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VOLUME XXXI11 DRILLERS GET SMALL OIL FLOW AT DEPTH OE 4/5 FEET ♦' — COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1923 NUMBER 46 <i>——————— PALMER TRIPLETS ENJOY HONOR OF BELONGING TO FOUR GENERATION FAMILY 4------------------- ————♦ Bohemia Mining District Is Eye-Opener to Many Who Go on Sunday Junket There COUSIN OF LOCAL WOMAN DIES AFTER SUFFERING i WITH HICCOUGHS 9 DAYS --------------------------------------------- «$> Four generations arc not unusual Mrs. George Briton this week re nowadays among some families but Progress of Sinking of Well not ceived tho news of tho strange Contributions Made to Funds for few such families can boast of trip death of n cousin, Daniel Sama, who Interrupted; Specimen Shows lets in addition. Robert, Rollo and Ex-Soldiers; Mrs. Warner Dele died nfter being stricken with Finding of High Quality. Richard Palmer, triplet sons of Mr. Those Who Brave the Rough, Steep Going Are Well Rewarded for Trouble gate to State Convention. hiccoughs nine days before. Mr. and and Mrs. Carl F. Palmer, formerly Mrs. Sams, who resided at Sturgis, But Come to Full Realization of Transportation Problems Which Are Holding of this city, colobrated their first Mich., celebrated their thirtieth Another link in the chain which birthday anniversary June 28 by Back Development of What Is Thought to Be One of Richest Districts in World The women’s auxiliary to Calvin wedding anniversary recently. That Dr. David E. Olson and his ussoci- having as special guests for the day Mr. Sams began to hiccough, Funk post of tho American Is-gion ates seem to be welding _ to prove day tneir grandmother, Mrs. Mary has rocently contributed $6, a little probably as tho result of eating the truth of their predictions that Calvert Palmer, aged 52, and their By ELBERT BEDE. Knott mine, one of the earliest to get their supplies and machinery rich food, und for nine days be was more than its quota, to the Pernui- oil in paying quantities would bo great-grandmother, Mrs. Harriet M. Thousands of residents of Oregon locations in the district. Joseph over almost impossible grades. unable to stop, in spite of constant nent Graves endowment fund of the found here and at Eugene was add Calvert, aged 84. Their father, Carl A high grade shoot had been dis efforts of physicians and tho appli organization, tho interest from the ed Sunday when at a depth of 475 F. Palmer, is 27. The boys were do not realize tho beauty and gran Knott, who located the property, feet the drill operating on the Eu born in Portland shortly before their deur that is theirs and lies but a was at one time operator of the covered and this yielded high re- cation of all known cures. He was fund being intended for tho upkeep gene Bible university property at father left this city last year. Mr. short distance from active and bust Stark street ferry in Portland and turns despite the crude and waste relieved of the hiccoughs quite sud and decoration of graves of Ameri Eugene struck oil in small quanti- Palmer was associated with J. A. ling centers of population. Hundreds was well known to the pioneers of ful methods then in use. Only a denly only a few hours before his can soldiers in France. A contribu- of residents of Cottage Grove, for the metropolis. During the early small amount of rich ore had death. Mr. Sams was about 70 years of $5 has also beou made to a ties. Wright in the Fair store whilo a example, havo never gone into tho 70s the first stamp mill to go into been mined when the __ _____ the death __ of ____ Mr. of ago. He had bor n in poor health fund which will provido moving It is thought by those in charge resilient. The arrival of tho triplets Bohemia mining district which lies this district was taken to this mine Knott and tho ensuing dissension of recent years. pictures to help pass long hours for of the work that the drill hit a disarranged Mr. and Mrs. Palmer’s at their door. ex-soldiers in hospitals. trip into that dis on pack animals und with ox teams among his heirs caused a cessation fissure into which oil hus oozed plans to make this city their home. trict over the A Sharp ’s creek road over a primitive road connecting of operations. Tho property was Tho auxiliary plans to establish a from the main body. No attempt fund which it will use toward the made Sunday by a party of busi with the present Sharp’s creek road patented but remained undeveloped has been made to tost tho flow of building or furnishing of a room or ness meii from here was an eye- near the farm now owned by B. M. oven during tho boom period of the oil that