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VOL. XL
KOSKI1UHO, OREGON, 8ATCRDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 11)08.
NO. 204.
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Review
FOR
fin
BUILDING
UP OREGON.
Many Able Addresses at the Development
Congress in Roseburg Banquet Last
Evening to the Visitors.
The passing of resolutions asking
for state and federal uld toward the
construction of good roads and - for
the exemption of. newly built rail
roads from luxation for the first five
years was the principal feature of
9 this morning's session of the Oregon
and Idaho Development Congress.
The session was also marked by a
very able address by Attorney Gen
eral A., M. Crawford, who spoke on
the legal status of the O. & C. It. R.
land grant and on proposed new lawE
affecting waterways, irrigation and
projected railroad building. A
lengthy dtscussiun on the wishes of
the people in the land grant matter
was ushered In by United States Sen
ator Jonathan Bourne, tind wheu this
ended without result Attorney Louis
E. Bean, of Eugene, told of the ur
gent necessity fur a deep water har
bor at the mouth of the Siuslaw ltlv
or, in Lane county.
No meeting of the congress Is be
ing held this afternoon, an adjourn
ment having been taken until 7:30
o'clock this evening, when there will
be a. session conducted mainly by
the State Board of Health, consist
ing of Dr. Andrew C. Smith, nr. R.
C. Yenney and Dr. Pierce, all of
Portland. .These gentlemen will ad
dress their- hearers on the subject of
sanitation. In connection, there will
-Jjjie' entertaining vocal music by some
of Roseburg's best talent.
Appropriations Asked.
The resolution on good roads was
prepared by a committee consisting
of Dr. Smith, Frank U. Watte and
G. A. Hurley, the latter of Vale, Mal
heur county. It passed without a
dissenting voice. Its full text fol
lows: Resolutions.
RESOLVED, That wo hereby re
Iterate, reaffirm and approve the res
olutions of the last Oregon-Idaho De
velopment Congress, held at Marsh
field. Oregon, and
RESOLVED. That it Is the sense
of this convention that the time has
inived for the development of the
State of Oregon, when the needs of
business In all productive and distri
butive lines require the improvement
of the wagon roads throughout the
state, and that the legislature of Ore
gon at its 1909 session be and here
by Is urged to enact laws and make
ample appropriations in aid of such
roads, and
RESOLVED, That the" aid of the
Federal Congress should be Invoked
In the cause of good roads, and the
delegations In congress from the
state of Oregon are hereby urged to
further in every possible way any en
actment which may be designed to
procure appropriations for the Im
provement of such roads, and
RESOLVED, That the legislation
needed for the peculiar conditions of
the state of Oregon includes a proper
disposition of convict labor so as to
withdraw the same from all compe
tition with free labor and place the
labor bo withdrawn In the work of
constructing good roads, and fur
ther that the appropriations for
roads should amount to not less than
one half million dollars annually, to
be used In all parts of the state, and
RESOLVED, That the great need
of better facilities for rail transpor
tation in Oregon has become oppres
sive and that the failure of great
transportation companies which have
profited to the extent of many mil-
em Oregon harbors, and to enable
the people of the respective harbor
districts to tax themselves for the
Improvement of thoir harbors and
ship channels; that we favor the en
actment of a generul harbor commis
sion net by tho next legislature.
We recommend that tho Consti
tution be amended so that the legis
lature can be authorized to exempt
from taxation any new line of rail
road for a period not to exceed five
Hons through the business loyalty of , years, to encourage construction of
our people, to extend their lines to
meet the demands of our growing
trade, and to give Central and South
ern Oregon a short and convenient
outlet to the ocean and cheap water
transportation, presents a condition
which can only be met by providing
state am ror local roads where pos
sible, and state construction and op
eration or lines which are necessary
for the relief of our people, and
RESOLVED, That the need of the
140,000 people who Inhabit Coos.
