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VOL. XXII.
GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1906.
No. 38.
CLARK MAY BUILD
0 ROAD INTO OREGON
Would Open Vp a. Section Rich
in Timber e-nd Other
Resource.
, k press dispatch from Washington,
; under , date of - December 1, says:
"Oulooel Hofer, representing tlie
3 yVillamette valley' interests, Peter
j. IIjoggie of Coos bay and Senator Ful
, ton of Oregon have had an extended
m, conference with Sentor W. A. Clark
of Montana, whom the Oregon men
wish to have extended his railway
, system into Oregon,
k "A branch of Clark' Utah and Ne
I fada system of railroads is now com
pleted to within a comparatively short
distance of Goldfleld, Nevada, and it
was represented to Clark that this
branch con Id be rxtended into Oregon
to reach Klamath Falls and the
center of the proposed Klamath irri
gation district by practicable route
of a boot 100 miles in length, and an
additional 100 miles of construction
would take the road to Coos bay.
"The Oregon men showed Senator
Clark maps and famished him with
. statements of the products of the
' country which the desired extensions
, Cld reach and which the senator
laid were surprising and gratifying.
Be was particularly interested in
' statistics of the timber resources of
the region proposed to ba tapped by
the extension, the demand for this
product in Nevada mines beiug at the
present time enormous.
"Senator Clark promised he wonld
-' have experts examine the country and
the routes suggested, aud received an
0 argent invitation to visit Oregon per
sonally to look into the situation.
Clark was interested in the route
from Yaquina bay to the Mount
Jefferson country through antiam
pass, operated by the Hammond ratt
le way line, which is now for sale, and
a iked many questions concerning it."
AAPPLECROPOFTHE .
UNITED STATES
No Danger of the Market Ever Be
ing Glutted With Good
Fruit.
The apple crop of the United
States this season is 36,000,000 barrels
against 23,000,000 laet year aud a trifle
ver 40,000,000 each of the two years
before. The immensity of the figures
ihows that Oregon, with all her
.tdapted soils in apple-bearing, would
Dot, great as would be the aggregate,
nave appreciable effect in the way of
'. over-production. In any event, were
the world's apple stocks over
abundant the Oregou apples will
sell, and they will go at the best
price, for they are sought by those
ble to pay fancy figures.
found the way to the ti
Tney have
tables of the
New York and the Loudon rich
, aud the question of the cost does not
A figure. Hood Kiver apples at 13 a
box and more this season, with Rogue
River apples selling almost equally
well, afford proof that the world
p knows where the fancy apples are aud
,' i is going to have them regardless of
prioe.
It is an opportunity that Oregon
lifght not to fail to rifle to. The lands
J vie here, so is the climate, aud liood
J-YVer has led the way to an open and
'"r'ns market. All that remains
I Sell
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we bave, and intelligence to be ap
plied in those we are yet to plant.
It has been repeatedly established
that spraying will reduce the loss
from codlin moth to five per cent or
less, and that San Jose scale and other
diseases are asilv controlled. It is a
fixed fact that apple lands are worth
from $100 an acre and upwards and'
that they will pay handsome returns
on that invetsmeut in addition to the
labor and expense of culture. All
these fortuitous conditions open up
Visibilities in the apple field to which
there could be a seqnel in advancing
lands and hustling industry of which
we" do not dream. If only they of
the over crowded bast kuew what
Oregou offers them in orcharding,
thousands of them would be quick to
accept the challenge and come to the
golden West. Portland Journal.
A COLT SHOW THAT
' PLEASED HORSEMEN
Half-breed Percheron Colt. Five
Months Old. That Is ex Win
ner For Size.
One of the interesitog features of
the dairy and fine stock meeting in
Grants Pass Thursday of last week
was the colt exhibit made by E. N.
Provolt, the well known stock raiser
whose fine farm is on the Applegate
near Provolt.
Mr. Provolt brought in from his
place two colts and the dam of the
youngest one and had tbem on ex
hibition at George Lewis' stable.
