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ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS, OREGON. NOVEMBER 8. 1907. TV Thousand Dames On the Baltic Game American Men to Claim. To captive p ople andjain their good wi.l and con fidence, so as to lead to ex tensive business relations, we are offering them the finest line of Groceries they ever beheld for their mon ey. Here are some facts and figures thai you can't evade. New Nuts, New Comb Honey , . , !ee the Pumpkins for Hallow'ein J. Pardee, Sfte Grocer Front St net Grants Pmmm With oar fruit growing, extenaive timber interests, rich mine and such thing to back ni op, what commu nity can offer greater inducement to the prospective homeseeker? And. too. where can there be found a mure aaperb clircate than this? No won der people are inclioed to regard this as" God', country." THE ROGUE RIVER COURIER GRANTS PASS. OREGON. Published Every Friday. Subscription Rataai One Year, in advance, Hi Mori Hm, 'Aire Months, tlingle Copiea, Advarllalna Rfttai Fumlahad on application at the office, or HiAtitmrimm ftnfi ...nlnilnn. nt run dolence will he charged (or at 6c per line; J - ' 11 l. an- wuyi itiftiiutMj. A. E. VOORHIES,, W. E. WILLIS, Pro pb. Editor Entered at the pout office at Grant. Oregon, at aecond-claaa mail matter. I'asi FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1907. Some of the Woodburn merchant have been giving their oaitomera short weight and now they are in the toili of the law. The atate inspector will toon round np the oltlee and town of Boa them Oregon. Many per too a are taking advantage vttht drpreaaed financial market and, acting upon the "pointer" which Mr. Harriman had given them they are ioveatlng their ainall aavlngalo bond and atocki, expecting to lee the prlcea toon begin to Dick np ataln. Now that the apeoial low railroad rate from the Eaat are to .till be given until the flrat of the jear, we oau have our friend and relatifea who are already beginning"! to ihiver in anticipation "of a long"wiiler eaaon, come oat here and enjoy life in ibii ideal climate. Editor Murray, of the Klamath Republican telli of at leaat one man in that region who does not propose O hil worldly noaaeaainna tnr bom a other loralltT Jr Faauiauy audi people" and "theyare growing more nnruerou every day, too. When we read of the president of the big life insurance comiianiea and the Wall itreet gainMrra beiug sent to the peuitcntiary for their wrong doings, it certainly Jug ample cause to believe that day when Mter thinga are expected, ia not far off. These ate the daya whan the "knocker" get iu Ilia bent work. He ia having the opportunity of hit life, in Lis vain endravo' to create ana pinion regarding the aoundiiem of the local bank. Hut he la "potted," and bin poor effort will prove to be worae than uelw. bloih of Rbaine to aay ordinary indi vidual who wa. taking the taxpayer!' money and not returning any er- vices. Snob aotiona on the part of the.igreat organ aocounta, in a large meaanre. for the way the masses literally iwear by it. After haviog weathered the atormi of the paat aix year, the Gardiner, Douglas county, Oregon, Gazette .no camb. Lack of support i given as the cane of the demise, by Miss Martha Howard, who baa been con ducting the sheet for the pant three month. Theae are the days when the calamity bowler flourish in all bis glory. Yon can hear him say, parrot like: "I told you so, " and then he proceeds to diaguose the ills of the day, bat he seldom, if ever preient a practicable remedy. He is oertainly a deluaion and a snare and a nuisanoe In any community. Our cannery is mating a record for putting np a fine pack and as a natural contequenoe, the big, whole sale house are anxious to secure goods from this plant. Next year the es tablishment will be very materilly en? Urged and it wilfthus'be enabled to handle a much larger volume of busi ness. Our own Jonathan Bourse, by his honest endeavor to actually compel President Roosevelt to permit his name to once more be uaed for that bigh office, has "stirred op the ani mals, " .polite! ally speaking aod all the anti-administration organs are now turning their gum on "Oor Jonathan." But he has a big bank accoont and, what is far better, he baa pnblio sentiment at his back. So, why should he fear what thee fellows can do? And so the railroads would show tbeir hand by endeavoring to make capital oo t of the financial depres sion and if possible cause the people to blame President Rooaevelt for the trouble! Bot they cannot fool the American people after any .uch fash- cam. and aome nervous .v'duals ion. They have been watching the began to make inqnirie. long that drift of matter, and can .ee which line. If the, bad any doubt, ir that way the wind i. blowing. Instead of direction, what " ' " weakening the President, in the ey. now be allayed by the fine ,.ho ng. oftb. voters, they have onlv added made and published the last Courier 'aaMaaaWaaa , - 1 A i Mfl IPal IDTlB fil hi. laoels. The m-tieris.uur nana r settled. Perhaps it may ! the staouuy oi me . 