Curry, Lane, Douglas, Josephine and
Jackson counties of a railroad outlet
to the ocean by way of Coos Bay, and
the very evident profit which such a
road would produce in handling the
business of the people, as well as
saving the shippers and producers
(hundreds of thousnnds of dollnrs
annually through cheap water rates,
and the refusal of the Southern Pa
cific railway company to build such
line, presents an emergency which
should be met by the construction of
such road by the state, to the end
that Southern and Central Oregon
may be developed and their great re
sources released from isolation and
restraint, and we favor Invoking the
Initiative to that end, and
RESOLVED, That we agnin urge
upon our delegation In congress the
Importance of obtaining sufficient ap
propriations for the improvement of
our rivers nnd hnrhors, and of nil
parts of the neglected coast of Ore
gon, and particularly those recom
mended by the government engineers
for the Improvement of the bar and
harbor of Coos Bay.
For State's General Good.
Of vital importance to the state In
general are the following resolutions,
which also passed umininiouslv:
RESOLVED, lly this Congress. In
behalf of the development of West-
new lines; nlso we demanded legls-
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latlon to protect the people against
fictitious occupation of sites for rail
roads, as where one corporation se
cures a pass through the mountains
or along a river, where there Is room
for only one railroad, and does not
build within twp years, that such
right-of-way be forfeited.
RESOLVED, That the thanks of
this Congress, representing the com
mercial organizations of Western Ore
gon, are due to the Roseburg Com
mercial Club for their generous as
sistance In providing for the enter
tainment of this convention; nnd also
to the Ladles' Auxiliary of the snme
for their delightful hospitality In pre
paring a banquet at Musonic Hall.
Not Only Contract, but Law.
In his speech on the land grant
question, Attorney General Crawford
drew a parallel from the Instance
In which the State of Oregon appro
priated $200,000 to defray one-hair
the expense of building the canal and
locks in the Willamette River at Ore
gon City. The appropriation carried
the agreement that the state school
fund wns to receive 10 per cent of
the earnings of the locks as long as
they were operated. This percentage
was paid to the stnte the iirst year
11874 ) after operation, but never
afterwards, the corporation owning
tho locks having transferred the util
ity to other parties, who contended
that they were not amenable to the
contract entered Into with the state
by the former owners. In the law
suit which resulted the state waB vic
torious, the courts holding. In effect
that the agreement regarding a per
i-eningo or mo earnings was more
than a mere contract It was a law
and therefore could not le evaded by
anyone.
"The same principle apllcs to the
land grant," said Mr. Crawford. "The
agreement of the railroad coninnnv
te sell the lard in the grant for $2.50
per acre to uonn title settlers is a
LAW nnd cannot, in my opinion, he
evaded. The land In the grant Is
merely neiu In trust by tho railroad
company nnd must be plnced on the
market. The railroad company oc
upios the position of an agent. In
18911 a Inw was pushed through con
gress waiving the right of the gov
ernment to compel the sale of the
granted lands to settlers, but I don't
think such n law Is constitutional.
The government Is composed of the
people and not the administrators of
Us nlTulrB. Every legal authority
which I have examined with refer
ence to tho forfeiture Bull Instituted
iignlnst the O. & C. It. It. by tho gov
ernment supports the contention of
the prosecutor, and I believe that the
government will win:"
Knroiinige It. It. Building.
Mr. Crawford devoted several min
utes, to a resume of the Irrigation
projects, in this slate and outlined
some needed legislation for water
ways. "While Irrigation of arid
land goes a long way toward develop
ing isolated portions of the stnte,"
he Bald. " there Is also a need of
I iriinsporiniion incuitics in those
pinces. unrortunnteiy, most of the
available routes for new rnilroadB are
being held for speculative and not
development purposes. By examin
ing the map you will Bee that these
routes are held by the Ilarrlman sys
tem, whose practice In recent years
Is to obtoln right-of-way, have them
surveyed and then do no more, mere
ly preventing other railroad system
from operating In the Btnte. To
meet these conditions I favor legis
lation exempting from taxation for
the first five years all railroads built
In Oregon during the next fifteen
years. I advocate, further, that a
right-of-way not occupied by a rail
road within two years after the route
Ib obtained be forced on the market
at Its reasonable value. Railroads
are Indispenslble to the development
of this state, and It Is the duty of
the state to encourage their con
I struotlon In every possible way.
! New-comers dislike being too far
away from transportation facilities,
; no matter how valuable the land.
