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The Courier has the Large Cir culation of any taMr in Jose phine County. Our SuhNcrlttlon List is open to Advertisers and ho invite Inspec tion at any time. VOL. XXV. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COVNTY, OREGON, Fill DAY, OCTOBKK 1.JPQ9. No. 27. MEETING OF IRRI GATION COMPANY PLANS AND PURPOSES IN THE WAY OF. CONSTRUCTION WORK WILL BE RESUMED Engineer Will Survey all the Pro posed Lines in the Near Future. The directors of the Josephine County Irrigation & Power Co. met in the parlors of the First National Bank at 3 o'clock on last Saturday afternoon. There were present II. L. Gllkey, president, J. G. Riggs, secretary, II. C. Kinney, O. S. Blanchard, R. Thomas, G. II. Carner and C. G. Coutant. This was one of the most Important meetings held (or many months as the work of re suming ditch construction was taken up and all points of the work came In for a share of consideration. The secretary made a statement regard ing the finances of the company, and went over, In detail, the stock ac counts and the amounts paid in hy those who had subscribed to the Ir rigation fund. This statement was encouraging and quite satisfactory to the directors. It was decided that the work to be undertaken first should be the engineering problems and these should be commenced as soon as possible. It was agreed that the sur veys on all the ditches should be pushed to completion and In a man ner that would Insure the best re sults. To carry out the plans of the directors a committee consisting of President Gllkey and Secretary Riggs was appointed with instruc tions to look for the best engineer that could be procured so as to in sure satisfactory results, both in survey and construction. An engin eer was to be employed who had the ability, not only to make the survey, but to have charge of the construc tion work. The survey of the gravity ditch will be the first to be made and the others will quickly follow. Work will be done on the two ditches on the north side and two on the south side this winter and each of these will be pushed far enough to cover the land the owners of which have subscribed to the construction fund. Tin1 secretary reported in detail the amounts paid In by stockholders and the amount of nash needed to go! on with the work, and for the latter nuuooumr.nf ,,f 10 I cent was ordered. It was decided to commence construction on the cravltv ditch as soon as the neeoss ary amount of construction stock The ladles are en route to Los An was subscribed. This ditch has geles to attend the annual meeting teen behind the others on account of the W. H. M. S. held there October of the lack of Interest among prop- 6, and came one day ahead of the erty owners, but of late a consider-' party from Portland. The local able acreage has come In, hut things (auxiliary furnished a chicken pie will be at a standstill until the own- dinner In the church to members Special Large Assortment of CHINA Cake Plates Salad Dishes Cups and Saucers Covered Sugar Howls Vegetable Dishes Creamers ah at the lOc ea. one i'"0''' O'Neill era of the balance of the land sub scribe. It is thought by the com mittee of twenty-five doing the so liciting that all of the property holders in the bottom will sign up soon. A standing committee on ways and means consisting of President H. L. Gllkey, H. C. Kinney and 0. S. Blanchard was appointed. The tone of the meeting was encouraging and enthusiastic. It was generally con ceded that there would be no diffi culty in completing the ditches this coming season, that is, far enough to cover all the land that will be signed up in time. From now on ir rigation matters will occupy the at tention of a considerable number of people. Commercial ("lull Will Entertain. The rainy weather, unfortunately, compelled the Commercial Club to postpone Pilgrimage Xo. 4, to Wolf Creek. This is unfortunate as a good time was contemplated, but this, it is hoped, will not interfere with the return visit of Wolf Creek people to the Commercial Club din ner to their friends from all parts of the county, which is intended to take place on October 15. This will be one of the most important occa sions in the social history of Grants Pass. Everybody from the country is invited to dinner. The visitors will be entertained before and after dinner with free automobile rides to i . 1 ..... 