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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1915)
OUR MERCHANTS •£» ¿A6 ¿A5 V v W ill Rive you a “ sq u a re d e a l" every tim e They a p p re c iate your patro n ag e and w ill tre a t you riK ht 26, 1906 C entral P oint herald THE HERALD W ill co-opera to w ith you on any proposition for ih«> b ette rm e n t of C entral P oint and i u vicinity C entral P oint , J ackson C ounty , O regon , T hursday , O ctober ï -1915 N imber 24 V olum e T en Will they extend you credit? Would COMMINILA (ION IRRIGATION IS THE OPPORTUNITY IS they to the support of one of To the Editor of the Central Point your contribute neighbors if he were in destitute GREAT NEED AT YOUR DOOR Herald: circumstancs? Don’t you know tli it Sir will you please give me space the merchants of this city have and do Not only opportunity, but GOLDEN in Dir your Irrigation is the great need of OPPORTUNITIES papper to reply to an article contribute to the support of the needy are knocking at the in your papper Oct. 7th Central P. of the community? Haven’t you asked the Rogue River valley, With doors of every farmer in the Rogue headed the sign of the times in regu- them to do so? At the same time did out it there can be no further nver valley; not only knocking at the ard the mail order You slap ask S. and Roebuck to contribute? development of horticultural or door of every farmer, but the door of j to the man who stnds houses. hja money to the yon Rogue river valley has long ago be W ’hy you since you are one of agricultural resources, and as a every citizen in this valley. But, we mail order house is a little out of place. their didn.t come famous in the markets of the SUGAR FACTORY customers? Will you, Mr. Rich regret to say many are turning a deaf community we must slide back ear to the loud knocking. For your Suarly your brein has jumped a cog. ardson deliver us one world, and often command the highest hundred pounds price. This seasons crop has added try it again. Sure it is bad to send of good potatoes at $1.15, and as many wards. NFEDS ACREAGE new laurels. Mr. W. H. Norcross, who money out of the county. But what more as we can use? Our merchants Tne exnerience 01 of the nast two ?wn KOod the and posterity the *ood of uf all, your open ne'Kh' me experience tne past bor and the ditfrents has a hne orchard near this city and A $600,000 beet sugar factory years it make who sends it. have been paying $1.50 per hundred to of comparative drouth door and let opportunity, prosperity weather it does and packs and markets his own fruit, will be built in the Rogue River is the dealer or the consutn- local growers when potatoes could have and also the fruit of many of the other valley by the Oregon-Utah Sugar should convince the most skepti- and happiness enter. A million dollar mer. to lustrate 1 sent to Sears Keo- been laid down here for $1.15 to $1.30. cal of the need of water. The '"dustry is pleading to be admitted and buck Chicago III. for a bradelv corn No argument can pe produced to con growers which he markets with his. The sucess he has met w i t h is company, if contracts for 5000 loss in products for either of bring to you what you have been labor- drill it cost me dliverered $11.00. and vince the mail order bouse worshiper . i . i , i ir.g for for years prosperity. Three the best figure that local dealers would flattering and encouraging. will be signed up by the farmers these that his is wrong in principle years is much greater than or five thousand of sugar beets give me was $15.00. all the diffrents I and costly practice Half box pack Bose sold in New York and land owners. This is the as the Cost of an irrigation system, out of an acreage of acres in the end; though ample 30,000 acres should for $2.20 and the full boxes averaged surance sent to this city by Geo. see in sending the $11.00 my self I evidence is abundant to convince the $3.04. The half box cornice sold for E. Sanders, vice-president and There is no assurance that the be pledged in one day. Three or five have the $4.00 in my pocket or in the good reasoner that it is. The east is coming year will not be as dry thousand acres out of 30,000 acres pocket of the dealer. That may be more prosperous today than it ever has $ 2 . 10 . This fruit war sold under the auction one of the directors of the re as the past two seasons, and that sho“ld be brou«ht * * * * * Ration pernicious let it it be so I perfure to been; money is plentiful and loans are , * , . , without any effort. With a sugar have, the $4.00 in my pocket. Is it not made at a low rate of interest. Why plan, which is, no doubt, the best plan cently organized company. All sor the growers. Under this system of the preliminary details have cycles of dry seasons may not be faclory in operation will come a great- worth as much to the county as me to shouldn’t this he the case? The west there is not the opportunity speculati- been completed. Contracts will expected in the future. Simply er cattle and hog production. Here is have that $4.00 as the dealer. And on keeps a stream of money continually as crop insurance, water is worth salvation for you. Will you accept or the other hand is it not a fact. That pouring into the money centers of the and graft that prevails under other be reject it? Such a golden opportunity the looal dealer will ship farm products east *''ru the mail order route, thereby systems. The auction system sells ready for distributation with ¡Is annual cost. may never come