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GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1911
No. 8
Ml BUILDINGS
ARE UNDER WAY
PERMITS TOTAL $75,500 SINCE
MARCH 13
I1ANY MODERN RESIDENCES
AU Houses Built Are Taken as Soon
. w Material is Placed on
the Grouud
"Since the beginning of the pres-
nt year building finished and under
way in Grants Paos will amount in
value to more than $100,000," said
. City Auditor M. I. Ondvrkn tndnv
to a representative of ffjie Courier.
we uegan xo seep a record
March 13, wncn it became manda
tory upon builders in Grants Pass
to take out permits for all new con
struction and additions to older
buildings. The record shows that
Bince March 13, five weeks, build
ing permits issued total $75,500. A
number of buildings have been be
gun without permits, and the fig
ures for these are lost to the record,
for the present at least. With $75,
600 as the record since March 13 it
Is easily seen that since January 1
the building in Crants Pass will go
lu excess of $100,000.'.'
Included In the permits Is one for
$8,400 for P. B. Olding's garag-j on
D street between Fifth and Sixth;
pne for $6,000 for the Observer
building , at Front and Seventh
streets; one for $9000 for the H. B.
Mill - r building, which is to rise on
Sixth street between I and J streets,
and the big figure of $20,000 for the
Steward hotel of three stories at the
corner of Sixth and K streets. The
remaining Items making up the total
of $75,500, range from several at
$2,000 down, which means many
new and modern residences and cot
tage homes.
A whirl dver a portion of the city
yesterday by a representative of The
Courier brought to view many new
; homes and many building. There
re few homes to rent and Inquiries
for these grow more frequent each
day. Realty agents, when asked for
; modern houses for rent, will declare
that all built are taken as fast as fin
ished, and many are spoken for when
, the first lumber Is spied on the
ground.
The figures of $100,000 and over
since January 1 Is considered con
slderably In excess for the same per
' lod of 1910.
Builders, In Ignoring the new or
dinance requiring permits before be
ginning construction, are placing
themselves liable to punishment of
. fires of from $5 to $100, and each
t day lg considered a separate offense.
A permit Ih necessary even to alter
come portion of a building, no matter
If the cost be only $25 or less.
RAILROAD LAND SUIT
DECIDED NEXT MONDAY
PORTLAND, April 20. -United
States Judge Wolverton has an
nounced from the bench that he
would make public his decision In the
famous Oregon and California land
grant suit Monday.
This suit Is among the most im
portant land litigation ever begun In
the west by the United States. The
government Is attempting to recover
from the Oregon & California rail
road, now the Southern Pnclflc, 2,
600,000 acres of timber, fruit and
agricultural land In western and
southern Oregon. The government
alleges that the land Is worth $40,
000,900, but T. B. Townsend, special
assistant to the attorney general, de
clared It wa worth approximately
$75,000,000.
The land was given to the rail
road by congress with a provision
that It be sold In small tracts to set
tlers, for not more than $2.60 per
acre. It Is explained that the com
pany violated Its agreement and sold
Urge acreage at advanced prices to
Individuals, and In consequence suit
to recover was started by the government.
UNIQUE DEVICE CAN
IRRIGATE BROAD ACRES
With a crowd lining the river
bank like rooters on the bleachers
i a Sunday ball game, the lrrlgatloirj
device of the Hydro-Patent Power
Company of Portland, which is lo
cated Just below the old power
house, gave a practical demonstra
tion Saturday last of Its ability to
pump water and lots of It.
, Norman R. Smith, a member of
the firm, who has had charge of In
stalling this demonstration plant, has
been busy with a crew of men for
the past six weeks on the novel de
vice, which floats on six pontoons
and with Its mysterious coll hoists
water to an elevation of 21 feet at
the rate of 100 gallons per minute.
The "current power transmuter,"
as It Is called, which Is lu fact an
endless chain of paddles fifty feet
long .supported by the pontoons. Is
driven by the velocity of the river
current, generating 2 horsepower,
with which power the "hydro pneu
matic elevator" or water coll, Is re
volved at the rate of some 12 revolu
t'ons per minute. As the coll Is but
partially submerged the upper half
fills with air and the revolving of
the coll elevates the vater by air
pressure.
