Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-11-17
PORTLAND BUSINESS MEN
VISIT GRANTS PASS
Delighted With Rogue River VAL
ley-Compliment Southern
Oregon Metropolis.

ants, manufacturers, railroad men.
hnsnciers and newspaper men left
Portland Tuesday noon on special
train and stopping at the Willamette
Valley towns ON the main line of the
Southern Pacific during the afternoon
and evening. During the night the
train made the run to Grants Pass, ar.
irving here early in the morning.
where a brief stop was made to take
on the special committee of welcome
for Grants Pass. This committee was
made up Of Mayor George Good, Coun-
ty Judge j. o. Booth and @. L. Man
gum, president of the Miners Associ-
alton, and they accompanied the Port.
landers on their tour of Rogue River
Valley.
The train ran direct to Ashland,
where the excursionists were enter
tanned for two hours in a manner be-
lifting that hustling young city.
The return trip was then begun, the
special train running to Medford, where
it was switched to the Jacksonville
line and the trip made to that town.
A welcome, such as Jacksonville is
famous for, was given to the disting.
uished visitors, and stop of 30 min
utes made. Medford was the uext
point aud here a stop of an hour was
made during which the Portlanders
were most hospi tably entertained. A
brief stop was made at Central Point,
the big electric power plant at Gold
Ray viewed. and then stop al Gold
Hill was ma de. A feature of the re-
ception here was the music by the
Girls Cornet Band, and organiza ion
made up of IA school girls under the
leadership of ]. f. Nelson. The girls
so pleased the excursionists that
the hand was hired by the Grants Pass
reception committee to accompany the
party to this city. On the way down
they gave number of selections and
we're presented with purse of $50
which was contributed by the Port
landers. The train made stop at
Golden Drift. where the visitors
spent 10 minutes in inspecting the
biggest mining pumping plant on the
Pacific Coast
Arriving at Grants Pass the train
pulled into the depot yard amid the
blowing of all the factory whistles
and of the locomotives at the round
house and in the switch yard. The
general reception committee of 200,
together with big gathering of the
citizens were on hand to give hearty
welcome to the representatives of the
metropolis of the Northwest from the
metropolis of Southern Oregon. The
visitors we're at once escorted to the
opera house where the formal reoep-
tion was held. Long tables had been
set. graced with large dishes of lus-
cious strawberries and big pitchers of
rich Josephine County cream, an
decorated with oak leaves, Oregon
grape and chrysanthemums. The
straw berries aud the use of the opera
house was the generous contribution
of II. @. Kinney and II. L. Truax. of
the Sugar Pine store. The table set
t,ngs were mostly from the Hotel
Josephine, the contribution of Mayor
Good. The artistic decorations of
the tables and the hall and the splen-
did table service was due to the
ladies of Grants Pass, whose assistance
did much toward giving the oity's
guests the very favorable impression
that they received of Grants Pass.
While the visitors we're regaling
themselves on the strawberries and
cream, addresses of welcome and the
responses were made. Rev. J. b.
Travis, president of the Municipal
League, greeted the guests in brief
and we'll worded speech, in which he
spoke of the bright future of Grants
Pass, the vast resources of Josephine
county. He expressed the senti iment
Of Grants Pass that this visit from
the representative men of Portland
would do much toward the upbullding
of Rogue River Valley, for with
tortland having a knowledge Of the
vast undeveloped resources of this
section of Oregon, they will be the
more interested in our welfare In
response to calls W. @. Duniway, for
merly leading editorial writer on
the Oregonian, but now at the head of
big job printing Office in Portland,
responded on behalf of the guests.
Mr.. Duniway spoke Of the surprise
after surprise that bad greeted the
Portlanders since they began their
trip through Rogue River Valley, in
the bright, hustling towns they saw,
the great orchards, the splendid
showing of mineral, timber aud az
ricultural wealth and the vast water
power that made certain a prosperity
such as bat few other sections Of the
Paicfc Coast could even enjoy. He
co complimented Grants Pass on the
business activity tor which it is noted
an d hoped the ties between Portland
and Grants Pass would grow stronger
that each might be helped by the
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