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GRANTS PASS. JOSKPHINB Co9JTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1907.
VOL. XXII.
No. 40.
acer ekes koi
! LARGELY WO:
OUT
t
tare of Jooephlno
oslng
I Fortune by Not Sal
; Their VeJuea.
jTaldo, Oregon, Decern I906
Jitor Courier: In ybsoe of
taber 91, discussing tuV J nd
Itook meeting at Ke tried
f by your enthusiasi these
itriee, you said: "In lioneer
IUinoia Valley was i ifor its
Sgold mines, thejfai Sailor
tings and Sucker'cri A AH
t being among the r mines
ila coast. Tbe plac oming
jly worked out tbe po on de
)ed, etc." It waa 8e ex
led plaoera that d id 0Br
lation; it was mij excite-
in the north and I Uding
T on of tbe Portland-Si moisoo
oad across tbe eastel of the
ty; the flrat caoe4 ot
, aome of whom h, aid the
W that they left bet?8lnS
i they found in thef BWo
j the last were att J by the
Md and they bad no2y with
h to otwn qd mine ooly
re of mining in
i baa reoeired ita
ym niok and sho
i cheap water. The
oto deposited In o
ra la hum vet. and
with modern m?
b fine values, ino
, corroded and float
e a mining era in
compared to whf
ie as a niokle to a 4
placer miners her
Ing at
SO per cent ot all
do not know it,
t actually tee it
Values;
ie they
on and
Tore tbey will no jjeve it.
see a plant lnstaj I Qalice
ii which HfH as 1 1 in fins
as tbe mine yi from Its
a. and vet they w I believe
,ie same is possible
' - i
L In ill near fat
machinery which
i of 40 per cent
, 90 to 96 per cent asji
not now in open
M profitably and thlw pay
ander anoh wasteful
bds will
Xianzas within tbemj
sad all
tie dumps and old pi Bailings
1 pay to work over ai
I are losing our corr
nd float
1 and nearly all of
N. Mr. Sanders,
latifium
ilder of
3alice oreek black saint, says
nines carry gold ink
differ-
varieties and plat
in Ova
ties. He says the
f plati
most is
, of which we lose
inum in combii
with
'o iron, and chroilu
J called black
S Oravol Mining Col
receipt
atter from David rJl
Wash-
l, D. C, dated Octfc,
1906,
lows, to-wit:
le weight of yool
pie wai
Jrams wnion repri
as we
stand it, about onto yard.
d it to assay 10
cr cnbio
. In gold and IS cent
cubic
In platinnm and
fat inum
5e, computing these
Is at 81
3inoe, which is tbejnt mar-
loe of platinum."
la ton of gravel was
om the
i bank by . Profs. J.
hup and
expressly for the
at the
' and CU.rk fair
i4e, 1905,
was taken from
th
rim of
ohanuel where the
pivel waa
and tbe wash very
tarried less values
m Crj m i , m a m
er and riober deposit below it. This
certain piece of ground from the
pooraat of which tbia sample was
taken has yielded $48,000 in gold.
Now, then, if Mr. Day ia right,
173,000 or more waa lost in mining
tbe ground for there waa no corroded
or float gold saved and bat little
pi tinom metals.
If by impro ed machinery the output
of the mines can be doubled without
materially increasing tbe expense it
necessarily follows that the placer
mines of Southern Josephine county
have a vety bright future before
them, for we have very extensive
beds of gold and platinum bearing
gravels. These gravel deposits are
deep and it will require large oapital
to develop and work them, but ther
contain more thousands than the cents
that have been taken from them. One
gigantio mining scheme possible in
tbis valley is the lowering of the bed
of the main Illinois river (which of
itself is full of gold) by removing tbe
numerous falls in it ; this would give
sufficient grade to admit of working
tbe entire country tributary and is en
tirely leasible. This would drain a
section of gold and platinum bearing
gravel some 15 miles square; it would
require as much capital as the build
ing of a railroad but would pay better
than any railroad not operated on
watered stock and the rebate system.