hus been struck but it Hawley. rooms for community and club use. opener to several of them. several years ago despite many of is probable that this will be done. One-third of all money in tho trea With the characteristic tenacity The object of tho trip was to in fers made to purchase or bond. In order to do this it will be neces sury at tho end of each year is to spect the roads into the district of the early pioneers those hardy Superintendent Bartels plans to sary to shut out the water which be transferred to this fund. and to become acquainted with tho prospectors forced their way through tap the oro bodies of the Knott runs in from the higher levels and Six pairs of pajamas made by the mining activities in progress there, heavy brush and timber to the crest mine, us woll as of several converg Roseburg Team Defeated in Fastest permit the oil to gather at tho bot members of tho local unit wore sent but all woro repaid for their trouble of the divide separating Sharp’s ing leads which have been traced on Game of Season; Eugene For tom of tho hole. Field Located by Mysterious Instru by their view of tho wonderful creek from Frank Brico creek. this week to tho Portland hospitals tho surface, by drifting on tho so feits to Springfield. C. A. Olson, who has charge of ments Brought in; No. 2 Shows for tho disabled veterans. scenic attractions. They brought up their supplies ns called Champion lead from the east tho drilling operations, says that A phase of local work in which Three motors made the trip—two rapidly as tho road progressed and end of tho Champion workings, from High Gravity Percentage. tho oil which has been struck shows auxiliary is interested now is Dodge cars and one Buick. Duo to struggled along under disheartening which largo quantities of free mill The Cottage Grove baseball team tho up tho best of any oil ho has yet in assisting widows of ex-service tho greater speed with which the difficulties following the main ing ore havo already been taken. regained its placo at the head of men seen in all of his operations. His to obtain their bonus or pension over Adams mountain. Four In explanation of tho above para tho Upper Willamotio Valley league brother, Dr. Olson, is in Minneap Two wells at Half Moon bay, larger car had to travel to keep up divide miles farther on they left the rocky graph it should bo statod that tho Sunday by defeating the fighting nnd to settle up their business af olis on business and is not oxpectod property of Sage & Brothers Bros., momentum, it, arrived a half hour pinnacle of Elephant mountain Champion workings (starting from Roseburg aggregation at Roseburg fairs. The auxiliary is at present ahead of tho smaller ears to return for soveral weeks. It is oil prospectors operating in this city or more four and a half hours after towering above them nt tho east of the west side of Grouse mountain) in tho fastest and most exciting assisting Mrs. Millie Hodgson in anticipated that he will send word and in Eugene, have just come in, and presenting her claims for pension, according to telegraphic messages leaving the city it had crossed the the road and circled Fairview to run through the mountain into the game of the season. ordering a test made. bonus, life insurance and othor the south and casr with the terraced saddle between Fairview and Bo Evening Star property on the south received a few days ago at tho Cottage Grove opened tho festivi It is believed that tho fissure with as little delay as possi and had dropped down on cliffs of old Bohemia rising beyond east side of tho mountain. ties with a bang, as usual, and claims which has boen struck can not pro Guaranty Oil company‘s headquar hemia ble. a low gap in tho ridge through the other side to within a short Mr. Bartels will then drift east ters. No. 2 well had been in for crowded a ruu across tho plate bo- over five to ten barrels a day duce Much interest is being shown in of tho Evening Star cump. which the road of today now passes, | I ward through the Evening Star fore the Roseburgors could stop the and the operators will continue several days previous and No. 1 distance Arriving at the south peak of ground under the apex of south onslaught. After that both gangs the Seaside convention to bo held Tho smaller cars, because of their their drilling, as originally planned, came in the middle of tho week. slower speed, made the trip much Grouse mountain, theso hardy nrgo- , Grouse mountain into tho Grouso played air-tight ball nnd tho final during tho first week in September. to a depth of 3000 feet, at which No. 3 well is in cap rock at 1650 more comfortably and did