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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1913)
FRIDAV, NOVEMBER 7, 1913 GNIR PASS ID 1 ROGUE RIVER VALLEY AS SEEN Hi' ADDISON BENNETT tlon now had not the San Francisco j a San Francisco capitalist bad ac j quired all of the right-of-way, had i i done a little grading and had a full equipment of tools and machinery on the Southern Pacific siding at Grants - pa83 whn the great quake came to The following article concerning There is copper enough In those' startle tDe world and wreck hundreds Grants Pass and the Rogue River val-i mines to supply the world with cop- anJ thousana8 of fortunes, this rail ley was written by Addison Bennett, ' 1er for centuries to come." j roa1 Promoter among them, apecial writer for the Portland Ore-j Taking it for granted that this man1 He quit. Later he died and from gonlan, and published In the Dally ,1 3 Prejudiced, although ha is said to his heirs the Grants Pass people Oregonian October 26: j be one of the copper mine experts of bought everything pertaining to the The Grants Pass people aver that tbe cuntr'' and ?as road-all surveys, drawings, rlght-of- thelr town is In the Rogue River val- gera.ted a one hundredfold, a thous-! 6 ' J ley, and they can prove it by showing I andfold' ther 18 T Wng herr afor about 3-000' and the Rogue in all its beauty as it :Wlthln easy aea of Grants Pass now nave about nine miles of as good passea under the bridge across the! ,''a'tn DeyD(l the dreams of man. grading done west of Grants Pass as principal business street of the city. ! ' re AsT ,s nish j has of late yeara been built in the Or is It a townT At what size or what A ear ag0' throu8n tlie Wedder-' west. The Grants Pass peoplo do not age does a town become a city? Sure- burn-Gold Beach Commercial Club, l expect to build all of this 91 miles ly the mere Incorporation of a num- bad hlpPfid from Mr- Cooley's place cf road right off the bat. What thy ber of people under the municipal at Agn6iS a 8laD ot cPPer "ore", do hope to do is to go far enough ac: do not constitute a city. And Welgb,ng 67 Pounds that was over 95; to get the Southern Pacific or some It seems to take somethlnz more than . r cent pure C0PPer- The reader other corporation or capitalist to see people to make a real city. How. ever, under any circumstances Grants Pass is a city and not a mere town. Its population is somewhere around 6,000 many of the citizens say more than that, up as high as 6,000. I It Is the county seat of Josephine : county, the name coming, It Is said, from Josephine Leland, the first whits ' child born within the limits of the '; county. The name of the town is; legendary, tiio name of General U. S. j Grant being linked with all of the! stories, but these are not so well j verified as the name of the county. No two of them exactly agree. I Streets Not Pole Marred j In more ways than one It is a magnificent city, but what strikes one ' most forcibly Is the absence of tele phone and telegraph oles and wires, ' not one being visible in the place, j Upon inquiry I discovered that when : the city decided to pave the streets three or four years ago they first put ! in a splendid sewer system and then placed all ot the wires in conduits ; underground, then had every pole re-j Cioved. The result has been that not ' a single square foot of pavement or . sidewalk has been torn up since pave-! ment and walks were laid. Other municipalities might ponder over those conditions with profit, even ' cities of the size of Portland. The main business thoroughfare, i called Sixth street, is one of the finest -streets in all Oregon. Looking up it from the Rogue River bridge towards the hills It seems to run directly into the hill, which is a mile away. The elevation at the end is 27 feet above the bridge, giving a fine fall for , towage. This street is wide, perfect- ly paved, the buildings along it are! ;iry fine and well kept, the parks! and railway grounds are a pleasure to the eye it is a magnificent street. A', night it is lighted up by a myriad j of bunch lights. J Speaking of the parks and depot j grounds reminds me that on all the ! Southern Pacific line in Oregon there Is no finer depot, no finer grounds, ' than here. There are four small parks adjacent to the depot, on railway ! property, and these parks are cared for largely by the ladies of the city, i the Ladies' Auxiliary taking charge of them. There is also a fine city park on the banks of the Rogue, just of it richer than the liutte district J the possibilities of such a road and ! r ' J H 4 ' n & tuns - v , ; S mii V .' NMBMSHMMMMSMMMMSMtf1 e 1 " f& o TOP HIGH SCHOOL. CKXTEK SIXTH STREET NORTH. OX THE ILLINOIS RIVER IIOTTOM across the bridge. This Is another need not take my word for this the beauty spot, although it is new and slab is on exhibition at the rooms of has not reached the state of perfec- the Board of Trade In Portland, in tion that the ladies will undoubtedly the Commercial Club building, see it gets. The Illinois valley has some of the Valley of Valleys Surround finest agricultural land In the west. Grants Pass is 33 miles north of It is surrounded by one ot the finest Medford, 297 miles south of Portland, . belts of timber in the civilized world. 