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WEEKLY ROGUE RIVER COURIER
Groceries
FEED
Fresh for
Garden and Field
Seed Oats
Onion Sets
J. Pardee
Plump SHI 17 G Street
WOK. TAi'liOlt SEES
H'OODVIIXE'8 FUTURE
Prof. Thos. H. B. Taylor, of Wood
ville, who as a financier, capitalist
and forecaster of future events has
few equals and no superiors says:
That future events do cast their
shadows before and only a very short
time will demonstrate that Grants
Pads, the county scat of Josephine
county, situated In the northern part
of the great Rogue River valley In
southern Oregon, Is destined to be
the greatest railroad and commercial
center of the whole of southern Ore
gon. Grants Pass is now, and will
be, the one supply point for a great
agricultural, fruit, mining and tim
ber section of approximately 80 to
00 miles In area; and with Its four
railroads one already built, two un
der construction, and the fourth Bure
to be built tnsldo of a year with a
direct line of only 90 miles to the
sea coast through an Immense tim
ber and mining region, and a
through lino to all custom, northern
and southern points what more
could be desired?
The groat Irrigation system Just
recently acquired, and the street
paving and many other municipal Im
provements, are moRt valuable and
lasting achievements for Grants
Pots; and of Us future, in conjunc
tion with Us younger and smaller
suburb, Woodville, we hardly hope
to prophecy.
Woodville, the young but rapidly
growing metropolis of Evans valley,
Is perhaps the most Ideally located
little city In the whole Rogue river
country a beautiful little sunny
valley nestling at the foot of the
Rogue River mountains, bounded or
one side by the swift rolling Rogue
river, and on the other by the sparkl
ing mountain stream of Evans creek.
This is the home of the big red ap
ple and Bartlett pear no finer fruit
belt In the state. The surrounding
hills are streaked with the yellow
metal and Iron, copper, nickel, as
bestos and coal abound. Several
mines are already developed Just out
side of the city limits. Free gold Is
found In most all the streams,
now, with, all the wonderful fruit,
gulches and In the gravel beds.
The great Hill line is now coming
from Eastern Oregon. This Hill
main line will come down Rogue
river, following the west side, out
through Sams valley and through
what will be the "Ramsay Canyon
cut-off" to where It will strike Upper
Evans creek. It will follow a double
track with the projected big Min
nesota logging road on the east side
of Evans creek to Woodville, where
It will form a Junction with the
Southern Pacific.
Here the Hill line will build an
Immense steel bridge across Rogue
river and here the two great trans
continental railroad lines will build
union yards, depot, machine shops,
round house, etc., as It Is an Ideal
location for a division point mid
way and near the great mountain
chains. The Hill line will thence
follow the south side of Rogue river
to Giants Pass and on to the coast
namely, Crescent City.
The Southern Pacific will aban
don Its old line near Myrtle creek
and come up the canyon by old Can
yonvlUe, and through what Is called
the "Junip-Off-Joe cut-off," where It
will trtrlke Pleasant creek, following
dowrt it to Wlmer; It will cross
Evans creek and form a Junction
with the other two roads. There
will be a three track syBtein to Wood
ville. The Southern Pacific will put
In a double track system from Wood
ville to Grants Pass. They will sim
ply run on Into Grants Pass same
as now, only double that nine miles.
The Southern Pacific will maintain
a trolley line from Grants Pass to
Myrtle creek; then we will have nl30
the electric road from Asniana iu
Granti Pass, which will make a junc
tion of four railroads at Woodville.
The big timber company will build
an Immense saw mill and planing
and sash and door and box factory
at Woodville. The city of Woodville
have under consideration a city
water and electric light system; pow
er to be brought from Jurap-Off-Joe
creek, a beautiful pure stream of
water right out of the snow moun
tains a gravity system with ap
proximately 900 feet pressure, with
water sufficient to supply a city of
50,000 Inhabitants, with wood of
the best quality In unlimited quanti
ties, end coal to be had Just for the
taking; and with all these great
bodies and varieties of ore lying at
our very feet waiting only the
magic hand of man to bring them
to light there's no doubt that Im
mense smelters and ore-reducing
stamp mills, etc., will soon be In
operation right at this Important
railroad Junction at Woodville on
the Rogue, In a very short time.
Little wonder that money men
are quietly looking around Wood
ville. Grants Pass, with all these ad
vantages, will have Just one more
railroad.
This beauty stream Rogue river
from Woodville to Grants Pass
has no equal on the American con
tinent, and who shall say how long
it will be before this Intervening
space will be lined with palatial resi
dences by eastern people seeking
comfort, health and happiness In
this wonderful climate la the midst
of the most ravishing mountain and
river scenery with an electric car
line at their doors and where they
can have strawberry shortcake for
inanksRlving; and where birds sing
and flowers bloom In December.
PRESBYTERIAN BROTHERHOOD
ORGANIZED OX WEDNESDAY'
In response to a call for the or
ganization of a Presbyterian
Brotherhood' nearly 40 men attend-
tha nrplimlnary meeting at Beth-
CVA i f " '
any church Wednesday night. Ladies
aPrfi also Invited to attena ana iv
m accented the Invitation. After
talks by Rev. Robert McLean, Mr.
