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VOL. XXIII.
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINB COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1907.
No. 8.
THE CRATER LAKE
RAILROAD EXPANDS
Buys the Jacksonville Rokd-W,
C. Donnell Secured
Superintendent.
Medford now has every certainty of
getting a railroad np Rogue river and
to Crater Lake and possibly on to
Klamath Falls, aud also a road np
Applegate river to the Blue Ledge
copper mines. The receiver'! sale of
the Medford & Crater Lake road was
confirmed last Friday in tbe circuit
conrt by Judge Hanna. The price
paid was 83,500 and the purchasers
are George Estes and Dr. F. S.
Strkyer, of Portland. Saturday these
men bought the Medford & Jackson
ville railroad of Barnum & Sons
paying $50,000 for the five miles of
road and tbe equipment that consists
of two small enginei, two passenger
cars and three freight cars and a
gasoline motor car. The Jackson
viile road is one of the best paying
pieces of property in Southern Oregon
for the amount of money invested, and
Barnum & Sons had no inclination
to sell until threatened with tbe
building of a line parallel to their
road. On the Medford & Crater Lake
road there are U miles of track laid,
exteuding from Medford to Eagle
Point, bnt tbe Company had no roll
ing stock. A new corporation has
been formed by Messrs. Estes & Stry
Iter, known as the Pacific & Eastern
Railway Company, and the two roads
have been taken over by it and will
be operated as one line. For this year
the Medford road will be extended to
the big timber belt on upper Rogue
river and the Jacksonville road to
xne clue Ledge mines. While no
statement has been given out as to
the extension of the road beyond the
Blue Ledge distriot, yet the report is
out, to which color is given by tbe
Faclflo part ol tbe name, that it will
eventually be built on to a point on
tbe Pacific ocean. It was by a mere
chance that the Oregon California,
now tbe Southern Pacific, was not
built through the Applegate pats in
the Siskiyou mountains on the same
route that the Pacifio & Eastern will
take.
Tbe work of ballasting the new
track from Medford to Eagle Point is
to be begun at once and it is expected
to have the road in operation by the
first of July. Tbe extension of 20
miles to Butte Falls will be made
this year. An operative foroe is being
gathered np from among the best
railroad men in Oregon. Among
them is G. W. Donnell, road master
of t- ia division of the Southern
Pacific, who will be superintendent
and also have charge of the extension
work. Mr. Donnell has the oredit of
being one Jof the moss skillful and
effiiceut road masters in the emploj of
the Southern Pacific. While regret
ting his removal from Grants Pass to
Medford, bis many friends in this city
are pleased with his promotion and
wish him well in his new position.
Mr. Estes himself is an old railroader
and was at one time train dispatcher
at Ahland. He is an energetic,
thorough business man, and the
Pacific A Eastern under his ni'ngr.
meut will he libely to hero'iie a riil-
joad.of importauce in the traispor- j
tation system ot Orecou
TM" silo of the Oit'T Lalie rrad is
a uioMt imtunnte eednu m Medford'
railroad troubles Two year aao the
ent-rpriri'ig iti.ei'S of that town
organ izel t'ie M. d. rl 'iCrtT l.-ke
Raiload Company aud paid .j C-'.0iX)
in ca-h on the stock. With this and
KVVVVVVM
40-Acre Farm - $4,0001
This place is iocatpd on the Applepate, 7
miles from (irants Pass; has daily mail and
farmers' telephone. Place is nearly all in
hiL'ii Mute ol cultivation. 20 acres under
itrigation. "i00 choice apple trees and 10
' fino cherry trees in good bearing, and 40
assorted young trees. Seven-room dwell
ing and two frame barns. Fine well at the
house. Will give terms on portion of price
if desired.
W, L. TJEUBjXjJl1T1D
THE REAL ESTATE MAN
Ground Floor, Opera House Block
147,000 borrowed money the Company
pot in the roadbed and track as far as
Eagle Point Then all operations
were stopped through the lack of
funds and the greed of some of the
officers who wanted to gobble op the
road and freeze out tbe stockholders
who had put in most of the cash.
Matters dragged along nntil this
Spring when in order to secure the
stockholders aud get tbe road In
operation Edgar Hafer, of .Iowa Lum
ber Company, and other stockholders
bad it put ia the bands of a receiver.
