Port Orford, Oregon, Tuesday, December 21, 1926.
PORT ORFORD NEWS
own. If the tra n sfe r is m ade it Gas company, and rep resen tativ es
Building
is likely th a t th e local plant will of the com pany aye now in the ters of the P o rt of P o rt O rford as th e Old Spurgeon
Dated this 21st day of Decem
for th e ir approval o r disapproval now occupied by Lon Montague, ber, A. D., 1926.
be operated for the reduction of field tak in g up leases.
local m aterials and a sim ilar one
It is understood th a t outside O rdinance No. 6 of the said P ort, near th e Sixes River Bridge in
J. F. GILLINGS.
will be erected in Canada.
p arties will be engaged by the which said O rdinance provides said precinct and district.
(Seal)
S ecretary of th e Board
According to th e P o rt O rford local com pany to do the d rillin g for th e borrow ing of money and , And w hereas th ere are only
ot Com m issioners of the
News Mr. M arksbery recently put and it is planned to have actual issuing bonds of th e said P o rt to two legal voters residing w ithin D21t4
P o rt of P o rt O rford
PERM ANENCY O F MINING
them a fairly accu rate prelim i th ree pounds of concentrates d rillin g operations well under the am ount of T h irty Thousand
the O phir P recinct within the
C. W. ZUMWALT,
P erm anency of n. In ini; needs nary survey of the resources of from the Inm an m ines througn way by early spring.
! D ollars for the purpose, as to the boundaries of th e D istrict of the
President.
to be stressed by th e in d u stry ’s th e d istrict, and perm its them to his process a fte r all the free gold
Mr. S u th erlan d was form erly proceeds of T w enty Thousand
spokesm en and su p p o rters If the see those m inerals in which they had been extracted from the con an A laska m iner. H e came here j D ollars, p ar value thereof, of re- P ort of P o rt Orford, and in su f
The S. S. Mary E. Moore load
prevailing m isconceptions so com are in terested with the least pos ce n trates and wa« successful in some tim e ago and bought th e 1 funding o u tstan d in g bonds of the ficient legal voters to co n stitu te
mon am ong the public are to be sible ex penditure of tim e and recovering a b u tton valued a t form er Sweeney addition to B an said P o rt in like am ount desig an election board, th erefo re it is ed out a cargo of P o rt Orford
18.20 on a gold basis.
About don, and is now a p erm an en t res
hereby ordered th a t the polling cedar from th e m unicipal docks
dispelled
money.
one-fourth of the button is be ident here. He has found w hat nated as P ort of P o rt O rford place for said election for the Wednesday, cleaning up nearly
The average m ipe lasts longer
An exhibit to be m ade effec lieved to be platinum and th e re was believed to be a good coal Gold Bonds, Series C, and as to
th an the average m ercantile busi tive should be m ade up of ch ar fore much m ore valuable than deposit on his place, but which the proceeds of Ten Thousand said O phir Precinct shall be at all of the logs on hand.
the polling place of the ad jo in
ness. According to Shaw ’s Man ac te r specim ens of the various gold.
has now been proven to be a D ollars, par value, o t the said i ing precinct of P ort Orford
C oncentrates from the plant on high grade of oil shale.
agem ent Service the new store ores, sands, and concentrates,
bonds proposed to be Issued, of
Said election will be held at
opened in this country sta rts and reliable inform ation as to Johnson creek a re also to be put
Mr. H ansen is said to be a ge funding o u tstan d in g w arran ts of
th
ro
u
g
h
the
M
arksbery
plant
ologist of considerable practical th e said P ort, th e said bonds pro eight o’clock in the forenoon and
w ith a little more than
seveu size of deposit, am oijpt of devel
years of life before it, and every opm ent work done, nam e of own w ithin the next few days and If experience and one who is ac posed to be issued to bv dated will continue u n til eight o'clock
Ostrander’s
the re tu rn s are as conclusive as
class of m ercantile business has ers, etc., should be attach ed to those in the case of the Inm an q uainted w ith oil fields and n a tu Ja n u a ry 1. 1927, to draw Interest in the afternoon of said day.
an average of failures running each specim en. Mining engineers co ncentrates it is said th a t a long ral conditions su rro u n d in g them. a t the ra te of six per cent per
h ig h e r th an 50 per cent.
and experienced o p erato rs are step will have been taken tow ard
George D arling, rep resen tativ e annum , payable sem i-annually on
BARBER SHOP
The oldest com pany or busi not necessarily Interested in Jew th e solution of the lc'-al black
Ja n u a ry and J u ly th e first, to
ness corporation in the world elry specim ens— w hat they want sand m ining problem .— Bandon of the F airb an k s Morse Co., of
m
atu
re
and
be
payable
a
t
the
P
o
rtlan
d
,
who
has
been
a
t
the
bears the nam e of S to ra K oppar- is large bodies of average ore World.
Garage and Machine
p lan t of th e E ngineering & Met rate of ten per cent th ereo f on
bergs Bergslags A nthiscebolag. th a t will w arra n t p ro fitab le op
th e first day of Ja n u a ry of each
als
com
pany
near
O
phir,
C
urry
Shop
R. C. Ostrander,
and this year it will celebrate Its « ratio n s over a long period of
THE LAST LOCATION
county, accom panied by Captain y ear com m encing with the year
700th anniversary.
F o r 700 years.
ACETYLENE WELDING
1942.
B.
F.
