mm t i 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. 1