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i.4 i I! -Tev sjni rfBfevs'raJviajMS I. ' . . .. ' f. ' , , To linow Hi vulun of edverllnliig II In iieoen.nry In Imva eiuorleniw III Imtli His umhtitule and uiiirullt nulu kind., Yuu wuuld hur.lly daro toll our rmulurai Hint hii uil vnrllvi'in'nt )uuil whom tliuy uoulfl nun It we. uiiprulll I ttblu advertising. 2200 SWORN CIRCULATION. PROFESSIONAL OARDH. JONKS & 8J11UHKK, PIIYHIClANrf AND HUKrjKONS. , , Mlid'ord, Orogon tarOirJct-Hlewart Ulook. (J, T. JON EH, . COUNTY SURVEYOR, An or ill klnda of Surveying promptly done. Tie County Surveyor nan glvo yon tuo only legal work. ' ' Modford, Oregon JR. O. B. COLR. PIIYH1CIAN AND BUKOKON, - OBoe over Woliera A Howard'! Oroceiy Htora. Modlord.Uregou. G. W. 8TKPHKNSON, PHYSICIAN AND HURUKON, Oflee over tho new Medford Uauk. Medford, Orrgoo. C. P. SNELL, ' ATTORNBY AT LAW. '"' OfftMot Jackton UouDly Abalraet end Colleo two Co. Hamlin Building', Modford Oregon. M. u tAHUaOAN AM'yetLaw L.CMIHMM . Rotary Fubllo NAKRUOAN A NARRKOAN, ATTORNKYH. AIIMTRAOTKltS AND CON VKYANUKRM. Huoccoora to J. II. Whitman. Correct alutraoU of every piece o( land In Jitukaon County. ' OBee at Medford Hank, Medlon). Oregon HAMMOND &. SEARCH, ' ATTORN KYK AT LAW Omee In Hewart Hill. Medford, Or. , KIRCHGESSNER, ' PHYSICIAN AND BUKOKON, j Central Point, Oragon. Ucdlord ofnoe Ltndley llulldlng, Wednoartny .and H.iuicl.y, o.Su 10 11 a. at., on and after April 10, 'W, , 8. HOWARD, (l K SURVEYOR AND CIVIL BNOINBHK. -. C. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor for lt State of Oregon. Po.Uifflca addrtaa: ' Modford. Ortgoo. J. B. WAIT, ; ( , rUYBICUN AND 80ROROH, Otact In Llndlty lock : Medford, Or R. B. PICKEL. I PHYSICIAN AND SDRC.BAIN, Offloe hour-10 to II a. m. luul 2 to 4 p.m. Bandaya-lilol. Madford.Or OrBcet nankin Block. W. I. VAWTM. Pres. U. r. Adkiim. V Proa '! H L. 01J.K.BY, Oaalllor. ' ' ' ' ' A mf A fl l-il AAA MEDFOBD, - , OREGON Lean money on approved aeourlty, reoetvo d poelu auojoot to oheok and trannaol a genera nanklng btinlMaa. Yonr bulnea eolloltodi... Oorrenpondontm-Lndd & ljuah, Saiem. Anglo California lank. Ban Krnnoleco. Ladff i Tlltoa, Portland, Corbln Banking Co., N. Y. . ; s' , FOKKHT LIKU 8RLEOTION NQ.10. United Rtntos Land Oftloo, llowburf , Oregon' Fob. IS, 1000. Notloo I) heroby grven that The Ulgllend Milling Co., whoiw nololHoo eddreea la Davenport, Wah , hu n di ; PPllo" the following deaorltiod traolsl The e) no'rf, mo. 10: now noJi, aco. 0. tp. W . I the nwW too. IB. ip. ii .7r. t MHi, Wlfhln tho net tnlrty dayii from dale boroof Drotema or' eontcatn agalnat the aolocllon on llio grpnud that tho land deiorlbet", or any portion thorool, l more Valuable for lie mlnurafa than for agricultural Diirpoaea, will bo rooclvoil and noted for roport to the oommlaaloner of tho uouoral laud offloo. " . j, T. DiiiuakB, Register, BO VBARi' EXPCRIENOff Thadc Manks Aaivmiauti Ao. ' An.yone..-nrtlng itftS i "Ktonlii tikon' ir.roW"Munn TiVo7ltoc.il : vKKenmic iimencan, ; MUNN&Co.30"""' New York Xr Bfjcgaar i ' m!i"klr iTimirtn t" our opinion froe whotbor an , lawntlnnTp (Viroinunlca. , .: Patenla takon UiraiiMti Mnpn A Co. itooelre ; with the now fitcllltlofi tlint H.