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I The Port Ortoid Deep Water Harbor = KEY to the Development of the Vast Natural Resources of the Mid-Pacific Coast Empi PORT ORFORD NEWS Volume VI. Huge Mining Developments; Curry County To Benefit Port Orford, Oregon, Tuesday, July 19, 1932. COUNT YOUR CHANCE (Editorial in Collier's W eekly.) Number 36. Order Of P. 0. D. To Stand; Chamber To Continue Work There's no argum ent in this edi pie com fortably exceeds $1,000,000,- Our so-called national "luxury " torial. It’s merely a collection of 000 a week. bill is still away up in the billions facts, incontrovertible, eloquent The per capita income here is far a year. facts that confound those who pro- greater than in any other land. It took a billion and a quarter I fess to see America slipping down There are still six or seven per- pounds of candy to satisfy our I into a state of effortless despair. a . _ . , . . . i sons gainfully employed for e v e r y I sw eet tooth in 1931 no decrease Interest in southern Oregon gold 13 Measures On Ballot America « mutual savings bank f person idIe ' 7 » from the 1929 total. To Grow Cauliflower mining stepped upward dram atical-1 The recent opinion of Attorney Thirteen proposed constitutional lban tbey were at the g f h ly Tuesday with the announcement Foreigners owe American invest- The percentage of our agricultur- General Van Winkle that the cor The planting of cauliflower on by eastern capitalists that they have anier>dments, initiative m easu res! bOOm three years ago ' ° I ors approxim ately $18,000,000,000 al population who, despite deflation, a large experim ental scale was poration com m issioner has no pow purchased thousands of acres of and referendum bills will be on the Total bank savings today exceed ^UUitaora. foreign governments are acquiring domestic comforts, started Monday morning on farms er "to revoke a certificate of fil land and will start at once on two ballot at the November election, re- $29,000,000,000. equal to more than owe our tcvenw aM lt $7,000,000,000. conveniences, labor-saving devices, in northern Curry county, according ing of incorporation for any cause", huge m ining operation that will, it Ports Hal E. Hoss. secretary of 31,000 for every fam ily in the land. ' and we are 8tU1 8ellln« «broad more improved machinery, the use of bet to Fred Schmidt of Roseburg who which was furnished Corporation is expected, involve an investm ent s‘a ‘e' *n whose department the ter roads, is constantly increasing. is providing the plants and super Commissioner Mott in the matter of Savings depositors number 52,000,-' than we arc buying. of $3,500,000, says the Oregonian. completed petitions are filed. 000, nearly two per family. No fewer than 25,800,000 automo- Today more than 700,000 farms intending the work About 75 acres the filing of articles of incorpor One of the operations will be In A measure providing for the con- The num ber of Americans owning biles are owned by Americans al are electrified, representing an in have so far been secured for plant ation covering the name Port Or Josephine county, near Grants Pass, solidation o f the University of Or- stOck has increased almost 40 pei most one for every family crease of 400 per cent in eight years, ing but Mr. Schmidt has enough ford Chamber of Commerce by six and the other in Curry county, east egon and the State college at Cor-1 cent since 1929 This total is alm ost three times and the total is being swelled rap plants available for twice that acre local citizens, without the knowl of Brookings, according to J. H yallis, establishm ent of a teachers' A group of 102 conipanies which the numbel owned b a„ the regt idly. age and hopes to get more farmers edge or consent of the old estab Gallagher, Portland mining en- training college at Eugene, aban had 5,539.036 stockholders at the of the world In industrial comm unities hard to put in at least five or ten acres lished Port Qrford Chamber of gineer, who released the news on donment of the normal school plant , end of the boom year had 7,765. Americans possess far more tele- manual toil is being steadily abol apiece. He says the plants can be Commerce, which has been in ex behalf of the men behind the new at Monmouth and conversion of the - ; 143 stockholders at the beginning i phones (19,500.000) than all other ished by the introduction of ma put in anytim e between now and istence for nearly a quarter of a enterprise, century, does not affect the delivery normal schools at LaGrande and i o ( this year countries put together. chinery. Each American worker the middle of August. Arnold H. Goss of Detroit, e x -' Ashland into junior colleges and of mail by the Port Orford post- One company alone today has ov Radios continue to multiply. The now has at his command five horse Mr. Schmidt is particularly anx- office under the provisions of the member of the board of directors of transferring the university law er 665,000 stockholders, a gain of ■ latest authoritative computation power, a record not even r -motely ous to get some of the d airym en. P ostm aster General's order, dated General Motors corporation and of school to Salem, has been assured more than 195,000 since the boom, j puts the total at over 16,545,000. approached outside our boundaries. to put in cauliflower He says there! March 21. 