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THE MOR"EfG OKEGOXIAJT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1906. RICH GOLD BARS Oil SIXES RIVER Splendid Hydraulic Proposi tions in Curry County Long Neglected. PAY FROM GRASS ROOTS Water to Work Alluvial deposits Can Be Brought In at Small Expense Compared With Profits to Be Made. On Blxas River, a stream that enters the ocean. In the northern part of Curry County, gold long has been known to exist though little mining has been done. But new discoveries, according to the Port Orford Tribune, have set the coun try agog. The editor gives this account: "Last week we visited and examined the High Bars, belonging to D. Divllblss and sons, and also those belonging to the Big Jewel Mining Company In charge of their best gravel was run Into their sluices. "We believe that with such a showing their gravel will nearly double In value when a normal proportion of their pay dirt is washed. They have many acres of such ground, and as their bar Is a continuation of Newt Divllblss. It will undoubtedly prove as rich, because Its direction la In line with the same old channel. - Results Are Unvarying. "The high bar on the opposite or north Side of the river from the above ones Is the largest of all and contains prob ably 100 acres, all of which has been prospected with almost unvarying results. "We prospected this bar- on the south and west sides with good results In every pan of dirt. and do not hesitate to class it with those al ready mentioned. Blue gravel was struck in the extreme lower end of this bar sev eral feet deep and very rich. The bank is full 40 feet deep at this place, and shows the strata of cemented gray grav el just as the others do. From a small cut which hardlv gets into the mine, Ed Divilbiss last Winter, with what water he could get in wet weather, cleaned up several hundred dollars the gold similar to the other, one piece weighing ja.25. Millions In the Ground. "At JS5000 per acre there are in these high bars mentioned Jl.500,000. and as much or more in the intervening low bars and river channel, making it one of the safest and most fascinating in vestments to be found la the placer regions of the world. "Doubting Thomases are reminded that these mines lie right at our doors, and that no one is excusable in con demning them, without inspecting them, except a knocker or one who is too lazy to move." 'YAMHILL'S BIG FAIR School Children to Compete for Various Prizes Offered. Gray's Harbor Lumber Output. ABERDEEN. Wash... Sept. 9. (Spe cial.) An interesting collection of sta- MONEY FOR GOOD COOKS Home-Made Bread, Jellies, Pre serves, Etc, Will Be Exhibited by Young Girls Boys to Display Vegetables. IIcMINNVIL LH, Or., Sept 9. (Special.) Early last Spring County School Sup erintendent Louis R. Alderman, conceived the Idea of holding a school agricultural fair and at once began making plans and putting them into execution. The seed was well sown for throughout the county .school children are working for the coveted prizes in a manner that bids success to the undertaking and also sev eral other counties in Oregon are taking up the work. Originally, the fair was intended to be purely agricultural, but the McMinnvllle Booster Club added more enthusiasm to the project and in co-operation with Sup erintendent Alderman will enlarge the fair by the addition of a stock exhibit and carnival. In all nearly J30OO will be thousands of copies of which are to be Issued as soon as the work is off the press. ROSEBCKG ASKS MORE WATER Steps Taken to Install Gravity Sys tem Owned by People. ROSEBURG-, Or.. Sept 9. (Special.) The paramount question with the people of Roseburg Just now is that of water. During the whole Summer there has been such a scarcity of water as to cause the people of the town to demand that- the City Council take action looking towards the establishment of a system to be owned by the city and to be operated for the benefit of the people A masg meeting of the dtisens was held last Saturday in which the temper of the people was so plainly expressed that the City Council at once took the desired steps looking towards the build ing of a water system. The City Council at a meeting held this week ordered an amendment to the charter of the city prepared to be sub mitted to the voters, under the amend ment to the constitution adopted at the last general election, . authorizing the voting of bonds for the required water and light systems. After the adoption of the charter amendment it will be necessary to again hold an election to vote the bonds, which, in the present temper of the people, will be almost unanimously adopted. The city will then be in a position to float the bonds and to start In to Install the systems. In the meantime it is pro posed not to allow the Summer months to go by without action, so the Council has authorized a cotnmittee of the City Council to act in conjunction with a com mittee of the Merchants' Protective As sociation, to select, survey out and lo cate a water supply and route to the city for the mains for a gravity system. With the installation of a gravity sys tem the old water company, whose serv ice is the cause of so much diseatlsfac- fc. J-r'.'