Oregon Historical Society
City Hall
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 19, 1910
VOL. IV.
found gold in two different creeks. One
BULLETIN
they named Canyon creek, and the oth­
er Josephine, in honor of a young lady
CorrMpondence to the Post.
who was a member of the party. This Issued by Oregon State Dairy
To Medford’s dead fireman Wed­ In Southern Oregon, by James was
the first gold found in Oregon.
M. R. Buck tarried in Ruch Tuesday.
Association.
Afterwards Sailor diggings, Aulthouse
H.
Twogood.
nesday
—
Stores
closed
J. Goldsby and family were in Med­
and many Other good diggings were
Ï8 to be higher—Taft and ford last week.
struck. I was with the Joe Knott
Elaborate preparations are .being
Arthur Kleinhammer made a busines
When mv brother, O. B., and I party in February, 1852, and we were
The funeral of Warren Bodge, who
Hitchcofck decide to raise trip to the city Thursday.
was injured in Saturday night’s acci­ crossed the plains in 1851 there was no the first white men to ever make the made for couducting the 1910 session
John Cantrail made a business trip dent and died on Monday, occurred settlement west of the Missouri river trip up Galice creek, where we found of the Oregon Slate Dairy Convention.
Tate.
As was announced some time ago
to Central Point last week.
until we got to the great Columbia good diggings.
Wednesday at 3 o’clock.
the
officers of the Association decided
river,
where
Dr.
Whitman
and
family
Halsted
and
Vannoy
had
the
only
The funeral services were held un­
J. Parks still continues hauling cream
to
accept
the invitation of the Eugene
President Taft and Postmaster Gen­ once a week to Jacksonville.
der the auspices of the Elks lodge. had started a mission to try to civilize two log cabins in the Rogue river val­
Commercial Club and hold the meeting
the
treacherous
red
man,
as
early
as
ley
in
1851.
It
seems
to
me
like
a
eral Hitchcock reached an agreement
The
service
was
held
in
the
Presby
­
Joe Daly spent several days at the
as to the recommendations the presi­ Lyden House in Jacksonville last week. terian church, Rev. Shields conducting 1836. We had a rough trip over the fairy tale when I read about a fruit in that city on December 8 and 9.
Mr. D. C. Freeman, Secretary of
dent will make to corgress regarding
it. The body lay in state far several Cascades, arriving at Oregon City ranch being sold there for $168,000,
Ralph Jennings is busy building his
the Eugene Commercial Club, was in­
August
20,
1851,
and
losing
everything
and
land
near
Medford
producing
$500
a change in the eecond class postage new barn and will soon have it com­ hours.
Portland last week visiting the cream­
rates as affecting magazines and other pleted. '
A large crowd of friends and brother we had trying to help others. At this worth of fruit per acre.
periodicals.
members of the Elks, Knights of time Oregon City was the commercial Early Settlement in Southern Oregon. erymen and making arrangements f r
Mrs. C. C. Pursel was visiting her Pythias and the Medford fire depart­ center from whence all goods went
It was in the fall of 1851 or early co-operation in holding this convention.
Mr. Taft will recommend that the
mother and relatives on Big Applegate ment marched to the Odd Fellows’ south to the Willamette and Umpqua spring of 1852 that gold was first dis­ Eugene, as every one knows, is a live
magazines be required to pay the pres­ last week.
city and is bidding for convention.-'.
cemetery where the remains were valleys. Losing ffiy tools, I could get covered in the Rogue river valley. It
ent rate of 1 cent a pound on all read­
They will extend a royal welcome to
tlo
work
and
times
Were
dull
«nd
money
Hollis
Parks
and
Fred
Combest
are
was
found
on
a
little
creek
in
paying
buried.
ing matter and a much higher rate, to
the dairymen of Oregon on this oc­
Out of respect to Mr. Bodge and as Scarce; There was no Portland then, quantities by a man named Jackson,
bo determined later, on the advertis­ In the mountains at this writing riding
casion. A splendid hall will be pro­
an appreciation of a man who was only on paper; There was nothing who called it Jackson creek, close to
ing pages. Each magazine will be re­ after cattle.
vided for the convention session, and
doing
anywhere
ih
the
northwest;
where
Jacksonville,
the
seat
of
Jackson
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Buck and family killed in performance of his duty, all
quired to send a copy of its current is­
also for the display of dairy machinery
We heard of real gold mines at county, is located today. Sterling and dairy products which will be on
sue to the postoffice department each of Upper Appiegate were visiting Mrs. business houses in Medford closed
creek
was
located
by
Mr.
