i era iftif i VOL. XXV. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPH INK COUNTY. OREGON, Fill DAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1009. Xo. 31. na ll l 14 i ir i i I 1 IK WW 4 nniiri Jirfliu DEVELOPMENT 0 THE ORIOLE NINE 0,000 EXPENDED FOH LABOR AXI MACHINERY THIS YEAR EXCEEDINGLY RICH GRI KA Company TImt Has Shipped V ' loiuls of Ore Avcr;t;;i!i'; $2T,Q per Ton. i:ei :Co. 3 has just cut the ledge and the same character of rock is found ia it as lu those above. The management Is now consider ing tjse host method possible of treating the ore found in the ledge and it Is possible that a cyanide plant will bo Installed. The management of this property are a unit in agreeing that there shall never be any debts incurred unle-j: for tl H JfW.s a if tho commnv wmiM i worry much iw-1 'i-'U it can ship i a r il-nt '. P-r t. is by nr- tVe money is in t!: treasury ; purpose of paying them, and never be fern in:: ro'-k to aver as oM 20 to 30 of his eastern Investing in Josephine ed from friends in county property; has been the cause of several families moving here, and has several other families contem plating coming to locate. GRANTS PASS NEEDS BITULITHIC PAVEMENT So Says Councilman J. G. Rlggs of the First Ward After In-ventilation. i (;!'!'':' of ih The Oriole mine, one of the great pines of the Pacific Coast, if lo. cted In Nevada would be known the --country over and its existence would be apt to stampede a mluin:; rora 'nunity, but being located in the ."Caliee. district of Southern Oregon, ' is seldom heard of outside the state. i This property bids fair to bciome the greatest gold producer of Ore gon, and, if this were the only rich quartz mine of Josephine county, it "would be sufficient to stamp this eectlon of the state as the richest n mineral bearing rock. The mine is located about 27V6 tnllcs from Grants Pass and is reached partly by railway and part ly by stage. The last two and one talf miles of the distance being made over the company's wagon road, built at a cost of upwards of $3000, lead ing from the mouth of Rocky Gulch, near Gallce, to the mine. Active operations and development com menced on a large scale last March, and since that time the property has been opened up to such an extent that it can well be Bald that the com pany has millions of dollars of gold bearing rock blocked out and part ly in sight. Tunnel No. 1 is 70 feet long; tunnel No. 2 is 425 feet long, and tunnel No. 3 is 315 feet long, and a winze has been sunk In tun nel No. 2 a distance of 40 feet on .high-grade ore. There are three drifts in tunnel No. 2 and ore taken out of this tunnel has been shipped ,'to the Tacoma smelter, and In car load lots this ore has yielded to the : company about $250.00 per ton. ' The vein is from forty to forty-five , feet In width and Is considered by r geologists to be a true fissure vein, and average samples taken in many r places ncross the whole width of the ,; vein show an average value of $23.00 ; per ton. The management has spent ap proximately $20,000.00 in the last 5 few months for labor, material and supplies, all of which has its Influ v emee in the development and the up ; building of Josephine county, and ' the company Is at present spending from $2000 to $3000 per month for i labor and material. Recently a Pel ton water wheel system, which Is to connect a three-drill compressor In the gulch below, has been Installed and the mine will bo lighted with electrielty. This property is part leu and r-liy u rer. J. C. :.niti i,;on is en era 1 manner. ? this man to .:(..! v.bivr. O. rein-)- ,1 . W. ! ows'v ,ir ROGUE RIVER APPLES AT COUNCIL BLUFFS X. Parsons Sends 5 Roxes of Choice Fruit for Exhibition Purposes. The National Horticultural con gress, which convened at Council Bluff3 on November the 15th, and will close on the 20th, was one, of the great events in the fruit growing world. There were $35,000 in pre miums and there was a daily arrival of large numbers of fruit growers from all parts of the country. The leading agricultural colleges of the country have been taking a deep In terest In this congress and thous ands of students gathered In Council Bluffs from the various state in stitutions. This was a thoroughly practical horticultural meeting, as It Included the packing of apples and every part of handling of the com mercial apple. Excursions were run from all lines into Council Bluffs and the gathering was one which will long be remembered by those who participated. Our townsman, A. N. Parsons, sent 25 boxes of the Yellow Newtown pippins and and Spitzen berg apples to the show and also for warded a large nnmler of the Grants Pass and Josephine county booklets for distribution among the fruit growers of the Middle West. In ad dition to the booklet, Mr. Parsons forwarded a large amount of special information in regard to opportuni ties for investment In and around Grants Tnss. Because of Mr. Parson's having an extensive personal acquaintance In that district while representing the American Express company at Omaha, Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., we anticipate many newcomers next season from that section, after showing them the quality of fruit we raise here. Mr. Blrchard, of Omaha, who Invested In one of the lnrge ranches on the Applegate, will be