not ex nauts could no longer restrain their , mountain group of claims. From score showed the lone run for Cot Mrs. Ivan E. Warner has been it is anticipated the main body of feet and No. 4 derrick is up and perience as much difficulty us tho eagerness to get at the pay dirt and there a comparatively short crosscut tage Grovo and a flock of goose elected dolegnto and hor alternate oil will bo struck, It is possible work on the refinery has been re larger car in making the hairpin without waiting for further road1 will reach the Kuott vein. eggs for Roseburg. It was classy will bo elocted at u meeting at the that paying oil may be struck nt sumed, was additional information turns. A medium sized gear shift construction nnd without regard fori The main tunnel which, including ball from start to finish. Tho at I. O. O. F. hall at 8 o’clock tonight. 1500 to 1700 feet, but Mr. Olson’s contained in tho messages. Mrs. C. C. Cruson, Mrs. D. O. Byruo The Half Moon bay field was car is the only practical ear for the impediments of nature, took the tho crosscut to the vein, is now in tendance was large. oil finding instruments told him and Mrs. A. M. Moore have been distnneo between two | some 650 feet, will cut under tho Owing to an injury to tho Eugene that 3000 feet was the distance to located by the mysterious instru the trip and it is a wise precaution shortest remove the top before the ascent points, often using block and tackle I apex of the ridgo at n depth of pitcher and tho defection of other nominated. the main body. Tho drilling outfit ments invented and owned by David to Just recently the auxiliary has about 1000 feet. Most of the de players in that team, Eugene for in operation is capable of sinking E. Olson. Geologists had said that of the main grade is started. This velopment work will consist of feited its game to Springfield Bun received its permanent charter for a hole 2000 feet farther than that there was no oil at Half Moon bay is six miles in length, with pitches drifting along tho vein, which holds day, and there was serious consid- which tho members havo worked and that it would bo a waste of so stiff that tho compression-of six if necessary. down tho cost of operation. So ation of withdrawing from the untiringly for some time. Ono of Dr. Olson said that the oil to be money to drill. Olson’s instruments cylinders was not sufficient to ¿old the largo car. far the drift on the vein has opened league but, according to latest ad tho members, Mrs. W. J. White, hns discovered the field. Woll No. 2 found hero would bo of n high The road, although quite remark what Mr. Bartels states is a fair vices, the team has been reorgan been honored by tho national organ shows .56 gravity. It is composed grade. C. A. Olson has stated that ization which hus awarded hor a grade of milling oro. he believes that the oil which has of 75 per cent gasoline, 11 per cent able in view of the fact that al- ized and will remain in tho race. past president’s pin in recognition no work has been done on it A five-stamp mill at this prop been struck at Eugene is of about ether and 7 per cent vegetable tur most Tho Eugene team comes hero Sun Freight Wreck at Comstock Ties erty driven by a semi-Diesel engine of hor faithfulness in holding the pentine. Net price on this is $6.30 in years, crawls along the side of $10 quality. day and Manager Hill expects to the mountains, sometimes with a Up Traffic for Nine Hours; »sing crude oil is used at present have tho hardest gamo of tho son organization together for two yours, The odor of oil is plain to all a barrel. sheer drop of what appears to be principally for tost runs on ore from son and a record breaking attend in spite of many obstacles, with the Six Cars Leave Ralls. who have visited the workings at able assistance of Mrs. G. B. thousands of feet only a foot or two tho drift and in perfecting a process ance. Eugene and it can be plainly seen ' Pitcher. from the outside wheels. Giant firs for elimination of loss in the treat in the mud and water pumped out Harrisburg defeated Junction City down in tho ravines, 200 feet in Cottage Grove wns without direct ment of ores. It is the opinion of of tho holo. NEW SERVICE STATION height, are dwarfed to toothpicks 'train service either north or south eminent mining mon that slip-shod at Harrisburg Sunday 7 to 2. C. A. Olson states that never has AT FIFTH AND QUINCY from the dizzy heights. Above, the bound Sunday when six car loads of ipethods of the past have resulted a dry well been drilled where the slope was carpeted with blooming lumber, part of a south bound in a loss as high as 50 