Sterling
from
three
to
four
o
’
clock.
—
Sun.
Buck
’
s
home
folks
Sunday.
Yreka
and
in
southern
Oregon.
Sam
week or month, as the case may be.
hand.
Hadley and I had a slight attack of tno later. That proved rich and built up
There the publication will be dissect­
Mrs. R. J. Cameron who has been on
There will be a list of premiums
Jacksonville.
I
yellow
fever.
We
rigged
up
a
tent
ed. The reading matter and the ad­ the sick list for several weeks is in
Pine-Tar-Honey
offered fof creamery butter and also
In
1851
there
was
no
sickness
on
th«
and with two pack and two saddle
vertising sections will be separately Medford taking medical treatment.
Will break up the worst cold and allay
plains, but in 1852 there was a big im­ for dairy butter, and cream cheese,
weighed and the amount of postage
W. R. Garrett is now working the throat irritation. This remedy quickly horses started south to the new migration, and people died by the hun­ and for display of dairy products.
Eldorado. Traveling up the valley we
computed by the number of magazines road up Big Applegate and his son
A feature of the convention which
cures coughs, Colds, Grippe, and all found it very sparsely settled. Many dreds of cholera, and all owing to the
sent out.
*
Charlie is digging nis crop of potatoes. throat and bronchial troubles.
fact of their not taking the precaution will be different from anything in the
sections
of
good
land
could
be
taken
Newspapers will not be affected.
history [of previous sessions, and of
Lee Saltmarsh accompanied by his
up by immigrants, lived on five years of providing themselves with a bottle unusual interest at this time, will be a
The average haul of the newspapers mother was trading and visiting in
and it was a donation from our dear of Perry Davis’ pain killer. In Chicago demonstration of the effects of tuber­
PLACED IN TOMB
is but 300 miles, while the average in Jacksonville Tuesday and Wednesday.
|
old
Uncle Sam. In the valley we came during the summer of 1849, when the culosis in dairy cows. Several animals
haul of the magazines is 1,100 miles.
to Eugene Skinner’s place, where he epidemic
-------- was
— raging, there were 30 will be slaughtered under the di­
Mr. Hitchcock told the president that
had taken up a section of land. He 1 deaths in one day. I was taken with
Pioneer
of
1860
laid
to
rest
in
rection of Dr. E. E. Lytle, State
the plan of separating the reading and
Electricity.
had a leg house and barn and part of j the cramps one day; I took a big jolt Veterinarian. This will be an object
advertising matter in the magazines
his
yard
was
fenced,
where
he
raised
|
of
Perry
Davis'
pain
killer,
laid
down
cemetery al this place
lesson to dairymen which should be a
was entirely feasible and he believed
I gardeh truck. Today Eugene is a big on a lounge and went to sleep and drawing card to every dairyman in
The electrical reducing furnace is
it to be the proper solution of the
waked up in the evening feeling as
| City with ar opera house.
Oregon.
problem. The hauling of the magazines gaining a firm foothold in Russia.
George Brown, an aged and respect­ We then traveled south over the frisky as a young colt.
Last
spring
the
first
furnace,
with
a
Creamerymen and buttermakers of
in the mail has proved costly to the
ed citizens of Edgle Point, who died !
In ths spring of 1852 a big immigra­
government, and both the president capacity of three and a half tons, Was Saturday, was interred in the beautiful j ! Calapooia mountains, up ths creek to tion from the Willamette valley went Oregon will meet in Eugene Dec. 7, to
the north Umpaqua. Here We ferried
complete an organization and discuss
and the postmaster general believe it installed at a steel works near St. cemetery at this place Monday.
to Winchester, which was then the' out to what is today called Josephine matters of importance to dairying.
has entered largely into the deficit Petersburg. Permission has just been
Mr. Brown was born in Yorkshire,
county. There was no county then, no
shown each year in the postoffice granted to two other steel-producing England, in 1833, and came to America, county seat of Douglas county, a town sheriff or tax collectors, but a happy, Dairymen are invited to attend this
of
one
log
house.
The
county
reached
meeting, which will make really three
department. This deficit has been plants to install electric furnaces. with his parents in 1842. In 1858 he
from the Siskiyou mountains on the happy people. The valley and villages
largely decreased during the past year, The type adopted is the Heroult.
was married to Miss May Tinker of south to Calapooia on the north, 300 settled up very rapidly, many coming days convention.
