Rogue River courier., May 20, 1910, Image 1

TOL. XXVI.
GRANTS IASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FUIDAY, MAY 20, 1010.
No. 8.
PLANS FOR THE
ROSE FESTIVAL
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS TO ROSE
GROWERS
EXTENSIVE PREMIUM LIST
Merchants Offer Prizes for Best Dis
plays of Roses- Complete
Entry List.
All rose growers Intending to en
ter roses either for competition or
decorating purposes, are requested
to cut their roses the evening of
May 23, keep In water. In a cool
place over night and either bring
them to the Coliseum rink at nine
o'clock, or have them ready for the
collectors as early as eight o'clock
of the following morning, May 24.
If exhibitors will bring their own
vases the work of the decorating
committee will be greatly facilitated.
'The committee can use all the roses
they can get, and everyone is urged
to contribute what they have. The
free cutting of roses early next week
will bring on new buds more rapidly
for use Decoration day of the follow
ing week.
The offering of prizes this year
Is a new feature of the rose exhibit.
'The list is one that can not fall to
Incite the desire of every roBe grow
er for at least one of the splendid
prizes offered. Our merchants have
contributed most liberally to this
list, and In so doing have done much
to Insure the success of the festival.
In addition to the home merchants,
the Portland Seed company, also
Clarke Bros., of Portland, have given
some exceptionally fine rewards. The
prize list and entries for which they
are made are as follows:
,. Premiums Offered.
The committee on awards for the
rose exhibit announces the following
prizes offered for roses In accordance
with entries listed below:
Clarke Bros Silver cup.
Portland Seed Company $5 order
for roses; book on rose culture,
"'Roses and Rose Growing."; pair of
rose shears; pair of garden shears.
Cramer Bros. Set of garden tools.
0. S. Calhoun Clothing Co. Suit
case.
R. H. O'Neill China salad dish.
Southern Oregon Supply Store
Lady's leather purse.
Jewell Hardware Co. Leather
"hand bag.
Peerless Clothing Store White
silk reefer.
National Drug Store Kraft wood
tray.
Rogue River Hardware Co.
"Nickel plated tea pot.
Russell's Confectionery 2 pound
box bon bons.
New Racket Store Salad Bet.
Coron-Booth Hardware Co. Gar
den trowel.
Bannard Furniture Store Bath
mg.
Hall's Art Store Rose Jar.
Cargill Confectionery 2M pound
box of bon bons. .
C. P. BlBhop & Co. Black silk
reefer.
List of Entries for the Rose Enlilblt,
Mny 21.
The following is the classification
for the dlBplay of roues May 24. Two
changes have been made since the
first publishing of this list. In sec
tion C, entry 2 hns been omitted. In
feetlon E, entry 2, the ordinal num
ber 10 has been changed to 12. Re
fer to this list in making up your
entries.
Section A.
1. BoBt 12 Caroline Testout.
2. Bent 24 Caroline Testout.
3. Best 50 Caroline Trstout.
Sect Ion II.
1. Best 4 red rosea, any one va
riety named.
2. ; Beat 4 white roses, any one va
riety named.
3. --Beat 6 pink roses, any one va
Tlety named.
Section C.
1. Best 6 IFranre (pink).
3 Best 6 Fran Karl Drusrhkl.
4. Best 6 Maman Cochet (pink).
5. Best 6 Kalserln Augusta Vic
toria. 0
Section D.
1. Best Hybrid Perpetual named,
any color.
2. Best Hybrid Tea named, any
color.
3. Best Tea named, any color.
4. Best Marechal Nell named.
any color.
Section E.
1. Best collection 6 varieties, any
color, four blooms each.
2. Best collection 12 varieties.
any color, four blooms each.
Section F.
Best Individual rose In the show.
exhibited In any class.
Best general exhibit.
Best twelve blooms, distinct vari
eties.
Best five blooms, one variety. In
single vase.