1 1 TKa art ano her case of "he gion wnom rney reprrBOU,. Just both conducted upon a saie, couservn luster to by no means torn out to be ano ber case that laughs lant, laughs best. wait and see what the President does. Ibis week the school teachers of Josephine county have fairly takeu Grants Pass, while the annual teachers institute is in session. We are glad to have them with ns aod wish for them a successful aud profitable meeti a grand work and to even estimate its importance, it therefore behooves them to make all ! tive banis and the depositor, have etry reason to feel sscure about their finances. In our "What People Say" depart ment, we olten quote people who think they have a complaint to make, but who do not care to oome out and prefer to have course they may have a gooa excure. miming , a succewful aud j uu u" ng. T'.ey are doing "P"1 ind w. cannot begin leix name, withheld. Of that if the real aothor of the article the preparation pos.ible aod th.t i.j i qoe.on i. known, then it will not the very rea.on why they are called b? ' 0,herwlM I, a. a . Int.r. I ... a. together, in order to have an inter change of plans and ideas We really did not begin to realize how solid our home banking institu tions were, notil , the little flurry is better than none at all," and doubtless this is one of the cases. We much prefer to have people willing to talk in pnblio about such matters as they do in private. But it was ever thus and doubtless will w, thnsly to the end of time. nti," A promlnt rVBadn"ea, V,n write, from Ashland to the v ford Tribune, wanting that help eetabli.h "hot ,ir.. Z tlon at Ashland. He take. T' to write after thi. fashion -"vl? The Tribune i. .11 right, though J i. full of hot air and balloon lo i Thar, what i. I. needed to up these old moiaback. in Rontk Oregon. We need . hot ai, p? A.hland to get the leader, out of kh . Rip Van Winkle lethargy Our 7 editor, here are both good. reilgi(!? men, but they have both been heV long in the same .tall that they too foil of prune to ran a live rir,.! in a town of MOO people. Send I newspaper man foil of hot air to hal get awake. Onr .treet comai? sioner ha. bcn walking in hi. ,i alLummer. and our mayor and cii! counci have plenty of pio. dre. J bot thi. i. f,r thej g. aocomplian nothing. They are a littu the drowsiest we have had In lft years." " Greater Grants Pass A Few Facts Which are Now Before Us The Future of Grants Pass not to be handed Over to Capitalists. 1 7. We are glad to know that more branches ol th. Grange are to be or. gaolsed throughout Josapine county, within the next few weeks. Thi. organization seem, to be junt what is desired in the rural communities and it i. accomplishing much good, all over Oregon. My, hut how the Oregouinn "goes after" one of the prominent official nf Multnomah county! Even if he doea hold the hiKh-aoumliug jtitle of 'Judge, "Hint paper alio w a not fear nor favor, but proowda to givo hia record 1" "'in r that vroulil Hiring the Why i. it that the Southern Pacific hould discriminate againat the people of Southern Oregon, by taking off two of III paaaenger train aod run them only from 'Roteburg to Portland? The aervice ha. been poor enough at beat and now it will ; be miserable. Our people are highly indignant over inch proceeding, and rightly so, too. From all over the land comes the report that the prlcea of all com modities are to come down very per- ceptibly. This will Jbe welcome news to the people who have to live on moderate wages. Of course the trait manipulators and Wall Street gam blers will not care a bean. In fact, they would probably rather have the high prices prevail all the time. Oue of the noteworthy events iu Grant Paxs, this week, was the grand opening of the new opera hoone. The large and farhionahln audience which accepted the kind invitation of Manairer Kinney, enjoyed the program which was afforded theiu. We are in deed fortuuate in having uch a public spirited man in oor community and it ia dne to his interest iu the welfare of the community that we now have the Urgent and bent opera bouee iu Oregon. The BrraDe industry if nronerlv look- ea alter oy the citizens of Grants Pass will make Grant. Pass a city four times a. large as Sacramento. Sacramento was built and is being maintained chiefly from the product, of between 20 and 30 thousand acres of vineyards while Grant. Pass has much more land tributary to it. which are more valuable for grape culture than anv lands in California or any other part of Ameri ea, together with all its other valuable resources. If vou would pause and think for one moment what this means, you will readily Bee what these indus trie, will do for Grants Pass. Capitalit. are now considering the purchase of large tract, of land for vineyards In this locality. They see the opportunity which we are appar