Dr. J. F. Reddy was put in receiver
by Judge Hanna and through his
energy and thorough business iilethods
he got railroad men to bidding on the
property until the price was forced
from $153,700, the first bid ol Dewing
& Company to $82,500, the bid that
gave the road to Estes and associates.
The Medford people have thus got
their money back with fair interest
and a railroad that will be a big
factor in the prosperity of that town.
Had Grants Pass made as much of an
effort as Medford this town would
now have a railroad to the Illinois
Valley and be in a position to put a
road op the Applegate toBlue Led tie
and get tbe trade from that riob val
ley and big mining distriot
GRANTS PASS SCHOOLS
CLOSE SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Number of Graduate Double
EacK Year and Standard
of Work Higher
The commencement exercises will
be held at the Opera House on ibis
1 Friday evening and the address to
tbe graduating class will be by Prof.
Joseph Schafer, of the State Univer
sity. Tbe students to whom diplomas
will be awarded are C. Frederick
Dean, Wilna Olive Gilkey, May
Esther Holloway, Amy Myrtle Isaacs,
Annabella Leitb, Mary Elizabeth
Leith, Carle Nina Paddock and Ella
May Savage. It is an interesting
coinoidenoe and One that is highly
complimentary to the efficient wore
of City Supelntendent R. R. Toruer
and the other teachers of the High
Sohool, that the graduating olass for
'07 ia 100 per cent larger than that of
'06 and the class of 'OK was just 100
per cent larger than was tbe class of
'05, which was the first year that
Prof. Turner had charge of the Grants
Pass schools. That there were hut
two graduates two years 'ago snowed
a low ebb in the work of the Grants
Pass High School, while the gain to
four last year aud to eight this year
proves that a new and vigorous energy
has bean infused into the school.
This is further proven by the fact
that the graduating class for next
year, barring no lots by students re
moving from the city or by a gain
from other high schools, will be just
100 per cent largrr than tbe olass for
this year, for it will numbrr 10. With
the thorough work that is being doue
and the addition of a full business
course, that includes typewriting,
shorthand and bookkeeping, to the
scientific and classical coorten, and
that the school is free to all scholars
of Joii-pliine county, is certain to'pnt
th" Omits Pa-s Hiali School in the
(try front rank of the h'gh school of
iteg.m in the notub-ir of graduates
it.iu the wen rouuUt-u
they ill be given.
edi'oatii.n that
Ltura Thomas Uunn-ll th-i popular
Southtrn Orpjroi elocuth nist. will
give a rin or "Mr. WVgsof The
Cabha.' I alcu" ui Open louse. May
31st.
GRANTS PASS CANNERY
NOW BEING BUILT
Construction of Buildings Ruahed
and Machinery
Ordered.
Grants Pass will have a cannery and
it will be in readiness to handle the
fruit and vegetable crop for this sea
son. Manager, Herbert C. Sampson,
after spending a week in Portland in
company with bis father, C. H.
Sampson, in looking up information
on the oaunerv industry and inter
viewing implement firms in regard
to machinery for the canuery.got mat
ters in shape for starting work on the
building, aud Thursday the beginning
was made. The cannery will be lo
oated in the east part of town between
the S. P. stockyards .and tbe Standard
Oil Company's oil tank. The traot of
land purchased by the Cannery Com
pany is 100x225 which gives ample
spaoe. On the ground there is a
planing mill building' 32x48 feet
that will be fitted up for a warehouse.
There is a 'so a well built cottage that
will be fitted op and repted to some
one of the employees. Tbe cannery
building ' will be 40x64 feet, two
stories, well constructed and on con
crete piers. The order for tbe ma
chinery has been placed, and it is the
plan to have the cannery In operation
by the first of July. While only
small plant will be installed now,
yet it will be of the best, and so ar
ranged that tbe cannery can be readily
enlarged as the bosiness warrants.
As with the fruit growers onions, the
rule of the Grants Pass Canning Com
pany will be to give quality rather
than quantity In patting np the pack,
and the purpose is to build np a repu
taton for Rogue River canned fruits
that wll equal the high s'andnig now
had by the green fruits of this Valley.