Being isolated baa kept oar section
down, bat the future is bright.
W. J. WIMER.
BETTER FARM METHODS
INCREASE THE PROFITS
Applegate Valley Farmer Plans to
Keep Abreast of th Tims
Buya Pure Bred Stock.
J. B. Lindsay was in Grants Pasa
Saturday from his ranoh on the Apple
gate three miles above Murphy. Mr.
Lindsay i making most commendable
progress in bettering bis farm
methods and increasing Its product
iveness. Ha has been engaged in
dairying in a small way for several
years past, Mrs. ' Lindsay making bat
ter for the Grants Pats market, bat
as farm batter does not bring tbe top
price their cows were not so very
profitable. Bat now that a creamery
is being put in at Provolt thereby
making dairying more profitable Mr.
Lindsay has began to. increase the
number of cows on his farm and he
ia now milking six and he will bay
additional cows until be will have 10
to milk in tbe Spring. Recognizing
that beef and cream can not be profit
ably had from the same cow he will
hereafter breed only Jerseys and as a
beginning to bring up his herd to be
high-class milkers be baa purchased a
Jersey ball. He also keeps a small
band of sheep and these be will
breed up and for that purpose he has
bought a thoroughbred Cotswold
that was imported fioin England.
Mr. Lindsay is also a fro it raiser
and shiDDed this Fall tbruogh the
Grants Pass Fruit Growers Union, of
vhinh I.a is a member, some of the
lamest and highest polored Spltzen
berg apples ever sent from Rogue
River Valley, and tbey were folly the
emml to the beat that Hood River can
produce. His orchard was badly in
footed with codlin moth last season
and there was some scale. He will
aive more attention . to bis orchard
now that be oan get more profitable
returns for the froit and will
tlinrnnahlv mrav and care for tbe
tnua TTifl land ia amonsr the best in
Appl'gate Valley for froit and he plans
to enlarge another year bis present
orchard of three acres to 10 acres ana
k there-1 to plant additional trees
as be gets
tie deep- more land cleared.
eini Lstate
SURETY BONDS,
FIRE INSURANCE
; AND
RENT HOUSES.
W. L. IRELAND,
pjtf Real Estate Man. K
Ground Floo4ier.Bailding, Grants Pass, Ore.
ANOTHER INDUSTRY
FOR GRANTS PASS
On of the Most Vp-to-Devte Vln
egar Work on Const Now '
in Operation
One of the new industries of Grants
Pass that gives promise of being an
important factor in the city and
county's prosperity is tbe Sampson
Vinegar & Cider Works. This factory
was established this Summer by Her
bert Sampson, who waa given sub
stantial finanoial backing by bis
father, C.
Southern
Sampson
whiob be
H. Sampson, tbe veteran
Paoifio engineer. Mr.
erected a large building
equipped with a complete
plant for the the manufacture of pure
apple vinegar and cider. And there
is probably not a more up-to-date
plant on the Coast and everything
is scrupulously clean. Power for
operating the engine and ppmp and
steam for keeping tbe generators op
to the required temperature ia had
from a boiler. No work is done by
hand elevators handling the apples
and pulp and a pomp forcing tbe
juice to the receiving tanks. From
these the Juice that is for cider is
barrelled or bottled and that for vine
gar ia pumped to the generators from
where It is carried by gravity to the
tank from whiob it is run into barrels
or bottles.
Tbe handling of tbe vinegar genera
tors is the most partcnlar part of the
entire business for inattention or lack
of knowledge here means an Impure
article and an imperfect vinegar that
can only be brought up to tbe re
quired strength by the addition of
aoid that also renders the vingare very
dangerous to people's health. ' Mr,
Sampson dependa on'y on nature's
chemistry to produce bis vinegar.