( N, Butlor put In Jits shop, ho turns out aa ', dona work in ropnlrtnflr wntuhes nnd ri ' volry as any ono In Southern Oregon VOL, III, "It is the Handsomest I ever w " . ..This is tho verdict of everyone1 "whp has $een our LatOHt Novelty in Stool Rangc'vv iNotning bo beautiful us this SATIN FINISH ALUM INUM RANGE hitH ever been placed on exhi bition in any hardware utore in Medford, WILL BE PLEASED TO SHOW YOU This Rango, and also our Other Late Arrivals in Cook Stoves and Ranges. .. , MKDFOItD, ORB. J. BEEK & CO. First-class RlS FaslFM UNION LI VERY De ROBOAM 4 OKSGK, Prop. Cor. Seventh and B SU. fledlord, Ore. liU Speda I Attention to Commercial Hen DON'T That I have the larveat oarpeui, wan pupor kiiu wmuuw euwuvv w w ivuuu u uvu ii . ern Oregon,,,. ; . V Escape Your Attention... rV (f you are a prospective purclniooi yeu will find my gooda f tho tileBt In grade and the lowest In price. Undertaking L III UUIlliUVklUI! . , tvlHHtllHtH(IIHtllvt((llrll(ll(t(lrHtK if PRICES HAVE On nearly all kinds of Harness Material, Leather nnd Furnishings, but .. My- Price8 Remain Unchanged,"' - And are the Vkry Lowest, congietent with firet ulaaa material and workmunablp, - J. G. TAYLOR, . MEDFORD. . r New Lumber Yard Rough and Dressed Lumber .. Fir - Rttatlc and Flooring Three Veara Old. Thoroughly Seasoned Medford, Oregon I?resoriTtions i lCaJa StrMt, FRANK W. WAIT S: - ... STONE YARD - ',.'.1' n, Ooneral oontraoting In all linos ofstono works , Cemetery Work a Specialty All kluds of marble nnd granite monuments ordered dlrcot from tho quitrry,, Yard on O street Coinmorlolul llolol Ulook BOH PILE . ; J. O. WHIPPi Prcor. Does General Contracting in all GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS. , --?p2s; CEMETERY WORK A SPECIALTY Jacksonville. " - 1 - Oregon. ' MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, Carefol Driiers STARLES -A -it- vl-iAr O'J -fh '8S-S a W ) S3' r eoj ' ran Sill- LET THE FACT" and beat oolwtod of furniture, ( I. A.. WEBB V ADVANCED ' UKfcUUlN. O. E1. QORSLINE & SONS MANUFACTURERS OP AND DBA LRUS IN and Pine Shingles Yard Koutb of Whitman's Wftrehourj THE MORTAR DRUG STORE, Q. H.HA8KIS8, Prop'r. Ha. AartMia. in th. umi . . Pure Dmga, Patent Medlrtnea, Books, Stationery, PAINTS n OILS, Tobaccoea, Olgara, Perfuroery, Toilet Artlelea and Rverytlilng that la carried In a firit olanDRUO 8T0RK Carefully Compounded. - Medford Oregon. 'MEDFORD, OREGON, Lines. WOBKS Jllilt OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1900 MINES, MINERS AND MININK . OF SOUTHERN OREGON (Written exclusively for The Maic by a reliable ropreBentutive.) A few items of interest to miners from the Elk creek district will ap pear in tbene columns next week. The Mail is informed tbat In gram A Houston have bad an un usually good run this Mason on their hydraulic claim at .Willow springs. - Tbey bave piped off a much larger area than during any former year, and the ground sluiced off is supposed to be the beet worked over for many years'. From indi cations they bave. reason to hope (or a handsome clean-up, Mr. Hall, who has been running the old Centennial mine at Black well this season, has not been oper ating a giant, but has been doing the work by groundnluicing. It is reported that in cleaning up the race formerly uted by the old Cen tennial Company he got big pay. A large amount of money has been spent on this claim, and for a num ber of years it was quite a gold producer. It has not been worked much for K-vernl years past. Pearce A Son are still piping on their clain on Poor man's creek, but with reduced head of water. Mr. Pearce exhibited some beautiful specimens to the Mail reporter which bad just been picked up from ibti ground sluice. The Pearce? have also a force of men drifting on the olnim, and they expect to make the largest clean-up this season of any since they owned the property They are hard workers, have a hard proposition to work and deserve success for the uniform energy they bave displayed. John Hagen, wbo now owns the Tolo ledge, has leased it to George Haff who is still driving the tunnel into the mountain. This is the ledge dincoyered by Ja6. McDon ough about twenty years ago and which be worked, in connection with (be rich placers at the foot of it, with such proSt. Many large nuggets were