per cent of indications have been such as those W. L. Bunge, a recent arrival rhododendrons. Few passing places freight train, rolled fro»., th# track the gross value of tho oro. If this already found. from Long _ Beach, Calif., hns pur The five-ton d.ill makes about 20 Series of Services Ends on Sunday; aro provided but traffic usually is at Comstock at 9:30 Sunday morn loss can be eliminated many prop chased the south half of the block in one way only. Trickling moun ing. Train service wns resumed at erties now inactive could be oper feet each day and with good luck Bishop W. O. Shepard Back for of land between Fifth and Hixtli tain streams everywhere furnish re 6:45 in tho evening, when the ated upon a profitable busis. a depth of 3000 foot should bo streets and Jefferson nnd Quincy Remainder of Week. freshing liquid for hard-working mo? Sliming tables nnd a cyanide Shasta which goes through hero nt or four reached within three avenues ami will start immediately tors. In the distance of six miles 1 o ’ dock was allowed to go over plant will bo installed at the Even Purchase of 3,000 Acres of Pine months. If hard rock is struck, ns upon the construction of a service tho climb is 3200 feet, but the view the road after a delay of 5% hours. ing Star property. Superintendent often is tho case just before the Near Prineville Announced by station to front on Pacific highway. families are camped at from the saddle repays one for the No. 18, northbound local, was hold 1 Bartels has ascertained that a large main body of oil is reached, it may the Twenty Well Known Lumbermen. Methodist camp mooting ground effort. The view is even better up from 9:52 a. in. until 9 p. m. percentage of value in fine gold is take longer than that. Printing. Always consult Tho on east Main street for the third from tho top of Fairview or from until all through trains had been lost in the slimes which uro not sus Work is nearing completion upon annual Rontinol first. tf state meeting in this city. old Bohemia itself, several hundred allowed to proceed. No one was ceptible to amalgamation with the Cottage Grove derrick but there Fifty ministers With tho purchase of 73,000 acres of the Oregon con feet further up. One appears to be hurt whon the cars left the traqk quicksilver. is yet no news as to when it will ference have been for the lost in a labyrinth of mountain or during the cleaning up. Tho lower tunnel at tho Evening of pino timber in Crook county by be possible to place the machinery greater part of the here ten days and ranges which stretch away as far as It is thought that the accident Star, now in a distance of 350 feet, the Ochoco Timber company, re and start drilling. more are expected to arrive for the the eye can see. On clear days Mount happened ns tho result of a weak will bo driven to 500 feet, then will cently formed by R. A. Booth and remainder of the week. Hundreds Hood, Mount Shasta, Mount Adams, box ear in the middle oi^the train, bo stoped 280 feet to the higher A. C. Dixon, both of Eugene, nnd who reside within driving distance Mount fJefferson, the Three Sisters, sinco neither the engine nor the level nnd the upper tunnel complet others, for the approximate sum of ot Cottage Grove have attended all Diamond Peak and all the famous cars in the front or rear of tho ed to the point where the deposit $2,500,000, one of the largest timber or a part of the meetings so far, snow capped peaks are plainly visi train left the track. The six cars of rich ore should be found. The deals in the history of the state coming from homo each day. The ble. One wonders at the engineer included one steel car loaded with dirt will be dropped from the upper was closod. Tho timber, which is Young Peoples' Society of Southern Oregon District to Con veno series of meetings closes Sunday. ing skill that laid out tho road just ties, which was demolished, one level to tho lower level and sent to situated about 20 milos northeast Evangelist Whitten has been very traveled, when as a matter of fact wooden car of lumber, which rolled the mill on a tramway. The upper of Prineville, will cruise about a Hero Next Week. billion feet and is considered ex successful in his daily evening ad it has, except for the mountain tunnel has beou driven 205 feet. Young Woman Will Have Expenses dresses. Mr. Whitten is a compara climb of six miles, but followed the completely off the grade, nnd four ceptionally high quulity pine. Arti Plans for more extensive opera other cars of lumber which were Paid to State Convention of tively young man in the work. His valleys that nowhere can be seen. demolished. Two