.v'mijtp,?s,'C. , , - - k -f x " t ? t Z. x- " .& -i ' v S :'&-lsXJ IXOCK OF 600 PUKE-BRED AXGOKA GOATS SHIPPED FROM POLK COUNTY I, AST WEEK. of Charles Jamieson. We have known these grounds for 40 years and have passed over them repeatedly like other chumps, without suspecting their wealth, believing like other greenhorns, that the main deposits of gold were higher up the river. But few men are capable of orig inal thought, or it would have occurred to us years ago, that a rapid, nar row stream like Sixes River, is but a gigantic tail race down which the Winter freshets rush all movable minerals, and at the first wide, flat plaoes becomes the deposit of all heavy detritus. "These bars I have mentioned are the first great spills at the mouth of the canyon, and any thoughtful, practical man should have discovered their wealth years ago, for they are Incomparably better and surer than any above them. High Bars Extensive. "The high bars are extensive hydraulio propositions, whose only drawback is an insufficiency of water, with an ex pense too great for poor men to finance. "But water can be obtained from Ed son Creek at a cost of a few thousand dollars, that would cover all those high bars mentioned, assuring a steady sup ply for ten months a year. Water could be pumped as auxiliary to what they Tnyxr Vi.va Vint numnlnw 1a rn,nelva Tha best plan would be for a company with capital to dam the river seven or eight miles above and bring an endless suply of water by ditch and flume, covering all intervening ground which probably would be an additional thousand acres of very rich ground composed of smaller bars. To construct such waterway and secure the mining grounds would cost $150,000, but the mine would be worth a million. "Between the high bars in the Divllblss violnlty are extensive low bars, and the present river bed all rich which com prise a few hundred acres, and which should be worked by dredgers, or ele vators, before the gravel from the high bars is dumped upon them. Only a big company can work them thus, while' the small miner is compelled to work the high bars only, and dump upon the lower bars which are perhaps richer than the upper levels. Gold From Grass Roots. "The high bars which I examined are 15 to 40 feet deep with gold to the grass roots, and with two distinct extensive and remarkable rich strata of gravel. In all of them there Is a deposit of blue gravel from 4 to 6 feet on the bedrock. Above this is a strata of loose, poor gravel a few feet deep. Above this is a stratum of cemented gray gravel. 10 to 15 feet deep that Is very rich, and will run very high per cubic yard, into the dolfara. "We never saw In Idaho nor on Rogue River such prospects In high bars and yet these mines are in 12 miles of Port Orford and wagons dally visit them over a level route. "An abundance of fruit, vegetables and beef Is raised on the low bars; the cli mate Is perfect; a sawmill is right there. Every comfort of civilized life Is at hand, and yet there are men a few miles away. I who have never seen these mines, but toast their shins about the fireside and decry the mines of Curry County, seeing like moles, thinking without thought, and 'knocking' in conceited ignorance! A prophet hath no honor in his own coun try.' Everything is better somewhere else. Distance enchants most men. but the wise man sees things where they are, and as they are. "Not alone in the development ' of mines, but In other ways, the interests of Curry County have been Injured by selfish men who want no interests here bigger than their own, and by conceited Ignoramuses who are Incapable of im partial Judgment, and who 'knock' every thing on earth except themselves and theirs. Wealth Proved by Working. "In the claims enumerated there are probably 300 acres of high bars, and a like amount of low bars. Enough work has been done on the claims of D. and N. Divilbiss and the Big Jewel upon which an approximate estimate of their wealth per cubic yard or per acre can be calculated. In nearly one acre of ground Newt. Divilbiss has taken out between JSOOO and J6000. by rather crude methods, losing, no doubt, considerable of the values. His bar of 70 acres will run much higher when better equipments are used. The coarsest piece of gold found on his bar was J3.50. "Much of the gold on all the bars Is coarse, running down to all sizes. Vucn black sand is found, also platinum, etc. Careful estimates made by Charles Fitz hugh of the dirt washed by the Big Jewel, which only got started late last Spring and was short of water because of the dry season, showed an average per cubic yard of over 16 cents, and this, too, in their first cut, where, because of the