This is dona not by the process of
pioneer days of patting the cider in
barrels and letting it stand for a year
or two to become discolored and foal
while it ia changing to vinegar bat by
a scientific oo-operation with Nature
that enables a clear, pure vinegar of
fall 90 (trains strength to be made in
24 boors.' This accomplished by
having generators that are large, tall
tanks into the top of which cider is
slowly poured and passing through
various filters and a bank of corncobs
that bave been inoculated with the
cultures or bacteria that act cn the
cider to make it into vinegar. These
bacteria work best in a temperature
of 75 degrees and a higher heat will
kill them and a lower will render
them Inactive. Mr. Sampson, aided
by his brother, Arthur, who is taking
coarse in electric engineering at
Stanford University, and wbo has been
home for the past month on a vaca
tion, has fitted up an electrio attach
ment to a thermometer that rings a
bell ' whenever the temperature goes
too high or too low in the generators.
An electric bell also gives notioe as
to the regularity ot th e supply oi
cider for the generator, which if too
fast gives a vlngar that is of little
strength and if too slow a loss in the
producing capaoitv of tbe generator.
The generator is fed two gallons of
cider every two boors by an auto-
matio feeder that works day and
night. There are three of these
generators and at each trip of the tank
at the two-hour period the bell rings,
one stroke for tbe first generator,
two strokes for tbe second and three
for the third generator. There are
other electrio signals bells and
wherever Mr. Sampson may be in the
building be can know just how tbe
various parts of tbe plant are operat
ing. Mr. Sampson haa no seoret
processes nor unsightly place about
hia factory and he is willing at all
times to show visitors about the es.
tabUhment, and be fs espeoally de
siroua that msrchants and otben who
may patronize bim should come and
see bow the vinegar is made. And
another thing of interest to tbe public
ia that tbe high fregbt rate oo adult
erants shipped in will not oause bim
to close bis factory as did a vinegar
works in a Willamette Valley town
last year, for Mr. Sampson never buys
even an ounce of acid or adulterant.
Mr. Sampson now has several
thousand gallons of vinegar, all
ffoanrteed 90 Brains strength and of
tbe purest, clearest quality. This he
is now putting on the market at a very
reasonable price. Tbat the pubUo
may know bis vinegar from tbe good
and )he bad article that is offered for
sale by other factories he puts a
handsome lithographed label on each
bottle, keg or .barrel. As Grants Pass
haa the need of a larger payroll and
the keeping at home of as much of the
money as passible tbat ia now sent
abroad for various supplies and the
farmers a market for their inferior
fruit it ia good business policy tbat
all give the preference in purchasing
vinegar to tbat mads at home and
which ia known to be pure and
wholesome.
If Mr. Sampson meets with tbe
patronage that he anticipates he will
next Spring enlarge his cider ' and
vinegar plant and add tbe manufac
ture of jellies and apple batter and
possibly later on putting in a canning
department ' .
TAKILNA SMELTER WILL
BLOW-IN THIS SPRING
Ce.pt. Mclnty re's Trtvlns Will Re-
; sum Hsvuling Coke as
Soon a Possible.
Capt J. M. Mclntire waa in Grants
Pass Tuesday for the day attending
to business matters pertaining to hia
large freighting contracts in Southern
Oregon. Sinoe early last Spring Capt.
Mclntire haa bad a large number of
six to eight-mole team , hauling
freight to the construction camps on
the government irrigation works in
Klamath county and to the merchants
of Klamath Falls, he having teams on
both the roads from tbe railroad at
Pokegama and from Grass Valley.
The bottom having gone ont of the
road he has laid off bia teams until
Spring. .
Capt. Mclntire stated that it was
the plan for tbe Takilma smelter to
start early tbia Spring and that ao
soon as the roads would permit he
would pat on about 15 teams hauling
out coke to tbe smelter and matte to
Grants Pass for shipment to the re
finery. He will continue his teaming
in Klamath county and will employ
abonf 26 teama there next Summer.