1 1 1 A II 1 J ! tne Aiiienr nam ana u. u.e oicm.. u districts below town. The whole occasion will be one of an entirely social character. There will be no De no business mixed with it. Besides the things mentioned there will be other events and ways to entertain the friends of the club. In short, nothing wlll be left to make the occasion worthy of the guests of the Grants Pass Commercial Club. The free dinners, auto rides and other cour tesies are extended only to persons from outside the city. Our own people are asked to help entertain, which, of course, they will be glad to do. COMING EVENTS. December 1, Friday Bazaar and Fair by ladies of Newman M. E. church. October 5, Tuesday Piano Recital by Enla Howard, assisted by Miss Mnrjorie Kinney. November Fi, Friday Supper at Bethany church parlors by Ladles' Benefit society. October f, Wednesday Continuing three (lays, District Fair at Ash land. November 15, Monday And all the week, cooking demonstration on the South Bend Malleable Range at Hair-Kiddle Hardware Co's. Missionary Workers at Grants I'ass. Grants Pass Newman M. 10. church held a home missionary convention Wednesday afternoon ana evening in u-M I'll time IHltlotial OfflcCl'S. MeS- dames Wood, of Indiana, Mather, of Colorado, and Woodcock,1 of Nebras- - ,ka, made able and stirring anurias, a. New Arrivals The House f8161 and visitors, also some of our best melons and grapes. On Thursday morning these ladies joined the spe cial missionary train of seven coaches (all women) and proceeded on their way delighted with Grants Pass hospitality and declartng this part of the country the garden spot of the world. Oregon Wool Blankets. Oregon Wool Blankets at C. P. Bishop & Co's. Large enough for a circus tent and fleecy as a fleece of wool, and retailed at jobbers' rates. We have the mottled gray, scarlet and white. (Jetting Ready for District Fair. A collection of samples of fruits and vegetables is being made at Sabin's drug store for the district fair at Ashland. There are already In the windows fancy peaches, fine, large Sheldon pears, beautiful ap ples, nectarines, quinces, onions, horseradish and rhubarb. This is a bare commencement and it is hoped that it will be added to ra pidly within the next three of four days, as it is highly important that we go to Ashland with a display that will be a credit to the orchards, farms and gardens of Josephine county. It has been suggested that we have a Josephine county day and that it be Friday, so that all our cltl zer ; c;,n visit th f : r fhi same day and :i'.te advantage rf the lowest .1 ...... ...1 t t.l . . ....... l.U I. l.L. I n .......-. ... ..... i ...... ..... secured by engaging a serial train. Sectary Andrew-, of the Punier- ciai uiuu win tbkc up mis niaurr rial Club will take up j at once with the Southern Pacific .and undoubtedly he will be able to 'get figures so that the trip will be I even less than the usual 1 fl-3 al- lowed for bucIi occasions. Your Money Hack if you buy a South Beiul ( hilled Plow and do not like it after giving it a fair trial. Hair-Kiddle Hardware Co. EULA HOWARD WILL GIVE PIANO RECITAL Former (indite Pass Young Is an Accomplished Musician. rare musical treat Is in store eert platform a musician whom the for the people of Grants I'ass next I highest musical circles are clamor Tuesday evening, October 5. when Ing for. Miss Howard is not like Eula Howard will give a piano re-1 the prophet In his country, for here ..Hal t the onera house. This is by she Is honored as she fully deserves no means Miss Howard's fir.it ap - , inr (in the concert stage in Grants I'ass, as her many friends still recall the pleasure she has afforded them on such oc casions In the past. Accord ingly, she would need little Introduction were It not that the personnel or our city nas so (hanged within the last few years. She is a native of Grants Pass and we inuv rightly claim her as our own. She received her musical edu cation under the famous Hugo Mansfeldt, of San Francisco, who regarded her as his most promising pupil. She is now heralded all over the Pacific Coast as a concert performer, and Is receiving such enthusiastic appreciation that even musical critics ot the East are compelled to glvo attention. As a performer, she pos sesses a brilliancy of tech nique and the Interpreta tion of a true artlBt and poet. She Is scarcely out of her teens, yet Is receiving the re cognition accorded only to the fin Ished musician. Miss Howard will render several numbers of Chopin, In which com noser she seems to have specialized. She Is recognized as possessing un usual Intuition In the 'Interpretation of this most poetic of the piano com posers, and In bearing lier In these numbers her Grants Pass ft lends will hear her at her very best. Miss Howard has Just returned from Seattle wh'ro she was honored with the distinction of being Invited by the exposition manager to give a recital at the Alaska-Yukon-Pad-fir Exposition. Though she had n rival attraction In Elh-ry's famous band, her recital was declared to he one of the most musbal offering of the entire fair. A review i,t the ! recital appearing In the Seattle I Times nald; "At the coii'Im Imti of tin- CURRY COUNTY AND ITS NEEDS FOREST SUPERVISOR TALKS OF WAGON AND RAILROADS DOWN THE ROGUE RIVER A Country Ready and Waiting for the Prospector and the Pioneer. If Horace Greeley were alive to repeat his famous advice, "Go West, young man," and the young man were an up-to-date chap looking for the