sloping sides, a much smaller quantity tistlcs and information can be culled from the statement that there was shipped from Gray's Harbor during the year ending July 31 last 342.061.651 feet of lumber. This quantity of lumber would cover with two-inch plank a roadway 10 feet wide between Aberdeen and New York. It would build 19,000 good-sized two-story houses. It would make 9,160,000 railroad ties, or enough to build a rail road between New York and Gray's Har bor. It would make a 12-inoh band two and one-half inches thick around the earth at the equator. It would build a dancing floor ef inch lumber three and one-half miles square so that the entire American nation could waltz on it at one time. FORTUNES IN ORCHARDS BIG PROFITS OF HOOD RIVER APPLE-GROWERS. At Present Prices 20-Acre Tracts Pay From $15,600 to $18, 200 a Year. HOOD RIVER, Or., Sept. 9. (Special.) The prices now made public by independ ent buyers for Hood River Newtown and Spltzenbertr apples have caused apple growers to do some figuring. A well known apple man, who is an authority on this subject. In talking about the matter, said: "At the prices this year fbr the different sizes of Spitzenbergs, which were $3, $2.75, $2.60 and $2.25 per box, growers obtained an average price of $2.40. Placing the yield of 7-year-old Spitzenberg trees, planted 65 trees to the acre, at five boxes to the tree, we will get 365 boxes to the acre. A 20-acre orchard on this basis will produce 6500 boxes, which, at the average price of $2.40, gives us $15,600 for our sea son's work. "The prices for Newtowns eo far an nounced are $2.25. $2 and $1.75. This gives us an average of $2 per box. But the Newtown is more prolino than the Spitz enberg, and produces seven boxes to the tree instead of five, giving us 455 boxes to the acre, or 9100 boxes for a 20-acre orchard. As can easily be seen, the earn ings on a 20-acre Newtown orchard this year at these prices will be $18,200. "While these figures are large, they are based on the yield of comparatively young trees which have not yet reached their full bearing maturity. A full-bearing or chard can be safely depended on, I think, to produce 5(0 boxes of apples to the acre, as I know of several in the valley that now do it. Figuring on a basis with trees in full maturity, and with a large pro portion of the crop composing the larger sizes, as it does this year, it Is not very difficult to determine the profits of the apple business in the future. RAILROAD WORK AT XTSIOS Central Railway Now Laying Track Toward Cove. LA GRANDE, Or.. Sept- 9. The Cen tral Railway of Oregon has done soma rapid work within the past few weeks and those who were Inclined to look upon the reality of this railway in an ab stract manner have begun to sit up and take notice. The Hot Lake section of the grade was completed last Saturday and at present all the grading force has been concentrated on the westward ex tension. One mile of track has been laid from Union toward Cove. The bridge gang is working ahead toward Cove and all the structural work will be out of the way by the time the tracklayers arrive. Every foot of the grade to Cove Is now finished and about all that locality lacks of hav ing a railroad is the laying of the rails. Over a mile of the grade work from Cove toward La Grande Is completed. Beet Harvesters Needed. LA GRANDE. Or.. Sept 9. (Special.) Preparations are going forward to start the Fall run at the sugar factory about September 20. Growers are anxious for a good rain as the present drouth will render the digging slow and unsatisfac tory. To get sufficient help at the pres ent time is a grave problem and lively hustling in that line is being done The yield is so heavy that a much larger force than usual, will be required to handle the crop. It Is predicted that unless more help can bo procured than the present out look Justifies, many tons of beets will remain in the ground for the want of harvesters. given in prizes, fully $700 of which will be awarded to school children. To stimulate the interest of the chil dren Superintendent Alderman had hun dreds of packages of garden seeds dis tributed among the various school dis tricts and each district will furnish a great variety of products that promises to bring forth sharp competition. Al though the small boy finds it difficult to save the watermelon until time for ex hibition, some prize melons will be on display. Enconragea Girls to Cook. This month has witnessed hundreds of little girls, preparing glasses of Jelly and cans of fruit put up with utmost care and with which they hope to land some of the fine premiums offered. It is esti mated that GOO girls are now "baking the family bread" in order that their skill may bring to them the $30 prize offered for the best bread exhibit Superintendent Alderman's eyes twin kled as he remarked that young men would have to come to Old Yamhill here after for good bread makers and artists In the culinary line