vol. xxvn.
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1011.
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WILLIAMS
GRANGE
1ST ANNUAL FAIR
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY,
TEMBER, 27-28.
SEP-
COMPLETE PREMIUM LIST
Friday I s Sot Aside as Grants Pass
Day Many Will Go From Here.
Good Time Assured.
Next week, Thursday and Friday,
September 28and 29, will be big
days on Williams creek for those are
the days on which the Grange fair
will be held their First Annual
Fair. They are making elaborate
preparations for the event and it
will, no doubt, be one of the events
of the season. Friday has been des
ignated as Grants Pass day and they
have made preparations for welcom
ing a large number of Grants Pass
people.
Following Is the list of premiums
so far as it has been made out:
LIST OF PRIZES.
Best individual display from any
one farm, $10 cash and a $3.00 hat
from Geo. S. Calhoun.
Best bushel of potatoes, B-tooth
cultivator, Jewell Hardware company,
Best bushel of onions, $4.00,
.Southern Oregon Supply company.
Best five onions, one year's sub
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scriptlon to Weekly Courier.
Best five parsnips, $1.50 .
Best five carrots, $1.50.
Best five beets, $1.50.
Best display of grain in the sheath,
$3.50 hat from Bishop Clothing com
pany. Best five ears of corn, one year's
subscription to Weekly Courier.
Best five stalks of corn, $1.50.
Best five stalks of sorghum, $1.50.
Best head of kale', $1.50.
' Best cabbage, $1.00.
Best five tomatoes,. $1.00.
Best pumpkin, $1.00.
Best squash, one year's subscrip
tion to The Weekly Courier.
Besfdisplay of fruit, one year's
subscription to the Dally Rogue River
Courier.
Best five Spltzenberg apples, fruit
picker. Rogue River Hardware Co.
Best five Baldwin apples, $1.00.
Best five Newtown Pippin apples,
one year's subscription to The Ob
server. .
Best Ben Davis apples, $1.00.
Best five Bartlett pears, $1.0o.
Best five round pears, $1.00.
Best five pears of any kind, $1.00.
Best five peaches of any kind. $1.01
Best five plums of any kind, $1.00
Best five prunes of any kind, $1.00.
Best display of crapes, all kinds,
$5.00.
Ponltry.
Best trio of Plymouth Rocks. $1."n.
Bost trio of Whit" Leghorn. $1 0V
Best trio of Brown Leghorns,
$1.00.
Best trio f Buff Leghorns, $1.00.
Best trln of Rhode Island Reds.
$1.00.
Best trio of Orpingtons. J1.no.
Best ducks of any kind. $100.
Best goose, $1.0".
Best turkey, $1.00.
Art.
Best painting, mirror, M. Clemens.
Best drawing in pencil, dictionary,
M. Clemens.
Best drawing In pen. fountain pen
cil, A. Itchor.
Bfst amateur photograpny. 12
best scenes, 12 photo mounts, Row
ell's music store.
Best cellectlon of Interest, natural
$1.00.
Best collection of Interest, man
ual. $1.00.
Domestic rrodnrt.
Best collection of cooking, cook
book, M. Clemens.
Bert cake of any kind, rake plate.
James Elover.
Best loaf of white bread, cno sack
of Blue Ribbon flour. Cluu Phmtdt
Rent loaf of brown bread. ark of
whole wheat flour, Gibson grocery.
Best pies, doughnut and rookie,
three pound can of coffee, C. F. Plx
on.
Best collection, of Jc'.llea nt ran-
VETERANS OF AVAL ;
WAR IN REUNION
The Southern Oregon Soldiers and
Sailors' Reunion association's 19th
annual encampment that was held at
Woodvtlle las week had an at
tendance of 90 veterans as against
130 at the last encampment a year
ago. Taps has sounded for many of
the veterans during the year and
others were prevented from attend
ance by Infirmity of declining years.
Most of the members of the associ
ation are civil war veterans, a few
fought In the southern' Oregon Indian
wars in the fifties, two served In the
Mexican war, while three or four
chased Tagalogs in the Philippines.
