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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1909)
I C entral poin t herald CENTRAL m i N l ’ U.iEGON THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1909. V o i ,. * Local and Personal C ook W a n t e d — Apply to H. T. Pan- key, Snowy Butte orchards. When in lfedford, go to the Etnerick for your dinner. W. E. Johnson, pro prietor. 26(f Dr. E. Davis, the dentist, will be in his Central Point office from February 8th to 13th. 14tf Remember the dates for Dr. Davis, the dentist, Central Point, February 8th to 18th. 14tf Call at the Herald office and get free ; sample copy o f Human Life. A year’ s subscription free to all paid-in-advance i subscribers to the Herald. Get busy. I APPLEGATE MAKES REPORT Favors Well and Pumping gineer, f. o. b. Kansas C ity.. $3,300 Shipping weight is 30,INK) pounds. A 85 horse power electric motor f. o. b. Central Point, complete, costs ............................................. 1,000 Pumps. I have quotations for two pumps that I consider the best made, the capacity to be 850 gallons o f water per minute agaiust a total head of 175 feet, when operating in its normal condition, f. o. b. factory, Allentown, Pa., <1020. Shipping weight is 25,000 pounds. These pumps are equipped with s re lief valve whereby when the pressure gets above the safety point it will pass into the suction relieving the discharge line from danger o f over pressure. INO Good Work at 0. A. G. WORK FOR GOOD ROADS Important Measures to be Presented at Present Session of Legislature. H. T. Pankey returned Sunday from Corvallis, where he addressed ths stu dents o f the short course classes at the Oregon Agricultural College last Friday evening. Mr. Pankey is rather modest in talking o f the meeting which be ad dressed, but when interviewed it de veloped that he was the only speaker at that session and that the audience was a large one. There have been many improvements at the college since Mr. Pankey’ s last ' visit there, two years ago, and the practical work in agriculture, horticul- ture, mechanics and other live and modern topics is greater there than at any similar institution in the United States. A s evidence o f that fact Mr. Pankey states that there are students at Corvallis this Winter taking the short course from many states as far east as Illinois. 41 OREGON BUILDING FINISHED t0 ■ / s i s » G O I I i p l e t 0 D U Ìld Ìi1 (l ~ 9 One o f the moat important subjects 5000 feet 6-inch best pipe here before the present session o f the legis inbefore described, at 66 cents lature is that o f good roads, and a per f o o t .......................................< 3,300 summary o f the bills which will be F or S a l e —Good cull apples all kinds, 10,400 feet 4-inch pipe at 48 introduced this Winter will no doubt apple cider, cider vinegar. Delivered cents per foot ........................... 4,368 prove o f interest to our readers. Estimated eost of fittings and to all Central Point on order. Old The Johnson bill provides for the ap hydrants ........................ 1,200 Leever ranch, two miles west from pointment o f a State Highway Com Cost of excavating and laying Central Point.—A. J.Dunlap. 32tf same ........................................... 1,500 mission o f three members, one from Peter Applegate, the well-known civil Mr. Nicholson, who has been a suf the itate at large, who shall be a civil ferer from paralysis for the past year, engineer, who was employed some time Oregon was the first state to com Total ............................................<10,368 engineer, and one from each congres water for all prisoners who sre able to has been removed to the home o f his ago by the water committee o f the Same amount asphalt coated pipe sional district. work but refuse to do so, and such time plete ita building and the first to install son. Arthur Nicholson, on the Jackson town council to make a comprehensive Ths resident owners o f rest estate as he may refuse to work is not to be exhibits a t the Alaska—Yukon—Pacific laid, with hydranta and fit ville road, where he can be more readi report o f the installation o f a water tings ........................................... 9,140 within two miles o f either side o f any counted as served on his sentence. Exposition. Five months in advance o f system for Central Point, came over Wood pipe, same amount and di ly cared for. road may petition the county court for Another bill provides for the working the opening o f the exposition Oregon mensions, laid, with fittings ita improvement. I f approved by that o f all convicts in the state penitentiary had two ears o f choice apples and a car Christian Science services are held from Jacksonville Tuesday evening and and hydrants ............................. 6,442 body, it shall be recommended to tha on the public roads o f the state under , o f foreat products stored in ita building every Sunday morning in the Masonic submitted his report to the committee. The above are prices for pipe f. o. b. State Commission and. if approved by lodge room, opera house building, at The report will be passed into the coun the supervision o f the “ Convict Labor, and the entire exhibit will be installed Central Point, Orpgou. it, the cost o f said improvement shall Board.” The several counties desiring two months before the gates o f tha 11:00 o ’ clock. AH arc invited to at cil at the regular meeting next Monday A tauk and tower would coat be ascertained and if satisfactory to this labor shall file requests with the exposition are opened. tend these services. Subject for Sun evening, when, it may be assumed, about ...........................................