The oldest colt was two years old and
was half Shire, its dam being a small
common mare aud its sire the fine
Shire horse owned by C. O. Big'ow.
It was the size of a common three
year old and will make an animal
that will readily sell for $200 or more.
The younger colt though was a won
der to the farmers who have only had
experiene with just common horses,
for though it was but five months old
it was as tall as its dam and weighed
almost as much. ,
The dam was a Cay use mare from
Eastern Oregon and weighed less than
900 pounds, while the sire was the
2000 pound Percheron horse owned by
the Grants Pass Breeders Association
of which Mr. Provolt is a member.
At the close of the fanners institute a
large delegation visited the stable to
see this practical demonstration ot
the crossing of the big Percheron
draft horse with a small, common
mare. At the request of Mr. Provolt
and other horsemeu present, E. T.
Judd, the well known raiser of reg
istered Percheron horses of Turner,
Oregon, and who was one of the
speakers at the institute, gave a
highly instructive talk ou the nlative
iu Tits of the colt and of the success
that could be made in breeding small,
common marts to the large draft
horse. Mr. Jndd stated that it bad
been demonstrated many times that
the first cross between a 1000 pound
mare and a 2000 pouud horse would
be a horse weighing 1200 to 1400
pounds and worth 150 to f200, while
the second cross vtould bring a horse
of 1400 to ISiOO Bonds -end which
I would readily sell at from 1200 to
! $250. Such colts as these are far more
1 profitable for the farmer to raise than
jthe light wtight colts that develop
j into horses that sell for but $75 to
' 4125 and which do not have the speed
and action for fine drivers nor th,e
1 weiirht and strength to euable them
to pull a heavy load.
Placer and quartz locatiou notices.
mine deeds, leases, etc.. at the
Courier office.
SBBB
Real tstate
SURETY BONDS.
FIRE INSURANCE
AND
RENT HOUSES.
W. L. IRELAND,
C Real Estate Man.
Building, Grants ass, Ore. gk
DAIRY AND FINE STOCK
"MEETING AT KERBY
Attendance Larger Than at Any
Previous Meetings. RegUterad
Stock Being Bought.
E. T. Judd of Turner, and William
Sohulnierich, of Hillsboro, and
Charles Meserve returned Sunday
from Kerby, where they had on the
preivous day held a farmers' , insti
tute, dairying aud fine stock being the
features of agricultural work taken
up.
Dr. James Withycouibe was to have
been one of the speakers at this In
stitute but at the close of the institute
in Grants Pass be had to go direct to
Corvallis as important work demanded
bis presence at the Agricultural
College.
The attendance ' was very large for
that sparcely tettled Valley, there
being fully 73 farmers present as well
as many of their wives. Sucker creek
and Deer creek, the two principal
dairy sections of Illinois Valley were
well represented and there were
farmers at the institute who bad oome
as far as 18 miles. The first farmers
institute held in Illinois Valley was
two years ago and then there were
but a score of farmers in attendance.
A Beoond was held last Winter and
though a big storm' was on and the
streams so hign that many of tbem
could not be forded, yet there was
nearly double the attendance of
farmers over the previous year. And
the encouraging feature is that the
attendance last Saturday was double
that of last year.
In the pioneer days Illinois Valley
was noted fur its rich gold mines, the
famous Sailor Diggings . and the
Sucker creek and Althouse being
among the richest mines on the Pa
cifio Coast. The placers becoming
largely worked out the population of
the Valley greatly decreased and
Waldo, which had become thriving
town of more than 600 population,
built at Sailor Diggings, went down
to a mere stage stuf.oo with a small
store, hotel aud stable. Kerby, once
thriving town and county seat of
Josephine county felt the loss of trade
and became almost a dead town.
The few remaining settlers in the
Valley took up stock raising, a few
continuing mining in a small way.