real west with the opportuni ties suggested by Mr. Greeley, he would fit himself with a pack horse and start for Curry county, Oregon. This country has got most of its advertising on account of its lock of doctors, preachers, barbers and undertakers, and from the fact that the mall from the interior of the state Is carried Into the county seat three times a week on pack horses, over an KO-imle trail from mo rau- becauHe ()nfi not0(j porton traJ Jg knwn n8 (he .. one wagon road and no railroads, and most of the correspondents have traveled tills wagon road down the coast, and as there Is not much of the best part of the county visible, have had time to note that It Is not a model as a thoroughfare. This wagon road Is about the only thing that Curry county has that Is not dltferent from other counties. It s recital the audience stayed In their seats and wanted Mis Howard to keep on playing, notwithstanding that the program had been going on for two hours. Three or four times Lnclv1"10 young artist was recalled to the platform, but she declined the final encore." Grants Pass Is, Indeed, favored in being able to hear on its own con- ,to be. large She will be greeted by a and appreciative audience (Tuesday - j An additional attractive feature of the recital will be the appearance of Miss Marjorle Kinney In several vocal numbers. Miss Kinney has spent the last two years In Southern California where she has completed the musical course offered In one of - j the best conservatories of tniish j This will be her first formal appear lance before n home audience, am! will be looked forward to llh keen Interest. Miss Kinney possesses rich contralto voice of splendid vol nine and rare sweetness. Hie ap pearaner. of these two artists, both belonging to Grants Pass, will be an occasion for our city to be proud of and a royal welcome In expected for linth. This concert Is given under th a ;spc. s of the Ladle' Auxiliary Remember the dale, Tuesday October fi, st the opera bonne. Tick etH, li nts. Oil sale at UllKS' ll fcVu-- .!i-;:.--f.'c:.:.,? ' ". v' 'KV'-VVi''' ' ' -VP." f ' . vt .-'VU'-kv.,: . ;, . f: t .a i i ; j I ! ' " J va' .',;' -.: ; like most Oregon wagon roads ex cept that more work Is done on it In proportion to the population than any other county In the state. It a very creditable highway In summer, but In winter bears a strong resemblance to the averago Willam ette Valley city streets of five years ago. The ortgnlal west to which the young man was advised to hike was not a country of auto roads, and he that Invaded It with benefit to him self or the country, was more often afoot than In a carriage. This rich and undeveloped country that lies fartherest west of all has not reach ed the wagon road period yet, and he who would view Its wealth must dis card wheeled vehicles and take to the saddle, for most of Curry coun ty's highways are trnlls. The wrltej spent n month In Cur ry county this summer without camping twice In the same place, ex cept on two occasions, and though the trip took in the county from north to south, with side trips up each of Its fertile valleys, climbed Its highest peaks, viewed Us magni ficent forests of fir, cedar and red wood, and visited Its towns, the time was too short to get more than a passing Idea of the great natural wealth that within n few yenrs will make It one of the richest countleB In tho state. The people are about the same In most ways as In other counties ex cept that they never are troubled with appendicitis or auto wrecks. They are nearly all "old timers;" thnt Is, when a man settles there ho usually remains. One sarcastic In dividual suggested that this was probably because t was so hard to get out, but I think It Is becnuse a man can produce a good living here with less labor than most nny plnce else. When I say they aro mostly old timers it must not be Inferred that they are "has beens" by nny nienns, for one great trouble Is that each Is looking strictly after his In dividual welfare and not to the ad vancement of tho community Inter est. Everybody seemed prosperous and the only men whom I discovered working hard during my month's visit was a road crew or two hauling gravel, and a bunch of hard-worked lawyers at Goldbeach during court week. Twenty years ago Curry county nsked tho state for an appropriation to build n wagon road down Rogue rlvvr from the railroad and the legis lature granted It, but Governor I'ennoyer vetoed the bill. Had thnt road been built this county would have long ngo been the garden spot of Oregon. Its development would ere this have brought a railroad and the whole west coast have prospered to an extent to have repaid the state many times over. Had this road een mini it. wouni nave long ago opened up tin vast copper deposits lower Rogue river Hint have re malned undeveloped because of the impossibility of getting supplies and machinery to the mines. The time Is not far distant when the