VOL. XXII.
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 197.
No. 44.
UWS WANTED TO
PROTECT PROSPECTOR
Conflict ol Timber and Mining
Interest: Should Receive
Attention.
Editor Courier, .
Dear Sir: win you kiduiy inw uie
spate in yonr valuable paper to ask a
few questions?
1st. As tliis bnsy world' has been
making so many now laws and re
modeling many old' ones and protect
jug eo many things, would it not be
wise to enact some law that will pro-
oi California, Oregon, Washington.
Idaho and Nevada?
There, is no doubt that the pros-
Tm'tor is the man that faces all the
hardships of the undeveloped country.
Tn fact he is the man that takes 'he
first steps towards opeuiug np a new
mining districts. And after lie has
ventured ont in the uninhabited
places and after months or perhaps
years of untold hardships, has made
his location on some promising pros
pect and perchance has exhausted his
money supply and must hunt older
fields to renew .bis stock in grub, and
after months of daily toil be returns
to continue bis developments and finds
someone has located a timber claim
over his mineral ground and has a
patent for same from the government.
Now, kind friends, each of these men
have complied with the laws of our
land, but one must lose bis time and
work or the other his money. It is
a quite frequent case whfte therpros
pector has done years of assessment
work, filed bis statemcent each year of
hit annual work with clerk of mining
records and be must watoh the papers
at all times or his claim wilPbe taken
from him by some timber entry.
Now this is not right, for the pros
pector must do his flOO worth of work
each year for each claim and after be
has complied with all mining laws he
has uo protection by them, but must
wath at all times. He may protest
one timber entry aud in 30 daysif
someone tries the timber claim ant
again he must protest again or his
claim is gone.
Now I say, let us protect those that
do abide by our laws. It can be done
and reave muob time, monjy 'and
trouble. Say we petition congress to
enact a law canning all parties or
agttuta holding mining claim to do
their f 100 yearly assessment work be
tween January 1st and December 81 st
of each year, nuke an affidavit that
their work was done in the prescribed
time aud file it with the clerk of min
ing records said clerk to make a copy
thereof aod file said oopy with re
ceiver at U. S. Land offloe wherein
land is located. This to be ilone each
year aud as long as this is done it
shall aot as a protest against the en
tering of said land for other purpose,
should anyone insist upon location of
land within seotion which embraces
the eaid mineral location.
Then party of seooud part shall sur
vey said laud to determine location of
mining claims. Now 'this will pro
tect both miner and timber man alike
as it will save the miner from always
protesting and save the timber man
his entry fees. The true oitizen can
readily see the necessity of some such
law.
No doubt there are some that will
say this cannot be done as we would
haTH tu locate by legal subdivision
and survey.
Now the prospector oan do neither
0 rAnniiFORCA lt r
140
ACRES of fine FRUIT, VEGETABLE and GRAIN
land onlv miles from town on railroad. About
50 acres now in cultivation, SO acres more could be
easily cleared, balance of place is timbered pasture.
The soil is of a heavy black nature and sub irrigated.
This is one of the best places in the country for fruit
as the soil is especially adptcl to it and the place is so
Price situated that it is protected from late spring frosts.
House, Barn and other
lDaily mail by the house. This is a bMAf . u
it up.
W. L. IRELAND
THE REAL
Several good HOUSES FOR RENT.
oi inese, as .he must locate as he
finds his ledge and lengthwise of the
vein, and he cannot survey as it oosts
wo mucn and he IWniore thai, his
snare of new mining districts ex
ycu io near, and therefore wou'd
uib a matter wors6i tllere gre
very few claims located but what the
parties making the location, know the
number of section and a great many
the quarter section aud that should
junuiy iqe state in protecting his
claim against all entries as long as
lie complied with all mining laws.
mere is much that should be said
about timber for mini nor nnrnnopQ
when we look at the U. S. forest ser
vice and see the vast amount of tim
ber consumed in the mines of the
United States.
VI course we have not aiven the
seoond thought about timber as we
hBve plenty and are allowed to cut
niiqiDg timber on unoccupied lauds.
