Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-03-16
CENTRAL APPLEGATE

"Ai'o' sinCc EuWdru has uoy.
Ellis Embler. one of our new farmers
OF this county, made Grants Pass a
business trip last Thursday.
We are SORRY to state that Mrs. A.
H. and Louie Carson have been con-
fined to their room for several days
with grippe. We hope they will be
around again soon.
jeff Lindsey is constructing for
himself real cosy dwelling house
on his farm near Murphy. which will
add greatly to the appearance Of his
farm. 1t il a story and q half L
building of 10 rooms.
R. F. Lewman has just closed a
deal with Willie Farris for his 100
acre farm on Applegate and will put
it into an orchard and vineyard. No
doubt this will make fine fruit farm
as tie frost seldom touches it.
Charles Meserve Of the Courier at
Grants Pass, was with us last Satur-
day helping the farmers to get a
farmers telephone company started
and he also stayed over Sunday. Mr..
Meserve is a hustler and we all, no
doubt, appreciate his service.
j. T. Payne and J. Berry, who
leased the old Rehkopf hop yard now
owned by Sam Provolt, have most of
it plowed and pruned. They are
both rustlers and are making a good
showing in the yard with their work,
and no doubt if they keep right on as
they have been, will raise fine crop
of hops.
One of the heaviest snow falls since
's9 and 80 took place here this Tues
day forenoon. 1t startled in early in
the morning with slight skit Mon
day night and fell to depth of about
II inches at this place by noon. In
the afternoon came warm wind and
by evening the snow was most all
gone, it going about as fast as it fell
A. H. Carson, the noted grape
man of Oregon for raising fine grapes
and also who carried off the media !
from the Lewis and Clark fair in
1905 at Portland, is shipping thous-
ands of cuttings this spring to diff
erent sections of the country. The
first of this week Mr.. Carson shipped
20, 600 cuttings to Clarence Thomas at
Kennewick. Washington Most of
them are Rose of Peru and Malagas,
which are being tried in this locality
and Mr.. Thomas wishes to test their
merits in Washington.
o. M. Knox finished his contract
and completed the Laurel Grove
school house last week all but the
desks. Ths district gave dance in
it last Friday night and basket sup
per and the proceeds went to buy
desks. l am informed they took in
quite sum of money. The new
school house is neat little structure
and one that every resident of the
valley can we'll be proud of as it
marks the steps of progression. Give
us few more school houses like Pro.
volt and Laurel Grove and it will add
much to the looks of our valley.
Wright and Hawkins, who recently
purchased the Maid of the Mist mine
from White & Thurston, have bought
all the machinery belonging to the
Rising Star mine located at Williams,
which consisted of five stamp mill
boiler, air compressor and drills and
some other tools about the mine. The
machinery will be moved to Thomp-
son creek as soon as the roads will
permit. The mine is located short
distance from Geo. Hoffman's place
on Tallowbox two miles from Ap-
plegate postoffice aud the mill will
be placed near 1t so as to be handy
to the ore.
E. e. Dixon and Geo. Hall have
bought the Challenge mine located at
Provult, on Maple gulch, better
known as Kiesling gulch, from Sharp
Bros, who recently moved to Grants
Pass and purchased so acre farm
one mile East Of that place. The
new owners are installing a new
steam five stamp mill and the ma
chinery is being hauled out to the
mine from the Pass as fast as the
roads will permit. II the mine runs
into base ore, which il is apt to do.
cysnide plant will be installed
which will enable them to handle
the ore very easily. Applegate has
always been to the front in placer
mines and we hope 1t will soon be to
the front in quartz mines
The farmers OF Applegate valley and
Williams met at Provolt last Saturday
to hear the report Of the committees
on membership and on the cost Of
phones. insulators and wire. Some
IN the co,nmfttaas didn't codo,.t.cd