The continued low price of beef for
the last few years aud the prospect
that the beef trnst would continue to
hold the prico down caused the entile
men of Illinois Vallev to turn their
tteution to dairying. With the
splendid natural advantages of th
Valley supplemented by the work of the
farmers institutes where Dr. Withy-
combe and other eiperts in diirvinif
gave the farmers instructions in how
to maKti the milk cow more profitable
than the beef animal, dairying has
had a big growth iu the last two years
iu the Illinois Valley. The funnels
have begun to breed up their herds
aud they now have many high grade
aud registered cows mostly Jerseys.
The most approved methods of hand
ling the milk are being adopted and
there are between 80 aud 40 separators
iu the the Valley aud the number
will be almost doubled this coming
year.
.Last June a creamery was put in
on Sucker creek by George Mathow
son and Carl Johns in, two farmers of
that section. Owing to a series of
reasons it was not well Datrouiznd.
but the outlook is encouraging for
the organization of a co-optratlve
creamery company that will take over
this creamery and secure to it the pat
ronage of all the dairymen of the
Valley. As there are nut cows enoogh
in the Valley to warrant two cream
eries it is likely that the present
creamery will be removed to Kerby so
as to be more centrally located. This
matter is under consideration and if
the business men of Kerby offer suffi
cient inducements it is probable that
the fnu'TifSivk.T crvek would
consent to continue tln-ir ratronak.' to
tbs creamery if
Kerby. -
it was removed to
"In addition ti dairying tlw fanners
of Illinois Valley ara taking up rain"
ing draft hor.es aadjja't y'-arVcouT
pany was formed and the purchase
Uvvle of a fine Perch" rim Htttllinn at
a cost of f0O. .StvrHl of the farmers
have' brought in registered bi,
representing a
and a number
thtaudarllbre!s
of
the herds i .( cat'
are now heidd by rei.-ter.-J bulls or
high grades, JeTsey, AyershiriShorl
horu aud Herefords being the breeds
mostly favored.
Illinois Valley is a large section of
country for it is about 60 miles long
and 40 miles wide. Through the
center' of the Valley flows tie Illinois
rivei', so named because the early set
tlers were largely from Illinois, which
with a , network of creek and small
streams makes it a well watered sec
tion. Along eauh of the streams is
flue land easily irrigated that produces
three to four crops of alfalfa. At the
suggestion ot Dr. Withyoombe vetch
was given a trial, the first being sown
two years ago. Now it is said every
farmer has a field of vetch sown this
Fall. As the vetch can be grown ou
hind too dry for alfalfa its cultivation
will more than double the feed sup
ply of the Valley for cattle and
horses. In feeding value it is the
richest in proetin of any forage plant,
it having 3 to 4 per cent more proetin
than alfalfa. Under Dr. Withy
combe's direction a specie of vetch is
being developed at the Oregon Ag
ricultural College experiment station
that averages 20 per cent proetin'and
individual plants have been fonnd to
contain as high as 84 per oent of the
substance that enables the oows to
give the rich milk. .
With the many natural advantages
that Uilnois Valley has in climate,
soil, water for irrigation and with
the interest the farmers of that section
are taking in breeding the best stock
it will be but a few years uutll it
will b noted for its high grade milk
oows, big draft horses and thorough
bred hogs and goats. And now that the
farmers are adding dlrying to their
other industries that Valley will with
in the next flte years become one of the
most prosperous sections of Oregon.
J. M. Smock, who conducts the
post office at Holland, and a store at
that plaoe that is one of the best
country stores in the county is also a
farmer and a progressive one at that.
On bis fine farm on Sucker creek he
is plaoing the best of cattle, horses
aud bogs. Last week he received
from one of the noted breeders of
Willamette Valley a pair of Jersey
Red hosts. They , are thoroughbred')
aud registered and were two as fine
hog as ever were broavht to this
county. The Jersey Red is a vigorous,
quick growing hog, a good rustler
yet takes on fat readily and is noted
for the fine quality of baoou that it
produces.
