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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-01

The Jubilee Bazaar held at st.
Clements church last week was a fine
financial success. cash receipts being
something more than seven hundred
dollars.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-01

was under the impression that 1
had nearly complete list of the
soldiers who enlisted in Potosi aud
were killed or died during the Civil
War. But here comes my old COM
rade Joe Walker and hands me an ad-
ditional list, all of Company II. of the
25th Regiment commanded by Capt.
Schwan.
Chas. Bilderback, Austin Usher
ness. Walter erosion, Halvin Henry,
John Foster, Jesse Shipton, Andrew
jackson, Daniel Wise, James Chester,
Henry Book, William Bolts, 7.
Brown, Frank Feldhaar. John NELLIE,
Howard Finney and James Hudsmith.
Louis Lafont, mentioned in my
former article belonged to Co. G. End
Regiment
1t will be necessary to mention
that many of these soldiers. although
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23
PAGE THREE

to enjoy good health or to follow
their various callings
elsewhere. There are many persons
who have come under my personal
observation, having spent years in
i'll health, even confined to their
beds with asthma, who are enjoying
good health and are able to follow
their various avocations since COM
ing to this climate. The explanation
for the eye, ear, nose and throat
troubles which exist here can be in
part accounted for by our cosmo-
politan population, coming, as they
do, with varied affections con-
tracted elsewhere. The fact is not
appreciated by eastern people that
we have as mild and as even a elm
ate as the much talked OF Italy and
yet within few hours travel We may
reach climate not unlike the brac-
ing atmosphere of Switzerland. So
while we are Justly proud of the
productions of our state and the op-
portunities afforded for the procur-
ing of wealth let us not forget our
advantages from the standpoint of
health" "
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23

June. A second ditch will be built
on the 100-foot contour starting at
a point on the hillside below the
S50-foot ditch This will furnish
water to considerable section of
country above the river bottom and
parallel with the stream.
The three kinds of soil mentioned
in another article compose the land
under these bitches; the dark loan
of the bottom, the white granite
above it and the red lands of the
hillsides. Every acre composed of
any one of these soils will bring a
good crop when supplied with wate".
The best and most profitable use to
which these lands can be put is ap-
pie. pear and peach orchards and
grape vineyards.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23
GREAT RUSH TO THE
ROGUE RIVER VALLEY
Josephine County, the Land of
Plenty, Has Room for All
Amid Its Grandeur.

According to reports made by
railway companies Oregon gets half
of all the immigrants coming west
this year and Southern Oregon gets
the majority of these There is a
reason for this influx of new blood
and energy which is pouring in to
the Rogue River valley and this rea-
son is not difficult to discern by
those who have been here for even
a few weeks We have climate
uneXcelled, a soil so sensitive to the
touch of husbandry that the most
sceptical are wont to marvel at its
productiveness. Why the scenic
grandeur of this section is akin to
the sublime, and beyond commen-
surate description of either tongue
or pen, and with this all the educa-
tional and intellectual standards of
its present population are second to
no state in the Union.
BY reason of the assiduous in
dustry, thrift, enterprise and public
spirit of the leading citizens of the
Rogue River valley this country has
come TO be a household word in the
homes Of eastern and the middle
west states and 1t is these people
who are coming here In increased
numbers this year to get close to
nature to enjoy the wholesomeness
and sublimity OF simple life and the
emoluments of reasonable industry.
Let the reader who catches this arti-
Gle on his journey across Southern
Oregon remember that he owes II to
himself and his family to stop over
at Grants Pass and examine the
land Of the red apple and the Tokay
grape, Take lay over at Grants
Pass for couple of days and you
will for all time in the future thank
your lucky stars that you had the
wisdom to do so.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23
Money i'm General Farming,