The exhibit will be prepared by school children and Is open to any school child in Yamhill County. Interest Is strong owing to the fact that there will be prizes for agricultural products, culinary and needlework, schoolwork and woodwork, thus making it possible for every child to be & con testant To stimulate the work there are com mittees of women in every district who are encouraging the competitions in every possible way. It Is the ambition of those In charge, to make the exhibit a passport to in terest in things educational and indus trial. The prizes, too, are very desirable, ranging as they do from 'cash prizes, to books, a piano and a scholarship in Mc Minnvllle College, the pride of the county. The piano, given by the Ed. Briedwell Co. will be the property of the school dis trict whose display is considered to be the best Fine Historical Exhibit. The Webfoot district, near Dayton is preparing a historical display. It has the old broad axe with which logs for the first school house in their district were hewn. This proves to be of large in terest as many prominent men have at tended school In the early days of the Webfoot district. The fair promises to be the greatest thing of Its kind ever held in this county. Fully SOOO school children are expected to be In attendance The exhibit will be in the Jones & Adams Building and at head of Third street. The floor is 40 by 80 feet, thus affording splendid opportunity for display. The fair will last four full days, from September 25 to 28. In addition to the exhibit and carnival an excellent programme of speaking and music is being arranged. The best speak ers in the state will be secured. The Judges who will award prizes to the successful competitors will probably be from the Oregon Agricultural College. Every effort is being put forth by both city and country resident to make this project the most successful ever given in the county. . tion and complaint will be brought to terms. BIG SALE OF FINE GOATS POLK COUNTY SENDS 800 AN GORAS TO WASHINGTON. PROSPERITY IN ABERDEEN. Steady Growth of the City Shown by School Attendance. ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 9. (Spe cial.) The beginning of the school term this year shows a gain of nearly 150 children over a year ago. which Indi cates that Aberdeen Is gaining in popu lation. In fact a recent canvass showed that there are at present within the city limits over 10.000 persons, entitling Aber deen to' become a city of the second class. As a third of the population at least is made up of single men working in the mills, the city under natural con ditions should have a population of from 12,000 to 13.000 persons. The agitation for a second-class city was begun some time ago and a special election was provided for last Saturday. Aberdeen's growth Is not abnormal, but a steady and reasonable one. It is figured out that within the next ten years there should be at least 60,000 per sons In Cosmopolis, Aberdeen and Ho quiam. the three towns which are closely identified in many ways and which prac tically represent the Gray's Harbor coun try. , Aberdeen has gained much the past few years in the way of mills and other Im portant Industries which have added largely to its growth. The business men have been liberal with bonuses, and $50. 000 would be a small figure to represent the gifts of the business men to institu tions which have been brought here in recent years. ,At the present time it Is proposed to advertise the Gray's Harbor country extensively, the Chamber of Commerce having authorized the publica tion of a finely illustrated booklet many Purchased by Carson & Littlejohn for Theii Farm Near Stella coom Money In Stock. INDEPENDENCE, Or.. Sept . (Spe cial.) Last week 700 fine buck lambs, for which a good price was paid, were shipped from Independence to Wyoming for breed ing purposes. This week 800 fine Angora goats were shipped from here to the State of Washington. The goats were held here several days awaiting care for shipment. - Hundreds of men have looked at the band and all pronounce it the finest large collection of goats ever seen in the West The purchasers were Car son & Littlejohn, of Steilacoom, Wash. The goats were bought up by Boothby & Lewis. Goat and sheep raisers of Polk County are learning that it pays better to raise the pure bred than common animals, for the demand for Polk County Angoras and Lincoln and Cotswold sheep now exceeds the supply. The Rlddell and Stump sheep and goat farms, in particular, have Na tional fame, especially since carrying away premiums at the St Louis Fair. Fancy prices are received for much of the livestock shipped out of Polk lately. As much as $100 is often obtained for a single "billy" goat, and as high as $5 a pound has been realized for the mohair. What seemed to be extravagant invest ments in imported sheep and goats a few years ago are now bringing their reward. The goats shipped out today will be put on the