But after we have let the timber meu
hem us in on all sides and our claims
do pot produce the required amount
for ruining' purposes then we will say
what fools we were. Just as we say
about the railroad grant. Now we
knew that our government gave the
railroads this land, also gave us the
right to protest But we waited
for the other fellow to do it and as he
was waiting also the mineral land
was not protested, and in a few years
we will think the same about the tim
ber locators as they are getting much
valuable mineral land under the
timber law.
Now is the time to say our say.
We may say withdraw all timber land
from sale for 10 years and give ths
miner a chance to develop the mineral
rssouroes of this ' country as bis wav
is very liard and takes time. I would
like to hear from others that are en-
terested in protection of the peoples
property and would be glad to put my
name to the first petition.
Will some one kindly frame one that
will protect those that d3 'abide by,
state and United States laws.
Truly for home in Oregon
i A. J. BENNETT.
Grave Ore., Jan. 25, 1907.
. i
Orocere Organize.
Grocers representing most of the
important towns io Oregon met in
Portland raceatly aud formed a state
association for mutual benefit aod
proteotion. The election of officers
resulted in the following being
selected : President, F. J. Carney of
Astoria; first vice-president, W. I.
Iugraui, of Pendleton; second vice
president, J. C. McKiuuou, of La
Graude; third vice-president, Theo
dore Roth, of Salem ; secretary,
Charles B. 'Merrick, of Portland ;
treasurer, Dan Kullaher, of Portland ;
directors, H. C. Bobzien, of Grants
Pass; G. T. Hall, of Eugene; Owen
Beam, of Albany; J. A, Eastes, J.
0. Minn and F. Dresser, of Port
land; 0. E. Gray, of Pendleton; H.
0, Smith, of Hood River; I. T. Mor
rison, of Astoria.
The association endorsed pure food
aod full-weight laws and favors Sun
day closing and shorter business
hours.
The assooiatio'iists will labor to
defeat the proposed parcels post bill.
It was vot-d to nse all possible In
fluence with Congress to defeat the
measure.
High insurance rates were de
nounced, and resolution : pased favor
ing the formation of a mutual insur
ance association.
Old Virginia Corn Relish, Some
thing good as a dressing for nearly
every thing you eat at Smythe's
Quality shop.
out Duuaings anu gwu n..,
ESTATE MAN
GRANTS PASS. ORE.
FRUIT PEST LAW TO
BE FULLY ENFORCED
Trees Must Be Cleared of Scale
or Cut Down-Big Profit In.
Fruit is Certain.
The terrifio inroads that the pests of
which the Department of Agriculture
has identified over 100 kinds in the
United States, are making in the or
chards of the East, and in California,
the Willamette Valley and other Pa-
ciho Coast sections make it certain
that the day of cheap fruits is past.
There is a certainty that hereafter
Rogue River Valley Spitzeuberg and
Newtown apples that are free from
scale and worms and full size and
color, will net the grower fully $3
a box and common kinds proportion
ally as profitable a price. As it costs
Josephine county orchardists and
average of but 60 cents a box to cul
tivate, prune, Bpray and thin, and
pick, pack and put apples on the oar
it is plain that the orchard can be
made the best paying part of the farm.
But if ths pests are not killed the
orchard will be a loss to the farmer
for hereafter no scaly, wormy or di
seased fruit of any kind cat) be sold,
Bills now Op in ths legislatures ot
California, Oregon and Washington
are certain to pass that will make the
present pest laws so ' vigorous that
it will be impossible hereafter to sell
oreveu give away fruit that is di
seased in any way whatever. It is
thus op to orchardists to spray their
trees or cut them down for I shall
fully enforce the law.