ently yallowing to pasB un-noticed. However, we understand that there is to be between three and four hundred acre, of TOKAY grape, planted here this fall by people who live and are doing business in Grants Pass. It is to be hoped that we will not do with the grape business as we did with the timber. Only a short time ago any one of us could have taken from the government 160 acres of heavily timbered lands and paid for it at the rate of $2.60 per acre. These same lands are now worth from $10 to $100 per acre. Reader, look back for a minute on what you might have made in the timber business. Do not tarrv long with your gaze in that direction, but look forward to the grape business. Do not let it tret into the hands of large syndicates. Out of the thousands of timber claims which have been taken in the past five years, not over four claims were taken by Oregomans who live in Rogue River Valley. Let us profit by our mistakes. The grape induntry as it now appears is to be our salvation. If grapes con tinue to grow in the Rogue River Valley as they have for the past 33 years without a failure the profit would be many times greater than had the same amount of money been invested in timber, as the profit is increasing annually and continues indefinitely. At the present time there seems to be quite a flurry in the money market, which now appears to be nearly at an end, which we believe will finally work out to bojthe best thing that ever hap pened to the coust. Reader, did you know that the banks of the Tacific Coast have on deposit with the so caned strong oanKs in the hast over J i .J-.-: A FIVE POUND BUNCH OF TOKAY GRAPES annual resources of Grants PaRRnrennp vinevnrri onr? tho Comnon J. , .. unuijjavu VIIICJTBIU, million dollars, we can safely state that men who have been up to the Nelson k. -I . 1 . ... Mie means 100 more towns tne place, wnere they saw over one thous sire of Grants Pass to be built w C "fv-o JIVUUV.CU VII UIIC Pacific Coast or add the equivalent to vine without cultivation; men who are our many prosperous towns. However, j looking carefully into the future of in the buildine of our town and locality, i this town . , " J ' ww nicjr uc it is not money that we want, so much lieve as we do, that the grape industry as people, people who have a desire will solve the permanent monev mak- and will to work towards building up j problem for us, Something which will YOUR DOG If ho is woll kept, ho is fnrnishod by nat uro with a slook flossy ooat; a littlo ox oroiso on n warm day piws hi.n pants; ovoryboily jjivos hitn outl's, and you suroly ou-lit to ho willing to furnish' his collar. A cood collar adds more to tho appoanuuv of a dog than a yard of podigrtv, it marks him as a rvspocted moinlvr of sooifty one with frh nds. You will lind a swell hno of Manhattan Dog Collars at JOE WHARTON'S Paddotks Old Bkvtle Dm permanent resources for our localitv whioh cannot be shaken by the money gamblers. What could be more effect ive than grapes? See the different ways in which they could be handled. Were the entire Rogue River Valley planted to TOKAY grapes we could not supply the market of the cities of the United States to say nothing of foreign countries. Reader if you have more lands which are ailuitt.1 tn crmmi niiltii,. ik.n 1 u 1 1 tuaii vuu one hundred and fifty million dollurs as 1 and your family can plant and take care n .... if... fti..l Vl'k... t. o.. it .a 1 i t . " "; " ' iwi iiu u . ui, piani wnat you can and make it there would be a possibls flurry in the ' possible for a few more families to go money market Grants Pass for instance into the grape industry, in our valley which has a large reserve fund in the by selling them the lands which you Eastern hanks, could wire Chicago and cannot utelizc, Do nut retard the de New York and send its entire reserve j volopment of your locality by holding fund to Portland by wire and in turn on to lands you cannot develop. Turn wire Portland to send the same amount them over to people who want to use io mem ov nisi express, in this wav : them now. ;f u . . i return their large reserve to their own , ten or twenty acres of land which vou I iiun. n.v.iiu iixuib. .never oeiore in are going to put into grapes this year . the history of modern finance have the procure it now before the price gets so called . strong banks of the Fast out of your reach. I positively refused to transfer a dollar I If w"e had 50.0m acres of grapes of these reserve funds and by having planted around Grants Pass producing so refused, have they not done the , $;?00 per acre annually, figure the re heat thing for the Pacific Coast which suits. The present Source, of our could have happened You know locality are about one million dollar, the Eastern banks did not serve the 1 per annum. Did vou ever stop to purpose, therefore it resolves itself in- think how long the "people have been to a business proposition that not only working to get our resources up to the banks of Grant. Pass but those of , that amount? Over 50 years How the Pacific Coast will never send their , many acres of grapes would we have reserve funds to Eastern banks. You to plant to double our resources' It know that h t.nmt -ha.. .t.u... I c.wurves. 