1932. according to -he the Kelvinator corporation, heads of a place on the ballot, This company (American Tele representing an investm ent of more The average working day a gen is nothing that will produce more | Solicitor for the Post Office De the group and is the president and j The tax and debt control pro phone & Telegraph) has assets ex- j than $1,600,000,000, also a record un- eration ago was 10 to 12 hours. The green feed for dairy cows during partm ent who, under date of July principal stockholder in each of the gram includes one proposed con- ceeding $3,200,000,000. standard in this generation is eight the m onths of November, December approached by any other people two new mining companies that 1 stitutional am endm ent and tw o in No other nation on the face of How many new domestic m echan hours, w ith the trend running to anil January so they are certain to 8, 1932, advised Congressman Haw ley that no change has been made will develop the southern Oregon itiative measures. The constitution- the earth can show such wide ical refrigerators have been bought ward a still shorter workday be well paid in cowfeed alone and ln' th'e ord er'af t e 7 a review of the properties. W. F. Hayden, Salt Lake al amendm ent is an enabling act spread ownership of money and would you guess? A grand total of The work week used to N consist o w I t of 1. h ‘be same time stand a good facts regarding the opinion of the City, is the mining engineer in ' giving authority to lim it tax levies stocks. fully 3,750,000, at an estimated ex six (even seven) days. Now It Is chance to make some ready Christ- Attorney General charge of the entire operation. Mr. and bond issues under general law. 1 Our total stock of gold is $4,000,- penditure approaching $2,000,000,000 554 days, with the 5-day week mas money from what they can ,, , Hayden. it is said, spent 254 years. One of the initiative measures au 000,000. No other country ever pos- And most of these have been install coming in vogue. market , Under the order of Marsh 21st, and $125,000 in cash in investigating thorizes the creation of tax super- sessed so much. Britain, for ex- ed in the last three years. In no . . ,,, . l932. a‘l mail addressed to the Port A m erica has alw ays recovered The McKenzie ranches will have o . ford Chamber of Commerce, or the southern Oregon field before ( vising boards in each county ample, has only $588,000,000. other part of the globe do half as from periods of depression and the properties finally were purchas-j through appointment by the govern-J Currency in circulation aggre- m T k , ,“" e8: , Mr’ Ethel | Uhamber of Commerce, without any many homes enjoy such a luxury; pressed forward to new heights of Mather is to plant 12 acres, the | ldentlfying marks Indicating that ed. | or. The boards would be composed gates $5,464,000,000, or $700,000,t)0o j Americans are rapidly coming to re prosperity. Farrier farm plans to put in about ,t lntonded for the newly Incor- No stock is being sold in either of of three members who would serve more than in the boom. J gard it as a necessity Never in the past was America acres, the Tyson place will have I porated organization, is ordered de the com panies organized—Emily without compensation The measure A recent offering of $450,000,000 1 America has more home owners so well equipped as it is today to six several a c e s and one acre will b e ' ,lvered thp o,„ estabIl8hed cham . Gold Inc., which will work the empowers these boards to review , of United States Treasury securi- ' than any other nation, resume an ephocal forward march planted at the F M. Goodard place ber Curry county deposit, and Columb budgets made by tax levying bod -i ties elicited subscriptions totaling A recent survey of 29 typical Not only have we changed from a south of Bandon. | ia Gold, Inc., which will work the ies and reduce and elim inate ite m s ' $4.796,296,700—more than nine times 1 small towns revealed that 71 per debtor nation to the greatest cred The new ruling is