wrecking engines, tions aro being held back for sev cles of incorporation filed by the Tho annual institute of the south wife and their son Charles have as Tho distance from Cottago Grove to one from Roseburg nnd one from eral reasons but principally because new company empower the organ ern Oregon district of tho Epworth Vets in September. sisted with the music throughout the saddle is approximately 35 miles. Junction City, and several wreck of the lack of transportation faci ization to build railroads, erect League, young people’» society of mills, engage in the logging busi tho Methodist church, will convene tho session, tho latter assisting the On Sunday the clouds were below ing crews were at work all day. lities. The American Is'gion post wishes song leader, Cyril Mee, of Portland. the travelers. Miles away mountain The Evening Star people seem to ness, irrigation business and other hero Monday evening at tho camp South bound trains were held nt ranges peaked through oceans of Eugene nnd north bound trains were have property certain to become a imrsuits. If the mill is erected at meeting ground on east Main street. to select a bathing beauty to rep Mrs. Whitten is a soloist. Dr. Clarenco True Wilson and billowy white, white as the driven held at Drain. Some of the passen big dividend payer. One indication ’rineville it is planned to build a Tho series of meetings, which will resent Ccttage Grove at the annual state convention to be held at Sea Bishop W. O. Shepard will bo speak snow, a magnificent scene. Below gers from the northbound trains is the history of tho Champion vein railroad from the tract to that city. continue for a week, follow immed Besides Mr. Booth and Mr. Dixon, iately upon the closo of tho third side September 6, 7 nnd 8. The ers during the remaining meetings. in every direction great forests of were transferred from Drain to which runs through their property. expenses of the young woman and Dr. E. E. Gilbert, superintendent of firs extended themselves towards Cottage Grove in trucks. The Amer It showed up many shoots of high both of whom are officials and di annual Methodist state camp meet her chaperon will be paid and she tho Salem district, also will be a the sun which beat down boldly ican Railway Express company also grade ore for the Champion people rectors of tho Booth Kelly Lumber ing now in session. will aave a chance to compete for leader. Mrs. W. M. Erskine arrived but was not seen during the entire hauled their goods to this city to rod no doubt will continue to be a company, the following aro among Although tho mootings uro con producer. None of the ore bodies the incorporators of tne new com ducted under tho auspices of tho the cup offered in the competition Wednesday from Portland to help day by those down in the valleys. prevont delay. It had not succeeded in clearing the on the Evening Star property have pany: R. Roy Booth, of Yoncalla, Epworth league they are open to between the bathing beauties of with th? children’s meetings. snow from the north side of Fair been exhausted. They are there yet son of li. A. Booth; Richard Shore any young person who is will the state. Smith, attorney, of Eugene, The ing to comply with tho require PHIL BUKOWSKI AMUSES view. Although Cottage Grove sel as placed by nature. Ballot boxes will be placed in the .------------- ------------------------ TONSORIAL PATRONS WITH POULTRY RAISING ON BIG dom has any snow, here, only 35 These people are extremely for other stockholders are Portland and ments laid down for entrance into Gray Goose, the Elite and the Bon KANSAS ......... BIG WIND STORIES SCALE CARRIED ON AT DAN miles away, it often attains a depth tunate in the topography of their middle western capitalists. Ton. A free ballot will be printed tho class work. A definite course ........... — - ■ - ■ — - b WALTON PLACE NEAR CITY of 20 feet and 10 feet is the usual each week in The Sentinel and property, The wost slope, being of study is outlined for the week, •$> - -....... - - i> thing. probably there will bo other oppor during which time leaders of Metho I’hil Bukowski has until this time ext remely steep, offers the best STREET INTERSECTION IS tunities to secure votes to be cast dism will bo in charge of tho var One of tho busiest ranches de But the motorists were not there been known ns a truthful young possible opportunity for cheap MADE INTO KITCHEN AND in the contest. The young woman voted to the poultry industry in tho to spend the ontiro day imbibing man, but if ho tells any more stories mol hods of operation, Working a ious services. Meetings will be held DINING ROOM BY