< 1.500 something definite in the water situa the county court and the property ow n Convict Labor Board, and upon the j The Oregon building is a handsome day, January 31st, “ Love.” tion will begin to develop. Ths report Pumps, Allentown, Pn................. 2,000 ers affected, the road shall be con same being granted, the counties shall structure and occupies one o f the best 1. C. Robnett has returned from Port Gas engine, Kansas City ......... 5,500 in full follows: land and other Willamette valley points. Estimated freight c h a rg e s ......... 750 structed under the direction o f the bear all the expenses o f transporting, j ocatioas on the exposition grounds. It JACKSONVILLE, Or., Jan. 22, 1909. While north Mr. Robnett took the 32 — To the City Council of Central Point, Cost of setting up, estim atod.. 1,000 State Road Engineer. Tha eost o f guarding, feeding and keeping the eon- ' |is just off the central court and over- such work shall be divided as follows: victs while at work in such county. It .look s Lake Washington. The building degree in Masonry, and went to Salem Oregon— Gentlemen: Pursuant to the re and secured the election o f Governor quest o f the water committee of your Total ................................................<10,750 Three-eighths o f the cost shall be born is also provided that, in case a!) the con was completed in November and Bince Maying a grand total if Kai. by the state, three-eighths by tbs coun victs are not taken by the counties, the that time the Oregon commission has Chamberlain to the U. S senate. honorable body, I have made as thor pipe is used, <21,118, with 20 ty and two-eighths by the property Board may secure rock quarries and been engaged in the assembling o f the Mr. Reinsforth, who purchased a ough an investigation o f your water per cent for safety t o t a l... 25,341 owners in the district petitioning for rock crushers in different sections o f state exhibit. tract o f the Neidemier place on the proposition as I am able to do at this Asphalt coated, <19,890, with 20 the road, the part borne by the prop the state and employ the convicts in By the early completion o f its build time. Jacksonville road and built a line bun per ernt for safety ............... 23,868 erty owners to be divided into six an preparing crushed rock for road build ing Oregon has received a Urge share Source o f Supply. galow there, has finished planting 100,- Wood pipe, $17,192, with 20 per There is no source o f supply within nual payments. The amount to be paid ing, the same to be sold to the several o f the advertising during the pre cent for safety ......................... 20,630 000 strawberry plants and expects to the financial reach of the town at this by each property owner is to be ascer counties at actual cost o f production. exposition period. In the past three The 20 per cent for safety may seem have a fair crop o f berries next season. time where an adequate water supply excessive, but it is always advitnblo in tained by appraisers to be appointed by This bill would, if enacted, remove the months more than 50,000 persons have J L Campbell, editor o f the Glen could be obtained by gravity by loca making rough estimates to insure re tbs county court, the basis for such ap objection o f convict labor in competi- paid admission to the exposition grounds. dale News, and O. H. Mortonson and tion, as vacant water. There is a small portionment to be the relative benefit the tion with free labor, as is now the case, The CalifornU state building was sults. Jesse Todd, prominent residents o f spring at Willow Springs that has been Toad will be to each property owner. many o f the convicts now being hired completed several weeks ago and the General Remarks. that thriving city, were here Saturday mentioned to me, but the report on the In the event that you soourod water Provision is made fo r modifying and out to a stove manufacturing company Washington building U nearly finished night visiting the local Odd Fellow flow o f water does not Indicate suffi from the Fish Lake company at Msd- changing the districts as ths topogra and will be ready to turn over to the at 35 cents a day. lodge.. They reported seven inches o f cient flow to warrant the expense of ford or an equal distance, tho cost phy o f the country and other conditions exposition within the next thirty daya. 'bringing it into the city, provided there snow at Glendale when they left. would approximate the same as the may require, and it is also provided Every building fo r the 1909 fair will were no legal obstacles to be overcome; Lame Shoulder. F or 5AI.R—Our entire herd o f fine as there does not seem to be sufficient pipeline to Rogue river, but you could that in cases where it appears just, ths be completed by May 1, leaving thirty cut out the pumping plant and ita main county may asw m e s portion or all o f Jersey dairy cows, nearly all to be fresh tc fill a tws-ineh pipe. I f a two-inch This is a common form o f muscular days in which to clear the grounds o f tenance and expense of pumping. Med in about 30 days. Will sell one or more, j stream is all that you can get, you had ford would have the water to spare the tws-eighths cost supposed to be rheumatism No internal treatment is debris and complete the pUcing o f such to suit; also 5 yearlings, 10 calves and best reduce the size of your town now needed. Apply Chamberlain's Lini exhibits as have not been installed up for a good many years to come. 11 paid by the property owners. 