11 , . .. "- wouiu ciouole the population of the !:. r;hi:t. r" u ,ht: u'wn- duuw the Wuiation. ia it " , "J ,'",,'1"',v" , fart that vou will double gold finding its way into the business property values. cnanne s west of the Uoky Mountains. ! At tins ,Kint we call your .1 ,.,( ., . .. . lno loiiowm,. afluiavits made by within two snuar. f tii 7" 'ii-i is con- nvinv nnim n... i.....: .... . . umic3 alla -e the ' city; ,,ln I pf d belief - v u ?u e:irn nr rri... ...n... ... . nun wuiuams lour bring millions of dollars annually of ioreign money to our town to bui d and stimulate all industries. C. H. Sampson, first being duly sworn, deposes and says: That I am a resident of Grants Pass. Oretron. and have a small vineyard two miles north of town, which is but three years old, and that I harvested and sold one hun dred and thirty-two dollars per acre worth of grapes from these lands this yer- C II. SAMPSON. Subscribed and sworn to before me a Notary Public for Oregon. Grants Pass, Oregon, Nov. 8, 1907. E. L. CHURCHILL, Notary Public. Compare this with what thev tprm the rich grain country. J. X. Nelson, first beinir dulv deposes and says: That I am a ri. dent of Grants Pass, Oregon and that I have one grape vine which is a volun teer and to my best knowledge I h- lieve had over one thousand pounds of maritetable grapes on it this year. JOSE X. NELSON Subscribed and sworn to before me a Notary Public for Oregon. Grants Pass, Oregon, Nov. 8, 1907. E. L. CHURCHILL, Notary Public. 635 vines per acre: make vour nm estimates as to the true value of these lands. W. B. Sherman, first hei au. t sworn deposes and says: That he is a ; resident of Grants Pass anH that t, the:W. B. Sherman RoalM. r recently purchased from C. H. Sampson the grapes on t-n vm.. .u:u - - . ..v. III II Hrc corned) in Eastern banks. I crate, of TOKAY grape, and that these vines are but four years old. W. B. SHERMAN. Subscribed and .worn to before me a Notary Public for Oregon. Grant. Pass, Oregon, Nov. 8, 1907 E. L. CHURCHILL, Notary Public TOKAYS $1.75 per box, four crate, per plant, 535 vines per acre, use your arithmetic. The Realty Company ha. raised a tent over these two vines and will undertake to preserve the fruit on them until the middle or last of the winter. We the undersigned do hereby swear that we believe the statement, herein are true, namely: That land, can be bought, cleared, and planted to grape, and Jcaredlfor, for aix year. for;$125 per acre and if properly cared for would produce it leastO per acre the third year, $80 theffourth year, $160 the fifth year, $250foerlacre:the!sixth vearlanH tinn - w yvvy or more per acrefeachfyear thereafter ior an unlimited number of yean. And we further believe that the"vin yard would be worth$2,600 perfacre at me enu oi maritime. A. H. CARSON, Redland Vineyard. C. H. SAMPSON, Fruit Grower. LINCOLN SAVAGE, .Supt. County School.. H. L. ANDREWS, Secy. Commercial Club. W. H. FALLIN, County Assessor. GEO. S. CALHOUN, . Merchant and Miner. R. H. O'NEILL, Merchant W. B. SHERMAN, Manager W. B. Sherman Realty Company. Subscribed and Sworn tn K Notary Public for Oregon. urant. Pass, Oregon, Nov. 8, 1907. E. L. CHURCHILL, Notary Public Is it not a fact that the 1 actually worth at least $1,000 per acre? Reader you can buv all that n,i a,.t from $20 to $50 per acre. You had better do it now. This is not only ra "Land of Milk and Honey" but it will soon be a Land of Grapes and Money. JThe above affidavits indicate that we can make 300 per cent each year for six years on our investment If a man would prove to you that you could make twenty per cent per annum on a ten years' investment, you would fall all over yourself to get it Here is 300 per cent and with verv little i nvest- ment, very little if any risk, very little worn to.lake care of and it doesn't take a man with years of experience in this line in order to make a success of the grape business. All that is necessary is to make a careful selection of grounds and attend to the plants well. The climate of the Rogue River Valley will do the rest. We should all work together for the upbuilding of our town, county and valley. If you cannot boost don't knock. Do not worry over present financial conditions. Your money in the bank is just as good as ever. How ever, to remove the slightest doubts. would it not be well to make a change of base and invest in grape lands as the clearing house eprtific atoa are ac cepted at par in exchange for said lands and by so doing you will not only bene fit your own purse but you will also assist in building and maintaining a greater GrantsPass. t-.j - ; For Choice Grape Lands' See th W.B.Sherman Realty CoT