In personal charge of the exhibit, and after his thorough Investigation hero last summer, will be able to tell them GREELY, COLORADO AND GRANTS PASS GEORGE H. WEST TELLS INTER EST! XG STORY OF IRRIGATION WATER MORE THAN LAND I m ii... 1 it, Itwra nfinilt thlfl larly fortunate in having above tun- many oi me gu.,.. m.h nel No. 4 about six hundred feet on locality. ... , the vein for sloping purposes. Tun. Mr. Parsons has already Interest- O'NEILL'S ThanKsgiving Sale Dining Tables Chairs Bullets China Closets p some of the special features at our ' oro fortheiK'M week. Our lino of CA11PETS, 1UX.S, ART W I AllES, and CUKTAINS are complete and worthy of inaction by tho closest buyer. Now i tho time to have them set aside beforo it is too late. R, H. O'NEILL-:-Home Furnisher Councilman J. G. Rlggs, who ro 'rued Monday from a week's visit i Portland, is enthusiastic over the l ulithle pavement which he saw on '' streets of that city. In discuss ; r? this subject with a representa tive of the Courier he said: "While In Portland I took occa sion to make careful examination of the various kinds of pavement now In use in that city. I had an op portunity .to see bltulithle, Hassam, asphalt and wood block pavements. I made a careful and critical exam ination of all of these various pave ments and am fully convinced in my own mind that the bltulithle Is by far the most practical pavement for Grants Pass. "The Hassam, which is used quite extensively there, is nothing more than a concrete pavement, mid, like the concrete walks, the pavement will crack, giving water a chance to work down through it and to disin tegrate the cement, sand and gravel, and then the passing over of vehicles, such as heavily loaded wagons, au tomobiles, etc., grinds up the pave ment, causing holes, which become more worn with every passinj? team, and within a very short tiro'1 It bo comes necessary to applv to "patch;. which leaves a rough surface angi H very apt to soon break up a'afh. So far as wood block pavement Is concerned, It soon becomes rough and uneven and is very slippery, and personally I would not think It a good pavement at all for the streets of Grants Pass. ' "The nsnhaltum, as is genernlly well known, lu not suitable for streets where there is heavy traffic as In the summer It becomes very soft and cuts up badly. "The bltulithle pavement, In my opinion, Is far superior to any other In use. Tn the first place, the streets In Portland where the heaviest, traf fic Is carried on are paved with this material. It does not cut nn nor wear and Is casv, so far as foothold Is concerned, for teams. This style of pavement Is the process of one parent company and thev allow only certain companies in certain sections of the United States to construct this pnvement. and they are under bond to lay It according to their spe clflcntlons. If Grants Pass were to use the bltulithle pnvement, It would be done In exactly the same manner, the same material would be used, the same thickness and foundation as on the heaviest traveled streets In the large cities. The secret of the suc cess of this pnvement Is that they use a bituminous product In their mixing which has a tendency to con geal and cement tho rock and gravel thus making a perfectly tight cover Ing over their foundation, which Is of concrete. "I hnd an opportunity of seeing Btreet workers attempting to take nn some of the bltulithle pavement on Washington street In Portland. It wbr like attempting to take tip the solid bed rock. "In my opinion there Is no pave ment thnt will romnare with this kind and I hope that It will be used in this city." whiia r.rnnU Pass Is about to nave its streets I believe that In asmuch as the telephone poles and electric light poles will be removed from the streets, an effort shouid ba made on the part of the citizens to prevail upon the electric light rompany to use the cluster light system of lighting the city. By thli method the overhanging arc lights are done away with and Iron stand ards with a cluHter of five white lights on each standard take their place, there being one on enh corn er and one In the center of tn block. There Is nothing that will add more to the beauty of the city than Ihls system of lighting, in many of the smaller cities of the pact these standards are being used and why shouldn't Grants Pass ! the first to adopt this syBtem In the Rogue River valley. We Have Groat Opportunities Says This Colorado Ranker and lrrlgntlonist. Pass. You will have abundance of;,ns to "timient by tho Installs- water aad can ralae many things In tlon of an electro-chemical amalgam- your climate which we cannot. Your I """K l""'88. Pruon oi wnu n water supply Is really unlimited. lady tn place at the mill and the Why, the Rogue river furnishes more which includes the electrical apparatus, has been shipped rroin Pittsburg and Is expected to arrive soon. This process Is new to the coast, the Mountain Lion being tho first to Install a plant. There are four plants now In successful opera- water at its lowest stage than Is sup plied by all the streams in eastern Colorado combined at flood stage. "You have great advantages here: abundance of water, longer growing season and many crops which we can not raise and they are all profitable !Uon ,n Colorado, all having been in- The present