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WEEKLY EDITION
VOL. XXVIII
GKAXTSPASS JOSEPHINE COIXTV, OREGON. FRIDAY, JAM'AKY 24, 1913.
NO. 41.
ENGINEERS SHOW
COST OF POT.
ESTIMATE MADE OX FIHST FX IT
OF CONSTRl CTION.
$290,115.32 TO HAYS HILL
Figure Include Roiul lluilt and Fully
Equipped for Fifteen Mile
Fnuu Grants Pass.
Figured down to the last yard of
earth to be moved and the driving of
the last spike the first unit of the Pacific-Interior
railway, the 15 miles to
Hays Hills, will cost exactly $290,
115.32. The amount given above includes
every possible item of expense that
can enter into the construction and
the equipment of this line, the por
tion that is to represent the Grants
Pass-owned road. The engineers
have been working for days upon the
details of cost, and every culvert and
cattle-guard has been built on paper,
and a fence erected along each side
of the right-of-way, while equipment
including engines, flat and box cars,
coaches, handcars and a railway ve
locipede have been provided for in
the items of cost.
Xo Engineering Problems.
This first unit contains no engi
neering problems that will run into
big money. There are no' deep cuts
and no great fills, and the average
cost per mile, including equipment,
is $15,944.58.
There Is not a yard of rock work
encountered for the first seven miles.
In the eighth mile there is a total of
5,143 yards of rock excavation, with
only 10,415 yards In the entire dis
tance. The cost of this excavation Is
placed at $1 per yard. The heaviest
cut on the fifteen miles occurs at the
sixth mile, where 58,500 cubic yards
are moved, and the greatest fill Is on
the seventh mile, where 34,130 yards
are put in. The handling of this
earth is figured at 25 cents per yard.
It will require 114,200 feet of tim
bers and two tons of Iron to make the
trestles on the fifteenth mile, the
trestles on the entire unit demanding
286,150 feet of timber and five tons
of iron. Lumber for culverts will
cost $1,196. Thirty-eight cattle
guards at a cost of $10 each, will be
installed. The total cost for the
grading, bridging, etc., of the 15
miles to Hays Hill will be $109,
901.80. 42,210 Ties Required.
The 70-pound rails at $42 per ton
will cost $3,174.40 per mile, or $82,
790.40 for the 15 miles. The 42,240
ties required will cost 40 cents each,
or $16,896 in the aggregate. The
spikes used will fill 512 kegs and the
bolts another 112 kegs, the cost of
track and siding, 16 miles in all, fig
uring $111,231.04.
Engines and Equipment.
For equipment, two engines will
cost $4,000, and 10 flat cars, five box
cars, one combination coach, one day
coach, two hand cars, two push cars,
a velocipede, and tools will run the
equipment expense up to $13,690.
A depot at Grants Pass will cost
$1,200 and two other depots out on
the line will cost $400 each. Two
section houses are provided at $500
each, and with engine Bheds, tool
houses, tanks, turn table, track
scales, telegraph line, engineering,
etc., this feature of the construction
will amount to $20,290.48.
All of these various items that en
ter into the building and equipment
of the road to Hays Hill total $253.
113.32, but in addition to this there
is the cost of the 26 acres of terminal
in this city and the right-of-way and
survey all of the way to Crescent
City that have been purchased at a
cost of $35,000, that will run the
grand total of all expense to the city
to $290,113.32.
Two Truss Smn Bridge.
The estimates above Include the
cost of two truss span bridges, one of
200 feet where the road crosses the
Rogue on leaving the city, and anoth
er of 300 feet where the road crosses
the Applegate on the tenth mile.
In arriving at the figures the en
gineers have omitted no detail, but
the estimate leaves the road com
pletely built and equipped and ready
to enter upon its destiny of making
available the forests of timber and
the mountains of mineral that lie
along its length.
With Crescent City undertaking
work upon a unit of the system at
that end of the line, the company will
be In a position as soon as this work
is done to finance the balance of the
connecting road, and so give to
Grants Pass connection with the sea.