gratifying to Josephine county deposits accord-, by unanimous vote. Action of the the amount offered, According to Mr Schmidt there members the old chamber and t„ cent of the inhabitants owned their itor nation on earth, not only have ing to announcement. | boards is subject to appeal to the Is com paratively little work in the pubUe g„neraIly ,t meang Last year $1 «,*00,000,000 worth of homes, that 88 per cent had elec- we vaster national wealth, not only Properties Rich in Gold | state tax comm ission by the levying new life insurance was written. j trie light, 72 per cent had baths, 51 have we an unprecedented supply growing cauliflower after the plant-, a continuation of the constructive The two properties contain two of bodies or ten interested taxpayers Total insurance now carried is es-1 per cent had electric washers, 55 of gold, but we are richer In ex ing is done and that from all in d l-, program that the organization ha8 the largest known gold deposits in The boards would act only in an timated at $109,000,000,000. or not per cent had radios. 41 per cent had perience, in machinery, richer in cations it will grow to perfection ' been engagedon during the past this state, it is said. One, the Mt. advisory capacity over special tax I far short of $1,000 for every man vacuum cleaners. productive facilities, richer in man along the coast In Coos and Curry several years Em ily property, is a free-milling levies and bond issues approved woman, and child in the United counties. W ith the acreage promised There are more fam ilies in Amer- agerial skill, richer in discovered gold ore body located in Curry by the voters States. ca than in any other land that can mineral and oil resources, richer in he sees propects of sufficient crop to ship in carload lots and he ex- * Moratorium Extended county, 50 miles southwest o f, The other initiative measure p c Policies in force total 127.800,000. afford to and do send- their ch il transportation facilities by land and Grants Pass. The other, the Graves ( vides for increasing the rate of the One company alone (Metropoli dren to high school and college. air and water, richer in every ma pects it to be ready In time to g e t 1 Salem, July 12. The moratorium creek property, consists of p la cer, personal income tax from 5 to 8 tan) has in force many more pol In no other land do so many terial w ealth-creating product and the earliest markets. and lode deposits 18 miles north of per cent, affect higher brackets. icies 144,520,310) than there ate average fam ilies havF the means to process, richer in craftsm anship, If the experim ent this year proves extended to August 1 by Governor Grants Pass and has already pro- and reducing certain exemptions, fam ilies in America. successful it Is probable tha- an ¡M eier today. In the same state- enjoy foreign travel. richer in everything. duced more than $5,000,000 in gold, j Completed petitions for the so- Such safeguard, such security, is Expansion in airplane travel, the Clip this page out and put it in industry of considerable size will i ment ln which the extension of the although of late years the opera- j called state grange w ater power enjoyed by the people of no other most costly of all common forms of your pocket. It will bear rereading be built up here. , moratorium was announced the tions have fallen off, due to diffl- amendm ent were among the last to J nation in the world. overland transportation, has been many tim es this summer when pol The plants. Mr. Schmidt says, art! governor declared he would not call cutties in operating effectively w ith , reach the state department. This | Our total national wealth, esti- 1 greater here than at)r°ad during iticians invite you to tear your hair now at the R. G. McKenzie farm a special session of the state legis- the many conflicting ownerships amendm ent relates to the control mated at $329,700,000,000, is greater recent times. over the state of the country. The where they can be seen and the lature. A session had been urgec1 to that form erly existed. j and developm ent of w ater power j than that of a dozen continental The theatre of the m asses the country is all right. What we need planting w itn essed .