Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, April 30, 1909, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAV, APRIL J)0, lOOf). THE ROGUE RIVER OOtTUEK. i 1 1 - 1 1' "! TIT, "":T7"r"'r "T ""!' il1"!!' 'ni'm'wi'ti r ' II - ui 4 Plan for Summer Comfort Don't add the heat of a kitchen fire to the sufficient discomfort of hot weather. Use a New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove and cook in comfort. With a "New Perfection" Oil Stove the preparation of daily meals, or the big weekly bakinr." is done without rais ins the temDerature nercentililv . . c j above that of any other room in the house. Another great advantage of the 1.1 PITH Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove is its handsome CABINET TOP, which (fives it every convenience of the modern steel range. Has an ample top shelf for warming plates and keeping cooked food hot, drop shelves for holding small cooking utensils, and is even fitted with racks for towels. Made in three sizes, anu can ue naa witu or without Cabinet Top. If not at your dealer's address our nearest agency. The J?ay& Lamp ?rbs whether high or low is therefore free from dm igreeable odor and can not smoke. Safe, convenient, ornamental the ideal light If not at your dealer's address our nearest agency. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Incorporktedl Wick Ca Perfection Blue Flame Stoves And Rayo Lamps Are For Salo By Hair-Kiddle Hardware Co. Special Prices ON PAGE THREE WATER For S3 Weckw Only Black inch, per 100 feet, $ -J.o inch, per 100 feet, 5.10 J inch, per 100 feet, Ui inch, per 100 feet 1 Inch, per 100 feet 2 inch, per 100 feet, 7.IO 10.23 10.25 Galvanized Inch, per 100 feet, 8 ."5.40 Inch, per 100 feet, 0.30 1 inch, per 100 feet, Hi Inch, per 100 feet, Vk Inch, per 100 feet, 2 Inch, per 100 feet, 0.00 1 1.00 10.23 22.00 1 NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY We have Land Fertilizer in Stock. Grants Pass Hdw. Co. iv vii wiwijiwiinw'fff i "til niim tm tmm u i nipwwui mm mm mm it m mjpmwii lhw nnwrfwwwwi mum iiiiiii ttiii imm fiii mi iiiUm - in um in Giants For Strength THE NEW IRACY T7 Perpetually Guaranteed The Worlds Best M. McINTYRE'S Cycle-Gun Machine Shop. 40( So. 6th St., with Gentner Garage. ORAHTS PASS, OR. WHAT IRRIGATION DID FOR MR. MILLS Wonderful lYoductivencss of Small Tract When Properly Ir-riguted. To illustrate what can be done by the intelligent application of water in the way of irrigation in raising small fruits and vegetables In Josephine County, it Is only neces sary to recite a few instances of what has been done by way of diversion and for home use by persons engag ed in mining and other occupations. John Henry Mills, superintendent of the Jordan Gulch mines near Placer, raised the following on a tract of land only 100 feet square: From a square rod, or 272 Vi square feet he raised and harvested 978 pounds of "Half Long" well matured carrots, or at the rate of a little more than 78 tons per acre, which would readily have brought in the local market at Grants Pass or Placer, f 10 per ton, or $780 per acre. From about 1 square rods, from 200 strawberry plants, he gathered 200 pounds of fine ripe berries. From 2 square rods of pole beans he raised and gathered 200 pounds of green beans, valued at $4. On the remainder of the plot, or about 30 square rods, he raised and harvested about 100 bushels of potatoes, worth in the local market about $75. Desldes the above products, the family had all the cabbage they could use during the season and plenty to make a barrel of kraut in the fall. For the purpose of irrigation, Mr. Mills conducted a small adjacent spring in a "V" shaped flume about 2200 feet to a barrel placed on top of a trestle about 20 feet above the graden, from which he irrigated the plot with a hose. There is nothing extraordinary about this soil; It is only common red land, of which there are thous ands of acres in Southern Oregon; but one magical word expressed the hole thing and that is "water." H. C. PERKINS. E-UU-SA-Thc vJnly Lawful Pile Cure. ti wntt.oi mTDira PIT.WQ anA nmrfl NOT mmtntn n a rent tan. rcury, cocaine, lead or any poisonous drug. U. 8. Dispensatory rni toda every ingredient of E-RU-SA. Drug laws make "false and snis- "aing statements fc crime, inereiort, me sue oi u uiuor ur orui ,Mt medicines is Illegal because they affect the brain and spinal marrow, j-irinx (.nniiinitlnn ami novcr mm. E-RL'-SA. ll not for sale at opium W only druggists of highest standing sell and endorse E-RU-SA. jUonal Drug Store, Clemens, Sabln's Drug Etorss, GroiU Pass, Or. U K1X ! rVJt KICN! Tit BUY YOUR TKF.KS FROM iM i rk it il All M M uia Rename imany nurseries ana you are sure of petting jut what you order. We srow our tries for quality nut cb.ip .'rices. CEO. H. PARKER. Agent Office Willi J. E. PETERSON w Trices of Lumber. Common rough lumber. .. $15.00 M No. 2 finish . 