To enable the residents of Grants
Pass o have the fruit trees and
shrubbery in their yards sprayed
and for the small orchardists about
the city, who have not trees enoogh
U) warrant the purchase of a sprayer,
I Have arranged for one or more ma
chines to do this work, tbe parties
operating them agreeing to do
thorough work and nse full strength
solution. I shall see to it that they
do spraying joit as successful or
chard (et would have it dona Their'
prices will be reasonable, but this
spraying of a few trees in a place can.
not be done as cheaply as in a large
orchaid for tbe work can only be done
when the trees are thoroughly dry,
for rain, fog aud dew so fills the
interstices of the bark that the scale
and other pests are protected from
the etTeots of the spray. All trees
should be pruned now and the brush
at ouce burned as the warm weather
will hatch the scale, ready to make
inroads on the tros so soon as the spray
has been waihed off by the rains.
The trees should be thoroughly
scraped to remove dead bark aud
wood. Trees badly infected with
scale should be sprayed not later than
February and then again just as the
buds are swelling so m to kill the
scale that may hate escaped the first
spraying. Spraying for coolin moth
will not be done until just as the
blossoms are falling.
As spray solution made by farmers
in au open vat and with the i in per
feet method of testing the strength of
the lime and sulphur is little more
nffeotive in killing pests than so much
rain water, I have Induced C. II
Sampson and bis sons Herbert aud
Arthur to put in a factory for making
solution under steam pressure and
that will be of uniform and high
strength. Sampson Sons are no
manufacturing solution at a price
cheaper than a farmer can make it
and cheaper than it can be had from
the Portland factories. 1 shall test
the spray in stock at this factory and
also as I find the solution in use from
other factories aud made bv the
farmers and if it is below the effect
ive strength, I shall so inform the
persons using it. If the far ners will
but use rightly prepared spray aud
apply it under a strong presxare so as
to drive it iuto all the cracks of the
bark aud thoroughly drench the twigs
there will be no difficulty in their
having fruit that will bring tbe top
price and their orchards will equal
a bank and beat a gold mine as a
moneymaker. But if they coo'inue
to use a poorly made solution pot on
with a hand-power pump they will
have so much scaly, wormy fruit
that their orchard will be a losing
venture to them. Tbe Grants Pass
Fruit Growers Cnios .is determined
that the law shull be enforced and
the farmer will have to feed his
diseased fruit to the hogs.
I bave a full supply of reports of
the State Horticultural Society and
the bulletins from the Oregon Agri
cultural Society and the Department
of Agricultural for distribution to
fruit growers Who desire to post np
on the science of handling an orchard
to make it profitable.
CHARLES MESERVE,
County Fruit Inspector.
SPRAY-SOLUTION NOW
MADE IN GRANTS PASS
At The' Sampson Factory Arsen
ate of Lead tvnd Ge.s Also
to be Made.
As it is a certainty that the frait
pests have come to stay and that fruit,
berry and vegetable growers must be
prepared to fight them to save their
crops. As spraying has been found
the most effectual and cheapest
method of subduing the pests the so.
curiug of the solution properly made
and of the required strength is the
problem with the farmer. Repeated
experiments by the Department of
Agriculture, the Agricultural College
and leading orchardists have demon
strated that a solution made of equal
parts of sulpbnr and lime, boiled
nnder a heat high enough to
thoroughly melt these ingredients that
a perfect chemical union is formed,
is sure death to San Jose soale and
anthracuose and other fungus diseases.
Both vitriol and salt have been found
to add nothing to the killing effect of
tbe spray eolation.
As l( is impossible to make a lime
and solution la An open vat that will
not settle and clog the nozzle, and
which has to be kept hot and constantly
stirred while being applied the best
orchardists no longer make solution
but buy it of factories. As the
nearest factories for making spray by
steam in a retort are in Portland
the freight charges makes tbe price
too high to enable farmers to use this
solution. To get a solution factory
located In Kogue River Valley was
taken np by Charles Meserve, fruit
inspeotor for Josephine county, and
on his euoouragement Herbert and
Arthur Sampson, sons of H. C. Samp
son, the well known 8. P. engineer,
put io a plant in connection with
their vinegar and older factory in
Grauts Pass. Having boiler, engine.
pump, eta, they ouly hadto add a
retort to bave their equipment complete.-
The .yonng men got tbeir
factory Io operation 10 days ago it
proved a success from the stait.