Capt Mclntire stated tbat Mrs,
Mclntire has been seriously ill at a
hospital in Forland where she was
operated upon. She is now oonvales
oeni and haa every hope of regaining
her health. His daughter, Miss
Mclntire is at present with an aunt at
Arlington, Oregon, and will return to
Grants Pass la the Spring to resume
her duties as superintendent and book
keeper for her father's freighting bos
iness.
DEADLY POISON IN
CHRISTMAS CANDY
Mrs. H I Reynolds of Thia City
Ws
s Ssvved Only by
Its Ovei dosing.
Ao attempt to poison Mrs. H,
Reynolds, of this city, was made by
some unknown person during Christ
mas, by sendiug ber a box of bonbons
containing some strong poison. Tbe
candy was so thoroughly saturated
with the poison that it aeveraly
burned her mouth and tongue, and
prevented her swallowing any of it
The candy has been examined by
local chemists and found to contain
enough acid to kill several persons.
The box of candy was mailed
in
this city, bat so far nothing has da
veloped to Indicate the sender. Fully
believing it waa a present from
friend who had neglected to enolose
card, she had no hesitancy in eating
the apparent sweets, and would have
swallowed a dangerous portion of it
had not the acid severely burned her
the moment it tooohed ber lips.
Postmaster Harmon baa turned the
box and wrapper, Just aa it was
passed through the mail, over to tbe
postal authorities, and an investiga
tion will oe made at once.
$100 Reward, $100.
The "Readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that tbere is at liast
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to care in all its stages,
and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Core la the only positive cure now
known to the fraternity. Catarrh be
ing a constitutional disease, requires
a) constitutional treatment Hails
Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mo
oous surfaces of tbe system, thereby
destroying the foundation of tbe di
sease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers that they offer
100 for any case that it fails to care.
Send (or list of testimonials. Address:
F. .J CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Dm twists, 75o.
lake Halls lamilypjlhtfor constipation.
FREE TELEPCOrOKG TO
APPLEGATE VALLEY
F rant Grants Pass Rural Line
to Be Put In by Co-opera-,
tive Company.
Grants Pass is soon to have two
additional rural , telephone lines.
making five rural lines that connect
with tbe city system. One of these
new lines will cover the Louse Oreek
Valley and it is expected that the line
will be strung from the Merlin road
op tbe Valley to the Granite Hill
mine and it may be extended on
across to Upper Jump-off-Joe Valley.
Toe other rarai line will cover Apple-
gate and Williams Valleys. '
The Applegate and Williams Valley
telephone system will be owned and
operated by tbe Applegate Valley
Telephone Company, a farmers co
operative company organised last
Spring and of whiob tbe following
are tbe offioera: President, E. Bad
ger, Provolt; Vice-president, C. O.
Biglow, Williams; Secretary, Ellis A.
Imbler, Provolt; Treasurer, J. ,W.
PernolL Applegate. Tbe directors
are E. Badger and E. N. Provolt of
Provolt; a O. Biglow and B. & Sar
gent of Williams, J. W. Pernoll of
Applegate, W. B. York of Missouri
Flat, J. W. Gilmore of Murphy, a C.
English of South Grants Pass,
Charles Meserve, Grants Pass. Tbe
company baa recently made a contract
with the Paclflo States Telephone
Company for a connection with tbe
latter company's Grants Paaa and
rural line system. The terms of con
tract are tbat the Pacific States Tele
phone Company give tbe Applegate
Valley Telephone Company free
switching on the Grants Pass system
and with tbe other rural lines that
oonneot with the city central station
and famish to tbe Applegate Com
pany new, first-class telephones at $5
a year, tbe latter Uompany to take
the pbonea at the warehouse in Grants
Pass and meet the expense of in
stalling them bat the Paoifio States
Company is to keep them' in repair,
Tbe Applegate Uompany takes over
under lease the Paoifio States line
from Grants Pus to Williams for a
period of two years with the privi
lege of continuing the lease for 10
years, rio rent is to be paia bat
tbe Applegate Company is to pay
the taxes on the 20 miles of line and
keep it in repair to the oity limits
and to return it at tbe termination of
tbe lease in as good oondition as
when taken. Tbe Applegate Com
pany are to bavo all tolls for non-
member messages that go over this
line and its other lines, but all Grants
Pass city and rural telephone sub'
scribers oi the Pacific States Company
ars to have free switching over the
lines of the Applegate Company.