The annual election of officers,
which was held Thursday resulted as
follows: B. S. Grant, Grants Pass,
colonel commandlng;Wllllam M. Mor
ris, Rock Point, lieutenant colonel;
J. M. Hazelwood, Woodvllle, major;
Mrs. John Patrick, Grants Pass, chap
lain. The retiring officers are: Isaac
Woolfle, Medford, colonel command
ing; W. F. Shaffer, Gold Hill, lieu
tenant colonel; Byron Beach, Ash
land, major; Rev. Robert McLean,
Grants Pass, chaplain.
v Comrades Adams, Myers and
White of Ashland, the association's
drum corps, two of whom served all
through the civil war In an Iowa reg
iment, were In attendance. They
played the old tunes over and over
and made music for the songs sung
around the camp fire each evening.
WHOLESALE MARKET
; SHIPS CAR FRIIT
The Wholesale Market Exchange
assembled and shipped out Saturday
tq the Salem market another car of
fancy fruit. Mr. Axtell states that
the growers are taking a great Inter
est in these mixed shipments, and
that the local market is being kept
clear Instead of becoming congested
as Is usual here at this season, and
always results in loss to the merchant
as well as the growers. Fruit In
spector ljurke passed on this car as
being one of the finest to leave this
district. It consisted of tomatoes,
canteloupes, grapes and nearly a
thousand boxes of peaches, part of
which were from the famous Dory
orchard.
The Misses "Nelle and Edna Calla
han left Tuesday evening for their
home at Dayton, O., going by way of
Portland, where they will stop sever
al days with friends- Mls3 Nelle Cal
lahan has spent the past two years
teaching in the Josephine county
(schools, but Miss Edna has been here
only during the summer. ,
nod fruits, any kind, fruit, picture,
L. B. Hall.
Dost, collection of needle work, sot
of sMssors, Grants Pass Hardware
Company.
Pest piece of embroidery, four
(hoots of music, Rowell's music
store.
Hest piece of plain sewing by hand
prize from Herbert Smith.
lj"-.t quilt, dress shoes from R. L.
Coo.
P.st sofa cushion, .-aso, Dt'inaray's
ftvng ftoro.
rtf-t peT of needle work by chll -
i!r"n under fourteen, book from S a-
bin's dnig store. .
Bet collection of flowers. North
Cross cultivator, T. P. Cramer.
Hest lndv equestrian, biik umorei -
la. Golden Rule store.
Best draft horse, $3.00 hat, Peer
lees clothing store.
Best horse and buggy, $'.00.
Best colt under one year, $5.00,
safety deposit box, First National
brink.
nnby wiew.
Pretties boy baby unde one year. rrpI).,n(? w01!ld tay tnat a of the
$2.?n gold nugget. GranM P"9,fleld mipii ete,( were burned up In
Banking and Trust company. ho fn that dPgtroye(i my Btoro
pettiest girl baby underone year, j Jarkgonvlllo on Jttnuary 18S4. so
$2.90 Eold nugget. Grants Pass . hav not a thlnjf to Rhow for
nankin and Trust company. (tffT of the CrMoenf CUv rnnd.
AN exhibits must be In place by 12 ! ... ' ... , ,.,
n" '"" i.t ,., they will tinnrove that
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nf Pontomber. Judglnr taks place ,
n 0 o'clock Friday, September zs.
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Baby show, 10 o'clock, a. m..
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Horse rr",1r"- ' o'clock p,
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Frldav evening In the pun-
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FrMar I
Grant Vat diy. Be-
,,.tl,ment on the found.
EARLY HISTORY GRANTS
PASS CRESCENT ROAD
Regarding the proposed smooth
highway from Grants Pass to Cres
cent City, and with particular refer
ence to an article by John A. Dale
published last Sunday In the Courier,
together with an editorial on the sub
ject, W. J. Wimer, one of the best
posted men on affairs in Josephine
county, gave The Courier Tuesday,
some interesting history on the road
matter, and explained the details of
an effort in the early 80's to build a
proper road from Grants Pass to the
city by the sea. Mr. Wimer, In 1881
sometime between 1880 and 1884
realized that something should be
done to get a real road. After con
siderable thought over the matter he
evolved the plan to call a mass meet
ing ot representatives of Josephine
county, Jackson county and Del
Norte county, California. He made
the call, it was a popular one, and
representatives or delegates came
from the three counties, and met in
mass meeting at Waldo. The result
was that It was decided to have a
survey made, and it was made by the
three counties and cost in the
neighborhood of $1,400. J. S. How
ard, the veteran civil engineer, now
a resident of Medfofd, was the chief
of the engineering corps, and chose
the same route Mr. Dale proposed In
his article of last Sunday. The sur
veying party was composed of from
14 to 16 men, and spent three or
four months In the work. Viewers
beat tlje hills In reconnotterlng for
the best and most feasible stretches of
roadway. The altitude mentioned by
Mr. Dale measures 3,100 feet, which
is at Howard summit, making a
climb of 1,500 feet from Waldo.