OREGON'S WEALTH
IN STANDING TIMBER
CaJiiomio. Paper Gives Some In
teresting Facts About the
Industry.
The State of Oregon has approxi
mately a(K),000,000,000 leet hoard lucas
ure, of standing timber, aocordiug to
the average of the estimates made by
different timber men aud experts who
have made the matter a thorough
study. This is a much greater
amount than is possessed by any other
Stat iu the Union, aud is nearly one
sixth of the total amount of standing
ait reliau table timber of the United
States. The value of this immense
body of timber is two-fold : Fisrt, as
a source of lumber supply; secoud, as
a factor in the maintenance of a per
pettial Mow of water In the streams
aud rivers of the State, by retarding
the melting of the snow and holding a
continuous supply of moisture in the
ground during the Summer month.
Other minor uses or forests are as a
fuel supply; and as a source of orna
mental trees and shrubs, and in the
production ot medicinal and edible
products useful to mankind. Com
mercially, the value of the standing
timber of Oregou when manufactured
into lumber and sold at the rate of
$12 per thousand board feet would be
$.1,fi()0,OOJ,000, a sum in excess of the
total amount of money iu currency in
the United States at the present day.
The most densely timbered area in the
State is west of the Cascade Range.
This is due to more humid conditions,
favorable to rapid and abundant de
velopment of plant life. Thus we
find that eighty per ceut of the total j
stand of timber is found on an area i
which is 30 per cent of the total area j
ot tlie State. The average stand of !
timber on the forested area west of 1
the Cascade Range is 17, 700 feet per ;
' cfe- Localities where the stand is
50,000 feet per acre are common, as in
! portions of Clatop, Tillamook, Polk
and other coast counties. Western
Tours.
- j Legal blanks at the Courier office, j
EVANGELISTIC MEET
- INGS CLOSED TUESDAY
Nearly" Five Hundred Persons
- Cams Forward During
the Meetings.
Evangelists Honeywell aud Bilhorn
left for Chicago on the southbound
train Tuesday evening after spending
a month in evanglistio work in this
plaoe. They labored almost to the
very moment of departure and left
the meeting to go directly to the de
pot. A largo proportion of the con
gregation assembled at the depot to
bid tbem farewell. It had been an
nounced that the Sunday evening
meeting would be the last of the series
but the evangelists, at the last mo
ment consented to remain two more
days, being impelled to this decision
both by the urgently expressed wishes
of the people and by the condition of
the woik at that time.
The Sunday evening meeting will
long be remembered in Grants Pass.
The - tabernacle was packed to the
doors with people and many were
compelled to turn away. The sermon
by Mr. Honeywell was masterly,
strong and remarkably impressive and
when the invitation was given it was
responded to with readiness which
has never before been seen in Grants
Pass. About 100 persons came for
ward, inoluding people from all walks
of life many of them being prominent
business and professional men. The
Monday and Tuesday evening meetings
were also very successful. Alto
gether, nearly 600 converts were"nT
celved during the revival. "
r ManyoYthe musical features ol the
past week have been exceptionally
enjoyable and Mr. Bilhoro's solos
have been received each evening
with enthusiastic appreciation as have
also his da jts with Mrs. W. L. Ire
laud. A, song that was greatly"en"
joyed was the duet on one evening by
Mrs. Ireland and Mrs. E. S. Veateh,
who sang a new composition of Mr.
Bilhoru's, the song never having been
sung before. On Tuesday evening the
Burns brothers, on request of Mr.
Bilhorn, came up from the oongrega
tion and sang a trio without accom
paniment, the melody in their voice
taking the andience by storm.
Mr. Bilhorn reooived a call I y wire
Saturdayto jonDJ Wf" Potter, oue
of the greatest evangelists of the'pres
eut time and aiiotably sucoessful'VT
M. C. A. worker, in a'sories of meet
ings at Ottnmway, Iowa, to begin
January 6. Prior to begiiiuing these
meetings he will attend the Evangel-
istio and Honl Winning conference
which will be held In Chicago from
January 1 to 8, at which uibuv evan
gelists will be present, among them
such eminent men as Dr. J. Wilbur
Chapman, D. W. Potter and Wm. A
Sunday, known to the world as
"Billy" BnudAy, with whom Mr.