What is said to be the highest
The Eugene people write that they
a saving of $11,000,000 having heen
Racine, Wis. In I860 he removed with
up from around Portland and that sec­
reported as a result of economies put electrical sign in the world was recently his family to Oregon, settling at this miles, and from the Pacific ocean on tion—Dave Birdseye, Colonel G. W. T’ are preparing to accommodate one
into effect by Mr. Hitchcock. The erected by the Prudential Insurance city where he remained until 1880 the west to the Rocky mountains on Vault, Captain Angel, the Millers, and thousand delegates to this convention,
adoption of a new rate for the maga- Company at Hoboken, N. J., where when hs removed to Eagle Point where the east, enough territory to form 15 many whose names I have forgotten. and I wish to make a personal appeal
or 20 states like New "Jarsey.” Five
to the dairymen of Oregon to be present.
zines, Mr. Hitchcock believes, will en- it can be viewed to good advantage he has since resided.
miles farther south we found Deer C. C. Beekman is the only one left Let us make this the biggest convention
tirely wipe out the deficit and put the from New York City. The principal
Mr. Brown has been a useful citizen,
whom I know of from Yreka. My dear
postal establishment on a self sustain- feature of the sign is the large illus­ prominent in affairs of the county; in creek, likewise Aaron Rose and family, good friend, a banker today, rode the ever held in the West. Dairying is
who
Were
our
traveling
companions
tration
ef
the
rock
of
Gibraltar,
out
­
not on the best footing and many are
ing basis.—American Press.
1904 he.was elected county commission­ when We crossed the plains, Ros« had first pony express from Yreka to of
the opinion that it is growing worse.
lined with electric lamps. The sign is
er, and has held other positions of located a half s.-ction donation claim, Jacksonville.
Considerable
dairy legislation is being
erected on a tall building, the top of
trust and honor. He leaves four sons which today is i he present site of the
planned, some of it of the most per­
(Continued
Next
Week)
the rock rising 200 feet above the
nicious character which will do harm
Every Body Needs
and six daughters to mourn the loss town of Roseburg, the county seat of
ground, and the sign is designed to
to the industry. Let us meet in a
of
a
kind
parent.
a good salve and Dr. Bell’s Antiseptic withstand a wind pressure of 250 tons.
___ " i I hese
matters, and
Douglas county, but the same territory
body, consider
decide c on ” ••*'*••*
what kind of legislation we
Taxes In Douglas County.
Salve is the best. It is a creamy snow Altogether 3,000 electric lamps are
is now carved up into a doser counties.
want, Then we will go to the legis-
white ointment. Guaranteed for all used, consuming 100 horse-power.
Sick headache.
Traveling on Up south Uffipsqua
lature with
---- sufficient fo.ce to carry
skin diseases. 25c sold everywhere, The lighting equipment is sufficient
our ideas through and prevent any
This distressing disease results from river 28 miles we came to the mouth
The
Roseburg
Nows
calls
attention
or any bowel trouble Dr. Bell’s Anti­ to illuminate a large town. The a disorded condition of the stomach, of the big canyon, over a horrible toad
other legislation from being passed.
CARLE ABRAMS, Secretary.
Pain acts like magic, relieves almost principal words in the sign are written and can be cured by taking Chamber­ of 12 miles on the old immigrant trail. to the fact that railroads of Douglas
instantly. /'
" ‘ all external with letters ten feet high. Scientific lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. ’ I do not see how it was possible for county are assessed six times what i Salem, Ore., Nov. 8. 1910.
Also _ good^for
they were eight years ago. What a
pains. Sold by City Drug Store. ».
American.
Free samples at all dealers. Try it. I people to go over those roads with “phat take” the assessor's job must
■ wagons. In 1852 I saw a man start have been then! The News says that
I over that road through the canyon with assessed value of the county has
j two yoke of oxen and a good wagon jumped from $23,000,000 to $33,000,000
I and at the end of two days he got in the last two years. It would be Many a Jacksonville Citizen
I through with only the front wheels. interesting to know what proportion
Finds the Struggle Hard
1 Here we found Mr. and Mrs. Joseph of this was cinched on the farmer for
■ Knott, who crossed the plains in 1850 improvements and what proportion
With a back constantly aching,
| from Ottumwa, Iowa, and had located went on the back of the timber trust.
With distressing urinary disorders.
i a ranch, built a log tavern, and called In 1909 the farmers paid out nearly
Daily existence is but a struggle.
I it Canyonville. They had three grown $30,000 on improvements and personal
No need to keep it up.