Tbe lease has been sent to San Fran
oisoo for the approval of the officers of
the Paoifio States Company and
County Manager A. T. Marshall ex
pects that the oon tract will be signed
up and that he will be able to torn
over the Williams line to the Apple
gate Company in a few days.
The Applegate Valley Telephone
Company will pat in branch lines to
connect all the settlements of the
Applegate Valley with tbe main line
to Grants Pass. A central office will
Home
Furnlwhed
Immense Carpet Sale
Carpets at the Prices of Common Matting
500 YARDS AT 30 CENTS PER YARD
For immediate purchase only and cash at the
time ol purchase, you can have it delivered
any time. These goods are sold at 50 cents
any where.
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS THIS SALE
Thomas
Headquarters for
be put In at Provolt to accommodate
the local lines np Applegate and Will
iams Valley and to Missouri Flat and
so soon as tbe business will warrant
at Murphy and at South Grants Pasa
for the Centennial district and other
sections south of Rogue river. The
company will put in all the main
branch lines but tbe subscribers will
build the local lines to give them
connection. Three branch lines are to
be pat in at once to extend from Will
iams poatoffioe up tbe Valley four
miles, and one from Provolt across
Applegate river to Missouri Flat and
one up tbe Applegate Valley from
Provolt to Applegate poatoffioe. It is
expected in the near future to build a
line from Murphy down the Applegate
to give oonneotiou with the New
Hope and the other settlements below.
Tbe contract has been let to J. W.
Pernoll to pat up the poles on the
line from Provolt to Applegate and
it is expected to string the wire next
week.
While the Grants Pasa-Willlama
line now baa but six telephones on ia
yet with the low rates that the Ap
plegate Company will be able to give
will bring in a large patronage and it
is expected that within a yaar there
will be 200 or more telephones on the
Company's system. The Applesate
Valley ia one of tbe largest trade
distrlota tributary to Grants Pass and
the installation of a complete tele
phone system over the entire Valley
will be of great advantage to business
men of this city aa wnll as to th
farmers and business men of that sec
tion. RANGE CATTLE YET
IN GOOD CONDITION
Progressive Farmer Who ia Im
proving Both Stock and .
Fruit Troes.
O. F. Lovelace was in Grants Pasa
Wednesday from his farm on Slat
oreek at Wilderville.
Mr. Lovelace Is engaged In both
stock and fruit raising. He is making
beef production a specialty and has at
the bead of hia herd a registered
Shorthorn boll that weighs over a ton
and is one of the beet of his type In
Rogue River Valley. Mr. Lovelace
stated that stock on the range waa in
fine oondition tome steers being al
most fat enough for beef. Fully half
of bis oattle were yet in the bills and
would not likely come borne for feed
until driven in by the snow.
Mr. Lovelace baa five acres to or
chard, the trees of which are wall
nared for and are healthy aud proliflo
bearers, bat are most of common
varieties, tbere being bat few Spltzen
bregs and Newtowns. As tbe
Spitzenberga and New tons are by
far tbe best sellers Mr. Lovelace in
tends to graft the trees of tbe oommon
kinds to these standard varieties.
The trees are 13 to 20 years old bat
Mr. Lovelace anticipates no difficulty
in grafting them as they are very
strong and comparatively free from
pests.
The Classified Ad oolumus of the
Courier contain many items which
will be of Interest to you and yoo
should make it
each week.
a point to read them
Quarts blanks at the Courier office.
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Coin p let o
L O'Neill,
tilings for tho House