Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-09-04
Commercial Club Coop
crates with Farmers.
NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY
The Committee Appointed to
Negotiate With tho Aments
Make Report.

That the present irriagtion agitation
is not to be confounded with the abor-
tive efforts in past years in this
direction may be CLEANED from the re-
port of the committee recently ap-
pointed by the executive board Of the
Commercial Club at a meeting some
weeks ago for the purpose Of desising
ways and means for getting irrigation
project in operation. While the nego.
tions have been pending for the past
two weeks or more and it has been
generally known that some sort of ir.
rigstion enterprise was on foot the
general public has not known until
this week just what was being done.
Few II any in the county will gain.
say the imperative need of irriagtion
in this section, and while there is some
difference of opinion as to the methods
there is.a general unanimity Of spirit
and effort In favor Of any feasible and
exhaustive scheme which will bring
a considerable portion of the orchard
lands adjacent to Grants Pass under
water for irrigating purposes. For 1t
means to double IL not threble ,or
quadruple the yield of every acre of
land so watered, not 10 mention the
doubling the market value Of the land
and greatly increasing the population
Of both the city and county. M
The following committee report was
presented at meeting Of the board
of directors of the Commercial Club
held Tuesday. The report was accepted
and the committee continued. The
Commercial Club is co-opeating with
the farmer 10 every way possible
to the end that one or more large
supply bitches may be built and a
supply of water arranged for In time
for next seasons crops.
In consonanoe with the recommends
tion Of the committee report Attorneys
II. d. Norton and q. II. Durham and
Mr.. H. l.. Gilkey were appointed a
committee of three to look into the
legal phase OF the bonding act and pre-.
pare report for the executive comit-
tee of the Comercial Club
To the Executive Committee OF the
Grants Pass Commercial Club:
Gentemen-We, your committee ap.
pointed to meet the Ament Brothers,
managers Of the Golden Drift Mining
Company, to negotiate with them an
agreement regarding a supply Of water
Tor irrigating bitches for the Grants
Pass section Of the Rogue Biver Valley.
do report as follows:
BY appointment We met the Aments
on Monday evening, August 81, and
took up with them the whole subject Of
irrigation for our valley and had an In
terchange OF ideas al to the various
methods OF bringing about the much
needed watering OF the farming and
fruit lands OF this section. II gives us
pleasure TO report that we found the
Ament Brothers earnest and practical
in their desire for irrigation, and, after
talk which lasted the better part OF
three hours in the interchange OF ideas
pertinent to the subject in hand, the
conference adjourned for one week to
get further instruction from your com
mittee and TO await some investiga-
tions which the Aments desire to make
before Submitting q complete PROPOSE
tion reagrding the cost of supplying
water for the contemplated bitches.
We further desire to ssy..st this time
that in our opinion, IL 10 entirely prac-
tical TO enter into an agreement with
the Aments TO furnish an abundant
supply of water for the irrigation Of a
section Of country extending fully ten
miles below the Golden Drift dam
on either side Of the river
, Your committee rather fsvors the or
gsnization Of an irrigation district mex
, year and insist upon having 1t. there
, fore we suggest the incorporation of
: farmers ditch company to imme
: diately, after an agreeable contract
0 secured from some corporation whic
$ can supply water. commence the cor
istruction Of bitches V cover al suc