Good city business or resident lots
at $100 Central. We Bell at Own
er's prices. See H. B. Hendricks,
real estate. 6-20-tt
Mr. and Mrs. George Palethorpe
and daughter, Mabel, will arrive here
tonight from Los Angeles, where
they have spent the past few months.
They will visit friends in Grants Pass
for a short time before going to their
home at Portland.
THE PAVING WORK
IS PROGRESSING
Muny Additional Men Are Engaged
in Grading and Underground
Work.
The preliminary work for the pav
ing of G and Sixth street goes mer
rily on and a hundred workmen are
tearing up the streets and effectively
preventing traffic In front of some
of the blocks. G street is at the
present time the least Interfered
with, as the cement work Is finished
and teams are at work removing the
top dirt and bringing the surface to
grade. For the past few days Sixth
street from I to L has been closed
to traffic. In the middle of the street
was a 7-foot excavation for the lay
ing of storm sewer, and on the west
side of the street another trench for
the laying of conduits for under:
ground telephone wires.
The Warren Construction Co. has
a force of 40 men at work on the
sewer and they are getting along very
fast, the pipe now being laid as far
as H street and the trench extending
north to G. They have started their
grader with steam roller and a crew
of 15 men, and they expect to have
their mixing plant shipped here
from Medford next week with an
other crew of about 40 men. It is
expected that rock work for G street
will be ready the latter part of the
week.
The Pacific Telephone and Tele
grah Co. has a force of 15 men, which
will be increased to 25 later, busy
laying conduits and constructing
manholes at each of the alleys under
the direction of subway super-foreman
S.I. Payne. At the south end
of the paving they are laying three
wood pipes, one above the other, and
farther north there will be four,
which will accommodate 3600 wires
and will be capable of supplying a
much larger city than Grants Pass Is
at present. There are now 1000 wires
In use. They expect to have the un
derground work completed In three
weeks.
The Rogue River Water Co. and
the Rogue River Electric Co. have a
fofA nf 10 men connecting each lot
with water mains and laying con
dults for electric lighting system. H.
J. Clark has a big force laying ce
ment curbs between K and L streets.
If you want a refrigerator that U
perfectly Banltary and at the same
time uses less Ice than any other
make, get a HF.HR1CK of the Rogue
River Ildwe. Co.
HllollKfll Hoiihou Will 1c.
A number of business firms of tlie
city have already signified their will
ingness to close their stores on Wed
nesday afternoon from 2:30 to
4:30, on account of the rose festival
baseball game and other features.
A committee of rltlzens Is at work
this afternoon Interviewing business
men on the subject and without ex
ception they have offered to comply
with the request.
MONEY
Two Attractive Propositions Are Offered to the
Josephine County Irrigation & Power
Co.-Large Acreage Covered.
There are many people who hold
the opinion that irrigation ia making
slow progress in the county, and yet,
if they were to make an investiga
tion, they would be astonished to
see how much has been accomplished
since the Josephine County Irriga
tion and Power company was organ
ized less than a year and a half ago.
It will be remembered that it was
impossible to Interest outside capi
tal on any terms to develop the en
terprise we had on hand and the re
sult was that the people of this
county resolved from necessity to
take matters into their own hands
and supply the funds needed to build
the ditches, and for that purpose a
meeting was called In, the opera
house and the first $10,000 was sub
scribed and from this modest begin
ning Irrigation took Its start and be
came a popular enterprise. There
was hard work ahead and yet the
men representing the company never
faltered In their devotion to the bust-
ness they had In hand. In July last
A. 1 t- I fx. ' '
water reached this city and numer
ous water users were supplied with
the life giving fluid, and notwith
standing the lateness of the season,
they made a crop. It so chanced that
early in the winter a flood carried
out a portion of the dam which sup
plied the water and this brought
about a most serious condition of
things by causing a full year's delay
In furnishing irrigation. This was
a misfortune, but there was a silver
lining to the dark cloud, for out of
it has come an offer of capital to
build the enterprise on a large scale;
In fact, there were two offers, one
to supply water for 18,000 acres by
pumping from the Rogue river, and
another by a gravity system from the
head of the Applegate, which is to
cover 40,000 acres. These two pro
positions are now before the irriga
tion company and that organization
will without delay call a meeting of
the stockholders to make a choice as
to which they will accept. The first
COMMERCIAL CLUB
MONTHLY MEETING
The postponed monthly meeting
of the Grants Pass Commercial Club
was held In the club rooms on Mon
day night and attended by a goodly
number of members.