SETTLE WITH OLD
G. P. & R. R. RAILROAD
With the sale of the assets of the
Grants Pass & Rogue River ra'ilroad
company to S. H. Riggs the affairs of
the old corporation will be closed up
by the courts and receiver discharg
ed. The dividends to be paid upon
the claims against the company, how
ever, will not be of great extent, and
if the final disbursement of the pro
ceeds of the sale return thoBe who
have claims for labor and for mater
ials furnished ten per cent of the de
mands the creditors can consider
themselves fortunate.
Papers on file in the clerk's office
In this county show that the court
accepted the offer of Mr. Riggs for
the railroad property, the figure aim
ed being $1,500. Mr. Riggs made al
ternative offers for the property, the
first of $2,000, the court to guaran
tee that the temporary bridge built
across the Rogue would stand Intact
during the present winter. The oth
er was that Riggs would assume re
sponsibility for the safety of the
bridge, the price for the property in
this event to be $1,500. The latter
proposition was accepted, and the
sale on that basis was confirmed by
the court.
When this company was organized
two years ago work of building was
commenced and stock In the corpora
tion was placed on the market. The
liabilities of the company Included
some $10,000 or $12,000 for labor
and material claims unpaid, and $50,
000 for stock sold. The labor and
material claims are largely held by
residents of Grants Pass, while the
stock in the main was subscribed by
the Riggs and Chapin interests.
The expenses of the receivership
will eat up practically all of the
funds turned in to the court for the
property. Mr. Riggs says that it is
not probable that the holders of the
stock will make claim for participa
tion In the distribution of whatever
dividends there may be, all of the
balance to go toward the liquidation
of the labor and material claims.
These will not be much affected by
the distribution, however.
The property turned over to Mr.
Riggs by the court Includes the mile
or two of constructed trackage, the
bridge across the Rogue that was
partly washed out by last season's
high water, locomotive "No.l," and
such survey and other rights are to
remain intact.
Mr. Riggs is taking means for the
protection of the bridge during the
water that can be expected during the
winter, and will maintain the prop
erty and will probably merge it with
the recently Incorporated Portland
and San Francisco Coast line that has
lines projected Into this territory.
Lwl in Juvenile Court
G. W. Doney has made complaint
In the Juvenile court before Judge
Jewell charging that Howard Cham
bers, a lad about thirteen years of
age, had used vulgar and abusive
language toward him In the presence
of his wife, had assaulted him, and
had otherwise made himself objec
tionable. The boy's father has been
cited to produce the alleged offender
before the court Friday morning at
ten o'clock.
Train Delayed by Wreck -
The south bound Shasta Limited
and the morning trains on the South
ern Pacific were all delayed Thurs
day morning for several hours by
the wreck of freight 221 In Cow
Creek canyon.
S500 IN GOLD FOR THE WINNER
IN COURIER SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST
Valuable Prizes for all who Enter Whether They
Capture the Capital Premium or not.
Cash Commissions Given
On another page of today's Courier
will be found an announcement which
should prove of interest to everyone
In this city and surrounding territory.
The Daily and Weekly Courier are
offering to give more than $1,200.00
In old or other valuable prizes or
commissions to the wide-awake and
industrious young people in Grants
Puss and vicinity.
The full details of the campaign
will be found in today's paper. The
campaign opens tomorrow and closes
March 15, next, Just a little over a
month. The contest will be conduct
ed along business lines and the books
and accounts will be open at all
times to the contestants.
II. P. Leavitt has been secured to
conduct the Courier subscription cam
paign. Mr. Leavitt has had exten
sive newspaper and contest exper
ience.. To quote from one of South Dako
ta's daily papers where he recently
took charge of the circulation cam
paign: "Mr. H. P. Leavitt, who has hal
charge of the Sentinel subscription
.campaign, formerly edited and man
aged one of South Dakota's dally and
weekly papers. He has endeavored
to keep the Sentinel's contest above
criticism in every way and obtaineJ
a thorough campaign in this portion
of tho state. Business men who fur
nished prizes and also Individual can
didates have written us personal let
ters commending hia work and fair
ness. He has kept a good natured
rivalry among the candidates and
made many friends in this vicinity for
himself and for the paper. As a re
sult the Daily Sentinel has more than
doubled in circulation during the last
six weeks."
