Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-05-15
AUTO CROWDS EQUINE
IN JOSEPHINE COUNTY

from Mr.. Olding's garage and hoy !
Wilson, who sells gasoline gigs in
Grants Pass are ample proof. Mr..
Gliding Gays;
The horse no longer can maintain
the stream OF progress in Josephine
county. His place is being usurped
by the automobile. During the past ~
weeks no less than IA new touring cars
have been brought to Grnats Pass
Msxwells, Csdillacs. Tourists and
Wintons hold the sway. Those who
pass the local garage and livery OF
T. B. Olding who sells Mawxells
throughout Suotbern Oregon, are i'm
pressed with the appearance of large
city From in the morning until
near midnight the hustle and thrill
about his place of business shows that
there Is "much doing" In the valley
of the Rogue. Two livery cars are
flying hither and thither at any hour
while tho "Honk Honkl" of
sone impatient driver calling for
gasoline, lubrioating oil, or almost
any piece Of equipment from a spark
plug to limoresins, body proves to
you that Oldings advent in Grants Pass
brought q new live wire to town.
Few people realize what great
credit a good automobile garage is to
our town. 1t stands in the same re.
lation that does . good hotel. Two
travellers touring between Los Angeles
aud Portland meet at Frisco and the
south bound one tells the other ''be
sure to make your night stop at Grants
Pass You'll find better hospitality
and better accommodations there than
elsewhere on the road" 1t begins to
look ss If we had caught breath of
the modern spirit in town. Ono day
out glides . silent running, two-oylln-
der Maxwell with Olding at the
wheel aud later. back comes the incor.
poration papers for our big new ir-
riagtion ditch. Heavens how the
eyes of the traditional yet living
mossback do bulge. Another turn,
strange, yet familiar "Honk," and
up drives II A Hover In . kindred
Maxwell on his way from Mexico.
four years trip around the world.
Trunks, grips, tropic water bag. tent,
a spring and shock absorber-every
known improvement attached TO one
car, that car to visit Canada. Italy,
France. Germany, Egypt, Palestine.
and Grants Pass, helped that traveller
along She showed that world tourist
genuine hospitality and that hospi-
tality will be heard around the world.
Another car glides away and candi-
date for the United States senate comes
back in it saying that Grants Pass will
get seaport terminal freight rate if
/ ever work in Washington. What do
these things? Tired and abused horses
with camel bumped backs or frames
ready to put meat on? No; a modern,
elegant. silent running motor car that
economy and business sense teach us
to use for both business and pleasure.
Our mountain scenery with the
swinging, sloping, winding roads
through passes and canyons, by rivers
and lakes, over mountains or across
bouleyards stretches of valley orchard
districts-all go to enchsnt the home
seeker, the pleasure-seeker or the
promoter. Our own citizen, with their
many cars for themselves and for
their friends, will gain knowlegde Of
the country that will senu intelligence
to the waiting public.
When will the trolley lines and the
railroad come? They will hurry along
when you send some investor in your
new car aloug the railroad right Of
way to Crescent City, or up Williams
Creek to the caves, or to the m ines
down Rogue River. Get in the Csdil.
lac car with the Williams stage driver
and see how much more smoothly,
quickly aud silently the mail is de.
livered, the passenger carried anl
the baggage transported. The CadIl.
lac car uses one.hslf of the time the
painting team was wont to require.
Get in the Cadillac with Doctor
Smith. when the telephone calls him
TO distant country home. There is
no stork in America can beat that
car.
Let the surrounding towns sit up
and know that Grants Pass is swiftly
eclipsing her sister settlements: that
she is moving with q speed consistent
with the progress necessary 10 handle
her growing crops to market the ava.
lanche Of fruit sure 20 drop upon us in
two more years, to bring TO town her
waiting forests and build ships.snd
warehouses TO accommodate the exit
of Oregon's export commerce. The
city Of Grants Pass extends 70 Olding
sincere thanks for the gap he filed in