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ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS i C.ON. Dr CEML'Kk 25. l-0- Jf As a treasurer the pocket, the wallet, the purse, and the pocket book, are a lot of loose charact ers without integrity, and un worthy of trust. Put them out of office and elect Mr. Bank Check as your treasurer. GRANTS PASS BANKING & TRUST CO. J. P. Tcffs, President. E. P. Dixon. Vice-President, G. P. Jester, Assistant Cashier. Courier and Oregonian $2 The Rogue River Nurseries Are strong on TOKAY GRAPES, having about 250,000 fancy cuttings that are rooting nicely in the reddest of We are ready to contract for fall delivery at prices lands inai wm surprise you. We are as well prepared to fur nish you with anything in line of trees and general nursery stock. Grants Pass Or. Conklin Building TREES ! TREES ! BUY YOUR TREES FROM TREES "Old Reliable Albany Nurseries" Jewelry I have just received my fine new line of Solid Gold and Gold Filled Jewelry. Call and See It I also have a fine line of Watches and Clocks W.H. HODKINSON Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler WITH JOE WHARTON 104 Mli St Grants Pass FARMERS ARE VERY PROSPEROUS NOW High Grade Cutlery -roR- Christmas Gifts Carving Sets, Pearl Handled Pocked Knives, Gillette Saf ety Razors, Embroidery Scissors, Fine Kazors and Strops. Joe Wharton's Sperling Goods Store. 6 St. and you are aure of getting just what you order. our tree for quality not cheap prices. GEO. H. PARKER, Office with J. E. PETERSON We grow Agent tlcltlTVUE SUCCUSOI TO C C DANIELS BICYCLE AND MACHINE SHOP Sixth St., It iween J & K Phone 513, with Centner Garage De Wllt'a Little Early Rleara, pleaeeat litila allls that are eaay to take. Beld y Madal Drag Btore. SPRAY w i our m iy Orchards 1 AW WW Samps For San Jose Scale and use on's Concentrated Lime and Sulphur Solution Scale livei and works all the year round. Don't forget thia. As the old scale dies, the new is rsady to carry on the destruction of our orchards. The icale is less rigorous in the fall, and more easMy and surely destroyed than in any other osaion of the year. Therefore now is th beat time to attact it and kill it. If you spray now, many a valuable tree will be laved that otbsrwiae, because of the scale, would not retain life enough U start up in ths spring. YOU HAVE MORE TIME NOW There is less wind to scatter aid waste the spray, and make it hard to cover every part. The, too, you cannot toll what may happen to prevent thorough spraying in the fall. BUT ABOVE ALL, the results of FALL SPKATINO are absolutely certain, provided, of course, tkat you SPRAY with SAMPSON'S LIME AND SULPHUR SOLUTION. These are all "Spray Facts" We claim no wonderful chemicalCdi8CoveryJin"thiBpray,Cbut we',do claim most emphatically that Sampson's Lime and Sulphur Solution always produces satisfactory results, and does no injury. ThereIi&no better spray manufactured than Sampson's Limeand Sulphur Solution. Sampson's Lime and Sulphur Solution is a clear, cherry-colorrd eolution free from sodiment. It is guaranteed to test SO degrees Baume. If youe dealers cannot supply you, write to us. BE SURE YOU USE SAMPSON'S SPRAY. Manufactured By Grants Pass Canning' Co. Grants Pass, Oregon After 12 years of service as head ! of the Department, the Secretary of Agrculture iu his annual report la ; Bued last week, presents a review of the progress of agriculture la the i United States during this period i Concerning the furm production of 190i), he says that the farmer has I created wealth by the billions. Pro i duction has been above the average of recent years with few exceptions; and while some prices have fallen ohers have risen. The farm value of all farm pro ducts of 190S reaches the most ex traordlnary total in the Nation's his tory $7.7"S,lK0,000. This Is about four times the value of the products of the mines, including mineral, oils and precious metals. The farmer contributes 87 per cent of the raw materials used in those manufacturing industries which de pend mostly or considerably upon ag ricultural materials, and these Indus trios use 42 per cent of all materials used in all Industries. The gain in value of farm products in 1908 over 1907 is $290,000,000 and would have been much larger had not the prices of cotton and hay been low. The value of products In 1899, the census year, being taken at 100, the value of 1903 stands at 125; for 1904, at 131; for 1905, at 134; for 1906, at 143; for 1907, at 159; and for 1908, at 165. During the las ten years the wealth produc ton on the farms of this country has exceeded the fabulous sum of $60,' 1)00,000.000. The corn crop this year Is 2.643,- 000,000 bushels, valued at 11.615. 