picked up in the claim below the ledge, 'the largest one weighing over $300. There is an interesting piece of history in con nection with this nugsiet, the mere mention of which will recall the circumstances to tho minds of many people. A recital here of the devious ways of the nugget would be out of place. Jas. McDougal has been steadily piping on his claim at Blackwell since the .early winter, and though he has a hard cement to contend with in places, he has succeeded in clearing off considerable . ground. There are many clay and concrete deposits of cement along the ' first range of low hills ' lying south of the county road leading to Gold Hill, and it is in one of these de posits, mainly, that Mr. McDougal has been at work. These beds all carry "more "or "less , gold, and in passing 'over or along tho range many ! places will be seen where miners havo dug into, and pros peo'tod theni; but found them too hard to work to tbe profitable; yet ft large amount of work has been done on some of them. Mr. Mc Dougal's work has been of such- a character this season that he is im-: able to say what his clean-up will bo.' . : ".; :Vi ; H. A. Mears ib doing dovolopmont work on three ledges near the Piou ning place, at Blackwoll. Mr. Mears Iwb not given out any reports yet, but it is safe to assume he would not do the work now being done on the three veins unless he had re ceived suoh enoouragement as he j believes would justify him in mak NO. 13. ing the expenditure. In no other section of the country have, there been as many rich pockets found as in the Blackwell range of hills. It is pre-eminently a district, of tea selated leads and striBgerS and they oro'sout and sectionize each other at every angle and in every possi ble direction, . Mr, Mears' If ads are only two or three hundred yards north of jtbe Maguire-Ross vein from which a large amount of very rich ore was taken a few years since. This ledge was discovered , and workod about .36 years ago and a lot of rich quarlz taken from it. The ledge is situated in a gulch and much trouble has been experienced in working it on account of water. The Mail learns from S. R. Coff man, of Forest creek, who was in the valley during , the week, that Samuel Overlander has discovered an extension to the , Winninghain Company's ledge across the moun tain about a mile southwest of the original discovery. The ledge has the same general characteristics as at the Winningham works. The country rock, vein matter and. walls are the same, and all the surround ings appear to be identical. The ore shows considerable free gold, and, like the Cunningham mine, carries rich sulphurets. Mr. Over lander has a force of men on the new discovery and development work will be pushed as fast as pos sible. Somo of the ore will be crushed at the Kennedy mill in a few days when it will be known what its actual milling value is in free gold at the surface. Mr. Over lander believes he has made a for tunata discovery and will leave nothing undone to prove its value at the earliest moment. Stover & McComb, who own a large placer claim on Sterling mountain, are already making preparations to start their pipe. The altitude of the claim is so great that nothing can be done during the winter months, and generally not until May or the first of June. The season then continues as long as the snow lasts. The water" slip ply is procured from springs and melting snow, and is husbanded in a succession of reservoirs for use as required. These diggings were dis covered by James .Sterling, who discovered Sterling creek, thirty eight years ago. . He took out in a short time about $500, but as there seemed to be no water supply , and no way of working the diggings, he abandoned them. They have been worked