again. from California or any where els if he eliminating the circulating medium of fruit on its merits and the returns is in a few days. The hard times the valley is prompt—the shipper is not compelled The contracts call for a five- expetiencing are due wholly to The Herald will accept wood as pay can get it cheaper by so doing, not this section. whith standing the same product may If some part of your Bradley drill to wait six months for his money. term, beginning with 1916, crop shortage, which in turn is ment for subscription. be rotting in the field of his local cus- wore out or broke, Mr, Richardson, Mr. Norcross is very much encour year aged by the sucess he has had, and next and the company agrees to pay due to lack of water. Food pro- ’ ------------------ --------- ----- termer. and you make an olfle face could blame a local dealer for not he expects to do much moore shipping. $5 per ton for all beets over 80 ducts of all kinds bring a good kins lateral, sign up for water, and call him names if the farmer sends selling you you that part? Wouldn’t he be otF for his goods for the same reason per cent purity or better, and price, but the supply is deficient. The contract offered is a liberal justified in telling to send to S. & the dealer sends his money off as he R. for the repair? you PATRONIZE OUR containing 15 per cent or more No homeseekers ase going to . one— $50 per acre, no payment sends What your it where he gets it the chepest. time be worth while waiting would for it to sugar, and for all beets contain purchase land unless it is under:on the principal until the sixth By all means we should keep our HOME INDUSTRIES ing no less than 12 Der cent water. come from Chicago? Nothing, because year, no interest payment until money at home as much as possible you do not consider the merchant’s Every loyal and patriotic citizen of sugar, at the rate of $4.25 per The people of the valley are the third year, with $2 50 an and if our towns was filled up with Central Point and the Rogue river ton. It is agreed in the contract largely to blame for their pre acre maximum maintenance men who were manifactoring raw time worth anything; you want him to your goods just for accommoda valley owes it to himself and his best such as wool hides and lum supply tion, without profit or thanks. interest to patronize the Central Point that payments for the beets shall dicament, for water could have charge, thus giving the grower materals ber. it would be much better for the If you know it, any repeat Golden Mills. This mill is manufacturing a be on the 15th of each month been had at any time it was real- the opportunity of making the county to have it filled up with Rule rigut here. It does us the all good to high grade flour and offering it for sale The crystalizing of sentiment ly desired. Several fruitless cost of the water out of increas- men who than makes their own liveing and this beautiful passages often. on its merits at a very reasonable for a beet sugar factory in this campaigns to secure acreage et* production, fortuning ort- of the ditfrents between repeat Yes, express companies and niernh- price, It has been put to a rigid test valley has been under way for needed have been conducted. what he pays for the goods and what i Here, then, is an opportunity sells them to the consummer for. ants opposed the parcel post legislation by several good bread bakers and has at first because it was legislation in proved satisfactory. Bread made from the last nine months and is now An irrigation system has been for those in the Central Point he Now Editor will you be fair tended to completely destroy every it is light, white and wholesome. This up to the farmers and landown within grasp at any time, and region to secure irrigation in enough Mr. mill is also making ail kinds of mill ers, Utah capitalists being will at as low cost as any of tne sys- time for next season’s crop—and answer. to publish this as you ask for line of rural merchandising, was lobbied for by every mail order house stuff of the best quality and at prices ing to back the project in time terns, the money available to the only opyortunity offered. It Yours truly, in the country. When the act was below what is being asked by other to handle the 1916 crop. HARVEY RICHARDSON. construct it assured—yet the peo- is questionable whether any pro- P. S. Is it not a fact that the mer finally passed it was supposed it was mills. Encourage home industry by This means that action must be pie have preferred to chase irri- posed project could equal the chants and express cos. fought the fair and equitable to all classes, but it giving loyal patronage to the local has since been discovered that mail or mill. It is right that you do this and taken at once to secure the gation rainbows, anything rath- offer made this district, parsel post to the last ditch. houses succeeded in getting a few it is economy, also. needed 5000 acreage. The com er than get down to business and The company has annually an- There are two sides to every question der "jockers” in. mercial clubs of the valley have really secure water. nonneed that it stood ready to and many will agree with Mr. Rich “ IK YOU slipped buy out WE been requested to co-operate in Yet, while the people are talk- complete its irrigation system by ardson. The trouble with them is they buy out of town of and »own ALL und OUR the campaign to ascure acreage ing, one concern is acting and extending the high-line dttch to do not go deep enough in the