Principle of Device
The principle of the device Is put
ting air pressure against water for
lifting the latter and Is purely a
matter of nice calculation and dates
back hundreds of years, but to
harness It to the river and thus force
Dame Nature to supply water for
lands she had planned to leave un-
watered Is another thing, and re
mained for Mr. Smith and his asso
ciates to perfect and patent.
Not only Is the device an apparent
success for supplying power" and
water for Irrigation, but it Is claimed'
that the ."current power tranBmuter"
will give any degree of horsepower,
depending upon the length of the
endless chain of paddles, for the gen
eration of electricity or for other
uses.
Moored by cables to the river
bank, floating on scows that rlRe and
fall with the rise and fall of the
river, the big' endless chain of pad
dles, turned by the velocity of the
river current, the arrangement Is
simplicity Itself, needing no care oth
er than to start and stop as desired,
and entailing no cost outside of the
wear and tear of Its simple larts.
which Is next to nothing. As Ten
nyson's "brook," It goes on forever,
eliminating expensive machinery.
need of water right, employment of
help and the non-use of fuel or dams
for generating power. The state
charges the Insignificant fee of 75
cents per horsepower generated from
the river and the owners of the pat
ent claim that the plant on exhibi
tion will pump three gallons of water
per minute to the acre on a forty
acre tract, which Is "sufficient for
alfalfa.
Mr. Smith left Saturday nlnht for
Pasco, Vsh., where he has installed
a plant with a pumping capacity of
2000 gallons per minute, elevating
the water i70 feet. A larger plant
for parties here Is now In the course
of construction and some three or
four others have been ordered by
ranchers living up and down the river
which will be used for Irrigation,
Watch and Stranger Missing
Frank Frost, of Selma, was In town
Monday looking after business mat
ters. He spent the night here,
stopping at the Grants Pass rooming
house on South Sixth street. The
room In which the young man slept
contained two beds, one being oc
cupied by Frost, the other by a man
named Smith, employed at the Wil
liams Brothers' factory. When Mr.
Smith came to the room Monday
evening he brought with him a man.
a stranger In town, to share his bed,
as the stranger wbs unable to secure
a room elsewhere. Mr. Frost arose
early Tuesday morning and atarted
on hi return home to Selma. After
he arrived at the stable to get his
team he reached for his wttrh and
found It missing. He at once notified
Marnhal McLane, but up to the pres
ent the watch has not been located.
The MranH-r v. ho shared the room
In also mining and efforto are being
made to locate him. It Is belie ved he
may be able to throw some light on
the subject.
PAPER MILLS ARE
HEADED THIS WAY
LOS ANGELES FIRM WRITES FOR
INFORMATION
ttUCH RAW MATERIAL HERE
Conditions are Ideal for Power and
Water, with Plenty of Trees
Suitable for Pulp
Secretary H. L. Andrews of the
Comm'ercial club has received a let
ter from a legal firm in Los Angeles
stating that the firm has a client
there who believes that from what
he has read of Grants Pass and con
tiguous territory that this region is
cne such as he is seeking in which
to establish a wood pulp and paper
manufacturing plant, and the attor
neys ask Secretary Andrews to fur
nish all possible data regarding
quantity, quality and species of tim
ber, water power, transportation and
ether information bearing on the
subject.
The Los-Angeles man, so states
the letter, Is a reader of The Cour
ler, and from this paper he has gain'
ed much Information, or enough to
lead him to believe that Grants Pass
is the proper place to establish a
paper manufacturing Industry. Sec
retary Andrews will gather the data
nnd forward It to the Los Angeles
correspondents; at the same time In
viting these people to como to Grants
Pass and go over this territory.
I would seem that this region Is
one certainly favorable to paper man
ufacture. While spruce is preferred
by manufacturers, yet this timber
does not exist In the west In suffici
ent quantity, and other conifer
species are used. This puts Grants
Pass in the midst of a large area of
avallabe wood for pulp. Eastern
manufacturers working up spruce are
now confined mostly to the upper
peninsula in Michigan and to Maine,
and It is a long haul for the manu
factured product from Maine and
Michigan to Oregon and to other Pa
cific coast states. Hence It no doubt
Is argued by the Los Angeles cap
italist that a plant established here
to work up pine and fir and other
conifer species would pay handsome
dividends, provided water and cheap
power were available, and both water
and cheap power are here and In
such quantity as to suit the most
exacting Industry.
