I'AGK FOUR
Weekly Rogue River Courier
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
A. H. VoorhJet,
. V. ConUi-t,
Proprietor
Editor
.aUr4 la tb U. 8. Post Offle at
ttraota Paw, Oregon, mcob4 cl&u
wall matter.
aURSCKIITIO.V RATES
um Year 11.60
Wit months 75
Three Month 40
Payable in Adranre.
FRIDAY, Al (l ST 1, 1012.
IMPORTANT RAILROAD NEWS.
Tbe mokt Important newa puulluh
ed by the Courier in many months
appean In tbe article on our first
page relating to th railroad from
the roast up Rogue river to Grants
Pass. We have long known curtain
facts In regard to this proposed line
but have not until tbe present bad
sufficient Information to Justify milk
ing public tbe outlines of this rail
road situation. Practical men have
long known that tbe water grade af
forded by Rogue river was In part
the practical key to tbe situation. To
build a railroad It must be recog-
olzed that tonnage is required and In
. . . . ..
m instance enougn is onerea in me
hape of coal and timber, as well as
Incoming and outgoing agricultural
An J mineral products to Insure dubi-
n. for th nronosi.d line.
HOME COMINO DAY.
(irants Pass Is of sufficient size jthe profits of hog raising or adverse things has come to pass, and wc only ismi on the breed when they could be
and Importance as a community that .conditions In Oregon for the pursuit Valt a more complete development j legally dispatched, but proposed that
It should begin to lay the foundation of the Industry. Large numbers of 'of irrigation to attract a large nnni-11'11 k,10,kers who wpre caught red
I. . . , ... .... : handed in plying their trade lie re-
for fixed days for annual observance. .landowners cannot, of course, follow ber of these desirable homebullders, ported q the commercial club and
like the rose carnival, grange fair jthe raising of hoes with profit. To . but all this will come to us lr due 'a COmmlttee appointed to wait upon
and the like. In connection with the make- the Industry profitable there time, for there Is an active dimand the offender. Mr. Voorhies called at-
last named event, the Courier would j nmst he plenty of water and plenty for good farms under irrigation bv , tention to the fact that nowhere
uggoHt that we name and enroll a ,of the proper feed close at hand, and 'nuen who have the monev to develope i'""1'.1 a bt'tter fru,t ('ount,'y ,,e f0,in(1'
new day to celebrate, and that should In larw areas In the state one or both the jandi 0ur soil and our climate ,J' 'f ,a s,ran"rr aske'1 abn,,t fr",t
1 1 some knoi-ker with a penchant for
be u "Home Coming Day" This is lacking. Justifies he belief that the future has mining would discourage the fruit In-
by no means a new Idea, nor do we "On the other hand our dimatlc sr. at promise in store for Josephine dustry, and say this was only a mln
glve It as such, except its application conditions air Ideal. In no section of 'county. country; if the stranger asked
to this city. Home coining day as tbe country Is the risk of the hoa
celebrated In other Btates 's an or- raiser of losses by disease so low. In
caslon set apart for the return home many sections no swine disease of
'of those who make summer tours, any natmr has ever been known.
t
camping outings and other trips. It jl'lils Is notably true of the Wallowa
la an occasion also for a visit of Jand Powder Valley seitions, where
those who live elsewhere and desire many farmers are making great sue
to visit their relatives or frtends In esH In both raising and fattening
Josephine county. hogs for the Portland market.
The plan li to name a day which -just what can be done to cause
will come during the Orange Fair n)t. number of hogs to Increase even
this year and the district fair next ia the same ratio as our population,
year, it we innuginnie nome 1 i s
day this year, it may not ne nn event
of great Importance during 1012. but
will bo by 1913. when by that time It
.m ,ut-n for,,, ,i hne and
become an event widely advertised.
which, consequently, will make of It
an event of importance to most peo-
. . t . . , , .1 1
pie in the county, as well as to those
wbo may select a dnv for visiting ug duwn to the meat and pith of the
their relatives and friends here. The 'matter. Too many of our hindown
falr will be nn event whbh will a-;4rs have sold off their hogs and put
1st greatly In entertaining all wtio
mav ehoose to come.