A route could be run on Elk creek,
which would probably be 500 feet
lower, though much new road would
bave to be constructed on this route.
It would lead through Elk Creek
valley.
Why Gasquet built his road over
the mountain was for the purpose of
forcing teamsters to stop at his place
and purchased his provender. Had the
run been made down Smith river, the
many valleys would have afforded
travelers chances to camp and to se
cure feed for teams and food for
themselves without stopping at Gas
quet's, hence Gasquet's successful
scheme to send the road over the
mountain and to make his station the
Mecca for all comers and goers.
The road proposed by the dele
gates to 'the mass meeting and sur
veyed by Mr. Howard never material
ized, though Wimer & Sons, one the
father, the other the brother of W.
I J. Wimer, with himself as one of the
j firm, built the six miles of road up
i the east hill In Josephine county to
j the state and county linos, a
'route which could not be selected
I elsewhere, and conducted it as a toll
road. This six miles co.st $0,000, or
$2,850 of this.
Later, W. J. Wimer
j & Sons gave this stretch of C mll"s
J to Gasquet on condition that he
I would build this way and conned
j Mr. Winer's road. Gasquet
j compiled with this, not the six miles
0f vond, and then on extending hi'
j rf)Rl westward, went over the hiiH
I mountain Instead of going down the
1 smith river' the gratlo of the 'x
miles of Wimer road Is one In Ifi.
, Mr. Wimer recently wrote to en
glnoer Howard 8t Medford, aflilng
that gentleman If lie still had the
field notes of the survey of the pro
posed road. Mr. Howard replied as
follows:
"My Dear Fried, W. J. Wimer:
"Yours of the 10th instant at hand,
.
road. If It Is done It will b the best
1 tii nil ii i u i ii riuiii tin in" i i iij-L. i ii' i u
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'i-hort that o-ight to be Improved.
I "Also I hope they will cut out that
portion f the present road from Pat-
I . . i. .i. ... ik
tick rroei i wnmrivn, " -
jroad down the creek and Smith rlverlJss. A. Johnson. Hr,, win. n. woou-
to GasTiiet'e. There will b muehlimry, onee posinmsier hi rrsrrm
' down Sivlth river that will not need
RICH
GOLD STRIKE
NEAR STEAMBOAT
JOHN AND FLOYD BAILEY F1N1
SPECIMEN ORE.
MORTARING IS PROFITABLE
Property Has lleeu Worked for
Number of Years. Ore Shows
lp Well.
This section Is again the scene of
a rich mining strike, this time at the
Afterthought mine, a property which
has been worked for several years by
Its owners, John R. and Floyd Bailey,
of this city. The mine Is located on
Thompson creek about 20 miles from
Grants Pass and one and a half miles
from Applegate post-office In the
same section of country and not many
miles distant from the once famous
Steamboat mine, which produced over
$600,000.
The owners have been for some
time tunneling in the lower of the two
levels and exposing ore running from
$200 to $500 per ton, but one day
last week they struck an exceptional
ly rich streak of specimen ore which
Is heavy with free gold. J. R. Bailey
was In the city a few days ago with a
considerable amount of the ore which
he displayed to friends and acquain
tances. This picture' rock is white
quartz literally heavy with metal and
shot full of free gold. It Is found In
a well defined contact between ande
site porphyry and slate and has ev
ery appearance of being a permanent
vein, and Is pronounced by many as
the most promising property In this
section.
Quite an amount of the rich ore
has been taken out and la being mor
tared out by hand as there Is no mill
within easy reach. While the vein,
which Is about 26 Inches In width, Is
not all specimen rock, there Is so
much that the free gold can easily be
seen from top to the bottom of the
drift. It Is found at a depth of about
50 feet.
Thia property was discovered by
the Baileys some years ago and sold
for $1,000 to a.man of small mining
experience who, after working It for
some time, became discouraged and
sold out to the present owners for
a fraction of the original price.