Secretary Andrews read his report
and referred to the financial report
which was posted on the bulletin
board. The publicity committee re
ported that they interviewed renl
estate and business men relative to
publicity work and they recommend
ed that the club issue 30,000 32
page booklets and reduce the ad
vertisement In Sunset from a full
page to half page. This recommend
ation was accepted by vote of the
club. Other publicity work will al
bo be taken up.
The matter of financial aid for
the Commercial Club band was
brought up and received the sanction'
of the club, and the business men
will subscribe to a fund to help do
fray the expense of the band, which
has already been of much benefit to
the flub.
At a previous meeting, M. A.
Wertz, county commissioner, re-
quested an opportunity of addressing
the club on tho subject of roads and
he was called upon. Mr. Wertz came
loaded with an abundance of litera
ture, from which he fortunately read
only short extracts, but ho spoke for, view of future traffic be used dyna
45 minutes, telling of the local road nilte on some of the dangerous rap
sltnatlon and advancing his Ideas for. Ms and thus decreased the time of
the betterment of the Bltuatlon. He
also gave his views as to the means
of securing necessary funds for rond
construction, advocating an Increase
of the road tax to such an extent that
It would produce sufficient revenue
to construct suitable permanent
roads.
At Intervals during the meeting
FOR IRRIGATION
NOW I ABUNDANCE
is the plan of the Rogue River Irri
gation company, which corporation
has purchased the power site at Sav
age Rapids and the Hell Gate site.
The proposition is to guarantee water
for next season's crop.
The second proposition comes from
parties represented by F. J. Blakes
ley, a gentleman who has had many
years' experience in the construction
of Irrigation plants and who Is anxi
ous to put In a system which will
absorb the local company and go far
beyond the capacity of the latter.
The plan Is comprehensive and was
first recommended to the Josephine
Irrigation and Power company by
Engineer Fred V. Cummlngs. Mr.
Blakesley offers to make a contract
and guarantee water for next June
on both sides of the Rogue river.
The Courier believes that out of one
of these propositions the people of
this county will secure a system of
Irrigation which 'will fully develop
all our fruit and alfalfa lands and
make this part of the Rogue River
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valley the most productive section
to be found anywhere.
Since the irrigation enterprise was
inaugurated in this county, great
progress has been made along vari
ous lines of the subject in an edu
cational way. Of necessity we had
to commence In a Btnall way In order
to Insure the beginning of the work,
but time brought about many things
of advantage to irrigation. We all
saw in the beginning that the one
great need was capital and there be
ing no one to help the people of the
county took np the burden and ful
ly determined to build an Irrigation
svsfem that should serve the valley.