000,000. Compared with the aver age of the preceding Ave years the quantity la 2 per cent higher and the value 43 per cent higher. The cotton crop la likely to be one of the three highest ever produced, with a value next to the highest, or perhapa more. The greatest hay crop In history has been gathered this year, 68,000, 000 tons, or twelve per cent above tha average of the preceding five years. Its farm vaue Is $621,000, 000, or 6 per cent above the five year average. Wheat Is m per cent above the flve-year average In production and 23 above In total value. The 660, 000,000 bushels are estimated to be worth $620,000,000 to the farmers, or $66,000,000 more than the moat valuable wheat crop heretofore pro duced. The oat crop ia worth $321,000, 000 for 789,000,000 bushels, or 10 per cent above the five-year average value and 9 per cent below the aver age product. The barley crop, 167,000,000 bush els. Is 13 per cent above tho five- year average and Its value, $86,000,- 000, is 23 per cent above. Both have been exceeded only once. Rye In value Is $22,000,000, 17 per ceni above the average. All cereals aggregate 4,3 29,000, 000 bushels, a total that has been exceeded three times, but the value reaches $2,694,000,-000, or more than $300,000,000 above that of 1907, and exceeds still more the to tals of former years. Compared with the preceding five years, the number of bushels la higher by 0.2 per cent and the value is higher by 32 per rent. Nearly 500,000 short tons of beet sugar will probably be made from the crop of this year, and tho factory value Is about $45,000,000. About 407,000 short tons of raw cane sugar were produced. Unfavorable weather made the po tato crop only 275,000,000 bushels, or 5 per cent below the 5-year aver age, although the value, $190,000, 000, Is 18 per cent above and was never equaled. On account of the extremely low price of hops In 1907, the average production and value of 1908 are low and have been exceeded In many former years. For tne first time, this year, the value of all farm crops equals $5, 000,000,000. Although the farmer gets hardly 20 cents a pound for bis outter, uetween o and 4 cents a quart for his milk, and about 1 cents for each egg, yet the value of the farm products of the dairy cow Is getting close to $800,000,000, and the value of the eggs ana poultry Is as much as the cotton crop, seed Included, or the hay crop, or the wheat crop. The extraordinary prosperity of the farmers followli g their low financial condition a dozen years ago and ear lier has enabled them to pay higher wages for farm labor than before. In the matter of wage Increase com pared with prices, the farm laborer baa fared better than the working men employed In manufacturing and mechanical industrlea. Detailed Increase! of prices re ceived by farmers for their products are next In the report, and In con- Where yii wast It Uses yoi want II mi. - i.. n . . .'tt)t..f(aatlf Micu bo ironDic V COCSJL m, , , , . , vuui juu nam iiui ill nuny in some room in the house the fur nace does not reach. It's so easy to pick up and carry a PERFECTION Oil Heater (Equipped wttk Saaoltcleea Device) to the room you want to heat suitable (or any room in the house. It has a real smokeless device absolutely preventing smoke or smell turn the wick as high as you can or as low as you like brass iont holds 4 quarts of oil mat gives out g lowing neat lor y noun, fin ished in japan and nickel an ornament anywhere, Every heater warranted. li tkf aaaa tor tha tmim. It mrm a knlluai. tttril I tkrisuluaakiraaUuun. -A ' ' , wit. Ux UM Uasrama' faatil ink auras, trmy kau wanaaaj. II ran canal akaat lha ParUabaa Oil Hatter ar Kara Uaa kaa yaar atalar wtila ta aur naaraa aaauv Uf ipMi a anaiar, ITAXDiaP OIX. COMFAWT iuiiiiinttuuiunnTOmv PERFECTION HEATERS And RAYO LAMPS Are for sale by HAIR-RIDDLE HARDWARE COMPANY. eluding the subject the Secretary saya that the consequences of such rlsea In prices need not be Itemised. Ihe old cotton plantation that' no lenuer