by other parties since then, and almost continuously for the past fifteen years. The claim is near the Angle & Brown quartz ledge. This section is preeminently one of quartz, and the gold is nil quartz gold. Tho mountains are seamed in every direction with veins and stringers, and all are more or less mineralized. There is no wash gold found on the moun tain. Stover & McComb have done well since they have been running the mine., ; - The projected Custom mill, on the south side of Rogue river, op- LEVI STRAUSSatr No merehantrtrould wait forifprlDtf bualneai to open, He nhoulu get aomo good advertising material and try to force the opening. Tii Mail La forcer 2200 SWORN CIRCULATION. posito Gold Hill, cf which mention was made in Tins Mail a. short time since, is now undergoing con struction by a good force of. mea and will be completed and set la motion as soon as the men can do the work. This mill will be4 situ ated in the center of a large radius of country known to be a net work of quartz mines. It is easily ac cessible from all .directions, and while there - is already ' a largo amount of ore from, many ledges awaiting a test at this mill,, it is not a tithe of what will be hauled for reduction when the' mill is com pleted, and its ability to' save the) free gold and rich sulphurets has been demonstrated." If this 'milt should prove to be as perfect in all its gold saving appliances as. is now being claimed for. it, it will, be am invaluable acquisition to thef dis trict as a thorough, tester, of the value of ledges. Quartz miners bave long felt the necessity of a, mill with such modern devices and appliances as would justify them in reposing confidence in its results. It is hoped the Gold Hill mill' will be so complete in all its -appointments,' and 'managed with ' such sk'll that miners may take "their ore there with perfect confidence that the teBt will show . its true milling value. Isaac Householder, of Gold Hill precinct, who is burning lime" oa Kanes creek, tells us that there are two large quarries of lime rock oa the creek of first quality which'will -not be exhausted for many genera lions. When other quarries ajong the line of road becomes worked . out, as a number of them have been already, this immense bed may be come an article of commerce from Jackson County of no small conse quences. It is. learned from'"vMr. Householder that John Mitchell has bought the old Whitney ledge situ ated about a mile east of the famous Gold Hill discovery of 1859 and skirting the same range of hills. This ledge was discovered about thirty-eightyearsngoand some very rich quartz taken from it. Why it was not thoroughly prospected- at that time may be found in the fact that the prevailing opinion was that this was solely a pocket country and that when a pocket or rich 'd-a posit was exhausted it was needles3 to look further in the same ledge unless in a different locality;5 It seems strange' it should not have occurred to reas ning 'men that the finding of a rich pocket was poof the ledge was highly mineralized. Why men here in . an early jlay should have . abandoned ledges which had given evidence of their richness to look for others, seems now to be inexplicable, upon any known basis of reasoning. Yet this is what was done all over the . dis trict. Since opinion has changed on the suliject, many, of the old dis coveries have been relaoated and are now undergoing a systematic course of prospecting, Mr. M itohelt has discovered the ledge carries considerable free gold and it is 'be lieved to be rich in sulphurets. Ho has four men at work and will de velop the vein as fast' as the 1 force can do it.' ' '- : - ' All kinds of new corsets at Wajte, Hnrbnugh & C'o.'s store, Medford, this week. . . .-, , t
