isolated from all other fruit districts and it would he an easy matter to rrevent the introduction of more pests were no fruit trees im ported. With a nursery able to sup ply the home trade the diseased trees could be kept out and then It would be a very easy matter to eradicate the pests now in tho Valley. A large commercial nursry wonld j give employment to 10 to 20 men for the year and this addition to the pay roll of Grants Pass would be an im portant factor in the city's prosperity. The keeping at home of the thousands of dollars now sent a way each year for fruit trees would be the means of adding much to the prosperity of the county and to be an incentive to the frnit growers to buy their trees of a Rogue River nursery. Real Estate SURETY BONDS. FIRE INSURANCE AND RENT HOUSES. t W. L. IRELAND, &q Real Estate Man. t COAL MINES IN ROGUE RIVER VALLEY 12 Foot Vein Being Opened near Medford Fine Coal Prospects On Evans Creek. The coal property, located in the hills two miles east of Phoenix bonded and now being developed bv the Flue Ledge Copper Company, is giving every indication of proving to be a large deposit of coal as the two subjoined items from Jackfou connty papers indicate. With wood t6 to $8 fuel is coming to be a most important matter in Rogue River Valley to householders and industrial establishments. Coal will have to be relied on more in the future as a fuel for this Valley and a supply at a reasonable price is the problem now up for consideration. Surface indications and limited pros pecting show that there Is a large coal field on Evans cretk and experts who have examined that section state that there is undoubtedly coal in quantity aud quality that wonld warrant mining. As this coal field is but a short distance from Grants Piss and easy of access, there now being a wagon road and a railroad would have a natural route with a down grade from the mines to this city, it would be a profitable nnder taking for the Commercial Club to take up the matter of bringing these coal properties to the attention of capitalists interested in that line of investments. With cheap fuel Grants Pass could secure factories and the payroll that is so essential to the proseprity of a town. The following are the items that tell of the progress made in the development in the Phoenix coal mine: Medford Tribune "A four. horse team loaded with coal, the product of the coal mine six miles east of Medford, passed through here this afternoon bound for the Blue Ledge copper mines. The load con sisted of 50 sacks averaging 121 pounds each. Another load at the mine awaits transpotation. A limited supply will be brought to Medford in few days, and within 60 days, an ample amount to supply the local market will be available. "To the citizens of Medford who in vested their money in the enterprise when it was a matter of guesswork as to whether coal existed there in large enough amount to make the In dustry a commercial success, it was a welcome sight to see this, the fir.t load." Ashland Tidings "Messrs. I. H. Simpson and R. L. Burdic aud party, of this city, yester day drove over to the scene of develop ment on the coal mining prospect in the Payne plane, about seven miles north of Ashland, aud bptween this city and Medford, which is lining prosecuted by the Blue Ledge copper people. They express great surprise at the apparent vast extent, of the coal deposits which are being opened up. There are two tunnels being driven in the side of the hill, one of them 100 f et and the other 200 feet in length. The tunnels are about Hill feet In size and at the depth now attained a solid vein of coal the full size of the working is being cut through "A real live coal mine that will produce an ample quantity of coal for fuel will be a boon for this section of the slate." REMARKABLE RECORD MADE BY APPLE GROWER Mood River Orchard!! Has Only 64 Wormy Apples in 1141 Boxes. The Hood River News Letter gives the subjoined report of the apple crop harvested by A. I. Mason from his Newtown trees. Mr. Mason will be rememebred- as oue of the speakers at the fruit growers meetings held in this county in September, when he told the orchardists here how he grew apples and that he is an expert at the business is proven by the success hi mates with his orchard. Mr. Maon harvested from his 8l)itBzenher tr. an equally as perfect a crop of apples ana as ne sola bis entire crop through their Union at from 13.25 to $3. n a box f. a b. Hood River, it is to be expected to find hie farm a modL as it is, with good buildings, a fine or- chard, a handsome park, with rural telephone and mail oonven ience, a carriage, a good driving team and a turnpike road on which to drive to town or to the neighbors. When the frnit growers of Josephine county are able to grow apples that will have but 64 diseased ones out of 1141 boxes then they too can have fine homes and a generous bank account : The following is A. I. Mason's rec ord for his Yellow Newtown orchard for 1906 aud think it is a good one. If there is anything better let ns hear from yon : Age of trees 9 years Number of trees to the acre OS Average boxes per tree 5, Size of apples packed in boxes: 2? boxes 64s ft boxes 64s 193 boxes 72a 300 boxes W)i 103 boxes 88s 201 b ixes Wis 90 boxes 104s 88 boxes 112s 48 boxes 120s 88 boxes 128a - 1 box 144s 9 boxes 150s 86 boxes 165s 1 box 175s 7 boxes 300s Total nomber of boxes, 1141. All 4-tier and above except 51 boxes. Total number apples injured by worms during season, 64. Spray osed Arsenate of Lead. Times sprayed, six. Josephine County S. S. Vnlon. The Annual Convention of the Josephine Connty Sunday Sohool Union has been called to meet at the Newman M K. Church in this city, November 8 and 4. Rev. G A. Phipps of Portland. Field Worker for Oregon, will bti preseut and apeak at each of the se:sions. Each Sunday School In the connty is entitled to two delegates, and it it hoped that there will be a lirgn attendance of all others who arx interested in Sunday School wnrk. Out of town schools are requested Co s nd thn list of all who will attend, to I he undersigned. R. K HACKETT, Beo'y., Grants Pass, Ore. Th economic housewife will be particularly interested in our Special Offerings this week. A BIG CUT IN CARPETS, LACE CURTAINS AND HEATERS. Extra heavy, some all wool some mixed. Extraordi nary values. No 31 re JU.25 to close 95c yd HI 111 Kit 41 711 LACE CURTAINS we have a lot 1 to 2 pair of a kind, to close out we cutjdeep Regular $4 50 per pair $2.