They started with a 3J$ H. P. boiler,
but orders for solution came in so fast
that they had to enlarge their plant
and this week have put in a 12 H.
P. boiler. Almost all tbe fruitgrowers
in Josephine oouut have placed
orders with the Sampson Bros, for
pray solution, among them being
Eisman Bros, who have the largest
orchaid in the oouuty aud have or
dered 60 barrels of solution. Orders
have come from both Jackson aud
Douglaaa counties and so well pleased
are the fruit growers with this spray
material that all will use it instead of
makiug it at their farms.
It is the purpose of Sampson Bros.
to make a solution that shall be of
uniform aod full strength and guar
anteed to test 5 degrees by the hy
drometer. All solution will be
goarautet-4 full strength and that in
stock will be tested from time to time
by the county fruit inspector, who
will also tent solution he finds in use
from other factories aud that may be
made by farmers. Sampson Bros, use
200 pounds of sulphur aud 200 pounds
of lime to each 00 gallons of solution
and thus make it as strong as it is
possible for water to carry the chemi
cal product of the union of the two
ingredients. The solution Is sold at
20 cents a gallon by the barrel and i)0
cents in small quantities. Each
gallon of solution will make 10 gal
lons of spray liquid thus, bringing the
cost to two oents a gallon, a cheaper
price than it csn be made for on a
farm. The Sampson solution is not a
mixture of lime, solphur and water
that baa to be kept hot and coastantly
stirred to keep it from settling and
forming a solid mass in tbe spray ma
chine. It is a chemical combina
tion of the three ingredients and it
will not settle nor clog the nozzle,
nor does it have to be kept hot when
applied as does the open vat solu
tion. Nor is salt or other cheap ma
terials added to give the solution the
required s peri flu gravity as shown by
the hydrometer so as to swindle the
farmers and deceive the fruit in
spector. There is nothing secret in
the process or about the factory and
Sampson Bros.; will be pleased to
show frnit growers and others
through tbeir 'establishment' and they
i will send sampjes of thair solution to
those wishing to test it.
The Sampson hoysare both natural
UfiilOH and wdl fduJtwd,
Arthur
Raving lately returned from Stanford
University, and euoouraged by their
success in the manufacture of the
Bordeaux mixture they will.in the near
future equip their factory for the
manufacture of arsenate of lead for
making of solution that is sure death
to the codlin moth. That they may
thoroughly understand the process of
making a high grade arsenate ofTewd
Mr. Meserve, when at the Oregon Ag-
ricultural College recently, arranged
through Dr. Withcyoiube, 'director of
the ColIegeexperiment wtatiou and
Prof. KuiBely, head of the depart
tuent of chemistry, for oue of the
Sampson boys to tike "a spcialourse
in the chemistry lahratory. For this
purpose Hubert Sampsou will leave
in about 10 days for Corvallls where
he will fully post himself ou the
methods of manufacturing arsenate of
lead and on his return they will put
in the additional equipment and begin
its manufacture. From their In
vestigations Sampson Bros, are cer
tain that they can manufacture ar
senate of lead here iu Grauts Pass
cheaper thau it can be imported from
Portland or the East and they will
guarantee that it will be fully as
strong as the best that is on the
market. They are investigating the
feasibility of putting in a plant for
the manufacture of gas for use in
pray machines, soda fountains, etc.
With tbe growing demand in South-
era Oregon for gas and the high
freight rates on the tanks there is
net d for snob a faotory.
Tbe oentral location of Grants Pass
makes it the best distributing point
in Southern Oregon and the most
favorable location for saoh an estab
lishment as Sampson Bros, are install
ing. This factory will add to the pay
roll of Grants Pass and be the meaus
of keeping here thousand of dollars
that would otherwise be sent away
for vinegar, Bordeaux mixture, ar
senate of lead and gas.
Portland Bound In Fetters of Ice.