Had someone at that time told us
that within a year and a half capital
to build our ditches would be offer
ed us in abundance few would have
been found to credit the statement,
but the day of large things has ar
rived in Josephine county and let
us make the most of our opportuni
ties. EXTENSIVE DEVELOPMENTS
ON ROGUE RIVER
M. J. Anderson, who returned re
cently from a two weeks' trip down
Rogue River, reports that all along
the river there Is expensive mining
development under way. Aside
from the thousands of dollars being
expended In opening up the promis
ing quartz properties in the Gallce
district, the rich river bars further
down are being put into shape for
successful working. With the work
ing out years ago of the rich and
easily worked deposits along the
stream placer mining has only been
carried on in a Bmall way, because
the cost of Retting water onto the
higher ground has been prohibitory,
owing to the difficulty of putting
hydraulic pipe and machine Into the
rough country. But this question has
been partly solved by A. Aubrey, of
this plnee, who has Just successfully
finished a contract with the Rod
River Mining Co, at Mule Creek to
land their pipe and machinery by
boat. The boats used had a capacity
of five tons each and Mr. Aubrey's
confidence in his ability to run the
rapids of Hoguo river for 60 miles
Bhown by the fact that he Rave a
.bond to deliver the goods safely and
did so. Four trips were made and
this method of delivering henvy
j flight demonstrated, for with
a
making the first, trip, which was nine
days, to three days for the last voy
age. The Red Ulver company (an ln-
the Comerclal Club orchestra of 12
pieces furnished excellent music.
After adjournment Ice cream and
rookies wero served to all present.
dlanapolls company) have built three
miles of very heavy flume and ex
pended probably $50,000 in develop
ment work. Unlike many such con
cerns they have done the work right
and have a flume that will carry
water for three 6-lnch giants and
will be ready for operation this fall.
J. D. Brown is superintendent and
the company has purchased ground
sufficient to keep even the heavy ma
chinery mentioned, in operation for
from 12 to 15 years.
Mr. Aubrey leaves, probably to
morrow, with another boatload for
Horseshoe Bend, where E. O. Francis
and Dr. W. A. Wise, of Portland, are
developing a rich bar which they
have successfully worked on a small
er scale for a number of years. This
load will Include cable to build a
suspension bridge across Rogue river
to carry a heavy water pipe from the
south side to the north side, a space
of about 300 feet. They have a
crew building a high ditch and H will
take probably four or five months
to make this mine ready for opera
tion on the scale proposed.
Farther down the river, at Solitude
Bar, George Yokum, as superintend
ent for the Euchre Creek company,
haa done" much development work
and considerable mining. This com
pany also has built many miles of
flume and ditch. At this place Is a
Mr. Williams, formerly of Goldfleld,
who has been experimenting on the
working of the black sand deposits.
Mr. Anderson states that he was, and
Is, skeptical as to the successful
working of black sand deposits, but
that Mr. Williams certainly gets re
sults on the samples worked, and as
he candidly says, his efforts are only
experimental so far as working the
deposits In large quantities, Is not
attempting to work anybody Ioohc
from a dollar, has no words of con
demnation for others working In the
same line, and is not a crank on the
subject. It looks like an Intelligent
man working In an Intelligent way
with good chance of winning.
Many quartz deposits, as well as
other bars, are being worked on a
smaller scale than these mentioned,
and large low grade copper and gold
veins are ready for profitable work
ing when transportation facilities
are better.
Program In Full for the Grand Rose
Carnival, May 21 and 23.
me roiiowing is the program
which will be carried out the two
days of next week by the Ladles'
Auxiliary In the big rose carnival
A few Blight changes havo been made
since the printed programs were Is
sued the first of the week, one of
which is the hour of the automobile
parade, which Is now set at 7 o'clock
of Wednesday evening, Just preced
ing the May dance of the children at
the Coliseum rink.
, Tuesday 2:00 p. m. Grand par
ade of decorated carriage.) and floats
plug uglles, lady equestrians will
form at North Sixth street, move
south to First National bank, west
to Fourth street, north to E street
east to Eighth street, south to F
street, west to the Coliseum rink.
3:00 p. m. Grand opening of
Hose exhibit at CollHeum rink, spe
rial music.
Evening. Street carnival, side
shows, fun galore, confetti, the Mys
tic Turk, the wonderful rntamost,
vaudeville performance F street, bo
tween Sixth and Fourth. Mask for
the carnival.
10:00 p. m. Music and awarding
of prizes for roses at Coliseum rink
Wednesday 10:00 a. m. Baby
show at the Coliseum rink. Ten
prizes awarded. Special program.