Groves,
who
has
charge
of
years this com ' pany
has — operated
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w i v u v u n n ing
u ft
U
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U
the » forthcom
m l C eeting
of l B ury me down close io bedrock, the dredge of the com pany, pass
The polling place in th e P o rt
G arage work of all kinds,
the fam ous F alun m ine in Swe-i m ining men of C urry and Coos
Prop.
W here the gravel Is cool and ed th ro u g h P o rt O rford en route
O rford P recin ct shall be and the
springs for any car always in
den w ithout any change in own I counties to be held in P o rt Or
sw eet.
n o rth Wednesday.
said
election
sh
all
be
held
in
stock. H orseshoeing and gen
•rship.
In these 700 years the ford
*— * on
-
Decem ber 29, 1926, it W ith my head to the riv e r’s — 'Bandon W orld.
th e said precinct at th e Wood
eral blacksm ithing.
m ine has yielded over a ton of Is hoped th a t action looking to
m urm ur,
men H all in th e town of P ort Or
gold, 15 tons of silv er and about th e estab lish m en t of a perm anent
Port Orford
And the bench-fir at my feet.
NOTICE
ford In said precinct and district.
500,000 tons of copper. Now it m ineral exhibit will be tak en to
R.
Leutwyler
The
polling
place
in
the
Sixes
produces 30,000 tons of iron py- be located a t som e cen tral point L et kings have th e ir gilded OF SPECIAL ELECTION FOR
Port Orford, Oregon
ISSUING REFUNDING BONDS Precinct sh all be and th e said
r 'te s every year.
shrouding.
in the d istric t on the main line
election sh all be held in the said
OF
PORT
ORFORD.
T he Rio Tlnto mine, in Spain, of travel and easily accessible to
My shroud be the forest sod,
precinct a t the building known
has been productive since the all. It is hoped, th e refo te, th a t F o r the gold in the bench around
N otice is hereby given th a t on
days of the Roman Empire.
me,
m ining men who atten d will a r
the 22nd day of Ja n u a ry , A. D.,
Mexico and 8outh America range to bring specim ens of th eir
Has been placed by th e hand 1927, a t the polling places h ere
contain a score of m ines th a t ores, and th a t those who do not
of God.
in a fter designated, in th e Coun
UNDER NEW’ MANAGE
have been operated fo r centuries. atten d will send th e irs by some
MENT
ty of C urry and S tate of O re
The H om stead m ine in South one or they may be mailed to I played with His gilded pebbles, gon, a special election will be
D akota has paid m onthly divi the P ort O rford News, which pa
But not for th e sake of gain; held for the purpose of referrin g
dends since 1879, except for brief per will see th a t they are prop Oh, Ix>rd, If th e re ’s gold In your and su b m ittin g to the legal vo
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
periods of suspension caused by erly arran g ed and cared for
d istrict,
fire and strikes.
L et me do some prospecting
It is u rg en tly requested th a t
FIRST CI, ASS MEALS
G oldfield, N evada, is a com all m ining men m ake it th e ir
again.
Fam ily Style
p arativ ely new cam p;
yet the business to atten d th is m eeting,
— Joseph L. Brogan.
Dry Goods
m ines there have alread y existed and assist in every way in the
for m ore than tw ice th e average form ation of an organization th a t GIL (Xl.MPANY TO PROSPECT
SUNDAY DINNERS A
Notions
life of a m ercantile
estab lish will be of m aterial benefit in the
Several local citizens have un
SPECIALTY
ment.-— Mining Topics.
upbuilding of the m ining in d u s d ertak en to prom ote a plan to
Shoes
prospect the so u th ern end of Coos
try of the Curry-Coos Empire.
county for oil. H. S. H ansen of
PERMANENT MINERAL
GOOD BEDS
Groceries
P ortland has exam ined the te rr i
EXHIBIT
MAKING TESTS AT
A Comfortable, Homelike
tory
carefully
fo
r
the
past
several
One of the m ost Im portant
MARKSBERY PLANT weeks, and finds m any excellent
Place
things th a t m ining men of any
8. M arksbery is m aking test Indications of a good oil territo ry
d istric t can do is to establish a runs at his Second stree t m ining here and he believes th a t th e d e
Will Order Anything Not in Stock
perm anent m ining exhibit, where p lant for th e purpose of dem on posits a re large, th a t the te rri
Com fortable h u n tin g lodge
in big gam s te rrito ry , eas
representative specim ens of all stra tin g to Roseburg p arties th a t tory Is shallow , and th a t the
NOTARY PUBLIC
ily accessible, in connection
of the ores in the d istric t may it will successfully save all the product will be of a high gravity,
w ith hotel.
WE BUY FURS
and paraffin base.
be kept on display, properly la values in th e black sand
As a resu lt of his investiga
belled, for th e Inspection of m i o th e r co ncentrates of th is section.
Guides
furnished
if
desired.
ning engineers, operators, and T he Roseburg p arties are in te r tions a leasing com pany has been
W, T. White
ested in the process used by Mr. organized including Mr. Hansen,
the public generally.
M arksbery In view of purchasing E lb e -’ Dyer, R
E. S utherland
Phone 23
Port Orford
Such an exhibit not only a t th e rig h t to use the process In and o th e r Coos county citizens,
FUNK & LITNER
Port Orford, Ore.
trac ts and holds the atten tio n of w orking the concentrates
Proprietors
from the com pany organized being
m ining men, but It also gives properties In Canada, which they known as th e Bandon Oil and
Mining News of Southwest
ern Oregon
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