VllV.l) GlTDK SKKVICK
AT ORIXJOX CAVES
Forest Supervisor Fromme has
just issued u circular relative to free
guldo service at the Oregon Caves,
which readi ad follows:
The government guide stationed at
the cuves will guide visitors one com
plete trip through both lower and
upper caves and the passage adjoin
ing the two levels every day except
ing Sunday, from May 1 to October
31, starting from the camp Immedi
ately In front of the caves ut 2 p. m.
Such guldo service Is entirely free of
charge. f
Owing to other required duties
than guiding, the government guard
M not available- for puldo service ex
cept, at above time. No fire arms al
lowed within the caves.
Gent-go SuMn of the Model I)ru
store, and Postmaster George W.
Donnell left Tuesday morning fur
Tunnel Six, where they will ipend a
number of days In the hills on n
hunting trip.
macadam, that Is where I surveyed
the. road and there was never a ne
cessity of going over that hill for the
sake of going down again.
"As ever your friend,
"J. B. HOWARD."
Of the Josephine county represen
tatives at the mass meeting at Waldo,
j Mr. Wimer Is the only one lert In
i Josephine county. Jerry Niuian was
leader of the Jackson county delega
tion, and still lives. Two others
wcr Mentor Hnd William M. Turner.
I '.... f-.,,,,.,,,. . Clin llin tonriori worn
City.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
FAVORS MOVING DEPOT
The special meeting ot the Grants
Pass Commercial Club Monday even
ing to discuss the present state ot
conditions existing between Qrauta
Pass and the'. Southern Pacific rail
way company, was well attended by
business men and club members. The
president stated the object ot the
meeting and then followed discussion
for two hours in which Messrs Kin
ney, Myers, Mclylnstry, Fry, Donnell,
Parker, Anderson, Walker, Williams,
Jester, Parsons, Best, Gllkey, Hair,
and Brower gave opinions. It was
the concensus of the opinions that
General Manager O'Brien should be
Invited to come to Grants Pass and
the matter be talker over with a com
mittee from the city council empow
ered to act, and a motion was final
ly pas.ed to the effect that It Is the
sense of the meeting that the council
do grant tho Southern Paclflo per
mission to move Its depot across 5th
street,. The meeting was then adjourned.
R. L. C0E COMPANY
REMODELING BUILDING
The R. L. Coe store building on
North Sixth and E streets, Is to be
extensively Improved, work begin
ning on the building this week. The
building is to have an added story,
which will be fitted with 10 office
rooms, four of which will face Sixth
street and six facing on E street.
These rooms will be equipped with
all the latest conveniences and with
large plate glass windows. Another
room on the second floor will be
25x60 feet In size, to be vsed as the
cloak and suit room ot the R. L. Coe
Big Store. The stair leading from
Sixth street to the upper floor will
be on the south side of the building
next to the Carglll confectionery
store.
The lower story will be entirely re
modeled and a handsome new front
Installed, with a large plate glass dis
play window In the center, and one
on each side, making the entire front
of plate glass. There will be two en
trances at the front ot the store, on
on each side of the center dlspty
window. A new beam celling will bo
another feature of the handsome In.
terlor finishing of the first floor. Ex
cavations are now being made for tho
basement In which the steam heat
ing plant will be Installed.
Mr. Coe hopes to have the building
operations completed In two months
provided weather conditions are fav
orable. When finished this will be
one of the handsomest store buildings
In southern Oregon as the work all
through Is to be of the highest class
and the rooms finished In superb
stylo,
Mii oitciiAitixsm
have moii:l tuat
J. J. .Curtis and daughter, Mrs. A.
It. Fetters, returned Tuesday night
to their home at Omaha after spend
ing the past three weeks In this sec
tion. While bote Mrs. Fetters made a
(onipleto catalogue of their commer
cial orchard adjoining tho Cutler or
chard, and It will be ponnlllo for her
to Keep a record of each Individual
tree as to its thrlf Uncus and Its vuluo
us n producer, They have 25 acres
In on-hard, 23 of which ore Spltv.en
borgs ami N'owtowns and the balance
one and two-year-old commercial
pears. The pears set out last year
bave made a splendid growth, sever
al of them being now six feet tall
and some aetuully producing a
small number of pears, and this with
out Irrigation.