year has been rich in that kind of corner stone laying which is to Inaugurate remarkable prosperity in Josephine county. First came the irrigation enterprise which made all other things possible. It was the one great event of more than fifty years of civilization around Grants Pass. This brought that bet ter class of homeseekers who have .nade farming an occupation where by fortunes are made, and close In their wake came men of large cap ital; notably such as compose the Pennsylvanlnn syndicate who pur chased the Rlggs ranch at the mouth of the Applegate, and that other syndicate of Kansas City, the pur chasers of several thousand . acres extending from a point three miles north of Grants Pass to Merlin; also the purchase made by the Alas ka syndicate, and many smaller ones by enterprising men of means who ate developing alfalfa farms, apple and pear orchards and vineyards. All these things remind us of thnt pros perity which is dawning on Josephine county! The writer Is reminded of these things by an interview had with George II. West, one of the pioneer bankers of Greeley, Colo., and a man of many years' experience in Irrigation who has been visiting Grants Pas. Mr. West Is thoroughly familiar with the Rogue River valley, having been here a number of times and his extensive knowledge of farming and fruit growing In Colorado enables him to Judge with great accuracy of conditions here. Ho saw Greeley grow from an arid, waste to the best farming Bectlon In tho United States and with Its growth and prosperity he had much to do. Truly ho was one of the men who helped to make the desert blossom as the rose. For ninny years Mr. West has been Inter- sted in Irrigation in tho Arkansas vnlley as well as around Greeley, and his opinions are worthy of the high est consideration. Ho has for the oast vear been a subscriber to the Courier and hns kept himself posted regarding matters In this city and ounty. Below we give a careful repor of an Interview with Mr. West on Tuesday of this week by the editor of the Courier. Ills talk about Greeley Is an object lesson as to what may be done at Grants Pass. Greeley has a population of 9000 enterprising people," said Mr. West and he continued: "It has three na tional banks and a savings bank. The deposits of the four banks amount to more than is.uuu.uuu. jne town of Greeley sends moro produce of all kinds to market than Is ship ped by all the towns on the Southern Pacific between San Francisco and Portland. The people of that com munlty send to market annually from 8000 to 12,000 carloads of potatoes and other produce In proportion. The best farmers market every year from $5000 to $12,000 worth of produce I notice In a local paper that they have 210 automobiles In the town and In addition to these there are many runabouts on the farms of the surrounding country. I may as well mention here for the sake of show Ing how general the uso of these machines are that the woman who supplies my family with butter brings It to the city In an automobile. "All this prosperity was brought about by water and Intelligent farming. The former was scarce and this necessitated cultivation to go hnnd In hand with It. This accounts for the success of tho Greeley farm ers, who have grown to be men of science as far as the use of water In crop growing Is concerned. I have said this much for the encourage ment of Irrigation around Grants that Is, find a ready market at top prices. I have been in Oregon many times and never saw a good potato In this state until I saw it at Grants Pass. You have as fine po tatoes as can bo grown, even at Greeley. They are large, mealy and very choice. You only need to have some of our practical potato men to teach you tho art of cultivating those tubers. If I was going to criticize your potatoes I wquUI say that your best ones have too deep eyes and lack that smoothness so desirable. come i stalled by Mr. Maler. It is expected that this process will revolutionize quartz mining, as by Its use every particle of free gold will lie recovered and tho cost of operation Is practical ly nothing nfter the Installation. Tho Mountain l.lon will be equipped with apparatus capable of handlinsr 100 tons per day, but with the pre"nt f-stump3 only "3 tons will bo handled. This pi'ocess practically eliminate?! cyatildallou tn nine cases out of ten,. feW'n,H In many Instances will recover values where .the cyanide process of our practical growers will here and become producers of this j i-'1"3- crop which has made Greeley famous! '"'tro-chemlcal nmaHrnnintlon is and you will then commence to sup- ''1 vos;.io throughout Western Aus ply the whole Pacific No; (Invest ! ,!';,U:l p0,lt'1 Africa and has been coast with this popular product of , Bn-cecsful wherever tried. Mr. Maler th, fm-ni (has been an ardent student of Elec- "Your rainfall, which comes In tho winter, when taken together with your mild winters, which keep every thing green, gives crops a good start In tho spring and if you have water to j ut on your land when the dry season commences will make Ideal farming. Your people have not, I fenr, a full appreciation of water. With us a permnnent water right cofts about $(10 to which Is added a $o maintenance fee. Around Grand Junction, where they pump water, $10 Is tho maintenance feo. That Is nothing