TOURISTS securing the greatest number of neighborhood of Cottago Grove is scenery and contemplating upon the like the one ho hns recently been mine through tunnels on the vein ♦--------------------------------------------- ♦ in the big tent now being used for the camp meeting. Each evening ballots will win the honor. tho Dan Walton place about three wondrous scenic beauty lost to the using ni regaling his tonsoriul pa costs only a fraction as much as It was thought until a tow nights at 8 o’clock there will bo a popular Starting August 4, jitndy street miles from Cottage Grove on the world for lack of a motor road. trons he may find that folks may working through shafts, The cast de After being fortified with a more slope of the mountain, under which ago that nothing new could be service by some well known speukor dances will bo held each Saturday- Row river rpad. A party of local coinmonce to doubt his word unless the tunnel will pass, after travers veloped in what a few users i of to which tho general public is in night by the Is>gion. With each people, including Mrs. E. E. Fin- than substantial dinner at the Even supported with affidavits. I do ing a distance of about 1000 feot, ing Star boarding house, they were Oregon ’ s public highways will vited. Phil tells of being in Kansas ticket sold at these dances goes one nen, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Doak, Tho day’s program opens with ballot for tho bathing beauty con- Miss Lillian Horn and Dnvo Tyro, taken through the workings of the several years ago when an unusually is rather slight and it may be con to show lack of appreciation of strong wind hit the state. It is fidently expected thnt here the oxi such highways and disregard of the revoilio lit 6 o'clock, followed by a test. who visited the place recently, were mine. i One wonders how the heavy ma said that tho natives say that any dized ore zone will be of much rights of others, but something new morning watch service from 6:30 to The contest will close on the night very much surprise«! to find to what »r>e<! here. 7:15, breakfast at 7:30 und various of September 1. extent the business was carried on chinery required in mining opera strong wind is unusual. This wind greater depth than on tho west side, has been developed waw puz services during the day on Bible tions, of which there is a large was so strong (we havo only Phil’s since the erosion has been far less Night Police McFarland McFu f i ---------------------------- at thia place. amount in the district, ever wns word for the statement) that it and evidently hns not kept pace zled by tho fact that t two cars pau study, citizenship, recreational work, Ballot for the American Legion The place is run entirely by Mr. with the oxidization of the ore, ing through tho city nt 3 o’clock home missions, community service, gotten in over the heavy grades Bathing Beauty and Mrs. Walton, their son and and narrow roqds, but in the quest turned a well inside out. The wells which has been going on for count a m. crossed tho Main street bridge Methodism, Bunday School methods, ONE VOTE FOR Mr. Walton’s mother. The latter is for gold man will surmount any in Kansas are unusunlly deep und less ages. and camo to a stop. They were out mission study, life service, and Ep when this one was turned inside 85 years old but age does not pre obstacle. With such natural advantages, of view from the business section worth league methods, Taps will be out it stood up in the air so far (Deposit in ballot box at the vent her from wnshing all of the with competent and conservative of the city and tho night policeman sounded at 10 p. m. The Champion mine, in the past eggs and helping with other work. one of the largest producers in the that it interfered with airplane management, it seems that nothing conld not see what was going on Gray Goose, Elite or Bon Ton) Tho evening lecture program for !J In one pen the Waltons have 1000 district, is electrically equipped and traffic. Tho owner of the well, as ihort of inadequate financial back until he himself crossed tho bridge the week includes the following nd snowy White I-eghorns. From this has its own hydro-electric power Phil tells it, sawed the well into 1; ing in the initial stages ot this ven for an investigation. He found tho dresses: Monday: Rev. J. M. Walt pen they get 600 eggs a day, the plant on Frank Brice creek, five post holes and beetime independ ture could bring about ii failure two cars parsed in the center of ers, Eugene; Tuesday: Dr. Mnrvin ently wealthy selling them at 10c eggs being gathere«l three times miles from the mine. C. A. KING