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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1909)
THK lKHil'E MVF.K COI UIKH. l'AGK TIIHKK June. A second ditch will b3 built on the 100-foot contour starting at a point on the hillside below the 3:.0-foot ditch. This will furnish water to a considerable section of cmntry above the river bottom and parallel with the stream. The three kinds of soil mentioned in another article comnose the land Josephine County Cherry Tree That Has Borne Fruit Half a Century uue nas ueen said about the i wagon load of cherrl:.. Near this cultivation of the cherry in Jojy- tree i:i the same yard stands a peach phlne county and yet it can be sac- tree 45 inches in circumference and i years c;i. with it- heavily Ia- cessfully claimed that it is one ct the surest crops in the country, it has been planted in home orchards for many years; in fact since the under these ditches: the dark loam first settlements In this country. A3 of the bottom, the white granite above It and the red land3 of the hillsides. Every acre composed of any one of these soils will bring a good crop when supplied with wate-. The best and most profitable use to which these lands can be put is ap ple, pear and peach orchards and grape vineyards. an illustration there is a cherry tree now growing on the farm of Samuel Cook at Missouri Flats, a few miles south of Grants Pas3, which measures 102 Inches in cir cumference with Umb3 reaching out den boughs of fruit it looks as healthy and in as perfect condition as the day it be;;an to bear. In one :orner of the yard opposite these two aged trees is a grape vine as large as an ordinary man's body, which sends out its new vines each cherry pie, peach cobbler and lusci ous grapes, and his children and grand children are yearly going to his home to eat from the same eld tree and gather from the same old vine. At Hugo, which is twelve miles north of Grants Pass on the line of the Southern Pacific road is a large cherry orchard which produces enormous crops each year. All over THE CLIMATE CURE INVALIDS RESORT fllK OPKX-AIK MKTHOl) OF THK TKKATMKNT OF DISF.ASF. EXTENSION OF FRUIT BUSINESS THIS YEAR 73,000 Trees and 3(13,000 J rape Vines Already Planted and Season Not Over. over a surface of forty feet. This jThe annual products of thii one vine tree has never failed to bear fruit amounts to one ton of grapes. From since maturity, and each year there these pioneer producers Mr. Cook's is gathered from Us branches a family has long enjoyed each year, year. The area over which it spreads I the county will be found Chery ls fully one-eighth of an acre, there-I trees in the home orchards which WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY by forming an arbor 100 feet long. 'yield prolifically everv season. Since Grants Pass has a cannery there Is a paying market for the cherry and its cultivation will hereafter be at tended with financial success. On all sides of Grants Pass, and even extending almost into the heart of the city, the planting of fruit trees and grape vines is going on, and there are yet thousands of acres suitable for fruit raising which are still In timber and brush will be cleared and planted. It has not been many years since 1 the planting of trees for commercial purposes began here, so short a time, in fact, that but few of the orchards have come Into bearing. Several hundred acres of new trees will bear fruit next year for the first time, and each succeeding year will see the production more than doubled over the preceding year. By far the great- j est number of trees planted are ap- i pies, and the Spltzenbergs and New- j town Pippins are the leading varie ties, and next come peaches, pears cherries, plums, apricots and so on through the list nearly every varte ty of edible fruit being raised. The Tokay grape became an ac knowledged wealth producer in this .-ectlon of the Rogue River valley at about the same time that other fruits came into their own, and the plant ing of vineyards has gone on at a rate about equal to that of the apple. .i - wnich have representa tives in Grants Pass have taken or ders for something over 7 T ,(. 0 trees already this season, and about 303, O'OO grapes. Many persons have also ordered direct from the nursery, and it is impossible to get any idea of the number of either trees or vines which have come in from these or ders, but it may be seen that be tween 700 and SOU acres will be!' ,rn"n"r planted this year o fruit, trees, and I Tljp pprcrjtfT fANniTIAN at least 000 arm to grapes-even ! llL rftWtm tUllUUlVll though no more orders are sent in. j FUTURE FRUIT PROSPECTS As the planting season will not .be over for some time yet, it is safe I nil j hi' dirt' i MP&fefi tifmrn tfZtTZ.' ti'J -wAir ?SiJ53 ' ; f -xV4i' r-"i. T"h.U At- .f..