when people take from tho land $2000 an acre. Why, If It should happen that the maintenance feo should go up to to $100 an acre, our fruit growers and some farmers would give the price quickly rather than not have It. Potato growers If they had to could afford tho price. They get from 200 to 240 two-bushel sacks per acre, with a general aver age of ISO sacks. That would make at present prlcos $lf0 to $f00 per acre. With your apples, pears and other hlKh-prlced fruits, the cost of IitImhIIoii will out little figure. "Let me say a word about Grants 'hsb and the' lands nround It. Yon avo a great future If you will push Irrigation. There is plenty of lnnd ere which can be bought at $50 an acre whl' h will In ten years sell read ily at $r00 an acre. I have pur chased some and will clenn up some holdings In our state and Invest the proceeds In these lands. They are tho best thing I have seen. I am going home today, but will be back shortly after Thanksgiving. I am In love with your mild climate which Ives me perfect rest and refreshing sleep. This should in the not dis tant future become a city of 25,000 Inhabitants. Your one need, ns I seo It, Is pnvlug and ns soon ns you have It on your streets the town will begin to grow rapidly." II should lyivo ben snld that Mr. West has an KO-ncro apple orchard near Greeley, which is In bearing and this year had a largo crop. lie sold $,000 worth and then had what seemed like a full crop still In heaps on tho ground. In that country they pick apples there ns onr hop growers do hops, that Is they employ a small army of pickers and rush the Job through. One hundred pickers were employed to pick the apples In this orchard this season. It Is Mr. West's purpose to sell this orchard at once and come with his family to Grants Pass to live. His residence In Greeley was sold last week. tro-Mctallurgy for tho past seven years, with a practical experience la Colorado and Idaho. Ho expressea himself ns much pleased with the mining outlook for Southern Oregon, and after a thorough Inspection of this district he is convinced that a great number of idle mines could be put on a paying basis by the Installa tion of this process. THE BIG FOUR PLACER HAS CHANGED HANDS NEW EQUIPMENT FOR THE MOUNTAIN LION C. D. Crane went to Portland two weeks ago to Interest parties In the Dig Four placer, a vary promis ing property at the mouth of Pickett crook, near the Booth ferry. He re turned last week with I. J. Merrill, president of the Modern Mining Machinery Co., who wished to look over the property. After a careful and thorough examination and pros- pectlng of the ground Mr. Merrill, who Is a practical miner with years' of exnerlence. was so favorably Ira- , pressed with the prospects that he has made arrangements to take over the proxrty. This mine was former ly known as tho Judson Plncer and hns had a series of ownerships with vnrylng success as to productiveness. It Is supplied with a small hydraulic equipment which will be replaced Ith larger pipes and giants, con centrating machinery and everything necessary for a first-class hydraullfl proposition. Tho work of equipping and operating will bo In charge of C. D. Crano, who has had many ears' of experience lu the Southern Oregon mines. Work commenced at the Big Kour Monday with a crew and within 30 days the mine will be lu operation with a complete equipment. Mr. Merrill, who Is constantly In touch with the mining men of vari ous sections of the country, says that tho Southern Oregon section has not received its proper share of attention simply becauso It has been consider ed a pocket country. This sentiment, ho says, Is rapidly giving place to the feeling of confldenco In the section, and he predicts that Josephine coun ty will experience a greater activity In mining during tho next 12 month! than ever before. Before returning home Mr. Morrill visited the property of the 8ykM Mining Co. on 8ykes creek, abort Wlmcr, In which he Is Interested. This Is a quarts property and It will be equipped with machinery as soon as the development will warrant. T. J. Rrlnkerhoff, superintendent and Adolph Maler, metallurgist and chemist, of the Mountain Hon mine, on Missouri Flat, seven miles due enst from Murnhy. were In Qrants Pass the fore part of tho week and left on Tuesday for the Kerby conn try to Inspect the Gold King mine for Mr. Kvans, who resides In Texas The Mountain Lion Is now owned by ilolman, Foskett Mlit'v vo., naving secured the properly from the Grants Pass Banking Trust Co. In March Tho mine Is equipped with a five stamp mill and has been a steady producer for the past 20 years or more. Tho present owners are add- A delegation of Grants Pass busl ' ness men will go to Portland Sun day night on matters of Importance to this community. If you bar business In that city arrange with the secretary of the Commercial Club to go at that time as your pres ence will bo of value. Ingersoll Watches at Cramer Droi. State Superintendent J. H. Acker man visited the city schools of Grants Pass Wednesday on his re gular tour of Inspection. He mad short talks to the pupils of each of tho schools, and spoke highly of the school work being done here. H camn to this city through Protolt, and Laurel Grove and he compli ments these schools highly. Garland Ptove rf Cramer 'l-of,