—World, Ban reduce license fees and provide for The Graves creek purchase, which and water power sites, both by the European countries combined. movie, still attracts a weekly avei- is less hysteria and more confi don. quarterly payment of licenses. will be developed by Columbia Gold, state and the state in conjunction The income of the American peo- age attendance of 75 000 000 dence and courage The first moratorium was to end Inc., includes 21 hydraulic, lode and with the federal government, Saturday of this week The addition Save The Timber dredging properties equipped with The initiative measure sponsored Fair To Cut Admission al 15 days provides for usage of old Receives Award Coast Guard Station more than $100,000 worth of in- by the Oregon H ighway Protective (By E. L. White, Dist Warden ) licenses until August I. The govern- stalled machinery, according to M r.' association provides for the classi- In view of the general econom Earle W. Tlchènor, son of Cap- The old established Chamber of , Timber at present Is of little cash or said the serious condition ________ of Gallagher. These holdings embrace ficatlon of busses and trucks, with ic condition of this section the Commerce is engaged in pressing tain and Mrs. ( H. richenor of value, but do not destroy keep fire I highway departm ent finances will 6000 acres of placer and lode relation to weight, increases the Coos and Curry County Fair as for early construction of the coast Portland, who are spending their I out ,g our |argegt resource ¡n ( not permit any further extension grounds, and extend from Leland 12 fees and elim inates trailers in cas- sociation which met at the A. H. guard station, the appropriation of summer vacation at their home ov- Oregon and |n norma| times brings beyond August 1." miles east up Graves creek. , es where the combined w eight of Powers resident in Powers Tues $83,500 for which has been made erlooking B attle Rock, and Donald gbout one bundred twpnty.f i v p -------------------- W ater R igh t« Included , the vehicle and load exceeds 3000 day evening decided to cut the available during the current fiscal McKenzie, son of Mr and Mrs Da | m,lh()n g ypar or g,xty County Favorable price of admission to the fair in year, and it is hoped that the plans vid McKenzie of Cloverdale ranch. (cent Included In this purchase are all pounds. 8, a le .g lncome y>| the water rights and 47 miles of Repeal of the state prohibition *1932 in half In addition to this all will be completed and the adver returned from the Citizens M ilitary, up money w l„ co[ne back t|jp For Top Lambs operating ditch line carrying 6000 law s is provided In an in itia tiv e' children under ten years of age ac- tisem ent for bids had and contract Training Camp at Vancouver, Wn wealth is there. It is our resource, m iners’ inches of water. , measure sponsored by Harry B , companied by their parents will b e ! let so that the work may begin dur Sunday Mr Tlchenor was honored „ wben , gay „urg , mean QUr Most Curry County sheep men The first work will be b u ild in g, Critchlow of Portland, and for admitted free. It Is hoped that the ing August. Senator Steiwer, who with the award made annually by | tlmber t|)(g (g t<> everyone for we all will be able to adopt the plan for of a 1000-acre-foot storage dam at w hich petitions have been com p let-' additional attendance will in part secured the contm uation of the ap- the American Legion Auxiliary of uge ,t and gbgre |tg returng ¡„ mar<y making more top Iambs as outlined Bullion mountain. 14 miles up Grav- • ed I I com pensate for the reduction in ad- propriatlon. advises the ch am b er1 Oregon fo. the most outstanding way8 A , pw of wh)ch , m,ght men , by Dr Robert Jay thg es creek from the intake of the The taxpayers' voting qualifies- mission charges. that he has called upon the Com- member of the C. M T. camp, the tion here: .control m eeting held at the Wed- ditch lines, said Mr. Gallagher, who tion amendment, providing that all Prior to the m eeting it had beer, mandant of the Coast Guard Serv- t award consisting of a $10.00 gold It keep« our creek« and river« derburn *<"<* Friday. AH already has started construction o n | persons voting on tax levies and ' generally supposed that the racing ice “to expedite the completion of ! piece This w as his fifth and last running water. * eheep have intestinal parasites it. Three hydraulic m ining opera- bond issues shall be taxpayers. Is ! for the com ing year would be re the plans for the station”, and Sen year at the camp, and he is now ... . . .. which cause very little dam age to It dampens and cools the dry a ir ,„ older ,j_ _ sheep that . are on good j " . feed tions will be under w ay in 60 or also complete and ready for the stricted to local horses. However ator McNary. Congressman Hawley eligible for a second lieutenancy in , a n d in a n r l o l n o «wiaeasa 1 1 « ° w a 90 days, he said. N egotiations a r e , ballot. after due consideration the associa end National Commlt’eeman W il the Reserve Corps. Mr McKenzi-» of summer and in so doing gives us and kept in good shape. Young under way to put three gold dredges , Another proposed constitutional tion voted to continue to invite out- liams are interesting them selves in served as a corporal in Company I better crops. lambs have very little resistance on the property The 24-hour capa ( amendment referred by the legis- side stock but that prizes be based 1 expediting the work to the end that and made an excellent record It also protects our fish, game and cor ilderable dam age is done city of each of the three dredges lature authorizes criminal trials solely on receipts. Thus prizes are j unemployment may be relieved and stock, In fact It protects all to the lambs unless proper precau would be 2000. 