Portland experienced an ice storm
on Monday. Far different weather
prevailed at the same time in South
era Oregon, whore it was warm and
mild, though rainy. The following1
is a partial acoount of the conditions
which prevailed iu the metropolis:
"Portland is in the grasp of an loe
storm, and great danger has been, done
to the street railway, eleotrio light
ing, tele.raph and telephone systems.
ires are down in eviry section of
the city and the danger of being eloo
trocuted prompts people to take to
streets whera the overhead netting of
wires is tho least dense. Several
horres were stricken dead by stepping
on live wires, but so far as reported,
no tinman lives ,wore lost, though
poles aud wires came down in showers
and covered some of the 'prominent
thoroughfares.
Street oar traftio whs totally dis
rupted for several hours and it may be
lata at night before anvthinv like
regular service is resumed.
Ice on the wires made the car trol
leys throw showers of sparks aud
blinding flashes of green light. Not
being equipped with ice cutters ths,
trolley wheels were burned oil in
number of instances, the flashes heat
ing the metal to a high degree. Iu
eastern cities the trolley wheels are
alwys protected with Ice cutters, but
ths company had seeu no need for
them here aud so was caught off
guard.
Pouring Down Bargains
A spot cash ottering in cutpricee on Carp
ets that means many a dollar to tho pros
pective houso furnisher. Note these prices
then Act, for theso figures are only for
Prompt Purchase now
If you are going to furnish a houso or .
rooms this summer, it will pay you big to
anticipate your purchase and take advan
tage of this sale.
Cottage Brussels regular G5c for 40c
Cotton and Hemp Ingrain regular 45 for 35c
Ingrain, 7310 regular 80c for 50c
Ingrain, 46815 regular 1.25 for )Oc
8-4 Table covers, heavy Tapentry rcg. 4.50 fo-..2.75
Couch covers heavy Tapestry rcg. 7.50 for 4.95
1 lot of Lace Curtains at Cost
Thomas (& O'Neill,
Headquarters for things for the House
LARGE COUGAR KILLED .
NEAR HOLLAND
Old Timer Run Down svnd Killed
by Hunters of Sucker .
Creek.
An old cougar that has been rang
ing for years near the Head of Bear
creek aud Kelly creek, which empty
into into Sucker creok near Holland,
was killed last Wednesday by Tmo
Tycer, Ed Tycer and Job White, after
a bard chase aud a ferocious fight in
which the old fellow tried hard to
hold his own, but had to give io to
big odds and Winchester rides in the
hands of No. 1 shots. The boys struck
his trail early in the morning, but
unfortunately oue of their best dogs
had run off after a deer and as they
only had a small shepherd loft, they
decided to follow tbe track until the
other dog came back. He led them a
merry chase over hills, across gulches,
over fallen logs, through brush, back
tracked and tried all kinds of schemes
to throw them off, but to no avail,
there being snow on the ground.
Finally they oonoluded to tarn the
shepherd loose and good lnofc would
have It, about this time the oilier dog
returned to them and took np the
trail and soon put him up a tree.
Tom Tycer shot first, putting a ballet
into-his shoulder, but it failed to do
the work aud there was something
doing there in double qaick time, as
be was ont of that tree quicker than
yon oould say scat, aud the fight was
on. He made straight for the boys,
who stood their ground and com
tuenoed to string lead, as one of 4hem
id, but not uultl the seventh shot ,
did the old fellow give in aod then
from a bullet in the brain.
This is undoubetdly one of the
largest oougars, that has ever been
kiled in this . country, wieghing,
dressed, 175 pounds. No doubt there
will be some people who oan telljof
larger ones'bot l have killed a great
many, myself, as oau b attested to by
numbers of persons in Ashland and
Medford aud I can say positively-tliis
is the largest one I ever saw. The
boys are highly elated over it and de
serve the thanks of tbe whole commu
nity.
Several of these pests have beou seen
in this looality Intel v and there
should be a reward offered by the
state fur the scalps. . j,
, Yours Respectfully,""
.-42IC "JOHN B. GRIFFIN.
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