The Cannery Company has taken
over the vinegar and spray factory
operated for the past year by Sampson
Bros., and the plant will be added to
tbe cannery equipment. The Samp
son vinegar has met with a ready sale
owing to its absoiote parity and One
color, and now that the national and
state pure food laws are being rigor
ously enforoed,the cheap acid vinegar,
that would eat the lining out of a
stove, will be debarred from tbe mar
ket, thereby makiug a bettor" sale" for
pure, wholesome vinegar. When lil
ting np for the manufacture of lime
sulphur spray solution last Fall Samp
son tiros, expected that it would be a
difficult matter to get tlte farmers to
nee the factory-made solution instead
of the home-made article. The
farmers, though, were quick to note
the superiority of .the solution made
in an airtight .retort under a heavy
steam pressure that gave a higher
degree of heat than is 'possible to get
in au open kettle, and which so
thoroughly melts both the sulphur and
lime that a perfect chemical union is
made of the two substances aud held
in perfect solution with the watir.
nd orders came in 90 faot that the
Sampson Bros, had to run their
factory much'' of the time day aud
night. Each year, since they liM
came, the ptsis have sttadily in
creased in the orchards of this couutv
uutil this present season, when the
farmers ceased lining the open kettld
spray and got the Sampson solution
The result is that such a killing of
the pe-it was mads tiiut the trtt s will
compare in vigor aud fine appearauc-
with those of tbe best districts of
the state, aud the percentage cf goon
and bad froit will be ieuiHd t' is
season, for instead of 15 per ceut ami
85 per cent iuipi rfrct.as was the ce
last year, theie will le H5 per reut ur
more marketable fruit aud scircel.
15 per cent that will Le ui.e.iLablr.
The Sampson solution was amo largely
used by the fruit growers in Jaok.on
aud Douglas ooun'.ies, the y are as well
pleased with it as are the orchard is te
of this county. With this strong en
dorsement of ths fruit rowrrs the
sali-sofths Ssmpton solution . ill m
feertain to be more than doubla thi.
year over last year, and this aud the
arseuate of lead that is alio to h
maun facto red, will do .much toward
making the cannery a financial sue-
David Bodwell, who recently ar
lived frotn Iljnola has pgrrliarTi
through V. "L. Ireland the Mary C.
Hildreth pUoe on Iowa s7raet,co;n
prjsiog four acres with orchard, houie
and barn and other improvements.
This is a good place and will make
, ,8J(lwe11 nd his family a splen
did home.
FRUIT GROWERS HOLD
EXPERIENCE MEETING
Discuss Important Points in Their
Industry Next Meeting
to Be bl Picnic.
The fruit growers meeting held at
Court House last Saturday, while not
so large in atteudauce, for "there were
only 28 fruit raisers present, besides a
nuiuber of other persons, was one of
the most profitable aud interesting
meetings held in this city. Tbe topics
considered were discussed in an infor
nial mauuer, the fruit growers giving
their successes and failures in their
orchard work. All were free to talk
and to ask questions, and so interested
did they get that it was S o'clock be
fore the session closed.
The meeting was called to order by
Charles Meserve, secretary of the
Grants Pass Fruit Growers Union.aud
on motion J. H. Robinson, the well
known froit grower and nursery man
of Wildervills, was chosen to piesfde!
The first topio considered was "Are
Bees Helpful In Pollenization of Froit
Blossoms?" J. H. Robinson opened
ths discussion and gave facta that
proved that bees had much to do with
the pollenization ot frnit blooms. Mr.
Robinson stated thai in ths 19 years
that he bad been raising froit on his
Applegate farm that he had never bad
bot one failure and bot two partial
failures of crops and that this year bis
tress are well loaded. This success he
attributed to the energetic work of
number of hives of bees that he kept
in bis orchard. He told of an orchard
1st who placed a netting over half of
the top of ao apple trees and kept the
bees from the bossoms. That half had
very. little froit while tbe other half
bore a big crop. The failures that he
had were In Spring, when there was a
long rainy spell thai prevented tbe
bees from working.' lie bad found
bees profitable for the honey they made,
but if he got no honey at all he woold
yet consider the bees profitable for
the pollenization work that they do.