Honeywell is a co-worker. Mr. Sun
day, BFslsted by V. G. Fisher, a
nephew df Mr. Bilhorn, has just
closed a series of meetings at Kewa -
nee. III., a city of 1S.0OO inhabitants,
in which nearlv 4000 n,,.Ur..
received. The talternacle and
expenses of this meeting cost S0O0 and
a 14000 offering was taken for the evan
gelists on the last Sunday of the
meeting. Mr. Bilhoro's services are
This Space IJclougs to Thomas an 1 O'Neill
NOTICE!
Owing to tlie unprecedented call for adver
tising space in this paper during the holiday sea
son we have temporarily heen compelled to
transfer our advertisement to the 3rd page
Read it and note the prices, then call and see for
yourielf,it will pay you.
Thomas (Si O'Neill,
Headquarters for Christmas Gilts.
in great demand and be has been com
pelled to refuse a number of culls,
one of them being for himself and
Mrs. Bilhorn at Hoqoiam, Wash.,
where he was formerly engaged in a
series of meetings with Mr. Honey
well. On Tuesday evening Mr. Honeywell
and Mr. Bilhorn were each presented
with a very pretty gold nugget pin as
a token of remembrance and apprecia
tion from the choir.
ILLINOIS VALLEY AS
A FRUIT DISTRICT
Has Favorable Soil and Climate
and Many Orchards Planted ;
But Pest Have Come.
J. B. Grifllu, who with bis wife ,
were in Grants Pass Monday making
holiday purchases, was a caller at the
office cf Charles Meoerve, county fruit
Inspector. Mr. Griffin is oue of the
progressiva farmers of Illinois Val
ley, having a dairy and fruit farm on
Sucker creek near Holland, and he
and Mrs. Griffin were in attendance
at the farmers institute held at Kerby
Saturday.
For the present Mr. Griffin Is giv
ing the greater part of his attention
to dairying, but he expects to take np
fruit raining more extensively here
after. He now has a fine young or
chard of 600 trees, of apples, pear,
penoh and cherry, though the larger
number are Spitzenberg and Newton
apples. His orchard is coming into
bearing aud so prollflo are the trees
aud (he fruits of such fine color and
size that it proves that fruit raising
can be made as profitable in industry
for his farm as is dairying. So soon
as he oan get more land cleared ho
will plant a large orchard. Mr. Griffin
stated that many of the fatmers of
Illinois Valley were planting or
chards with the expectation that by
the time the trees were In full bear
ing a railroad wonld be built into the
Valley. So far the fruit trees of ths
Valley are quite free of pests but a
few old orchards are badly infeoted
with scale and other diseases and it
was to have the law enforced to have
the orchards cleaned np was the occa
sion of Mr. Grlffins'i call at the
oouuty fruit inspector's office. In
spector Meeerve will make a trip
through the Illinois Valley In January
aud he will inspeot all orchards and
the owners of diseased trees will be
made to free them of pests or out
them down.
For some time engines have been
takiug water without stopping, and
mail cars have beeu picking mail
sacks from posts without so run oh
as a pause. Now au appliauce for
ooallug englues without stopping has
been Invented aud experiments with
it are said to have been satisfactory.
The next movement to save the run
ning time of trains will be a device
I for throwing passengers on board and
nff wtt.lwmf utnnti I tir.
' MASONIC BRETHREN, NOTICE,
I OnuU Pass Lodge No. 84, A. K.
' na neames l.liapter o. an,
i& A.
WBrjR. A. M., will hold a joint iustalla
other i tion at the Masoulc liall Wednesdav
evening, December 21, to which all
members and visiting brethren and
their wives are cordially invited to
attend.
By order of Committee.
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