scenes now attracting attention in the Deschutes canyon will ! re- lealed on Hie Rogue and al'ing the oast, The difficulties an I cost of road imll'lliis are iurn'1 t'omparcd with the Eastern,, Oregon project, The writer speaks from pn'Koiml knowledge jf loth sivthni, hiivlni, counted rvt'esnakes and landed trout many i. summer day an. mix the present ramp sites of tho warring railroads. The Eastern Oregon ta d by the rival rountry to bo roads Is a great section, lut, except the favored places wheie water can be secured for Irrigation, the area necessary to an Individual for profit- able farming must be large. This ls not true of Curry county where In the agricultural section 20 acres properly farmed will make any faml- ly Independent. Curry county lands can be placed In three general classes: agrlcul- tural, timber growing and grazing. The agricultural Includes tho low lands along the coast, unexcelled for dairy products, and the benches' and valley of the numerous streams back from the coast to an elevation of np- proximately lC'Hi feet. While there Is mil' ti steep and waste land below The grand Jury have turned It! this elevation, the soil Is generally nsiong others Indictments against excellent and particularly w adapted for fruits, berries, buy and general farming. An old fire of the en's Hw. pt 'town through this entire region and destroyed a magnificent forest. Repeated burns have, In mail)'1 places, killed all of I he trees and have given these region! over to a rank growth of brush. Looking from the one wagon road near sea level, from which the visit or generally views the country, It has a steep, ragged, uninviting ap pearance, but closer Investigation will show this to be covered wltn rich, deep soil, with level benchel, numerous swales and springs, and not generally steeper than the best wheat lands of the Palouse and East ern Oregon, where combined har vesters and headers are successfully used. Much of this Is the very best quality of land In Curry county and will prove Itself such. Though tho great fire mentioned was very destructive inrougnous the entire length of the county there are many bodies of fine timber left. Some of this Umber Is on land that will eventually, when cleared, be agricultural, but tho bulk, of It will, If proterted and tho crop harvested with Intelligence, ho more valuable for timber for many generations. A snw log can be grown In Curry coun ty as rapidly as anywhero on earth, and tree growths measured showed a 28-Inch spruce saw log of 35 years' growth and a fir 23 Inches 39 years of age. Land thnt Is so well adapted to timber growth should bo retained for thnt purpose unless It Is also by locntlon, soil, or some special de mand necessary for other uses. It 18 safe to say that not one acre of agri cultural land out of five hundred acres Is under cultivation, It will be ninny yenrs before It will be Justifi able to sacrifice the very vnluable (Continued on Page 8) CIRCUIT COURT CONVENED MONDAY The Senlciuber term .of circuit court convened Monday with Judge H. K. Hnnna on the bench. The grand Jury was drawn as fol lows: Wm. Light, M. Andrews, CM. Agee, J. T. Roberson, S. F. DukM. .1. M. Chiles and Geo. E. Howland. Geo. Howland was elected foreman of the Jury and 0. 9. Goodnow wat appointed bailiff. The grand Jury has had n great number or cnsei brought lo Its nttentlon and ha returned n considerable number of Indictments. The following cases have been dis posed of: State of Oregon vs. II. C. Acker- man, dismissed. - State of Oregon vs. Harry Haw kins, dismissed. State of Oregon vs. Ttufus E. Reed, carrying concealed wen pons, pleaa guilty nnd sentenced to pay a fine of $'ifl nnd costs. L. T,. Nelson vs. Thus W. rnck, dismissed. First National Flank of Southern Oregon vs. W. H. Huell nnd Ella llnell, dismissed. Jus. Davis vs. John Ilnrvey, dis missed. (. G. Wealherwnx nnd Chai. Thompson vs. Cha. Short, dismissed. L. Olnkelsnlel Co, vs. Merlin Mer cantile Co., dismissed. Jiih. Davis vs. John Ilnrvey, dis missed. P. H. Hnrth Son vs. J, W. Mc causland et nl, dismissed, Wm. Crow vs. II. E. Gale et UX, dismissed. Hydraulic Mining Co. vs. Adolph Wllg, dlsmlsed. Southern Oregon Supply fn. Frank Vaughn, dismissed and at 'hmont. released. T. K. Anderson m. Oregon Minim Co., confirmation or sale. State of Oregon vs. Harry Triplet!, carrying concealed weapons, pieaa guilty and fined $16 and costs, ti sessed at 111. CO. Stale of Oregon vs, Edwin John "'n (colored) assault, plead gulltr "d fined "0 and costs, committed ,0 Jfl" unl" Inld- , . V' hi .r . H1 t0 arV,h Ar?- "ftV1" Ar"' co" fl'mB,lon f I'M. K. Warren vs. Annie M. Warren, divorce, decree granted. Harvey Moore v. Lee Sill, demur rer overruled. W. T. Coburn and August Fetscb for selling liquor In prohibition ter ritory. Tho latter case Is being tried this morning. Scott Stringer pleftd not guilty tn assault with dangerous weapon. Chn. Wlnihnr. tndlctoif seed for forgey, p' " '