--.Kii y.tfl, I The Many Ones Hi-ought About the Grants Puss Country With out Medicine. In I The country around Grants Pass , has the reputation of being the most i healthful of any section on the i Northwest coast. You will find j many men and women living in j Josephine county who came here con j firmed invalids and who have be j come In this invigorating climate, : robust and the very picture of health. Of course, those who come too late may fall to receive benefit, but the general history of all cases Is that benefit has been received. Throat and lung trouble, asthma, hay fever and many other diseases ! yield to climatic influences in this I section without medicine. Dr. F. V. Van Dyke, a general practitioner In j Grants Pass for twenty-odd years, i a man of large practice and Influ ence, when asked regarding the treatment of certain diseases, said: "Tuberculosis must be treated to i get the best results by the open-air method. Southern Oregon with Its i long summers and mild late autumns Is well adapted to tent life. Very few cases, comparatively speaking, originate here but come from other places. These patients are almost always helped If not too far advanc ed with the disease and cured by the simple out-door life. Heredity plays a large part in tuberculosis by giv ing a favorable soil, so to speak, for 'the ba'lllis to grow and develop on. I Kach crse varies and is an entity to itself, so some do better at a lower altitude thin other. Within rea h- to enjoy good health or to follow successfully their various callings , elsewhere. There are many persons , who have come under my personal observation, having spent years In HI health, even confined to their beds with asthma, who are enjoying good health and are able to follow their various avocations since com ing to this climate. The explanation for the eye, ear, nose and throat troubles which exist here can be 1b part accounted for by our cosmo politan population, coming, as they do, with varied affections con tracted elsewhere. The fact Is not appreciated by eastern people that we have as mild and as even a clim ate as the much talked oC Italy and yet within a few hours travel we may reach a climate not unlike the brac ing atmosphere of Switzerland. So while we are justly proud of the productions of our state end the op portunities afforded for the procur ing of wealth let us not forget our advantages from the standpoint of health." GREAT RUSH TO THE ROGUE RIYER VALLEY Josephine County, the Land Plenty, Has Koom for All Amid Its (randeiir. of According to report a made by railway companies Oregon gets half of all the Immigrants coming west this year and Southern Oregon gets the majority of these. There Is a reason for this Influx of new blood and energy which Is pouring In to the Rogue River valley and this rea son Is not difficult to discern by those who have been here for even a few weeks. We have a climate unexcelled, a soil so sensitive to the touch of husbandry that the most, sceptical are wont to marvel at its productiveness. Why the scenic grandeur of this section Is akin to the sublime, and beyond a commen surate description of either tongue or pen, and with this all the educa tional and Intellectual standards of Its present population are second to no state In the I'nlon. Ity reason of the assiduous In dustry, thrift, enterprise and nubile lug distance ;:f Grants Pass locations i u,i..i ..f ti... i iin.. ,,ui,.. UoKiit KIvt valley thin country has Cherry Cultivation Can lie Made a Successful lliisiness A (iinnt Tree. clianls in Southern Oregon. That section is practically free fnun frost and produces a peach unexcelled in size and flavor. The crop of 1007 brought the to say that the number of trees and A Review of Orchard and Vineyard highest price of any crop ever vines ordered will greatly Increase the number given above. The above estimates are made after inquiring J from each of the representatives of j the nurseries here as to the orders ' taken, and are therefore authentic. ! Planting Around Grants Pass and Josephine County (By Geo. 11. Parker.) In accordance with your request raised in that section and some of the oldest orchards have been bear ing for twenty years. The crop of liiOS did not sell quite so well but was still very re munerative. There are many other sections of With all this Increase there is still i subniit the following in regard to danger of over-production, in fact tlle present condition of fruit grow- the county practically as will adapt- the larger the acreage the better op- i jnj; ln Josephine county portunitles there will be for market- prospect., for the future, ing fruit. Rogue River apples, peach- prni 0f K()j quality has been , pears, grapes and other fruits grown in this county since early ,!;e 1) oiuing known, and as they be- pon,,,,r days. At the district fair come known the demand increases. nelll jn (;rants Pass In September, 1 it 1 7 , a s were on exhibition from In The Fruit Exchange was not able. this year, to fill the orders received, trees brought around the Horn . ... i 1 1 and another year the exenange win '.e better organized and better able to push the fruit to the best market About -o or 2 few commercial and the ! ed to the growing of the peach as ; that, notably the lower Applegate valley. There are a number of pear trees on Williams creek over "u years old and probably iiO or tin feet high, but the planting of that fruit has not kept pace with that of apples and peaches. The high price that has prevailed for the past two or three years am some i years for first -i la.