T. Morrison was confident that tbe
work of bees made a big strawberry
crop more certain. He had observed
that small yield and tbe presenoe
of many misshapen berries was cer
tain when, through heavy raiiis and
the abseuce of bees, the polenlzation of
the blo-soius was ioteifered with.
E. N. 'Vrovolt thought bees made
a yield of fruit more certain. O. H.
Parry, lately from Miuhigan and who
s interested with his brother, W. T.
Perry, in the planting kof a vineyard
near Murphy, asked if spraying killed
the Lees or . injured tue honey. Mr.
Kobiusou auswered that no sprayiug
hould be doue until the bloxsoms
had fallen, and as the bees were then
through feeding on the flowers there
was no dauber to the bees or tbe
bouey.
The Strawberry as a Money Maker"
was the topio that J. T. Morrison
00k up. Mr. Morrison stated that
he had found strawberries the most
rofitilde of the fro its that be grew.
Ihe crop never failed aud the prices
bad beeu gjod and there was every
udicatiou tnat they would coutinue
profitable. The Grauts Pass cannery,
now building, and the local demand
will make a good market and as
Kogue Kivcr strawberries are as good
ihlpper as thone grown at Hood
Kivr, piofhuM" piicea rail always be
had by hipping. Mr. Morrison raid
that iraw beirSei thould be lauted in
the fall ou ground that had. been 111
ultiaitd crops, sjcIi as corn, potatoes
or vegetables. The ground should be
plowed de p and thorough, harrowed
cutil ptrlictly mellow aud then rolled.
On dry land, irrigation greatly in-
criasod the yield. When cultivating
never let the cultivator blade go nearer
than ii inches of the plant, as tbe
roois spread on the so r fat e aud cutting
them injured the plant As to the
kind to grow, Mr. Morrison stated that
a giower would have to test and find
which variety was best suited, as soil,
location and climate greatly affected
trawbtrries. lie had fruited over 50
kiuds aud had fooud the Magone, New
Oregon and Wilson as best suited to
the bill land and high altitude of bis
place. Rev. J. K. Day, of Woodville,
thought it woold be more profitable to
have a number of varieties, so as to
have a sucoeniou of berrits both for
the market and home use.
"Tbe Wind One Caose for the Rain
ing of the Fruit Industry in the East"
was the subject far an interesting
talk by A. T. Martin. It is vary
largely the wind that enalles the penis
to make suoh headway and snoh havoc
in fie orchards of too East. Mr. Mar'
tin, who came here two years ago from
Illinois, stated that in all tbe Btates of
the Mississippi Valley the wind blew
nine days ont of 10 each Fall aud
Spring and much of the Winter. In
the Winter spraying could not be done
at the solution wonld freeze before it
would reach the tree, and in the Fall
and Spring the wind woold blow it
iuto spaoe and lose it. The result is
that the San Jose scale, authracuose
aud other pests, that can only be
fonght during the season when there
is no foliage on the trees, are rapidly
killing the orchards in the prairie
states. As the pests are spreading all
over tbe United States fruit will only
be grown in commercial orchards, and
these will be located in valleys pro
tected from the wiuds, in the hills
and moontains. In all his travels Mr.
Martin stated that he had never bean
in a section having as little wind as
Rogue River Valley. This great ad
vantage, together with the very favor
able soil and climate was certain to
make fruit raising very profitable here.
With no wind to contend against aud
surrounded by mountains, it would be
00 difficult matter for froit growers to
keep their trees free of peats and have
olean frnit that woold bring fancy
prices. Charles Meserve stated that
the entomologists of the Department of
Agrionltnre bad identified over 100
pests that feed on fro its and vegetables
in the United States. Of this number
there were not over adozen In Rogue
River Valley. Chairman Robinson
remarked that while it was ool the
proper spirit to have, yet it was afact
that the frnit growers of Rogue River
Vallley ooud look upon the peats as
their best friends, provided they kept
them ont of their orchards, while the
Eastern farmer, bony with his Fall
plowing and corn hoiking and with
Spting seeding, could not take advant
age of the few favorable days there
for spraying.
Are Cherries Profitable In Rogoe
River Valley?" was answered by O.