FINDS OIL SCUM Where tho workings of the Eve tho intersection and tho occupants Rader; Wednesday evening, Dr. W. each. daily. Each egg is weighed, washed, ON WATER IN IRRIGATION ning Htar and Champion meet stop busily engaged d getting breakfast, E. J. Gratz whose subject is “What The Champion, Musick, Helena, packed and shipped under the per WELL ONLY 15 FEET DEEP ing goes heavenward for some They were al little impudent whon Time o’ Day Is 1st”; 'I'li n r-< 1 n v ♦------------------------------ ——-------- ♦ sonal supervision of members of the Noonday and Vesuvius mines have 200 feet. This is where the informed that the highways were evening, Rev. J. M. Walters; Fri all been large producers of gold, | RESIDENTS OF SLABTOWN pay dirt was struck and whore there not built for dining tables and that day ev clung, Clarence True Wilson; C. A. King, who has a place on family who do all the work. extracted from the oxidized or free WHO LEFT HERE IN 1881 Another pen and yard houses 60 milling ores. The oxidized ore zones s yet much to be taken out. This tanking on the |>avement was pro Hnturduy, camp fire sorvico led by the cast bank of Row river cast of BACK FOR CAMP MEETING the city, says he has not until re fancy roosters, two of whieh, " Hui- in these mines* have been, so far as ♦— ---------------------------------------- -—-♦ k!"d of work, of course, is found on nibited. However, the officer con Rev. Joseph Knotts. all the properties where pay dirt vinced the travelers thnt if they in Hpeeial features are the campfire cently gotten the least bit excited iivan” an«l “Sir George,” cost the known, practically exhausted and Way back in ’81, when Blabtown has bean taken ont. Members of tended to travel that da, day they had service, stunts and faculty and over the prospects of «ratting oil sum of $30 each. A third yard the properties await the coming of would student athletic contests. Officers . here, but recently ho has found such houses 1000 young pullets. The men with capital and a profitable wax tho official name of the settle the party climbed the ladders and better be on their way. . They certain indications of oil from the three pens cover about a ten-acre process for extracting the mineral ment later given the name of Cot clamber'd about on tho platforms not accept tho officer’s word, how of the institute are Rev. Thus. D. tage Grove, Mr. and Mr». J. A. well from which ho is pumping for area. values from the vast bodies of base Ayres, left this place to reside in an«l timbers that are about the only ever, for the location of th«' high Yarnes, Bpringfiold, manager; Bev. furnishings of these underground way and the last the officer snw J. R. Benton, Yoncalla, assistant irrigation purposes that it is a little A new building is being ereeted, ore« underlying the old workings, Harrisburg. While here they en workings. They did not appear any of them they were headed towards manager: Bov. Joseph Knotts, dean hard for him to maintain his ordi 115 feet long and 40 feet wide and The Evening Star mine, Fred J. nary p mind. two stories in height. It has a con Bartels president and engineer in gaged in fanning and they followed too safe, but tho miners had taken the Lorane country and were no' of faculty; Mrs. H. A. Danford. this after going to Harrisburg until precautions for their own safety seen to come back into the city. The only 15 feet in depth erete floor and cement feeding charge, of women; Mrs. Hazel Gunter, was the property visited on just recently. Now they arc retired when placing them nnd there were They could get back onto the high «loan but there is no question that a scum trongiaa. registrar; Mrs. T. H. Temple, direc the Sunday junket. Thia property nnd have come to Cottage Grove to of oil is coming up with the water. Eleven crates of eggs, of 30 dozen combines the Evening Star group of attend the Methodist camp meeting no accidents. As the climbers eonbl way from Lorane but several hours’ tor of music. Tho cost for tho week not see below them they had no op traveling would bring them out at to ench person is $10. A registrn to the crate, are shipped each week four claims, the Grouse mountain now in sension here. They were also portunity to get dizzy ns they n point thnt they could have tion fee of $1 is charged nnd text Steel die work. The Reatine!. to city markets. group of eight claims and the old here for the eamp meeting last year. (Concluded on |«nge 4) reached in 45 minutes. books will cost about $3. SAGE AND OLSON GEI fflû NEW WELLS Aï HALF MOON BAY LANE COUNTY MEN INTERESTED IN HUGE TIMBER DEAL LEGION POST TO SEND BATHING BEAUTY TO SEASIDE