WHY N't T Mi'KK Him;s.'
i'b re Is .ertainl.N soniething
wrong with a gie.uer portion of the
. ,. ,
state In icuard to the f.iinile of our
fanners to supply the markets with
pork. Our soil will prod. no the feed ;
while the climate is all that could be ;
1
desired by those who raise bogs, and 1
yet the supply is far short of the de- j
maud. The Courier has nred the j
farmers of Josephine county to en'or
the business and while some have
taken the advl.e n,an liae not ,huc ;
o. Of course It must be understood
that leid tor swliu . at, not he pro
Juced without Imgatiou. Alfalfa or
ioer aie anuuig the h'g 1 rodttcing
foods and these can ho .town in I
Hlo'.nd in- e in l i c un: w , on- ,
d.tlous are T.i oraUo
ruder . -H' in .uSIiig. V h
Morn llogs?" the Sun. lav i':euon. in
some (acts and tig ire.-, whiih
are worthy of the attention of every
f.irmer who v. 1 ;! ! ' 1"
art Mo mentioned Is as follows:
'lo'ieiitly attention w;t ml'cd 'o
tie f.o t that a new ,c:i-!is ball.-f.-,
bowed t' at on M ty 1 '. 0 1' re
weie J n ! 1'i". !..vs i". ''".. c, ..11 I
v iv M iv ! " CM' -
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gained In population 259.229 people.
an increase of 62.7 per cent, the num -
ber of hogs in the state decreased
63.829, or a loss of more than 22 per
cent.
These figures ought to cause every
flur nf tne ten yean in wnicn we cau
citizen of tbe state great anxiety, for iand it la to be nopea, torever. me -
there I. surely something wrong 'misfortunes of a country that gets following is tbe article referred to:
when hog raising, one of the most jln'o the bands of the speculator are , "Loganberry culture, a new Indus
profitable the general farmer and I many. Men buy and sell farms as a is Browing to large propomons
dairyman can annex to his chief In-lb.mlness and no one thinks of inak- jln th'8 8tat- At ,3rook8 alone ih'
du.trles. take, such a slump as that.' Ing Improvements, but the day of!000 "ates ere shipi,ed t0. a rort"
W must remember, too, that for the
last three or four years, or practically
.. .h. r
C CI Bill' C ' C Dl"i rx j i t no
constructed at North Portland, tbe
proprietors of those yards, ably sec
onded by the railway companies and and surround himself with the com- ,man m sei -uu atreB m ro,K ,oun
the officials of the Union Meat com- , forts of life, Is to be found in every j ty during the fall and plans to in
pany, have been making an active portion of the county. He is an e.l- ( 8ta11 canning, drying and bottling
campaign toward Increasing theivocate of good roads, good schools
number of swine on Our farms and 'and up-to-date Improvements of ev -
ranches, while the officials and fac- ery kind, and we find him alvayg will-
ulty of the Oregon Agricultural Col-
lege have fully and heartily co-oper-
ated with every effort made by the
'1W1 the dockyards !
Park,n ho"BM-
"Meanwhile every person who lias
followed the advice of these people
.L-ihvafQittntfln lh hrnr hmlnoGa nr
- -
jlncreaKlng his herd, has, If he has
.a'iel ltn Intelligence, made money
li. i-. - . ... t,
UI 111 inunr iiihu
almost any oher branch of animal
I
Industry or sericulture. There Is
I ,
ome.hlng wrong, and the trouble
does not lie either with a slump In
me ablest ami wisest advisers can-
n,, if iniy man could Induce '
those who are now keeping hots to
',, ,,,. li,,,ls t,n nr ,,enti nud
' , .1,
0f those who are now hogless' to get
a broud sow or two, he would do the
'state more good than the planting of
, , ,
niany orchards. Perhaps that brings
((, money Into fruit trees and the
tdantlng of them, while those who
have cleared and brought Into culti-
vatlon more land have utilized most
, of It for orchard purposes'.
"We do not desire to give the ap-
.pie or anv other fruit Industrv
I em1 k rje, as wie saving goes. .ot
'a bit of It. We have a great fruit
country and many larpe fortunes and
inunh prosperity will . onto throuch
fruitgrowing. Pit the orchardi.-t
who forget the hog business Is not
wise. Wh.eth.er he has five aires or
a hundred or a thousand he should
manage to keep a few hoc and
cows If he gets the cows he will
surely, if he Is sure, iet some hoes.
;K lea-t a brood sow or two "
' M 'I'll El ' . ViiK'i'l I.T, k 1. I
MM M'MEN 1'
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ditb iis w Vi h pi :.:1 : 1! ,. .
tural districts outside ( i;ra:t! 1':
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we can assure the
--cviu laisc, uufc v w. .