The Courier will advise the young
people of this vicinity to remember
that "the early bird catches the
worm." Start early while the sub
scriptions come easy. Read the de
tails of the campaign conditions In
today's Courier, fill out the nomina
tion blank and bring it to the office
or see the contest manager in the
Schmidt building, room 2. He Is here
to plan the work for the contestants
and aid them to get well started on
the road to success. Lists of sub
scribers may be had at the office an 1
back collections will pile up the votes
rapidly.
KVEUYOXK WIXS.
At the close, the contest will bo
put In the hands of three local Judges
MANY PRIZES FOR
BLVE-RLOon POl'LTHY,
E. S. Veatch has added another
feather to his cap as a poultryman
since the announcement of tho
awards in the Josephine county
poultry show. It is not because the
silver cup offered by the association
for the best display of birds In the
show has passed into his pos
session, but It is because so compe
tent a Judge as Hinds should place
the blue ribbons largely where Mr.
Veatch himself had placed them on
the same entries at the Ashland
fair show.
At the Ashland show, where
Veatch was Judge, the Fuller pen of
White Wyandotes was given first
prize, and under the scoring of Mr.
Hinds It has again carried off that
honor. Likewise the Rhode Island
Red cockerel of G. H. Parker that
won sweepstakes at Ashland, and
that made a remarkable record at the
shows to the north, was a winner
hpre. This bird was a high scorer
at the Portland show, but because of
a clipped wing was disqualified from
winning the premium, and In cor
ing him here Judge Hinds gave him
within a half point of the same mark
he received at Portland.
For honors for the best pen In the
show there was a close race between
I the White Wyandottes exhibited by
who will count votes and award
prizes. The contestant having the
largest number of votes'wlll be glvsn
first prize. The Becond prize will be
given to the one having the second
largest number, and so on. Any con
testant who has worked to the close
and is not fortunate enough to re
ceive one of the six prizes will be paid
a 10 per cent commission on all sub
scription money he or she has collect
ed. Every one will receive a fal com
pensation for all effort put forth.
1 ere Is no chance to lose.
It will mean a great deal to win a
lump sum of $300 In gold. Those
who enter should work as never be
fore, and if you work with a deter
mination to win your friends will all
wcrk for von. That Is the real "se
cret of t'ae game," and the one bo
wins will be the one who wins will be
wins will be the one who Is able to
solicit the most aid.
THE ITRPOSE OF CAMPAIGN.
The Courier feels that with the
coming of the new railroad aud
eventually, cheaper and better trans
portation facilities, a new era of pros
perity will reign in Grants Pass and
vicinity. The spirit of tho people has
already changed and many are look
ing forward to the "better times
period" in the very near futuro. The
Courier wishes to be on the ground
floor of the new business awakening
with a large and substantial circula
tion and it Is with this In view that
the management has decided to gj to
the expense of putting up this won
derful array of prizes. This campaign
to double the Courier circulation may
be the beginning of "tho good times
period;" at least the management
is willing to take the risk.
Votes which count toward tho
prizes can be obtained by securing
subscriptions to tho Daily and Week
ly Courier and with every dollar in
trade at the following stores: Rogue
River Hardware Store, A. M. MeFar
land Furniture store, Stanton Unwell
Music store, and Letcher and Son
Jewelry store. The announcement of
other stores of the city which give,
votes will bo made in a later
The prizes are the best that can be
secured and are all on display In lo
cal stores. Those Interested are In
vited to call and look them over. This
Is the time to act. Fill In the nom
ination blank today for yourself or
for a friend and send It to the con
test manager.-
Mr. Fuller and the pen of Buff Leg
horns entered by A. A. Ingalls of
Grants Pass, a fraction of a point de
ciding the contest. The pen of
Wyandottes scored 187 3-8, while the
Ingalls entry totalled 187 1-8.
The list of awards in the show are
as follows:
Best display Sliver cup by Grants
Pass Poultry association, won by E.
S. Veatch.
Youngest exhibitor Setting of
White Orpington eggs by G. D. Wll
coxon, won by Carrol Steffen, 8 years
old.