General farming is a highly prof.
table calling under irrigation IN
losephine county. The home mar
ket Is sufficient to demand every
thing that can be raised in the way
Of grain, hay and general forage
Alfalfa and hay have been selling
during the past few months at from
SIS to s24 a ton. Along the Apple
gate river, which is from SIX 10
nine miles from Grants Pass, they
have had irrigation for some years
and farmers have been growing rich
furnishing forage for the Grants
Pass market which has never been
fully supplied with the homegrown
article. Most Of the hay and grain
has been shipped in from point
north. There Is certainly no better
opportunity anywhere for genera
agriculture than around Grants Pass
There is a big demand for potatoes
onions, carrots and other root crops
and there is a hig prc!it In 'aisini
these articles.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23
THE PRESENT CONDITION
FUTURE FRUIT PROSPECTS
\ Review of Orchard and Vineyard
Planting Around Grants Pass
and Josephine County
[ BY Geo. II. Parker.D

In accordance with your request
| submit the following in regard to
the present condition of fruit grow
ing in Josephine county and the
prospects for the future
Fruit of good quality has been
grown in this county since early
pioneer days. At the district fair
held in Grants Pass in September,
1907. apples were on exhibition from
trees brought around the Horn in
'52.
About 20 or 25 years ago some
few commercial orchards were
planted but they were largely prunes
and as the market for that fruit
had not then been worked up, the
price soon went too low for profit.
Then the panic of 9S and the
San Jose scale, which reached here
about that time, discouraged the
growers of all kinds Of fruit and
many promising young orchards
were dug up or abandoned Some OF
the largest of the apple orchards.
however, were brought to success
ful bearing, notably the Eismann
Christie and Miller orchards, and
fully demonstrated the fact that no
section could produce apples of bet
ter size flavor or keeping qualities
than this. Some of the varieties In
these old orchards, such as Ben
Davis, Danver, etc, are not desirable
as commercial apples and the plant.
ers of the new orchards protiting
from the mistakes Of the past have
eliminated them, and the planting i.
now practically restricted TO spitzen
berg yellow Newtown IA Winosap
The number IS set I'D 'h'
county has prcaaoly doubled eyerl
year for the past four or five years
and 4. we nave a good crop Wit
fair prices this season that ratio wIl
DOUBTLESS be maintained an7'hs
year.
On Rogue River from 10 TO /
miles below Grants Pass are some o
the largest and oldest peach '.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23

chards in Southern Oregon. That
section is practically free from frost
and produces a peach uneXcelled in
size and flavor.
The crop of 1907 brought the
highest prices of any crop ever
raised in that section and some of
the Oldest orchards have been bear
ing for twenty years.
The crop of 1905 did not sell
quite so well but was still very re-
muneratiye
There are many other sections of
the county practically as well adapt
ed to the growing of the peach as
that, notably the lower Appegate
valley. There are number of pear
trees on Williams creek over so
years old and probably 90 or 60 feet
high, but the planting of that fruit
has not kept pace with that Of apples
ard peaches. The high price that has
prevailed for the past two or three
years for first-class pears has greatly
stimulated the setting and It Is not
improbable that the total number
planted this season equals the total
number before that The indications
are, however. that next seasons
planting will greatly exceed this.
The varieties almost entirely used
in the commercial orchards are
Bartlett, Buerre du Anjou, Doyenne
du Comice and the Winter Nellis.
The fruit which seems destined to
make Grants Pass and Josephine
county famous, however, is the
Tokay grape Largely through the
efforts and example of A. H. Carson,
proprietor of Redlands vineyard,
ably seconded by W B sherman
and others, Josephine county is, and
seems destined 10 remain the ban
ner county Of the state as regards
grape growing, particularly the
| Tokay.
Hundreds Of acres Of vineyard
we're put IN this spring, mostly In
the immediate vicinity Of Grants
Pass. but there are indications that
the territory between Eo-in aud
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23
Opportunities for Homcscckcrs.

There are great opportunities In
Josephine county within from five
to ten miles from Grants Pass for
homeseekers to procure lands at low
rates which will come under irriga
ton. Ten, twenty and forty acre
places are numerous and desirable.
A small acreage put In grapes, APP
pies, pears, peaches or other fruits
will within very few years become
highly productive, After apple trees
are two years old the value OF the
land will enhance at the rate Of 500
an acre per year. An orchard eight
years old planted to Newtown Pip
pins, Spitzenbergs or other desirable
fruit will be worth not less than
$500 per acre, and It will produce
from $3.50 to $40O per year Of mar
ketable fruit. In the climate Of
the central Rogue River valley, any
where around Grants Pass, there is
fortune for any man who Will
plant and care for an orchard The
same may be said Of grape culture.
and these can be grown on cheap
lands which can now be purchased
for half the money that they will
bring a year from now
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23