While It is true, ns stated here
tofore, that not sufficient spruce ex
ists In the wjotern states to supply
paper mills, yet in the Leland. Wolf
Creek and Swede Basin regions con
siderable spruce exists.
Vast forests of conifer species ex
let In the Grants Pass territory and
can be made easily available. Clim
atic conditions also are such that
to Industry will suffer on account of
heBt or cold.
There Is a paper plant at Oregon
City, the Crown mills, located on the
Willamette, and one at Camas,
Wash., Just across the Orogon line
on the north bank of the Colum
bia. These two mills are busy plants,
but they are not able to supply the
raciflc coast with the various grades
and kinds of paper used, and the
amount shipped Into Oregon, Wash
ington and California each year
amounts to a vast tonnage. Not one,
but a numbor of paper manufactur
ing plants are neoled to supply the
heavy demand, Including that In Ida
bo, Nevada and other western states.
All of the available data regard
ing the Grants Pass Industry will be
forwarded to the California Investor
and the matter will be taken up by
the Commercial club In earnest, and
every facility offered the Callfornlan
In his Investigations.
Farts on the Indnrtry
Manufacture of paper from wood
pulp dates back to only about 1870,
Indeed Its general adoption may be
referred to 10 years later. Varieties
of paper manufactured are chiefly
of the following four classes: (1)
News and printing papers; (2) writ
ing papers of various kinds; (3)
wrapping or parking papers, brown
PLANS FOR ROSE .
FESTIVAL IN JUNE I
The Ladles' Auxiliary of the Com
mercial club met last night with the
committees having in charge ar
rangements for the row festival The
meeting was at the club rooms and
was a most enthusiastic one. . It was
decided to have a one-day festival,
with the rose show the same even
ing. The following evening will
come the festival ball.
Date for the event was left open,
and will be decided when i. is known
Just when the roses will be In glori
ous bloom. .
The prog'ram has been arranged
as follows:
Afternoon Parade
Grand opening of rose show.
"Garden of Roses," entertainment
from 8 to 9-o'clock In the evening
at the opera house.
Rose show from 9 to 11 o'clock,
at which many residents will compote
for prizes.
Second evening, grand ball.
List of Committees
The personnel of the committees
In charge of the festival are:
Soliciting First ward: Helen Hall
and Evelyn Conklyn.
Second wardr Mrs. E. L. Churchill
and Mrs. H. C. Hall.
Third ward: Mrs. Stlnebaugh and
Mrs. Walter Coutant.
Fourth ward: Mrs. Albert Even-
son and Mrs. Gunning.
Prizes Mrs. Herrlck, Mrs. Kemp,
Miss Maston, Mr. Jester.
Street Decorating 8. Baker, T. P.
Cramer, R. L. Coe.
Hall Decorating Mrs. A. W. Bart
lett, Mrs. R. L. Coo, Mrs. H. C. Kin
ney, Mrs. J. O. RIggs, Mrs Oldlng.
Mrs. A. B. Cornell, Mrs Cheshire.
Entries Mrs. R. L. Fromme, Mrs.
Clevenger, Miss Ethel Bartlett. Prof.
Turner, Mrs. Norton, Judge Hale.
Refreshments Mrs. W. R. Mc
Cracken. Auto Mr. Myers, Mr. Herman,
Frank McLean, Paul Kinney.
Finance and Hall Fred Williams
and J. E. Hair.
Parade H. C. Kinney, E.
Hatb, Mrs. Roy Bartlett, Mrs. Dun
bar, Mrs. M. C. Ament.
Advertising Mrs. Woodward.
Miss C. Doerncr, Mrs. Donnell, Mrs.
C. H. Demaray, Mr. Voorhtes. Mr.
Donnell.
Program Miss Susie Bannard,
Mrs. J. E. Hair, Mrs. H. L. Starr.
Mrs. Satchwell, Mrs. Tom Fuson.
R. Thomas Injured
R. Thomas received a very serious
Injury to his left eye Saturday fore
noon at about 11 o'clock. He was
driving a nail when a piece of the
steel flew and lodged In the eyeball,
making a severe wound. Mr. Thomas
was brought to the city and Dr. Find-
ley removed the steel. Mr. Thomas
13 suffering Intense patn, but It la
probable that the slsht of the eye
will not be permanently Injured.