30.00 M No. 3 finish 22.50 M Shingles 2.75 M Rustic, No. 2 30.00 M Flooring, No. 2 30.00 M And other prices to match. Come out of the east where graft and combine and excessive freight rates require of you for a certain weight of lumber a corresponding weight of gold. Come to a pluce where you can build a home which you can afford to live in. Come where thte princi pal business of the lumber merchant is to help you build a home and not to take your roof from over your head by an extortionate mechanic's lien. A Liinil of Pure (Jold. Ever since the days of '49 mining has been going on In the Grants Pass country and inuny millions have been taken from the placer diggings of this locality. It is a fact that In the old days this part of Oregon was classed with California and much of the gold taken out here went to swell tho reputation of the golden commonwealth that overshadowed this section. Placer mining still con tinues In this vlelnl'y and more than $1,500,000 in gold is taken Kom the placer grounds of Southern Oregon annually. A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR REAL WORKERS w Must Produce More Garden Truck, More Horrles, More Mutter and More Kggs Do You Hunt or Fish? Come to Grants Tans, join the Sportsman's club, go with them Into the fastnei-Hcs of the mountains and there have the sport of a lifetime where deer and bear and cougar await your coming; or with hook and line or seine drag from the great lingua river your quota of the tliousiin'lK of tons of Balm on ar.-l other kinds of game fish which swim In Its waters. It Is the sports man's parudlsc, of which Giants Pass Is the center. Wo offer One Hundred Dollars re ward for any rase of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last IB years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and fin ancially able to carry out any obliga tions made by his firm. WALD1NU, K INN AN & MARVIN. Wholesale DriiKglsts, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken In ternally, acting directly upon the blood 8nd mucous surfaces of the svstem. Tentlmonlals sent free. Price 76c per bottle. Sold by all drunglsts. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. (By Dennis H. Stovall.) If there is any one thing needed to "fill a long-felt want" in Jose phine county it is more truck farm ers. There are already a number here, and they are happy, but there Is room and abundant opportunity for more. A man with "only half a head," by slight investigation, will learn the need of more men to grow the things we eat and use. Here we are, shipping in too much but ter, too many eggs, nearly all the produce and much of the small fruits; paying freight, and giving the money to the truck producers of other districts. We even get a fra quent glimpse of the really shame ful spectacle of receiving baled hay by the carload at our local freight yards. To any roan who has lived In a farming country, such a sight as this is sufficient to give him a bad case of the pee-wees. Not only more garden truck, but a much greater quantity of small fruits needs be grown here, and can be grown here if the ground is util ized. Of course, apples and grapes and peaches are great and will bring good returns, but last year the Grants Pass cannery, of which we should all feel proud, was obliged to ship in a very great portion cf the fruit it canned. Now cherries, pears, or any other kind of fruit shipped here from the Willamette valley and put in cans at our factory is not "Josephine County" goods. We may put our brand on it and sell it as our stuff, but the credit, really be longs to the other fellow Just the same. He gets the money that should have been received by local growers. As an authority on canned goods, the writer begs to make the claim that there is no better canned toma toes sold than is grown here and from the local cannery. There was a good demand for these tomatoes, even though they were held at a slightly higher figure