I children, Levi, Jack and Libby, whom property just to help .out the land
Doan’s Kidney Pills will cure you.
I Vince Daviscalled "Si«." She married Speculators of Douglas county. —Ex.
Jacksonville people endorse this
! Bob Ladd, a wealthy banker of Port­
ciaim:
land, The rest of them all crossed the
Jesse Freeman, living at the Sterling,
great divide years ago, and I am the Rev. Irl R. Hicks 1911 Almanac Mine, Jacksonville. Oregon, says: “I
only one left.
actually believe that Doan’s Kidney
Pills saved my life. I suffered from
After getting through thecanyon we
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for kidney disease for a long time before
traveled down Cow creek seven miles,
then crossed over the mountains and 1911, that guardian Angel in a hundred I realized what it was. I thought at
on to Grave creek, where we found a thousand homes, is now ready. Not first the symptoms would pass away,
beautiful little valley with a gigantic many are now willing to be without it but instead they increased in severity
oak tree and a grave right beside the and the Rev. Irl R. HickB Magazine, ] until I was suffering untold agony. I
road. Clover grew to the height of six Word and Works. The two are only was treated bv physicians and used
inches and it was an ideal camping One Dollar a year. The Almanac is ( many remedies but obtained no relief.
Monopole Seeded Raisins, 1 lb. pkgs. Monopole Currants, 1 lb. pkgs.
¡ground. Did we camp there? I should 35c prepaid. No home or office should , My worst troubles were pains in my
Thompson’s Seedless Sultana Raisins (bleached) in bulk
I say not. No ofte would aare to camp fail to send for them, to Word and back and limbs and irregularity of the
; there on account of the Indians. It Works Publishing Company, St. Louis, kidney secretions. I was unable to
London Layer Raisins, bulk. Tea Garden Mincemeat
rest or sleep well on account of the
considered the most dangerous Mo.
_
pains and was stiff and lame at times
j point on the road. On south seven milles
Deafness Cannot be Cured
Candied Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel, etc.
as to be unable to get about. At one
we crossed Jump-off Joe and Louse
time I was laid up for several weeks
creeks
and
came
to
the
Rogue
river.
by
local
applications,
as
they
cannot
Pressed Figs in 1 lb. pkgs,
1 Here we found Ben Halsted had estab­ reach the diseased portion of the ear. j and unable to work. I finally learned
lished the first ferry on the trail be- I There is only one way to cure deafness, | of Doan’s Kidney Pills and as they
Eastern Cranberries,
tween Oregon and California. We anj ¡hat is by constitutional remedies. were so highly recommended, I pro-
1 crossed here and went down seven Deafness is caused by an inflamed cured a box at the “ e City Drug Store
Sweet Potatoes
began
miles and found James N. Vannoy, Jim I condition of the mucous lining of the and JL
----- ” using them. This remedy
Tuft & Co. had taken up a splendid Eustachian Tube. When this tube is seemed to be just what I required, for
’ ranch and put in a ferry. Both were j inflamed you have a rumbling sound in less than two weeks the beneficial
All the Above Are New Crop and Strictly Fresh Goods
as good men in principle as ever lived, I or imperfect hearing, and when it is results were apparent. I continued
| and both are now dead. From here we entirely closed, Deafness is the result, using the remedy, improved steadily
traveled up the Appiegate into the Illi-1 an(j unless the inflammation can be and by the time I had used seven box. s
nois valley, which we followed up to a taken out and this tube restored to its I was better than I had been for years.
point where Kerbyviiie now stands. normal condition, hearing will be I am now absolut fly free from any
We struck off north and found Sam destroyed forever; nine cases out of symptom» of kidney trouble and give the
Fry, who was running a horse corral. ten are caused by Catarrh, which is 1 credit to Doan’s K: !:>ey Pills.
Plenty more proof like this from
It seems as though a small company i nothing but an inflamed condition |of
I
Jacksonville people. Call at The City
of California miners, during the month mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars Drug Store and ask what customers
of August, 1851, left Yreka and trav-
I eled north in search of gold. They for any case of Deafness (caused by report.
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
! traveled on the old Hudson Bay trapper ca’arrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s
trail over the Siskiyou, down Bear Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. New York, sole agents for the United
(creek, and right by Jackson creek,
State».
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
i where there were good diggings, and on
Remember the name—Doan’s -and
to the Illinois valley. Here they went , Take Hall's Family Pills for consti-
i take no other.
iS Wv—
north over pretty steep mountains and! pation.
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