Work Progressing at Penn-Oregon
N. E. Townsend came In from the
Penn-Oregon ranch on Saturday and
reports everything O. K. They have
completed a new flume across Blate
creek, put up 200 rods of wire fence
and leveled and prepared 100 acres
for alfalfa. A ton of alfalfa seed
was delivered at the ranch on Friday
for seeding this land. The 200 acres
In wheat and oats looks fine.
and purple, heavy manlla for cart
ridges and bags; (4) miscellaneous,
such as light copying, tlxsue, pot
tery, blotting and other special
kinds. Last there are all kinds of
cardboards and millboards made.
The principal kinds of papers em-
braco 2,000 names of various kinds.
In the United States great prog
ress has been made In paper manu
facture. The first mill was estab
lished In 1690 on ground now In
cluded In Philadelphia. In 1840
there were In the I'nlted States 426
mills; In 1860 there were 500, and ut
present the numbor Is near 1,500.
In Great Britain and continental
Europe there are more than 3,000
mills, 19 In Asia, four In Africa,
seven In Australia, making 6,000
mills In the world. Tho production
of hand-made paper In China and
Japan Is Impossible to estimate, but
It Is lu the aggregate tremendous.
The greatest part of the paper now
manufactured In the world, at least
three-fourths. Is believed to be used
for printing
ENGINE
CROSSES
NEW RY. BRIDGE
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS ARE
PASSENGERS FIRST TRIP
RAPID CONSTRUCTION WORK
Additional Equipment is Being
Arranged for in the Eiut
By President
At 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the
60-ton locomotive of the Grants Pass
and Rogue River railroad, crowded
with citizens and officials of Grants
Pass, made Its first trip across the
long bridge Just completed over
Rogue river. It was an enthusiastic
party that crowded the pilot and all
over the engine, and when the loco
motive reached the south end the en
gineer gave three triumphant blasts
of the whistle, everybody gave three
cheers, the stationary engine on the
south bank answered with three
blasts of its lively whistle aud the
Grants Pass & Rogue River railroad
bridge across the far-famed stream
was declared ready for business.
Construction work to the south
will now move rapidly as a result of
the opening for trains by the long
bridge, which measures 735 feet.
The party which made the trip
across the river today on the loco
motive was composed of the follow
ing: S. H. Rlgga, J. O. RIggs and
George RIggs (of Portland), J. R.
Cunningham, O. S. Sabin, Judge Op-
dycke, Mayor Meyers, Earl Slagle (of
Coqu'llle), Engineer Campbell, In
charge of construction of the bridge,
Locomotive Engineer E. 8. Gear
dorff, Fireman A. B. Coe and repre
sentatives of The Courier.
A number of other residents of
tho city were congregated at the
scene to witness the first trip of the
engine.
As stated In The Courier Sunday,
President Bowon is en route to Chic
ago, where he will arrange for ad
ditional equipment. Grading will be
continued wltth all speed and not
many months hfnee this road will
have opened to Giants Pasn wide ter
ritory as fertile nnd as rich In na
tural resources as exlnts In the en
tire west. Rich Williams valley and
the Applegate country will soon be
In touch wHh this city, and commer
cial life, and all other lines of en
deavor, already feels the thrill of
Inrper life.
DEATH OF MRS. PERRY.
In the death of Mrs. Thomas Perry,
which occurred Tuesday morning as
a result of pneumonia fever, another
pioneer woman of Oregon crossed
the great divide.
Mrs. Perry was born at St. Clair.
Mich., December 81, 1844. May-18,
1859, she was, married to Thomas
Perry at Detroit, and In the same
ear crossed the plains by ox team,
indlng at Horny Lake valley In Las
en county, Cal., In the fall of 1851.
Ihortly after this they came to Ore
ton. For many yearn Mri. Perry
oad been a resident of Grants Pass.
Twelve children were born, eight
of whom are still living. They are:
Mrs. Mary Walker, of Gold Hill;
Mrs. . Anna Caslhalt, WaKsbnrg,
Wash., Mrs. Carrie Arnold, Dixie.
Wash ; Chester Terry, Walla Walla.
