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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1908)
NO. 34. JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 26. 1908 VOL. II. THE GREAT PACIFIC COAST COUNI RY Hills and Valleys of Fertile Soil-- Gold, Timber and Coal in Abund ance Eerly Settlement of County The shroud of darkness hovers over the history of the Pacific coast prior to the sixteenth century. Geologists have revealed how the great inland arms of the ocean gradually became land-locked seas whose receding waters left behind the deposit of alluvium brought down from the mountains by the thousands of small streams pour ing into them, by which process were evolved the great fertile valleys whose names have became the synonyms of ed dominion on our coast, England, Spain and Russia. These nations claim ed the territory bs right of discovery. Suddenly a new nation, the United stepped in to contest with her power ful rivals for the posession of this vast region of wealth and happiness. After the daring Lewis and Clarke expedition in 1803-4 the tr.ids of the Easterners were turned Westward. The Westward march was slow until in the early fifties, or shortly after STRAWBERRIES Grown in Jacksonville, Oregon by John Renault. Grapes Grown near Jacksonville by Emil Britt The Soil in this locality is suited to grape culture, and the most profitable crops are grown on the foot-hills sur rounding Jacksonville where thousands of acre remain to be put in cultivation by the vineyardist. | Rcv.s are three f : t a, i BANK OF JACKSONVILLE. G. L. Davis, Pres., Jay C. Sexton, Cashier was obliged to go into the enemies forms a part of the northern boundary j comp to secure game and fish, as the of California. The Rogue river with Indians were very warlike and would j its finny family of countless numbers attack the white man without warning flows through the county fed by hun- j We do not wish to mislead the reader dreds of sparkling mountain streams. and will say that the Indian in many It wends its way through fertile val instances, to blame for his warlike leys and deep gorges in its mad rush to COURT HOUSE, JACKSONVILLE, OREGON mooe, but the outbreaks of the Indians the broad expanse of the roaring Pa were generally preceded by outrages cific. There are millions of horse-pow on the part of the whites. This coun er yet to harnessed along thi3 stream, sun shining upon the pl ictal slopes try was composed of men of all nations, suitable to run mills and factories of mountains when during the dry s< ascn causes a melting process to take place the unrestricted rays of the summer as well as men who thought naught of almost unlimited capacity. Fine tim- ' (Continued on pairs 2.) crime, althongh the greatest number ber, suitable for furniture and building were educatd men of good character, purposes, stand as an emblem of wealth who located here for a home and to along both banks of this picturesque befriend the natives. stream. The early settlers were ehgaged prin The soil is of volcanic origin. De- cipally in mining, being led here by the j c imposition has been going on for cen- reports of rich finds, while few were i turies with the result that in depth it engaged in farming and stock raising, | ranges from a few feet to 100 feet of although the soil is of excdllent quality loose rich soil. The soil retains enough for fruit and general farming. There moisture to develope a crop hence ir was no market aside from home con rigation is not necessary. Although sumption which accounted for the lack the annual rain-fall is but 21 inches of interest in this now leading industry, and this confined to about five months and there was more money in mining. in the ye r one at first thought would abundance; but of its history they are gold was discovered on the coast, | when amad rush was made for the Cal- silent. Ond day in September, 1513, Vasco ■ ifornia and Oregon gold fields. Long I Nunez de Bolboa gazed ft;om the moun trains of wagons drawn by the ox was tain tops of Central America upon the the only means of transportation at sleeping waters of the Pacific, upon that time, and considering the great which the eye of a Caucasian then rest excitement following the discovery of ed for the first time. Eerdinando de gold this country was slow in growth. Magalhaens, a Portuguese navigator, OUTHERN SOREGON. sailing under the Spanish flag, com The early settlement of Southern manded the first vessel to plow the Oregon which may be conveniently waters of the Pacific. From these two dated from the spring of 1851, when men the history of the Pacific slopes is gold was discovered in Southern Ore -on based. was met with many reverses. The Little was done in the way of discov Indians was the most dreaded foe of ery along the Pacific coast until Cap the white settler. The Indians in this tain Robert Gray entered the Colum vicinity belonged to the Shastas tribe bia river on May 11, 1792. Captain but were divided into several small Gray named the river ‘Columbia,’ the bands. On Rogue river were gathered name borne by his vesselr For the the Indirns who bore that name and, century prior to the discovery of the numbered about 600 strong. At Table Columbia river, large fur companies Rock another band numbering about 500. were organized who carried on an ex There home was upon the banks of the tensive trade between this country Rogue river, in the midst of a country China and Russia. OUR LOCATION generously snpplied with game, while think this unreasonable, but if the At the dawning of the nineteenth the Rogue was almost alive with salmon. Jackson county is located in South reader will stop to consider that the century, three powerful nations claim It will be seen that the white settler ern Oregon, the southern boundary valley is surrounded by snow-capped HEALTH IN THE MOUNTAINS Cattle Raising near Jacksonville is a very profitable industry yet undeveloped ALTHOUGH THE COUNTRY - .1 .millo is thickly populated then yet remains vast streUm. s a v. •.led la1 d.s v. here one may reap the benefits and health invigorating aroma of the pine forests in pursuit of the fleet-footed deer. "The bear and other animals of game are to be found in our forests.