question NEIGHBORS buy out of town.what in they only see the dollar they can pos- thunder will beeme of our town? Ever for an industrial project. The the problem. The Rogue cover the entire valley south, of ibly can save on some purchase of an stop to think of that? By Arthur M. Geary company will likely establish of solving River Canal company is the only Talent, and the construction of article. fail to consider the in The Ilearld is complcd to ad fices in this city and Grants Pass company in Jackson county additional storage reservoirs, direct evil They The Sicilian lemon im at an early date. resulting from the practice. mit that the merchants of nearly every spending a considerable amount provided necessary acreage could Mr. Richardson does not deny a single town are largely to blame for the ex porters of New York, New The Oregon-Utah Sugar com of statement we made last week. Nor isting evil. It does not claim that in development pro- be secured, but never before has does Orleans, Boston and Phila pany is officered by men of fin jects money he mention a mailorder transaction yon arc pompted to do this away from- this year. Some 200 men 8UCh an advantageous contract ho probably is acquainted with, wherein home trading by evil purpose. Merch delphia are feeling keenly ancial power, and the establish are being employed constructing been offered. Action in this dis- one of our citizens for a bar ants have gone to sleep on their jobs the competition of the lem ment of a beet sugar factory here storage reservoirs in the moun- trict will probably be delayeyd rel of paint be cause sent he away could save u and allowed the progressive and per ons raised in California. would mean the induction of Ut tains to impound water for irri- until the reclamation engineers few cents. When the barrel arrived sistent mail order houses to convince half of the paint had leaked out. Did you with their literature that they can The brokers who have been accus ah capital into this section. The gating the valley. A diversion make their report, mail order house stand the loss? No. «ave you money, if you will just send tomed to sell to customers in all parts president of the conceen is C. W. dam is being built on Bear creek, Irrigation seems to he a ques- the •f tbs United States have had their Niblev, a bishop in the Morman near Talent, and over a thousand tion of evolution in the valley, The purchaser was informed that he them your gold to carry on their bus would have to look to the railroad com iness, which you are doing innocently (told of activity pushed eastward un Plenty of evdence is at hand and right royally. By their non-adver til ■ow they find themselves com- church, wealthy banker and tim- acres of the choicest orchard extending gradually by units, pany. with the California shippers in berman. Alex Nibley, his son, land in the valley will hereafter amj jt js sincerely to be hoped to prove that the purchser never receiv tising und unup-to (lateness the local tfco ports of entry from Europe. is secrety, and Harold Smoot, be irrigated from this neglected that enough of the farmers of ed payment for the half barrel waste, merchants are losing trade and the Both the Sicilian and California it has now been a year since the local puiichaslng public is making no the Central Point district em- and lemons are sold at auction in the large son of Reed Smoot, United States source, transaction took place. Will you admit saving, h II things considered. I he re Senator from Utah, and Willard oities. In New York the California The company stands willing to brace the favorable opportunity Mr. Richardson, that you have no in sult is as we slated laHt week the shippers have the advantage of being R. Smith, son of the head of the expend $250,000 additional this now offered to insure the con- formation of transactions of this kind, rural districts are being continually oblo to display all of their fruit upon Morman church, directors. Bish the purchaser was loser in hie drained of a circulating medium mid Pior 20, which is in the center of the op Nibley’s interest in the pro winter in enlarging its canal sys- atruction of the Hopkins lateral, where with the mail order houses? becoming slaves of the money power; tern for the lower end of the val- f0p 3000 acres watered this year transaction wholesale fruit section of New York. Will you deny that you ask your home the people are both producers and ject it to establish his son Alex ley, provided 3000 acres out of a means annually enlarged acre- merchants "credit" and then send borrowers because of this wrong sys This worti Is to the sharpest, beavwi in a big business.—Medford possible 30,000 between Central age in future years.—Medford cash away for for things you could buy al tem. to the most worthy.—Cicero. Tribune. Point and Tolo, under the Hop- Mail hribune. home? Will Sears and Koehuek accept your personal check for merchandise? Try your local jeweler next time— E stablished A pr il CENTRAI POINT PACK PEARS TOP N. V. MARKET CALIFORNIA BRAN D WINS Granfili & Robnett Headquarters For can’t get what you want here right price it is unattainable- and see- AMMUNITION W . C. Leever Cranfill & Robnett The Hardware Man Central Point Mills is the place to exchange your grain for FLOUR, FEED OR C A S H ‘MT. PH T FLOUR is sc’entifically milled of only the best wheat obtainable, and gives entire eatisfaction or mon ey refunded. "MT. PITT" is a high patent flour, and a home product sold on its merits. To be had, also, at your grocers.