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! reader from personal knowledge that 1 Here are some berry figures which
i Mr. Kinney is right, and what Iijuil be of Interest to the people of
'more, the good work promises to jjosephine county. The members of
'continue indefinitely, 'the Commercial dub should he In
I Truly the days of speculation in
; land around Grants Pass are gone
i
... . . . . .
reckoning comes. A few years ago
'speculators fairly had possession of
'.hu ,.,.n.v .,. ,,thfcr rinSa n r tn
hub v n n i , wiv " ' " ' ,
'evidence today. The homebuilder
wlth money to Improve his property
i
i
Tng to do his share toward paying for
them. In every way this modern
farmer is an up-to-date citizen. He
jtalka intelligently regarding the l.et
bree(1 of 8t0l k' knows aU a,)0ut
( creameries and cheese factories, is an
jexpert In growing alfalfa and swine
breeding, and thoroughly under.
. , .
.stands the farm from a money-mak-
lu? point of view. His example In-fne
rnnrfli'PB hla npli'hlinra nnrl rlvou nrn
, - -,.... B,.vD
.Hdenre to the business man.
Grants Pass neonle cenerallv. a 9
; '
.well as the best citizens of the eutirc
county, rejoice that the new orde- of
AN EPIDEMIC OK KNOCKERS.
The knocker is admitted to be a
.'id 1 itlzen for any
omniunity in ;
' which he may locate. As a rulr he is
a ne'r-do-well- a dangerous chnrac-
ter. His trade is to injure everybody
, , . , ,
who Is in any way dependent on the
prosperity of the city or county. Un-
fortunately there Is no law. as yet,
on the statute hooks to punish hlni,
but the next legislature will be called
, upon to deal with this class. This fel-
'0W 3 WOrfe ' " 'ieMi,en,e alu!
now 19 suffering
froni n epidemic of these uiHlesit-
ables. Their only object and aim in
life seems to be to injure the coun'ry
and their neighbors. Tliev do not ;ui-
.dcrstand that they Injure themselves
and friends, if they have any, and
carry thrlr animosity to tlv e!ent
of driving would-be investors from
the country. Of late this vow thlr.a
' ' "
ha8 nap!,pne(1 in a ""'"'r of cases.
People In search of a homo have no the producer can market the pro
use for a community that will harbor ('"rf of les toil, and that the fact that
a V.rockcr and the result invariably
is they go to places less inf. s'e(; w i'h
tills lass.
GET KKAUY l-'UK STATE
Ml
!oi..e oi.e sho ;1,1 take 1:1 -1 . m.it-
ter of !r:i'ins a Joseplune
o:;n: e.
hioit a; the sti.te fair this ear. W e
cannot afford to miss ti.K opj.iTusf.ty.
but ;t ;',! i.v ;n,, late if it
is
Hot
el. K.et..i d ,.t eil.e. We .-l.j.ild send
samri's ot g
ei t o ;r 1 est
lie ate
ra.t; of all Kir.
live sto. k or
l'..;r a-o 1.
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AN IMPORTANT NEW INDUSTRY
terested !n this matter, and do.every
' thing possible to Insure the pros-
i noritv nf this branch of business. The
land cannery, netting the growers
; 131,000. A total of 37 cars of logan-
berries was shipped from Brooks this
j
!'ear- The acreage given to this fruit
! constantly on the Increase. One
a aaa i r-.tt
machinery.
1 l.
o.M.MKItt'lAL CLUB 1
DISCUSSES KNOCK KRS.
The ears of the Grants Pass knock
er must have burned Monday evening
(iring the pr0.reM of the meetlng
I of the Commercial club, for he was
jsure talked about. The subject was '
o.ougni up wnen a. rarsons
quoted a gentleman who naa recent-:
,ly returned from an extensive trip
throughout the east, who said that
heard only good words of the
D.r.. cnil.M- nn-nc f, ... V,
jlvus,lc lu,c, iic a ihmU uumr,
but that hf found the knocker still
(luitig business here at home. A. E.
Vooihies wanted strenuous methods
ja,lopU(l f(),. dtaI,K wh the kn0(.ker
Jn,, was sorry there was no open sea-
for mines, the follow with the ham
mer would waste no time In telling
him that tills was a fruit growing
relnn and the mines were elswhere.
Tlie tone of the club was not good
for tlu, Knof.ker. President Hobart
iieliverod an apostrophe upon the
- kind, and it was evid nt that the next
!,ln,e ,lu' K"or- hammer Is heard.
. there will be something to talk about
In town.
j ,-,, Sl., ,.,.., ,.,,., (.mmillllli,.;l.
f t ion from S'upt. Campbell of the
southern Pacific regarding the use of
!l,,,l't "f ,h'J l' i(,t building for a
; display room. Mr. Campbell said
that the company proposed the re-
moval of the old building to a point
, -rtber north, and back from the pres-
lent location, when it would not lie so
'nvailable for the purpose of an ex-
hihit room, and proposed tha the
Club erect a small exhibit room near
er the passenger depot, where people
nn the tr-iiiw conbt vio- it
,on tne n.uns (oum view it.