-s pears lias greatly orchard were 1 stimulated the setting and It is not area of land suitable ! planted but they were largely prunes j improbable that the total number u all kinds ot fruit, mere I aU(j as tMe market fr that fruit . planted this season equals the total for their products. As it Is orchards of five and ten acres are being set and others are berng projected. Notwithstanding the many ene mies the fruit grower has to fight, and the chances he has to run, there was probably never a time when the prospect was so bright as It Is now for the establishment of that indus try on u permanent basis in Jose phine county. Opportunities for lloineseekers. There are great opportunities in Josephine county within from five to ten miles from Grants Pass for bomeseckers to procure lands at low rates which will come under irriga tion. Ten, twenty and forty tore places are numerous and desirable. A small acreage put In grapes, ap ples, pears, peaches or other fruits conditions. amid beautiful uierv can be foun with an nltlr.id" suffl-lcntly low or high to meet the req ilietneuts of al most any case." It will be noticed that Dr. Van Dyke has great faith In what Is call ed here the "('Minute Cure," and this Is an Important factor In health res toration to those who come frum all points oast of the Rocky Mountains. When this matter of health becomes thoroughly understood throughout the eastern and middle west portions of fiitr country there will be more people come to the Rogue River valley section. "All that a man hath will he give for his life," and this means that both men and women will rush to this country when they learn of Its great advan tages as a health restoring climate. Dr. M. C. Flndley, the well-known eye, ear and throat specialist of Grants Pass, when approached to give his opinion regarding this part of Oregon as a desirable place for Invalids very modestly remarked: "Thi- poet has said that 'Time 'makes ancient good uncouth.' This Is true In mental achievements and equally true In physical and climatic I'nllke our forefathers come to be a household word ln the homes of eastern and the middle west states and It Is these people who are coming here In Increased numbers this year to get close to nature to enjoy the wholesomeness and sublimity of simple life nnd the emoluments of reasonable Industry. Let the reader who catches this arti cle on his Journey across Southern Oregon remember that he owes It to himself and his family to stop over at Grants Pass and examine the land of the red apple and the Tokay grape. Take a lay over at Grants Pass for a couple of days and you will for all time In the future thank your lucky stars that you had the wisdom to do so. YOU SHOULD STOP OVER AT GRANTS PASS i ,t little doubt that within the ,ia(, ,!, hvvn wrked up. the; number before that lit xt 10 years that part of the Rogue p,.1(.0 soon Wl,nt ( iw fr profit. .. iver Valley Pass will be r..i. tributary to Grants the largest and most raising se ction of the Money in (icneral Farming. General farming Is a highly prof-i-able calling under irrigation In Josephine county. The home mar ket Is sufficient to demand every thing that can be raised In the way f grain, hay and general forage. Alfalfa and hny have been selling .luring the past few months at from Then the panic or '::! and the San Jose scale, which reached here j about that time, discouraged the of all kinds of fruit and ' Itartieit, isuerre uu .njou. n i n voting orchards du Cornice untl the winter .ciiis . The Indications are, however, that next season s planting will greatly exceed this. The varieties almost entirely used in the commercial orchards arc will within a very few years become wo nr(. ()t disposed to adhere to old highly productive. After apple trees r,lstoTtis and to live In the same lo- are two years old the value of tli" cnty for a lifetime when a great land will enhance nt the rate of $100 progressive west lies before us. an acre per year. An orchard eight California and the Pacific Coast have years old planted to Newtown Pip- .cn synonyms for so many years, pins, Spltzenbergs or other desirable m ,,.), m ,),.,, ,n;U)y people flf the fruit will be worth not less than eastern nnd middle states have $SO0 per acre, and It will produce thought little nnd known 1ch of the from $2f.O to $400 per year of mar- Htn(M lyllu? liUmK ttl0 ,.,,, oth,,r ketable fruit. In the climate of ,,, ,jli(t Kr,,Ilt cominonwenltli. Hut growers many promising young onnan.s ,uu y" '" ' ' ' "' 'tho central Rogue River valley, any- . rfl ,.,1IIK1K 1(W conditions were dug up or abandoned, some oi n- "" - -,... - , w,im, aroiin(, nrnnts .,.,. , the largest of the apple or, hards. ; make Grants Pas, and .Wphltie ; wn brought to success- county famous, tioweer, is tie however, were ful bearing, notably the Kisniatin. Christie and Miller