Little has been said about the
cultivation of the cherry in Jose.
phine county and yet it can be sac
cessfully claimed that it is one OF
the surest crops in the country. II
has been planted in home orchards
for many years in fact since the
first settlements in this country. As
an illustration there is a cherry
tree now growing on the farm of
Samuel Cook at Missouri Flats,
few miles south of Grants Pass,
which measures 102 inches in cir
cumference with limbs reaching out
over a surface of forty feet. This
tree has never failed to bear fruit
since maturity, and each year there
is gathered from its branches a
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23
YOU SHOULD STOP
OVER AT GRANTS PASS

4 word to the homeseeker at this
time will not be out of order and we
desire TO say to the reader who may
chance to be looking for a place to
live and engage in business that
Grants Pass and Josephine county
offer at this time better opportuni-
ties than can be found at any other
point on the Pacific Coast. First,
the land for fruit and general farm
ing can be purchased at lower
price here than in places where more
development has been done. The
soil Is rich and under irrigation II
will produce more per acre than any
other locality that has as yet been
discovered The climate is a source
Of health and all things considered
this Is the one great land OF oppor-
tunlty. Those who have homeseek-
ers or one-way excursion tickets with
stop-over privileges should by all
means lay over couple OF days at
Grants Pass. The real estate firms
will with their automobiles or teams
show you the country without cost
and without demanding that you
shall purchase. should you be look
ing for an opportunity to buy or
chard lands they will be found here
in great abundance, You will find
also opportunities to go into the
vineyard business, general ff'. ing
or dalryIng. No matter WI OF
these callings you may SELL. 'ere
. Is o.oHoy 70 be made and pie; OF
.it. There are GOOD markets 'or
everything that can be produce
the farm or in the orchard or 7ine-
yard
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23
\ Profitable Investment.

II you want a five, ten, or twenty
acre tract for a fruit farm or vine
yard you can buy lt around Grants
Pass and the price viii entirely de-
pend on the distance Il Is from town.
There IS no better Investment than
hs!.ue "a u,aa0 ,' r.v land clearing
It and planting It 20 apples, pears
peaches or grapes. The second year
10 will double IN value, that Is, the
property win be worth what Il orig
nally cost you. the expense OF clear
Ing added, now double the entire
cost and the chances are that the
property will be worth even more
than 'h's amount
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23

cherry pie, peach cobbler and lusci-
ous grapes, and his children and
grand children are yearly going to
his home to eat from the same old
tree and gather from the same old
vine.
At Hugo, which is twelve miles
north of Grants Pass on the line of
the Southern Pacific road is a large
cherry orchard which produces
enormous crops each year. All over
the county will be found cherry
trees in the home orchards which
yield prolifically every season. Since
Grants Pass has a cannery there is
a paying market for the cherry and
its cultivation will hereafter be at
tended with financial success.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23

wagon load of cherri D.. Near this
tree in the same yard stands peach
tree 45 inches in circumference and
40 years old. With its heavily la
den boughs of fruit it looks as
healthy and in as perfect condition
as the day it began to bear, In one
corner of the yard opposite these
two aged trees is q grape vine as
large as an ordinary mans body,
which sends out its new vines each
year. The area over which it spreads
is fully one-eighth of an acre, there
by forming an arbor 100 feet long.
The annual products of this one vine
amounts to one ton of grapes. From
these pioneer producers Mr.. Cook $
family has long enjoyed each year,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23

for their products. As it is orchards
of five and ten acres are being set
and others are being projected
Notwithstanding the many enc
mics the fruit grower has to fight,
and the chances he has TO run, there
was probably never a time when the
prospect was SO bright as it is now
for the establishment of that indus
try on a permanent basis in Jose
phine county
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23
EXTENSION OF FRUIT
BUSINESS THIS YEAR
$4,000 Trees and 365,0O0 Grape
Vines Already Planted and
Season Not Over.