4000 and 6000 yards, j w ithout juries by consent o f the ( to be worked out on a percentage i through the expenditure of the ap- living things in the heat of sum tions are taken. It is Dr. Jay's opin Requires More Power mer. “The managem ent is planning t o , accused person This amendm ent , basis I propriatlon. Construction of the sta- ion that there is no section In Ore drive a 6000-foot tunnel In what is was fathered in the 1931 session by ( Klamath county has done a w a y l‘lon ’H*1 probably require about four It also furnishes shelter to all gon with the potential possibilities Contractor Roy Houck, who has known as the Columbia mining Senator Crawford of Multnomah with Its fail for 1932 as have sev- m onths time. for turning off top lambs that will the contract for graveling the 19 anim als in winter. group," said Mr. Gallagher. "This county. I eral other counties o f the state. It In this depression every one that compare with Curry county, but we miles of the Port Orford-Euchte bore will cross-cut over 100 sur- [ A third proposed am endm ent pro- was given serious consideration by Creek section of the highway at a can should help each other, the must acknowledge the ever increas O. E. S. Initiates face-quartz outcroppings that all vides that the 6 per cent lim its- several directors of the Coos and price of $48,650, finds that he will tree is our friend so be careful of ing need for parasite control. carry milling values of free gold, tion provision may be applied t o ' Curry County Fair association but Curry Chapter No. 135, O. E. S . have to install more power to fire, for fire In the dry days of sum Blood-sucking stom ach worms many of them bonanza gold. It is levies of any one of three previous the final decision was to the effect held its regular monthly meeting mer Is a most deadly enem y to liver fluke, In'estlonal worms handle the crushing plant believed this bore promises to open years, instead of the preceding year, .th a t the fait could be presented this Saturday night in the Masonic Hall Brushes Creek, and Engineer Ring ,lmber w h en ° nce started you do round worms, tape worms, whip up a 'stock work' of quartz fissures There also will be on the ballot year for com paratively little ex- at which time Mrs. John R Marsh rose is now In Portland arranging not know »h ere it may stop, nor worms, and lung worms were found 15lg Mill to Re B u ilt three referendum measures attack- pense if the proper program was and Mrs. Harold Johnson were in for another engine. do we know what It may burn In unthrifty lambs autopsled by Dr. It is planned to build a 1000-ton ing acts approved by the 1931 legis- adopted. There are lives lost by fire each Jay In nearly every section of the itiated into the Eastern Star Out daily capacity mill on the valley lature. • | It is this type of program that of town visitors were: Mr and Mrs year In Oregon besides the forests county. He says that there is ab flood at the mouth of this tunnel One Is directed at the 1931 legisla- the association attempted to work Miller, Mr and Mrs. Crane, and and other property that is destroy solutely no need or excuse for this Reduce Hair Cuts and feed it from the ore from the tlve act which prohibits commer- out Tuesday evening ed. Fire has never grown timber condition, and goes still farther by Mr and Mrs. Rossloe, of Myrtle That liquidation is taking its toll Every forest fire hits you and outlining a system of control that gold-bearing quartz encountered, clal fishing on the Rogue river. I Special attention will be paid Point; Mrs. W hitmore of Alpha This operation should last for years. Another attacks the legislative act toward securing extensive exhlb- Chapter No. 1. Ashland; Mr. and in all lines is seen in the action of ( ynurs It is the sam e principal to costa very little, takes very little as the tunnel cuts many veins deep- providing a tax of 10 cents a pound its of 4-H and Sm ith-H ughes work Mrs. Kieffer of California; and Mr. the barbers of Port Orford in vol burn someone's house or anything I