Wash., and J. J. Perry, Mrs. Llllls
Lewis, Mrs. C. P. Smith, Mrs. Mae
Simons, all of Grant Pass. Mrs,
Perry Is also survived by her hus-
tand. Thomas Perry, and one broth
er, George H. Williams.
Mrs. Perry was a loving wife and
mother and her osth Is deplored by
a wide circle of friends.
Funeral service will be held at
the residence, 20 Burgess street,
Thnrsdav afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
F. M. Brooke, of the Christian
church, will officiate,
The most completely .-qulppoj
studio In the state of Oregon. Special
opportunities for a f'w more piano
students. 806 'i North Sixth street
over Hall's Art rtore.) 189
POULTRY FANCIERS
TO FORM ASSOCIATION
The Southern Oregon Poultry as
sociation is in process of formation,
with Grants Paw fanciers and breed
ers to form an influential elemoi.t
In the organisation. D. M. Lowe, of
Ashland, and Deputy County Clerk
E. S. Veatch yesterday were round
ing up the poultry men and womea
of the city, and the two gentlemen
met hearty welcome and earnoot
promises of co-operation.
Tho proposed association origin
ated at Ashland, where already la
excess of 100 persona are enrolled.
Mr. Lowe was chosen as presldont
of the organization hoard. His visit
here was for the purpose of entitl
ing Grants Pass, and a meeting haa
been called for 3 o'clock Saturday at
the Commercial club rooms, to which
every person In the city interested in
poultry la urged to attend. Whether
one owub only a few chickens, oV
many, or for that matter none at all.
he or she is welcome, so long as tho
matter is of interest to the visitor.
Mr. Lowe stated that the other
towns between Grants Pass and Ash
land, with the possible exception of
Medford, were Interested and a flna
membership will result. . Merlin also
win get in In earnest, also other com
munltles In this territory. Mr.
Lowe stated that Medford people will
do given an Invitation to come In aud
would add considerable strength to
the organization If they will Join with
the other towns, but he thought that
taking as a criterion past indiffer
ence of the Medford people to any
thing which the other towns pro
moted that he did not believe results
there would be of an encouraging
nature. Nevertheless, It Is the Inten
tion of the promoters of tho organ
ization to form a strong 'association
in southern Oregon. There Is a
large number of persona Interested
In poultry breeding In the proposed
territory and success is already as
sured. It Is thevlntontlon to give a
poultry exhibit at Grants Pass one
year, at Ashland the next, and at the
other towns at Intervals, so that all
may profit.
Deputy Veatch has a copy of the
proposed by-laws and any one in- -
terested may read It over, and also
get further Information from Mr.
Veatch.
Mr. Lowe was formerly a resldont
of Petaluma, the great poultry dis
trict of California, and he Is a man
possessing rich knowledge of the In-
dustry. At the meeting In Grants
Pass Saturday. afternoon he will ex
plain to the assembled poultry fan
ciers an outline of the plans of the
proposed organization, and will rive
his hearers some valuable Informa
tion on breeding and rearing chick
ens.
Mr. Lowe was the Ashland enthu-
slast who last fall brought to Grants
Pnss the Ashland exhibit at the fair.
At that time he had only been a re
sident of Ashland for a brief period,
but his energy and his knowledge
of such matters was quickly recog
nized by Ashland business men and
orchardlsts and to Mr. Lowe they
turned over everything. Then he dis
covered that no appropriation had
been made by the Ashland neonle
for a poultry exhibit. He protested '
vigorously and declared that If ther
was no money forthcoming for this
that he would p?y for It all out or
his own pursi. He got the appro
priation and to spare, and brought
to Grants Pass with the other Ash
land products a genwous number
of fine blooded chickens.
Grants Pass formerly had a poul
try organization, but It was allowed
to become defunct, and the breeders
and lovers of birds generally now
see a chance for a permanent and
strong organization, and no doubt
Ihe club rooms will be filled Satur
day afternoon with an enthusiastic
group of breeders, both treat and
small.
MlwloiiAry Convention
The annual convention of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society
of the M. E. church for the Klamath
district will be held at the Newman
M. E. church on Thursday and Fri
day, April 27 and 28. The program
hns been Issued and Includes many
topics of especial Interest handled by
those who are well versed In the var
ious lines,