Noon. Lunch served by the ladles
2:30 p. m. Baseball game, Glen-
dale vs. Grnnts Pass.
8:00 p. m. Children's May dnnce
Coliseum rink.
10:00 p. m. Grand closing bnll
Coliseum rink.
Music throughout the two days
will be furnished by tho Grants Pass
'mild.
Carrier Delivery on Holiday.
Hereafter city IHter carriers will
make one delivery of malls on legal
holidays, leaving tho post office at
9 a, m. The city carriers' window
in the post office will not be open
hereafter on legal holidays.
GEO W. DONNEI.L.
Vlill Mountain Ic Cream Freej
em require less Ico and freeze more
quickly than other makes. Rogue
River J Id we Co. carries a full stock.
GRANTS PASS
TO THE OCEAN
HILL INTERESTS ACTIVE AND
WILL SOON LOCATE LINE
S. P. SYSTEM MAY LOSE
The People Are In Favor of the
Company Which Will Make
First Move.
Grants Pass and Josephine county '
have adopted broad lines and will,
through the Commercial Club, give a
hearty welcome to the Hill system,
which is just now selecting a route
from the Rogue River valley to the
ocean. What this city and county
needs and is in favor of, is a rail
road that will open up the rich coun
try to the south and bring to the
city the wealth of that vast empire,
which will become famous at the
very touch of a railroad. The large
lumber Interests of that country are
needed In Grants Pass so that we
may bo able to supply the demands
for the manufactured material. The
agricultural Interests of that section
through which the railroad will pass
will, of Itself, become a paying ton
nage In support of a railroad. And
the mining Interests of the rich
country between Grants Pass and the
ocean will furnlBh its full share in
the way of freight trafflo to make
the construction of a road profitable.
Aside from the lines of business al
ready mentioned which will support
a railroad, it should be stated that
the stock Interests of that section
will add materially to the profitable
operations of road. The wealth of
forage which the country supplies
will develop fortunes for men who
may take advantage of a location on
these ranges, and It goes without
saying that, these opportunities will
not go begging. The, vast combina
tions which make up the freight
along the proposed line of road ia
scarcely equaled by any other like
area to be found in Oregon or else
where, and the question Is now one
of good faith and good business
Judgment on the part of those who
aro talking railroad construction.
As the matter stands today, the Har
rlman system has tho opportunity to
retain Its hold on tho Rogue River
valley and Its tributary territory, but
Its action must be prompt or tho Hill
system will even more than evenly
divide tho business of this rich coun
try. In this matter the people will
extend a welcome to either great cor
poration and the first to make a
move will become tho favorite.
Mr. IIIII Will Not Stop.
Word was received a few days ago
that tho Hill pnrty would stop at
Grants Pass on their way north, but
It was not known at what tlmo they
could make the stop. Today, how
ever, a telegram was received stat
ing that they would pass through
here Friday afternoon but would be
unable to stop. It wan tho plan to
meet the party at Woodvllle with
automobiles and prominent citizens
and entertain tho party at the Com
mercial Club rooms, but this had to
be given up.
Murder Suspect Held.
Detectives are at work endeavor
ing to unravel tho Thresher murder
case and several people are under
suspicion. Ed Davidson was thought
to havo had some connection with
tho rase, but nothing could be prov
en. Ho was given a 30-days' sen
tence for carrying concealed weap
ons and confined In tho Jackson
County Jail. A few days ugo a man
by tho nam of Joy was arrested on
suspicion and taken to Jacksonville,
but later was brought to Grants Pass
In order to keep him away from out
side Influence. This created some
what adverse comment In Jackson
county and he was returned to Jack
sonville, and Davidson was brought
here, He Is now lodged In tho coun
ty Jail. The object Is to prevent any
communication between the two men.
Alabastlne at Ilogue River Hdwe.