Mrs. Fetters visited a number of
orchards In the Medford section and
ulis Is confident that their orchard
will rank as the best commercial or
chard In the Itogiie Hlver valley,
Iloth Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Fetters
are greatly pleased with conditions
In this country and expressed their In
tention of so arronglng their business
matters that they may luter on make
Gio tits l ass their home.
Miss Halite Montgomery we:it to
Eugene Tuesday morning to attend
I lit oil rhfifil Ihl Wlntfr.
w. F. Bowen of Medford. was a
Grants Pass business visitor on Mon
Oaf.
ALAMEDA SMELTER
RESUMES OPERATIO NS
" OALICE, Ore., Sept. 16. The fur
nace of the smelting plant of the Al
meda Consolidated Mines company
was again blown In Saturday and Its
operations are now far more aatWfao
tory than heretofore owing to certain
mechanical changes made In the fur
nace proper, which Insures the handl
ing ot a larger tonnage than previ
ously, , though the last carload of
matte was, when marketed, proved
that one week's run would cover the
expense of mining and smelting for
a lull month. The ore on which the
smelter Is now running comes from
No. 8 tunnel In the shaft and Is very
rich not only In copper but In rold.
DISCOVERS CHAMBER
IN JOSEPHINE CAVES
Custodian Smith ot the Marble
Cavea ot Oregon, has Just discovered
a large, new chamber far .under
ground whtch Is a decided addition to
the caves, Inasmuch as It has not
been marred by vandals In the form
of souvenir hunting tourists. The
cave was found last week while Mr.
Smith waB engaged In exploring the
farthest recesses of the caves gath;
erlhg data from which to compile a
map. The room Is a beautiful one,
the celling being clustered with
countless Btalactltea ranging In
length from an Inch to three or four
feet, none of them being broken off.
Several columns whore the stalac
tites and the stalagmites beneath
have Joined together are also seen.
This new cavern Indicates the
beauty of the entire range of under
ground passages and caverns before
tourists during the last thirty years
marred the caves by breaking the
stalagmites and stalactites free, and
carrying them away. In places It Is
evident that large sledgehammers
have been used In this vandalism. No
longer, however, may this be done
vith Impunity, for Uncle Sam has Is
sued a strict edict that he will harsh
ly deal with those who dare to deface
the caverns. Custodian Smith Is rig
idly enforcing the law.
The government has Just complet
ed over three miles of new trail from
the upper end of Williams creek to
the raves. This makes It compara
tively easy to visit the caves as the
last ten miles can be covered In short
time by horses, and the road to the
head of Williams creek Is In fair
condition for automobiles.
MINING MA NAG Kit
lllllNG.H BRIDE WEST
George H. Tubbs, the new manager
of the mining property of the Oregon
Strong Ledge Mining company, for
merly known as the Michigan Min
ing A Milling company, was married
nt his home city, Charlotte, Michigan,
Thursday forenoon, September 14, to
Mrs. Emma Morey of Paaadona, Cali
fornia. Tho wedding took place at
the homo of the brldo's brother, E. C.
Hanes, Bev. C. T. ratchell, of the
Congregational church officiating,
The bridal couple Immediately after
tho ceremony left for Snn Francisco,
later comln? to Orants Basn, where
they will make their future home.
Mr. Tubbs has been twice mayor
of Charlotte, achieving considerable
notoriety a fow years ap;o by his
strenuous efforts In flghtlni? Sunday
baseball. For a number of years,
Mr. Tubbs has been a leading busi
ness man of Charlotte, but a yenr
ago, he disposed of his business In
terests.
The stockholders of the Oregon
Strong Ledge Mining company, near
ly all reaUs In Charlotte and at a
meeting of the board ot directors In
that cMy last Tuesday evening, Mr.
Tubbs was selected as manager.
Omaha People Investigating
R. L. Chumbley. wlfe and daugh
ter, and J. W. McCllntock, of Omaha,
Neb., spent a day or two looking ov
er the valley with A. N. Tarsons and
are greatly pleased and Impressed
with the young commercial orchards
in this district. Bo thoroughly Inter
ested were they by correspondence In
the Grants Pass district that they
made no other rtop for Investigation
between Portland and southern Cali
fornia. They hope to come to Orants
Pass to locate within the next l
months.