On all sides of Grants Pass, and
even extending almost into the heart
of the city, the planting of fruit trees
and grape vines is going on, and
there are yet thousands of acres
suitable for fruit raising which are
still in timber and brush will be
cleared and planted.
1t has not been many years since
the planting of trees for commercial
purposes began here, so short time,
in fact, that but few of the orchards
have come into bearing Several
hundred acres of new trees will bear
fruit next year for the first time, and
each succeeding year will see the
production more than doubled over
the preceding year. BY far the great
est number of trees planted are ap-
pies, and the Spitzenbergs and New
town Pippins are the leading varie-
ties, and next come peaches, pears
cherries. plums, apricots and so on
through the list--nearly every varie-
ty of edible fruit being raised,
The Tokay grape became an ac-
knowledged wealth producer in this
section of the Rogue River valley at
about the same time that other fruits
came into their own, and the plant
ing of vineyards has gone on at
rate about equal to that Of the apple,
.a.s4lts which have representa-
tives in Grants Pass have taken or
ders for something over $500 trees
already this season, and about $685.,
600 grapes. Many persons have also
ordered direct from the nursery, and
it is impossible to get any idea of
the number of either trees or vines
which have come in from these or
ders, but it may be seen that be-
tween 700 and 800 acres will be
planted this yeaY 70 fruit trees, and
at least 600 acres to grapes-even
though no more orders are sent in.
As the planting season will not be
over for some time yet, it is safe
to say that the number of trees and
vines ordered will greatly increase
the number given above. The above
estimates are made after inquiring
from each OF the representatives OF
the nurseries here as to the orders
taken, and are therefore authentic.
With all this increase there is still
no danger of over-production. in TACT
the larger the acreage the better OPP
portunities there will be for market
ing fruit. Rogue River apples, peach
,a., pears, grapes and other fruits
are D. omlng known and as they be-
come known the demand increases.
The Fruit Exchange was not able,
this year, to fill the orders received
and another year the exchange Will
be better organized and better able
to push the fruit to the best market.
.u.g, area of land suitable
for raising all kinds of fruit there
i. Bat little doubt that within the
next 10 years that part of the Rogue
uver Valley tributary to Grants
Pass will be the largest and most
. .rl, raising section Of the
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-04-23

After you have read TIE Courier
send Il 20 some ,riend IN The Frst
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-07

the United States annex it when the
next collapse at Havana comes. The
military occupation of the island in
1906-O8 cost the United States over
Sc, O00 600 The Cuban newspapers
say that their government will never
pay this debt. Nor, so for as has
been revealed along to this time,
will the Taft administration ask
Cuba to pay. The intervention of
1895, by which we expelled Spain,
cost us $500. 900, 900 and hundreds of
lives. That debt is also still unpaid.
1t never will be paid. Nobody will
ever ask Cuba to pay it.
Yet the United States can not go on
indefinitely saving the Cubans from
outsiders and from themselves. This
policy would be quixotic as we'll as
costly. Is would make the United
States the jest of the rest of the
world The next time that anything
compels us to step into the island we
must stay in. Annexation is in
evitable in any case. 1t ought to
have come in 1898. Our promise to
abandon the island after pacifcation
was a blunder which has cost the
Cubans as we'll as ourselves money
and also discredit. When President
Palma called us In in September,
1906. so as to save the island from
anarchy our duty was to remain. But
this role of benevolent guardian has
ended. The next time the Ameri-
can troops enter Cuba they will re-
main. A warning along this line
was given by President Roosevelt in
1907. 1t was given through the then
secretary of war, MIR. Taft. 1t is only
question of few years or decades,
PROBABLY ony few years, when we
shall have to annex Cuba. Self
government for any considerable
length of time is beyond the powers
of the Cubans. When the flag goes
up again in Cuba it will stay up.
st. Louis be-Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-07
MUST WE PAY FOR CUBA?