orchards, and fully demonstrated the fact that no section could produce apples of bet ter size, flavor or keeping qualities than this. Some of the varieties in ttu.se obi orchards, such as lb n nlant and care for an orchard. The , Tokay grape. Largely through the ; of efforts tltld example oi .. ll. arson, i MS to $24 a ton. Along tne Appie- DavK 1)anVer, etc., are not desirable cnte river, which Is from six to r()1'lim(,rrlal m,0 and the plant-:-!r.e miles from Grants Pass, tll(,'jer3 Clt ,i,e nPW orchards profiting ':ave had Irrigation for some 'oar9 ' from tliC mistakes of the past have nnd farmers have been growing rich j pllmnafl,a tu,,,n and the planting Is finishing forage for the f,rftnts j now practically restricted to Spitzen rass market which has never been Yellow Newtown -.1 V!ncap fully supplied with th home-grown ,Tbfi' n.m bpi. , . ln ,hc article. Most of the hay and grain j coun(J. has pr o' ...,iy doubled every Vns been Bhlpped in from poln vpnj jr,r fJl0 last f(jur nr lY0 year. r.irtta. There Is certainly no petter i ? ., ...e )avn n p.00,j opportunity anywhere for general f;iJr prriculture than around Grants Tass. , , b(. Thorp Is a bl? demand for potatoes, ba ntY.tr T"lt r0PS ! n Tn, o Tt'Ver from 10 to r:ul there Is a Hg ;.trf:t !n raising ' miles below Grants Pass are son.e of ,. ... 'the largest and oldest ;-a'V. '-ese articles. ,iae 16 en,:on tha -'..ilrnlte 1 WM, u i ; : 14 jiropiletor of Redlatids vineyard, ably seconded by W. 11. Sherman and others, Josephine county Is, ami seems destined to 'tn.'itn. the ban ner county of the state as regards grape growing, particularly th" Tokay. Hundreds of a res of vineyard were put in tbl- Fprliu', mo-tly in the immediate vb Inlty ' f Gran'- Pa-s, b'it there a'e "ndlenMi tw f r- i'r v 1 t v- r. ri l.'i t- 1 i". 1 ' Inrtrecf nrrr.'U'e T'.e Tb' scneon will pro! ably V" as la: r t than tH. '1 -.g wor.i l -'i gr a'ly ' .. r..-n ' '.f .r- bar - 1 1 rv.r.ty a a rn!lr nd to tie Illinois valley, pro! i I n ?'tl'n co-ild eve! that for arp!' and renr, If ti !t:i t' it at.-! ri t ge f ill. I 1 1 ' and these can be grown on cheap ! lands which can now be purchased for half the money that they wll! bring a year from now. A Profitable lnelliienl. If you want, a five, ten, or twenty acre tract for a fi nit farm or vlne- a til you can buy It. around Grants l'a- and the prbe will cntlifly de pend on the distance It Is from town. YI-. re i;o !. tt r it'Vestmeft than .; i ' ' l i; 1. b at ;:,g It and planting it to nppb-s, fieat-. pea' hes or crapes. The second yar It will double In value, that Is, tb prop, ity v ill be worth what It orig an!! nr' you, the ' vperi'-.e of cbar Ing added, now doubb? the entire cost and the t Lances are that the property will be worth even more ' h1 fimo'tnt Men make great sacrifices nnd un dergo untold hardships In the pur suit fif wealth, yet a more potent factor than money drives men be yond when? their Inclinations would dictate and a quest for health becomes an Incentive more far reaching than the search for the Holy Grail. Aealn necessity becomes the mother of colonization and navi gation. It Is not strange then that, people study the climate as an es sential feature of nny locality. The nntnrnl question of the people of the eastern and middle at.itcq is what diseases are betieflttrd by the clim ate of V '!-,;-e r Valb y, Ore con. '!"; .'!".'! :' : t rr-a'. vf- fectlons bear to asthma is A word to the homesceker nt this time will not be out of order and we desire to say to the reader who may chance to bo looking for a place to live and engage In business that Grants Pass and Josephine county offer at this time better opportuni ties than an be found at any other point on the Pacific Coast. First, the land for fruit and general farm ing can be purchased at a lower prbe here than In placed where more development has been done. The sot Is rich and under Irrigation It will produce more per acre than any other locality that has as yet been discovered. The climate Is a Bource of health and all things considered this Is the one great land of oppor tunity. Those who have homeseek ers or one-way excursion tickets with stop-over privileges should by all means lay over a couple of days at Grants Pass. The real estate firms will with their outomoblles or teama fcbow you the country without cost and without demanding that you shall pun base, should you be look ing for an opportunity to buy or chard lands they will be found here In gr'at abundance, You will find also opportunities to go Into the vineyard business, general fr inr dairying. No matter wh t!.'"e tailings you may ael a , In rt In)? of ere of or c be rr.sd nr.d pie; r ftiooitlvn factor In the nrodurtlon of It. Thef art tt'Hi-i markets this disease 1ms only recently been everything that can he product,. recognized. The farorablo effect the farm or In the orchard or Tlne- tbat this cllmuto hnt upon asthmatic yard. subjects ran b better appreciated when w lenm ho lare a per cent After you have read the Courier of our population has been unable erd It to orre fr'nd In tr F