than tomatoes from California and northern facto ries. This difference was willingly paid by the consumers, not merely through a feeling of pride, but be cause they were easily worth the price asked. This is cited as just one Instance In which the local grower has an opportunity; for tomatoes, if grown on a large scale for disposal at the cannery, are profitable. A few men are growing straw berries on Josephine county soil, and these few are doing well. A few days ago the writer had a talk with one of these. He is a worker, a real "son of Martha" and naturally modest, as all real workers are, so his name is not given. Anyway, the "song Is more Important than the singer." Here is the song: "We started to grow strawberries 'for fun,' but the returns were so flattering after tho first year that we Increased our patch. Our experi ence has taught us that tho prime re quisites In strawberry growing are selection of soil, preparation of ground, selection and settles of plants, cultivation and care, picking and marketing. Any deep loam will grow strawberries, but soil carrying some sand Is the best. The field should be selected with a view to getting the most of the Bun. New land on which berries are to be set should be deeply plowed In the full if the plants are to be set In the spring. We have put out plants both In the spring and fall. We think the spring In best. Plants net this spring will bear heavily next year, If cultivated well during the summer. "Hows should be luld out three feel apnrt, and set the plants hIx or eight Inches apart In the row. it Is risky to plant new or untried varieties. We have had better re sults with old standards. These are the Wilsons, Crescent and Downing for table and general use, but pur tlcularly adapted to preserves and canning. The Glenmury Is ulso a good berry of this sort and CHpcclal ly desired because It Is early In bear ing. The ShurplcHH Is a good berry for display, as It grows to an tin merino size, but Is not us good us Wilson varieties for all round pur poses. As to market, we huve never lucked for that right here at home. and the price holds to an average of 15 cents a box." As previously hinted we send away for nearly all our egn. A lazy citi zen cxplultiH this by declining that the "hens won't lay." It Isn't thut at all. We need more hens. The few we have aro worked to death. They ran go on duty for both day Thousands of millions of cans of Royal Baking rnnnfnf and everv hnnslrpnr in using it has rested m perfect confi dence that her food would be light, sweet, and perfectly wholesome. Royal is a safe guard against the cheap alum powders which are jhe greatest menacers to health of the present day. ROYAL IS TIIE ONLY BAKING POWDER MADE FROM ROYAL CRAPE CREAM OF TARTAR CI J and night shifts and still fall short of the demand for "hen fruit." Of course, there's a golden opportunity here for tho genuine poultry man for the man who knows how. The hen is a oort of a mechanical piece of mechanism after all a miniature egg factory It needs the help of man's brain and brawn. Glorious as our climate Is, coupled ith a soil and environment at once favorable to the poultryman and his fowl, the business will not yield profitable results unless the brain and brawn of the keeper Is put Into every phaso of the business, necause the days are balmy and the nights Invigorating does not signify that Biddy can bbe relegated to the bnck yard (among tho empties) and "do business" without proper feeding and care. But the man who knows how and comes here fully determined to en gage In the poultry business in an up-to-date way, will certainly win success. This ought, and urobablv will be used as a convenient means of making a livelihood. Our Three Soils. There are substantially three soils In Josephine county; a rich, black loam; a fine red land; and the white granite. The black loam is our river bottoms and is a strong and deep soil, capable of producing al most any crop and as a rule little or no irrigation is required. There are times, however, when water is an absolute necessity, therefore a farm under Irrigation, even on this black Boil, is a necessity if we are to secure the best results year aftor year. Apples and pears thrlvo on this soil; trees make a vigorous growth and the fruit, If eared for, will be largo and of fine flavor as well as of excellent color. Tho red land Is regarded us very flno for almost uny crop, including