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GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNE 2.3, 1911
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MINING
CONGRESS
CONVENES JULY 18
GRANTS PASS WILL BE MECCA OF
ALL MINING MEN.
COMMITTEES ARE WORKING
W. B. Sherman Offers Use of the Old
Bishop Store for Mining
Exhibit.
FRUIT INSPECTOR AD- kmk PF KM S V
VISES SPRAYING NO W i un ' . . : " ' '
IU UUILU IU b.f.
The people of Graits Pass tbla
year are fortunate In having numer
ous Important occasions to celebrate.
The rose festival, the Irrigation ex
cursion and stockholders' meeting
were pulled off only a few days ago.
Now comes the crowning event which
is to attract attention from near and
far, and that Is, the mining congress
which is scheduled for July 18. Grants
Pass is to have people here from every
portion of the district which embraces
southern Oregon and northern Call
firnla. The section mentioned 4s the
richest mining country to be found
anywhere. There are a large number
of miners In the territory and many
paying mines. These conditions Insure
a popular gathering at the congress,
and people of this city will do well to
get ready to entertain delegates from
other states, particularly from Ne
vada, Arizona, Colorado, Montana,
Washington and the mining districts
of eastern Oregon.
The Commercial club has the mat
ter In hand of making ready for the
congress and this is an undertaking
of large magnitude. Consequently,
the club will need the help of not on
ly every business and professional
man In this city city but live, energet
ic people of the various mining dis
tricts. The committees who are to
do the work for tfco congress have
been appointed and some of them are
- hard at work at this time, nnd others
will be In a day or two. Secretary
Andrews Is now looking after details
of the congress and writing letters
of Invitation to a large number of
mining engineers nnd mining men.
Ho Is also looking after the various
committees and urging forward the
work these may have in hand. Much
devolves upon tho citizens of Grants
Pass, as it will be lmriosBlble to have
a successful meeting here without the
loyal support of our home city.
There are only 24 days remaining
before the congress meets, hence It
will be Been that everybody must be
up and doing. The reputation of
Grants Pass is at stake and, therefore,
nil must work to make the event a
credit to the city.
The committee having In charge
the gathering of exhibits for the mln
la? congress is busily engaged and
report that miners and prospectors of
Josephine county are taking much in
terest in the coming exhibition.
Sub committees for each district
have been appointed as follows:
Kerby and Wa do W. 9. Bacon, F.
Tomek.
J u oip-Off-Joe Geo. E. Howland.
Gallce J. C Mattlson.
Merlin W. M. Richards.
Hugo II. F.'Mctellan, C. W. Trip
led.
Williams and Missouri Flat John
Hi.lley.
Murphy Frank Capp.
Holland and Sucker Creek Jack
S" -ck.
Medford It. L. Ray.
Ashland 0. L. Young.
' Leland H. L. Wilson.
Gold Hill Joe Bfcman, George
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Woodvllle Ed Thompson.
Jacksonville Theodore Cameron.
Etna Mills and Northern California
I. J. Luce.
The committee has been offered the
imc of the ground floor of the Albert
bui'dlng by W. n. Sherman for the
r, Inlne exhibit. This Is by far the
host location in town as the jplcndtd
plate gins front r:ll! be an admirable
place for the rich spe- Imcn rock.
Hence nil exhibit should be sent to
or delivered nt thN bulMhr, opposite
the post of'l''P.
In going over the orchards I find
many who have failed to spray with
Arsenate of Lead, for codling moth.
To have clean fruit you must spray
according to directions. All who have
sprayed should do bo again as Soon
as the rain Is over as the rain will
wash off the primary application.
The fruit crop is not large this year
and all who can put clean fruit into
the market will get a good price for it.
While through neglecting to spray
they cannot market their fruit at all.
Watch your trees closely for signs of
blight. There is considerable of it
in the country, small cases, but you
easily eradicate this pest by keeping
a strict watch over your orchards.
Cut out all cases well below the ef
fected part and burn them. Be care
ful not to inoculate healthy branches
by cutting into them with Infected
knives.
In spraying for codling moth, use
IVi pounds of Lead to 50 gallons of
water and apply thoroughly.
SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM SAN
FRANCISCO ANNOUNCES
TO EXTEND TRINIDAD LINE
A BIG COLONY MAY
SOON LOCATE HERE
Scenic Line Up Coast to Crescent City
Then to Grants Pass, Then
on Southern Pacific-
WANT SCENIC BOULEVARD
DOWN ROGUE RIVER
"I wish we could interest every
body in a plan to construe: a scenic
boulevard down the river on this
side," Bald City Councilman II. L.
Herzinger toa representative of The
Courier, and he continued:
"We are not utilizing our advant
ages and natural attractions. If
some other towns had what we have
here in the way of this river the
people would see to it that boule
vard ten or a dozen miles in length
was built along its banks. That is
what we should do, the city starting
the work and the county taking It
up.
"What a fine thing it would be
If on aitfo road was running along
the river ten miles down. Then the
liome people and visitors could take
I a ical Joy spin over It, swing around
Into the other road on the return. I
r.m sure the property owners down
the river with holdings bordering on
the stream wquld gladly co-operate.
It would iucrease their property in
va'.iio many rold ana at the same
time give them a royal road into
Grants Pass.
"Tho matter has been dlBcussed in
formally In the council, and at no
distant day we hope to be able to
taiie some definite steps to create a
boulevard from tho bridge down to
the city limits. Then we hope the
county commissioners will take ac
tive interest. In this way Grants
Pass and that portion of the county
would be greatly benefited. ' We
Lave in the Rogue, one of the most
beautiful streams in the northwest,
but we are not taking advantage of
vhat is ours."
J. F. BURKE,
County Fruit Inspector.
A United Press dispatch to The
Courier Tuesday stated that the
Northwestern railroad may come
from Crescent City to Grants Pass.
The following special from San Fran
cisco to the Portland Oregonian,
states that the road will be built to
Grants Pass. Just how authorita
tive the statement is, is not known,
but it is given as a fact. The report
to the Portland paper follows:
SAN FRANCISCO, June 20.
(Special.) San Francisco and Port
land will soon be linked by another
railroad, announcement of which
was made today. The Northwestern,
vhlch now operates from San Fran
Cisco to Willltts, will on July 1 ope
rate trains from Eureka to Trinidad
bv wav of Areata ana" Samoa. This
extension of service will be accomp
llshed by the ' taking over by the
Northwestern of over 20 miles of the
rond, now operated by the Hammond
Lumber company from Areata to
Trinidad. Thus will be Initiated a
project to build a railroad from Trln
Idnd to Portland.
"The line as now surveyed will
fo'low the California coast to Cres
A brief speech, which was of much
Importance to the Rogue River Orch
ard company in particular and to
Grants Pass in general, was delivered
yesterday at the club house on the
orchard company's land, when Dr.
Ludwlg LeBsing-Bolgar, of Berlin, ad
dressed a dinner party. The fact was
developed that the speaker comes
seeking a tract to colonize 100 fam
ilies of Hungarian ancestry, none of
which has less than $2,000 cash to
invest. The sum of $2,000 is the
minimum and some heads of fam
ilies have more than that for Invest
ment. They are a substantial, clean
lot of people and will prove a valua
ble addition to Josephine county if
their agent succeeds in finding what
he wants here, and from what he said
it seems almost a certainty that he
will locate his people In this vicin
ity.
The occasion was a dinner given by
W. B. Sherman In honor of Roscoe
Kroh. Present at the feast in addl
Hon to the two named were
Dr. Ludwlg Lesslng-Bolgar, of Ber
lin; J. H. Morris, H. R. Moses, A. D.
Averlll, a banker of Kansas City;
F. W. Crockett, banker, Des Moines;
F. M. Holllngshead, Norton, Kas.; W.
C. Mason, Berkeley, Cal.; E. D. Wil
liams, George H. Ward of Grants
Pass and Tonopah; F. O. Cutler, of
Giants Pass and Seattle.
It was a merry feast and Mr. Sher
man proved a gracious host. Several
brief addresses were made, and when
Dr. Lesslng-Bolgar took the floor he
disclosed his mission here. He came
primarily to see lands offered by Mr,
Sherman. He has been shown several
tracts by Sherman and was so pleas
ed with one that he declared It suited
him personally, and has sent for his
land expert to pass upon it. If ac
cepted 100 families will occupy the
tract.