Largest number of varieties $2
worth of Talbot's Poultry Remedies,
M. Clemens, won by S. A. Pottorf.
Best male In American class
Hand-painted vase by E. II. Davis,
won by John H. Fuller.
Best female American class Box
chocolates, by the Spu, won by John
II. Fuller.
Best male, English class Sack of
flour by Grants Pass Rochdale Co.,
won by Edward Bubzeln,
Bent female, English class $3
picture by L. B. Hall, won by Joe
Proff.
Best male, Mediterranean class
Umbrella by Mashburn & Co., won
by A. A. Ingalls.
Rest female, Mediterranean clans
Ten pounds Pardee's scratch food,
won by A. A. Ingalls.
Best solid colored bird Primula
by Bert Barnes, wou by John II. Ful
ler. Pest payl-colured bird Cake by
Moore's Bakery, wop by S. H. Gil
lette. Rest display of pigeons Pound of
coffee by Grants Pass Rochdale, won
by Edward Dabzeln.
Whitest bird in the show Pack
age of Hess Pun-a-cea by Geo. C. Sa
bln, won by William Steffen.
Rest display by a lady $2.50 hat
pin by A Letcher, won by Mrs. Win.
G. White.
Highest scoring male Silver nut
crackers by U. Singer, won by A. A.
Ingalls.
Highest scoring female Hand
palnted plate by O. F. Wlttorff. won
by John II. Fuller.
Rest exhibit by boy under 15
years $1 Jack knife by Jos. Whar
ton, won by Carrol Steffen.
Highest scoring pens la tho show
John II. Fuller, Talent, White
Wyandottes, 187 3-8, A. A. Ingalls,
Grants Pass, Buff Leghorns. 187 1-8.
Barred Rocks Carrol Steffens,
pullet, 1, 2; cockerel, 3; pen 3. Ed.
Harris, pullet, 3. I'. L. I'pson, Jr.,
cockerel, 2, hen 3.
White Plymouth Rocks Ed. 0.
Harris, cockerel, 2; pullets 1, 2.
Parlrldgo Plymouth Rocks Uod
uey Marshal, pullet, 1.
White Wyandottes John II. Ful
ler, cock, 1; pullets, 1, 2, pen, 1;
William Steffen, cockerel, 1, pen 2;
Will Scovllle, cock. 2; hen, 1, 2, 3;
cockerel. 2, 3; pullet, 3.
. Partridge Wyandottes S. B. Gil
lette, all awards.
S. C. Rhode Island Reda Geo. II.
Parker, cockerel, 1; pen, 1; E. Chall-
Bon, cock, 3; cockerel 2, pulletB 2, 3.
White Orpingtons W. L. Ireland,
cockerel, 2. J. Hormau Harrison,
cock, 2; pen, 3; Mrs. Wiu. Steffen,
hen, 3; pullet, 2. O. D. Wllcoxon,
cock 1, 3; hen, 1, 2; cockerel, 1, 3;
pullet, 1.
Buff 6rilngtons S. A. Pottorf,
cock, 2; hen, 1, Joe Proff, pullets,
1, 2, 3; Edward nobzeln, cock, 1;
hen, 2.
Whlto leghorns Geo. P. Cramer,
cock, 1, 2; Edward G. Harris, pul
let, 1, 2, 3.
Brown Leghorns Mrs. Win. G.
White, cockerel 3; hen 1, 2; Ed
ward Anient, cockerel, 1; Harold
Taylor, pullet, 1. Lester Calhoun,
hen, 3.
Buff Leghorns Theo. P. Cramer,
cockerel, 1; hen, 3; pen 2. A. A.
Ingalls, cock 1, hen 1, 2; pen, 1.
S. C. Black MInorcas E. S.
Veatch, all awards.
Silver Spangled Hamburgs Fay
Caldwell, cockerel, 1.
Bantams Robert Ilestul, pullet, 1.
Buff Orpington Ducks E. A. Pot
torf, all awards.
Best one dozen white eggs Allen
Taylor.
Best one dozen brown eggs Car
rol Steffen..