In his report, hoc-iyiary Quinlan
;'ai'1 "Pecinl stress on the need for
: n",,lnK 11 '"'ni"T 0,ul,'t f,,r the Pro
duce of the Hogne valley. He stated
that conditions oulrf not be expected
, materially improve locally until
farmers of tributary valleys were
forced to seek elsewhere for markets
was a detriment to this locality. He
uttered a truism that was endorsed
by the members present when h said
"It Is a pretty good plan to take catv
of the country first, for then the city
will take (are of I 'self."
' C. L. Mangiim. who was sent to the
Yreha lonsress with the Commercial
dub mining exhibit, made n verbal
report of the work at the con::i-'ss.
A vote of thanks was tendered him
by the dull for the very efficient av
' In w hb h he handled the exhibit.
I'M UK' ( OAST LINK
vli:Msr (.K)IND.
- liy liute.l Press Leased Wire.
t SAN" .I-'KAN'CISCO. Aug. t.V
:s News js receixed her' by the cham
,s I er of lotnmep-e todny of the ground
ing of tbe -it'll- Ce;..st Sienmsllili
( onijiatn 's liner City of Seattle on
the rot k coast near Kel liikitn.
g southern Alaka. U'taiU of the fs
if ?t 1's plight are l:n K inir. but i' ;
1. feared she is in u d.ingerous po-i-tbui.
She i a vessel of about .',' 0
'!' ;;,
,! had ,1 p ist il u.cr list of 1 ei'
s ' f tie P., it'. Coast Steal; -tr
umv r s' Ced their oi.lv
l.ad been te.ee,l tbtou.'.
'bee of 1 oni'neri'e, but t h.
1 1 1 'in r .I"1, lis I..'. i- l i ('
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DKI.AYKD I'KXSIOX CHKCKS
RF.POltTFD IH K SATURDAY.
I WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 Two
'hundred thousand war veterans
i whose pensions are held up owing to
a controversy in congress over the
j abolishment of pension agencies, will
J probably receive their delayed checks
on Saturday, according to announce
: ii'ent here today.
i The senate is said to have yielded
i to the house In the pension agency
'dispute. The lmuse will accept the
' pension bill today and the president
I will sign it tomorrow. The checks
are all ready for mailiug at the pen
sion office agencies and as soon as
the president affixes his signature to
COWS ARE PROFITABLE
for everybody if a cream separator is uei to cet the butter fat out
of the milk. No matter whether you are a farmer or dairyman, no
matter how many cows you have, 'four or forty, a cream separator
will make them mote profitable. The advantage of the Dairymaid
cream harvester is that it gets all the butter fat out of the milk,
saves all the prolit for you. If you leave part of the butter fat in
the skim-milk you are losing profit that you can save by using a
separator. The Dairymaid cream harvester is one of the simplest,
liiiitt running and most practical separators on the market. It
skims close and is easy to clean. It saves work in the dairy and
puts dollars in your pocktjt. We will gladly further explain the
merits of the Dairymaid cream harvester and show you wherein
this separator differs from others and why it is better.
Take one home and try it before you
buy.
Rogue River H'dw. Co.
; HANTS PASS, OKK.
I WHFAT
WANTED
We will pay the Portland market price in
I cash for wheat and
gram as soon
W. P. Counts
I'Hom:
IF YOU BUSINESS MEN
only realized the business-building power of first-class
stationer', you would choose your own Bond Paper and
not intrust its selection to a subordinate
And, if you wanted to make your business stationery
100 24 efficient, you would specify
(Fac-Simile Watcr-Maik)
1 Tie De Lu?;e Business Paper
because by comparison you would find that COUPON
BOND is far beyond the average Bond Paper in quality
c:iar:ict:r impressiveness, and all that malxn.onery
: r. " productive.
. , -cify COUPON BOND today. And sec the
co. Let us show ycu samples.
nau.w, .U(,ist Hi, mi
' i thp new bill aiithnriln fTTZr,
, - a mrir ism
ance they will be on their way to the
old soldiers.
GIRL RETURN'S HOMK AFTF.lt
MYSTERIOUS AIlSKXt l
NEW YORK, Aug. 14. After a
week's mysterious absence, Edna
Gray of Brooklyn, who left ner
aunt's home here In an automobile
with a strange man, returned today
in a hysterical and exhausted condi.
tion.
The girl reached home in a semi
conscious state, and continually
raved about a roadhouse where she
claimed to have been held prisoner
from all appearances she hud been
drugged. -
Alin HATQ
oats. Bring in your
as possible.
StSon
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