! "If Is beginning to he fully real
, ized that the waterways of the state
are JuBt as Important as the lands,
j and at the next session of the legis
I lature there will be presented for
enactment a new code bearing on
that subject. The plan is to appraise
i the value of every waterway and
watershed now being held privately
and for the state to appropriate the
remainder. The values appraised
will form market values In case try
rights are not utilized by the holders.
Good lnd and water laws will be a
, better Inducement for the investment
' of eastern capital. " (Applause.)
!" Iiifiirn-.fl Maybe.
After m knowl.-Jidng introduction
hy the chair. Senator Jonathan
Bourne explained that he rarne not
to deliver an addri-ss for the first
time in his life but as a servant of
the people to get information as to
their wishes In the land grant matter.
Approim of the suit instituted by
Indianapolis Company Makes
Headquarters Here
BOTH PLACER AND QUARTZ
I OHIO IS FOR W
; over tho mountain trails. Noxt spring
; sume ground will bo put Into cultl
nun for growing vegetables near
mines to save the expense of pack
ing in such urtlcles. These" placer.
deposits are known to contain a largo
amount of gold and this company .
seems to be working out a system- VtrfllV VntuO Inrlicifn Dip Din
securing It. uuuii I UlUJ 1UU1VUIE UU TllT
Located on Rogue River 23 Miles From
West Fork Station Work
Well Under Way
Among the important mining de
velopments now in progress in South
ern Oregon, it that of the Red Rlvor
tiotd Mining and Milling Co., located
at Marlal, on Rogue River, 23 miles
by trail from West Fork station on
the S. P. R. R. main line In this
county. This enterprise Is backed by
a company of Indiana canltnllsts
with head offices In Indlananolis. nnd
omccrea as follows:
Win. J. Harris. Pres.: Oeo. M
Cheney, Vice ProB.; Thos. I Har
rington, Secy nnd Treas. These gen
tlemen, witn Ueo. w. Slebert and
inns. Liny constitute the board nf
uireciors. The superintendent in
chnrge of tho mines Is J. D. Brown,
who came out from Indlnnnpolis Inst
April, ins rnmiiy will bo located nt
Roseburg during the winter and he
will come here frequently from the
mines. Mr. Harrington has also
uoen nt the mines far the nnst month
on an inspection trip. Both of these
gentlemen were In town this morn
ing ami report operations nt the
mines moving very satisfactorily.
This property Ib what
ly known as the Marks mine, on John
mine creeK, a tributary of Rogue
mver. They have bIx fine placer
dnlms on tho northwest slilo of the
Rogue river nnd Mulo Creek, and
three claims on tho opposite side of
ne river. On these claims tho placor
snivel ranges from 10 to 40 fecit
hick. In values they have Becured
ill tho way from n few cents to as
high as $2.01) from two cubic, feet
if grnvel. The latter was taken from
about 18 inches above 'tho bedrock.
Besides the coarser gold It will be
their endeavor to save the black sand
also, which Includes high values In
gold, and which miners there have
heretofore allowed to escape. To se
cure these values concentrating
tables and whnlover other eon itimitiil
that may be necessary will be put In,
nctmiing, possibly, a cynnldo plant.
Kor tho operation of these mines
a sawmill has been built lo cut the
lumber for the three-mile Hume from
a point on Mule creek to the river
and down along the river for nearly
i mile. The foundations for this
lu me are nearly all hi nlace nnd il...
mill will be started In about a week
in cutting lumber Tor tho fin me It-
iclf. This mill has a canm-iiv ni
1000 feet of lumber per day. which Is
as rapidly as Its product con be used.
i wo log climes have been built to the
mill from the timber belts on the
ridges above, and the Hume Itselr
will start from the lower floor of the
mill. Thore all the lumber and tim
ber will be cut to the proper lengths
and dimensions beforo being floated
down to whore It is to he used. Thus
the Hume builders will have all the
needed material floated rlnht in
where they are working. Two l.li-l,
trestles will be erected for currying
me water across canyons coming In
to Mule creek. One of these will be
120 feet high and 240 feel lr.n nn.l
the other 13.1 feet high and 202 feel
n length. About 1,0(10.000 feet of
lumber will be used In Ihe construc
tion of this flume nnd the necessary
houses for the officers and men. A
company store may be erected later.