WARRANT TO ARREST
DETECTIVE GARDNER
E. Gardner, tho man who supplied
tho evidence upon which numerous
convictions were had in the police
court for violations of the anti-gam-bllng
laws, Is today himself a hunt
ed man, a warrant having been Is
sued from the Juvenile court by
Judge Jewell, cburglng Gardner with
contributing to the delinquency of a
minor.
The specific complaint laid against
Gardner is that he Induced Wlllard
Crawford, a seventeen-year-old boy,
to make a bet with him upon a game
of billiards In the Lawrence & Skill
man billiard and pool hall. The
stakes of tho wager are alleged to
have been a drink of soda water, it
being said that Gardner could not
get a different bet than that from
the boy.
Gardner, a detective from Port
land,' put In several weeks hero get
ting evidence against numerous par
ties for gambling, the games ranging
from cards with chips at one cent
each to side bets on billiards, and
jsonie $ r r, 0 In fines were raked in by
I the city in the way of penalties when
the parties complained of either said
j "guilty" or were convicted In the
trlnl that followed.
Criticism followed regarding the
I methods employed by Gardner to get
games with some of the young men
LOS ANGELES PAYS
BIG FOR APPLES
O. II. BERNARD SEES IMKil'E
FRUT AT 4.30 PKU BOX.
PROFITS TO THE MIDDLEMEN
I'lV. llolxirt 'of Commercial Club
Say Producer un Consumers
Must Come Together.
"There is something wrong with
tho system that yields the grower of
Rogue River apples the prices they
receive and then the same apple soils
In the Lob Angeles market at $4.50
per box," says O. H. Bernard, who
has receutly returned from a trip
through the Btate to the south.
In the southern cities Mr. Ber
nard made a systematic Investiga
tion ot conditions surrounding the
applo market, and the wide differ
ence of prices received by the pro
ducer and that paid by the consumer
proves that there Is something radi
cally out of Joint somewhere In
the various fruit stores which he
visited ho found an Inferior apple,
grown In California, Belling at $2.50
per box. Tho quality of this apple,
ho says, was poorer than the fruit
that is discarded In Oregon orchards.
Some fancy Rogue River apples In
the same markets were being sold at
$4.50 per box, thoso offered him on
the day ho Inquired having been
packed by a Central Point grower.
Tho price paid by the Los Angeles
apple-eater Is high enough. The
trouble is Hint not enough of this
prlco finds Its way to the pocket of
tho man who has given his time, his
talent and his money to the growing
of an applo that will command the
price.
In speaking ot this condition, Pres
ident Hobart of the Commercial club,
says that tho solution must come
through organization of the produc
ers themselves and tho elimination
of the middlemen who prey urlon
them. He wants to see a system
worked out whereby tho grower can
sell tils produce more directly to the
consumer with more profit to him
self and more satisfaction to the pur
chaser. It Is this system that the
members of the local grange organ
izations are now discussing and that
they hope to have on an operating
basis by the time another crop is
ready for disposition. If llogue River
apples are worth $4.50 per box the
Rogue river rancher wants In on the
deal.
(iROCERY STORE IS -
ENTERED IIY DIRGLAKS.
Darnall's grocery store was en
tered by burglars Friday night, and
cash to the amount ot $1.80 and
three pocket knives were taken.
The midnight marauder entered
the building from the rear, removing
tho glass from tho sash door and
reaching through he unlocked the
door. Mr. Darnall had left the till
open on leaving the store In tho ev
ening, the small change to the
amount ot $1.80 being left In It. So
far us known no goods wero taken
from the store except the three
knives.
brought before the court, and this
charge against him follows, the com
plainant being Fred Costaln, one of
tho young men who plead guilty to
the charge of playing pea pool with
Gardner at 25 cents a cue. Gardner
lcjjt hern Tuesday night supposedly
for Portland, although the officials
had been notified to arrest him, and
j a special of fleer has left hero to
jbrlng him back to this county ns
soon as ho was tinder arrest.
When Gardner is arrested tho ease
wlll come before the Juvenile court
of whleh Stephen Jewel Is Judge.
Prosecuting Attorney E. E. Kelly
jcamo over from Medford, and has
been working on tho case today.