474 miles north of San Francisco, j It has a climate as fine for agricul It is, as stated, surely in the Rogue tural pursuits as can be found la the River valley, which valley is aug-. state. It is cut up, intersected and mented hereabouts by the following criss-crossed by streams and dotted contiguous valleys: Fruitdale, Apple- over with springs. For the husband gate, Williams Creek, Jones Creek, man who wishes to go Into diversified Illinois, Sucker Creek, Elk Creek, farming, for the dairyman or the live-Jump-Off-Joe and Slate Creek. Some ' stock grower It is an ideal spot It of thees valleys are rather small, j will one day be one of the most thlck Boine of them large. One of them, ly populated pastoral valleys in Ore the Illinois valley, Is said to contain j gon, and one ot tbe most prosperous. 13,000 acres of agricultural land. It! Why all of this In a letter from will be remembered that the Illinois ( Grants Pass? Because tbe Illinois ri7er flows Into the Rogue river at : valley Is tributary to Grants Pass Agness, about 30 miles east of Gold! because the Grants Pass people feel Beach. I think I have told some little , lng, knowing this are now building of this valley heretofore in The Ore-' a standard railway from Grants Pass gonlan for I heard much about it onjto Crescent City, a distance of 91 my trip a year ago through Curry i miles, which will pass tnrough the county and up the Rogue. Illinois, the Applegate and many oth- It Is one of the most remote places! er valleyB. Please note that I do not In the United States, that is from the beiten highways. Indeed you can find In southwestern Josephine and east ern Curry about the last of the really virgin spots In the country. But this last-to-be-annexed land Is rich in say they "will" do this they are doing It. Under a law passed at the last nesslon of our legislature cities were given the power to build rail ways, so tbe city of Grants Pass voted $200,000 to start this road. The mineral and agricultural resources, ; citizens of Crescent City adiM their also It has immense coal deposits j mite. The bit? timber firms came nearby. The corper fields of Jose-j through and donated ten miles of a phlne and Curry will some day standard built logftln road running startle the world. As one man put i out of tbelr city, then other lumber- it to me today: "The Butte copper mines cover two square miles of ground: the Josephine-Curry copper belt covers 300 square miles, much men stepped In and subscribed $450,- carry it on to completion. People's Mettlo Shown It requires no great prescience to see what such a road would do for Grants Pass. With this road opened every town in Oregon save Portland would have to look sharp to keep abreast with this little Rogue River valley city. There is no doubt about that. But the work going forward has shown the mettle of tbe people, their temperament, for the question was carried by a vote of 1132 to 62. I tell you it is impossible for a com munity standing together like that tc fall. Josephine county will have 27 miles of the Pacific Highway to look after, but they are not worrying as the stretch of that road through th county is now one of tbe best roads In the state. And there are 375 miles besides about as good as that. This Is a county of natural road material. All they do Is to plow up the ground, round It up enough to give tbe road a crown, put a ditch on each side and then a slight dressing of gravel, and they have a road that will last for years, without dust In the summer or mud In the winter. There Is one road leading west from the town over which large traction engines haul great loads of lumber every day. These engines, it seems, ought to tear a well-laid pavement all to pieces but the Josephine road Is as nice as the best part of Broadway In Port land. And I was driven over many miles of other roads Just as good. I want to tell you the Grants Pass peo- 000 more to be paid when the road Is pie kept this child pretty busy while put In operation. I was a "cltUen" of their town. They This road would likely be in opera- showed me lots and told me lots but I expect to go back next month and see more, and tell the readers of The Oregonian mora. There are three banks In Grants Pass. The Josephine County Bank has a capital and surplus ot $53,000 and deposits of $104,000. Its presi dent Is T. B. Cornell, cashier, Sam H. Baker. The Grants Pass Banking & Trust Company has a capital and surplus of $61,000 and deposits ot $212,000. Its president is Claus Schmidt, cashier Marshall Hooper. The First National has a capital and surplus of $101,000 and deposits ot $475,000. Its president Is L. B. Hall, cashier H. L. Gilkey. Seventy-five per cent, ot the Grants Pass families own and live in their own homes. There are no "pluto crats" in the town, neither are there any beggars the people are univer sally prosperous, orderly and progressive. TAMMAXV IS KOITEI) , FT4IOX CANDIDATES WIX New York, Nov. 5. "Boss' Mur phy of Tammany has been "recalled." The voters did it. Even tbe "boss" ' closest friends admitted today that that was what yetserday's landslide at the polls meant. It was a sad day for Tammany. Deprived practically of the last bit of his patronage, the tiger faces the leanest four years in his life. Nobody could possibly be sorer than the "organization's" managers were today. They blamed Murphy. The "boss" gave it