wanted aa a mortgage se curity Is now sougu. for Investment and Ita owner can borrow without mortgaging Tha farmers of tha poor mortgage-ridden Kansas of former days uave stuffed toe banka of mat state full of money, have or ganised banka of their own and have sent money to the East to be Invest ed. The total coBt of our 2,151,000 miles of road la over $1,720,000,000 while the percentage of Improved roads was only 7.14 In 1904, and la probably not In excess of 8 per cent at the present time. Twenty statea have given aid to counties In making good roads. Tho number' of national forests now 182, and the total area 168,000,000 acres. At $2 per thousad feet stumpage the timber standing In these forests Is worth $800,000,000. Those forests now contain ono-flfth of the standing merchantable timber In the coun- ry. In tho forestB permanent lm- irovemcnts were completed as fol lows: Three thousand four hundred miles of trails, 3200 miles of tele phone lines, 100 miles of wagon road with 260 bridges, 600 miles of pasture and drift fences, 40 miles of fire lines and 650 cablna and barns. The fire loss for the calendar year 1907 waa less than half that for the previous year, which In turn was less than In any preceding year. The ratio of loaa to value of timber protected waa only about 4 centa to $1000. The amount of timber aold from the national foresta waa 386, u00,00it feet, and the receipts from timber sales were $850,000. The grazing privileges yielded last year an Income or nearly $1,000,000. l-ast year seed trees were sown broadcast In 27 forosta In 8 states to test the usefulness of this meth od. In tho Government's forest tree nurseries about 700,000 young trees wero planted out. Over 2, 000,000 treea will be ready (or planting In 1909. Annual Mooting. Notice la hereby given that tha Jua aual Meeting of the Wlldervllla Irri gation Company will be held At tha resldonce of Jacob Wagner, Thum day, January 7, 1(09, at 1 o'clscsa P. af. to elect officers and traas such other ouslness aa may oosj before tha meetlag. A. E. BI1EHAN. President. JOHN II. ROBIN80N, Secjr. HKKD TUH WARNING). Many Grant Pom J tone So. People Uasa- How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars re ward for any case of Catarrh that ranaot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F.J.Cheoaey & Co, Toledo. O, We, the undersigned, have known P. J. Cheoney for the paat 16 years, und believe him perfectly honorable a all business transactions, aad financially able to carry out any ob- '"rl by his firm. Wald lug, Rinnan t Marvin, Wholeaale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken Inter nally, acting directly upon the rnu cous surfaces of the system. Testi monials aent free. Price 75c. per Dome. Bold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pllla for con' stlpatlon. When tha kldneya are sick they should not be Ignored. By eiaaa Inlng the urine and treating the kleV neys upon the first sign of. disorder, many days of suffering may fee) saved. Hick kldneya expel a dark. . Ill-smelling urine, full Of "brtcft dust" sediment and painful la itst age. Bluggish kidneys cause a 4uU pain In the small of the back, head aches, dlzsy speila, tired, langeld reelings and frequent rheumaUai twinge. Doau'a Kidney pills are tor taw -kldneya only; they cure alck kidaeya -and rid the blood of urlo polsoa. If you suffer from any of tne abova -symptoms you can use no batter remedy. Grants I'shr people rr rmnimnaJ ' Doan's Kidney Pile. J. M. Jones ;N. Fifth St, Oraa Pass, Ore., says: "I have aaasl Doan.a Kidney Pills and am glad sa -state that they have helped sbsj -greatly. For some time I autenjaK from symptoms of kidney irniiaaet such aa an Irregularity of the ka- ney secretions and pains through tha) - small or my bark. The many dies I tried, failed to give the relief until at last I procured Doaarts Kidney Pllla at Clemens' drug stare. Th pains left, the kidney ascrettaaaa became normal and my fenet aaaaj greatly benefited. I gladly rr-n mend a remedy of such merit mm - Doan'a Kidney Pllla." For sale by all drslers. Frtne rent. Foster-Mllburn Co.. But9s- lo, New York, sole agenta far thai United Statea. Remember Ue name Doaa'e and take no other. 11-11 M NEIL & GRIFFIN Grocers New Stock of Groceries Everything Clean anC Fresh Canned Goods Tea and Coffee Staples Flour Fruits 310 SOUTH 6th ST. v v