The visitor represents more than
He has already
COAST DELEGATION
VISITS THIS VALLEY
STUDYING STREET AND ROAD
IMPROVEMENT.
CLUBS BOOST FOR HARBOR
Medford Joins With Grants Pass In
Sending Resolutions to Col
onel Bldtllo.
Whereas we are Informed that yon
have been furnished with reliable data
as to the vast are to be benefited,
and the traffic which would certainly'
develop upon the completion of said
proposed Improvement;
Therefor it is resolved by the
Grants Pass Commercial club, that
you be requested to use your best of
fices in our behalf to the end that
your department allow a sufficient ap
propriation for a thorough Investiga
tion and survey for the location of a
suitable harbor In the vicinity of
Crescent City In Del Norte county,
California, and thereby confer an In
estimable benefit upon a large num
ber of our citizens. We are,
Yours very respectfully,
Grants Pass Commercial Club,
GEO. C. SABIN,
President
H. L. ANDREWS,
Secretary.
tent City, a seaport In the extreme
northwestern part of the state. From i the 100 families.
Crescent City it will diverge Inland placed several hundred at other points
to Grants Pass. Ore. In the west.
"It will be necessary to tunnel the
Slsklyous, and much costly engineer
ing Is said to be Involved. Leaving
Giants Pass the line will follow the
main Southern Pacific line to Port
land.
"It Is designed primarily to be a
scenic route! The Northwestern Is
owned Jointly by the Santa Fe and
the Southern Pacific. Surveys and
estimates for the Trinidad to Port
land line have been passed upon by
Fonthern Pacific and .Santa Fe offi
clnh and work will be rushed.
"The Arcata-Trlnldad line is own
ed by the Northwestern and has been
i.nder lease to the Hammond Lumber
company."
Quartz and Placer Blank
The correct form of quartz and pla
cer location notices are on sale at
The Courier office; 25c for 6; 40c
PREPARING TO PAVE
UPPER SIXTH STREET
Workmen began Wednesday pre
paring North Sixth street for paving.
The pavement will be extended to
Orchard avenue. Other streets will
also soon bo transformed from dirt
mads to smooth thoroughfares.
, Sewer work over this city Is press
ing, nnd within a few more weeks
Grants Pass will have completed
much Improvement since the city
council let the contracts a few weeks
ago. '
Mining Mii
Wright's Mining Map of Southern
Oregon and Northern California can
be secured at The Courier office,
W'T dozen.
231tf $1.50 for either wall or pocket bIzo.
Come and buy your flrhlnc trrkle
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The Crescent City delegation Is
out to look up methods of street Im
provement, something they Intend to
do in the seacoast town. Also In their
travels they are urging co-operation
3f Grants Pass and Josephine county
with their county for the purpose of
constructing a modern highway from
Crescent City to Grants Pass. Judge
Childa on Wednesday said to The
Courier:
"We feel that the city needs lmprov-
snt we need new and better
roads and these gontlemen are out
looking over the cities of southern
Oregon studying the different mater
ial for street and road work, and at
Grants Pass, In particular, we are
here to try to Interest the people In
the proposition of buildlng an up-to-
date thoroughfare or boulevard from
Grants Pass to Crescent City.
The gentlemen in our company be
lieve that the people of Del Norte
county would vote a bond issue suf
ficlently large to build a first-class
thoroughfare from CreBeent City to
the state line provldod Josephine
county would obligate itself to build
a road of the same character from
the state line to Grants Tass. We
hope to meet tho commissioners of
Josephine county to consult with them
In relation to this matter In partlcu
lor. and other matters of mutual In
forest In general.
"The Grants Pass Commercial
c'.ub was very kind to us this morn
Ing In taking us to the various parts
of the city, to tho school buildings
Including your elegant high school
and tho Golden Drift dam, which will
supply Irrigation to your rich valley.
Judge Childa Bays he will remal
in this section for some weeks work
Ins In tho interest of tho proposed
hnrbor nt Crescent City or Woolley-
port,' either site being satisfactory to
tho Crescent City people, as It Is
harbor they want, and not contention
over any particular site.