additional effort, and is adapted to ly. on all oleom argarine manufactured The next m eeting will be held in and Mrs Jam es Sypher, Mrs. Cor- untarily reducing the price of h a lr |eb„, they might possess, as It is to Curry county conditions “An unusual feature o f this min- and sold in the state of Oregon, Bandon Bandon World. set the timber on fire. rick, Mrs. Guerin and Katie Adolph- cuts to thirty-five cents last week “Select one field or range for ing property is its accessibility A The third referendum directed at It is not worth w hat you may get lambing ground. Burn It over 'in sen. of Langlois and Denmark Re good county road extends 12 miles the legislative assem bly Is aimed a t out of it in money to set any for the fall and reseed or let the grass freshm ents were served at the close Slippery Stretch east and w est through the property, the act appropriating approximate- Fishing Boat Beached est fire and so far as the brush is grow until lambing time. Eight of the initiation service. and the Southern Pacific railroad ly $1.182.000 for the support of the The rain Friday caused the high- I concerned. It gives us moisture. pounds of blue stone to the acre in Friday s southw est storm resulted b(,„ uty and j m |gb , gay is situated at the w est end. at I^e-, higher educational institutions. w ay in the vicinity of Linville Hili. ( ’rah Fishing in f' ra’’k D ea n s fishing boat, the j h(>rJ, (bp bpgt protection we have for swampy or wet places will kilt liv- land station. The Pacific highway -------------------- south o f Port Orford, where the erfluke snails. This provides a good crosses Graves creek two miles east L i j f h t h o U S e I m p r o v e m e n t s wor>‘ of rutting off a dangerous Crab fishing through the Port New River, breaking its anchor deer, and under the small tan oak clean area for the lambs to start chain and drifting on the beach. of I .eland I point has just been completed, to Orford harbor has become quite ex trees that were once brush there on. "The Curry county parcel.” con- The U S Lighthouse Service has become quite slippery from sticky tensive, with about fifteen boats j 1 The boat was floated at high tide are a lot of acorns left from last Just before lambing time the tinued Mr Gallapher. 'contains the just completed improvements at the mud T raffic w as handled by the and some thirty men engaged in the Saturday night, and yesterday winter's crop The anim als such as ew es should be tagged, and given morning It was towed to Marshfield , he brur < J ^ f. and hf(g„ arp fw d large low-grade, free-m illing gold Cape Blanco Lighthouse which In- highway departm ent In a creditable work Upwards of 700 crab pots are two doses of worm medicine about deposit on Mount Emily, nine miles elude the installation o f two con- manner, a tractor being on hand to in commission and the daily catch by the Coast Guard boat where re Ing on them yet. ten to fifteen days apart, then turn pairs will tie mode. The boat was east of Brookings. O r , up the Chet- trol clocks, the total expenditure be- convey cars across the slippery is satisfactory However, aside from all the bene ed into the lambing field, and The run of the co river The size of this deposit ing approxim ately $1.000 according stretch where necessary Chains catch is of unusually large size and not extensively damaged fits derived from our standing watch the lambs grow This was staggers the im agination of even a to Captain W alter Mabin who was were the order o f the day, and no of extraordinary fine flavor, and ------ - .... * I forest, the principal one of which Dr Jay's advice to the sheep men miner The property is from 1500 a Port Orford visitor Sunday Cap serious trouble was experienced Jam es C 'ow ley has returned to I mentioned In a former article the toothsome shell fish is finding who attended the demonstration at to 2500 feet wide and more than tain Mabin states the new clocks _ _ _ _ _ - ____ favor throughout the roast section. his home In Brewster Valley. Hr the Inrge amount of taxes received Wedderburn Full information on th ree miles long. Outcropping and will be of great value in handling Mr and Mrs A P Sweet were -------------— ■ has been assisting Dave Crowley - we should all feel a personal ob- how to mix the different ingredients exposed this entire length is an ore the h ghly technical work at the business visitors in Coos county Wyman Eaton returned Tuesday In peeling tan bark south of Port ligation In It's beauty to our Coast at a great saving over the csn&cr Continued on page 1.) , station S a tu id ay. from Bandon Orford, H ighw ay now under promotion. (Cantlnued an page 2.) I j on new motor llcenge p(ateg wgg