In answer to queries by other Re-
publicans in his chamber, Senator
Root says it is the duty of the United
States to pay the expenses of ouI
military occupations of Cuba. The
United States has a vital concern in
the stability of Cuba, as the senator
lntimates. A collapse of authority
in the island would injure the in
terests of Europeans there as we'll as
of Americans. This would, il CON
tinued long enough, tempt some big
European power to intervene. Then
Cuba would pass under an alien flag.
and all of the United States work in
freeing her from Spanish rule would
be lost.
But there is a ready way to prevent
European occupation of Cuba. Let
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-07

Detroit. Michigan, is one of the
most beautiful cities in the west.
One of its choicest and most popular
beauty spots is Belle Isle Park, situat-
ed so near the main land that it is
communicated with by long bridge,
and thousands assemble there every
day and evening during the warm
weather, going either by boat, trolley
car or other conveyance. Chicago is
taking steps to establish such park,
only of an artificial character where
the one at Detroit is real. Off 49th
street 800 acre island will be made
by deposit of rock. and from the
sweepings and refuse from the city,
as we'll as the dredgings from the
harbor and channels. If the plans
work out successfully the island will
later be transformed into beautiful
park.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-07
A Matter of Arithmetic.

1t pays to keep a good herd, Of
the 1853 patrons taking cream to Baxter
& Diapers in May, Allen Vincent's
check stood the highest. $126. 80 for
Is cows, 10 of which freshened in
October and November and 6 in March
and April, of which we're two-year
old heifers. These cows were on
dry feed ten days. Lancaster Herald.
Pretty good for Lancaster, but not
quite up to the Boscobel standard.
Ben Sitter lugged home cream
checks from May Is to June 10 having
cash value of $3.50. 81. He now
milks % cows, and is raising several
calves. Dial Enterprise.
The primary class in arithmetic
has ''fggered OUT that if the cream
from is cows sold for $126 80, it
would equal 1898 per cow for the
Lancaster man; and if the cream
from % COWS sold for $3.50. 81 it would
equal Sc. SO for the Boscobel man.
P erhaps they consider at Boscobel,
though, that $3.50 isemore than $7.9S.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-07
Tho Nin;s+or;oI T1n;on of1oo,

The Ministerial Union of Lancas-
ter, Wis, resulted from ii conference
of pastors held last week at the home
of Rev. W Fl. Hannaford. The first
meeting occurred Tuesday morning,
July 9Th. at the home Of Rev.
Schleicher and proved very helpful.
Mutual fellowship and helpfulness,
and the consideration of such SUBJECTS
as may pertain to their work con-
stitute the objects Of the organiza
tion. The meetings will be held the
first Monday of each month.
R. Meyer Jr. and family have
been receiving visit during the past
week from Mr.. Meyers brother, Fred
Meyer, wife and little daughter
Dorothea, of Candle Creek, Alaska.
Mr.. Meyer arrived from New York on
Thursday, expecting to remain several
days. but received a telegram which
necessitated his leaving for Seattle
last Saturday. He will sail soon
from Seattle for his far northern
home, which is beyond Nome and
near the Arctic circle. It is possible
that he may return to New York. also
to Lancaster before sailing. For the
present Mrs. Meyer and daughter will
continue their visit here.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-07

The Roosevelt luck continues, even
on the African hunting expedition.
Up to date the ex-president has killed
FIVE lions, three rhinoceroses, four
giraffes, two wildebeests, one hip
popotamus and innumerable small
game. Kermit Roosevelt has killed
almost as many specimens as his
father, one of the lions which fell
before his gun being the finest yet
secured. Squeamish Americans con-
tinue to deuounce the former presi-
dent for what they are pleased to call
''wanton slaughter, but Roosevelt
has always been more or less i'm
perRious to attack. John Burroughs,
the eminent naturalist, says the ends
Justify the means in this case, that
the killing is in the interests of
science and all right. One thing
sure, Theodore Roosevelt earned a
good long vacation and if he returns
to America, mind and body rested,
ready to grapple with new problems
as they present themselves for the
people to decide, the beasts were
slaughtered in a good cause. Wis
consin Farmer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-07

Kipling, in one of his famous
poems, uses these words: "A fool
there was and he made a prayer, TO "a
rag, a bone and a hank of hair.
This fool he called them his lady
fair, this vampire woman who
didn care. = A Missouri woman
takes umbrage at her sex being thus
described, and comes back at man
with a paraphrase, terming him "a
jag, a drone and a tank of air. -
There are persons whom the descrip-
ton might pretty we'll fit, outside of
Missouri.