W. Triplets who stated that bis half-
acre of cherries paid him better than
any other like plat of laud in his or
chard. Cherries came into bearing
early, and whea thrse year old fre
quently bore a gallon or more. There
is big demand for cherries, and the
price good. He sold for five and six
oeots a pound last y, ear but could have
had 12 cents a pound in Salt Lake and
some of the other markets, but the
high express rates precluded shipping.
When there were sofilcent cherries
grown here so that the Fruit Growers
Union could ship in car lots, theu this
froit would be one of the most profit
able for Kogue River orohardists to
grow. The land that ho had found
bet for oherriexwas a deep clay with
the water table well down, for water
was death to cherry trees. There were
few pests to trouble cherries, the only
diseases here being gumosis, scale and
cab. The two lattsr ran readily be
killed by sprayiug, but tbe former is
bard to eradicate. If a cherry tree
escape the ravages of gumosis for tbe
first three or four years, then it is'good
for years of protfiahle liearing.
(Continued next week. )
Mammocks
More HammocKs
and Then Some
FROM 50 GENTS UP
ASK
Porch Screens
Vudor HammocK Chair
Furniture and Car
pets, Linoleums,
I.arat'urtainn, Por
tieres, Stattree,
Pillows, Cot, Wall
Paper, Clocks,
Mirrors, Window
Shades, VU tarts.
Picture Moulding.
R. H. O'Neill
THE HOUSEFUHNISHER
Front St., bet. 6 and 7
IHSS MARION WALTER
GIYES VIOLIN RECITAL
Assisted by Mine Po-lmer. Pianist,
and Miss La Coatev Man(um
In Reading.
Another yoong girl opon whom
Grauts Pass feels some claim "of
ownership in that it was once her
home and who has gone forth into the
larger life of one of our greater cities
to win there success aud a degree of
fame in the keen competition ot life is
Miss Marion Walter, now of Sao Fran
cisco, aud the lovers or good mnsio
here are very grateful to her in that
she possessed so pleasant a memory of
her earlier years in this city that she
gave us the pleasure on Monday eveu-
ing of listening to an hour or more
of delightful violin playing. She
was asHlBted in her recital by Miss
Ethel Carolyn Palmer, a talented
piauist whom we are all prond to
olalm as one of us and who never
fails to give keen pleasure In her
work at the piano, and La Costa Man-
gum, who as a yoong girl, gives
promise ol ability as a successful
reader.
Miss Walter plays with a broad deep,
sweet tone rare in one of her years
while her technic bespeaks earnest aud
persistent work to her chosen pro
fession. It is easy to see that tbe vio
lin is the great love of the young per
former's life and it responds under
her sympathetic and loving touch to
all the affection she showets upon it.
At times it had In its fibre all the
pleading emotional power of a great
contralto voice singing its way
straight into the depths of the soul,
while at other times it was as bright
and gay and brilliant as the trilling
of some happy bird. The Paganlnl
number tested her execotionvery stren
uously, yet she made it very pleasing '
part of her program. Tbe arrange
ment of the sextet from "Lucia di
Lammermoor" ia a marvelous trans-
oriptlou from that famons work, re
producing as It does upon the violin
the combined work of six Instruments.
It la foil of depth and glorious bar
moules. It seemed . to ns that Miss
Walter was playing right op to the
limit of her oxecotion In this number,
bot at the same time it showed admir
ably bow excellent the tocbuio and
temperament are for an embryo artist
Miss Walter has a very winning and
simple stage presenoe and bearing and
makes her aodieuoe feel great deal of
sympathy in her high hopes for a fa-
nrj iW bright with promts Ono fouls
that she has awaiting bar iiot ouiy
the passion and the flue feeling neces
sary to artistio playing, bot also that
she Is fired with a splendid ambition
and a capanlty for hard, earnest work,
which will go far to win the laurels
from the hand of fortune. Miss
Palmer played with an inspiration,
aud never during all her pnhllo work
among us has she given a more fitting
expression to the splendid hannonio
dreams of the groat masters, for her
playing of each number was a perfect
riot of motion.
TO SEE
Btovet and Range,
Oranlteware,
Agteware, Tinware,
Woodenwars,
Wlllowars, Cutlery,
Crockery, Lamps,
Ulaaswars, Fancy
China, (Jo-Carts,
Kaby Carnage.
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