Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-07-26
THE OREGON IRRIGA-
TON ASSOCIATION
Meets In Grants Pass Septemb ber
10. ii. and II. in Convention
With Industrial Fair.

lhat an equally good showing OF the
products of Rogue River Valley at the
time that the Oregon Irrigation Associa-
tion holds its meeting in Grants Pass
on September 10, IL, II is the deter
mination of the Grants Pass CONNER
cial Club an dof the Grants Pass Fruit
Growers Association. This fair is to
be broader in scope than usually at
tempted at irrigation conventions and
will embrace complete exhibit of
every product of Rogue River Valley.
The people of Jackson county will be
asked to cooperate and throug the fruit
growers associations and commercial
clubs of that county it is expected to
have that county as well represented as
will be Josephine county.
The Grants Pass Commercial Club
and the Grants Pass Fruit Growers
Association are jointly working in ar
ranging the details for both the irri-
CATION convention and the fair, and
while these two organizations are taking
the brunt of the work and putting up
the money for the advertising and pre-
liminary expenses, it is expected that
every resident of Josephine county will
do their full part in securing y big
attendance for the irrigation CON
ventiOn and the fair and for a splendid
exhibit for the fair. An executive
committee representing the Commercial
Club and the Fruit Growers Association
has been chosen to have general super
vision of all arrangements for both the
| irrigation convention and the fair.
This committe is made up of Charles
Meserve, secretary and manager of the
Grants Pass Fruit Growers Association.
r. w. Clarke, Manager for the Grants
Pass Light and Water Systems, Joseph
Moss, real estate dealer, NJ. J. Ander-
son, supervisor of the Siskiyou and
Ashland Forest Reserves, j. f. Hair,
manager Southern Oregon Title Guar.
antee & Abstract Company, Il. II.
o O'Neil, furnature dealer, J. H. Robin
son, of the Eureka Nursery and presi.
dent of the Grants Pass Fruit Growers
Association, and Lynn D. Allen, the
well known horticultursts and who has
the largest walnut grove in Rogue River
Valley and - acre pecan grove, the
largest on the Pacific Coast. This com
mittee is not for ornament and honor
but for hard work and each has ex-
pressed a determination to do all pos
sible that the irrigation convention and
the fair shall be successes in the fullest
degree.
a meeting of the executive committee
Of the Commercial Club was held Mon.
day evening at the club room at which
several matters were acted on pertain
ing to the irrigation convention and
the fair These undertakings will have
so many details to look after such as
securing speakers and arrange the pro.
gram for the irrigation convention and
to have Southern Oregon fully repre-.
sented in the exhibits at the fair and to
have the two events throughly adver
tised that it was decided to employ
Charles Meseryc to take full charge OF
this work and be superintendent of the
fair As this work will require the
greater part of Mr. Meserve's time
until the close of the fair it was voted
unanimously that the Club pay him q
salary Of $3.50 for the time The com
mittee in makiag this large appropria
tion of the Club s money felt that il
was an advertising expenditure that
would bring more returns 10 Grant,
Pass and Josephine county than an,
similar amount that had ever been ex
pended heretofore for that purpose
The irrigation convention will bring tt
Grants Pass the largest number OF
prominent Government officials and mel
Of National and State standing that
were ever in this city and the exhibit
of products and the showing Of tn,
resources Of Rogue River Valley vii
be so complete and attract such at
tention to this Valley as to bring man,
investors and homeseekers. Mr.. Mes
erve has already done much work I,
make possible that Grants Pass an,
Rogue River Valley should have tn
advertising and the energizing advant
ages Of these two public and farreach