Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-07-21
INTERESTING NEWS OF
APPLEGATE VALLEY
Crops Good-Harvestins Begun
Water for Irrigation Scarce
To Hold Bis Campmeetins.

friends.
]. I. Layton. the we'll known placer
miner Of Applegate. made Grants Pass
business trip Tuesday.
H. Rehkopf was at Grants Pass
this week making arrangements to
leave for Crescent City on visit
]. Pernoll. the Applegate post
master and merchant. passed here
Saturday with load of freight for
his stere.
Rev. e. Badger. pastor of the
Christian church at Provolt, left
Saturday for Talent, accompanied by
]. Clark, where he will hold meetings
this Su iday.
Jack Dokey, we'll known farmer
Of Williams creek. left Saturday for
Heppner. Oregon. accompanied by his
wife and children. where they will
make their future home.
The new baier of Paine & Swinden
arrived this week. They will start
on the baling Monday. The capacity
of the baler is 80 tons per day
They have two men and four horses.
The baseball game at Murphy, July
l6, was quite interesting. The score
stood . to l3 in favor of Murphy.
The defeated nine were all miners
and captained by Wood Geeder of the
Michigan mine.
Harvesting season has opened and
many are at work cutting, hauling
and stacking. The grain crops are
unusually heavy this season and the
yield will be large of that sown dur
ing the fall but the spring sown grain
will not he so good. bat is an average
one with the grain crops OF other
seasons.
The picnic party returned from their
trip to the Grayback mountains, ex-
hausted and covered with dust. Their
trip was greatly enjoyed. They had
poor success bee hunting. They tell
of drinking water at that camp that
was cold as ice. Their camp was
located in beautiful fir grove just
below bank of snow, 40 feet wide
100 feet long and is almost 30 feet in
depth. There are other banks they
did not mention, which can be seen
from Williams creek. Their next
trip will be to the Oregon caves.
Samuel Provolt was so fortunate as
to fall heir to the amount Of $l2. 600
and a fourth of all property owned
by his sister, Mrs. Jane MoCully. of
Weiser, Idaho. who recently passed
away. Mr.. Provolt is getting old and
he has handsome property of his
own and will now retire from all
work and take the pleasures Of life
which is due to him. He is 20 years
of age and Is in very poor health at
present. Mr.. Provolt has resided al
this place for almost 40 years.
Harry Perkins and Ben George left
Saturday for Little Shasta yalle y,
where they will spend the remainder
OF the summer Mr.. Perkins will stoI
off at Montague where he will tend
bar in saloon for his father. II he
likes his position he will make that
place his future home. Mr.. Perkins
has made his home heretofore with
his grandfather. Frank Baldwin, Of
this place, since child, and attended
the public school at Williams for q
period of five years then moved tC
Provolt where he graduated from the
eighth grade at the Provolt univer.
sity. He is we'll accomplished and
business.like young man and he II
we'll liked and carries good RECON-
mendation.
Johnnie Knutzen, of Thompson
creek. was visitor here Friday OF
business. Mr.. Knutzen tells Of ligh
crops in that vicinity on account Of {
scarcity OF water for irrigating thil
season. He says 1t has been Ions
| time since water was so scarce as i
is now in Thompson creek. Tn,
farmers up that valley have organize,
company and will supply th,
valley with water from the o 'BryaI
fork of Applcgate, which flow
through Steamboat, for irrigation
This should have been looked afte
before, but it was like the vale,
which surrounds Provolt, the farmer
couldn't see the need OF water unit
IL was forced upon them. They havl
been farming this valley since 1856
The farmers are taking great interes
now to make IL one Of the biRges
hay growing valleys in the state.
Berry crops are large. Raspberrie
are almost gone and blackberries ar
now ripeniDg. Apple. peaches, prune
aud plums are average this season
Pears aud are very light and tle Gro
will be small In many orchards
Hops are more than average aud bo
lice are disappearing very rapid.
during the present hot weather
Friday and Saturday July : and
the thermometer registered l08 an,
40 which was the warmest ever know
in his vicinity. At Provolt IL wa
too warm for work and many laid oi
until Monday, the llth, which wa
much more enudrable for work, but !
is what makes the hop man rejoice
Many farmers grumble who have u
water for irrigation. The secon
crop Of alfalfa is being harvested
which is some two weeks earlier tina
that last year and much larger yield
Hay Is selling In the field at e. an
~. baled - and %; clover, timoth