8 ahoats. Can be seen at the Henaley ■ to fit it. The amount to be expended by the ment freely twice a day and a quick to that time. will probably bo several year* before place, near Central Point. Call on or There arc three other source# o f supply, their daily use would amount to four state for road* in any one year is limit cure is certain. This liniment has address Marshall A Sons, Central Point, ; Pir»t> Rogue river, distant about four million gallons. This would make the ed to one-half o f one mill upon the as proven especially valuable fo r muscular p R . H. P. HARGRAVE Oregon 34d45 j a»d one-half miles. Water could be total eost approximately <30,000 to <35,- sessed valuation o f the property in the and chronic rheumatism, and is sure to ! pumped from there into Central Point, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON , state. The county shall determine give quick relief. Chamberlain’ s Lini John May has moved from town to i but the cost would bo large and the 000 . If the Condor Water Power company What roads shall be improved, but the ment is also most excellent fo r sprains the F. M. Hurley farm, where he will maintenancc would be expensive. Ton- Ofllre m r Pint Bank look after the place pending Mr. Hur inch wood pipe laid would cost about furnish the power at a minimum of Highway Commission may, for good and bruises. Price, 25 cents; Urge size <1.75 the probable cost would be from and sufficient reasons, refuse to sanc 50 cents. For sale by Mary A . Mee. » s i ley’ s return from the east, where him <18,000, and there would probably bo <62 to <175 per month, if we install tion the improvement. self and family are spending the winter. legal difficulties to be overcome or a X 35-horse power motor. The bill provides that the principal Since going to Illinois Mr. and Mrs. j royalty to pay, as the water at this Oas-producer engines, if run four Hurley and their eon have all been at- point belongs to a corporation, or at hours per day on <20 coal (this would roads o f the county shall be first im tacked with smallpox and, while not least is claimed by them. Ano.ther be good coal or charcoal) would cost proved and leaves the selection o f the dangerously ill, the experience detract- source of supply is the city o f Medford <1.80 per day or <54 per month. (Char particular roads to the county court. One of the Soundest Financial Another bill which has been prepared ed somewhat from the enjoyment o f| w“ *r ' u' f y <rom Pi"h “ e* eithe.r b/ coal at 1 cent per pound is ahont <7 . . . . * * tapping their reservoir or the pipe lead- Institutions on the Pacific coast provides fo r working prisoners in the per cord for fir wood and <1 for mak eir visi . ing from Fish lake. I am not able to Sam Murray, the fgroceryman, is a I , ay at this time whether this could be ing it into charcoal.) This would cover county, town or city jails on the public Transacts a General Banking Business. booster for this climate, as everyone j done or not. It is simply .»suggestion. the tow n’s present consumption and per roads, those serving sentences to be haps for some time to come, a* it would compelled to work during the time o f Your account is respectfully so There is a possibility that you might who ever heard him know The other mean 80,000 gallons per day, or you licited, be it large or emalL day Mr. Murray took a load o f gro develop an adequate supply o f water could pump 480,000 gallons daily for their sentence a id those serving out ceries out to P. J. Bean’ s camp in the by sinking. This would cost you sev <10.80 per day, or <324 per month. If fines at the rate o f $2.00 a day until DIRECTORS. Willow Spring mining district, and he eral thousand dollars less than to pump the Rock Springs coal Is as good as it such fine is paid. Provision is made from Rogue river; that is, you would for the transfer o f prisoners from ons says that until then he never fully J. W. MERRITT, J. O. ISAACSON, have the eost o f the pipe, about <18,000, is claimed for it, yon could cut these county to another where circumstances realized the truth o f this climate. Sam figures in two or call the expense for President Cashier as a fund with which to develop water. make such a course desirable; also for thought the bean a very tender plant, I have made an estimate o f the amount fuel <27 to <162 per month, thus mak W. C. LEEVER, I. C. ROBNETT that could not flourish in Winter, but o f pipe the city would need; in fact, ing cost for pumping in furl 1 1-8 to credits for good conduct, not to exceed Vice-President W. J. FREEMAN. says that on that trip he found a half the estimate probably covers more pips 2Vi cents per thousand gallons 175 5 days in any one month, and bread and dosen as fine young bean plants as you than you would need at this time. It feet high. I f coal that will do the work should I4 K I I-I 1 1 - H m i l I M*h could wish to see and the cold wave had is as follows: : : 4-1-1 H I ' H ' I I H I I ■H -H -H -l-H 14 4 1 1 4 4 H - H -H -4-H -U « I 1 H »4 I 1 * * 4 H i Presuming you should succeed in de be developed in this valley it would un not hurt them a bit. doubtedly reduce the fuel expense to veloping the water at tho city park: less than 60 cents per thousand gallons. There would be 5000 feet o f fl Money in Turkeys I am strongly in favor of the gas- inch main, costing, if of cost producer system, but I believe that for John Sisty, o f Willow Springs pre iron, kalameined and asphalt tho present an arrangement with the ed, presumed to be the best cinct, related the other day how he pipe made, 66 cents per foot.