fruits of all kinds. This soil is known as tho very best grape land and there wcro many hundreds of acres put luto vlneyurds last year and this. The whlto granlto soil has only of lato years become known as valu able. It has been discovered that this soil Is superior for early vege tables and small fruits. It becomes warm two weeks earlier than tho bottom lands and is even curlier than the red lands. With Irrigation It will produce abundantly. THE OREGON ORCHARDS GIVE BIG RETURNS Former Kansan llapldly Growing Wealthy Off of Five Acres Planted to Fruit. "Cat I torn la IUInIii Day." California Invites all tho world to eat California raisins on April 30 every day for that matter but par ticularly on April 30, which has been added to the cnlendar of festival occasions us a day of rejoicing. Fat California ralnlns on "Cali fornia ItulHln Day," April 30. L. W. Smith writes In a recent number of the Westerner n very im portant letter to thoso who have limited means and are in search of a home in this country. Ho says: "1 arrived with my family from Kansas after a series of crop failures In the spring of 1897, with more ex perience than money. After looking ovor the valley, which was urlncl- pally sage brush at that time, I pur chased a flvo-acro tract of land on time, about threo-fourths of a mile from town, paying $125 per acre. My first payment waB $17, being all the money I had to sparo. "The first year I cleared tho land and planted it all to fruit trees, planting one aero of strawberries be tween the rows of trees, from which I realized $17. Between tho trees of the ronmlnlng four acres I real ized $100 from garden truck. Tho second year the berries brought $140 and tho garden about the sanio amount; tho third year $180 from borry patch and $G0 from small gar den patch,' and picked two Jonathan apples from my own trees, which looked good to mo; fourth year $170 from bery patch and picked eight boxes of apples; fifth year plowod up half of berry patch, but Bold $80 from tho remaining half aero of ber ries and sold 180 boxes of apples; sixth year Bold $1035 worth of ap ples; seventh year had a light crop of apples, but Bold $1025; eight year tho apple crop wus good and I sold ut $1.75 per box, realizing $3700 from my flvo-ucro orchard. "Prices of land have changed Hlnco I came here, and It requires more money to buy this land. I con sider my flvo-acro truct worth be tween $1C,000 and $18,000, but it Is not for Hiilo at any price. After paying all expenses of harvesting crop I had a net balance of $3250 which Is ten per cent on $32,600, which Is good enough Investment for me. There are other orchards hut have netted lurgo returns than mine. I consider that nur fruit and will yield larger returns on tho Investment than any other fruit section in the United States, and that means tho world." No Japanese or Chinese to com pete In growing vegetables. You can grow ami rat your own melons, do your own truck farming nnd reap the rewards of your Industry with out competition with cheap labor. Think of It, ten tons of cabbage per acre, six tons of onions per acre, grapes net the grower $250 to $Mio per acrn, apples $200 to $750 and pears more than thin. The truck fanner raises anything which he can ralHc anywhere and finds a market through a united fruit exchange, which Hhlps tho productF of tin stnnll growers all together nnd thus ships In carload lots at carload rates and thus rea lies the markets of the world. The Courier supplies many mer chants with thcls sales books nnd wn would like to supply you. No t in i iliilniy. Nothing experimental In the ten thousand acres of fruit now being planted, for the Rogue River vnlley for years has been known for tho wonderful diameter of Its fruit. It has now been verified that it Is one of tho few regions when; fruit hus found the hoII and the cllinute need ed to male' It perfect. Do you know that (100 bushels of onions Is a very small yield per acre In the vulley lands? Do you know that Tokay grapes pny 10 per cent on a valuation of $1500 per in re the fourth year? And "Don't cher know" that this Is the land of almost perpetual sun shine, where everybody prospers ex cept the sexton and tho undertaker? Where bllnanls and cyclones are unknown and where you can escape those awful winters of the cumI and north, lis well as those dlKastrous tonindos and cyclones of the east and middle went. Mining blanks at tho Courier.