big stock farm of Carson & Little john, near Steilacoom. "I hope to see the Angora goat business built up in Wrashlngton like it is In this state," says Mr. Conrad. "We have only about 30,000 goats In Washington, and we may just as well have a million." (SEPTEMBER 10. WIFEMAY CONTRACT MARRIAGE If Promise Is Renewed After Di vorce, She Can Bring Action. OLYMPIA. Wash., Sept 9. (Special.) The fact that a woman is already the wife of one man does not prevent her from contracting and agreeing to marry another, nor bar her from bringing action for breach of promise, provided the promise and contract are renewed after her divorce, is the opin ion of the Supreme Court in a de cision Just handed down. The decision was made in the Sno homish County case of Jennie Leaman, appellant, vs. Alexander Thompson, respondent The testimony showed that the marriage contract was en tered into In 1898. Plaintiff was then married, and decree of divorce was filed in Snohomish County in 1900. The lower court granted the defendant's motion for a nonsuit on the ground that when the original marriage con tract was entered into the plaintiff could not legally make such a con tract. The Supreme Court says there is am ple testimony in the case to show that the contract was renewed and under stood to exist subsequent to the time the divorce decree was granted. The defendant continued to visit the plain tiff as late as the year 1905, and re peatedly and continuously, in the pres ence of mutual friends, kissed her and referred to her in terms of endearment and both talked of their engagement and prospective marriage. The lower court is even said to have admitted L-these facts, but held that everything uciwocu mem was dependent upon the original marriage contract made in 1898. The Supreme Court holds there is sufficient evidence to entitle the plain tiff to have her case go to the Jury, and directs the trial to proceed. BEACH BATE REDUCED. Low Bates Made to North Beach Points. Beginning September 10, the O. R. & N will sell round trip tickets to North Beach points for $3.00 instead of $4.00 as here tofore. This affords an exceptional op portunity for those who have not already done so to visit the beach before the close of the season. Full particulars by calling at O. R. & N ticket office. Third and Washington streets, Portland. The Most Liberal Piano Proposition Ever Made in Portland The Reed -French Co., as an advertisement, offer a brand new, fully guaranteed piano for $190.00. $5.00 a month. I ' lady asked us yesterday if a good piano could really be sold for $190 she was afraid it couldn't -We know it can It's our business to make good pianos and it's our business to sell them at factory cost plus a reasonable profit; our plan carries with it a saving of seventy-five dollars or more every time a piano is sold. J .We have confidence in our pianos, otherwise how could we accept so lit tle as $5 a month and then say return the instrument if not as represented yes, if not even better than represented? I Yesterday we sold four of these sturdy little pianos, or, to say it better, yesterday four sturdy little pianos sold themselves, and each customer seemed delighted with his "buy." I We are determined to push the Reed French pianos to the front We know what they are, and we are not afraid to make what might seem to be at first glance a daring proposition. Here's Our Piano Offer I $190 is the price pay us $5 and the piano goes in your house try it three months, and if you say it isn't the most generous piano offer ever made in this town, then call in the drayman. J Main 1252 is the 'phone ask us to send it out. (I Country orders get the same proposition. , Reed-French Piano Mfg. Co. "FROM MAKER TO PLAYER" I1TTHE COMMONWEALTH BUILDING, SIXTH AND BURNSIDE STS. OREGON fin n m FAIR Salem, Sept. 10, 11,12, 13, 14, 15, 1906 Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition Grand Circuit Races and Livestock Show FREE SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS Monday, Opening Day, Sept. 10 Trot, "Oregon Stake' Pace, "2:25" . Running, Half Mile Running, 1 Mile . $ 400 2000 . ISO 200 Tuesday,- Development league Day, September 11 "2:27" Valley Stake" Trot, Pace, Running, 5 Furlongs Running, 6 $1000 500 . 150 150 Wednesday, Salem Day Sept. 12 Pace, "2:15" . . . $2000 Trot, "Inland Stake" . . 500 Running, 4 and a Half Furlongs 150 Running, "Oregon Derby" . 500 Parade Premium Stock Thursday, Portland Day Sept. 13 Trot, "2:17" . . . $2000 Pace, "2:20" .... 300 Running, Half Mile . . 150 Running, 1 Mile . . . 200 Parade Premium Stock Friday, Fraternal Day Sept. 14 Trot, "Capitol City Stake" $ 400 Pace, "Greater Salem Stake" 500 Running, 5 and a Half Furlongs 150 Running, 6 Furlongs . . 150 Saturday, Children's Day Sept. 15 Trot, "Consolation" . Pace, "2:10" . ; Running, Half Mile . Running, 1 Mile . $ 500 700 . 100 150 EXCURSION RATES ON ALL RAILROADS H. W. Downing, President. F. W. Durbin, Secretary 4