Thomas Duffy, president of the
Crescent City Commercial club; C
McLaughlin, E. E. KUgore, A. Zalc
tho last three members of the trus
tHJ8 of the club; Thomas Pencock
supervisor of Del Norte county, and
John L. Chllds, Judge or the superior
court, Del Norte county, left Crescent
City Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock
n:id arrived here at C o'clock by auto
nlage.
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Grants Pass Commercial club and
the Commercial club at Medford have
sent In the following resolutions urg
ing the federal government to create
a harbor at or nenr Crescont City
Tho resolutions of Grants Pass art
es follows:
Grnnts Pass, Oregon, June 6, 1911.,
To Colonel John Diddle,
Engineer, U. S. War Department.
San Francisco.
Dear Sir -Whereas a preliminary
examination of the harbor In the vic
inity of Crescent City, located In Del
Norte county, California, has recent
ly been made by you and,
Whereas, the southern portion of
th state of Oregon containing up
wards of r.0,000 persons Is without an
cutlet to water transportation and
the development of the resources re-
tnrded thereby; being absolutely do
pmdent upon a single line of rallrond
for the carrying of our products, and
Whereas the completion of the Pan
iimn rnnnl In the nenr future Will
plnrn iii commercially at a dlsad
v!!itnce union wn have access there
to br wnv of a hnrbor at a nearby
nclrt on the conxt. rnd
Whereas the construction of a bar
fnr on the rnnof would Induce the
biii'dlnn; of rnltrondi to connect lis
therewith, and
Medford Resolutions.
Medford Commercial club sent la
the following:
Whereas, the vast empire of south
ern Oregon, containing within Its do
main unlimited resources of agricul
ture, horticulture, mines and forests,
Is without any of the advantages of
a nearby sea port from which to car
ry Its products to the great market!
of the world, and being situated
about half way between the metropolis
of Portland at the north and that of
San Francisco' to the south, is large
ly held at the mercy of the only lint
of transportation that has yet pea-
titrated Its valleys and
Whereas, nature has offered to the
paople of this empire of wealth unus
ual facilities for a seaport harbor at
or near Crescent City in the county
of Del Norte, California, a harbor,
which, by a liberal expenditure of
money on the part of the general gov
ernment, would add untold benefits
to all of northern California and
southern Oregon, and would enable
these localities to develop their many
resources, and
Whereas, a continental line of rail-
mad Is now building southwardly
through the region of middle Oregon
and nppronchlng the eastern slope of
the Cnscado range which borders
southwestern Oregon, and said line
when completed will connect with the
Pacific & Eastern railroad, which
runs enstwardly from Medford and la
owned by tho Great Northern rail
road system, and
Whereas, there are now planted to
apples and pears In Rogue river val
ley moro than 75,000 acres, which, at
a conservative estimate, will, when In
full bearing, furnish one carload of
fruit per annum for every acre, and
Whereas, In the upper Rogue riv
er country, and In all that vast re
gion lying on the immediate western
slope of the Cascade mountains in
southern Oregon, Is tho largest body
of sugar pine timber in the world,
estimated to contain, with the other
timbers of southern Oregon, 60,000,
000 feet of merchantable tlmbor, and
Whereas, aside from the valuable
deposits of gold, both In placer and
quartz, which are known to exist la
southern Oregon and along the !m
mediate northern boundary line of
California, and which havo already
ndded $50,000,000 to tho wealth of
tho United Slates, are alBo vast de
posits of coppor.that cannot bo oper
ated without transportation facilities,
a tiotnbla Instance of which Is the
llluo Ledge Copper mine, having al
ready blocked out moro than 10,000
tons of rich copper ore which can only
be worked when there are proper
ransportatlon fncllltles In tho shlp
.ent of Its productions, therefore,
Bo It resolved, by the Medford
Commercial club that we most heart
ily endorse the proposition of lend
ing nil our energies and support to
ward Inducing the general govern
ment to make liberal appropriation!
for tho development of harbor facili
ties at or near Crescent City, Califor
nia, and we most heartily commend
the efforts which are being made by
tho people living at or near Crescent
City, and In the valleys and on the
thornughfares from this part of Ore-
Kon to that seaport, In trying to se
cure national nld to this enterprise,
and wo nrtte our representatives In
regret t0 tdve thin matter their
most nrneut. conHldorntlon.
WM. M. COLVIG,
President.
GEO. BOOB,
Secretary,