out again today that he would not abdicate. It was clear, however, that this would not be necessary. He was as good as de posed already. His lieutenants made It amply clear that they would never forgive what they called his "fat headedness." New York democrats were looking generally to Washington today for some hint as to the choice of a new leader. It was expected that Presi dent Wilson would give one in thfl form of a selection of a successor to John Purroy MItchel as collector of the port. lie would appoint a man, It was as sumed, who could command the sup port of nil the democratic factions and, through tremendous patronage of his office, reorganize the party lo cally on a more progressive basis. The new collector cannot afford to become the titular head of Tammany, but he can work with Murphy's suc cessor If the latter Is the right sort of an individual. Dudley Field Malone, Senator O'Gorman's son-in-law, was consider ed the likeliest candidate for the col lectorshlp. Tammany's defeat was absolutely crushing. The fusion forces carried every borough. They swept the strongholds of such Tammany chief tains as Murphy, Sullivan and Mc Manus, who never before knew any thing but victory in their own par ticular dlstriqfs. Even Julius Har burger, who has spent hlB life on Tammany's payroll, was defeated for coroner. John Purroy MItchel, the fusion nominee for mayor, was elected over Judge Edward E. McCall, Tammany's choice, by a majority of 115.628. The rest of the fuBlonlsts' city ticket won by somewhat smaller, but still very heavy majorities, with the sole ex ception of the nominees for president of the Queensborough council, to which M. E. Connolly, Tammanylte, was elected. Up-state returns showed that the republicans elected 81, the democrats 55, and the progressives 14 mem bers of the next lower house. Republicans were chosen to fill the two vacancies among the Judges of the court of appeals. The fusIonlstB swept New York county, as they did the city, electing their entire ticket, Including District Attorney Whitman to succeed him self, and Max Grlfenhagen for sheriff. Up-state New York towns which went democratic on mayoralty and the bulk of the rest of their muni cipal tickets, Included Buffalo, Utlca, Rome and Troy. Poughkoepsle, Rochester, Auburn, Albany, Blnghamton, Amsterdam and Watertown went republican. In Elmlra tbe fuslonists won; Johnstown elected progressives, and In Srhenectady J. Teller Schoolcraft, running on a citizens' ticket, was elected mayor. New Jersey Democratic Latest returns from New Jersey In dented that James Fielder, the demo cratic nominee supported by Presi dent Woodrow W'llson, would have a plurality for governor of 18,000 over Edward C. Stokes, republican, and Everett Colby, progressive. Fielder's vote ran Bllghtly behind what Wilson received a year ago. Colby, It was evident, would not prove to have polled more than a total of 40,000, as compared with Roosevelt's I? i HOUSEKEEPERS Must be Wateh For great efforts are being made in this vicinity to sell baking powders of inferior class, made from alum acids and lime phosphates, both undesir able to those who require high-grade cream of tartar baking powder to make clean and healthful food. The official Government tests have shown Royal Baking Powder to be a pure, healthful, grape cream of tartar baking powder, of highest strength, and care should be taken to prevent the substitution of any other brand in its place. Royal Baking Powder costs only a fair price per pound, and is cheaper and better at its price than any other baking powder in the world. 145,000 when he ran for president. New Jersey elected a democratto legislature. Vnbh Governor of MrtsnacliumjUs Reports from Boston placed ttu plurality of David I. Walsh, democrat, at about 50,000 for the Massachus etts governorship. Charles Sumner Bird, progressive, was In second place; August P. Gard ner, republican, was third, and Gov ernor Fobs, running Independent, to succeed himself, was far at the bot torn. Henry C. Stuart went In as gov ernor of Virginia unopposed. Itoss Murphy Comes I'p Siulllag "Bobs" Murphy of Tammany was smiling when he received a delegation of reporters today. "Let me tell you this," he said, "Tammany Is not destroyed. We will come back stronger than ever. Som people may worry, but not we." . ! . ... -I- S Wm. JrllL iW klFfJ AT ALL TIMES OF THE OF- IjfTR AT ALL TIMES OF THE OF FICERS OP THIS DANK, who are nt your service and willing to aaxlst and advise yon In business matters, will be of Immense benefit to yon mill will promote very satisfactory lumlnens relations that will prove mutually agreeable. GRANTS PASS BANKING & TRUST CO. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. Clans Schmidt, Prrwldcnt. Mamhnll Hooper, ChmIiIpt Jus. T. Tuffs. Geo. It. Riddle. Geo. I. JentT, Vice I'rettldnnt L. A. Launer, Aw't Cashier. . 8. Hlanchard. Herbert; Smith. WM sr. (I Opportunity is not bothered with the sex question. It only asks, "Can you grasp and hold me?'' With every pain( week some one or more of our customers are altle to grunp an Opportunity for In vetiiK'nt made poiwllile through their IminIiicmm connection with this bank. Vou fthould hank here. JOSEPHINE COUNTY BANK T. II. CORNELL, President J. L. CALVERT. Vice Pres. SAM II. HA KICK, CaMhler GEO. R. DICKINSON, Awt Cashier. A