Ill ItB length of three miles this
Hume will give a full of 220 feet,
the lower isirtlon of which will, ol
course, be carried through pipe of
large dimensions. Kor tearing down
the Immense bunks of gravel they
expect to uso two large hydraulic
giants with five-Inch mimics.
They now have 17 men at work on
the property and Hupt. Brown Is now
preparing to ship In 30.000 pounds
of supplies for their use during the
winter. These supplies must be
taken In by pack trains from West
Fork Btatlon a distance of 23 miles
one plan ror securing
A telephone lino will probably be
built Into the district next summer;
Several (jimrtz Claims.
Besides their immense placer de
posits this compnny .nlso owns ten
quartz clulniB. lying along the old
Iron dyke on tho summit of the rldgo
lying westward from John Mule
Creek. These quiirtz lendB have
been prospected In a number of
places and the veins nre shown to run
from nnrrower ledges to as much as
21 feet In width. These nre of un
known depth, as the development
work has not yet been prosecuted to
any great extent. Splendid values
have been found In a number of
places, however, nnd work Is now
progressing on one tunnel which, II
Is expected, will strike the vein nt
considerable depth nnd thus demon
strate In a large degree Its value.
Other shafts nnd short tunnels have
been sunk In various places, with
good results.
It Is tho present purpose of the
company to begin work on tho plncer
ground Iirst and use tho proceeds to
ward developing the qunrtz deposits.
On tho hitler suitable machinery will
be Installed ns the character of the
development mny show to bo neces
sary. The volume of these quartz
deposits Indlcnte a quantity or pay
ing ore Mint will require an untold
perl. id of years to work out.
While this mining district has been
worked In n small way by prospectors
for ninny yearn, this seems to bo the
first npplienllon of modern methods
for getting the gold and tho ncconi
nanylug black snnd out of ihe gravel
nnd saving the Inrge values Included
therein. Former efforts have allow
ed nearly nil Hi sand nnd liner gold
to he rnniod away with the sluicing.
Supt. Brown returns to the mines
In a few days to prosecute (ho work
dining tho winter, hut will mnko his
headquarters In Roseburg. Mr. Har
rington will depart .Monday for his
home in Indianapolis.
rality Will be 80,000
MARYLAND'S CLOSE MARGIN
Miss Ilettle Pickens returned this
morning from n visit with her inoth
"r In Tennessee. Sho has been ab
sent three months.
Dance!
. At the .
Maccabce Hall
Tonight!
Hitchcock Says Talt Will Beat Bryan
as Badly as Roosevelt Did
Parker la 1904
Special to tho Evening Review.
CHICAGO, Oct. 24. A summary
of Btraw ballotB taken by Chicago,
Cincinnati, New York and St. Louis
pnpoi-B was compiled here today.
These Indicate that Taft will carry
Ohio by 80,000 plurality over Bryan.
KansnB will go for Taft by about
40,000, and Maryland by a close mar
gin. All the New England states
are Biifely for Taft. Bryan will car
ry Oklahoma by 25,000, and Indi
cations, nre that the democratic plu
ralities will be slightly reduced In
the Boltd south.
Chairman Hitchcock, ot the re
publican nntionnl committee, today
predicted that Taft will beat Bryan
as badly as Roosevelt defeated Par
ker In 1904. He snyB Taft wilt car
ry New York, Ohio, and Indiana, but
admits the race will be close In
Maryland.
Turkey Prepares for War.
CHICAGO, Oct. 24. The big meat
packing firm of Libby, McNeil &
Llhby announce negotiations for the
sale of 2.0(10,000 pounds of canned
meats for the use of the, Turkish
army, a strong Indication that Tur
key Ib preparing for wnr in the Balkans.
Speeding Allloinnnliics.
PARKWAY, I,. I., Oct. 24. After
fivo machines out of 17 entered had
been smnshnd'ln the terrific Vandor
blll automobile speed contest hore
todny. Robertson renrhed the Mulsh
line first, with l.ytlo in the Isotta car
second. Robertson ran off the track
and on again. Ho made a record of
2r0 miles In four hours nnd 48
seconds.
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