(0 .75 " " .45 and so on. A few are sample curtains. Bring this nd with you. PORTIEkES-1 to 2 pair of a kind to close, speciol prices. TABLE COVERS regular $4.50 for $2,75 1 95 " 1.25 BLSSELL'S SWEEPERS are cheaper than brooms. V have Brooms, too, 25 to 45c and bissell Sweepers $3.25 to $5.00 in choice woods. ml COMFORTABLES A big line, all sizes. We offer an ex ceptional bargain in our Com forts for Jl.OO. We have some beauties at $4 50. All the be tween prices. SOFA PILLOW TOPS, Tapes try, regular 75c, to close 50c. NEW PICTURE MOULDINGS-We have just received a lot more new patterns, very pretty and extra quality. Mats and liners all kinds. Bring in your pictures and let us show you some of t latest frames. CITY COUNCIL HOLD REGULAR MEETING Sets Dates for Holding Ward and General Nominating Conventions, The regular semi-monthly meeting of the city council was held at the city hall Thursday evening, presided over by Mayor Good. Couucilmen Williams, Hall, Chansse, Deau and Fetsch, Deputy City Attorney Blan chard, Marshal McQrew, Street Superintendent Gilflllan, Treasurer Johnson and Auditor and Police Judge Boot if were present. The minutes of the last meeting were read aud approved. Arthur Couklin presented a request for a permit to erect a corrogated Iron shed 13x50 feet at the rear of his three story brick block now nuder construction, to be used by the renters of the building. It was decided that under the ordinance the city council had no power to permit the erection of such a building. Conncilman Fetsoh, to whom was referred the matter of flushing sewers, recommended that the city attend to the flushing of the sewers instead of leaving itto the water company. The recommendation was adopted and the work will be nnder the supervision of the street superintendent. Bids for the printing of the oitv charter were received and read, and the matter referred to the charter committee with instructions to have as many oopies of the charter printed as are necessary for distribution. An ordinanoe to provide for the adoption of a proposed charter of the City of Granls Pais, entitled: "An act to reincorporate the city of Grants Pass, Connty of Josephine, State of Oregon, and to provide a charter therefor, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict there with," and to provide for the manuer Thomas r ONeill Opposite the Flag Pole ironies Furnished Complete What woman does not love pretty China we are opening our NEW CHINAWARE an immense display of it exquisite goods, choice Vases, Creamers, odd pieces in endless variety at sur prisingly low prices. T-xs 5"ic 7."c H.'iO tl.M! 7."c IIL'..'c l 10 !Mlc LINOLEUMS our new Lino leums are certainly winners beautiful patterns 00 to K5c. Linoleum saves backache, (scrub bing and is well worth the expense. WASH BOILERS lOc-thev are tint l.lrPI llllt " O- - ""Mil MlUlltJ The children appreciate them Mghly. New Cribs high drop sides, well finished; baby can't fall out. $5.75. Tinware of all kinds Cups, 2 for 5c; plates 5c; this bread raiser all complete 75c. of its adoption ana the manner of sub mitting the sam to the legal voters of the city of Grants Pass was read the first time in toto and on motion Was read the second time by title only. On motion it was decided that the ward couventlot s for the nomination of counoiltnen be held Thursday, No vember 23, and the general convention for the nouiuiination of mayor and city treasurer be held Friday, Novem ber 23, at 8 o'olock p. m. Judges and clerks for the general nominating convention were apxiuted as follows: Judges H. O, Kinney, J. C. Campbell and W. E. Dean. Cerks T. Y. Dean and J. M. Booth The salary of the street superin tendent was raised to $75 per month commencing with November 1. The following bills were preseuted and allowed: R It Gilfillau, cash paid for sup plies fll 00 F O Wilcox, hauling gravel 8 00 Harvey Moore, cement work 18 15 G P llatdware Co., cement & rndse 65 75 D J Law ton, surveying 8 00 K Iligglns, assisting surveyor... 1 00 Jos Ranch, blaukamithing 8 05 Jessie Mastin, oopying charter. . 10 00 Rogne River Water Co, flushing sewers , 14 95 National Drng Store, rndse 1 85 J M Booth, book aud stationery 7 84 Oregon Observer, printing 7 50 Williams Bros D& LCo, lumber 70 05 Cal Pine Box & Lumber Co, old pipe and nails 94 95 Real Estate Transfers. Ernest H. Lister to C. H. Clements, Lot 1, in Block 41. R. R. Addition. John H Williams et al to Herbert W. Atkins, Lot 5, in Block 90, River side Addition. August Lorens to G. P. Atchison, two acres in Section 7, Township 86 8, R 6 W, Josephine Connty, Oregon. The above sales were made through the Real Estate Agency of Joseph Moss. See him for bargains. Oflice 616 E street. The Courier has the largest corps of correspondent of niv naoer in South- Satisfactlos guaranteed money back If you want It. Everything for the house. Wull nunrtl, tlx HEATING STOVES-at cost Cast Tops and trimmings nick eled, lined Regular $7.50 for $5.05 6.75 " 4.50 You can't afford to miss this. Cast Cook Stoves regular $13.05 Stave for $11.75. mm: i