< 3,300 electric people would be advisable, as it saved his young orchard and farm crop# would save several thousand dollars’ from the grasshoppers last Summer. 10,400 feet 4-ineh laterals, same pipe, at 42 cents per f o o t .. 4.368 expense in installation o f the system. A fter putting in several days’ hard, The minimum motor rate would cover hot work spraying his trees With dif your pumping oxpense for some time T o t a l............ ...............................» L 998 ferent kinds o f “ dope” that had been and in the event o f the development o f Same amount o f cast Iron pipe, recommended as death to grasshoppers asphalted only ........................... 6,440 <5 coal in the valley they would have to reduce their rates to meet competi and finding that the only trouble was Same amount o f wood pipe, guar tion. to get the pesky things to eat it—which anteed to stand 150 pounds’ You can get a 35-horse power elec they wouldn’ t do—Mr. Sisty changed 4.142 pressure ..................................... tric motor for <1000, laid down in Cen bis tactics and went out among bis Fire hydrants cost from <27.50 tral Point. This motor will have a neighbors and bought up ail the turkeys to <35 each. ■peed o f 900 revolutions per minute he could find for sale. He secured 140 A 60,000-gallon redwood tank 525 By putting in a counter shaft you can costs ............................................. o f the great American birds, took them run either pump you want to. This home and put them to work eating the A 70-foot tower to support tank wnold allow you to install yonr plant costs ............................................. 1,000 hoppers. Mr. Sisty says be counted for <4500 less on the item o f power, Fittings and hydrants would cost the number o f hoppers a turkey could or with an allowance o f <2500 for de about ...................................... J iM pick up in a minute and found that the veloping water, Kal. 423,000. Asph. <21,- Cost o f laving iron pipo, approx 500, Wood <18,230, including 20 per average was about 25 per minute for im a t e ly '.................................. I ." 9 cent. each turkey, 1500 an hour, or a total of Cost of laying wood pipe, approx In conclusion, will say that I believe 210,000 her hour fo* the whole flock. imately ....................................... 1,100 you can install voor system by develop W orking 10 hours a day this would mean Powar. ment of water by sinking for lose mon that the 140 turkeys would get away Steam powsr costa in fuel, besides ey than it would cost you to run a pipe with 2,100,000 hoppers every day, which ntt ndance, about 6 pounds coal per line to any other source of supply, and ia going some in the way o f killing off horte power per hour. With coal at that your actual cost for water would grasshoppers. Seriously, however, Mr. <10 per ton it would require an expens* be less; and that the heartfelt desire of Sisty says the turkeys soon cleaned up for fuel of 75 rants per hour to pioneers o f civilization wonld be all the hoppers and after the first day 20.000 gallon, of water per hou,P 1 « | £ l w d : Too wooId be free and tnde- feet hijfh. . or so tiie damage done to his young Gas prodneer engine* are guaranteed j trees and crops was merely nominal, Hoping that the foregoing remarks not to require mere than one and one ' be aeeepted '■ ia me the .p spirit in . whieh and in addition to saving bis crops and £ “ half pound, of eoal per boor pa, brake , will ^ m in .. ; trees he found the turkey crop highly ; horl(P ând , gpoed regulation * * • / p re p a re d -!« good fa.th . profitable when Fall came A fter r b »y- that .ban -Ot vary <s exeeed 2 per : * ■ “ > k.ndnrea Trsmmn. ; PETER APPLEGATE. I] ing the turkeys and paying all expenses , #nt wh. a operating on any and all connected with their keep, including_a loads between 25 per cent o f full load large and well arranged poultry house, and full rated load, which iaV permanent improvement, he I have therefore secured quotations j cleared $1.00 a head on the flock. T h e 1 on gas producer engines, vir: neighbor who sold him the turkey« say* The priee quoted for two com System. Cost of First class Plant Approxi mates $25,000. R e ca p itu la tio n . and Install Exhibits at Big A .-Y .-P . Show at Seattle. C E N T R L P O IN T S T A T E BANK W hy D id CENTRAL POINT w i n the FOOTBALL GAME? 3ecau «e o u r p la y e r s are all users of the FINE GROCERIES so ld b y C r a n fill & R o b n e t t . that he lost more than $500 in damage to his crops after the turkeys’ * 0,, tr ,p l,nn,,‘ «’“ '"P«« with tb# iprvifpfl of ar errtting en- I I I I I I t I 1 I 4 -H-»- v 4-H 4 -:-H -H -M I I I I >'I I I I I H I I I M I 4-1 I » l-v+ V H 4 -M -H l- M - l I I M I I I I 44 4-t 1