Smith, field secretary of the i. w
C. A. for Oregon and Idaho, N. G.
Pike and T. P. Cramer, temporary
officers were elected as follows: Pre
sident, Wm. Best; secretary, A. A.
Ingalls, and a committee on organ
ization composed of Messrs. in.
Pike, T. P. Cramer, H. C. Kinney, A.
A. Ingalls and Geo. Riddle was ap
pointed. Refreshments were tnen
served.
Thp Brotherhood has fo.' Its object
to more actively enlist In the work
,.nir church lines and to co-oper
ate with other brotherhoods In all
that pertains to the betterment of
the city.
There is already an enrolimen or
more than 40 and It Is expected that
he membership will reach 60 or
more.
COMING EVENTS
March 13, Monday Annual meeting
of Grants Pass Commercial club.
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Friday, Mar. 17 Mothers' meeting,
Riverside school, at 2 p. m.
March 17, Friday Ladles Benefit
Society of Bethany Presbyterian
church will give a Donnvbrook af
ternoon at the church parlors.
Miss Vivian Galbralth Mt Thurs
day morning for a month's visit with
relatives and friends at Portland and
Woodburn.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Trimble went
to Leland Thursday morning, where
they will spend a month 'r six weeks
i.nticftt!nr In the wilds near tnai
place for the benefit of Mr. Trimble's
health, as be Is Just recovering irom
a long siege of typhoid fever.
A. Frldel, of Grand Junction, Colo.,
is spending a week in this city look
ing over the real estate with a pros
pect of locating here.
Brigadier R. Dubbin, of the Sal
vation army, will be with the local
corps on Wednesday and Thursday
evening, when he will swear in
soldiers, dedicate babies and commis
sion local officers. These services
will be held at the armv barracks
and the public Is cordially invited to
attend.
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Williams, of
the Rogue River Orchard company,
spent Thursday In Grants Pass on
business and visiting with relatives
and returned in the evening to Mer
lin. Mrs. F. J. Gardenhlre and little
son left Thursday morning for Rose
burg to Join Mr. Gardenhlre, who Is
a brakeman on the Southern Pacific
road. They expect to resldt perman
ently In Roseburg In future.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, ion
Don't Waste Your
Money
By experimenting with untried incubators.
When you buy the
Petaluma Incubator
You take no risk. We know what it will do and
guarantee every machines.
63 Egg Incubator $12.50
126 Egg Incubator $22.00
252 Egg Incubator $30.00
378 Egg Incubator $40.00
Indoor, outdoor and fireless brooders to accom
modate from 25 to 200 chicks.
We sell Conkey's Poultry Remedies.
CRAMER BROS.
ODDFELLOW'S BLOCK.
Oyster Shell Chick Feed
Attorney Fred Williams went to
Merlla on legal business Thursday
morning.
Mesdames Rlely and Becker, suc
cessors to Mrs. Weldman, held their
millinery opening at the Chapeau on
Friday and Saturday, March 3 and
4. The ladles, who are artists In
their line of business, had one of the
most beautiful window decorations
ever seen In Grants Pass. The win
dow wa3 draped with pale green
chiffon, caught up In clusters and
streamers, In a manner most effec
tve for showing to the best advan
tage the wonderful creations of mll
llnerv art on display In the window
The ladles themselves attractively
gowned displayed a charming man
ner of exhibiting their goods, which
made the afternoon a pleasure to
the ladles visiting their store. The
latest styles were on exhibition,
ready ' for the purchaser and alto
gether the opening days of the
"Chapeau" were successful and pleas
ant In the extreme.
The handsome city team of match
bays is resplendent in a new harness,
the handiwork of G. M. Rowley,
manager of the Jewell Hardware
company's harness department. Dur
ing his trip to Chicago last Bummer
he visited many of the leading har
ness manufactories in the hope of se
curing a new design for the city har
ness, but beilng unsuccessful in find
ing anything to suit him, he design
ed the pattern from which the har
ness, but being unsuccessful in find
The harness Is nickel-trimmed and
very handsome. The hame housing
contains the name "City Team" in
large nickel letters. Mr. Rowley al
so made a handsome set of harness
similar in design for the Bunch
Transfer company and Is now en
gaged in making hame housings for
II. N. Parker. The work Is strictly
up to date; a splendid example of
first-class harness work.
CONDITION OK NATIONAL
RANKS CALLED .FOR
WASHINGTON, Mar. 9. The
comptroller of the currency Issued
today a call for the conditl n of Bll
national banks at the close of busi
ness March 7.
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REACTS
UMBER
OMPANY
LUMBER, MILLWORK, SASH, DOORS AND MOULDINGS
We wish to announce to our friends and the public generally that we are now in a
position to fill all orders, large or small, for Lumber, Mill Work, Doors, Moulding,
etc., with promptness and care.
We wish to call especial attention to our facilities for turning out first-class Mill
Work. New Stock, New Machines and the best skill and experience are at your
service in this line and all orders can be promptly filled.
We are Grants Pass people and thoroughly acquainted with the local trade
and have selected our stock with care and judgment and are confident of civine
satisfaction. 6 6
Call and see us, we shall be glad to see you. Ask for estimates and prices you
will be glad to get them. We are busy, but always have time to greet our friends
and show our work. B
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